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Analysis: New job for top cop Andrew Coster win-win for National

ANALYSIS: The dignified exit gives a chance to appoint top cop in time for anti-gang laws.

Facial recognition and work from home | Focus Morning Bulletin September 25, 2024

Facial recognition in supermarkets hailed a success, tensions rise amid the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and can your boss really force you back to the office?

Andrew Coster could have been a big change agent for the New Zealand police

The former commissioner tried to turn police bias towards Māori around.

Opinion: If TAB ran odds, whānau and child poverty would be huge favourites

OPINION: Targets are neither the problem nor the solution, Rob Campbell writes.

Richard Prebble: How government policy failures created today’s gangs

OPINION: Prison is the gangs' recruitment centre. Govts start the recruitment process.

Tougher sentences for offences against public transport workers

There's a new aggravating factor for offences against public transport workers.

The pros and cons of working from home

There are fewer people at your Friday drinks - but are you happier working from home?

Darleen Tana mulls appeal as Greens restart process to oust her

Green Party delegates will meet at a Special General Meeting on October 17 to discuss whether to use the waka-jumping law to oust former Green MP Darleen Tana from Parliament.

Māori, Pasifika and disabled missing from manufacturing, engineering and logistics

Workforce Development Action Plan will be presented at Parliament today

Child poverty statistics and Phillip Mehrtens released | Focus Morning Bulletin September 23, 2024

New Zealand's child poverty targets set by the Labour government have not been met and Phillip Mehrtens has been reunited with his family after being held captive for 19.5 months.

'Number one thing on my mind’: Greg Foran reveals Air NZ’s reputation score

'People care so much about this business.'

Children living in motels drops as families are moved into social housing

In eight months, whānau living in emergency accommodation has dropped by 57%.

The $3b child poverty price tag: Why the minister's not writing that cheque

Official advice shows it would cost $3b a year to meet the child poverty goals.

Nang ban: Selling or using nitrous oxide to get high could lead to prison

The Government has announced urgent changes to the recreational use of nitrous oxide.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: WFH habits hitting Wellington's economy hard

OPINION: Mondays and Fridays are for WFH - working from home.

Fran O’Sullivan: NZ eyes closer ties with US amid Aukus collaboration plans

OPINION: The US presidential election has concentrated diplomatic minds.

Foreshore & seabed: Supreme Court orders Crown to pay more than $100,000 to cover claimants’ court costs

Court has ruled in favour of hapū group, Te Kāhui.

Matthew Hooton: This Govt is distracted on economy – and bigger problems loom

OPINION: The average four-person household is $1600 a month worse off than in mid-2022.