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Why New Zealand's crackdown on vaping needs to go further

OPINION: By next week, disposable vapes need to have nicotine limits and safety features.

Ian McCrae: How Te Whatu Ora strangled the health tech Golden Goose

Despite the flood of spending the agency appears to be angling for even more money.

Opinion: For Palestinians, the future is being bulldozed

New York Times: "Palestinians are on their own now. Nobody is coming to save the day."

Opinion: A tired rehearsal of the tobacco industry’s playbook

Opinion: Smokefree 2025 is entirely achievable.

Rob Rattenbury: How mentors shape our lives

Comment: Others help parents raise their children without often even being aware of it.

Opinion: Our power system is in a parlous state

Opinion: "There is no doubt that our power system is at risk."

Letters: ‘Super-city’ experiment in Auckland ‘a decade-long disaster'

Opinion: Auckland is 'the City of Snails'.

Govt has no choice but to fork out more for Cook Strait ferries

The cost's blown out to fix ferry infrastructure, but our government has to pay it.

Beehive Diaries: Luxon tries to start a new trend, Parker's DIY disaster

Beehive Diaries: Plus, Shane Jones meets his match in Te Pāti Māori.

Bruce Cotterill: Public transport is going nowhere - time to take to the sea

OPINION: The transport headlines are coming thick and fast; everything is unravelling.

'Why do you have to be so useless?': How Christmas changes when kids become teens

'To be a teenager is to be foreground, the star of the house.'

Steve Braunias: The Secret Diary of Christopher Luxon

OPINION: Christopher Luxon has had a bit of a frustrating week.

Letters: Why Taylor Swift was an obvious choice as person of year

Opinion: Who else would have qualified as person of the year?

Mary Holm: Taking the plunge - making a career change at 50

OPINION: I’m not sure how to make my remaining $140,000 in savings grow.

Fran O'Sullivan: Luxon needs to get the business community onboard

OPINION: Luxon needs to sit down with the business community - sooner rather than later.

Thomas Coughlan: Why it’s a great time to be in Government

The new Government is having fun - so is the Opposition.