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Demand for foodbank parcels puts pressure on volunteer pool
High demand for foodbank parcels leaves organisation stretched for manpower.
'We saw people still digging in the rubble trying to find their loved ones'
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More than 40 Auckland boarding houses operating illegally
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Last call for submissions to help support Samoan citizenship bill
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New figures show Auckland businesses struggling with crime
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MSD owed billions as families spiral into ‘crippling’ debt
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South Africa's opposition parties make final call for historic change before election
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'Like containers' – new Chinese-built apartments shock Sandringham
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Auckland city crime - businesses fear for survival
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Retirement cancelled: What it's like to be 50, single and raising two grandkids
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Samoans urged to stand up for citizenship bill
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'It’s a cold, lonely world': Inside Dunedin's tent city
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Opinion: What can and can’t be learnt from Singapore
Financial Times: The island’s ultimate strength has been a lack of dogma.
Russian women to get full NZ pension after overseas ones stopped by invasion
One of the women said the pension reduction was having an acute effect on her household.
Editorial: Why are so many Kiwis sleeping rough?
OPINION: NZ has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the developed world.
Cook Islands ban vapes, smoking age raised to 21
Smoking in public places is banned except in limited exceptional cases.
Scathing Kāinga Ora report highlights huge and ever-growing debt
Housing advocate Huri Dennis fears backlash for Kāinga Ora tenants.
Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?
Once upon a time, human relationships developed without smartphones.
Principals happy lunch in schools continuing, but some questions remain
The programme will continue for the next two years on a tighter budget.
Another 26,000 ‘will be unemployed’ before peak
March quarter data from Stats NZ showed an increase in the unemployment rate.
Fears Queenstown’s homeless problem is about to snowball
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