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Another slip in the global dairy trade auction
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Health Minister Simeon Brown announces nurse training, tertiary education funding boost
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Green-belt soils among NZ’s best but becoming ‘near impossible to farm’ – landowner
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‘Legend’: ‘Bloody good cop’ who targeted gangs dies
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‘Turning the Treaty into a socialist manifesto’: Richard Prebble resigns from Waitangi Tribunal
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