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![Outcry as drink-drive limit is retained](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Outcry as drink-drive limit is retained
The Govt's decision to shelve plans to lower the drink-driving limit for adults and instead do more research has been attacked as gutless.
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Mapp confirms missile scare
Wayne Mapp has confirmed the WikiLeaks report of a missile threat faced by an RNZAF Hercules in Afghanistan last year.
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UN expert targets Maori disadvantage
Extreme social and economic disadvantage faced by Maori has been highlighted as an ongoing concern by a visiting UN expert.
![<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Work much more than just a job](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Work much more than just a job
Help and training is better than a legislation for 90-day trials and clampdowns on sickies, writes Tapu Misa.
![Workers win back one lost holiday](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Workers win back one lost holiday
Some 2000 metal and manufacturing workers have negotiated a one-off holiday in 2011 to make up for missed public holidays.
![Surge in booze-shop bids as tough law looms](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Surge in booze-shop bids as tough law looms
Would-be liquor merchants are flooding NZ with applications for new bottle shops before an expected law tightening, a liquor chain says.
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Air gun clampdown wins applause
The family of a man shot dead by a high-powered air rifle is welcoming a policy change that will see all those with such weapons requiring a firearms licence.
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Boilers 'time bombs' in our schools - engineer
The survivor of the fatal Orewa College boiler explosion fears there are ticking time bombs in most Kiwi schools.