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Pain into purpose: Mother launches petition after son's shooting death

Eru was 29 with a partner, two children, and four brothers - including a twin.

Farage under pressure as school racism allegations resurface

More than a dozen Dulwich College classmates have detailed claims to the Guardian.

'Social Impact Bonds': Should NZ pay only for proven social outcomes?

Maxim Institute's Thomas Scrimgeour explains how Social Impact Bonds work.

Govt's parent-income welfare gateway for teenagers blasted by officials

MSD officials said the policy did not tackle deeper causes of problems for young people.

Editorial: Why learning to be bored could be good for you

OPINION: Phones have removed our ability to sit in our boredom and think.

‘They’ve got no one to talk to’: Bar defends solo drinker ban

Author Nicola Slawson says the ban wrongly paints singles as 'weird'.

Richard Prebble: New Zealand 'going down the tubes' over school attendance problem

OPINION: Nearly half of New Zealand's pupils failed to attend school regularly last term.

Majority of emergency housing applications in urban Auckland being declined

Tama Potaka: 'I'm not going to put up with the motel generation.'

Inside freedom camping wars: Why NZ hot spots are fed up with bad campers

“You wouldn’t pee in your garden.”