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Local Focus: Gang prospect exchanges patch for fish
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Ruth Spencer on ways to distract the kids — and yourself — these holidays.
Kaye bill on young offenders has merit
EDITORIAL: A bill to get young offenders back to school is well worth the support.
Push to get young offenders back to school
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The 40 things over-55s do better than millennials
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'Kiwis in denial about trafficking'
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Simon Wilson's Northcote Notebook: All eyes on the younger candidates
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Deborah Hill Cone: We can fix our prison system
COMMENT: Inmates should be treated like family to rehabilitate.
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Charter schools that may never open were paid $3.4m
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Jigsaw Whanganui put the pieces together
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How this 16-year-old Kiwi almost doubled his money in the sharemarket
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3 schoolboys save suicidal man about to jump off bridge
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Kids born after Chch quake inherit trauma from parents
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Youth smoking at record low: survey
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Church: Victims shouldn't be denied
Churches want to be included in Royal Commission into abuse in state care
Catholic Church seeks inclusion in state abuse inquiry
Catholic Church says no one should miss the chance to be heard in abuse inquiry.
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