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Climate politics matures with Greens emissions plan

Analysis: The Green Party’s alternative emissions reduction plan can serve as the platform for a substantive debate on climate

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Daily crossword, Monday 9 December

Test your smarts with Newsroom's daily crossword.

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White Ferns’ coach gets to defend World Cup title

Ben Sawyer took cricket's White Ferns to World Cup glory a little earlier than he'd planned, and now gets the chance to do it again

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Bitcoin proves the sceptics wrong – for now

A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump to mark the cryptocurrency breaking $100,000, at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong. Photo: Getty Images

Never before has the election of a US President delivered such a significant windfall to one group of investors

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Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 9 December

Which two skills might a polymath excel in?

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Iwi cold shoulder forces Govt to change engagement

The Govt has been forced to change how it engages with the influential National Iwi Chairs Forum after the group formally uninvited the Crown

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To call this voodoo economics is an insult to voodoo

Voodoo was and still is derided by colonisers for largely racist reasons as superstition though its beliefs and practices are no less objectively realistic than mainstream religions or simplistic economic theories taken out of context, writes Rob Campbell. Photo: Getty Images

Comment: Trying to retrospectively graft an economic theory onto the coalition Government’s economic policy is equally simplistic

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The long, expensive road to surrogacy

From The Detail: Having a baby by surrogacy in New Zealand is complicated, convoluted and costly. A bill promised fast-tracked change, but progress has been anything but.

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Marsden Fund needed scrutiny only for the ‘silly’ projects, says Govt advisor

Dr Maja Zonjić was granted $360,000 to study Big Things such as the Ohakune Carrot, prompting criticism. Photo: Yortw/Flickr

Nearly a billion dollars in dedicated funding is already available for core sciences, but arts and humanities were cut from $78m Marsden anyway

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Xmas: best nonfiction of 2024

Literary editor Steve Braunias selects the top 10 nonfiction books of the year

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