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Author: Caroline Williams and Laine Moger

Police are hunting an "extremely dangerous" man wanted in connection with the alleged abduction and sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in Auckland.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115974531/police-hunt-man-wanted-over-abduction-and-sexual-assault-of-17yearold-girl
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Author: Max Rashbrooke

OPINION: Our local councils are badly out of step with our times. By that I mean they haven't harnessed the surge of new democratic energy now sweeping the world.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-body-elections/116020585/my-plea-to-council-candidates-more-openness-asap
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Author: Thomas Coughlan and Luke Malpass

While Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is being feted by global leaders in New York for her optimistic climate change activism, back in Wellington her government's plans to extend the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to farming have stalled.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116055224/jacinda-ardern-feted-abroad-but-emissions-trading-scheme-extension-in-trouble-at-home
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Author: Heather McCarron

Around one in four people summonsed for jury service manage to avoid it, according to figures released to Newshub under the Official Information Act.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/09/one-in-four-people-getting-out-of-jury-service.html
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Author: Katie Fitzgerald & Heather McCarron

Gun law changes won't make the public safer, the National Party says, as the Government continues to reform firearms legislation in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/second-tranche-of-gun-law-changes-won-t-make-public-safer-national.html
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The number of New Zealanders with 'no religion' has officially surpassed the number of people who identify as Christian in New Zealand, with a secular advocacy group calling for fewer concessions to be given to Christians.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/no-religion-officially-overtakes-christianity-in-new-zealand-census-stats?fbclid=IwAR3snGHSs8CF3up7MOPaY7IzbllodrJ7BY5iHdkME-GISjDYGiezZRp0Lc4
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Author: Reuters

RNZ joins more than 250 media organisations from around the world in the Covering Climate Now (CCN) initiative by committing to heighten climate coverage in the week leading up to the UN Climate Action Summit on 23 September 2019.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/399261/climate-change-protests-spread-on-global-day-of-action
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Author: Blair Jackson

Katie Robertson was on her way to meet her fellow bridesmaids in Invercargill but she never made it.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/112778975/family-grieves-the-loss-of-their-daughter-killed-in-a-car-accident
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