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Author: Amelia Wade

The Government is pushing through its Three Waters reforms come hell or high water. 

The plan takes power off local councils to manage drinking water, wastewater and stormwater. Being part of it was originally voluntary but is now compulsory and extremely tricky for future governments to unpick. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/how-mayors-across-new-zealand-reacted-to-three-waters-mandate.html
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Author: Stephen Jacobi

Opinion: The announcement of an Agreement in Principle (AiP) on a future free trade agreement with the United Kingdom warms the heart at a challenging time.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/454128/hello-to-global-britain-our-new-best-free-trade-friend
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Author: Matthew Lee

The United States and China are stepping up their war of words over Taiwan in a long-simmering dispute that has significant implications for the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

Amid a surge in Chinese military activity near the island that China regards as a renegade province and has vowed to reclaim by force if necessary, Washington and Beijing have launched new campaigns for global support for their respective positions, each using the stern and lofty language of sovereignty and international precedent. And neither is backing down.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300439847/us-china-sparring-over-taiwan-heats-up-anew
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ACC “has work to do” to regain Kiwis’ trust that their private information is safe with the agency, the Government says. 

It comes after revelations that a group of more than a dozen Hamilton-based ACC call centre staff shared details of people's injuries on Snapchat . 

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/10/27/acc-has-work-to-do-to-regain-trust-after-privacy-breach-govt/
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Author: Anusha Bradley

ACC call centre workers shared details of people's injuries and mocked them on Snapchat, RNZ can reveal.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/10/26/acc-staff-posted-clients-details-to-snapchat-group/
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Author: Nighthawk

What did I just watch and the smug ill-informed interviewer.

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Former prime minister Helen Clark is calling on rich nations, like New Zealand, to address the “disgraceful” Covid-19 immunisation rates of poorer countries, such as Papua New Guinea, by supplying them with more vaccine doses.

Clark, who was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017 after serving three terms in Aotearoa's top job, said on Tuesday that the vaccine “needs to be a gift to the world”.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126793220/covid19-helen-clark-takes-aim-at-aukus-urges-rich-nations-to-act-over-disgraceful-vaccine-inequity
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Clark said it used to be a “behind-the-scenes intelligence exchange” but had become a tool for power houses like the US to influence other countries.

“This is a huge threat to New Zealand’s foreign policy. [Five Eyes] shouldn’t be used like that,” Clark said.

Ummm that is why you have intelligence gathering in the first place... so you can influence other countries...

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Author: Amelia Wade

About 40 percent of New Zealand's workforce will need to be fully vaccinated after the Government announced a sweeping vaccine mandate on Tuesday afternoon.

The compulsory vaccinations apply to businesses like hospitality, retail, hairdressers and gyms.

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