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Author: Henry Cooke

School camps could be canned because of burdensome new guidelines for what does and doesn't count as a school donation, say some principals.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/116519298/new-guidelines-for-what-schools-can-and-cant-ask-for-will-see-school-camps-cancelled-principals-say
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Author: Nigel Nelson

The state pension age is set to rise to 75 over the next 16 years — based on a plan by new PM Boris Johnson ’s favourite think tank.

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Article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-raise-state-pension-age-18953679
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Note from Nighthawk.NZ: This is an older article I know. But it also is floating around in policies here in New Zealand. And I personally hope that they don't. At present, the retirement age in New Zealand is 65.

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Author: Ben Francis

While Japan may be used to extreme weather, some of the current tourists aren't as Typhoon Hagibis lashed out on the Rugby World Cup host nation. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rugby-world-cup-2019/2019/10/rugby-world-cup-2019-full-force-of-typhoon-hagibis-felt-as-player-share-experiences-from-hotel-rooms.html
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Author: Lucy Warhurst

A budding filmmaker from Blenheim is putting bullying in the spotlight.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/it-s-a-big-issue-teenager-bullied-out-of-seven-schools-message-of-strength.html
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Author: Scott Palmer & Edward O'Driscoll
Spotify has been caught hosting playlists glorifying the accused Christchurch terrorist and his attacks.
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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/10/spotify-hosts-playlists-glorifying-christchurch-terror-attack.html
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Staff at a Southern District Health Board unit stripped a young woman naked and left her with no mattress or pillow for at least 12 hours overnight on a "cold hard surface" in seclusion in a mental health unit.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/164306-dhb-staff-stripped-young-woman-naked-and-put-her-seclusion-12-hours.html
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A New Zealand pornography maker is on the run from US authorities after being accused of deceiving and coercing young women to appear in sex videos.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/164315-new-zealand-pornography-maker-on-run-from-us-authorities.html
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has missed out on a Nobel Peace Prize, with the prize going to the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-misses-nobel-peace-prize-awarded-ethiopian-prime-minister
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  1. Man jailed for child pornography
  2. Teens terrorised in Dunedin smash attack
  3. Biker furious as police seize his beloved stolen Yamaha and it's resold without warning
  4. I don't trust the media and neither should you

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