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A climate change advocate was arrested for painting an example of projected rising sea levels on an MP's office window.
Police confirmed Rowan Manley Campbell was arrested for disorder and received a pre-charge warning, after spraying a pink line across Coromandel MP Scott Simpson's office window in Thames on Tuesday morning.
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Read more: Extinction Rebellion protester arrested for spray-painting MP's Thames office
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115496729/extinction-rebellion-protester-arrested-for-spraypainting-mps-thames-office
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There is nothing that makes you more aware of the fragility of existence than seeing your own baby's life drain away in front of your eyes.
Dr Michelle Conning will never forget that feeling. Of seeing tubes coming out of her 14-month-old as he lay in Auckland's Starship hospital, struck down with an illness that could have been eradicated years ago.
"I thought he was going to die," the Titirangi GP says now. "That was the worst week of my life, and if I wasn't convinced then, I was after that."
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Read more: In an affluent corner of Auckland, a GP struggles against vaccination disinformation
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/114994080/in-an-affluent-corner-of-auckland-a-gp-struggles-against-vaccination-disinformation
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Aucklanders can expect another wet day after wild weather caused chaos overnight.
MetService said thunderstorms were possible and northeasterlies would be strong in exposed places.
There would also be showers in the morning which could turn into heavy falls from the afternoon, it said.
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Read more: Wild weather hits Auckland with trees and powerlines down
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/115511553/wild-weather-hits-auckland--trees-down-flooding-on-the-motorway
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Māori suicide prevention workers say they are undervalued and underfunded and they are pleading for more support as Māori suicide rates reach record highs.
New figures show 685 people in Aotearoa died by suicide in the year to June, also marking the highest number of Māori suicide deaths ever at 169.
In Whanganui, a father of five took his life at the weekend, and another dad died by suicide the week before.
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Read more: Adults warned on suicides: Support children or ‘see them leave before you’
- Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/160685-adults-warned-on-suicides-support-children-or-lsquosee-them-leave-before-yoursquo.html
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Cannabis would be legalised and minor cannabis convictions wiped under a new report from The Helen Clark Foundation.
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Read more: Helen Clark Foundation report gives cannabis legalisation green tick
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/helen-clark-foundation-report-gives-cannabis-legalisation-green-tick.html
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The outbreak of measles has reached a dangerous tipping point. What does ‘herd immunity’ mean, and why does that matter?
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Read more: Cheat sheet: NZ might have just lost herd immunity to measles. Now what?
- Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/30-08-2019/cheat-sheet-nz-might-have-just-lost-herd-immunity-to-measles-now-what/?fbclid=IwAR0pxkdUgAQ2pOT_zHKLHKgXb8-QGly4cclaNZhzOVbSXIOLkid1jT-wdk8
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OPINION: There's nothing magic about age 65. It's not the stroke of midnight when we all turn into pumpkins and start to roll down the big hill.
Sixty was the age of retirement in the 1970s when New Zealand originally established today's superannuation scheme. That threshold rose to age 61 in 1992 and climbed to age 65 by 2001.
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Read more: The young will pay for the rising retirement burden
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/115350946/the-young-will-pay-for-the-rising-retirement-burden?cid=facebook.post&fbclid=IwAR1Y6Eh8i8YfzMG8LX-OTZe7XU-TqtQRFyHPKTJQxt5_4jsMmmEFvWD9txs
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He never went to university – but now Rocket Lab visionary Peter Beck can call himself a professor.
The Invercargill-raised space industry pioneer, whose company staged its eighth successful launch from Mahia just two weeks ago, was given the title of adjunct professor of aerospace engineering by the University of Auckland today.
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Read more: Rocket man Peter Beck NZ's newest professor
- Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/rocket-man-peter-beck-nzs-newest-professor
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