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The Council of Licenced Firearms Owners is calling on Police Minister Stuart Nash to front up and explain, after releasing new figures showing that since 2011, Police employees have been caught 244 times for unauthorised use of confidential and sensitive Policing databases.

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Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2002/S00154/as-arms-bill-hits-parliament-new-corruption-data-exposes-police.htm
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Author: Steven Joyce

OPINION: House prices are on the rise again, and this time rents are rising as well.

And right on cue, the property interventionists are limbering up to demand capital gains taxes, rent freezes and sundry other measures to tackle the issue.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/119731577/before-we-start-talking-about-another-housing-crisis-lets-talk-about-what-works
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Author: Carolyn Y. Johnson, Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Joel Achenbach

In South Korea, coronavirus cases quadrupled over two days, as 144 members of a religious sect tested positive. In Singapore, clusters of infection have been traced to two churches, a hotel business meeting, a health products shop and a construction site. In Iran, an outbreak has seeded new cases in Lebanon and Canada - a worrisome sign the disease could be spreading more widely than realised.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/119734118/coronavirus-outbreak-edges-closer-to-pandemic
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Author: Amber-Leigh Woolf and Warwick Rasmussen

New Zealanders are embracing plant-based diets with more people than ever choosing to go meat-free - and the signs are that it's no passing fad.

But while the move towards "meatless" is driven by many factors - such as price, preference and moral stances - a major change in our appetites will have a massive impact on our farming sector and what they produce in the future.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/119628510/we-need-to-talk-about-vegans-should-new-zealand-embrace-a-meatless-future
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The short answer is No... and stop calling your vegetable processed product meat, because it is not.  The long answer is... wait till I am dead before you push that crap.  In general, I have nothing against vegans, just stop trying to push your BS on everyone you are worse than the religion. 

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Author: Reuters

South Korean coronavirus cases have doubled to 433 and there are fears the tally could surge again after more than 1000 people who went to a church at the centre of the outbreak reported flu-like symptoms.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/south-korea-coronavirus-cases-more-than-double-to-433.html
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Author: Dan Satherley & Emma Turton

The Government's announced moves to regulate vaping.

A Bill is being introduced to Parliament on Monday which includes a total ban on all advertising of smokeless products and no sales to under-18s.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/government-proposes-new-vaping-regulations.html
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Author: Sae Strang

New Zealand First's decision to block the introduction of the low-emissions vehicle 'feebate' policy is a "slap in the face" to consumers and businesses who have already decided to buy them, the head of an electric vehicle lobby group says.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/nz-first-is-sending-nz-back-to-the-industrial-age-electric-car-lobby.html
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Author: TVNZ

Italy reported its first death from the new virus from China earlier today and the number of people infected more than quadrupled due to a cluster of cases that prompted officials to order schools, restaurants and businesses to close.

State-run RAI television reported a 78-year-old man, one of two people in northern Veneto region to have been infected, died yesterday.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/italy-reports-first-coronavirus-death-cases-surge-in-south-korea-japan-and-iran
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