Articles by Matthew Lee
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National
Pest influx: Rodents may have crossed strait to Stewart Island
Monday, 19 February 2024, 3:24PMLocal Democracy reporter, Matthew Rosenberg An image of a possible mouse caught on Stewart Island/Rakiura pest monitoring...
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World
Gaza’s Health Ministry blames Israeli troops for deadly shooting as crowd waited for aid
Friday, 26 January 2024, 3:34PMGaza’s Health Ministry and witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire as a crowd of Palestinians gathered for humanitarian...
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World
Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say
Monday, 8 January 2024, 12:15PMAt Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, lines of hundreds of trucks carrying aid wait for weeks to enter Gaza, and a warehouse...
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World
Antony Blinken says Turkey is committed to a ‘positive’ role in post-conflict Gaza
Sunday, 7 January 2024, 4:24PMUnited States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role...
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National
Queenstown Airport potential bomb threat was a ski boot heater
Saturday, 7 October 2023, 9:26AMA bomb threat sparked evacuations and lockdowns at Queenstown Airport yesterday — but it turned out to be over a device for...
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National
Top scientist posts anti-Govt views on social media
Saturday, 5 August 2023, 3:09PMA top Gisborne scientist has retained the support of the council he represents despite posting vitriol about the Government. The...
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National
Fight goes on for Māori locked out of whenua by perpeptual leases
Thursday, 9 February 2023, 1:30PMMāori land owners locked out of their whenua by perpetual leases are continuing their fight against century-old legislation,...
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National
Overseas Kiwi buyers boosting Queenstown house prices
Saturday, 16 January 2021, 2:01PMSky-high property prices in Queenstown are being boosted by Australians and overseas Kiwis buying houses without stepping...
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World
Pope Francis gives his blessing to an empty St. Peter's Square
Monday, 16 March 2020, 2:34PMSt. Peter's Square at the Vatican is normally swarming with tens of thousands of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of Pope...
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World
Landmark where the Pilgrims first landed vandalised ahead of anniversary
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 3:06PMPreparations to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims arriving in the New World were in full swing in Plymouth,...
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World
'Jihadi Jack' has been stripped of his UK citizenship
Monday, 19 August 2019, 2:08PMISIS suspect Jack Letts has been stripped of his British citizenship, according to Canadian officials. Letts was a British-Canadian...
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Business
Why Christchurch shooting threatened LOTR's return to NZ
Tuesday, 2 July 2019, 9:33AMBy Matthew Theunissen of RNZ Amazon needed reassurance after the Christchurch terrorist attacks that New Zealand was still...
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World
Disruptive woman sees military jets escort passenger plane to London
Monday, 24 June 2019, 2:31PMA woman has been arrested after two Royal Air Force (RAF) jets were forced to escort a passenger plane back to London following...
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Opinion
Opinion: Divorce looms for Labour and NZ First
Friday, 8 February 2019, 6:14AMCOMMENT: Jacinda Ardern has declared 2019 the "year of delivery" but for NZ First it must be the "year of divorce" — or at...
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Opinion
Comment: Bridges speaks frankly in private, he's also proven himself in crisis
Friday, 19 October 2018, 10:49AMCOMMENT: Jami-Lee Ross's allegations against Simon Bridges were the most serious levelled against a political leader by a...
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World
Kiwi photographer Wade Goddard launches book on Kosovo war
Sunday, 23 September 2018, 7:27AMRenowned New Zealand photojournalist Wade Goddard's images of horror, despair and heroic endurance during the Yugoslav Wars...
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World
President Trump’s onetime campaign chairman guilty on 8 charges
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 8:59AMPaul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump's winning presidential campaign, was found...
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Opinion
Comment: How the middle class is keeping gangs alive
Tuesday, 21 August 2018, 10:58AMI don't have a big problem with drug-taking, per se. It's a little awkward when your friends have taken something and are...
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Opinion
Matthew Hooton: Cracks in the Green revolution
Friday, 17 August 2018, 10:34AMCOMMENT: Like lawyers or economists, today's Green Party has eight MPs but at least as many opinions and factions. Today's...
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Opinion
Matthew Hooton: Crisis of confidence will cost thousands of jobs
Friday, 10 August 2018, 4:55PMThe current business confidence crisis is set to become an investment crisis and full-scale economic downturn. Already Treasury...
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National
Eva McGauley: Teen with terminal cancer continues to inspire
Sunday, 29 July 2018, 9:03AMA Kiwi teen who is inspiring people around the world as she battles terminal cancer has begun university studies. Eva McGauley,...
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Opinion
Comment: Why Labour is giving National all the power
Friday, 27 July 2018, 8:54AMNo opposition in living memory has gone into its first conference after losing power in better shape than Simon Bridges'...
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Opinion
Matthew Hooton: The real reason Ardern banned oil & gas
Friday, 8 June 2018, 11:11AMFarmers, tourism operators and everyone else better hope the Government doesn't have another bad political month. It's now...
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Opinion
Comment: Will Ardern be first one-term PM since 1960?
Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 6:48PMIt's early days, but Jacinda Ardern risks being the first one-term Prime Minister since Walter Nash. Eighteen years ago,...