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Formula One driver Liam Lawson's embracing the start to his Red Bull era in Melbourne 9:27

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Questions over how proposed changes to the Foreign Investment Fund will ensure migrant workers stay longer 9:07

Law and Order:
Police in Auckland have handed down dispersal notices to three patched gang members and their associates for the first time 8:17

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A vehicle registration scam from a group posing as the Wellington Cable Car has caught the attention of the Transport Agency 8:07

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Inquiries are continuing, into the death of a girl hit by a train in the Waikato town of Matamata 8:07

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Trans and non-binary New Zealanders earn less and are more likely to be unemployed – new study 8:07

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