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Expert Reactions | Published: 29 June 2021

The Government has released the first draft of one of the proposed laws meant to replace the 30-year-old Resource Management […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 27 June 202128 June 2021

The Wellington region will remain at alert level 2 until 11.59 pm Tuesday, two days longer than anticipated. The government says there’s […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 27 June 202128 June 2021

The government has announced problem plastics and some single-use plastics will be phased out, in three stages, by July 2025. The outlawed […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 25 June 2021

No cases of Covid-19 have been detected in Wellington so far, but health authorities say the capital is still in […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 24 June 2021

Health officials are assuming the Sydney man who visited Wellington over the weekend has the Delta variant of the COVID-19 […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 June 202123 June 2021

Wellington will enter Alert Level 2 starting at 6pm tonight, in response to a traveller from Sydney who visited the […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 June 202123 June 2021

Wellingtonians are waiting to hear whether Alert Levels will change, after an infected person from Sydney spent last weekend in […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 22 June 202101 July 2021

The government has announced 18 new protected areas in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, along with limiting trawl fishing to […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 21 June 202122 June 2021

New Zealand’s medicines regulator has given the provisional tick for kids as young as 12 to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 19 June 2021

A satellite measuring sulphur dioxide emissions fortuitously passed over Whakaari/White Island almost an hour after its deadly eruption on 9 […]