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Oceania
Australia saves NZ from stink bug invasion that could hurt kiwi plants, economy
The bugs feed on key crops and a report released this year found New Zealand's annual economic output could fall by NZ$4.2 billion ($3.9 billion).
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World Politics
Fiji's PM Bainimarama wins narrow majority
The Pacific nation went to the polls last week for only the second time since Prime Minister Bainimarama seized control in a military coup in 2006.
Sexual assault
Ogled, groped and locked in a cage, Mariya speaks out against NZ Defence Force for 'protecting' rapist
Thirty years after being assaulted at work, Mariya Taylor can still smell her attacker's aftershave.
- by Alison Mau
Good Weekend
'Right on our doorstep': Papua New Guinea's health crises hit home
High maternal death rates. Tuberculosis. Polio. Leprosy. PNG is in the grip of multiple health crises – and that should worry everyone in Australia.
- by Matt Wade
Opinion
Foreign aid
Good work damaged by minister on L plates, but here's how to help our neighbours
The PM needs to use his new $2 billion Pacific infrastructure fund for something both critical and practical.
- by Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
New Zealand
NZ to investigate child abuse by churches
The New Zealand inquiry will have a broader criteria than Australia's, covering not just sexual abuse, but also other forms of abuse, according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Plastic
Old plastic bags given new lease on life as fence posts
Future Post was founded this year by farmer Jerome Wenzlick who got the idea while struggling to build a fence on an old rubbish dump site.
- by Amber-Leigh Woolf
Opinion
Terrorism
Lone wolf attacks hard to prevent but so are simplistic reactions
Authorities are doing their job and the Somali community has been cooperative. The issue now is to prevent an overreaction that makes the situation worse.
- by Greg Barton
Mother-of-11 from NZ sect drowns after falling into swollen river
The dead woman is from an isolated and controversial New Zealand Christian community, founded by an Australian evangelist, who was convicted of indecent assault.
Aviation
Auckland Airport tail-strike after pilot not told of wind change
A Virgin Australia plane scraped its tail on an Auckland Airport runway because the first officer failed to communicate a change in wind speed to the pilot.
New Zealand
'Felt like a sick joke': fisherman rescues baby floating at sea
Local fisherman Gus Hutt thought the lifeless figure he found floating off a New Zealand beach was a doll. Until it let out a squeak.
- by Ruby Nyika