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Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards TE PĀTI MĀORI Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Tikanga stand off: Te Pāti Māori refuse to front up to committee over haka Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, Layla Bailey-McDowell and Lillian Hanly (RNZ): Te Pāti Māori MPs refuse to attend Parliament's Privileges Committee hearing over haka
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Three Te Pāti Māori MPs say they refuse to attend Parliament’s Privileges Committee hearing over concerns their “fundamental” legal rights are being ignored.
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The word for today is… fractal (noun): : any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : This term was coined in 1975
Chlöe accused of throwing the gay community under the “bussy”
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Curriculum reforms reshape English and maths around knowledge-first model
“Social groups can believe whatever they want to believe, but school and university is for modern science."
Cloud seeding raises new climate tensions and old conspiracy fears
The ability to make clouds has been around since the 1940s.
Drug stocks tumble after top FDA vaccine chief ousted under Trump-Kennedy health shakeup
“This unfortunate update does nothing to reassure investors.”
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