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What’s really behind your night sweats

What’s really behind your night sweats

Winter mornings in New Zealand can start with an odd contradiction. It is freezing outside,...

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How to kindly tell someone they smell

How to kindly tell someone they smell

Few conversations feel as awkward as telling someone, gently, that they have a body odour...

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Blue September and the prostate cancer test New Zealand doesn’t routinely offer

Blue September and the prostate cancer test New Zealand doesn’t routinely offer

More than 4,000 New Zealand men are told they have prostate cancer each year, making...

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What to do when an email lands with the wrong person

What to do when an email lands with the wrong person

Every workplace has a version of this story. Someone hits send on an email meant...

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Why you don’t get what you don’t ask for

Why you don’t get what you don’t ask for

There’s an old workplace truism that goes something like this. The raise you didn’t ask...

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Counting poverty after 65

Counting poverty after 65

New Zealand has never measured hardship among older adults, and a new report makes a...

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Do you actually want to leave an inheritance?

Do you actually want to leave an inheritance?

For most people, the idea of leaving something behind for the kids feels like a...

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Kmart’s $99 camera glasses outpace privacy law

Kmart’s $99 camera glasses outpace privacy law

Wearable camera technology has hit the mainstream. Privacy experts say our laws were never built...

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Calls for major aged care reform as costs set to nearly double

Calls for major aged care reform as costs set to nearly double

A new independent report is calling for major structural reform of our aged care system,...

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