Unpacking the AUKUS defence pact, the inquest into a toddler's death in oxidation ponds, female doctors and your health, beating the bots on picture verification

Winston Peters is expected to clarify New Zealand’s position on the defence pact, AUKUS, tomorrow, but what is it all about? A Coroner’s inquest has opened into the death of a Gore toddler who drowned in oxidation ponds, we have the background to this confusing tragedy. Could you live longer if you had a female doctor and how it's getting harder to pass the picture verification test in an effort to stave off AI guesses. E kawatau ana ka whakamahuki te pirimia tuarua a Winston Peters i tā Aotearoa kaupapa here mō te haumi whakamaru a AUKUS, āpōpō, engari he aha katoa tēnei āhuatanga? Kua tuwhera te matewhawhati a te kaitirotiro matewhawhati ki te matenga o tētahi kōhungahunga nō Gore i toromi i roto i ngā pūroto ōhikitanga, kei a mātou te whakamōhiotanga tuarongo ki tēnei aituā pīroiroi. Ka taea e koe te ora roa ake mehemea he tākuta wahine tāu? Ā, e uaua ake ai te whakaoti i te whakamātautau manatokonga pikitia i runga i te hiahia ki te karo i ngā whakapae AI. Translated into Te Reo Māori using the power of Microsoft AI and Stuff's Kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell