Archive for April, 2009
Teabagging fad sweeps US
Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, April 15th, 2009 - 7 comments
In 1773, a group of Bostonians who objected to being forced to pay a tax on tea by the British Parliament, which they didn’t get to elect, boarded a ship carrying tea and threw the cargo into Boston harbour. The Boston Tea Party became an iconic example of the principle of ‘no taxation without representation’, […]
Public service numbers
Written By: - Date published: 5:17 pm, April 14th, 2009 - 44 comments
I’ve just stumbled across this killer graph from the PSA on public service numbers under Labour and National. It helpfully puts in graphical form what we’ve known all along – that for all the bleating we’ve heard from National and its sycophants about how Labour’s bloated public service was sucking the nation dry, the reality […]
Mana enhancement
Written By: - Date published: 2:15 pm, April 14th, 2009 - 26 comments
The Maori Party MPs always read from pre-prepared speeches in the House. Here’s one they might like to read on Budget Day: We refuse to vote for more money to lock up poor Maori and poor Pakeha. We voted against National’s reactionary crime laws, now we will vote against the money to fund them. We […]
Barbaric
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, April 14th, 2009 - 22 comments
Restaurant Association chairman Mike Egan on how to treat your staff during a recession: “if some of our employees cannot adapt fast enough we will drag them out of the cave and leave them to the sabre-tooth tigers and find staff who can and will adapt”. Most of the people he’s talking about are on […]
Workers locked out – bosses locked in
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, April 14th, 2009 - 31 comments
Forwarded to us from Indymedia: Call centre workers at Synovate in South Auckland were today locked out by their employer. The workers had been negotiating for secure hours and a pay rise of a dollar when they received word by text last night that they would not be allowed to come back to work. Upon […]
The tax cut bandwagon
Written By: - Date published: 5:58 am, April 14th, 2009 - 29 comments
For the last two election campaigns we had to put up with National, aided and abetted by many commentators, dominating the agenda with its incessant calls for tax cuts. Last year they promised “meaningful cuts”, “North of $50”, a promise repeated even in the face of the emerging economic crisis. As previously discussed here those […]
The next oil spike(s)
Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, April 13th, 2009 - 13 comments
Remember the oil spike? Over the course of the last 4-5 years, oil kept on breaking records, culminating in a massive spike to reach $150 last June. Why did that happen? Some people want to dismiss it as just a speculative bubble but they forget that speculators come to a market that has a fundamental […]
Good to hear it, Phil
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 13th, 2009 - 37 comments
Back during the election campaign, the Standard writers wrote a lot about the need for Labour’s leaders to talk more from their values, values that they quite happily talk about in private. Well, Phil Goff did exactly that on Q+A yesterday (video here). Here’s the best quote: PHIL Well my vision for New Zealand is […]
Capitalism losing its allure
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, April 13th, 2009 - 36 comments
The capitalist doctrine sure has taken a beating lately. Not only have its raw excesses created a global crash which shows no signs of abating, not only has it been bailed out and propped up everywhere by nationalisation and trillion dollar taxpayer funded handouts, but now it seems that the people are starting to lose […]
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 pm, April 12th, 2009 - 13 comments
Usually I’m working, so I don’t get to see Sunday on TVOne. Lucky me. I flicked over for the very end tonight, just in time to see whathisname with the moustache reading our viewers’ comments. There was a comment from Mary that went something like ‘the government should get tough on crime, seize offenders’ assets […]
dick-o-meter
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, April 12th, 2009 - 16 comments
Russel Brown at Media7 doing a light-hearted take on how pathetic Paul Henry has been over time. You really have to ask if this Henry has left early adolescence yet after watching this video. But he does have his supporters with similar attitudes. hat-tip: Brian Edwards who has started a blog. It is a bit […]
Herald tells Kiwis to bend over
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 12th, 2009 - 32 comments
The Herald’s article this morning on how to ‘Future-proof your job in the recession’ tells Kiwi workers to bend over for your boss and take it; cause that’s the only way you’re gonna keep your job. No. Workers are in danger of losing their jobs because of fat greedy corporates in the first place. We […]
Weak
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, April 12th, 2009 - 18 comments
We’ve all been subjected to mainstream journalists gushing over Key’s ‘strong leadership’ but now it’s being put to the test and we’re seeing weakness, not strength. Look at how he has dealt with Richard Worth compared to how Clark dealt with ministers. When Helen Clark was Prime Minister, especially in her early days, she had […]
What comes around goes around
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 pm, April 11th, 2009 - 3 comments
It wasn’t so long ago that National’s covert attack organ, the Free Speech Coalition, were squealing about how anti-democratic the last Labour government was, with plenty of snappy billboards like this one. Well now that the tragedy of Fiji’s dictatorship is going from bad to worse, don’t expect to hear any more concern from the […]
Chopper’s vice
Written By: - Date published: 3:57 pm, April 11th, 2009 - 6 comments
Trevor Mallard reminded us in comments of another story that illustrates Anne “Chopper” Tolley’s great intellect. Soon after she became minister, Tolley had a meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of various universities. She turned to her staff and asked something along the lines of ‘how come I’m only meeting with the vice-chancellors? I’m the minister, I […]
Statistical crimes and the media
Written By: - Date published: 1:44 pm, April 11th, 2009 - 8 comments
You might have noticed that there was none of the traditional beat-up over crime when the crime statistics came out last week even though reported crime was up 1.2%. The reason is pretty obvious. The right is on power now, so National, the Sensible Sentencing Trust, and the Herald have no interest in trying to […]
Obscene
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, April 11th, 2009 - 31 comments
Rob Fyfe, CEO of Air New Zealand has seen a pay rise of 93%. The Herald reports that before his pay was frozen in July, Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe nearly doubled his pay – his package rising from $1.61 million to $3.1 million. With the economy in freefall and people’s jobs increasingly at risk […]
Creating venal politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, April 11th, 2009 - 13 comments
It appears that John Key and Rodney Hide are participating in an old political action in Auckland – the gerrymander. From a general desire from politically aware Aucklanders to get a more coherent local government for the city, they have constructed a political system for business to completely dominate the city. Democratic and public spirited […]
Too Big to Fail
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 pm, April 10th, 2009 - 28 comments
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of those rare thinkers who has the priceless ability to express complex ideas in ways that are immediately accessible and concrete. I’m going to shamelessly quote and derive from a very recent article he’s written in the Financial Times. It’s so good I’m going to take each one of the […]
Dispatches from the Mirror Universe: Herald vows to fight super-council
Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, April 10th, 2009 - 36 comments
Today, The Herald relaunched it’s ‘Democracy under attack’ campaign with a front page editorial. The editorial is damning of National/ACT’s plan for an Auckland super-council. Here are the main points: “everyone, regardless of their political hue must oppose the removal of representation without consent” “the precedent is that when a merging of councils is proposed […]
Key, a Worthless Prime Minister?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 10th, 2009 - 24 comments
Yet another twist in the Worthless saga. It turns out that he used his diplomatic passport on the trip to India – which was a ‘private’ trip. John Key in his usual spineless way has issued another limp ‘warning”. It appears that even Worth does not believe the warning. Colin Espiner says Worth admitted in […]
One of these things is not like the other II
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, April 10th, 2009 - 36 comments
One of these things is not like the other… One of these things is not quite the same. Can you guess which one is not like the other… Can you tell me before I finish the game?
Reminder: DL Wgtn tonight
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, April 9th, 2009 - 3 comments
If you’re not fleeing the city for the long weekend like every other sane person, Drinking Liberally Wellington is on at the Southern Cross tonight with guest Metiria Turei. What: Drinking Liberally Wgtn When: Tonight, April 9, 2009, from 5.30pm. Where: The Southern Cross, Abel Smith Street Who: Good left-wing jokers and jokeresses like yourself. […]
Cyclewatch
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 9th, 2009 - 33 comments
Time: 14 days Jobs created: 0 Built (km): 0 out of 1500 Cost thus far: $0 Govt estimated cost: Not $50m this year, next year, or the year after that. Country status: In recession
Thanks, Helen
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 pm, April 8th, 2009 - 46 comments
There goes the best leader we’ve had in a life-time. Was she perfect? No, far from it. There are many things she might have done differently but she led governments that made New Zealand a better place in so many ways. We’ve heard her government’s achievements so many times I won’t try to list them all. They have […]
A message from the base
Written By: - Date published: 1:39 pm, April 8th, 2009 - 166 comments
As regular readers will know I’ve been an active Green supporter since the Alliance left parliament. I’ve not agreed with all of their policies and over the years I’ve had serious issues with the more amateur aspects of their campaigns but they have been the party in parliament that most accurately reflects what I’d like […]
Russian oligarch urges dump MMP
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, April 8th, 2009 - 43 comments
So, the Business Roundtable has resorted to calling in Russian oligarchs to aid their campaign against proportional represenation. Here’s what “Taranaki-born former Treasury economist-turned-Russian oligarch” Stephen Jennings had to say following last night’s Sir Ron Trotter address. MMP, he says, must go. We need political leaders who can lead and manage change. “They need to […]
The Tolleycopter
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, April 8th, 2009 - 32 comments
Most people have focused on the utter hypocrisy of National’s Anne Tolley flying around Auckland in a helicopter looking at education buildings from the air at the same time as the government says it can’t afford to help people falling victim to the recession. I’m more worried about how the helicopter ride came about. It […]
Burn baby burn
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, April 8th, 2009 - 2 comments
The future is starting to look decidedly sci fi. As the UN climate talks in Bonn draw to a close, developed countries have refused to forward an overall mid-term emissions reduction target ( the cuts they’re willing to make collectively by 2020). Despite science telling us this needs to be in the range of 40 […]
- The mystery of the massive sporting comeback: what’s the psychology of momentum in sports?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Fox-Harding, Lecturer/Researcher, Edith Cowan University The unpredictability of sport is in many ways its greatest attraction, and unforgettable come-from-behind victories are especially captivating. During these epic comebacks, one team or athlete is generally said to have captured or capitalised on ...5 days ago - Hollywood didn’t know exactly what to do with Donald Sutherland – so they did everything with hi...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland I don’t think Hollywood knew what to do with Donald Sutherland, who has died at age 88. He was not your classically handsome A-list actor like contemporaries Warren Beatty or ...5 days ago
- How would a switch to nuclear affect electricity prices for households and industry?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Dargaville, Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University Peter Dutton has announced that under a Coalition government, seven nuclear power stations would be built around the country over the next 15 years. Experts have declared nuclear power would be expensive and ...5 days ago
- The Week in Politics: Scrutiny Week takes off while PM's plane gets grounded
Analysis - The PM's plane breaks down, but Luxon tries to keep things rolling, while MPs face tough questions at home, Peter Wilson writes. ...5 days ago - Fast Track bill has more supporters than opponents – Taxpayers Union-Curia pollA Taxpayers Union-Curia poll suggests more New Zealanders support the government's fast-track bill than oppose it. ...5 days ago
- Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now o...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Of all the debates unleashed by the Coalition’s nuclear energy announcement this week, energy prices is among the hottest. As Australians struggle with the skyrocketing cost of living, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan gives little ...5 days ago
- Does One NZ’s new ad campaign connect? Many adopted people might not think soSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury One NZ/YouTube Adoption is often portrayed as a beautiful, loving act. It enables people to become parents to a child who is given a second chance at being part of ...5 days ago
- Why can’t I sleep? It could be your sheets or doonaSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chin Moi Chow, Associate Professor of Sleep and Wellbeing, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock It’s winter, so many of us will be bringing out, or buying, winter bedding. But how much of a difference does your bedding make to your thermal ...5 days ago
- NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissionsPublic submissions have closed on a bill which would offer a pathway to New Zealand citizenship to a group of Samoans born between 1924 and 1949. Public hearings on the Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship Act Bill start on Monday. In 1982, the Privy Council ruled that because those born ...5 days ago
- Energy Minister orders Electricity Authority review into pylon collapseSimeon Brown has ordered the Electricity Authority to review the Northland outage. ...5 days ago
- Education Ministry breached collective agreement in job cuts process – PSAThe union has told the Employment Relations Authority the ministry has grossly underestimated its obligations to staff. ...5 days ago
- Northland Power Outages Could Be Mitigated With Increased Battery Storage. Government Must Prioritis...
Extreme weather events, increased peak demand, and failures of supply are costing New Zealanders millions of dollars in lost revenue. ...5 days ago - Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sexSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Parker, PhD Candidate, Monash University How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a new paper published in Archives of Oral Biology, we ...5 days ago
- A ‘generational win’ for NZ’s seabirds
New rules to protect seabirds from fishing will help Aotearoa’s threatened albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. The 145 seabird species that frequent New Zealand waters will have stronger protection from capture on fishing lines, with new rules announced ...6 days ago - The Friday Poem: ‘Some boys’ by Nicola EasthopeA new poem by Raumati poet Nicola Easthope. Some boys Some boys pass you on skateboards fractionally faster than your smoking hot roller skates so that you don’t so much eat their dust as slowly choke on it. Some boys pass you by— their heads in the clouds, just not ...6 days ago
- The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending June 21The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. First, a quick PSA: Unity Books has a flash new website that lets you search and purchase ...6 days ago
- High Levels Of Trust And Confidence In Firearms Regulation Undermine McKee’s Justification For Cha...New data from Police shows a big shift in trust and confidence in its work from the firearms community. ...6 days ago
- Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia – Brisbane’s Olympic planners ne...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diti bhattacharya, Senior research fellow, Griffith University As preparations for Paris’ Olympic and Paralympic Games gather momentum, South East Queensland is preparing its legacy strategy in anticipation for the 2032 Brisbane games. The Queensland government’s Olympic committee recently published its legacy ...6 days ago
- Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targetsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock The Victorian government this week gave the state’s local councils a gargantuan task: solve the housing crisis by accelerating new housing. Each council now has a target for new ...6 days ago
- When the siren wails: The comforts of dystopian fictionOn the darkest day of the year, Lucy Black considers the dystopian novels she loves, and why. When I was 22 I moved to a seaside village. My house was next to the ocean and very near the volunteer firefighters station. Regularly the peaceful rush of waves would be disturbed ...6 days ago
- A dark day: Five big news stories you might have missed (according to RNZ)Friday June 21 will be remembered as the day Prince Philip died, Cardinal Pell was sentenced and Theresa May’s Brexit deal was voted down. There’s an understanding in journalism that bad news tends to drop on a Friday afternoon. This has been proven indisputably true today after RNZ sent out ...6 days ago
- Former Green MP Keith Locke dies, age 80Locke, known as a human rights and anti-war advocate, was in Parliament from 1999 to 2011. ...6 days ago
- The $60 million cost of the Northland power cutThe bill highlights the impact of a region too often cut off in recent years. ...6 days ago
- Cabinet to consider Pharmac boost for promised cancer drugsCabinet ministers will consider a major cash injection for Pharmac after backlash from cancer patients, RNZ understands. ...6 days ago
- Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped o...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Neikirk, Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle A French jury of matrons in 1771. British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA It’s hard to imagine now, but for almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death ...6 days ago
- Cabinet looking to boost Pharmac funding for promised cancer drugsCabinet ministers will consider a major cash injection for Pharmac after backlash from cancer patients, RNZ understands. ...6 days ago
- The return of Kid Sister’s 30-year-old childThere’s plenty to love about season two of Simone Nathan’s comedy series. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Lulu Emanuel is pushing like she’s never pushed before. Her hospital bed is surrounded by a midwife, Lulu’s mother and the rest of her ...6 days ago
- Watchdog Protests Minister Jones VisitCoromandel Watchdog of Hauraki will be protesting the visit from Minister Shane Jones to Kopu, near Thames on Friday June between 11am and 12 Noon. ...6 days ago
- Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’By Mong Palatino of Global Voices The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after protests and riots erupted in response to the passage of a bill in France’s National Assembly that would have diluted the voting power of the ...6 days ago
- Invercargill Mayor’s Behaviour Demonstrates Need For Recall ElectionsFollowing allegations of inappropriate behaviour from the Invercargill mayor, Nobby Clark, the Taxpayers’ Union is renewing calls for the Government to implement a recall option in local government to allow residents to remove embarrassing, inappropriate ...6 days ago
- Local Government Minister Right To Put Wellington Regional Council On The Naughty StepLocal Government Minister Simeon Brown has rebuked Wellington Regional Council after discussions were held around purchasing Wellington Airport shares from the City Council. Commenting in support of the Minister, Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs ...6 days ago
- How the Canterbury Rams became the hottest – and loudest – ticket in townLast year they won their first NZNBL title since 1992. This season they’re on the road to make it back-to-back. As Joseph Harper finds, the electric atmosphere inside Cowles Stadium is both the product of and secret to the Rams’ success. Aranui has a bad reputation in Ōtautahi. It rears ...6 days ago
- Political Editors Panel: Scrutiny week, Luxon's plane problemsRNZ Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch and Newsroom Political Editor Laura Walters look back on the first "scrutiny week", and the PM's trip to Japan. ...6 days ago
- Green MP Darleen Tana OK’d migrant on fruit-picker visa for job in husband’s bike shopGreen MP Darleen Tana has been stood down since initial allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's bike business. Now a worker's messages raise fresh questions. ...6 days ago
- Rules for earthquake-prone buildings likely to 'become less onerous'A review into better managing the risks of earthquake-prone buildings has kicked off. ...6 days ago
- PSA Takes Ministry Of Education To Employment Relations Authority TodayThe PSA action against the Ministry of Education in relation to job cuts begins this morning at 9.30am at the Employment Relations Authority. ...6 days ago
- Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s what the evidence ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fernandez, Senior lecturer and researcher in chiropractic, CQUniversity Australia Dmitry Naumov/Shutterstock Chiropractors in Australia will not be able to perform spinal manipulation on children under the age of two once more, following health concerns from doctors and politicians. But what ...6 days ago
- Australia needs large-scale energy production – here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fitSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ty Christopher, Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong ShutterDesigner, Shutterstock On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australia’s fourth offshore wind energy zone. It’s the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting ...6 days ago
- Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Triggs, Visiting research fellow, Australian National University MarekVelechovsky/Shutterstock Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs. This was the staggering finding ...6 days ago
- Marriage, civil union or de facto: In 2024, which one should you choose?The legal status of each type of relationship is similar, so why opt for one over the others? We spoke to three couples on why they made the choice they did. After my Sunday Essay was published, exploring what a forever relationship looks like when you don’t believe in marriage, ...6 days ago
- Resource management is always political – the Fast-track Approvals Bill is just honest about itSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images The government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill has been widely criticised for potentially handing too much power to three cabinet ministers, and raising the risk of conflicts of ...6 days ago
- A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these a...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brianna Le Busque, Lecturer in Environmental Science, University of South Australia Netflix Another year, another movie with a shark in the leading role. The new French thriller film Under Paris is currently ranked second in Australia’s Top 10 list and has ...6 days ago
- We’ve reached the shortest day, but winter illnesses haven’t slowed downCovid may have peaked (again), but it’s not the only sickness worrying officials, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. It’s the shortest ...6 days ago
- Inside the Defence Force's 757 planes: Breaking down the detailsWith the NZDF's 757s past their best-before date, RNZ's Anneke Smith and Nate McKinnon reveal what they're like inside, what they're for, and the case for buying new ones. ...6 days ago
- A tribute to the best and weirdest community Facebook groupsFrom Avondale to Rolleston, there’s something for every nosy neighbour. There’s that old saying, “never read the comments” about social media. In 2024, it’s still really bad advice. It’s like telling KFC-eaters to throw out the delicious, crispy skin, or cigarette smokers not to inhale that sweet, sweet nicotine. I ...6 days ago
- How to celebrate the darkest day of the yearWe’ve made it to the darkest day of the year, an official turning point sanctioned by the earth’s axis. Don’t let this achievement go by without celebrating. Today, the sun rose at 7:48am and will set at 5pm, giving us a measly nine hours and 12 minutes of daylight. It ...6 days ago
- No more excuses: How employers can calculate their ethnic pay gaps
Opinion: The last Government said they’d make gender pay gap reporting mandatory for employers and this Government recently announced they’d implement a voluntary regime. The Human Rights Commission has, quite rightly, pointed out that any pay gap reporting regime, voluntary or not, should include Aotearoa’s lowest-paid workers: Māori and Pacific ...6 days ago - Scrutiny Week saves some of the most contentious issues for lastExhausted Members of Parliament made their way to the airport or back home on Thursday evening as the final day of a marathon week of select committee hearings came to a close. Parliament’s first ever Scrutiny Week saw nearly 100 hours of hearings by Newsroom’s count, with more than 90 ...6 days ago
- Raw Politics: A-listers only for hustler LuxonThe hustler-in-chief Christopher Luxon almost managed to upstage his own visit to Japan this week, dissing some leading business figures and playing politics even ahead of his Air Force plane breakdown. The Raw Politics team discusses if the latest case of prime ministerial foot-in-mouth matters, and if the substantive achievements ...6 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 21 JuneLoading…(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){var ql=document.querySelectorAll('A,DIV,A[data-quiz],DIV[data-quiz]'); if(ql){if(ql.length){for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){ql[k].id='quiz-embed-'+k;ql[k].href="javascript:var i=document.getElementById('quiz-embed-"+k+"');try{qz.startQuiz(i)}catch(e){i.start=1;i.style.cursor='wait';i.style.opacity='0.5'};void(0);"}}};i['QP']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','https://take.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/quiz-embed-v1.js','qp'); Got a good quiz question? Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 21 June appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Inside DoC’s restructure on the Chatham IslandsThere’ll be fewer conservation workers on the Chatham Islands, leading to concerns the department’s work will suffer The post Inside DoC’s restructure on the Chatham Islands appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- The teaching profession straying from university captureOpinion: University programmes are not adequately preparing teachers for the classroom The post The teaching profession straying from university capture appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- This week’s bestselling books – June 21FICTION 1 At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Random House, $37) A free copy of the Dunedin author’s latest novel, set in a grand, rambling hotel beside a glacier in the South Island, is up for grabs in this week’s book giveaway. To enter, describe the most ...6 days ago
- Recovered cycling star back on track for ParisIt was a niggling knee irritation that Ally Wollaston didn’t think much of. But when the New Zealand cyclist started to struggle with the simple act of walking or turningthe pedals on her bike, she knew something was really wrong. And that it wasn’t good timing. The 23-year-old from ...6 days ago
- Why Asia is so critical to New Zealand’s futureComment: In the first of a regular column for Newsroom, Asia NZ chief executive Suzannah Jessep examines NZ’s increasingly strategic focus on Asia The post Why Asia is so critical to New Zealand’s future appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- No long-term prosperity without productivityOpinion: Quarterly numbers grab headlines, but they’re just a snapshot. NZ’s true economic wellbeing hinges on productivity. The post No long-term prosperity without productivity appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- A small win for youth in care just the start for bank account accessFinancial helpers say months of back and forth to get a bank account is damaging to rangatahi trying to enter the real world The post A small win for youth in care just the start for bank account access appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earth’s primordial crust near PerthSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of. The oldest rocks ...6 days ago
- ‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt officialBy Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been no clear path put forward by Paris as far as the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) is concerned. Yesterday, eight people — including ...6 days ago
- Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton is seated aloft the nuclear tiger, hoping not to get eatenSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra No one doubts Peter Dutton has a huge task to sell his radical nuclear plan, with many experts throwing buckets of cold water over it. But on Thursday the opposition leader received some welcome backing. ...6 days ago
- Too much politics clouding cancer drugs process, decision – Pharmac MinisterThere was a danger cancer patients were being overlooked in the political points scoring that has arisen, David Seymour says. ...6 days ago
- Coalition shrugs off attrition concerns over 500 police promiseThe coalition is confident it can deliver on its promise by the end of next year - despite questions over attrition. ...6 days ago
- Student Nurses Angered By Recruitment RestrictionsNew Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) have voiced concerns about Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora restricting the employment of graduate nurses into their workforce due to budget constraints. ...6 days ago
- NZCTU Slams Govt Cutting Disabled Workers Wages As DisgracefulThe NZCTU is slamming a decision by the Government in Budget 2024 to cut a programme which ensured that disabled workers are paid the minimum wage. ...6 days ago
- NZTA put on notice over cost of cones, traffic managementThe agency will soon need to count up what it spends on an "infestation" of road cones and temporary traffic management. ...6 days ago
- EDS Applauds Select Committee Report Confirming Hauraki Gulf Marine ProtectionThe Committee has recommended that the Bill be passed with minor amendments. The bill will create 12 new high protection areas, 5 new seafloor protection areas and 2 extensions to existing marine reserves. ...6 days ago
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