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Comment: Corporate profit and Gaza
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:53 pm, July 11th, 2025
Wasn't the Palestine Action group made unlawful in the UK? To protest under their flag means arrest. And some have been so arrested.Comment: Open Mike 11/07/25
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:42 pm, July 11th, 2025
Pretty brave for Tory to have published the email. Isn't there something dodgy about Chung's team?Comment: Open Mike 06/07/25
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 9:27 am, July 6th, 2025
Andrea Vance has written a stunning piece in the Press today. She has condemned the slaughter of the actions of destruction of this Government and lists the items of destruction. The political pendulum doesn’t swing. Instead, wrecking ball politics now ...Comment: Open mike 04/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 2:04 pm, July 4th, 2025
Thanks Stephen. Agreed. I think the Trump Cult methods are adopted by Seymour and Peters. Attack the dissenters. Offer a solution even if there is no problem to solve.Comment: Open mike 03/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 11:40 am, July 3rd, 2025
Sorry about the repeat. I wanted to draw attention to the very informative column by Geoffrey Palmer regarding the Regulatory Standards Bill. Cuts to the chase in clinical passionate way. The comments below the column are also very telling. (Note that ...Comment: Open mike 02/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 10:00 am, July 3rd, 2025
No Open Mike for 3 July? I wanted to draw attention to the very informative column by Geoffrey Palmer regarding the Regulatory Standards Bill. Cuts to the chase in clinical passionate way. The comments below the column are also very telling. (Note that ...Comment: Open mike 01/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 12:51 pm, July 1st, 2025
Yes Trumpism kiwi style.Comment: Open mike 01/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 12:49 pm, July 1st, 2025
My back problems limit the distance I can walk with walking stick(50m). But my wheeled trolly allows me to walk from home up town, to the supermarket or library etc. Freedom!Comment: Open mike 01/07/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 12:44 pm, July 1st, 2025
Well worth the watch thanks Gsays. So there is no freeze on recruitment. But we need to appoint 32 nurses to bring up to quota. You say Simeon that there is no freeze but we are only allowed to recruit 2 nurses per week. Two! The gap just gets bigger. And ...Comment: Open mike 27/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 2:11 pm, June 27th, 2025
How sad to see the Wonderful Tanya leave politics. Who will replace her to smirk and laugh at the wonderful clever Winston points of order especially the ones that have a racist element.Yes so sad. Ha ha!Comment: The mother of the mother of all budgets is unrepentant
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 4:41 pm, June 20th, 2025
When watching the original with Jack I believed that she believed that poor people deserved what she gave them. And was so pleased with herself for delivering the blows. I had forgotten the State Houses being put on market rents. Her arrogance and denials ...Comment: Open mike 19/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 11:58 am, June 19th, 2025
Really good. Keep it simple for people like me. Send it to that silly man Seymour too.Comment: The West’s war on Iran
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 12:36 pm, June 15th, 2025
Too right BG. A must watch. Hypocrisy writ big.Comment: The West’s war on Iran
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 12:30 pm, June 15th, 2025
I believe that Iran has never invaded another country. Even in the Iraq Iran War, Iran stayed within its borders with one exception. Near the war end they moved troops into the wetlands across the border then withdrew a few days later. How many countries ...Comment: Open mike 14/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 9:59 am, June 14th, 2025
There used to be a Treaty with Iran but didn't Trump trash it in his first term of office? Reap what you sow.Comment: Open mike 08/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 11:47 am, June 8th, 2025
Was it more lethal than a pointed finger?Comment: Open mike 08/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 10:42 am, June 8th, 2025
Just remembered the day that Key made a throat cutting gesture across the floor in an angry rejection of a Labour MPs position. Remember the outcry and the Privilege Committee Ruling? What!Comment: Open mike 07/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 4:40 pm, June 7th, 2025
From what was said by Geoff Bertam, I don't believe that the RS Bill can be repealed nor debated in the Court. That is one of the elements that Seymour wants block the bright of appeal. Nor can I find in the Jackal column where he says the Bill can be ...Comment: Open mike 07/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 10:20 am, June 7th, 2025
Just listening to:Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government I thought RSB was bad but now the detail shows it would decimate our understanding of the whole fabric of our New Zealand way of being. One detail is ...Comment: Louisa Wall – Project 2025 Is Silencing Māori Dissent — and It Didn’t Even Start Here
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 4:59 pm, June 4th, 2025
That is so frightening. Suppress dissent that disrupts dominant narratives. Reframe cultural expression as disorder. Use procedure to punish opposition. Promote monocultural identity under the guise of unity and law. No wonder Seymour was so keen to enact ...Comment: Open mike 04/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 4:43 pm, June 4th, 2025
Under-resourced? There were big changes for the weather/climate offices too. The same can be said for Parliament as well. The "question to be asked" today were unavailable until after QT. I just got the Submission page open again, re-did my work only to ...Comment: Open mike 04/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:58 pm, June 4th, 2025
Warning. I just spent time writing a submission re the Regulation Bill. When I got to "Submit," page blanked out with the message: "This page isn’t working www.parliament.nz is currently unable to handle this request." Luckily I have saved my work and will ...Comment: Open mike 02/06/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 7:03 pm, June 2nd, 2025
I just sent an email to a number of people outlining the nastiness of that Bill and included the 4 basic elements outlining it. I included my sample of rewriting those elements in my own words. I included the link as did gsays: https://www.parliament.nz/en ...Comment: Open mike 30/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 8:34 pm, May 30th, 2025
Thanks Incognito.Comment: Open mike 30/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 5:55 pm, May 30th, 2025
Thanks Joe. A bit weird as it doesn't appear anywhere else that I can find. And this Government is more like to reduce the amount.Comment: Open mike 30/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:39 pm, May 30th, 2025
I read somewhere today that the Superannuants Electricity payment was being raised to $90. Can't find that anywhere. Anyone able to confirm the change?Comment: Open mike 29/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 4:04 pm, May 29th, 2025
This morning I read a column on New York Times outlining the effect that the pounding the confidence of the people in USA. (Disappeared behind a pay wall, M Geeson.) Like when Putin took over, the ruthless actions taken when dissent/protest occurred were ...Comment: Open mike 29/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:26 pm, May 29th, 2025
Thanks for the link Arkie. My fear is that Seymour will carry on with the passing of the Bill regardless of what submissions say. The CoC has shown that they can ignore protests, or data, submissions and produce no justifications except empty rhetoric.Comment: Open mike 29/05/2025
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 9:26 am, May 29th, 2025
Is it possible that Seymour/Atlas planned/wanted to have the biggest reaction to the Treaty Bill as a means to the end? The end is the passing of the Regulation Standards Bill into law. You see that the RS Bill is far more damaging than the Treaty one. But ...Comment: Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
Written By: ianmac - Date published: 3:19 pm, May 28th, 2025
Thank you Mountain Tui for again publishing the cheating and hypocrisy of this Trump- like so called Government. I wonder if a counter to the CoC cheating, a single catch phrase or slogan would work. It seemed to work against the Greens with those posts ...
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- The heat is starting to go on Luxon
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- Chain gang
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- Black Nykövä: Accepted
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- Monday 14 July
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- Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Grok AI Backfires
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- Ray Chung – Arsehole of the Week
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- Collateral benefit: space launch centre’s sensors will plug Cape York gap
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- For smuggled drones, China wouldn’t be as soft a target as Russia
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- Economic Bulletin June July 2025
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- Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Jonathan Boston & Wolfgang Rack ‘Hoon’ around the...
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- Friday 11 July
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- Wednesday 10 July
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- Brickbats
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- Young workers leaving in their droves
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New Zealand is bleeding talent, and the National-led government’s ineptitude is squarely to blame. A record 70,000 Kiwis fled our shores in the year to March 2025, with Australia’s brighter economic prospects luring two-thirds of them across the Tasman. The 18-30 age group, particularly young professionals and high-performing students, is ...5 days ago
- Christian Nightmares
Hi,Ever since Donald Trump was elected, and then lost, and was then elected again, I’ve finally come to accept that terrible shit just keeps coming back around.Annoyingly, my work here on Webworm reminds me of this all the time.Back in 2022, I proudly published that the leaders of New Zealand’s ...5 days ago - National gets a warning from its friends
Some of the National Party’s key stakeholders came to Parliament yesterday and ripped into one of the Government’s showpiece Bills. Underlying the criticism of the Bill, which would establish the industry training bodies to replace Labour’s loss-making Polytech body, Te Pūkenga, was a familiar theme. There was too much direction ...5 days ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #28 2025
Open access notables Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action, Sparkman et al., Communications Earth & Environment A wide variety of existing narratives describe how we might address climate change. Which of these approaches is popular among the American public? ...5 days ago
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- Dealing to the evidence
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A freedom-of-navigation activity that the Australian and British navies jointly conducted near the Spratly Islands last month was notable. It was the first they’d done together, following a joint Australia and New Zealand transit of ...6 days ago
- “Can you have a peaceful revolution?”
“Trump’s win was the triumph of capitalism and neoliberalism, and he’s going to wreak havoc. There’s nothing we can do about that, except maybe incremental changes. That’s not what we need. We need revolution. Can you have a peaceful revolution? I don’t know.”David SuzukiWell, David Suzuki has called it, and ...6 days ago - Gas is still dead
The National regime, with its outdated fossil thinking, is desperately trying to revive the fossil fuel industry. Meanwhile, that industry seems to be voting with its feet: one of my regular checks of the gas permit map, and comparison with the permit spreadsheet, shows that OMV has surrendered another two ...6 days ago
- India’s water treaty power play signals regional shift
As India renegotiates the Ganges Water Treaty with Bangladesh following the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, it is adopting a new posture in its water diplomacy. India appears to be charting a China-like path ...6 days ago
- The Dust of Israel’s Genocide Settles Across the World
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- Wednesday 9 July
CTU president Richard Wagstaff warned the “light touch” approach in the Government’s new AI strategy would do nothing to protect workers from the serious risks from AI. Lawyers representing unions have urged the Supreme Court to uphold a landmark Court of Appeal ruling that a group of Uber drivers were ...6 days ago
- Good enough to win: rethinking risk in innovation
Innovation policy is often built around optimism. But in a world of live contest across the economy, the environment and the broader geostrategic landscape, progress cannot afford to wait for perfection. The scale of technology ...6 days ago
- Of Story Salvaging, Magazine Demise, and a Thousand Posts (+ Accursed AI)
This marks A Phuulish Fellow’s thousandth blog post. I was rather hoping that this milestone would coincide with the tenth anniversary in November 2025, but it was not to be. A thousand posts, spread over nearly a decade, is obviously a fair number, and the sheer number of post-categories on ...6 days ago - Rainbow Warriors
Where the Banshees cryAnd the bells they soundWhen you lift me highWhen you pull me downWhen you pull me downWhen you pull me downSongwriter: Donald Bain Mcglashan.Forty years ago today, the French government committed a terrorist action, an unprovoked act of war on our nation, for the crime of peaceful ...6 days ago - A criminal nation
The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of horrific human rights violations during its unlawful invasions of Ukraine: Russia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of ...6 days ago
- Minister must back regional vocational education with real support
The Government’s move to re-establish ten polytechnics fails to ensure the thriving, future-focussed vocational education sector Aotearoa deserves. ...21 hours ago - Submissions show overwhelming opposition to RSB
The Green Party is calling on Cabinet to stop the Regulatory Standards Bill, after only 19 of a total 208 submissions heard over the course of last week’s submissions process supported the Bill. ...2 days ago
- An update on Winston’s War on Woke & June wrap up
New Zealand First continues to bring balance, experience, and commonsense to Government. During the month of June, we made progress on many of our promises to New Zealand. An update on Winston's War on Woke ...5 days ago - Green Party won’t contest Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
After careful consideration, the Green Party will not stand a candidate in the upcoming Tāmaki Makaurau by-election. ...5 days ago
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Te Pāti Māori have confirmed the selection of celebrated broadcaster and longtime West Auckland advocate Oriini Kaipara (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangitihi) as its candidate for the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election. Oriini’s deep whakapapa to Tāmaki Makaurau is grounded in her upbringing at Hoani Waititi Marae, where she was ...5 days ago
- OPED – Mark Patterson: “Do something about the bloody trees”
“Do something about the bloody trees” would be the most common refrain I hear around Clutha and when travelling about rural New Zealand. Forestry has been, and is, a legitimate land use option for farmers and forestry companies. Always has been, always will. Sensible farmers have incorporated planting out of ...6 days ago
- OPED – Jenny Marcroft: Supporting our oyster farmers
Most of us who live in the Mahurangi region are well aware of the ongoing challenges faced by oyster farmers because of multiple significant sewage spills into Mahurangi Harbour. Watercare’s sewerage network in Warkworth is infiltrated with stormwater following rainfall, resulting in overflows into the Mahurangi River and the wider ...7 days ago
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New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill that would protect New Zealanders’ ability to use cash. The Bill will provide for the enduring use of cash as a private, accessible, and reliable method of payment. “People who rely on cash due to barriers to digital banking deserve ...1 week ago
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As the Government pulls out of global climate commitments, a significant new report shows that sea ice around Antarctica is melting at unprecedented speed. ...1 week ago
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As New Zealand has positively responded to the crack down on gang patches there has been a growing recognition of the influence of organized crime on our communities. New Zealand First continues to be focused on all aspects that undermine the safety and security in our neighbourhoods, businesses, and ...2 weeks ago
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New Zealand First has today introduced a member's bill which would make it law that government buildings can only display the official flag of New Zealand. “Government buildings are for all New Zealanders and should not be hijacked to force cultural, woke, or divisive political ideology down the throats of ...2 weeks ago
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- Protest or court? The war against private helipads plots its next move
After a four-year process, a controversial helicopter landing site at the Westmere home of rich-listers Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams has been approved. What does that mean for their neighbours and the rest of Auckland? On a dark and stormy Thursday night last week, more than 100 people gathered at ...15 minutes ago - Te Pūkenga loses over $80m in funding, 855 staff ahead of disestablishment
The exact number of job losses at Te Pūkenga can now be revealed, as the mega vocational education institute prepares to be split into 10. Mega-institute Te Pūkenga has lost over $80m in funding and one in 10 staff as the nation’s largest vocational education provider prepares to be split ...15 minutes ago
- Have we lost the art of the argument?
It’s a whole-of-politics problem – but is more vexing for the left, because it is progressives who seek change most profoundly. Duncan Greive attempts to persuade you all. There’s a clear and present danger in contemporary politics – which is conducted on global platforms and accessible from anywhere – to ...16 minutes ago
- A love letter to Fiona
I met Fiona Kidman for the first twice. Firstly, fittingly, through her words on paper and secondly, gratefully and intimately, through her words spoken out loud in her light-filled living room. My documentary portrait of her, The House Within, explores my desire to collate these two experiences. Although I’m hesitant ...16 minutes ago - Stemming the drug tide at Auckland Airport
The trickle of drugs into the country has become a flood, fed by New Zealanders’ appetite for them and willingness to pay. Between January and May this year customs officers nationwide seized more than 1600kg of methamphetamine, cocaine and MDMA. About a third of that comes through Auckland Airport – ...16 minutes ago
- Influential China course for public servants overhauled
As the coalition casts its eyes towards India and Southeast Asia, its China-centric programmes are being retooled accordingly The post Influential China course for public servants overhauled appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- NZ’s AI strategy: ‘light touch’ regulation and business opportunities
The Government’s AI strategy confirms the country is taking a light-touch approach to AI regulation. This will provide reassurance to businesses looking to embrace the benefits of AI, while also reminding businesses of their governance responsibilities and the need to ensure compliance with existing legal frameworks. The AI strategy ...16 minutes ago
- How Lydia Ko and co have teed up a new high for women’s sport
The dominance of New Zealand’s female athletes at the Paris Olympics, alongside the White Ferns’ unexpected success at last year’s T20 World Cup, has helped lift coverage of women’s sport in New Zealand to a level that sports leaders hope will be the new norm. The latest Sports Media and ...16 minutes ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 16 July
The post Daily crossword, Wednesday 16 July appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- Mini crossword, Wednesday 16 July
The post Mini crossword, Wednesday 16 July appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- Starlink approved for military use in NZ
Months-long process to obtain Starlink for unclassified communications seemingly veered off course after concerns were raised by information security director The post Starlink approved for military use in NZ appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- Cheap Chinese peaches on Govt’s menu once again
Heinz Wattie’s convinces Govt to reinvestigate its claim that discounted Chinese peaches are damaging domestic industry The post Cheap Chinese peaches on Govt’s menu once again appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- Cuisine Mag partnership launches food ‘expeditions’ at up to $20,000 a person
Cuisine editor says expeditions are a premium product targeting food-obsessed Kiwis and high-end tourists who ‘travel to eat’ The post Cuisine Mag partnership launches food ‘expeditions’ at up to $20,000 a person appeared first on Newsroom. ...16 minutes ago
- Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of the country’s anti-corruption agency FICAC. The state is offering Barbara Malimali an out-of-court settlement after her lawyer lodged a judicial review of her sacking in ...4 hours ago - Federal Court rules Australian government doesn’t have a duty of care to protect Torres Strait Isl...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Hicks, Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne Australian Climate Case The Federal Court has handed down its long-awaited judgement in a four-year climate case brought by Torres Strait Islanders. Elders Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai took the ...7 hours ago
- No more card surcharges: what the Reserve Bank’s proposed changes mean for your wallet
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Professor of Finance, RMIT University That extra 10c on your morning coffee. That $2 surcharge on your taxi ride. The sneaky 1.5% fee when you pay by card at your local restaurant. These could all soon be history. The Reserve ...7 hours ago
- President Xi Jinping tells Albanese China ready to ‘push the bilateral relationship further’
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Anthony Albanese China stands ready to work with Australia “to push the bilateral relationship further”, in their meeting in Beijing on Tuesday. During the meeting, Albanese raised Australia’s concern ...8 hours ago
- Online casino bill: Greens vote with coaltion govt to pass first reading
The Greens have broken with their opposition party colleagues to vote in support of the online casino bill. ...10 hours ago - Online casino bill: Greens vote with coalition govt to pass first reading
The Greens have broken with their opposition party colleagues to vote in support of the online casino bill. ...10 hours ago
- Ray Chung’s email about Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau ‘absolutely disgraceful’ R...
Wellington-based MPs condemn the councillor's email about the mayor and say they feel "embarrassed" to be from the Capital. ...10 hours ago
- Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt wi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny. This may all feel very new ...10 hours ago
- A person in the US has died from pneumonic plague. It’s not just a disease of history
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it’s ...10 hours ago
- Supermarket treatments for depression don’t require a prescription. But do they work?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University Australians have long been some of the highest users of herbal and nutritional supplements that claim to boost mood or ease depression. These include omega-3s (found in fish oil), St John’s wort, probiotics ...11 hours ago
- Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Ancient Greece and China dealt with...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast Panasevich/Getty Images We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny. This may all ...11 hours ago
- State of Wayne’s Auckland: No easy fixes
It’s going to be a difficult job ‘fixing’ Auckland. Just ask the fixit mayor, Wayne Brown, whose city seems to be drifting lower against its international peer cities on important measures of productivity, opportunity, innovation and knowledge. A new survey does show Auckland performing ahead of overseas centres on culture ...12 hours ago
- Labour dismisses claims it is being ‘greedy’ by contesting by-election
Prominent figures in Te Pāti Māori have criticised Labour's decision to run. ...12 hours ago
- Minister defends Te Pūkenga breakup, saying rural education will not suffer
Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds unveiled the polytechnics that would emerge from breaking up Te Pūkenga on Monday. ...13 hours ago
- UN letter fallout: ‘Experience is important in this business’, says Peters
The foreign affairs minister has suggested his coalition partners were wrong to publicly criticise the letter before he officially responded to it. ...13 hours ago
- After a hopeful start, Labor’s affordable housing fund is proving problematic
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Raynor, Director of the Centre for Equitable Housing, Per Capita and Research Associate, The University of Melbourne When the Albanese government announced the A$10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund in 2023, the news reverberated through the housing sector. A new ...14 hours ago
- The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been over...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthias Dehling, Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Matthias Dehling The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at the South Pole. In fact, the ...14 hours ago
- Ray Chung gets a woman to apologise for him
‘Accountability really matters,’ said the woman Ray Chung found to take accountability on his behalf. It was standing room only at the Miramar Community Centre on Monday night for the 14th edition of the Zero Rates Roadshow, the campaign event for mayoral candidate Ray Chung and his politicial-party-that-insists-it-isn’t-a-political-party Independent Together. ...14 hours ago
- ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for July 15, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on July 15, 2025. A warning from the future: the risk if NZ gets climate adaptation policy wrong todaySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Logan, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, ...14 hours ago
- Supermarkets seem impervious to bad headlines and court fines
Opinion: If you have the impression the big supermarket chains have been facing a lot of court cases over allegations of abusing competition, heavying suppliers or exploiting customers, then you’re not wrong. The Commerce Commission reveals it will be filing civil proceedings against Foodstuffs North Island and its wholesale arm, Gilmours, for alleged cartel conduct. ...15 hours ago
- The new Whittaker’s Banana Caramel block, reviewed
After another ‘discovered before announcement’ launch, Whittaker’s new Banana Caramel block is now on sale. A bunch of people deliver their verdicts. When combined, “gooey” and “banana” are two words that should logically equal “yuck”, and yet… the filling in this new choc offering is pretty yum. Whittaker’s knows how ...15 hours ago
- Auckland’s problems a ‘hangover’ from Labour, Christopher Luxon says
A report says Auckland is at risk of losing its status as a "global city". ...16 hours ago
- A warning from the future: the risk if NZ gets climate adaptation policy wrong today
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Logan, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Getty Images New Zealand 2050: On the morning of February 27, the sea surged through the dunes south of the small town of Te Taone, riding ...16 hours ago
- ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becomi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. Socolow, Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine Will settlements by news companies with President Donald Trump turn journalists into puppets? MARHARYTA MARKO/iStock Getty Images Plus It was a surrender widely foreseen. For months, rumors abounded that Paramount would ...16 hours ago
- Is there any hope for the internet?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits. Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty Images In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless ...16 hours ago
- Christopher Luxon tells off David Seymour over letter to United Nations
"I've just made it clear that I expect Winston Peters to be the person that engages with the UN," the prime minister told reporters. ...16 hours ago
- Cannabis cake taken to shared lunch at Hawke’s Bay Hospital
Health Minister Simeon Brown police are investigating. ...17 hours ago
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