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National’s relentless negativity
Written By: - Date published: 11:33 am, November 5th, 2022 - 86 comments
National’s recent press releases show that its approach to politics will be relentlessly negative, with no idea of what it will do as an alternative or how it will fund changes.
Greens: proposal to tax excess corporate profits
Written By: - Date published: 1:14 pm, October 30th, 2022 - 46 comments
“An excess profit tax would be a simple and effective way for large corporations to pay their fair share, unlocking the resources all of us need to live with dignity, put a roof over our heads and food on the table,” says Green Party Finance spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter.
“Today, we have released a discussion document exploring how an excess profit tax could be designed – and how the additional revenue should be spent. We are also considering the alternative of raising company tax rates so that all profits are taxed more.”
About the reversed GST Kiwisaver changes
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 pm, August 31st, 2022 - 63 comments
National’s attack on requiring banks to charge GST on the provision of Kiwisaver services the same as smaller services is deeply cynical when its attacks on Kiwisaver in the past are considered.
Labour’s “tenant tax” is neither a tax nor for tenants
Written By: - Date published: 10:16 am, August 22nd, 2022 - 33 comments
National’s media spin team is at it again claiming that removing interest rate deductibility for landlords is a “tenant tax” when it is neither a new tax nor for tenants.
National tries to blame Labour for National’s tax flip flop flip
Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, August 7th, 2022 - 13 comments
Chris Bishop has accused Labour of engaging in dirty politics for pointing out that this week National has changed its policy on income tax indexation twice.
National’s policies don’t add up
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, May 31st, 2022 - 48 comments
In 21 tweets Clint Smith has set out why National’s tax cut policies and its rhetoric are absurd and how the media is doing us a disservice by not asking the hard questions like what will be cut and how the promised tax cuts will be paid for.
Act’s scorched earth proposal
Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, May 11th, 2022 - 41 comments
Act has publicly released its proposal to decimate the state should it have a say in the next Government. Its Real Change Alternative Budget may be wet dream inducing for Ayn Rand acolytes but for the rest of us the proposals should instill a deep sense of dread.
What Can Be Saved?
Written By: - Date published: 7:12 am, April 29th, 2022 - 157 comments
The tide of this government is running out. There’s 18 months left in the term. What would you save?
Is Parker procrastinating or scene setting for fairer tax system?
Written By: - Date published: 3:40 pm, April 27th, 2022 - 49 comments
Is Revenue Minister David Parker’s plan to gather tax data on the wealthy just more procrastination by this Labour government on making the tax system fairer? Or is it recognition the public debate needs a long-term frame to get a capital gains, or wealth tax, over the line?
Tame shows media how to interview Luxon
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, April 26th, 2022 - 45 comments
Jack Tame’s interview of Chris Luxon on Q&A suggests that the post leadership change honeymoon may now be over and that Luxon does not really understand how difficult a job being Prime Minister would be.
Luxon thinks helping poor people is Bottom Feeding
Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, March 22nd, 2022 - 81 comments
Chris Luxon has admitted in National media that provision of assistance to the poor is “bottom feeding”.
The difference between Labour and National
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, March 17th, 2022 - 141 comments
There has been the occasional criticism of Labour for not achieving enough progressive change by people who then propose supporting National. What are they thinking?
The empire strikes back
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 am, March 15th, 2022 - 146 comments
Labour’s announcement of a temporary reduction in fuel excise duties and a halving of public transport fares ups the ante on the debate on how to alleviate hardship caused by overseas induced inflation.
National’s advice to the poor – you are on your own
Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, March 13th, 2022 - 125 comments
To help the poorest amongst us during the current times of International hyper inflation National has come up with a list of tips to help them. But no money.
National stuffs up its financial analysis – again
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, March 9th, 2022 - 79 comments
For so called economic geniuses National sure struggles to understand how to properly cost fiscal policy. Its latest response to news that it proposed tax cuts would wipe out all discretionary spending in its first budget is to fudge the dates on which the cuts would be made.
National’s tax policy
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 am, March 7th, 2022 - 107 comments
National has proposed to reverse all tax changes implemented by Labour and claims that the cuts can be managed without damage to the state. But the figure it uses, $1.7 billion a year, includes income tax adjustments only and not the cost of the removal of other taxes.
In Tax we trust
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, January 24th, 2022 - 86 comments
In a welcome change Millionaires and billionaires worldwide are calling for governments to tax them more.
Astroturfers of the world unite
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, November 20th, 2021 - 52 comments
Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered.
National’s plan – open and be damned
Written By: - Date published: 9:43 am, October 21st, 2021 - 71 comments
Yesterday National released what feels like take 16 of its Covid response plan, this one focussing on business interests and setting a hard timeline for reopening. But getting significant details wrong and rehashing failed policies previously tried in England has dampened its effect.
Pandora papers and NZ
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, October 9th, 2021 - 18 comments
While we have mainly been occupied with containing the current Covid-19 outbreak, world news has been looking at documents revealing probable dirty capital and tax dodging by the affluent. NZ has a delayed local problem with this. Warning was given. We should just terminate the supporting legislation and replace it with transparency. (Updated)
Why isn’t govt hitting utes much harder?
Written By: - Date published: 7:52 am, July 26th, 2021 - 51 comments
Aotearoa has been super sizing its vehicle fleet for over a decade and given Jacinda Ardern claim that Climate Change as her generation’s nuclear-free moment, why is her government not smacking ute owners and other gas guzzlers much harder than the just the feebate? Large vehicles increase climate change and wild weather. Fringe Benefit tax is payable on them and usually not collected. Plus they are deadly dangerous to pedestrians and other vehicles.
The Rock is moving
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, June 22nd, 2021 - 5 comments
Since real estate is that machine that relentlessly powers our society and most of our economy, it’s already worth checking whether this governments’ recent policy changes are starting to have some of its intended effects.
Taxpayer’s Union comrades celebrate glorious Socialist revolution
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 22nd, 2021 - 31 comments
It is good to see our comrades in the Taxpayers Union celebrate the glorious Socialist revolution that is currently engulfing Aotearoa.
C’mon National!
Written By: - Date published: 1:27 pm, May 17th, 2021 - 20 comments
Forlorn for now though they may be, this is the advice National MPs need right now.
Too much too far?
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, April 23rd, 2021 - 97 comments
As we lead up to Budget 2021, there’s much more shape to the whole direction of this government.
What is Socialism – a primer for idiots
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, April 5th, 2021 - 163 comments
Merchant Banker Troy Bowker has accused the Government of engaging in Socialist wealth redistribution ideology by not extending to landlords a state supported loan guarantee scheme and by implementing relatively modest wealth redistribution measures.
About Grant Robertson’s bright line tax statement
Written By: - Date published: 10:39 am, March 28th, 2021 - 217 comments
Media has been abuzz with comment about how last election Grant Robertson has backtracked on a promise on not extending the bright line test. Should politicians stick to their pronouncements no matter what? Or should they change their minds if circumstances demand a change in course?
The housing crisis and the Government’s response
Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, March 25th, 2021 - 163 comments
The Government’s housing policy announcements have been attacked by the right and landlords as being an attack on rights and business, and by elements of the left for being too timid. Which suggests that the announcements are quite well pitched.
National and the Greens on how to solve the housing crisis
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 am, March 17th, 2021 - 71 comments
Over the past week National and the Greens have released housing policy designed to address the country’s current housing crisis. National’s are tired and either reflect what is already happening or reinforce their doctrinal view of the world. The Green’s proposals are more radical and reflect steps that Micky Savage and the First Labour Government took in 1935.
The Unbearable Lightness of the Bright-Line Test
Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, March 13th, 2021 - 96 comments
The bright-line test is a red herring and does nothing to deter housing speculation.
So! You want a “plan”?
Written By: - Date published: 4:36 pm, March 11th, 2021 - 50 comments
Expecting a bit much aren’t you? We haven’t had that since Muldoon. At least he had them. The kind of people now asking for a plan were those who complained about governments that “interfered with the sacred ‘free market’” and screamed about “central planning”, “picking winners”, “protectionism” etc. They prefer just getting cheap labour to give the illusion of economic growth. And build a cycleway!
- Gordon Campbell on the case for universal free dental care
Like Banquo’s ghost, the issue of universal free dental care keeps hovering into sight at Labour’s top table. ‘Tis a goodly, progressive idea, but it is also one that’s been done in repeatedly down the years by the shafts of political expedience, some of which were fired again this week ...1 hour ago - Political Roundup: 17 November 2022
Items of interest and importance today FOREIGN AFFAIRS Claire Trevett (Herald): Russia, China, a Trump comeback – PM Jacinda Ardern will face a big plate of troubles at Apec (paywalled) Thomas Manch (Stuff): Risky business: NZ seeks greater trade with Vietnam as China dependency causes concern Thomas Manch (Stuff): Prime Minister ...4 hours ago - New reports spell out climate urgency, shortfalls, needed actions
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Michael Svoboda In the weeks leading up to the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, often called COP27, several organizations released major reports detailing the many difficult tasks on the climate negotiators’ agenda. Some of ...5 hours ago - Climate change: The cost of inaction
A couple of days ago I highlighted National's opposition to all actual policies to reduce emissions. Now, the government has put some numbers on the cost of that, and it is staggering: nearly 24 million tons by the end of the decade: Labour says National’s promises to repeal its ...23 hours ago - The Facts Don’t Always Tell The Truth.
1 day ago - Bryce Edwards: Labour’s decaying policy on free universal dental careGrant Robertson has once again ruled out implementing a popular Labour Party policy: free universal dental care. He did so yesterday on RNZ’s Morning Report, citing the cost factor. The Acting Prime Minister suggested that spending on dental care wasn’t a priority for the Government and that the health budget ...1 day ago
- Grant says “no” againYesterday the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists released a report on dental care in Aotearoa, highlighting its unaffordability and recommending free, universal dental care. This is something the left has been campaigning for for a long time - Jim Anderton pushed for it before the 2011 election, and Helen Clark ...2 days ago
- On NZ foreign policy “independence.”
For many years New Zealand elites have claimed to have an “independent” foreign policy, so much so that it has become a truism of NZ politics that transcends the partisan divide in parliament and is a shibboleth of the NZ foreign policy establishment that is parroted by media and pundits ...2 days ago - Bryce Edwards: Momentum growing to reform lobbying lawsThis week global anti-corruption agency Transparency International released a report on lobbying, which described New Zealand’s lack of regulation as “glaring”. Transparency International New Zealand has developed an international comparison of New Zealand’s lobbying regulations so that MPs here can decide whether to reform this sector. Currently, a group of ...2 days ago
- The “Us versus Them” Worldview.Behind Closed Doors: What were the organisers of He Whenua Taurikura, the second hui called into existence by the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch mosque shootings, afraid of? Were they worried that journalists not 100 percent sympathetic to the ideals animating the hui might report ...2 days ago
- Don’t get fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climateThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Daisy Simmons You may have heard the myth that electric vehicles are just as bad for the climate — or worse — than gas-powered cars and trucks. One common myth claims that the climate-warming pollution caused by manufacturing electric vehicle batteries ...2 days ago
- Privatisation screws the futureThere's a major report out today from 350 Aotearoa, First Union and the CTU about how National's privatisation of the electricity sector has led to entirely predictable outcomes of price gouging and underinvestment: Meridian, Mercury, Genesis and Contact Energy paid out $8.7b in dividends to shareholders between 2014 ...3 days ago
- Gordon Campbell on abortion politics, Murdoch and the DeSantis surgeSo the Democrats did a whole lot better than OK in the midterm elections despite the cost of living crisis and despite the President’s low approval ratings. How come? In a word, “abortion” was the key mobilising issue. It inspired many women (and some men) to register to vote. In ...3 days ago
- New Book
I have a new book being published this month. It is entitled “What Does It Mean to Be Human?” and is an attempt to arrive at a moral code of our own making – one that will serve all our interests and those of other creatures and of the planet ...3 days ago - Three Little Words!The crucial moment in the Black Ferns’ Rugby World Cup triumph came in the closing minute. The Red Roses had used a penalty to kick to the corner, and from the throw-in that followed they had clearly planned to use a rolling maul to get the ball across the line ...3 days ago
- Geoffrey Miller: Jacinda Ardern’s Asia trip rekindles New Zealand’s independent foreign policyNew Zealand’s independent foreign policy is back. That’s a key underlying message from Jacinda Ardern’s trip this week to Southeast Asia. The New Zealand Prime Minister attended the East Asia Summit in Cambodia over the weekend. She will head to Thailand for the APEC leaders’ meeting later in the week. ...3 days ago
- 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #45A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Nov 6, 2022 thru Sat, Nov 12, 2022. Story of the Week What the tiny remaining 1.5C carbon budget means for climate policy The latest estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) show that total worldwide CO2 ...4 days ago
- David Farrier’s unsettling new documentary ‘Mister Organ’ – a film to watch through your fin...
In this age of entitled white men behaving badly, it’s common to hear the term “malignant narcissist” Anyone who’s had the misfortune to be sucked into the orbit or one of these miscreants, (let alone been obliged to, say, sue one for copyright infringement) eventually learns that the ONLY ‘exit ...5 days ago - The End of Neoliberalism?
Gary Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era is a frustrating book. It is an impressive sweeping history of American politics and economic policy from the New Deal in the 1930s to today, predicting that we are coming to ...6 days ago - Phil Ferguson on radical youth politics and the Irish republican struggle
Phil Ferguson is a founding editor of Redline and was a regular contributor. He has been out of action for the past year after suffering a stroke. He is learning to walk again and hoping to get back to writing. Tim Leadbeater sat down with Phil to talk about about ...6 days ago - Climate Change: Submit!Farming industry groups today released a joint statement against their own proposal - as adopted by the government - to price agricultural greenhouse gas emissions at the farm level. Its a perfect example of the bad faith with which they have engaged in the entire process, and of the industry's ...6 days ago
- Is is the beginning of the end of the toxic Trump TV show?
In 2016 the US electorate was feeling frustrated, let down, embattled, even desperate. It was – truth be told – willing to indulge its tendency for some racism and misogyny. So it screwed up its face, held its breath and reached out for Donald Trump. The years since have been ...6 days ago - Political Roundup: 11 November 2022Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT Shane Jones (Herald): Stop the forays into identity politics, de-colonisation and global posturing, St Jacinda. We must focus on economic essentials (paywalled) Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Luxon is not yet the direct threat Labour is painting him as Jo Moir (Newsroom): Luxon set ...6 days ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #45 2022Catastrophic reverb Kemp et al. caused prolonged ripples with their paper Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios. One can't help but think most of the heat is emotional, not intellectual; excited critics of the paper offer little more than "this sounds scary, don't harsh our vibe." Vague and even outlandish concerrns over terminology aside, true ...7 days ago
- Solar panels on car parks are a no-brainerThe Guardian reports that France is going to require all large car-parks to be covered by solar panels: All large car parks in France will be covered by solar panels under new legislation approved as part of president Emmanuel Macron’s renewable energy drive. Legislation approved by the French Senate ...7 days ago
- Climate Change: National wants to burn the planetLast month, the National Party announced they would repeal any price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, effectively declaring that they would do nothing about them. Today, they've followed that up by announcing that they will repeal the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration: The National Party has reaffirmed ...7 days ago
- DrawnA ballot for a single Member's Bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Fair Trading (Gift Card Expiry) Amendment Bill (Melissa Lee) Its a worthy but minor bill, and the best you can say about it is that at least none of National's tough-on-crime ...1 week ago
- Gordon Campbell on the midterms, Adrian Orr and taxing the BanksIt used to be a joke, but it seems that a lot of Republicans really might have moved to Florida to escape from the gulag of Dr Fauci. While in these midterms the “red wave” didn’t happen anywhere outside of Florida, the GOP control of the Senate will now come ...1 week ago
- Political Roundup: 10 November 2022Items of interest and importance today BANKING Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Why Jacinda Ardern hit out at banks (paywalled) Bernard Hickey (Interest): Open banking still two years away 1New: Open banking to make it easier to switch banks, compare rates Bridie Witton (Stuff): Government moves to introduce open banking Martien Lubberink (Newsroom): ...1 week ago
- Addicted to secrecyBack in July, Public Service Minister Chris Hipkins said he was concerned about the growing number of secrecy clauses excluding information from the coverage of the Official Information Act, and promised "safeguards" to limit their use in future. meanwhile, the government he is part of has just introduced another one, ...1 week ago
- Bryce Edwards: Will the Govt act on mega bank profits and reform the banking sector?The corporate retail banks are making mega profits on the back of Government policies and indirect subsidies of recent years. As a result, there are calls from across almost the whole political spectrum for greater regulation of the banking sector, including windfall taxes. But will outrage turn into action? Prime ...1 week ago
- Member’s DayToday is a Member's Day. First up is the second readings of Ginny Andersen's Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill and Deborah Russell's Employment Relations (Extended Time for Personal Grievance for Sexual Harassment) Amendment Bill. Following that, the House should complete the first reading of Duncan Webb's Companies (Directors Duties) ...1 week ago
- Climate change reparations – who pays?This is a re-post from the NZ Newsroom by Kevin Trenberth Climate change reparations are expected to be one of the main issues at COP27, the next round of international climate talks from November 6-18 in Egypt. Climate change reparations are a new way of looking at how to pay developing countries ...1 week ago
- Much Worse Than It Looks.Bad News: While Labour’s refusal to back away from its most controversial policies is mobilising right-wing voters against them, its all-too-evident failure to address the worsening problems associated with the cost of living, health, education, housing and criminal offending will be having the opposite effect on the voters in its ...1 week ago
- The Drift South: The Changing Face of New Zealand Population
One of the defining aspects of New Zealand population dynamics since European settlement was the so-called Drift North. People relocating from the South Island to the North Island, in search of economic opportunity and of warmer weather. The early years of settlement saw most Europeans head for the South ...1 week ago - Free Speech Union holds its first symposium and AGMReport by Daphna Whitmore The growth of the Free Speech Union is remarkable. In just a few years it has grown to 72,000 registered supporters, 6,000 New Zealanders have donated to it, and more than 1000 people are members of its trade union arm. The FSU put on a symposium ...1 week ago
- All noise and no policyOver the weekend Labour had a very bad poll - basicly, the chickens coming home to roost on their fuck around and do nothing policy. But on Monday, price-gouging Aussie bank Westpac offered them a golden opportunity, in the form of a billion dollar profit. Everyone hates the banks, they're ...1 week ago
- Gordon Campbell on bank profits, and the US midtermsSo far, the political response to excessive bank profits has held up a mirror to party identity. Labour thinks the level of bank profits is “open to question” but offers no action in response. National thinks the problem must lie with the state (not the banks), and wants to investigate ...1 week ago
- Luxon and WillisChristopher Luxon was, presumably, in his day a dab hand at airline schedules, but he is obviously a little less competent when it comes to running a country. There is a world of difference between focussing on the single objective of the bottom line when running a trading company and ...1 week ago
- Jacinda Ardern’s Wall Of Sound.Thirty Minute Symphony? Among her peers there is no one who approaches Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when it comes to talking the talk. She is, indisputably, New Zealand’s foremost impresario of political verbiage.PHIL SPECTOR’S “WALL OF SOUND” production technique revolutionised the recording of popular music in the 1950s and 60s. ...1 week ago
- Political Roundup: 8 November 2022Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT, ELECTION Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Much Worse Than It Looks Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Battle of the polls: Internal poll has Labour equal with National Newshub: Video: Newshub political editor Jenna Lynch breaks down ‘terrible, terrible’ poll result for Labour David Fisher (Herald): Why ...1 week ago
- Are clean technologies and renewable energies better for the environment than fossil fuels?This is a re-post from the CCL Blog The grand transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a green one is underway. It will involve a fundamental shift in the way we generate and use energy for various purposes. Instead of drilling and mining for fossil fuels, we’ll need to mine ...1 week ago
- Labour’s morally indefensible choicesLabour held its party conference over the weekend, and the government announced a minor expansion of its free ECE policy - actually a subsidy to ECE providers - to try and shore up middle-class support. And in the Herald today, Jacinda Ardern said she'd go further if money was no ...1 week ago
- Climate Change: A “nightmare” of their own makingLast month, the government grovelled to the sacred cow, basicly adopting Federated Farmers' he waka eke noa framework to not-really price greenhouse gases at the farm level. And of course, farmers hate it and are calling it a "bureaucratic nightmare": "Paying taxes doesn't equal doing our part, and paying ...1 week ago
- Bryce Edwards: Labour’s version of conservatism is no longer popularNew Zealand now essentially has two conservative major parties for the public to choose from. Unfortunately for one of them – the Labour Party – the public increasingly prefers the more authentic conservative option, National. This can be seen in the latest opinion poll showing National continuing to storm ahead ...1 week ago
- 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 thru Sat, Nov 5, 2022. Story of the Week COP27 climate summit to test resolve of world battling war, inflation Many of the biggest players distracted by crises Global ...1 week ago
- Is New Zealand covertly supporting the glorification of neo-Nazism?
Ukrainian veterans of the Azov Battalion, formed by a white supremacist and banned from receiving U.S. aid, attend a rally in Kyiv on March 14, 2020. Source “Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real, even if Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim isn’t” Vladimir Sindeyeve / NurPhoto via Getty ...2 weeks ago- Disingenuous National Party s(loga)neering continues to make seeing out 2022 way harder than it need...
Make it make sense. For the love of retaining some sanity as we chase down the end of the year, make. it. make. sense! A Party that wants us to get in thousands more people to fill jobs… that being, the ones that are presumably to be vacated ...2 weeks ago- Climate Change: Winning slowly
Five years ago David Wallace-Wells published "The Unihabitable Earth", looking at the horrifying consequences of what-were-then-likely climate change scenarios. Today, he has something of a followup in the New York Times, "Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View". Its a very long article, but the TL;DR is ...2 weeks ago- Why are Bond Markets So Terrifying?
‘I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.’ James Carville.The rule by British politicians Liz Truss ...2 weeks ago- Political Roundup: 4 November 2022
Items of interest and importance today GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, ELECTIONS Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Labour’s conference challenge is to launch Project Dawn Matthew Hooton (Herald): Bureaucracy needs shaking into action (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): Economic gloom, Iranian balance, Labour’s tough challenge(paywalled) RNZ: Labour’s party faithful to gather for annual conference as pressure mounts ...2 weeks ago- 0-800-STASI
The Lidless Eye: New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service has scoured its own files, and drawn on the relevant files of its Five Eyes partners, to produce a handbook identifying all the tell-tale signs that a citizen has undergone radicalisation, and is on the verge of organising and/or engaging in an act ...2 weeks ago- Three Waters. Three Mayors. Three Cheers!
Three Wise Men: Who should pay for upgrading New Zealand's waste, storm and drinking water services? That is the $64 billion (at the very least!) question. The most obvious answer: and the one Mayor Wayne Brown in Auckland, Mayor Phil Mauger in Christchurch, and the Mayor of the Waimakariri District, ...2 weeks ago- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #44 2022
Notables: Usable, but unused: A critical story of co-producing the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessments. We seem to have all the pieces needed to build climate-risk-responsive policy but often there's no policy product at the end of the assembly line. James Porter & Caitlin Clark investigate and explain how our blueprint for building ...2 weeks ago- More wind
If Aotearoa is going to decarbonise, we're going to need a lot more renewable electricity. And it looks like the industry is stepping up, with the announcement of Aotearoa's first offshore wind farm: New Zealand’s first offshore wind farm will be built 22km off the coast of South Taranaki ...2 weeks ago- Media Link: “AVFA” on electoral politics in Brazil, US and Israel.
This week Selwyn Manning and I do a post-mortem on Brazil’s election and a preview of the US midterms under the general banner of “it is about the movement, not the man,” then turn to the tactical and existential issues surrounding Israel’s latest (and increasingly rightwing-leaning) elections. You can draw ...2 weeks ago- Gordon Campbell on inflating the threat posed by social media
It has been a big week for the preachers of the social media apocalypse. During her speech on Monday to the He Whenua Taurikura hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism, PM Jacinda Ardern told us that the country’s security agencies have just released a draft National Security Long Term ...2 weeks ago- David Parker Rejects Co-Governance.
Stubbornly Thoughtful: According to veteran political journalist, Richard Harman, the Environment Minister David Parker rejected the inclusion of co-governance provisions in his Natural & Built Environments Bill, facing-down the opposition of Nanaia Mahuta and Labour’s Māori Caucus “in what may be seen as a defining move by the Government, which ...2 weeks ago- Bryce Edwards: A Culture war over hate speech and free speech is unlikely
Sunday’s announcement by Justice Minister Kiri Allan about forthcoming legislation on hate speech has sparked concerns that the country is headed for a second round of culture wars over free speech. As one journalist states today, Allan is “reigniting last year’s political firestorm”. Some have suggested that Labour are about ...2 weeks ago- No, Aragorn and Conan Are Not Alike: A Reply to The Brothers Krynn
Due to a new laptop, I have been spending early November making excellent progress on Old Phuul. It turns out that when one has a functioning computer at one’s disposal, there is a corresponding renewal of interest in actually writing. So much so, I intend for the next couple ...2 weeks ago- Climate Change: Taxing the rich is a climate change policy
The Greens are often criticised by the right for linking social equality with environmental issues. But it turns out that they are deeply connected: the ultra-rich are responsible for a massive amount of climate pollution: The top 1% of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount ...2 weeks ago- 26,000 employed under Labour
The quarterly labour market statistics were released this morning, showing unemployment stable at 3.3%. There are now 97,000 unemployed - 26,000 fewer than when Labour took office. So, I guess the bankers aren't getting what they want. Which means we can expect the howling for ordinary people to be thrown ...2 weeks ago- How sea level rise contributes to billions in extra damage during hurricanes
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters When Hurricane Ian barreled into the coast of southwest Florida on Sept. 28, the mighty hurricane’s 150-mph winds drove a massive and destructive storm surge inland. A preliminary estimate from NOAA puts Ian’s damage at more than $50 billion, and ...2 weeks ago- Political Roundup: 2 November 2022
Items of interest and importance today ECONOMY, BUSINESS, EMPLOYMENT Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Nearly $6b in National’s planned tax cuts for richest 5 per cent according to union analysis Thomas Manch (Stuff): CTU attacks National’s ‘massive and uncosted’ tax cut plan; National rejects ‘false assumptions’ Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Christopher Luxon defends ...2 weeks ago- Gordon Campbell on Iran getting worse, alcohol in sport and a music playlist
So we’ve found a ledge for our Iran policy, and are now doing our best to call it a mezzanine. Yesterday, the government announced the suspension of the Human Rights Initiative with Iran that both countries launched in 2018. The suspension is in protest at Iran’s violations of human rights ...2 weeks ago- Climate Change: No Magic bullets for agriculture
Farmers are responsible for 50% of our greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of methane from their animals' digestion of grass. For the past two decades, our agricultural climate change policy has basicly focused on finding a technological fix for this, a magic bullet which will let them keep ...2 weeks ago- Political Roundup: 1 November 2022
Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT, PARTIES, ELECTIONS Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National defends selling dinner with Christopher Luxon for $1500 (paywalled) Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): I warned you that Winston is back and I was right Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Horizon Poll: Winners, Losers & Predictions Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Raf ...2 weeks ago- 2022 General Reading: October (+ Old Phuul update)
Completed reads for October: Shadows of Ecstasy, by Charles Williams Haita the Shepherd, by Ambrose Bierce An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (collection), by H.P. Lovecraft The Emperor of Dreams (collection), by Clark Ashton Smith A Voyage to Sfanomoë, by Clark ...2 weeks ago- “Governor” Of The People.
Topsy-Turvy: Justice Minister Kiri Allan has got the direction of power and control in New Zealand completely upside-down.“AS A GOVERNOR.” That is how Justice Minister Kiri Allan described her political function on TVNZ’s Q+A. Unfortunately, Jessica Mutch McKay, standing in for Jack Tame, allowed Allan’s self-characterisation to pass without comment. Which ...2 weeks ago- Democracy wins in Brazil
Brazilians went to the polls today in a run-off presidential election, and voted narrowly to re-elect former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rather than authoritarian, coup-apologist, anti-environment, covid-superspreader Jair Bolsonaro. Which is pretty good news for Brazilian democracy, the global climate, and actual Brazilians - Bolsonaro managed to murder ...2 weeks ago- Time for a windfall tax
Last week ANZ bank reported a record $2.3 billion profit - a full 0.6% of total GDP gouged out of our economy. And earlier in the year the Commerce Commission found that supermarkets were making a million dollars a day of excess profits due to their abuse of market power. ...2 weeks ago- Geoffrey Miller: Is it time for Jacinda Ardern to head to the Middle East?
In her victorious election campaign in 2017, Jacinda Ardern famously called climate change ‘my generation’s nuclear-free moment’. But perhaps surprisingly, Ardern has not attended a UN climate change conference since she became New Zealand’s Prime Minister in 2017. Had New Zealand’s Covid-19 situation allowed for it, Ardern would have almost ...2 weeks ago- Kick? No, Run and Pass
Yesterday’s narrow and stuttering win against Japan highlighted an affliction that has increasingly handicapped the All Blacks in the modern era. Time and again, the keen-eyed observer will have seen that the first response of an All Black back, finding himself in possession and with space to move, was to ...3 weeks ago- 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Oct 23, 2022 thru Sat, Oct 29, 2022. Story of the Week Global Energy Report: Pain at the Pump, High Energy Costs Could Create a Silver Lining for Climate and Security Russia’s invasion ...3 weeks ago- The Empire Strikes Back.
From The Periphery To The Metropole: Beyond its personal dimensions, Rishi Sunak’s rise speaks to the extraordinary dynamism and diversity of global capitalism. Brexiteer though Sunak may be, his rise to the prime-ministership of Britain will strike many Brexit voters as yet further proof that, like the guests at the ...3 weeks ago - Disingenuous National Party s(loga)neering continues to make seeing out 2022 way harder than it need...
- Green Party solution better for Māori voters, not deal with National
An agreement between Labour and National misses an historic opportunity to make our democracy more accessible for Māori voters. ...2 days ago - Govt must extend Samoa visa changes to all Pacific countriesThanks to Green Party pressure, visitors from Samoa can soon travel to Aotearoa without a visa – a right that should be extended to every Pacific country. ...2 days ago
- A cheaper, faster, better resource management system
Our Government is delivering a new resource management system that will better protect the environment while cutting red tape, lowering costs and speeding up the time it takes to approve new homes and infrastructure projects. ...2 days ago - Nature missing in RMA reformThe Government has missed a crucial opportunity to redesign the resource management system with climate and nature at its heart. ...2 days ago
- Govt continuing to prioritise high income earners in immigration systemThe resumption today of the parent visa category needs to be followed by an end to the Government’s unfair salary based family reunification policy. ...3 days ago
- Supporting more Kiwis into jobsWe’re helping more Kiwis into work, to help support whānau, grow our skilled workforce and secure our economy for future generations. During our time in Government, we’ve delivered record low unemployment rates, as well as a steady fall in the number of New Zealanders receiving a main benefit, and we’re ...3 days ago
- Fix electricity market to help both climate and cost of livingThe four big electricity companies should be required to reinvest massive profits into cutting both household bills and climate pollution, the Green Party says. ...3 days ago
- Next Waitematā Harbour crossing must be climate-friendlyThe Minister for Transport can show climate leadership and consider only the lowest carbon ways of crossing Waitematā harbour. ...4 days ago
- Changes needed to three waters plansGreater local oversight and control, seven instead of four entities, stormwater staying with councils, and stronger safeguards against privatisation are among the changes the Green Party wants to three waters legislation. ...6 days ago
- Bold action needed on food prices and supermarket profitsSupermarkets are profiteering from families struggling to put food on the table. ...6 days ago
- Don’t let open banking close the door on action to address excess profitOpen banking is fine but the simplest and most effective way to address record bank profits is to tax them fairly to provide relief to families struggling to get by. ...1 week ago
- Rainbow Report shows more needs to be done for takatāpui and Rainbow peopleThe Green Party welcomes the Rainbow report released by Stats NZ today and calls for better support for takatāpui and Rainbow people, particularly our trans and non-binary whānau. ...1 week ago
- Greens call on Education Minister to bring tertiary sector to the tableThe Green Party is once again calling on the Minister of Education to bring union, government officials and sector leaders together to urgently improve the pay and condition of tertiary education staff. ...1 week ago
- Making childcare more affordableWe know childcare is one of the biggest costs for working families. That’s why, as part of our work to support New Zealanders with the cost of living, we’re making childcare more affordable for low and middle income families. ...2 weeks ago
- Greens welcome childcare support, call for more actionThe Green Party is welcoming the modest support for families announced by the Labour Government but calling for more urgent action to ease the pressure on households. ...2 weeks ago
- Jacinda Ardern: Speech to the Labour Party Conference 2022As we near the end of 2022, Jacinda Ardern addresses the Labour Party Conference in South Auckland. Watch the Labour Leader’s speech here. ...2 weeks ago
- Kelvin Davis: Address to the Labour Party Conference 2022I often refer to, and draw inspiration from, our tupuna, and when I reflect on the last few years the words of a famous Ngapuhi chief Te Ruki Kawiti come to mind. ...2 weeks ago
- Grant Robertson: Speech to the Labour Party Conference 2022Labour Finance Spokesperson Grant Robertson speaks at the Labour Party Conference in South Auckland. ...2 weeks ago
- Luxon risks burning down five years of climate progressChris Luxon’s plan to reopen new gas projects in the middle of the climate crisis is about as irresponsible as it gets. ...2 weeks ago
- Greens call on Govt to grant visa waiver status to all Pacific countriesThe Green Party is calling on the Government to change visa settings to allow people visiting Aotearoa from the Pacific Islands to do so without having to apply for a visa. ...2 weeks ago
- 100 things we’ve delivered this yearOver the past year, we’ve worked hard to deliver for Kiwis. As we’ve continued to secure our economy, we’ve also made good progress across long term challenges like climate change, housing, and health. While there is more to do, we’ve achieved a lot over the past year. Here are just ...2 weeks ago
- New Zealand’s place in the worldPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern recently gave a speech on the economy and New Zealand’s place in the world. Here’s a super quick overview of what she had to say about global challenges, like workforce shortages, and why New Zealand can be optimistic about the future. ...2 weeks ago
- Tax excess profits, don’t leave it to the good will of large corporationsThe Green Party is once again calling on the Government to introduce an excess profits tax and use the money to support people, rather than relying on the good will of corporations. ...2 weeks ago
- RBNZ report strengthens case for excess profit tax and more income supportA drop in household income from rising bank interest rates further demonstrates the need for an excess profits tax, the Green Party says. ...2 weeks ago
- Another Green idea on public transport gets the Govt go aheadThe Government’s announcement today that it will boost bus driver wages once again adopts a long held Green Party commitment on public transport. ...3 weeks ago
- Green proposals to tax excess corporate profitThe Green Party has today put forward proposals to ensure large corporations profiteering from high inflation are taxed fairly and the money used to support people to make ends meet. ...3 weeks ago
- Govt adopts Green alcohol harm solutionsThe Greens welcome the Government’s announcement today to remove the special appeals process from Local Alcohol Policies, effectively adopting the first half of Chlöe Swarbrick’s Alcohol Harm Minimisation Bill. ...3 weeks ago
- Govt delivers connectivity for rural and remote households
Some of New Zealand’s most remote communities will receive broadband for the first time thanks to a new Government-led initiative. The Remote Users Scheme will equip as many remote households as possible with the connectivity infrastructure needed to access broadband services, Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications, David Clark ...59 mins ago - Government appoints investigator to work with Christchurch City Council to improve housing supplyAssociate Minister for the Environment, Phil Twyford has appointed an investigator under part 4 of the Resource Management Act, to work with Christchurch City Council on its housing intensification plan. “John Hardie is a skilled and experienced mediator with local knowledge of Christchurch City. The aim of the investigation is ...1 hour ago
- New Zealand records lowest smoking rate everStatistics released today show New Zealand’s smoking rate has fallen to an historic low of 8% of adults smoking daily, down from 9.4% a year ago, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall said. “The Government’s plan to reduce smoking is working. The number of people smoking fell by 56,000 ...2 hours ago
- Over 16,000 more new homes to be unlocked with infrastructure bonanzaApproximately 16,600 new homes across New Zealand set to be unlocked by Government’s third tranche of the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund New homes enabled in Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga, Christchurch, Kawakawa, Kaikohe, Westport, Upper Hutt, Waipukurau, Hokitika and Pahiatua Critical infrastructure projects will get Government support to unlock thousands more homes in ...2 hours ago
- New model to better support kids with the highest needsThe Government is committed to designing a system that better supports our kids and young people with the highest needs, Associate Minister of Education Jan Tinetti announced today. The Highest Needs Review was launched in April 2021 and was completed recently, with 1100 submissions received. “Following the feedback from the ...2 hours ago
- Firearms Prohibition Orders now in force help to reduce gun harmNew tools to reduce gun crime come into force today, Police Minister Chris Hipkins said. Firearms Prohibition Orders will improve public safety by stopping people whose behaviour and actions represent a high risk of violence from accessing firearms or restricted weapons. “Firearms Prohibition Orders are another measure that will help ...1 day ago
- New Deputy Public Service Commissioner appointedMinister for the Public Service Chris Hipkins has today announced the appointment of Ms Rebecca Kitteridge CVO as Deputy Public Service Commissioner. The Deputy Public Service Commissioner is appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, under the Public Service Act 2020. Subject to the control of ...1 day ago
- Innovative projects to cut transport emissions and costs, get government co-fundingThe first marine project under the Low Emission Transport Fund is among 11 projects getting $2.14 million Eleven new transport projects including clever solutions for electric vehicle charging, ways to cut fuel costs in heavy freight, and the first marine project will get co-funding from the Government, Energy and Resources ...1 day ago
- Government buys land for affordable housing on major transport corridor in WellingtonThe Government’s plan to increase housing supply and affordability in Wellington in places with good access to public transport has moved another step forward following the acquisition of a 2,016m2 section of land on Adelaide Road in Mount Cook, as part of a Kāinga Ora urban development programme. “Wellington, in ...1 day ago
- New Zealand National Statement – COP27Tēnā koutou katoa. Mr President, Excellencies, Delegates. This 27th Conference of the Parties is being referred to as the Implementation COP. The Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC asked us at the start of this Conference to show evidence of how we have started to implement the decisions that we collectively ...1 day ago
- Minister to travel to UK for bilateral defence meetingMinister of Defence Peeni Henare departs for the United Kingdom tomorrow to meet with Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace to discuss the UK and New Zealand’s shared security interests and ongoing defence co-operation. “This will be my first trip to Europe as Minister of Defence, and I’m looking ...2 days ago
- New Zealand Sovereign Green Bonds issuedThe Government welcomes New Zealand Debt Management’s issuance today of NZ$3 billion of the New Zealand Sovereign Green Bonds that will mature in 2034. Launched in September, New Zealand’s Sovereign Green Bond Programme provides the opportunity to invest in projects that contribute to climate and environmental objectives. “Green Bonds will ...2 days ago
- NZ steps up with extra support for climate adaptationAotearoa New Zealand has announced a five-fold increase in its contribution to global efforts to support climate change adaptation. The announcement of a new $15 million commitment to the Adaptation Fund was made while Climate Change Minister James Shaw is at COP27 in Egypt. “Aotearoa New Zealand is committed to ...2 days ago
- Resource Management reform ensures Crown fulfils Treaty obligationsNew Resource Management reform will uphold Treaty settlements, commitments and arrangements and ensure Māori maintain established decision-making and participation at both a regional and national level, which has been the case to date as a result of successive governments’ Treaty Settlement arrangements, Associate Minister for the Environment Kiri Allan said. ...2 days ago
- Cheaper, faster, better resource management lawThe system is broken, consent fees have almost doubled, and consenting time frames increased by 50% New standardised conditions will see fewer “bespoke” consents and speed up the process Time to consent will shorten, and fast track process retained On a conservative estimate costs will fall 19% a year ($149m) ...2 days ago
- Better infrastructure to be built fasterMaking the Resource Management process quicker, cheaper and better will help boost New Zealand’s economic growth. “The cost and time it takes to get a resource consent for infrastructure projects has grown significantly in recent years, with smaller projects being disproportionately affected,” Grant Robertson said. Infrastructure developers collectively pay about ...2 days ago
- New resource management system provides clearer direction for farmersThe new resource management system aims to reduce a reliance on consenting and provide clearer direction for farmers and the agricultural sector. Minister for the Environment David Parker today introduced legislation to Parliament for the comprehensive reform of New Zealand’s resource management system – the Natural and Built Environment Bill ...2 days ago
- New Zealand’s tourism rebound continuesTowns and cities up and down the country should be prepping for a busy summer season, as officials numbers released today highlight the continued growth in international visitors, Tourism and Immigration Ministers Stuart Nash and Michael Wood announced today. Overseas visitor numbers for the month of September showed a significant ...2 days ago
- RMA reforms aim to make housing and urban system simpler, faster, cheaperNew Zealand’s housing and urban system is set to benefit from the overhaul of the Resource Management system, making the ability to build new housing simpler, faster and cheaper. ...2 days ago
- Prime Minister reaffirms economic ties with Viet NamPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern met Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh of Viet Nam for a Prime Ministers’ Summit today in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The Prime Ministers reaffirmed New Zealand and Viet Nam’s commitment to working together as strategic partners. “Viet Nam is an important partner for New Zealand, and ...2 days ago
- Graduate scheme attracts 32 new vets to rural New ZealandThirty-two graduate vets will begin their careers in rural New Zealand, with a financial boost from the Government’s Voluntary Bonding Scheme for Veterinarians (VBS), Acting Agriculture and Rural Communities Minister Meka Whaitiri announced today. Each recipient will receive funding of $55,000 over five years to kick-start their careers and help ...3 days ago
- Next Ambassador to Argentina announcedForeign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta today announced the appointment of Kathryn Beckett as New Zealand’s next Ambassador to Argentina. “Aotearoa New Zealand enjoys a friendly and cooperative relationship with Argentina,” Nanaia Mahuta said. “We work particularly closely together on issues key to New Zealand’s multilateral agenda, such as climate change, human ...3 days ago
- Assistance to Ukraine extended and enhancedNew Zealand is extending its defence commitments and providing further support and personnel to assist Ukraine, as part of the Government’s ongoing response to Russia’s illegal and unprovoked invasion. The NZ Defence Force infantry training for Ukrainian military personnel in the United Kingdom will be extended. There is more funding ...3 days ago
- 2000 visas a year to be granted through resumption of parent categoryThe Government is ensuring skilled migrants can resettle in Aotearoa New Zealand with their families, Immigration Minister Michael Wood announced today. “We recognise the importance for migrants resettling here to have a pathway for their parents to join them,” Michael Wood said. “We are resuming selections of the Parent Category ...3 days ago
- Appointment of Judge and Associate Judge of the High CourtHigh Court Associate Judge Peter Andrew has been appointed a Judge of the High Court, and Tauranga King’s Counsel Grant Brittain has been appointed an Associate Judge of the High Court, Attorney‑General David Parker announced today. Justice Andrew graduated from the University of Otago in 1984 with a BA and an ...3 days ago
- Govt’s economic recovery continues with 20,000 Flexi-Wage placements20,589 people supported into jobs through Flexi-Wage 37 per cent of participants identified as Māori, 13 per cent Pacific 88% of those on benefit for 2+ years at referral are current, completed or finished early and are not currently on benefit. 2478 participants (12 per cent) have a health condition, ...3 days ago
- Prime Minister attends East Asia SummitThe Prime Minister has wrapped up meetings in Cambodia with her Indo-Pacific counterparts at the annual meeting of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the Second ASEAN Global Dialogue on Post-COVID-19 Comprehensive Recovery. Leaders from ASEAN nations as well as Australian Prime Minister Albanese, US President Biden, Republic of Korea ...3 days ago
- ASEAN trade deal upgrade boost for exportersNew Zealand’s new free trade agreement upgrade with the Association of South East Asian Nations and Australia has been announced today by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “As the world feels the impact of global economic pressures, the importance of securing high-quality, modern free trade agreements is essential to the economic ...4 days ago
- Auckland now Australasia’s most connected city to North AmericaToday’s arrival of the first direct Air Canada flight from Vancouver in almost two years means Auckland Airport is now the most connected airport to North America across the whole of Australasia, Stuart Nash said today. “This addition to North American airline capacity is another welcome step in our tourism ...5 days ago
- Joint Statement: Ministerial Statement on the Importance of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform at a Time of ...The Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform (Costa Rica, Denmark[1], Ethiopia, Finland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Uruguay) We reflect on the urgency of phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies given the current climate crisis and in an effort to limiting global average temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial ...5 days ago
- NGO Hui, Locally led development and amplifying Pacific voices Location: National Library, Tiakiw...Tēnā koutou katoa, talofa lava, warm Pacific greetings to you all. Thank you for joining us for the 2022 MFAT-NGO Hui-ā-tau — annual hui. This is the first time in three years that we have gathered kānohi-ki-te-kānohi for this event. I am delighted to be here, today, to lend my ...6 days ago
- ‘Celebrating New Zealand’s Diplomatic Relations – Global Connections and Diversity through...Warm pacific greetings to each of you. First of all, I want to offer my deepest condolences to families of those who lost their lives, those who were injured, and the families and friends of all involved in the tragic incident in Seoul on 29 October. The thoughts of the ...6 days ago
- Iwi and Government partnership delivers homes for Ngāti WhakaueThe first of many builds for Ngāti Whakaue Lands Trust was delivered today with Associate Minister of Housing (Māori Housing) Peeni Henare attending the opening of eight affordable whānau homes. “House by house, whānau by whānau, we are working together to address housing needs. Ngati Whākaue are walking the talk ...6 days ago
- Changes make water reforms more workable for communities and councilsThe Government has welcomed proposed recommendations to improve the workability of water reform legislation. At a time when the cost of living challenges confronting households is real, these reforms will help lessen the burden of necessary water infrastructure investment on ratepayers. Parliament’s cross-party Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back ...6 days ago
- Appointment of King’s CounselAttorney-General David Parker has announced the appointment of 10 King’s Counsel. “The criteria for appointment recognise that excellence and leadership in the profession should be viewed through a wider, community lens. I am pleased to see that the profession continues to make a good contribution to access to justice, which ...6 days ago
- New board members for Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai OraGP Dr Jeff Lowe and former Inland Revenue Commissioner Naomi Ferguson have been appointed to the board of the organisation that runs the country’s public hospitals, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand. Health Minister Andrew Little announced their appointments today, along with the appointment of Steven McJorrow (Ngāti Kahungunu) ...6 days ago
- New financing arrangements to continue to deliver Kāinga Ora build programme“In the last five years Kāinga Ora has delivered over 8,370 newly built homes, over 900 retrofits and is overseeing the biggest urban development programme since the 1970s, with programmes like Large Scale Projects,” Megan Woods said. “To ensure Kāinga Ora can expand this work further, Cabinet agreed to increase ...6 days ago
- Targeting hardship: more funding to Porirua developmentThe Government is committing to more transformative improvements to housing and critical infrastructure in eastern Porirua says Housing Minister Dr Megan Woods, announcing a further $204 million in funding to advance urban development there. “Eastern Porirua has strong and vibrant communities, but it is in critical need of investment and ...7 days ago
- Significant communications investment to keep emergency responders and the public safeA new digital communications network for emergency service workers will roll out from next year, marking the most significant advance in New Zealand’s public safety communications in decades, Police Minister Chris Hipkins announced today. The Public Safety Network will deliver emergency services with a single secure digital radio network and ...7 days ago
- Innovation fund for tourism opensApplications are now open for the Innovation Programme for Tourism Recovery that will support unique and transformative ideas that will improve our tourism sector. “We want to see projects that are sustainable, low carbon and that can deliver on our goals for a high skilled and high wage sector. “Successful ...7 days ago
- An entire Pacific country will upload itself to the metaverse. It’s a desperate plan – with a hi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, Queensland University of Technology What’s the message between the lines of Tuvalu’s proposal to move to the metaverse? Scott Van Hoy/Unsplash, FAL The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself ...46 mins ago - Luxon Needs Educating
"The leader of the opposition party could do with some education in the difference between opinion and evidence based argument," said Cherie Taylor-Patel, President of the New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF), on hearing Luxon's comments about ...1 hour ago - Budget 2023 Needs To Unlock Funding For Learning SupportBudget 2023 will need to unlock sufficient funding to address inequitable access, understaffing and unmet needs in learning support if proposed reforms are to succeed, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today. Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti today released ...1 hour ago
- Youth crime boot camps: National proposes military academies, electronic monitoring
The National Party has announced a new policy for combating youth crime which would target serious offenders, including sending them to boot camps. ...1 hour ago - Someone wants to shoot you? If you move fast, you could disarm your assailant with a Firearms Prohi...
almosaLatest from the Beehive A ministerial promise about the crime-crushing powers of a Firearms Prohibition Order is – let’s be blunt about it – boldly optimistic. Police Minister Chris Hipkins bragged that “new tools to reduce gun crime” have come into force. More than that, he promised: Firearms Prohibition Orders ...3 hours ago - A pristine chunk of space rock found within hours of hitting Earth can tell us about the birth of th...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eleanor K. Sansom, Research Associate, Curtin University Sarah McMullan / UKFN / Global Fireball Observatory At about 10 o’clock on the night of February 28 2021, a fireball streaked through the sky over England. The blazing extraterrestrial visitor was seen ...5 hours ago
- Our health system is like a ‘worn pair of shorts’. This latest COVID wave will stretch it even t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Martiniuk, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Sydney Shutterstock The latest COVID wave is with us, with its viral subvariants BQ.1 and XBB. Once again, our health system will be stretched. That’s not just hospitals. A stretched health system affects ...5 hours ago
- REDcycle’s collapse is more proof that plastic recycling is a broken systemSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anya Phelan, Lecturer, The University of Queensland Dustan Woodhouse/Unsplash, CC BY This week the federal government joined an international agreement to recycle or reuse 100% of plastic waste by 2040, putting an end to plastic pollution. But major obstacles stand ...5 hours ago
- Junior staff are finding better contracts, senior staff are burning out: the arts are losing the war...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Goodwin, Lecturer, The University of Melbourne National Museum of Warsaw In 1997, consulting firm McKinsey & Company coined the term “the war for talent” to define increasing labour shortages that had significant potential to impact organisational performance. The ...5 hours ago
- Thousands of Tasmanian devils are dying from cancer – but a new vaccine approach could help us sav...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew S. Flies, Senior Research Fellow in Immunology, University of Tasmania Julie Gaia/Shutterstock Tasmanian devils are tough little creatures with a ferocious reputation. Tragically, each year thousands of Tasmanian devils suffer and die from contagious cancers – devil facial tumours. We ...5 hours ago
- Lower speed limits don’t just save lives – they make NZ towns and cities better places to liveSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Kingham, Professor of Human Geography, University of Canterbury Getty Images It seems New Zealand is about to slow down, with proposals to reduce urban speed limits right across the country, as well as on state highways. And while there ...5 hours ago
- Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Peel, Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Disease Ecology, Griffith University Grey headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) Vivien Jones, Author provided Bats have lived with coronaviruses for millennia. Details are still hazy about how one of these viruses evolved into SARS-CoV-2, which ...5 hours ago
- PM Jacinda Ardern to meet China's President Xi Jinping at APEC summitAn official bilateral meeting is understood to have been arranged between Jacinda Adern and the Chinese leader to take place at the APEC summit in Thailand. ...6 hours ago
- The universities accord could see the most significant changes to Australian unis in a generationSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Education Minister Jason Clare with members of the Universities Accord panel. Fiona Nash (L) and panel chair Mary O’Kane (R). Dean Lewins/AAP On Wednesday evening, Education Minister Jason ...14 hours ago
- Trump announces he’ll run for president again as Murdoch turns on him – and it could be politica...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Andrew Harnik/AP/AAP No politician, journalist or media critic has ever been heard to utter the phrase “as subtle as a Murdoch tabloid”. So, when Murdoch’s New York ...17 hours ago
- Health sector immigration: Ministers play down chance of quick changesImmigration Minister Michael Wood says some changes to the green list might be made before the review in May, but he needs to get advice on it first. ...18 hours ago
- [email protected] NZ Time – 6pm USEST – In this, the 22nd episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will deep dive into the consequences of the United States midterm elections. In particular Paul and Selwyn will examine how an ...19 hours ago
- Rain makes coal heavy, slippery and harder to dig up. So what does La Niña mean for this already di...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lurion De Mello, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Macquarie University Kelly Barnes/AAP As the La Niña weather event wreaks havoc across New South Wales, coal operators are suffering. The Australian coal company Whitehaven is among them – last week slashing its ...20 hours ago
- Certainty Needed Now On Fuel Discount ExtensionLeading road transport body Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand is calling on the Government to provide certainty on the fuel excise reductions, road user charge and public transport discounts, which are currently due to expire at the end of January ...21 hours ago
- A new cyber taskforce will supposedly ‘hack the hackers’ behind the Medibank breach. It could pu...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mamoun Alazab, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, IT and Environment, Charles Darwin University Shutterstock The Australian government is launching an offensive against cybercriminals, following a data breach that has exposed millions of people’s personal information. On November 12, Minister for ...21 hours ago
- Fire And Emergency And NZ Professional Firefighters Union Make Further ProgressNZPFU FENZ Joint Statement The parties made further progress at bargaining today but there is still funding to be arranged. The parties are hopeful that we are able to finalise terms of settlement next week subject to the necessary funding being ...21 hours ago
- Dairy producers gain fresh momentum,so how sensible is it to impose a new levy on them?
After a slow start to the season, the NZ dairy industry has perked up,as at the latest Fonterra GDT auction prices firmed, after three successive falls. That rise came on the heel of reports NZ dairy earnings from Australia have ballooned because processors there are short of milk and ...21 hours ago - Word from The Hill: Albanese-Xi meeting is the first step on long marchSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and ...22 hours ago
- Pumping loud music is putting more than 1 billion young people at risk of hearing lossSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Cowan, Professorial Research Fellow, Audiology and Speech Pathology, The University of Melbourne Pexels/Wendy Wei, CC BY Music is an integral part of human life. It’s all around us, just like sunshine, lifting our mood. We enjoy it so much ...22 hours ago
- Missile hits Poland, killing two: is this the trigger for a wider European war?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Twitter/@Visegrad24 One of the most persistent fears about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been the potential for the war to ramp up dramatically in scope. Those ...22 hours ago
- How superblocks can free up and improve CBD space for the people of Melbourne – a step-by-step gui...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marco Amati, Associate Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University frontispiece For 185 years, Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid – the ordered layout of CBD streets and blocks designed in 1837 – has dictated the flow of people and vehicles ...22 hours ago
- Urban planning is now on the front line of the climate crisis. This is what it means for our cities ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barbara Norman, Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra International climate talks in Egypt known as COP27 are into their second week. Thursday is Solutions Day at the summit. Recognising that urban planning is now a front-line response to ...23 hours ago
- Awanuiārangi Celebrates Contribution Of Tā Wira Gardiner As Research Centre EstablishedThe significant contribution of the late Tā Wira Gardiner is being reflected upon by Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, as an agreement is signed to establish a research centre in his name. Pen was put to paper on the agreement to establish the Gardiner ...23 hours ago
- Moving Towards A Low Emissions Aotearoa, TogetherThe Government is asking for public input as part of its goal of ensuring Aotearoa’s transition to a low emissions future is fair and inclusive for all New Zealanders. The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and Ministry of Business, Innovation and ...1 day ago
- Health advice urging quick action on immigration leaked to ACTA list of 30 health jobs should immediately be given a fast track to residency, according to Ministry of Health advice leaked to the ACT Party. ...1 day ago
- Government’s Collective Agreement Offers Rejected By PPTA National ExecutiveOffers by the Ministry of Education for settlement of the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement and Area School Teachers’ Collective Agreement have been rejected outright by PPTA Te Wehengarua national executive – ahead of regional paid union ...1 day ago
- PM Jacinda Ardern's visit to Vietnam focuses on trade, food production technologyAn agreement to allow the import of Vietnamese limes after years of difficulty because of biosecurity fears looks to be a wedge in a trade door this summer. ...1 day ago
- Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s decaying policy on free universal dental careAnalysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Labour’s decaying policy on free universal dental care Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. Grant Robertson has once again ruled out implementing a popular Labour Party policy: free universal dental care. He did so yesterday on RNZ’s Morning Report, citing the cost factor. The Acting ...1 day ago
- THOMAS CRANMER: King Tut – the Tuhoe strongman who boasts of the National Park that disappeared
“We made a national park disappear” are the words of the Te Urewera chairman, Tamati Kruger – or as his iwi call him, King Tut. Kruger’s triumph is an ominous portent to the consequences of the co-governance concept which the Ardern government champions. THOMAS CRANMER writes – The High ...1 day ago - ANZCO Foods To Donate 200 Laptops A Year To Digital Inclusion InitiativesQuadrent is pleased to announce that ANZCO Foods has signed up to the Quadrent Green Lease. This arrangement will see around 200 quality laptops donated each year, to charitable organisations like, Te Rourou, Vodafone Aotearoa Foundation’s Toitū ...1 day ago
- National leader Christopher Luxon 'sceptical' RMA reforms will alter status quoCritics of the two bills to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA), are questioning whether they will actually deliver the promised benefits. ...1 day ago
- Aotearoa Remembers 75 Years Since Ballantynes FireThis Friday 18 November marks the 75th anniversary of the fire at Ballantynes department store that resulted in the tragic loss of 41 lives. Kei ngā mate, koutou i riro i te parekura nui - e tangi tonu ana, e tangi tonu ana, e kore e wareware. Kei te ...1 day ago
- Dunne Speaks: It's Déjà Vu On Resource ManagementFor the last thirty years the Resource Management Act (RMA) has been contentious. Introduced by Labour under Sir Geoffrey Palmer in 1989, the legislation was still making its way through Parliament when the House rose for the 1990 general election. ...1 day ago
- Nando’s And Pita Pit’s Double-standards On Chicken Welfare Exposed In New CampaignAnimals Aotearoa has launched a petition to Nando’s and Pita Pit for selling suffering and for failing to provide their New Zealand customers with the same standards of chicken meat as they do overseas. Within the first week, over 1500 people have added ...1 day ago
- Govt cheerleaders whoop the good news (at last) of resource management reform – but keep an eye on...Buzz from the Beehive It was rather like listening to ministers crowing about the goodies being distributed to programmes within their portfolios before, on and after Budget Day. It was the joyous response from a gaggle of cheerleading ministers to the unveiling of legislation to replace the wretched Resource Management ...1 day ago
- Unions press ahead to win “fair pay” agreements. But what if they add to inflationary pressure?One of NZ’s leading economists Cameron Bagrie told the TV3 AM show on Tuesday the increase in wages in NZ is a “success” but we are getting to a point of too much success. His warning came as the Dominion-Post reported what it called “an avalanche” of fair pay ...1 day ago
- Humans are going back to the Moon, and beyond – but how will we feed them?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Johnson, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University NASA JSC/Meghan McArthur NASA’s Artemis I launch is a major step forward in humans going deeper and spending longer in space than ever before. Future Artemis missions plan to take crew to the ...1 day ago
- What can we expect from this latest COVID wave? And how long is it likely to last?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Wood, Associate Professor, epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases, UNSW Sydney Australia is now mid-way into its fourth wave of COVID in the Omicron era, driven by a rich soup of Omicron descendants. Unlike previous waves, where a single new variant of ...1 day ago
- Countless reports show water is undrinkable in many Indigenous communities. Why has nothing changed?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bradley J. Moggridge, Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science, University of Canberra Tap water in more than 500 remote Indigenous communities isn’t regularly tested and often isn’t safe to drink, according to a water industry report released last week. In some communities, ...1 day ago
- Climate change will clearly disrupt El Niño and La Niña this decade – 40 years earlier than we t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wenju Cai, Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO Shutterstock You’ve probably heard a lot about La Niña lately. This cool weather pattern is the main driver of heavy rain and flooding that has devastated much of Australia’s southeast ...1 day ago
- New study finds Australia’s preschool expansion ‘has not better prepared’ kids for schoolSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ragan Petrie, Professor, Texas A&M University; Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Dave Hunt/AAP Since 2008, Australia has spent more than A$11 billion dollars over ten years to expand government-funded preschool (or kinder in Victoria) for four-year-olds to better prepare ...1 day ago
- She Said is a formidable retelling of the journalism which sparked #MeToo – but also shows us how ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University Universal Pictures There is no spoiler alert in the Hollywood adaptation of the award-winning book She Said. We know the story and the perpetrator, which is unusual. 80% of sexual ...1 day ago
- 100 years after insulin was first used, why isn’t NZ funding the latest life-changing diabetes tec...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Wheeler, Associate Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, University of Otago Abby Lee Harder with her daughter Presley, showing the blood-glucose sensor that helps manage her diabetes. Diabetes NZ This year marks a century since an extraordinary medical breakthrough – the use of ...1 day ago
- Albanese-Xi meeting won’t resolve Australia’s grievances overnight. But it is a real step forwar...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Laurenceson, Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney There were smiles all round as the Australian and Chinese leaders met formally for the first time in more than six years. The meeting was brief, just 32 minutes, ...2 days ago
- RMA replacements find few fans on cross-benchesLabour's proposed new resource management system appears just as unpopular with other political parties as the law it would replace. ...2 days ago
- Super funds should use their substantial holdings for public goodSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Shaw, Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Last month Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the National Housing Accord, intended to build a million new homes in Australia. Part of the plan is ...2 days ago
- You are now one of 8 billion humans alive today. Let’s talk overpopulation – and why low income ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Selinske, Postdoctoral research associate conservation science, RMIT University Shutterstock Today is the Day of Eight Billion, according to the United Nations. That’s an incredible number of humans, considering our population was around 2.5 billion in 1950. Watching our numbers ...2 days ago
- Cannon-Brookes shakes up AGL: what now for Australia’s biggest carbon emitterSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney “What is a grok?” asked a shareholder at AGL’s 2022 annual general meeting at the Melbourne Recital Centre on November 15, as those assembled struggled with the reality being forced on Australia’s biggest carbon ...2 days ago
- Raves, repairs, and renewal: how young Ukrainians are bringing joy to the rebuilding effortSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare M. Cooper, Design Lecturer, University of Sydney After more than 250 days of assaults from Russian forces, Ukrainian resistance is taking more surprising forms. In an attempt to reconnect to their pre-invasion cutting-edge techno scene a group of young activists have ...2 days ago
- To start cutting gas and electricity prices, here’s what the government looks likely to deliver by...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he’ll have a system in place to deal with rising energy prices by Christmas. He can’t yet tell us what it will be, because ...2 days ago
- How metal-munching microbes help the rare, toxic element tellurium circulate in the environmentSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Owen Peter Missen, Research Assistant in Geochemistry, Monash University Tellurium pieces Jan Askeit / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA New technologies often mean elements start moving through the environment in new ways. Take lead plumbing: it helped provide access to fresh water for the ...2 days ago
- Calls for a ‘one-child policy’ in India are misguided at best, and dangerous at worstSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aprajita Sarcar, Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, UNSW Sydney India will surpass China as the country with the world’s largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 report. The UN also projects the global population has reached eight ...2 days ago
- Government reaches compromise with National on electoral law changeThe government has reached a compromise with National in order to get its new electoral legislation over the line. ...2 days ago
- Feds: New Resource Management Bill Divides Town And CountryFederated Farmers is worried proposed replacement resource management legislation focuses only on streamlining urban development and will make it harder, not easier, to farm in New Zealand. "The government has gone out of its way to emphasise ...2 days ago
- Progress On Resource Management Reform WelcomedAuckland Mayor Wayne Brown has congratulated Environment Minister David Parker for getting his long-awaited Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning bills before Parliament. “For more than a quarter century, successive governments have ...2 days ago
- PM returns negative Covid-19 test after being in contact with infected Cambodian PMThe Prime Minister has tested negative for Covid-19, after taking a precautionary rapid antigen test, because her Cambodian counterpart has come down with the virus. ...2 days ago
- Mayor Disappointed Three Waters Consensus RejectedAuckland Mayor Wayne Brown is disappointed central government has rejected the consensus proposal for Three Waters he and Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger put forward last month . The consensus proposal won the support of mayors throughout New Zealand. ...2 days ago
- Draft NBEA Legislation Fails Trees And All Our FuturesThe Tree Council is angry and disappointed that the Labour Government has failed to deliver any improvement in the protection of urban trees in its draft legislation to replace the Resource Management Act, which had its first reading in Parliament ...2 days ago
- ‘Gain of function’ research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be mor...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin D. Butler, Honorary Professor, Australian National University The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyses links between human infectious diseases and nature and what ...2 days ago
- Is NZ foreign policy “independent?” (and related issues).Headline: Is NZ foreign policy “independent?” (and related issues). – 36th Parallel Assessments For many years New Zealand elites have claimed to have an “independent” foreign policy, so much so that it has become a truism of NZ politics that transcends the partisan divide in parliament and is a ...2 days ago
- New Zealand scored C+ for physical activity in children and teens – what’s driving this and what...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melody Smith, Professor, Co-Associate Head (Research), University of Auckland Getty Images C+ – that’s Aotearoa New Zealand’s overall grade in the most comprehensive global assessment of physical activity in children and adolescents. Even more worryingly, the 57 participating countries scored ...2 days ago
- Playing The Man Not The Ball Clouds Truth Of Black-market TobaccoReading the most recent piece by Otago University’s Nick Wilson and Richard Edwards reminds of how Socrates wrote “when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” They claim the industry-commissioned (KPMG) studies that estimate ...2 days ago
- A Shiny New System Or The Wazgij Of Planning Systems? Today, the government announced the framework for a shiny new resource management system, but the development community remains in the dark as to how the system will be governed, funded, or practically implemented by those at the coalface, says Property ...2 days ago
- A Voice For Business In The RMA Reform LegislationA potentially significant voice for the business sectors and possibly more straightforward consenting processes are a welcome inclusion in the new acts to replace the old Resource Management Act, announced today by Environment Minister David Parker, says the EMA. ...2 days ago
- Why am I bloated? Here are some possibilities to considerSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saman Khalesi, Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Heart Foundation & Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Nutrition, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia Photo by Sora Shimazaki/Pexels, CC BY If your tummy seems to feel full or ...2 days ago
- Good To See Legislation Replacing The RMA, But Improvements Needed To Protect The EnvironmentEDS has welcomed the introduction of two significant bills into the House to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA): the Natural and Built Environment Bill (NBEB) and the Spatial Planning Bill (SPB). These have been long in the making, and a result ...2 days ago
- Government brings Resource Management Act replacements to ParliamentThe long-awaited replacement for the Resource Management Act has been brought to Parliament, with the government promising massive cost-cutting for housing, farmers and councils. ...2 days ago
- Counter-protest, Not Censorship, Should Be First Port Of Call For Auckland Feminists The Auckland Feminist Action’s plan to hold a counter-protest outside the venues of Jordan Peterson’s speaking tour should be the primary, not backup, response to his speech. Auckland and Christchurch Councils must reject calls to deny ...2 days ago
- Police Management Of Fraud Complaints InadequateIn a report released today, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found major deficiencies in the way in which Police are responding to fraud complaints, which potentially undermines trust and confidence in not only NZ Police but the criminal ...2 days ago
- Police Minister Cannot Connect Firearm Club Regs With TerrorismThe Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) says firearm club members have been enraged at the Police Minister’s implication that the Christchurch terrorist was harboured by a firearm club that should have identified him, and that new laws would ...2 days ago
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