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We’re All Penguins Now.
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, November 19th, 2018 - 26 comments
To jump or not to jump? Is “not jumping” about to mean “left behind”?
Auckland’s got a Bridge.
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, November 18th, 2018 - 42 comments
London’s bridges were closing down.
Disestablish the establishment.
Written By: - Date published: 6:04 pm, November 9th, 2018 - 29 comments
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
Easy Climate Action
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, November 6th, 2018 - 55 comments
Another promising front is opening that might help encourage people to sit up, take notice, and act.
What are we waiting for?
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, October 20th, 2018 - 66 comments
We seem to be waiting for something? But what is it?
National’s firearms forums – what could go wrong?
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, October 10th, 2018 - 125 comments
National has launched a series of public meetings to discuss a major issue. Not child poverty or climate change or how badly wrong Steven Joyce’s $11.5 billion hole claim was, but guns.
Second Kremlin Killer Unmasked, Putin Untroubled
Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 185 comments
We know the real names of the Russian spies who bungled the Salisbury novichok poisoning. Will it make a difference to the Kremlin’s plans?
RIP Penny Bright
Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, October 5th, 2018 - 33 comments
Veteran Auckland political activist Penny Bright has died.
Help identify a spy – who is Laurie Moore?
Written By: - Date published: 5:00 am, September 18th, 2018 - 30 comments
Yesterday, a piece by Stuff Circuit questioned whether an activist by the name of Laurie Moore was in fact a spy for the New Zealand Police or Thompson & Clark back in 2003. New Zealand is a really small place, and we figure that someone must be able to identify this man. Please share these photos far and wide and appeal to all your networks to identify this man.
Police spying must be investigated
Written By: - Date published: 2:13 pm, September 17th, 2018 - 14 comments
Amnesty International is calling for an inquiry into the actions of Thompson and Clark to be expanded to include their involvement in police activities.
A Tale of Two Protests
Written By: - Date published: 4:09 pm, September 8th, 2018 - 79 comments
I stumbled across two protests in Dunedin today. They offered up a few telling contrasts.
Litigation and equal pay – a history of the 1950’s equal pay campaign
Written By: - Date published: 7:26 am, August 28th, 2018 - 3 comments
Forward In 2016 I wrote the below dissertation as part of my History Honours degree at Victoria University. This dissertation explores the 1950s equal pay campaign, and specifically looks at the Jean Parker Case. Jean Parker was a PSA member employed at IRD, who like Kristine Bartlett 60 years later, won a landmark equal pay legal […]
United Sanctions of America
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, August 10th, 2018 - 99 comments
The US State department has announced sanctions on Russia for the use of Novichok nerve agent. The ruble has plunged, the Russians are furious and Donald Trump is saying … nothing.
Wanna know why?
Hate Speech Coalition Cans Canadian’s Crusade
Written By: - Date published: 2:02 pm, July 25th, 2018 - 102 comments
BREAKING NEWS:
Alt Reich hate speech tour CANCELLED
Трамп; проследить за деньгами!
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 pm, July 24th, 2018 - 93 comments
Is Donald Trump’s grovelling to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki proof that he is some how fatally compromised or even a long term Russian intelligence asset? There seems to be growing suspicion that it’s Moscow gold not golden showers that’s at the heart of the American President’s Putin problem.
My Little Eye…
Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, July 21st, 2018 - 17 comments
Something beginning with…wtf?!
Trumputin
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, July 17th, 2018 - 206 comments
Donald Trump has directly contradicted the collective decision of the United States Security agencies by denying that there was Russian involvement in the last US general election.
The Iraq War
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, June 25th, 2018 - 43 comments
Over the next week or two I will be doing blog posts about student politics and my time at university. Here is the first one…
Radical Socialism
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 2nd, 2018 - 43 comments
‘nother guest post by Nick Kelly (Upper Hutt boy in London)
Then and Now.
Written By: - Date published: 11:54 am, April 30th, 2018 - 13 comments
Claims that “Russian bots” helped Labour during the 2017 UK General Election…
#MeToo
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, March 15th, 2018 - 13 comments
It’s been awesome to see feminist activists in New Zealand enable a new and fast liberation occur. It’s worth reflecting on the success of #MeToo and all its new forms.
Ardern bans government departments from using private investigator to surveil NZers
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, March 13th, 2018 - 31 comments
“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has banned all Government departments from using a firm of private investigators for spying.”
Reports from the TPPA protests this week (and please sign the petition)
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, March 6th, 2018 - 44 comments
The message coming out is hold the line, sign the petition, regroup, and protest on Thurs the 8th, the day Labour puts our name to the agreement.
Stop Using the ‘F’ Word.
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, February 13th, 2018 - 41 comments
Because words matter.
Zen and the art of greening the government
Written By: - Date published: 6:25 am, February 3rd, 2018 - 65 comments
Democracy, protest, and what makes this the first ever progressive New Zealand MMP government.
There is a hole left in the world
Written By: - Date published: 12:27 pm, January 24th, 2018 - 17 comments
Ursula K Le Guin has died.
Solidarity
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, January 22nd, 2018 - 7 comments
History not forgotten.
You Cowed?
Written By: - Date published: 3:21 pm, January 11th, 2018 - 94 comments
To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.
The Yellow Peril?
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 pm, November 15th, 2017 - 338 comments
What’s with the academic panic epidemic about China? Two in our media in the same week, referencing each other with vague warnings about the Chinese bogey. It’s not quite Lionel Terry in Haining Street again; more likely in my view a case of singing to someones else’s geopolitical tune. No prizes for guessing whose.
Remember, remember!
Written By: - Date published: 9:03 pm, November 1st, 2017 - 8 comments
Sunday the 5th of November from 12 O’Clock onwards, by the bandstand in Dunedin’s Botanic Gardens.
Lefties on The Standard – 2017 government edition
Written By: - Date published: 8:24 am, October 21st, 2017 - 46 comments
A dedicated space on The Standard for left-wing and progressive people.
- A bridge too far.
The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge between the two great powers and an honest ...52 mins ago - Improving airport access
Improving access to the wider airport area has quickly become one of the most important pieces of work in Auckland for the coming decade. But there is not just one project to improve access but a number of overlapping and interlocking ...2 hours ago - Of Memory and Forgetting
The private enterprise failures in the Global Financial Crisis led to public expenditure changes. The Americans poured them into subsidies supporting the bankers, the Europeans went for Austerianism cutting back in the public spending on the ‘undeserving’, The Chinese – ...16 hours ago - Support locked-out bus drivers
Bus drivers in Hamilton have been taking industrial action for the last six months in pursuit of a living wage. And now, after they announced a new plan not to collect fares, GoBus has locked them out. The reason? "Health ...19 hours ago - Secret “evidence” isn’t credibleNZDF's response to Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson's exposure of their war crimes in Afghanistan in Hit & Run has been to deny everything and smear the authors. Now, they're claiming they have secret "evidence" which supports their claim that ...22 hours ago
- Making It Through.
23 hours ago - ATs plan to turn PT up a notch
Auckland’s public transport network has undergone significant change in the last decade. The upgrade and then electrification of the rail network, the Northern Busway, HOP and integrated fares, and most recently the roll out of a complete overhaul of the ...1 day ago - Bus drivers up against bosses, iwi, council and government
by Daphna Whitmore Today, iwi-owned company, Go Bus locked out close to 100 bus drivers in Hamilton. The drivers have been in negotiations since March 2017 and want a living wage of $20.55 an hour. Many of the drivers are paid ...2 days ago - Hearing into Hit & Run book
The government inquiry set up to look at the allegations in Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book “Hit & Run” is holding a public hearing this week. This particular hearing won’t go into the allegations themselves: it’s about the process ...2 days ago - An unfair allocationRadio New Zealand reports that business in Hawke's Bay are looking at rationing water or shutting down production due to the rivers running dry. Meanwhile, six dairy farmers get to take half the region's water:Some businesses and farmers in Central ...2 days ago
- Climate Change: Committing to burn the world
The government likes to talk about New Zealand doing our "fair share" to reduce greenhouse gases. But are we? A paper in Nature and accompanying website looks at countries' commitments, assessing them on the fairly simple metric of "what if ...2 days ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #46
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... SkS in the News... Photo of the Week... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Scientists acknowledge key errors ...2 days ago - NZTA finally stirs into life on light-rail communications
We have been very critical of NZTA’s approach to communications for the light-rail project they’re now leading. That’s because their approach has mainly been to not actually do any communications, and to allow misleading and incorrect statements to generally go ...2 days ago - The government’s secret OIA plansBack in September, when the government announced plans to increase proactive release of official information, we learned by accident that they were also considering another review of the OIA, and "intend[ed] to carry out targeted engagement to inform a decision ...2 days ago
- And you thought Russiagate could not get sillier.
It’s true – clouds do have silver linings. If it weren’t for the mindless hysteria of the Russiagate mythology promoted in the USA and UK I would never have heard about this delightful children’s animated video series – Masha ...3 days ago - What Is “Rogerpolitics”?
3 days ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sunday, Nov 11 through Saturday, Nov 17. Editor's Pick Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study ...3 days ago - Political Market Clearing.As I watched the results come in on US midterm election night, it struck me that the tally was a microcosmic distillation of what democracy is in terms of preferred outcomes: no one gets everything that they want, but everyone ...4 days ago
- New research, November 5-11, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Zero CO2 emissions for an ultra-large city by 2050: case study for Beijing Climate change communication Developing a model of climate change behavior among adolescents Petro-hegemony ...4 days ago - Flashback Saturday: Notes from Sydney City Centre
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in September 2015. The Sydney city centre is fantastic. It’s vibrant, varied, exciting: And, like all successful cities, full of people. So how do they all get ...4 days ago - “Follow the Money” Archives new Zealand, the National Library and the Department of Internal Af...
At the height of the Watergate scandal, when the story had seemed to stall, Deep Throat told Bob Woodward that to understand what was going on he needed to “Follow the Money.” ...5 days ago - “A serious threat to public health”That's how UK doctors have described that country's benefit system:Universal credit has become a serious threat to public health, doctors have said, after a study revealed that the stress of coping with the new benefits system had so profoundly affected ...5 days ago
- Time for the government to pay upPrimary teachers are on strike this week, secondary teachers are planning the same, and next year there's the prospect of a joint teachers' strike meaning schools everywhere will shut. Meanwhile, other strike action is shutting down the courts, forcing trials ...5 days ago
- Communication Breakdown.
5 days ago - AT Annual Report “talks a good talk” but we need to see results
Tuesday’s Auckland Transport Board Meeting included a statutorily required review of how they performed for the 2017/18 financial year against their Statement of Intent (SOI). The results are outlined in their annual report, which provides a useful opportunity to take a ...5 days ago - Rating Reality Television.
5 days ago - Is Increasing Inequality of Wealth Inevitable?This column is an exploration of the recently published The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. But first I need to attend to a couple of analytic points.read more ...5 days ago
- Law change for sex self identification needs discussion not silencingDaphna Whitmore Parliament is considering a law change to allow people to change their sex on their birth certificates by simply filling out a form. If the law is passed there will be no requirement to show any proof of ...6 days ago
- Rail Siding Fund
Though the website is down at the time of writing this article one of the more interesting transport policies of New Zealand First was creating a fund/grant etc. to help fund private rail sidings. For those unfamiliar, a rail siding ...6 days ago - More dirty dairyingCouncils and the courts finally seem to be getting serious about dirty dairying, with another conviction in the Waikato resulting in a near-record fine:A Waikato dairy farming company has been fined almost $60,000 for discharging effluent into a waterway. H ...6 days ago
- The Fijian electionFijians went to the polls yesterday in the second elections since the 2006 coup. While bad weather forced polling to be suspended in some areas, and the final count is not yet in, the provisional results show coup-leader Voreqe Bainimarama's ...6 days ago
- Missing the point of Te Reo Māori6 days ago
- Kids in the city: housing
This three-part series of guest posts is written by Alex Bonham, a member of Women in Urbanism, who has worked as a Porse carer and is now researching “the playful city” for her doctorate. In this series of three posts ...6 days ago - The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires
This is the first entry in a Dana's new monthly column with Yale Climate Connections Now designated as California’s deadliest fire, the still-raging Camp Fire by November 13 had led to 42 deaths, with many residents still unaccounted for and more than ...7 days ago - The Armistice Centenary
The centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War has rightly been celebrated around the world. The Armistice brought an end to the horrors of a war that had been so terrible that it was described in retrospect, ...7 days ago - What Makes the All Blacks So Good?Both in the run-up to and during the aftermath of the All Blacks’ narrow victory over England at Twickenham, the world’s rugby media posed a frequently asked question – how can a small country with a population of only 4 ...7 days ago
- Come clean about Victoria University’s future, VC told
The Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Grant Guilford has been told by the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) to come clean about his plans for the future of the university after all staff were sent an email yesterday inviting them to ...7 days ago - Keeping a promiseAfter the Pike River disaster, then-Prime Minister John Key gave the victims' families an "absolute reassurance" that their loved ones bodies would be recovered. He lied, and left them to rot. Now, Labour is keeping his promise:The Minister responsible for ...7 days ago
- Pure cronyismSo, the rumours were true: the government has appointed former Labour deputy Annette King as High Commissioner to Australia. So much for Winston Peters' supposed opposition to such appointments - it turns out that he's really only opposed when they're ...7 days ago
- Trump and the media – codependents wallowing in the mudIf you look at the footage really carefully, Jim Acosta was extremely rough with Trump's intern.pic.twitter.com/Tbo5ULudGw — Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 11, 2018 Now, this is what “doctoring” really looks like! This whole Trump-Acosta issue got me thinking ...7 days ago
- Pike River
Just putting a pin in this day. For them, we are returning. ➡️ https://t.co/H31Z8E5XZa pic.twitter.com/tG9lkLJAxO — Andrew Little (@AndrewLittleMP) November 13, 2018 ...7 days ago - Fullers plan: more ferries
Auckland’s harbours are one it’s defining features and correspondingly the phrase “we should make better use of our harbour for transport” is a common refrain we hear in Auckland. Fullers want to deliver that and today have released a report ...1 week ago - The Need to Diversify New Zealand’s War Narratives
On 11 November 2018, many thousands in countries all around the world stopped to commemorate the end of World War I. In New Zealand, as elsewhere, the date marked the end of a four-year long series of national remembrance activities ...1 week ago - Climate science comeback strategies: Al Gore said what?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Credit: Image by Karin Kirk. Don’t feed the trolls. You’ve heard this advice before, but how can anyone sit on their hands when the trolls are just so … wrong? ...1 week ago - 3 Reasons to invest in Punakaiki Fund Limited (Closing Tomorrow)
We generally hold one retail offer per year for people to invest in Punakaiki Fund Limited. As is normal this year’s offer has a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), and investors can apply online using our simple system. CLOSING TOMORROW AT 5PM ...1 week ago - Another reason to use a false name for OIA requestsBecause if you request information about a company, they may turn around and request information about you:In a case of the hunter becoming the hunted, people making Official Information Act requests cannot bank on remaining anonymous. Over the past two ...1 week ago
- Lest we forget, indeed. . .
Material on Redline about the First Great Imperialist Slaughterhouse War, aka World War I, includes over 50 items. Below are some of the main ones. Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s The Great Wrong War: New Zealand society and World War I Gallipoli Invasion: ...1 week ago - Report on 2018 ‘Historical Materialism’ conferenceby Michael Roberts This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and economic. But it’s economics that this blog concentrates on and so my ...1 week ago
- New Melon Health Investment
Punakaiki Fund has a public offer that closes on Wednesday, 14 November at 5pm. Read the PDS and invest online at punakaikifund.co.nz/investnow After some gestation it’s great to be able to share the news about our latest investment in Melon Health. We are leading ...1 week ago - Speaker: What almost everyone is missing about KiwiBuild
Many people are ripping into KiwiBuild at the moment. A lot of these criticisms have a strong whiff of partisan heckling – this is politics after all – some of them are fair and others are just looking for trouble.One ...1 week ago - A Diet Of Lies.
1 week ago - The Herald’s Latest Cycling Smear
An article that went up on the Herald’s site last night, and presumably in the dead tree version today, titled “Auckland cycleways overestimated demand to obtain taxpayer funding, says Auckland Transport report“, raises questions about some cycleway projects. Auckland Transport ...1 week ago - What are the climate change consequences of the midterm elections?This is a re-post from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Over the past two years, the Trump administration, aided by the Republican-controlled Congress, has eroded the Obama administration’s policy efforts to curb global warming. Climate activists had hoped to reverse ...1 week ago
- UnreasonableThat's the Chief Ombudsman's formal opinion of Horowhenua District Council's practice of redirecting, blocking and editing emails from people on a secret shitlist. While the Ombudsman recognises that sometimes members of the public might send emails that require management to ...1 week ago
- Hard News: Getting serious about the cannabis referendumThe organisers of last Friday's Cannabis Referendum Conference had a specific aim: they wanted to demonstrate that they, as the Cannabis Referendum Coalition, represented a credible, serious and organised campaign for New Zealand's forthcoming vote on legalising cannabis.They didn't have ...1 week ago
- This is what happens when agencies investigate themselvesThe State Services Commission's inquiry into its appointment of Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha has reported back - and unsurprisingly, cleared the SSC of any wrongdoing. The full report is here, but the short version is that the appointment panel ...1 week ago
- We don’t need more terror lawsBack in 2007, the New Zealand Police invaded Ruatoki, terrorised the town, and held children at gunpoint as part of a series of raids against "terrorists". But when it came time to prosecute the seventeen people they'd arrested, the whole ...1 week ago
- “Not a priority”On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the courts to formally declare laws to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. This does not overturn or invalidate them, but it sends a clear message to Parliament that ...1 week ago
- Nov-18 AT Board meeting
Tomorrow the AT board meet again and the Closed Agenda Items for Approval/Decision Northcote Point Ferry Wharf – This will likely decide the fate of the currently closed wharf. It’s noted that John Gillon (Kaipatiki Local Board), Cr Richard Hills and Dan ...1 week ago - “The Great War” and, like all wars, the hard questions it poses for society…
The Great War! The “War to end all Wars!”… and so it went. On the 100th Anniversary of Armstice Day, and the completion of that “War to end all wars!”, which history clearly shows it did not do so at ...1 week ago - A hundred yearsToday marks the centenary of the end of the first world war. While it wasn't quite the world's stupidest war - that title probably goes to the Football War or the War of Jenkins' Ear - it ranks among them. ...1 week ago
- What We “Don’t Know And Can’t Know” – The Truth About World War I.
1 week ago - New research, October 29 – November 4, 2018A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind Altered Disease Risk from Climate Change (A special issue in EcoHealth) Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types ...2 weeks ago
- Flashback Saturday: Public transport and congestion in Wellington
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was first published in September 2015. Last week, I took a look at some new research from the Netherlands that estimated the benefits of public transport for car travel ...2 weeks ago - What the Mid-Term’s weren’t, what could easily happen, and a rocky road to 2020
Firstly, we must open with that breaking news… Attorney General Sessions is out. But Sessions didn’t “resign” so much as he was basically asked to, well, GTFO – just in more “Presidential” terms, cough. But this is like swapping Trump ...2 weeks ago - CANA Newsletter, November 2018Check out our November newsletter, which covers the Te Kuha decision, No Mining on Conservation Land, the IPCC 1.5 warning, Just Transitions, book reviews, and more! The post CANA Newsletter, November 2018 appeared first on Coal Action Network Aotearoa. ...2 weeks ago
- The costs of choice in the New Zealand history curriculumHistory is not just an account of past events, but an interpretation. Which historical events are taught in schools, and how they are presented, communicates an important message to pupils about national identity. Currently, in New Zealand, these important decisions ...2 weeks ago
- Ending the pillageBack in 2015, we learned that miners were destroying Northland's wetlands to dig up swamp kauri and exporting the raw logs to China under the guide of "carved temple poles". The latter was obviously taking the piss, a pretext solely ...2 weeks ago
- RIP performance-linked fundingTertiary Update – Vol 21 No 20 For years union members have worked together to change the way the tertiary education sector is funded. Earlier this week, the government agreed with what students and staff have been saying and brought an end ...2 weeks ago
- Listen to staff on proposed merger of WelTec and WhitireiaChief Executive Chris Gosling and Commissioner Neil Barnes must take seriously and heed the views of staff and students affected by their proposal to merge Whitireia with WelTec, which includes closing the Kāpiti campus, and make the distinct local and regional needs of ...2 weeks ago
- TEU Kuia Whaea Kāterina Daniels retiresThe Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi held a special retirement celebration in Wellington recently with Whaea Kāterina Daniels to acknowledge her decades of service to the union that she has been a part of since the early 1980s. During that time she ...2 weeks ago
- Stuart McCutcheon will step down as Auckland Uni VC next yearUniversity of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon has said he will step down at the end of 2019. Reporting the news, NZ Herald quoted TEU national president Sandra Grey on the subject of the appointment process for his successor. She said academic staff at ...2 weeks ago
- One way of fixing itPrivate spy companies infiltrating environmental groups to disrupt and spy on them for governments and toxic industries seems to be becoming increasingly common. In New Zealand, there's a whole company, Thompson and Clark Investigations, specialising in it. But UK anti-asbestos ...2 weeks ago
- VindicatedBack in 2016, the High Court declared that National's 2010 prisoner voting ban (the one which was so shabby and shoddily passed that it brought Parliament into disrepute) was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. The case has worked ...2 weeks ago
- Sep-18 Ridership
It feels like it’s taken a while but we’ve finally got the ridership results for September and they’re looking positive despite there being one less working day than September 2017. Overall, ridership was up 4.8% on September last year but ...2 weeks ago
- Chile and NZ arrangement to protect seabirds
New Zealand and Chile will help protect vulnerable seabirds, including the critically endangered Antipodean albatross. A cooperative arrangement was signed today by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, on behalf of Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage and Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash, and ...2 days ago - Trans-Tasman partnership behind cocaine bustPolice Minister Stuart Nash says the seizure of 190 kilograms of cocaine in Auckland demonstrates the strength of partnership between Australian and New Zealand law enforcement agencies in preventing the harm drugs cause in our communities. “Targeting transnational organised crime ...5 days ago
- Extra Police constables deployedSeventy-nine new Police constables will be deployed across New Zealand following the graduation of a new wing of recruits. Police Minister Stuart Nash has congratulated the recruits of Wing 320 at the formal graduation parade at the Royal New Zealand ...5 days ago
- SPEECH – Andrew Little confirms Pike River Mine Drift re-entry plan to proceedNext Monday is the 8th anniversary of the dreadful tragedy at Pike River Coal Mine. Two men escaped with their lives. 29 others never came home. ...1 week ago
- Andrew Little confirms Pike River Mine Drift re-entry plan to proceedThe Pike River Mine Drift will be re-entered, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little announced today. ...1 week ago
- Sustainable hydrogen or oxymoron
Yesterday, 150 scientists and researchers made this stark warning: A disastrous future for humanity if we continue our current path of “rampant consumerism and endless economic growth”. In an open letter, they demand that the government “meets its ...14 hours ago - Govt must embrace localism to improve community wellbeingGovernment must embrace localism to improve community wellbeing Local Government New Zealand is pleased the Government is starting a discussion to reinvigorate local decision making, but says a bold localist approach is needed to drive meaningful ...14 hours ago
- DOC sides with Forest & Bird on wetland mining decisionThe Department of Conservation has sided with Forest & Bird in a bid to protect a significant wetland from being mined without public notification, and Forest & Bird says they are delighted to see DOC take a stand. ...16 hours ago
- Chief Coroner and Police meet with Pike River familiesOfficials from the Pike River Recovery Agency, Police and the Chief Coroner met with families of Pike River victims in Greymouth today. ...18 hours ago
- Time to address the dry topic of waterThe Government’s plan to hold strategic conversations with local government about proposals to overhaul the regulation of water is well due, says the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA). ...18 hours ago
- Need for water sector reform reflected in proposalsWater New Zealand says the Government’s “road-map” proposals for the future of drinking, waste and stormwater recognises the need for significant change in the way water services are regulated and delivered. ...19 hours ago
- Right time to discuss the role of local government“Long overdue reform of the water sector has created the opportunity for a first principles discussion of what local government can and should do and with what resources, so it is very pleasing to see the Government kick-starting this process,” ...19 hours ago
- Public demand more ambition than bag ban – GreenpeaceThe Ministry for Environment (MfE) has reported today that of 9,300 submissions received, 92 per cent support the Government's proposed mandatory phase out of single-use plastic shopping bags. MfE has further noted that many submitters "support the proposal ...19 hours ago
- Mobilising for Women’s RightsThe Report on the Role of Women in New Zealand (1975) was a groundbreaking document. Listen to Margaret Wilson and Adrienne von Tunzelmann share their experiences and insights from the inquiry during a moderated discussion at Tauranga City Library ...20 hours ago
- Police detention was unlawful but reasonableThe Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that while Police acted unlawfully in October 2017 when they detained a Queenstown man for a mental health assessment, their actions were reasonable in the circumstances. ...21 hours ago
- Police maintains high level of public trust and confidenceThe results from this year’s Police Citizens’ Satisfaction Survey show that public trust and confidence in Police nationally remains high and stable at 78% - just up from the previous year’s result of 77%. ...22 hours ago
- Video project to amplify the voices of beneficiariesChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and We Are Beneficiaries have teamed up to amplify the voices of those who have experienced first hand that Aotearoa’s current system of welfare is not always the supportive safety net that it was built ...23 hours ago
- Teachers can help children make their voices heardPrimary teachers now have a simple way to encourage their students to know and learn about their rights under the Children’s Convention. A new resource from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner can help teachers encourage children to speak their ...23 hours ago
- Zonta commends new Family Violence legislationZonta commends the passing of the Family Violence Act and related Family Violence (Amendments) Act. Zonta made a submission in favour of this new legislation and is committed to supporting its implementation. ...24 hours ago
- Hāpai Te Hauora joins the Health Not Handcuffs CoalitionHāpai Te Hauora joins the Health Not Handcuffs Coalition to petition the Prime Minister to invest $150m in drug harm reduction ...2 days ago
- Rapid rent increases a product of bipartisan inactionThe median nationwide rent has gone up $20 a week over the past two month , a rapid increase that is part of an upward trend overseen by both Labour and National Governments. Auckland Action Against Poverty condemns successive National ...2 days ago
- 87% of Speed Limits UnsafeA new study by the NZ Transport Agency has revealed that 87% of our road network has speed limits that exceed the safe and appropriate speed. ...2 days ago
- International Govts call on NZ to protect Māui dolphinsAt the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, governments highlighted the plight of Māui dolphins, expressed concern over their lack of protection, and called on New Zealand to do more. The just-released formal record of the meeting ...2 days ago
- Bus drivers begin to share their stories on the picket lineThe 120 Waikato bus drivers who’ve started picketing the Go Bus lockout today have begun to tell their harrowing employment stories. ...2 days ago
- Violent Thug Gets ‘Get Out of Jail Early’ OpportunityKiwi’s, who have shown in a recent poll to be 68% in favour of the Three Strikes Law, are appalled that yet another Judge has engaged in judicial activism by subverting the will of the NZ Parliament and invoking the ...2 days ago
- World Day for the Prevention of Child AbuseIt is World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) today thank colleagues and members who are active in protecting the nation’s children / tamariki. ...2 days ago
- Government wasting millions on failed motorbike trainingThe government must bring in tough motorbike awareness tests immediately, says car review website dogandlemon.com . ...2 days ago
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- Time to Double-Down on Cutting CEO SalariesWith reports of a slow-down in CEO pay rises last year, it’s time for Kiwi corporates to double down on cutting excessive salaries to ensure this is a trend not an accident, said Peter Malcolm, spokesperson for the income equality ...2 days ago
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- Calf is trampled in trailerMPI fails to take action to protect animal welfare, as calf is trampled in trailer ...2 days ago
- Anti-Chinese campaign escalates in New ZealandBy Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 17 November 2018, (original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/17/nzch-n17.html ...2 days ago
- Māori language champions to be celebrated at national awardsKua pānuitia i te rā nei ngā whiringa toa o te tekau mā rima o Ngā Tohu Reo Māori a Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. ...2 days ago
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- Minister’s Door Closed on Waste-to-Energy PlantsDespite attempts for months by experts in waste-to-energy technology to get an appointment to see her, Green’s Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage has refused all approaches, claiming WtE plants “don’t fit with the government’s waste reduction ...2 days ago
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- PR machine on overdrive as unpopular slow tram costs tripleIt’s difficult to remember an occasion when a senior government official (in this case NZTA boss Fergus Gammie) climbed in the ring to slug it out in the newspaper columns with a politician (veteran Auckland councillor Mike Lee) but these ...2 days ago
- Salvation Army Supports Māori Housing UnitThe Salvation Army supports the appointment of the Hon Nanaia Mahuta as new Associate Minister of Housing and Urban Development (Māori Housing) and the establishment of the unit as an valuable step to addressing the housing crisis. ...2 days ago
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- Birthday Celebrations for 80,000 Lives ChangedThe Salvation Army supports the appointment of the Hon Nanaia Mahuta as new Associate Minister of Housing and Urban Development (Māori Housing) and the establishment of the unit as an valuable step to addressing the housing crisis. ...3 days ago
- The Nation: Shane Jones• Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones said he takes responsibility for the mulching of $160,000 worth of seedlings destined for Ngati Hine Forestry Trust. He said while it was a slip up between the "advisers and the actual officials" ...4 days ago
- The Nation: Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker• Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker says New Zealand is trying to position itself as the bridge between the United States and China. “We have a bit of a reputation for the honest broker, and it’s times like ...4 days ago
- Musicians join call to stop incarcerating children on Nauru"Children Don’t Belong in Jail" is a new protest song released today by New Zealand musicians Luke Buda and Don McGlashan in response to the plight of the refugee children still detained on the island of Nauru. Don and Luke ...4 days ago
- NZUS Council Mike Moore Congressional Interns departThe New Zealand United States Council today farewells four interns on their way to work in Washington DC courtesy of the NZUS Council Mike Moore Internship Programme. The programme is conducted in partnership with the University of Canterbury, Victoria ...5 days ago
- Ministry of Education offers $10,000 to most teachersIt is hard to understand why the teaching unions are threatening further campaigns before the NZEI members get the opportunity to vote on the settlement offer, and while the PPTA is still in active bargaining with the Ministry. ...5 days ago
- Trout Anglers Want Whitebait and Eels “De-commercialised”A trout and rivers advocacy group the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers want native fish in whitebait and eels largely de-commercialised. Federation president Graham Carter spoke out in support of the Forest and Bird Society who recently said whitebait ...5 days ago
- Questions Remain for Justice Select CommitteeSignificant questions remain for the Justice Select Committee as it finishes hearing oral evidence from more than 2,000 New Zealanders on the End of Life Choice Bill. ...5 days ago
- Israel Institute condemns hate speech at Music AwardsIsrael Institute of New Zealand director, Dr David Cumin, has condemned a speech given at the recent Vodafone Music Awards by the lead of New Zealand hip-hop music group Upper Hutt Posse calling it ‘blatant incitement to violence’. ...5 days ago
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- NZD falls as fears over global growth push equities
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Dairy product prices fell at the Global Dairy Trade auction, spurred by slides in butter and anhydrous milk fat that were the biggest in about two years. ...1 hour ago - A/B testing: how offline businesses are learning from Google to improve profits
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University The market testing that helped give us the Google search we know today is being emulated by industries from hospitality to manufacturing to help ...1 hour ago - The Greens set to be tested on a number of fronts in the Victorian electionSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narelle Miragliotta, Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University Critical times lie ahead for the Greens in Victoria and across the federation more generally. In recent years, the Greens have managed to ...1 hour ago
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- Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinkingSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Lansbury Hall, Lecturer, Environmental Health Unit, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Many people in Australia do not have access to safe drinking water. It’s particularly difficult in Indigenous ...1 hour ago
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- Why adult video stars rely on cammingSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Pezzutto, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Australian National University With pirated and amateur pornography widely available online, porn no longer provides a steady income for many working in the adult industry. During ...1 hour ago
- The Bulletin: What the flood is going on down South?
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Dunedin health bosses’ biggest headache isn’t configuring a new hospital but keeping the old one running. ...3 hours ago - Widow makes plea to PM
The Prime Minister has been told New Zealand isn’t protecting tourists well enough and action is needed. ...3 hours ago - Tinder for homecare: The controversial service that lets elderly choose their carers
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Is there a single answer that addresses all the freshwater and environmental problems? Yup: it’s less cows, writes ecologist Mike Joy in this extract from his new book Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand’s Freshwater CrisisThe problems faced by New ...4 hours ago - Announced: the date after which blaming the last government is banned‘Nine long years’ is a jazz standard in political debate. Using opinions and mathematics Toby Manhire has settled on the moment from which it is no longer acceptable to use this rhetorical device. No correspondence will be entered into.The rule ...4 hours ago
- Victoria votes: your guide to the 2018 election health promisesSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vijaya Sundararajan, Professor and Head of Department, Public Health, La Trobe University With health care spending accounting for 30% of the Victorian budget, or A$20 billion, health is a major policy area ...13 hours ago
- The Great Kiwi Bake Off, episode six: Cocks on pies
This week GKBO showed us what baking heaven really looks like: a cock on a pie. Welcome, ye olde roosters, to Pies and Tarts Week. Tara Ward power-ranks.Oh GKBO, you spoil us. I thought nothing could reach the giddy heights of ...13 hours ago - NZD gains against Aussie
The New Zealand dollar rose against its Australian counterpart after minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia reinforced expectations that the chances of near-term rate rises are low. ...14 hours ago - Govt plans to ban in-car smokes around children
The government is making plans to ban smoking in cars carrying children under 18. ...14 hours ago - Cannabis referendum decision before Christmas
Andrew Little says Cabinet will sign off the details of a referendum to legalise cannabis within weeks. ...15 hours ago - Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay
PNG security forces protesting in Waigani over unpaid APEC security allowances. Image: Loop PNG By RNZ Pacific Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say ...15 hours ago - Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St John Ambulance Operations Centre in Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A former ...15 hours ago - Companies Office looks other way on Optimus breach
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- 125,000 buildings at risk from first metre of sea level rise
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The reaction of Fletcher Building’s shareholders was emphatic to the dismal news that core first-half profit operating earnings will be about 10 percent lower than in the previous first half. ...18 hours ago - The long, doomed march of Te Puoho, New Zealand’s would-be Genghis Khan
Author Bruce Ansley follows in the footsteps of Te Puoho, who set off on an epic, 1500-kilometre march with his war party in 1836, intent on destroying an entire people – Ngāi Tahu.I once read a piece by archaeologist Atholl ...18 hours ago - Refining NZ plans $75M note offer
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- Fill ‘er up: The Christchurch garage turned haven of beer, wine and good design
Part cellar door, part bottle shop and soon-to-be urban winery, Dorset Street Cellar Door has a big future ahead of it. Just off Victoria Street in Christchurch’s faded golden mile is an unassuming building with a sawtooth roof. Even with a ...18 hours ago - Fiji women have confidence that their gender in politics will hear their voices
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Over 24 hours, The Spinoff received more than 100 stories from New Zealand women who have been made to feel unsafe in a taxi or Uber. This article contains description of sexual assault and harassment, please take care. Yesterday, a feeble ...19 hours ago - Feeling the force of fungi to stop it killing our forests
Today the government announced a $13.75 million funding boost for research to combat the spread of kauri dieback and myrtle rust. Could microfluidics be the solutions we are looking for?Here in New Zealand, our native trees are currently under threat ...19 hours ago - My Brilliant Friend is handsome television – but is that enough?
It’s a story as old as time: a great book makes for a perfectly fine television series. Sam Brooks reviews My Brilliant Friend.You know how when you see a photo of the Mona Lisa it doesn’t look that impressive? When you’re ...19 hours ago - Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the churchSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Former coup leader Josaia Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama has won re-election in Fiji. But he did so in a country where press freedom ...19 hours ago
- A2 Milk CEO not worried by action by US producer group
A2 Milk Co chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka is not concerned about a bid by the US National Milk Producers Federation to haul it over the coals for allegedly making false advertising claims there. ...19 hours ago - Is Whānau Ora about to be scrapped?Whānau Ora is under review, with the findings being released this month. Dr Chris Tooley speculates on what the future holds.Whānau Ora was set up by the Māori Party in 2010. It is an intensive intervention programme aimed at and ...19 hours ago
- Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 20 2018
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A tale of a Wellington City Councillor, a plaque celebrating a famously compassionate Wellingtonian, and 32 people living in cars in the councillor’s ward.“Apparently there are now 32 people living in cars in the unrestricted parking area directly below X ...20 hours ago - Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison’s Jerusalem th...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW All hell broke loose during the Wentworth by-election when Prime Minister Scott Morrison suddenly announced that he was thinking of moving of Australia’s embassy ...20 hours ago
- Trustpower to offer Spark’s mobile, wireless broadband
Trustpower is to offer mobile phone services and wireless broadband through a wholesaling deal with Spark New Zealand. ...21 hours ago - Never fear: Suzy Cato is going to save the world
Alex Casey talks to national treasure Suzy Cato about her new kids album, life after Dancing With the Stars and remaining zen about the pending future hellscape. It’s been half an hour and I can’t get Suzy Cato to say ...21 hours ago - What would real climate action actually look like?A coalition of 150 scientists have written an open letter calling for faster and more comprehensive action on climate change. But what could that actually look like in practice? The IPCC report couldn’t have put it more plainly. Human civilisation will ...21 hours ago
- Elephants and economics: how to ensure we value wildlife properlySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Vardon, Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University Ensuring the economic health of nations is one of the biggest tasks expected of governments. The elephant in the room has ...21 hours ago
- Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace
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Some people simply love to compete. Madeleine Chapman writes in defence of competitiveness.“Oh my god you’re so competitive.”Said by my friend in primary school after a particularly intense game of lunchtime rugby. Said by multiple girls at different college athletics ...22 hours ago - Serko first-half profit drops 16%
Serko's first-half profit fell 16 percent as the travel booking software developer ramped up spending on research and development and a launch into new Northern Hemisphere markets. ...22 hours ago
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