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The Three Sly Donkeys
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, January 3rd, 2023 - 41 comments
There are no single truths in politics and wicked problems have no easy solutions if at all.
Why stick more fingers in the donations dyke?
Written By: - Date published: 9:50 pm, August 1st, 2022 - 13 comments
The latest attempt to construct a sensible political donations regime will likely again prove to be full of holes. Going back to basics would be much better. The good news is that the basics were comprehensively assessed 36 years ago by the 1986 Royal Commission on Electoral Reform. It recommended state funding.
Words of Outrage or Outrageous Action?
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, December 24th, 2020 - 30 comments
Do you reward rage with rage or do you ignore it and walk away quietly?
Pollwatch for Newshub/Reid Research poll, 18th May 2020
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, May 19th, 2020 - 53 comments
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is a bloodbath for National- but who are the likely victims? Pollwatch is back, this time with a model for electorate winners and losers to add onto the party vote stats.
National’s Petition is Cynical Populism
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, April 9th, 2020 - 124 comments
National is trying to steal show political leadership and relevance by launching a petition.
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Corrupt US
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 pm, March 10th, 2020 - 60 comments
That’s not a request by the way. This post is a kind of “confessions of a cynic who allowed optimism to creep up and have a hand in thought processes” post.
Little’s Electoral Bill a curate’s egg – good in parts
Written By: - Date published: 1:51 pm, December 4th, 2019 - 11 comments
I’ve always liked Punch magazine’s famous cartoon “True humility” where the curate assures his bishop noticing his bad egg that parts of it are excellent. Most discussion on Little’s Bill has focused on the bad bits regarding foreign donations. The good bit requires all political ads online to be attributed.
Two Referendums Too Many
Written By: - Date published: 1:32 pm, November 16th, 2019 - 50 comments
The referendums on two contentious issues could cloud and crowd out the General Election.
How Brexit Party won the social media battle
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, July 1st, 2019 - 30 comments
A review of the use of social media has suggested that the Brexit Party’s campaign was far superior to that of its opponents.
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 […]
The Pied Piper
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, August 6th, 2018 - 32 comments
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
The Northcote by-election
Written By: - Date published: 7:59 am, April 17th, 2018 - 86 comments
Labour and National have both selected their candidates for the Northcote by election. Labour’s candidate is Shanan Halbert who cut significantly into Jonathan Coleman’s majority at the last election.
Stop Using the ‘F’ Word.
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, February 13th, 2018 - 41 comments
Because words matter.
The Man who will do Anything for Power
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, September 19th, 2017 - 49 comments
Deliberately pitting Kiwis against Kiwis so he can retain power may be his worst action so far. Worse than engaging lawyers and accountants to rort $900 a week. Worse than deliberately lying about the “hole” when he ran zero budgets himself in 2014 and 2015 Worse than writing a cheque to a wealthy Saudi business […]
This is how you change the Government – electorate vote Goldsmith if you are on the Epsom roll
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 pm, September 11th, 2017 - 32 comments
For progressive Epsom voters the best way to change the Government may be to give your electorate vote to Paul Goldsmith.
This is how you change the Government – Enrolments
Written By: - Date published: 12:19 pm, September 1st, 2017 - 6 comments
The first of what will be a series of posts on practical steps that people can take to elect a progressive Government. In this post the importance of getting as many people enrolled as possible.
National endorses Dunne in Ohariu – Nek minnit
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, August 22nd, 2017 - 34 comments
National’s supposedly well oiled campaign machine is resembling an episode of the Thick of It rather than a Crosby Textor training video.
Green Party campaign relaunch 1.30pm Sunday
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, August 13th, 2017 - 28 comments
The Green party resets its election campaign.
On winning the America’s Cup
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, June 27th, 2017 - 52 comments
Ad explores the implications of the Americas Cup win for this year’s election.
Dirty Politics 2017 style
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, June 8th, 2017 - 27 comments
Latest polls and some anecdotal evidence from the doorstep are showing a move back to the Tories in Britain. If so it may in part be due to last-minute dark and dirty personally targeted Facebook advertising to voters in marginal seats. They cost so will need to be watched later on here.
The UK elections – Has Labour got the big mo?
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 am, May 21st, 2017 - 66 comments
And in the United Kingdom the election that was meant to be a foregone conclusion suddenly is suddenly tightening.
Key gives up on us, keeps International Democratic Union.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, February 10th, 2017 - 33 comments
The Herald informs us that Key is going on the speaking circuit and will go back into finance (not that he ever left). Like John Howard before him, he also intends to carry on chairing the International Democratic Union of right-wing parties. Not a surprise.
Ten steps towards victory for Labour
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, January 13th, 2017 - 239 comments
A guest post by Labour Activist Enzo Giordani on what Labour needs to do this year to win the election.
Denial in Politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 33 comments
There’s a lot of it around. The Democrats and their media and spook allies are in a complete lather over Putin’s supposed personal influence in the US election. Confident of victory and its spoils up till midday on election day, the Clinton team are incapable of assessing just what a debacle of a campaign they ran, still less what they need to do now. Lessons abound.
Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, August 7th, 2016 - 98 comments
Cross-posted from Boots Theory. Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past year has been subjected to my near-evangelist recommendation of it. I don’t know every lefty in New Zealand (despite what Matthew […]
Fear is a Man’s Best Friend
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, March 17th, 2016 - 141 comments
It’s been an intense day or two for Andrew Little. But he’s still feeling better than John Key. Why? Because Key’s got the fear.
Sanders v Clinton Campaign ads
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, February 14th, 2016 - 32 comments
Recent campaign videos from Bernie Saunders and from Hillary Clinton provide interesting contrasts on who the candidates are targeting. Which approach is best?
Bugger the Truth – Getting elected means fooling the poeple
Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 34 comments
So, its is not that the voters are idiots, as some suggest the Left are claiming, it is that the Right deliberately lie and mislead to get a vote, on false pretenses. It is the Right who constantly treats voters as gullible idiots, And a media, strangled by shrinking budgets and reduced personnel with less and less time to research rather than regurgitate. Couple that with an increase in non-journalists hogging the space set aside for reporting and elucidating news events… what chance the voter?
NZLP Review of Election 2014; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Written By: - Date published: 5:34 pm, June 3rd, 2015 - 124 comments
The NZ Labour party’s review of election 2015 makes for interesting reading. It’s honest, straightforward and heartening. There is much to be learned from the last election campaign and it looks like the membership have got their points across to the review team. Good work, Labour!
Political Strategy for a Progressive Majority
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 pm, May 25th, 2015 - 67 comments
Sir Michael Cullen discussed political strategy at the “Destination- Next Progressive Majority” seminars held recently by the Fabian Society in Auckland and Wellington. He started by sharing what he used to say to his students when they were facing a test – “never forget to state the obvious.” For a progressive majority that means “get more votes than the others” – he had some good ideas how.
Bait and switch
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 pm, March 30th, 2015 - 64 comments
Congratulations to Labour for a very clever strategy in the Northland by-election – lulling and gulling John Key into thinking they were going to run a conventional proxy-partyvote campaign, where National would have the upper hand. Key, the rockstar politician, also thought Andrew Little would be on the training wheels. He got that badly wrong; Little’s handling was superb.
- 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #2
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 thru Sat, Jan 14, 2023. Story of the Week Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes The heat of global warming will keep penetrating deeper into the oceans ...1 day ago - The Economy in 2023?
The two most comprehensive forecasts of the New Zealand economy are by the Reserve Bank and the Treasury. They are especially important because they inform monetary and fiscal policy. What do they say?Shortly after the Reserve Bank and Treasury published their end-of-year forecasts, Statistics New Zealand announced a 2.0 percent ...3 days ago - ANPR should require a warrant
On Tuesday, the Herald broke the news of a massive increase in ANPR surveillance by police, from mere dozens of uses in 2020 to thousands in 2022, and that police had lied in their internal documentation when they said the system was audited to ensure use was legal. And today ...3 days ago - Political Roundup: 13 January 2023
Items of interest and importance today HEALTH, COVID Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Move to police financial interests in healthcare desperately needed, radiologists say Rachel Maher (Herald): 90-year-old left bleeding on bathroom floor with head injury for two hours while waiting for ambulance Selah Hart (Herald): Empowering communities to effectively combat alcohol ...3 days ago - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #2 2023Open access notables The authors don't discuss it but folks who follow our GHG sources & sinks, flux, related geochemistry section will likely form some immediate connections from this paper and ask "what's this going to release?" Significant underestimation of peatland permafrost along the Labrador Sea coastline in northern Canada just published in The Cryosphere ...3 days ago
- Review: Lilith, by George MacDonald (1895)
There’s the joke that the difference between the Victorians and our current era is that the Victorians were obsessed with Death and acted as though Sex didn’t exist, whereas current modernity is the other way around. It’s not actually true, of course, but it’s still amusing. Today, I’m going ...4 days ago - Gordon Campbell on the cult of political boldness
The next recession is shaping up as the most predicted event since the Second Coming. While we have to take it on faith that it will arrive someday, it is hard to say when it will happen, or how great/how bad it will be if and when it ever does. ...4 days ago - Political Roundup: 12 January 2023Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Henry Cooke: Who are Labour’s lost voters? Anna Whyte (Stuff): Green Party lay down priorities for 2023 – ‘more influence over the next government’ Anna Whyte (Stuff): Summer off politics: James Shaw wants to make it past chapter one Glenn McConnel (Stuff): Summer ...4 days ago
- Trump’s toxic tail.
I was going to write about something else to start off the KP year but current events have intruded in the form of the craziness surrounding the selection of US House Speaker and the storming of the Brazilian seats of power (Congress, the Supreme Court and Presidential Palace) by (so-called ...5 days ago - Climate Change: End pollution subsidies now!Stuff reports that Tasman Steel - the latest name for what used to be NZ Steel - made a $340 million profit last year. The kicker? $117 million of that was from government pollution subsidies: New Zealand Steel’s holding company Tasman Steel increased its profit by 153% to a ...5 days ago
- Political Roundup: 11 January 2023Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori plans for a big 2023, but happy to stay cross bench Toby Manhire (Spinoff): In which we earnestly predict the date of the 2023 New Zealand general election Anna Whyte (Stuff): Summer off politics: Marama Davidson heads ...5 days ago
- More wind, rain, flooding ahead for storm-battered CaliforniaThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson and Jeff Masters A series of Pacific storms that’s taken aim on California since late December is on track to continue into mid-January. Ferocious winds will slam much of the state on Wednesday and Thursday, accompanied by heavy rain likely ...5 days ago
- How woke anti-racism fuels anti-Semitism
In this article from the website Radicalism of Fools Daniel Ben-Ami looks at some of the limitations of the new anti-racism movement One of the key tasks I have set myself this year is to examine the arguments around anti-Semitism in more depth. That is both those used by anti-Semites ...6 days ago - Gordon Campbell on Fiji’s journey back to the futureFor wealthier New Zealanders and Australians, Fiji is just one option among many for their tourism resort experiences, poolside. Obviously, the country amounts to a lot more to the people who actually live there. It also happens to be the Pacific’s key diplomatic listening post, the home of the Pacific ...6 days ago
- Prince Harry’s Problem
What is it with Prince Harry?. Most of us would probably acknowledge that he has a legitimate cause for complaint at the way he and his wife have been treated by the British media. But there is more to it than that. Harry seems to harbour resentment against the media ...6 days ago - Bryce Edwards: MPs set for a big post-election pay increaseOne of the most popular moves Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ever made was the pay freeze her government imposed on politicians back in 2018. The freeze may have only been grudgingly agreed to by other MPs and parties, but it had universal public support. The pay freeze is due to ...6 days ago
- 2022 was a remarkable year for the climate. Here’s what to expect in 2023This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The past year was full of milestones in the worlds of climate science and policy. The year 2022 saw one of the strongest La Niña events in the past half-century, second only to that in 2011. La Niña events draw cold water up to the ...6 days ago
- This is what the right stands for nowTwo years ago, supporters of failed presidential candidate Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow America's democracy and overturn the results of an election they had lost. And today, just a few days after the anniversary of that event, supporters of Trump's ally Jair Bolsonaro did ...7 days ago
- Political Roundup: 9 January 2023Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Claire Trevett and Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Predictions: The NZ Herald politics team predicts the next year in politics (paywalled) Thomas Manch (Stuff): Party to shore up its position for the 2023 election Sasha Borissenko (Herald): ‘Now that’s what I call legislation vol. 1′ (paywalled) ...7 days ago
- 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #1A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 1, 2023 thru Sat, Jan 7, 2023. Story of the Week Scientists Report a Dramatic Drop in the Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Links between global warming and the decline of sea ...1 week ago
- Old Phuul: Draft Finished
About half an hour ago, I became a very happy writer. My long-running effort at writing a sequel to Wise Phuul has finally borne fruit. Specifically, the draft manuscript for Old Phuul – starring Teltö’s elder sister, Rhea Phuul – is now complete at 102,172 words. This ...1 week ago - Bryce Edwards: Can the Greens keep it together in 2023?The Green Party has a habit of sabotaging their election-year campaigns, risking electoral oblivion. Could the same thing happen in 2023? The last two election campaigns were particularly painful for the party. In 2017 then co-leader Metiria Turei had her story about her past as a welfare beneficiary unravel during ...1 week ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #1 2023Open access notables In Conservation Biology, snapshots of two books that will probably launch a lot of objections, one by Vaclav Smil and the other yet more Bill Gates. Two doses of carbon budget realism review author Vojtech Novotny sums them up: "Sober assessments of our options for reducing carbon emissions in ...1 week ago
- Bryce Edwards: The Big predictions for 2023Pundits have been making their political forecasts for the year ahead. Here are some of their predictions about what we can expect in 2023. The Big issues of 2023: Economy and ethnicity There’s a consensus that the political year, and especially the election campaign, will centre around the economy, with ...2 weeks ago
- My favourite details from Glass Onion, a comprehensive and incredibly spoiler heavy list
I watched this movie three times in two days so you wouldn’t have to (but should anyway, it’s exquisite). You should definitely watch it at least once before reading this even if you don’t care about spoilers because most of this doesn’t give much context. Note “Children ...2 weeks ago - State, local governments increasingly turn to zoning reformsThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and passenger vehicles — the cars most Americans rely on to meet their daily needs — account for more than half of transportation emissions. Conversations about reducing these ...2 weeks ago
- 2022 General Reading: The ListCompleted reads for 2022: On Providence, by Seneca the Younger On the Firmness of the Wise Man, by Seneca the Younger Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Passions of Saint Perpetua and Felicity Murder is Easy, by Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie The Bacchanals, ...2 weeks ago
- New Dawn – destabilising social cohesion?by Don Franks Stuff reports today: “Nationwide bookstore Whitcoulls is selling a magazine peddling a number of anti-vax conspiracies and insinuating the Christchurch mosque terror attack was a “false flag” operation. The Lambton Quay store in Wellington had copies of two issues of New Dawn magazine for sale this week. It was also spotted ...2 weeks ago
- “We have to start drawing some lines in the sand”Redline interviews James Robb from Workers Now, a group standing candidates in the coming general election Redline: What prompted the Workers Now initiative? In the immediate sense, this was prompted by the comments by Adrian Orr, the governor of the Reserve Bank, in November, in which he frankly admitted that ...2 weeks ago
- Ukraine commemorates Nazi collaborators
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. The rally was organized to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that collaborated with Nazi Germany and murdered thousands of Jews, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians (AP Photo/Efrem ...2 weeks ago - Society itself will inevitably shift, so even if some try to stop it… they actually can’t (hence...
Those of a more conservative bent seem even more hardened than ever against the shifts we are seeing taking place, because that’s the side whose pushing back against all this that has been most vocal, and the most outraged. Don’t pretend you can’t hear it every day on the ...2 weeks ago - 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #52A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Dec 25, 2022 thru Sat, Dec 31, 2022. Story of the Week Overshooting climate targets could significantly increase risk for tipping cascades 12/22/2022 - Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius ...2 weeks ago
- 2022 – Blog views by countryAs per my blog tradition, here is where my blog viewers came from in 2022: United States United Kingdom Canada New Zealand Australia The Philippines Germany France Brazil Spain The top five remain as in 2021. The Philippines rose from #15 to #6, France from #12 to ...2 weeks ago
- 2022 General Reading: December (+ Old Phuul Update)Completed reads for December: Vulthoom, by Clark Ashton Smith The Haunted Chamber, by Clark Ashton Smith The Haunted Gong, by Clark Ashton Smith The Mahout, by Clark Ashton Smith The Malay Krise (2 versions), by Clark Ashton Smith The Mad God’s Amulet, by Michael Moorcock The Sword of ...2 weeks ago
- Happy New Year.I have been pretty dormant as of late because the lead up to the end of 2022 involved household Covid, some work demands on me and stresses on my wife (she was caught up in that cluster-F of academic “reorganisation” at a certain NZ university) and the usual holiday preparations. ...2 weeks ago
- Sifting the Good from the Bad: A Quick and Dirty Evaluation of Clark Ashton Smith Stories
As noted in October, I spent a fair amount of my reading time coming back to the Big Three of 1930s Pulp Fantasy and Horror: H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/revisiting-the-big-three-of-weird-tales-h-p-lovecraft-c-a-smith-and-r-e-howard/). Well, in November and December, I have followed that up via reading all the ...2 weeks ago - Bryce Edwards: Labour’s terrible 2022 has been National’s opportunityPolitical commentators and journalists have nominated their politicians of the year, and it’s telling that the three main nominees are all from the political right: Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis, and David Seymour. The brickbats, in contrast, are almost universally for Labour Government Ministers – especially Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, deputy ...2 weeks ago
- Annus Horribilis.
Trauma: The catastrophic conclusion to the anti-vaccination mandate protest in Parliament Grounds on 2 March 2022 is seared in the minds of New Zealanders. Those dramatic scenes were, however, easily eclipsed by the planetary violence of Climate Change, the biological violence of Covid-19, the political violence of Three Waters, and ...2 weeks ago - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #52 2022Open access notables Author Guy Dagan appropriately doesn't make the connection but armchair enthusiasts can: if the climate becomes more twitchy when the atmosphere is loaded with aerosols, what happens if we try solar geoengineering via aerosols at scale? Maybe we should make sure we've modeled that thoroughly before ...2 weeks ago
- Political Roundup: 29 December 2022Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT, YEAR IN REVIEW Henry Cooke: 23 predictions for 2023 Morgan Godfery (Stuff): Top-performing minister, but you wouldn’t know it Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): The way the NZ Political Left must reframe the 2023 Election Russell Palmer (RNZ): A dozen quirky soon-to-be laws flying under ...3 weeks ago
- Victor Venema 1971 – 2022Victor Venema PhD was born in Groningen in the Netherlands. He attended Groningen University, where he was awarded his PhD in Physics for research on the measurement of cloud structure. Since joining the Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, his main scientific interest was variability of data in complex systems. His ...3 weeks ago
- How to save on winter home heating costsThis is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Winter’s snow and cold temperatures often arrive alongside skyrocketing energy bills. Whether you rent or own your home, there are many ways to save money this winter — from increasing energy efficiency to applying for financial assistance. In addition, clean ...3 weeks ago
- Political Roundup: 28 December 2022Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT, POLITICS, 2022 IN REVIEW Damien Grant (Stuff): Even contrarians deserve a happy Christmas Jane Clifton (Listener/Herald): The political farces of 2022 (paywalled) Richard Prebble (Herald): Shuffling the deck chairs but ministers responsible for worst problems likely to stay put (paywalled) Phil Pennington (RNZ): What Amazon ...3 weeks ago
- What on Earth is a polar vortex? And what’s global warming got to do with it?This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Erika Street Hopman It’s that time again. An influx of Arctic air is blasting across the U.S., sending temperatures plunging, dropping snow, disrupting Christmas travel plans, and setting social media atwitter about the polar vortex. But what exactly is the polar vortex? ...3 weeks ago
- Green MPs write directly to Grand Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran
Members of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand have today written to Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Khamenei to condemn the ongoing violence and killing of women’s rights and democracy protesters, and to call on him to intervene immediately. ...7 days ago - Investing in the health of New Zealanders
Every New Zealander deserves access to world-class healthcare, no matter where they live. We have a comprehensive plan to make sure this is a reality – and we’re making good progress. ...3 weeks ago
- Government provides support to flooded Tairāwhiti communities
The Government is making an initial contribution of $150,000 to the Mayoral Relief Fund to help communities in Tairāwhiti following ex-Tropical Cyclone Hale, Minister for Emergency Management Kieran McAnulty announced. “While Cyclone Hale has caused widespread heavy rain, flooding and high winds across many parts of the North Island, Tairāwhiti ...3 days ago - Government support for flood-affected Gisborne Tairāwhiti farmers and growersRural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor has classified this week’s Cyclone Hale that caused significant flood damage across the Tairāwhiti/Gisborne District as a medium-scale adverse event, unlocking Government support for farmers and growers. “We’re making up to $100,000 available to help coordinate efforts as farmers and growers recover from the heavy ...3 days ago
- Monkeypox vaccination available to eligible people from next week A vaccine for people at risk of mpox (Monkeypox) will be available if prescribed by a medical practitioner to people who meet eligibility criteria from Monday 16 January, says Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall. 5,000 vials of the vaccine have been obtained, enough for up to 20,000 ...7 days ago
- Stronger measures proposed to tackle youth vapingThe Government is seeking feedback on measures to help reduce the number of young people vaping. “Youth vaping is becoming increasingly popular, with many choosing to vape despite never having smoked,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said. “Alongside our efforts to reduce tobacco smoking, we want to ensure vaping ...2 weeks ago
- Govt reminds international arrivals to test for CovidThe Government is reiterating its advice to all international travellers to do a Covid test if they become symptomatic after arrival, while also stepping up awareness of free RATs available at airports, Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall says. “This follows growing global concerns, including from the World Health Organisation ...2 weeks ago
- Frontline workers to receive COVID-19 Response AwardThe government has confirmed the groups of frontline workers to receive a COVID-19 Response Recognition Award, a specific acknowledgement of the service given by so many to New Zealand during the pandemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today. “All New Zealanders, at home and abroad, played a part in our ...2 weeks ago
- Pasifika celebrated in New Year HonoursA former Premier of Niue and a leading Pacific doctor in the fight against COVID-19 have been celebrated in this year’s New Year honours said Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio. Young Vivian who was the leader of Niue in the 1990’s and 2000’s led the response to Cyclone ...2 weeks ago
- Sports stars and administers honouredThe New Year Honours List includes an array of sporting stars and grassroots administrators who reflect the best of Aotearoa’s sporting and recreation community. The appointment of Farah Palmer as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit acknowledges her enormous contribution to sport and rugby in particular. ...2 weeks ago
- Sports stars and administrators honouredThe New Year Honours List includes an array of sporting stars and grassroots administrators who reflect the best of Aotearoa’s sporting and recreation community. The appointment of Farah Palmer as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit acknowledges her enormous contribution to sport and rugby in particular. ...2 weeks ago
- New Year honours recipients highlight what makes NZ uniqueThe 183 recipients of New Year honours represent the best of New Zealand and what makes us unique in the world, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. “The 2023 New Year honours list is full of leaders and pioneers whose contribution has enriched us a country and helped make us unique ...2 weeks ago
- Lifeguards and Coastguard well equipped to help Kiwis this summerThe Government’s critical support for the water safety sector through the pandemic means lifeguards are better equipped on our beaches and Coastguard is sailing new boats to the rescue. “Our $63 million package for water safety initiatives in Budget 2020 has been a game changer for our water safety sector, ...3 weeks ago
- Drug checking boost continues to keep New Zealanders safer this summerThe Government has made drug checking services more accessible to keep young people safe this summer, Health Minister Andrew Little says. Aotearoa now has four licenced organisations to perform drug checking services - KnowYourStuffNZ, New Zealand Drug Foundation, Needle Exchange Services Trust, and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research. ...3 weeks ago
- Twelve classic clouds coming to a sky near you this summer
Be poetic and scientific this summer as you lie on your back in the long grass, pointing out the beauty of the clouds and also naming them accurately. First published December 23, 2022 Next time you’re out and about, drag your eyes from your screen and look up for a ...20 mins ago - Aotearoa’s last summer of cheap freedom campingFor many New Zealanders, camping in a renovated van somewhere remote and beautiful has long been a treasured summer tradition. A new law will change that for good, explains Jacob Metzger. We always rode with a third wheel. It’s not that we didn’t want it there – in a pinch, ...20 mins ago
- Recipe: Dhandar dalThis simple but creamy and delicious yellow dal was my first meal and, if I have it my way, will be my last. I’m blessed to belong to a foodie family and when we travel, the question “what will we eat?” occupies more brain space for the entire family than ...20 hours ago
- Hear me out: Guinea pigs are the worst petsSummer read: High maintenance and hard to love, the toothy little furballs don’t stay cute for long. First published August 14, 2022 I used to be like you, once. I had optimism. Freedom. Hope. My house smelled normal. My clothes were tidy, and my grooming was fine. I didn’t walk ...21 hours ago
- Two rats chat in the gutter about the artsTwo rat friends, Johanna Cosgrove and Sam Te Kani, discuss making art with neither funding nor care in the world. Sam: So. We made a podcast. Johanna: Yeah. Crazy. Sam: Why do you think we chose to make a podcast? Is this our magnum opus? Johanna: I think Rats in ...1 day ago
- Essay on Sunday: Can a stitch in time still save us?Nadine Hura was embarassed of her homemade clothes as a kid. Now she appreciates her mother’s craft, and sees value in clothes that weren’t made at lightning speed by overworked, underpaid strangers. I was born among sheepskin car seat covers sewn by my mother. She was a factory outworker, stitching ...1 day ago
- Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disaster
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic volcanic eruption tomorrow, Tongan Prime Minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni spoke to RNZ Pacific’s Finau Fonua. Hu’akavameiliku shared his experiences of the eruption and its aftermath, as well as some of the challenges left in the wake ...1 day ago - Fiji ‘bully of the region’ under former government, claims airlines chiefBy Repeka Nasiko in Suva Fiji was regarded a bully, flexing its muscle as a selfish and arrogant player in regional forums, claims Association of South Pacific Airlines (ASPA) president George Faktaufon. He said he hoped Fiji would rejoin the regional aviation community with the election of the new coalition ...1 day ago
- Ingredient of the week: lemonsWere there a New Year honour for a fruit, it should go to the lemon. Hear me out… I’ve been accused of being lemon obsessed, to which I say, yup. Not only do lemons have nearly countless culinary uses and the most beautiful-smelling flowers, you can also use them as ...2 days ago
- Fiji’s sugar minister condemns ‘disappearance’ of FICAC abuse allegation filesBy Serafina Silaitoga in Suva Files submitted to the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) two years ago over alleged abuse of funds by a former Fiji Sugar Corporation (FSC) executive are believed to have “disappeared”, says Sugar Minister Charan Jeath Singh. Singh said someone in FICAC would be held ...2 days ago
- Do the English and Māori texts of The Treaty of Waitangi actually reconcile?Summer read: Morgan Godfery analyses the arguments in Ned Fletcher’s meticulously researched book, The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi. First published December 12, 2022. Historians often make the best lawyers. The study of history requires a close reading of various sources, the careful evaluation of sometimes competing evidence, ...2 days ago
- The New Zealander responsible for M3GAN, the buzziest film in the worldGerard Johnstone has created a horror icon for a new age – and helped cement himself as a filmmaker to watch. Stewart Sowman-Lund checks in with the director of M3GAN. If it wasn’t for the unstoppable juggernaut that is Avatar: The Way of Water, a New Zealander would currently have ...2 days ago
- Happy 80th birthday, Koko – you more than deserve your medal from the QueenMy grandfather was raised in the wake of atrocities to keep the peace while holding tight to his Māoritanga – and he’s spent his life teaching others to do the same. A teacher, a careers officer, the head of the department of Māori Studies at Pātea High School, a meat ...2 days ago
- Bonus Episode: Predicting the 2023 election dateIt’s election year! In the coming weeks Jacinda Ardern will reveal the date of the 2023 general election. Toby Manhire uses his superior deduction skills in an attempt to predict the date before its announcement. ...2 days ago
- New Zealand doesn’t offer tenure to academics, but the AUT employment dispute shows it’s more th...ANALYSIS: By Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury Late last year, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) initiated a process to eliminate 170 academic jobs to cut costs. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found AUT’s approach breached its collective employment agreement with staff and their union and ordered it to withdraw ...3 days ago
- Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rightsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rice, Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney The Iranian government has attempted to brutally suppress the widespread protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022. ...3 days ago
- The A$30 billion Sun Cable crash is a setback but doesn’t spell the end of Australia’s renewable...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Sun Cable – considered to be the world’s biggest renewable energy export project – announced this week it had entered voluntary administration following “the absence of alignment” with shareholders. Sun Cable is ...3 days ago
- When toheroa soup went globalSummer read: When the future King of England wrote ‘Very good!’ next to ‘Toheroa Soup’ on his menu, it triggered a frenzy of exploitation that nearly drove the prized shellfish to extinction. In this excerpt from Robert Vennell’s Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand’s Native Sea Creatures, ...3 days ago
- The Friday Poem: ‘Frida, the Believer’ by Selina Tusitala MarshA new poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh, written in response to the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Frida, the Believer Frida was a believer in the love of green parakeets, bougainvillea, tulips, dahlias, embroidered on velvet ...3 days ago
- Are you living in a food desert? These maps suggest it can make a big difference to your healthSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicky Morrison, Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Public concerns about high food prices highlight how meeting basic human needs can’t be taken for granted, even in a country like Australia. ...3 days ago
- Flooding and logging -Homepaddock wonders if there’s one rule for forestry and another for the re...
Homepaddock reports – Friends who farm inland from Gisborne have lost power and their roads are impassable. The damage is worse than it would otherwise have been because forestry slash has been washed down rivers. A Tairāwhiti resident says her home would not have flooded if it wasn’t for a ...3 days ago - Every New Zealander should know the SutherlandsSummer read: There are some whose work has changed Aotearoa. Such is the case for Ivan and Oliver Sutherland, argues Jules Older. First published May 5, 2022 New Zealand is rich in heroes. In science, Ernest Rutherford. In music, Kiri Te Kanawa and Lorde. For human achievement, Peter Snell and, ...3 days ago
- The rain came down – and so did the debris from logging operations in the flood-damaged Gisborne r...
Buzz from the Beehive Damien O’Connor, as Minister for Rural Communities, has broken his 2023 duck and issued his first press statement of the year to announce government support for flood-affected farmers and growers in the Gisborne region. We have yet to hear from Forestry Minister Stuart Nash, but he ...3 days ago - CO2 shortages a consequence of government inaction – National
The National Party says the closure of the Marsden Point refinery has put New Zealand in a vulnerable position. ...3 days ago - NZ Police Neglecting The Safety Of Its Staff
Hatikvah: Blue Hope Foundation is pleased the officer injured while spiking the vehicle of an alleged car thief is recovering from his injuries, and the Foundation wishes him a speedy recovery. But the November incident does raise larger questions ...3 days ago - A year on, we know why the Tongan eruption was so violent. It’s a wake-up call to watch other subm...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Cronin, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Auckland Sung-Hyun Park/Korea Polar Research Institute The Kingdom of Tonga exploded into global news on January 15 last year with one of the most spectacular and violent volcanic eruptions ever seen. ...3 days ago
- Jokowi acknowledges gross human rights violations in Indonesia, PapuaRNZ Pacific Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged “gross human rights violations” in his country’s history and vowed to prevent any repeat. He cited 12 “regrettable” events, including an anti-communist purge at the height of the Cold War. By some estimates, the massacres killed about 500,000 people. President Joko Widodo ...3 days ago
- Are vegan pet diets as unhealthy as they’re claimed to be? Here’s what the evidence saysSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Whittaker, Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide Piotr Musioł/Unsplash The impact of vegan diets on our pets’ health produces heated debate from people on both sides. But until now, we haven’t had a formal assessment of the scientific evidence. In ...3 days ago
- How might the latest George Pell coverage affect child sexual abuse survivors?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Felmingham, Chair of Clinical Psychology, The University of Melbourne Photo by Andrew Neel/Pexels, CC BY You might have wondered if the recent death of George Pell, who was jailed in 2019 for child sexual abuse and then later acquitted, ...3 days ago
- Cyclone Hale: Fund for Tairāwhiti farmers and growers announcedThe government has announced $100,000 of funding support for Tairāwhiti farmers and growers impacted by Cyclone Hale. ...3 days ago
- Could a bot do your creative job better and faster than you do?Summer read: Does an AI art generator respond as effectively to a client’s brief as a human illustrator? Tim Gibson took some of his own creative commercial work and went up against the bots. First published September 13, 2022 The bots are coming and they’re after our jobs. We knew ...3 days ago
- The Crown Must Finally Act With HonourTe Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi-Ō-Ngāpuhi chairperson, Wane Wharerau, says the historic Waitangi Tribunal Report, dealing with the second stage of the tribunal's Te Paparahi o Te Raki (Northland) inquiry proves a deliberate and systematic collusion between settlers ...3 days ago
- Three Deaths In Three Days Prompts Renewed Calls For An End To RodeoThe deaths of three animals in rodeo events, mere weeks into the current season, has prompted renewed demands from SAFE for the Government to urgently ban rodeo. Information recently obtained by animal rights organisation SAFE reveals two bulls ...3 days ago
- 6 reasons 2023 could be a very good year for climate actionSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University shutterstock Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental change, at best. Activist Greta Thunberg has described them as “blah blah blah” moments – grossly ...3 days ago
- Stamp duty isn’t going anywhere until we can agree on the tax to replace itSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joey Moloney, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Nearly all economists and most politicians seem to agree stamp duty is a bad tax. But nearly all state and territory governments rely on it to keep the lights on. It’s a bad tax ...3 days ago
- From Bachelor to The Bachelors – why Australia’s longest running dating show has updated the old...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi McAlister, Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University 10 Play This week marks the beginning of the tenth season of The Bachelor Australia, Australia’s longest running reality romance franchise. Often, anniversaries like this provoke nostalgia, a desire ...3 days ago
- All the fish and chip shop sides, rankedSummer read: It’s summer, it’s Friday, it’s the perfect time for fish and chips. But which sides should you order? First published: February 11, 2022 Ever looked at the seemingly endless menu in every fish and chip shop and considered going wild with your order for once? A donut, a ...3 days ago
- The pros and cons of getting your groceries delivered from AustraliaSummer read: The deals sound hard to resist, but are they too good to be true? Chris Schulz investigates. First published April 13, 2022 It seemed incredible. It seemed appalling. With grocery prices across Aotearoa skyrocketing and the Commerce Commission investigating the country’s supermarket duopoly, it also seemed entirely plausible. ...3 days ago
- Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in a dramatic move condemned by critics as a “kidnapping”. At noon on Tuesday, January 10, Governor Enembe was dining in a ...3 days ago
- Destiny Church pastor Derek Tait falls foul of election rules – againChristchurch's Destiny Church leader Derek Tait could face a criminal conviction for failing to declare his election expenses. ...3 days ago
- San Francisco of the 1970s: remembering the age of internet-free travelAn extract from the chapter ‘San Francisco’ in Travelling Light, a travel memoir by Canterbury-based Steve Lowndes with photography by Lisa Potts. We found Luise in her ground-floor flat half a block from Mission Street and after an evening spent talking and drinking on her back stoop we set about ...4 days ago
- ‘More potent than cyanide’: how to stay safe from blue-ringed octopus this summerSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Doubleday, Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia Kris Mikael Krister/Unsplash, CC BY As an octopus biologist, I get a call from the media every summer because someone has had an encounter with a blue-ringed octopus. ...4 days ago
- Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology 3D visualisation of gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. Henze/NASA What are gravitational waves? – Millie, age 10, Sydney What a great question ...4 days ago
- In memory of Waitākere City (1989-2010)Summer read: Rebecca K Reilly remembers growing up in Waitākere City, back when it still existed. First published July 10, 2022. Made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand Original illustration by Lena Lam. The further you travel away from the place you’re from, the more ...4 days ago
- Response To Catholic Church’s Public Relations StatementsThe statements by NZ Catholic Church leaders on “looking forward from the work of the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care,” and their proposed commitments to handle clergy and religious sexual abuse complaints differently, and support mandatory reporting, ...4 days ago
- What Prince Harry’s memoir Spare tells us about ‘complicated grief’ and the long-term impact o...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wayland, Associate Professor, University of New England The thought of her, as always, gave me a jolt of hope, and a burst of energy. And a stab of sorrow. Prince Harry’s reflection on his mother Princess Diana, who died ...4 days ago
- Newsletter: January 12 2023 – Items of interest and importance todayNew Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Henry Cooke: Who are Labour’s lost voters? Anna Whyte (Stuff): Green Party lay down priorities for 2023 – ...4 days ago
- From Cate Blanchett to Baz Luhrmann: Aussiewood at the 80th Golden Globe AwardsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University Focus Features Aussiewood sprinkled its star dust at this year’s 80th Golden Globes with five nominations and a fourth acting win for Cate Blanchett, this time her performance as a renowned ...4 days ago
- Notable Increase In Data Breaches ReportedThis year make your new year’s resolution to be across your privacy obligations. There has been a notable increase in data breaches reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, prompting a reminder to agencies and businesses that they must ...4 days ago
- Child Abuse Murder Charge Prompts Call For Politicians To ActA young woman charged with the murder of an infant boy yesterday has prompted national child abuse advocacy group, Child Matters, to ask how many children must die before New Zealand’s politicians act. On average, one child died every five weeks in New ...4 days ago
- Creating A Safer AotearoaCrime Stoppers will use SOLV to grow awareness on how anyone can speak up safely about crime in Aotearoa New Zealand. Crime Stoppers trialled SOLV recently and will start using it in specific Aotearoa New Zealand postcodes to raise awareness of how ...4 days ago
- EDS Calls For Formal Inquiry Into Forestry Practices Following East Coast DisasterThe Environmental Defence Society says that the latest disaster on the East Coast needs a formal Commission of Inquiry into forestry practices. “We have seen yet again the consequences of inadequate controls over exotic plantation forestry operations, ...4 days ago
- You’re invited to the Carpet Club, a subterranean Spinoff at the Morningside Live Block PartyJoin us for live comedy, live podcasts, live drawing and live human conversation on February 5. The glorious central Auckland suburb of Morningside plays host next month to a suburban street takeover bursting at the seams with live music, local food and drink and a cornucopia of entertainment. The Spinoff ...4 days ago
- My weekend at OneTaste, the ‘sex cult’ made famous by Netflix’s Orgasm Inc‘Orgasmic meditation’ was sold as female empowerment; meanwhile the business behind it was being investigated by the FBI. Cult Trip author Anke Richter recounts her own visit to OneTaste, the bizarre company at the centre of a new Netflix documentary. First published November 12, 2022 My friend Lena*’s sex life ...4 days ago
- Unearthing the human histories of StonehengeA new exhibition at Auckland Museum takes a deep look at one of the planet’s most mysterious human-made sites. James Borrowdale met the man responsible for sharing Stonehenge’s secrets with Tāmaki Makaurau. We were standing inside Auckland Museum, which Professor Mike Parker Pearson noted held many similarities to Stonehenge – ...4 days ago
- While the Beehive is silent, Seymour steals a march by railing against the Ardern team’s law-and-o...Buzz from the Beehive Sorry, folks (although – on second thoughts – you might regard this as good news). There has been no buzz from the Beehive since January 9, when Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall announced that a vaccine for people at risk of mpox (or monkeypox) will be ...4 days ago
- Blind Low Vision NZ Welcome The End Of Board-commissioned Independent Inquiry Into Organisational Cu...An Independent Inquiry into organisational culture commissioned by Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB) Board, found that a longstanding poor workplace culture was made worse by significant transformation work initiated in 2019 but is improving ...4 days ago
- Feeling flat now you’re #BackToWork? A post-holiday slump is normal, but these clues signal it’s...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels, CC BY If you’ve found yourself feeling a bit flat after returning to work (or outright hating your job) this ...4 days ago
- An ode to MiloIn hospitals and labour wards and care homes across the country, Milo is the drink that helps people hold onto hope. This story was first published on the author’s newsletter, Emily Writes Weekly. Content warning: This post includes details of my son’s hospital admissions and health journey, it might be ...4 days ago
- Bougainville to hold two long-delayed byelections due to deaths of membersRNZ Pacific The autonomous government in the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville is finally organising byelections next month in two seats that have been without representation for many months. The elections, in Nissan and Haku constituencies, will be held on February 22, with nominations set to close tomorrow. The ...4 days ago
- French Polynesia plans journalism study grants to combat disinformationPacific Media Watch President Édouard Fritch of French Polynesia says he wants to boost funds to study journalism in French Polynesia in a bid to help strengthen the media industry quality, reports RNZ Pacific. According to the local Ministry of Education, the amount given for study grants will vary from ...4 days ago
- Lindsay Mitchell: PM more self-delusional by the dayLindsay Mitchell writes: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is heading into the 2023 election campaign stating: “Our record is growing Māori housing. Our record is growing Māori employment opportunities. Now our record is growing the Māori economy. I will happily campaign on our record.” I really don’t have a lot ...4 days ago
- Shocking Footage Leaked From Deep Sea Mining VesselGreenpeace Aotearoa is calling leaked undercover footage of wastewater pouring into the Pacific ocean during deep sea mining tests "damning", saying it exposes the industry greenwash and just how damaging deep sea mining could be to ocean health. ...4 days ago
- ‘Catastrophic Injuries’ Suffered On Auckland Racetrack Result In Another Greyhound DeathAnimal rights organisation SAFE is ringing in the new year with an urgent call for the Government to ban greyhound racing, after yet another dog suffered injuries severe enough to result in her death. The greyhound, Megan’s Munch, sustained four broken ...4 days ago
- What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don’t really knowSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Young, Kernot Professor of Engineering, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Across much of the world’s oceans, waves are getting bigger. In the Southern Ocean, where storm-driven swell can propagate halfway across the world to California, the average wave has ...4 days ago
- What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietlySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Barros Leal Farias, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney On Sunday January 8, radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalised buildings that house Brazil’s congress, supreme court and presidential palace. Since then, over 1,500 people have been detained. The ...4 days ago
- Stop hating on pasta – it actually has a healthy ratio of carbs, protein and fatSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer (Food Science and Human Nutrition), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Pexels, CC BY New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food ...4 days ago
- New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycleSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Anjum Naveed/AP In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry conditions to the other ...4 days ago
- The housing wealth gap between older and younger Australians has widened alarmingly in the past 30 y...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Shutterstock The housing wealth gap between younger and older Australians is undeniably growing. Our newly published study attempts to find out how much it has grown by estimating ...4 days ago
- The Crown Lynn craze: What’s behind the skyrocketing price of vintage ceramics?Summer read: Once something you’d find at the back of your grandparents’ cupboard, the ubiquitous New Zealand homeware brand is now a valuable commodity. And as collectors tell Stewart Sowman-Lund, prices probably haven’t peaked yet. First published July 23, 2022 It’s been out of production for 30 years, but Crown ...4 days ago
- Who are Labour’s lost voters?An investigation into the all-important ‘swing voter’ and what they actually believe – with a lot of charts. This article was first published in Henry Cooke’s politics newsletter, Museum Street. Since its triumphant win in 2020, Labour has lost a lot of supporters. The exact proportion depends on which poll ...4 days ago
- Sizzling New Year but blackouts continue to hold PNG to ransomBy Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea began New Year 2023 with sizzling fireworks that lit up the skies. But our hopes of shrugging off the “power blackout” tag ended just as the year was a few hours old. An hour into New Year celebrations in the capital ...4 days ago
- Papua governor Enembe arrested on ‘lavish’ bribery chargesRNZ Pacific Indonesian anti-curruption authorities have arrested Papua Governor Lukas Enembe on allegations of bribery. The Jakarta Globe called the arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission in a restaurant in the provincial capital Jayapura yesterday as “dramatic” saying it came four months after he had been named a suspect. The ...4 days ago
- Ashburton by-election expected later this month after councillor's deathFollowing the sudden death of two-term councillor Rodger Letham in December, Ashburton District Council will have a special election. ...5 days ago
- Newsletter: January 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance todayNew Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori plans for a big 2023, but happy to stay cross bench ...5 days ago
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