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The importance of political narrative
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, January 15th, 2023 - 36 comments
Wayne Brown’s campaign techniques used in the Auckland Mayoral election are likely to be used by National in the election campaign this year.
The Standard’s political awards for 2022
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, December 30th, 2022 - 39 comments
It is that time of year again where the events of the year are reviewed and what was notable, noteworthy and notorious.
Meri Kirihimete
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, December 26th, 2022 - 116 comments
Even on the one day of the year that is meant to be a day of peace and calm and family some people get triggered by the use of Te Reo.
The one thing Jacinda Ardern can do is speak to our hearts
Written By: - Date published: 9:03 am, December 18th, 2022 - 134 comments
Mawkish sentiment running up to Christmas perhaps, but imagine Luxon or Willis speaking hours after the Christchurch massacre. Only Ardern of the entire Parliament has the ability to govern for calm in the name of the calm we all need.
What Is Labour’s Purpose This Term?
Written By: - Date published: 7:57 am, November 28th, 2022 - 35 comments
It is time to set out succinctly and without recourse to abstract nouns exactly what this Labour government has intended, is doing, and how it seeks to alter the country.
Can We Prepare for 2023?
Written By: - Date published: 7:48 am, November 20th, 2022 - 69 comments
2023 is going to hit New Zealanders hard. Since the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes New Zealand has been beset by a new major crisis about once every two years. 2022 was our year off and get ready we are in for a strange and hard recession.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Pause With Map In Hand and Scratch Their Heads
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, November 13th, 2022 - 19 comments
If 2020 was the worst year in my lifetime how does 2022 compare?
Minister Robertson, UK Pensions, and Risk
Written By: - Date published: 9:44 am, October 15th, 2022 - 19 comments
The political question is whether Kiwis currently losing money on paper can remember this: all investment involves risk and it’s entirely fair for our government to only manage so much of that risk and for the rest to fall on us the investor. Will irrational anxiety beat rational risk in our upcoming politics?
Too Old For Politics
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 13th, 2022 - 37 comments
Can you be too old to represent your people? New Zealand’s oldest person to first get elected was William Cargill at 71. Australia’ s John Howard was 68 when he retired, and Robert Menzies was 72 when he retired as Prime Minister. The previous US president is now 76 and will likely run again in […]
A few notes on how to get out of this mess
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 2nd, 2022 - 7 comments
“In an unstable complex system, small islands of coherence have the potential to change the whole system.” – Ilya Progogine.
Putin and Protest
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 pm, September 27th, 2022 - 16 comments
Interesting to see how the Russian protest plays out over conscription. Odd things happen in gatherings with tyrants. Jan 6 was one. But Romania 1989 was one Putin will know well.
We Need A Proper Constitution
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, September 20th, 2022 - 41 comments
She’s in the ground and it’s time.
What is This We Feel?
Written By: - Date published: 6:58 am, September 15th, 2022 - 52 comments
When Queen Elizabeth is buried it will be the last time we say goodbye to her. More than her.
Transition at the Limits of What People Can Cope With
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, September 7th, 2022 - 39 comments
Many European governments now face a perfect storm of threatened energy security, rising inflation, war-propelled refugee crisis, and climate objectives. New Zealand be warned.
Crikey v Murdoch & News Corp
Written By: - Date published: 11:17 am, August 24th, 2022 - 5 comments
Australian news site Crikey has taken on Murdoch’s News Corp by reposting an article accusing the Murdoch family of being “Donald Trump’s unindicted co-conspirator” and then taking out advertisements in the New York Times inviting Lachlan Murdoch to sue them.
By Nature Unfair
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, August 18th, 2022 - 28 comments
You can be the most moral nation on earth and have no reward for it.
Was This The Change We Needed?
Written By: - Date published: 1:07 pm, August 9th, 2022 - 11 comments
Crises that profoundly test a small developed state like New Zealand have required huge growth in state strength and policy power. But was it the change we needed?
Rage and the Woke
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, June 14th, 2022 - 69 comments
The past couple of years has seen a significant increase in far right activity and rapidly increasing racism.
Gang Control Policy Is Back Big Time
Written By: - Date published: 6:08 pm, June 12th, 2022 - 16 comments
We are about to have a proper gang control policy contest. It’s about time.
Ukraine as a Multi-Year war
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, June 12th, 2022 - 20 comments
The Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine is now three months old. Prepare for a very long grind.
Truthiness or Ignorance*
Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, June 10th, 2022 - 53 comments
The world is too complex and hostile, so why bother trying to learn and understand.
Who Will Protect Us From Media Power Now?
Written By: - Date published: 6:28 pm, April 26th, 2022 - 9 comments
With RNZ and TVNZ now in full merger mode, we have yet another untested state megalith upon us. But where is the power that will hold it to account?
RNZ’s weird take on MIQ
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 20th, 2022 - 93 comments
RNZ’s recent shock horror reporting on a memo from November 2021 proposing a wind back of MIQ is severely deficient. The framing is one sided and ignores the subsequent emergence of Omicron as a variant of concern.
Why trust in the media is declining
Written By: - Date published: 2:09 pm, April 10th, 2022 - 47 comments
A recent study into New Zealand’s media suggests that trust in what the media says is declining and that views of what is good and bad media is more and more dependent on the participant’s world view.
Water and Money
Written By: - Date published: 7:26 am, April 7th, 2022 - 20 comments
If the 3 Waters reforms can survive its attacks and be implemented, a consequence will be that we are going to have a most enormous nationwide economic argument about the price of water and who pays for it all.
Should We Just Settle?
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 29th, 2022 - 60 comments
New Zealand does not have to settle for being small, quiet, and weak.
The right to protest Christchurch version
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 22nd, 2022 - 31 comments
Christchurch Council has billed Destiny Church for traffic management fees relating to recent protests. For once I am firmly if reluctantly on the side of Destiny Church. Exercising the right to protest should not attract Council bills.
Pick a side
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 17th, 2022 - 351 comments
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky has made a direct appeal broadcast to the United States Congress. That will sort out the Putin supporters from the rest. And with climate change beckoning it is time to pick a side.
The world in 6 months
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, March 15th, 2022 - 117 comments
In six months time the world could be in a very precarious position.
Remarkably Hopeful
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, March 1st, 2022 - 18 comments
We will probably never get over the feeling that somehow, if enough people just banded together, it would all get better again, like we did when the United Nations charter was struck.
Why the Wellington protestors are wrong
Written By: - Date published: 10:52 am, February 20th, 2022 - 72 comments
The Wellington protest has exceeded any moral mandate to protest.
- New paper: Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
This is a quick summary about the newly published paper "Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections" by Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Geoffrey Supran, Professor of Physics of the Oceans Stefan Rahmstorf and Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes. It leverages a thread tweeted by Geoffrey Supran shortly after ...1 hour ago - In Praise Of Individualism.
Me, Myself, Eye: The great irony of individualism is that the nearer humanity comes to the point where every person can make their own life, the more doubtful many intellectuals become of its merit. But, before embracing the moral oblivion of collective identity; and the strictures of tribal tradition, they ...7 hours ago - Gordon Campbell on National’s fraught journey back to the centre
Ever since Christopher Luxon became leader, National has adopted a “small target” strategy. This consists of offering nothing to distract the media from its focus on the government’s shortcomings and the public’s discontent with its performance. In particular, the strategy involves releasing no policy alternatives whose own failings might then ...7 hours ago - Geoffrey Miller: What Japan’s foreign policy shifts mean for New Zealand
Japan is a country on the move. Since World War II, Tokyo has largely been happy to outsource its security needs to Washington. But this is now changing to a more equal partnership. On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called his country’s alliance with the United States ‘stronger than ...12 hours ago - 2023 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #2A 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 ...2 days 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 2023Items 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 ...4 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 boldnessThe 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 ...6 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 ...7 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 ...1 week 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) ...1 week 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 ...2 weeks 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 ...3 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
- 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. ...1 week 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
- Trade and Agriculture Minister to attend World Economic Forum and Global Forum for Food and Agricult...
The Government is maintaining its strong trade focus in 2023 with Trade and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor visiting Europe this week to discuss the role of agricultural trade in climate change and food security, WTO reform and New Zealand agricultural innovation. Damien O’Connor will travel tomorrow to Switzerland to attend the ...5 hours ago - Government funding relief for flood-affected Wairarapa farmers and growersThe Government has extended its medium-scale classification of Cyclone Hale to the Wairarapa after assessing storm damage to the eastern coastline of the region. “We’re making up to $80,000 available to the East Coast Rural Support Trust to help farmers and growers recover from the significant damage in the region,” ...6 hours ago
- Government provides support to flooded Tairāwhiti communitiesThe 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 ...1 week 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Why does Nepal’s aviation industry have safety issues? An expert explains
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chrystal Zhang, Associate professor, RMIT University A Yeti Airlines ATR 72-500 aircraft crashed in Pokhara in central Nepal on January 15 2023, killing at least 68 passengers on board. The aircraft was en route from Nepal’s capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, the country’s ...29 mins ago - Act Party goes hundies on summer releases
If there were a prize for the most indefatigable of New Zealand’s political parties, Act would win by a landslide. The fastest and most prolific press-release slingers of all the parties in parliament kept it up through the summer break, sending out a staggering 27 of the things between Saturday ...3 hours ago - Meet the New Zealand girl behind the creepy viral M3GAN danceThe most talked-about movie in the world right now is about a murderous dancing doll. Alex Casey talks to the Auckland girl who helped M3GAN find her groove. Amie Donald is just a regular 12-year-old girl. She loves building things with Lego, collecting Funko Pop Vinyl figurines and hanging ...3 hours ago
- Stuff answers a crucial question about tea towelsI spent what felt like an unfair amount of time over the summer washing clothes and a question that often came into my mind was whether or not it was acceptable to just chuck everything in the same wash. Specifically, tea towels at the same time as clothes. Stuff has come to the ...3 hours ago
- Disastrous floods in WA – why were we not prepared?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toni Hay, Expert in Indigenous climate adaptation, Indigenous Knowledge The devastating floods sweeping through the Kimberley region of Western Australia have caused unimaginable destruction, leaving remote Indigenous communities stranded in its aftermath. Heartbreaking reports detail community members desperately seeking assistance from ...4 hours ago
- Disastrous floods in W.A – why were we not prepared?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toni Hay, Expert in Indigenous climate adaptation, Indigenous Knowledge The devastating floods sweeping through the Kimberley region of Western Australia have caused unimaginable destruction, leaving remote Indigenous communities stranded in its aftermath. Heartbreaking reports detail community members desperately seeking assistance from ...4 hours ago
- Why combatting climate change means embracing degrowth‘Green’ electricity isn’t enough to turn the tide. All of us need to consume less energy, argues Dr Catherine Knight – and that means consuming less of everything. We are all aware of the ambitious changes we need to make if we are to avert catastrophic and irreversible climate ...4 hours ago
- Covid-19 update: Drop in average cases with 19,215 over past weekIn case you somehow put Covid-19 out of your mind over the summer break, fear not, the Ministry of Health has continued with its weekly updates. Over the past week, 19,215 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported, which includes 7,795 reinfections. The daily average number of new cases now ...4 hours ago
- EDS Calls For Minister Nash To Rethink An Inquiry Into Plantation Forestry
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- Political Roundup: What Japan’s foreign policy shifts mean for New Zealand
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- While O’Connor and McAnulty bring succour to flood victims, ACT unleashes a stream of warnings to ...
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- The Bulletin: A year on from the eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apaiNewshub’s Isobel Ewing is in Tonga at the moment, where the Newshub crew is the first news crew in the world to visit the tip of the submarine volcano since it erupted. The eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai was the most violent explosion on earth in 140 years. Ewing has spoken ...8 hours ago
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- Twelve classic clouds coming to a sky near you this summerBe 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 ...12 hours 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, ...12 hours ago
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- Tonga volcano eruption: PM reflects ahead of one-year anniversary of disasterBy 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 ...2 days ago
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- 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
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- 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 ...3 days ago
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 ...4 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. ...4 days ago
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