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All that is wrong with America’s democracy
Written By: - Date published: 10:46 am, November 10th, 2018 - 40 comments
In Georgia, despite the Repbublican candidate who oversaw the election process engaging in the mass disenfranchisement of Democrat voters, the removal of voting machines to make voting in Democrat areas more difficult and baseless smearing of the Democrat candidate, the result is on a knife edge and a second vote is a possibility.
ILG, a Rock, and a Hard Place
Written By: - Date published: 6:40 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 91 comments
The Sroubek beat up is still with us. Why won’t National tell us what they knew and what they agreed to?
Labour Party Conference 2018
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, November 1st, 2018 - 149 comments
It’s conference time! The NZ Labour party is into it’s second century and into Government. What can we expect from this weekend’s hui in Dunedin and what policies and positions do Standard readers think need to be pushed?
An Ineffectual Opposition Is Bad News
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2018 - 42 comments
An ineffectual Opposition creates a vacuum that will be filled by the Mainstream and Social Media as they will assume the role of unelected and non-representative opposition in effectuo.
Lime Sour
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 pm, October 25th, 2018 - 56 comments
Lime scooters are this year’s finger spinner. The problem is that unlike last year’s must have toy, e-scooters are a public menace.
What are we waiting for?
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, October 20th, 2018 - 66 comments
We seem to be waiting for something? But what is it?
Jami-Lee Ross: But Wait, There’s More!
Written By: - Date published: 6:09 pm, October 19th, 2018 - 191 comments
Jami-Lee Ross has twisted the knife a little further into Simon Bridge’s back this arvo, releasing a second tape and announcing he won’t be quitting Parliament. Turns out he may need the income to fund a divorce.
Second Kremlin Killer Unmasked, Putin Untroubled
Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, October 9th, 2018 - 185 comments
We know the real names of the Russian spies who bungled the Salisbury novichok poisoning. Will it make a difference to the Kremlin’s plans?
Fighting for a just cause is empowering
Written By: - Date published: 8:49 am, October 8th, 2018 - 29 comments
A purpose in life is an awesome Force of Nature.
Failed Estate – the ABC of Trust
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, September 30th, 2018 - 7 comments
In Australia this week the Liberal Government has become embroiled in a scandal relating to political pressure being brought to sack the head of the ABC and one of its most senior reporters. Failed estate has the details.
How Patriarchy Works; A Newshub Special Investigation
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, September 25th, 2018 - 80 comments
A schoolgirl correctly identified exactly what caused the stink at Carterton South school. Why wasn’t she listened to?
Police spying must be investigated
Written By: - Date published: 2:13 pm, September 17th, 2018 - 14 comments
Amnesty International is calling for an inquiry into the actions of Thompson and Clark to be expanded to include their involvement in police activities.
The Government’s plan for a modern and prosperous New Zealand
Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, September 16th, 2018 - 130 comments
Text of Jacinda Ardern’s major speech delivered today.
We are failing kids from poor families
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, September 16th, 2018 - 77 comments
Kirsty Johnston has produced an in-depth analysis of the current rate of young people from poor backgrounds entering professional ranks. And the news is not good.
Paranoia, Bullshit and Ordinary Lives.
Written By: - Date published: 11:40 am, September 14th, 2018 - 125 comments
It seems that for some, trashing out the lives of ordinary people is fine, because “Russia bad”. It’s not fine…
Coalition Problems? Tell ’em they’re Dreaming!
Written By: - Date published: 6:44 pm, September 13th, 2018 - 82 comments
Oh dear. The Winston Peters led governing coalition has completely collapsed and thank God Simon Bridges is there to pick up the pieces. I warned you this would happen! And look! Over there … the sky is falling. Falling, I tells ya!
Is Politik a propaganda mouthpiece for the UK Embassy?
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 pm, September 8th, 2018 - 29 comments
In Politik’s 7 September issue we are told that Western diplomats in Wellington are surprised that Winston Peters has not accused Russia of the Skripal poisoning or joined some other countries in taking reprisals. Editor Richard Harman quotes a source to tell us that the British in particular were “pissed” at Peters’ response. Well dearie me. I’m with Winston, a wise old owl.
US Mid Terms; Obama Enters the Ring
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, September 8th, 2018 - 30 comments
America gets ready to rumble in the November mid terms, as Barack Obama enters the ring. At stake is control of both houses and the fate of the Trump presidency.
Kremlin Killers?
Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, September 6th, 2018 - 272 comments
UK Police have named the two Russian spies accused of the Novichok poisonings. But what can Britain do about it?
Let Chelsea Manning speak
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, August 29th, 2018 - 146 comments
Chelsea Manning wants to visit New Zealand and talk about how evil war is and what should be done to stop it. We should let her.
The Pope’s Letter to All Believers
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, August 22nd, 2018 - 64 comments
The pope missed a great recent chance to state that accused abusers should be walked to the nearest Police station, make written statements, face trial, hopefully jailed, then defrocked, and excommunicated.
About freedom of speech
Written By: - Date published: 9:44 am, August 12th, 2018 - 97 comments
Simon Wilson in the Herald neatly skewers suggestions that Donald Brash is a free speech warrior and raises important issues about the interplay between free speech and attacks on “political correctness” also known as tolerance and respect.
We need more radicals coming here
Written By: - Date published: 7:31 am, August 9th, 2018 - 68 comments
We need more radical voices again here. But it’s like MMP has turned us once again into the passionless people. It always looks like “hate speech” when you hate it.
The difference between Don Brash and Southern & Molyneux
Written By: - Date published: 2:38 pm, August 8th, 2018 - 66 comments
What is the difference between Don Brash and Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. And why should Brash’s right to freedom of expression be greater than Monyneux’s or Southern’s?
Should we defend global institutions?
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, August 8th, 2018 - 37 comments
With the world facing environmental, economic and social crises now more than ever before is a time for strong international institutions.
Guest post: The end of Neoliberalism – What went wrong?
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 7th, 2018 - 172 comments
The Left predicted the death of neoliberalism after the global financial crisis of 2008. But since then inequality has increased and new right nationalism is on the ascendancy. How should the left respond?
China and Google
Written By: - Date published: 7:52 am, August 6th, 2018 - 2 comments
Google is planning a launch of its eponymous spectacular search engine in which it allows censorship from the Chinese state. Some U.S. politicians aren’t happy about it. Principles are, in the words of the words of my tailor, funny; you loosen a bit here, you loosen a bit there, you find your trousers fall down. […]
South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 4th, 2018 - 31 comments
In 1962, John F Kennedy said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Is peaceful revolution possible in South Africa, Zimbabwe or New Zealand?
National is jamming cannabis law reform
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, July 27th, 2018 - 82 comments
So National be getting pretty liberal with the Marijuana stuff.
A right, Left problem
Written By: - Date published: 1:17 pm, July 24th, 2018 - 78 comments
A post suggesting that the traditional descriptive lens of “left and right” isn’t up to capturing current political realities.
Government with a plan
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 46 comments
The polls are great. Top work. But I’m getting worried about the entropy of this government already. Matthew Hooten and Karl Marx agree with me.
- Political Market Clearing.
As I watched the results come in on US midterm election night, it struck me that the tally was a microcosmic distillation of what democracy is in terms of preferred outcomes: no one gets everything that they want, but everyone ...8 hours ago - New research, November 5-11, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Zero CO2 emissions for an ultra-large city by 2050: case study for Beijing Climate change communication Developing a model of climate change behavior among adolescents Petro-hegemony ...14 hours ago - Flashback Saturday: Notes from Sydney City Centre
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in September 2015. The Sydney city centre is fantastic. It’s vibrant, varied, exciting: And, like all successful cities, full of people. So how do they all get ...16 hours ago - “Follow the Money” Archives new Zealand, the National Library and the Department of Internal Af...
At the height of the Watergate scandal, when the story had seemed to stall, Deep Throat told Bob Woodward that to understand what was going on he needed to “Follow the Money.” ...1 day ago - “A serious threat to public health”
That's how UK doctors have described that country's benefit system:Universal credit has become a serious threat to public health, doctors have said, after a study revealed that the stress of coping with the new benefits system had so profoundly affected ...1 day ago - Time for the government to pay upPrimary teachers are on strike this week, secondary teachers are planning the same, and next year there's the prospect of a joint teachers' strike meaning schools everywhere will shut. Meanwhile, other strike action is shutting down the courts, forcing trials ...2 days ago
- Communication Breakdown.
2 days ago - AT Annual Report “talks a good talk” but we need to see results
Tuesday’s Auckland Transport Board Meeting included a statutorily required review of how they performed for the 2017/18 financial year against their Statement of Intent (SOI). The results are outlined in their annual report, which provides a useful opportunity to take a ...2 days ago - Rating Reality Television.
2 days ago - Is Increasing Inequality of Wealth Inevitable?
This column is an exploration of the recently published The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. But first I need to attend to a couple of analytic points.read more ...2 days ago - Law change for sex self identification needs discussion not silencing
Daphna Whitmore Parliament is considering a law change to allow people to change their sex on their birth certificates by simply filling out a form. If the law is passed there will be no requirement to show any proof of ...2 days ago - Rail Siding Fund
Though the website is down at the time of writing this article one of the more interesting transport policies of New Zealand First was creating a fund/grant etc. to help fund private rail sidings. For those unfamiliar, a rail siding ...3 days ago - More dirty dairyingCouncils and the courts finally seem to be getting serious about dirty dairying, with another conviction in the Waikato resulting in a near-record fine:A Waikato dairy farming company has been fined almost $60,000 for discharging effluent into a waterway. H ...3 days ago
- The Fijian electionFijians went to the polls yesterday in the second elections since the 2006 coup. While bad weather forced polling to be suspended in some areas, and the final count is not yet in, the provisional results show coup-leader Voreqe Bainimarama's ...3 days ago
- Missing the point of Te Reo Māori3 days ago
- Kids in the city: housing
This three-part series of guest posts is written by Alex Bonham, a member of Women in Urbanism, who has worked as a Porse carer and is now researching “the playful city” for her doctorate. In this series of three posts ...3 days ago - The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires
This is the first entry in a Dana's new monthly column with Yale Climate Connections Now designated as California’s deadliest fire, the still-raging Camp Fire by November 13 had led to 42 deaths, with many residents still unaccounted for and more than ...3 days ago - The Armistice Centenary
The centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War has rightly been celebrated around the world. The Armistice brought an end to the horrors of a war that had been so terrible that it was described in retrospect, ...3 days ago - What Makes the All Blacks So Good?Both in the run-up to and during the aftermath of the All Blacks’ narrow victory over England at Twickenham, the world’s rugby media posed a frequently asked question – how can a small country with a population of only 4 ...3 days ago
- Come clean about Victoria University’s future, VC told
The Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Grant Guilford has been told by the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) to come clean about his plans for the future of the university after all staff were sent an email yesterday inviting them to ...3 days ago - Keeping a promiseAfter the Pike River disaster, then-Prime Minister John Key gave the victims' families an "absolute reassurance" that their loved ones bodies would be recovered. He lied, and left them to rot. Now, Labour is keeping his promise:The Minister responsible for ...4 days ago
- Pure cronyismSo, the rumours were true: the government has appointed former Labour deputy Annette King as High Commissioner to Australia. So much for Winston Peters' supposed opposition to such appointments - it turns out that he's really only opposed when they're ...4 days ago
- Trump and the media – codependents wallowing in the mud
If you look at the footage really carefully, Jim Acosta was extremely rough with Trump's intern.pic.twitter.com/Tbo5ULudGw — Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 11, 2018 Now, this is what “doctoring” really looks like! This whole Trump-Acosta issue got me thinking ...4 days ago - Pike River
Just putting a pin in this day. For them, we are returning. ➡️ https://t.co/H31Z8E5XZa pic.twitter.com/tG9lkLJAxO — Andrew Little (@AndrewLittleMP) November 13, 2018 ...4 days ago - Fullers plan: more ferries
Auckland’s harbours are one it’s defining features and correspondingly the phrase “we should make better use of our harbour for transport” is a common refrain we hear in Auckland. Fullers want to deliver that and today have released a report ...4 days ago - The Need to Diversify New Zealand’s War Narratives
On 11 November 2018, many thousands in countries all around the world stopped to commemorate the end of World War I. In New Zealand, as elsewhere, the date marked the end of a four-year long series of national remembrance activities ...4 days ago - Climate science comeback strategies: Al Gore said what?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Credit: Image by Karin Kirk. Don’t feed the trolls. You’ve heard this advice before, but how can anyone sit on their hands when the trolls are just so … wrong? ...4 days ago - 3 Reasons to invest in Punakaiki Fund Limited (Closing Tomorrow)
We generally hold one retail offer per year for people to invest in Punakaiki Fund Limited. As is normal this year’s offer has a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), and investors can apply online using our simple system. CLOSING TOMORROW AT 5PM ...4 days ago - Another reason to use a false name for OIA requestsBecause if you request information about a company, they may turn around and request information about you:In a case of the hunter becoming the hunted, people making Official Information Act requests cannot bank on remaining anonymous. Over the past two ...4 days ago
- Lest we forget, indeed. . .
Material on Redline about the First Great Imperialist Slaughterhouse War, aka World War I, includes over 50 items. Below are some of the main ones. Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s The Great Wrong War: New Zealand society and World War I Gallipoli Invasion: ...4 days ago - Report on 2018 ‘Historical Materialism’ conferenceby Michael Roberts This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and economic. But it’s economics that this blog concentrates on and so my ...5 days ago
- New Melon Health Investment
Punakaiki Fund has a public offer that closes on Wednesday, 14 November at 5pm. Read the PDS and invest online at punakaikifund.co.nz/investnow After some gestation it’s great to be able to share the news about our latest investment in Melon Health. We are leading ...5 days ago - Speaker: What almost everyone is missing about KiwiBuild
Many people are ripping into KiwiBuild at the moment. A lot of these criticisms have a strong whiff of partisan heckling – this is politics after all – some of them are fair and others are just looking for trouble.One ...5 days ago - A Diet Of Lies.
5 days ago - The Herald’s Latest Cycling Smear
An article that went up on the Herald’s site last night, and presumably in the dead tree version today, titled “Auckland cycleways overestimated demand to obtain taxpayer funding, says Auckland Transport report“, raises questions about some cycleway projects. Auckland Transport ...5 days ago - What are the climate change consequences of the midterm elections?This is a re-post from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Over the past two years, the Trump administration, aided by the Republican-controlled Congress, has eroded the Obama administration’s policy efforts to curb global warming. Climate activists had hoped to reverse ...5 days ago
- UnreasonableThat's the Chief Ombudsman's formal opinion of Horowhenua District Council's practice of redirecting, blocking and editing emails from people on a secret shitlist. While the Ombudsman recognises that sometimes members of the public might send emails that require management to ...5 days ago
- Hard News: Getting serious about the cannabis referendumThe organisers of last Friday's Cannabis Referendum Conference had a specific aim: they wanted to demonstrate that they, as the Cannabis Referendum Coalition, represented a credible, serious and organised campaign for New Zealand's forthcoming vote on legalising cannabis.They didn't have ...5 days ago
- This is what happens when agencies investigate themselvesThe State Services Commission's inquiry into its appointment of Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha has reported back - and unsurprisingly, cleared the SSC of any wrongdoing. The full report is here, but the short version is that the appointment panel ...5 days ago
- We don’t need more terror lawsBack in 2007, the New Zealand Police invaded Ruatoki, terrorised the town, and held children at gunpoint as part of a series of raids against "terrorists". But when it came time to prosecute the seventeen people they'd arrested, the whole ...6 days ago
- “Not a priority”On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the courts to formally declare laws to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. This does not overturn or invalidate them, but it sends a clear message to Parliament that ...6 days ago
- Nov-18 AT Board meeting
Tomorrow the AT board meet again and the Closed Agenda Items for Approval/Decision Northcote Point Ferry Wharf – This will likely decide the fate of the currently closed wharf. It’s noted that John Gillon (Kaipatiki Local Board), Cr Richard Hills and Dan ...6 days ago - “The Great War” and, like all wars, the hard questions it poses for society…
The Great War! The “War to end all Wars!”… and so it went. On the 100th Anniversary of Armstice Day, and the completion of that “War to end all wars!”, which history clearly shows it did not do so at ...6 days ago - A hundred yearsToday marks the centenary of the end of the first world war. While it wasn't quite the world's stupidest war - that title probably goes to the Football War or the War of Jenkins' Ear - it ranks among them. ...7 days ago
- What We “Don’t Know And Can’t Know” – The Truth About World War I.
7 days ago - New research, October 29 – November 4, 2018A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind Altered Disease Risk from Climate Change (A special issue in EcoHealth) Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types ...1 week ago
- Flashback Saturday: Public transport and congestion in Wellington
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was first published in September 2015. Last week, I took a look at some new research from the Netherlands that estimated the benefits of public transport for car travel ...1 week ago - What the Mid-Term’s weren’t, what could easily happen, and a rocky road to 2020
Firstly, we must open with that breaking news… Attorney General Sessions is out. But Sessions didn’t “resign” so much as he was basically asked to, well, GTFO – just in more “Presidential” terms, cough. But this is like swapping Trump ...1 week ago - CANA Newsletter, November 2018
Check out our November newsletter, which covers the Te Kuha decision, No Mining on Conservation Land, the IPCC 1.5 warning, Just Transitions, book reviews, and more! The post CANA Newsletter, November 2018 appeared first on Coal Action Network Aotearoa. ...1 week ago - The costs of choice in the New Zealand history curriculumHistory is not just an account of past events, but an interpretation. Which historical events are taught in schools, and how they are presented, communicates an important message to pupils about national identity. Currently, in New Zealand, these important decisions ...1 week ago
- Ending the pillageBack in 2015, we learned that miners were destroying Northland's wetlands to dig up swamp kauri and exporting the raw logs to China under the guide of "carved temple poles". The latter was obviously taking the piss, a pretext solely ...1 week ago
- RIP performance-linked fundingTertiary Update – Vol 21 No 20 For years union members have worked together to change the way the tertiary education sector is funded. Earlier this week, the government agreed with what students and staff have been saying and brought an end ...1 week ago
- Listen to staff on proposed merger of WelTec and WhitireiaChief Executive Chris Gosling and Commissioner Neil Barnes must take seriously and heed the views of staff and students affected by their proposal to merge Whitireia with WelTec, which includes closing the Kāpiti campus, and make the distinct local and regional needs of ...1 week ago
- TEU Kuia Whaea Kāterina Daniels retiresThe Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi held a special retirement celebration in Wellington recently with Whaea Kāterina Daniels to acknowledge her decades of service to the union that she has been a part of since the early 1980s. During that time she ...1 week ago
- Stuart McCutcheon will step down as Auckland Uni VC next yearUniversity of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon has said he will step down at the end of 2019. Reporting the news, NZ Herald quoted TEU national president Sandra Grey on the subject of the appointment process for his successor. She said academic staff at ...1 week ago
- One way of fixing itPrivate spy companies infiltrating environmental groups to disrupt and spy on them for governments and toxic industries seems to be becoming increasingly common. In New Zealand, there's a whole company, Thompson and Clark Investigations, specialising in it. But UK anti-asbestos ...1 week ago
- VindicatedBack in 2016, the High Court declared that National's 2010 prisoner voting ban (the one which was so shabby and shoddily passed that it brought Parliament into disrepute) was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. The case has worked ...1 week ago
- Sep-18 Ridership
It feels like it’s taken a while but we’ve finally got the ridership results for September and they’re looking positive despite there being one less working day than September 2017. Overall, ridership was up 4.8% on September last year but ...1 week ago - The White, Male, Losers’ Liberator Wins Again.
1 week ago - What If We Are On Our Own?In order to maintain international liquidity during the Global Financial Crisis, the US Federal Reserve and other central banks arranged $US580b of ‘currency swaps’ in which for a limited period they exchanged US dollars for the local currencies.read more ...1 week ago
- Restoring the RMADuring its final term in office, National removed democracy from the RMA by removing notification and appeal rights while allowing Ministers to dictate local plans from their office in Wellington. now Labour is planning to repeal that as the first ...1 week ago
- Police look the other way on crime by their ownAnother report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority was released today, finding that police who sped at 200 km/h down a busy Auckland motorway during a pursuit violated pursuit policy in multiple ways and should have been charged with dangerous ...1 week ago
- Third Main UpdateApologies It has been a long time since my last post. I have had a little trouble with my health and as a result had to move to Brisbane. I’m feeling slightly better now and hoping that I can get ...1 week ago
- Good riddanceThe government's offshore oil exploration ban has already borne fruit, with Canadian oil firm TAG Oil quitting New Zealand:Taranaki oil and gas producer TAG Oil is selling its New Zealand operations for US$30 million to Tamarind Resources, citing the less ...1 week ago
- Good – But Could Be BetterLabour was, not surprisingly, in good heart at its annual conference last week in Dunedin, as Jacinda Ardern celebrated her first anniversary as Prime Minister. The past year has not been without its difficulties for the new government, but the ...1 week ago
- Viewshaft E10: “The full cost could easily be double”
This is a follow up guest post from Geoff Cooper, Director of Economics at PwC, on work he’s done looking at viewshafts. You can read the first post here. I’ve had a lot of feedback on the results of our ...1 week ago - Brexit—another day in the death of the old world orderJohn Smith looks at Britain’s impending departure from the EU in a wider context and explains why the Irish border has become such a make-or-break issue. (Originally published on MR online) Five months before the March 29 leaving date, ...1 week ago
- Climate change science comeback strategies: ‘In it for the money’
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Image by Karin Kirk. When you don’t like the message, attack the messenger. It’s an age-old tactic and an easy way to energize opposition while distracting from the real issue ...1 week ago - Climate Change: The next stepThis morning Parliament passed the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Act, outlawing future offshore oil and gas exploration. As I've already argued, its fatally compromised by allowing existing permits to be extended and expanded - effectively giving the fossil fuel industry ...1 week ago
- EMBARRASSING: Winning Melbourne Cup horse just ran around in a big circle like some kind of idiot
What a stupid animal. It’s been revealed today that Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter only won the race by running around in a circle like some big, dumb, horse-faced idiot. Counter, 3, was hailed by the excited crowd as he ...1 week ago - 17,000 employed under LabourThe labour market statistics have been released, showing that unemployment has dropped to 3.9% - its lowest level since 2008. The number of unemployed has dropped to 109,000, 17,000 less than when the government took office. This is a ...2 weeks ago
- Ramshackle and decrepitWatching the US elections from the bottom of the world in New Zealand, I'm struck by how ramshackle and decrepit the system is. The tales of broken or even missing voting machines and long queues to vote bring to mind ...2 weeks ago
- Hard News: The MidtermsThis week's US midterm elections are inescapably a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency, and would have been so even if he hadn't gone to such lengths to make it that way.The closing campaign ad that was so racist and mendacious ...2 weeks ago
- Auckland’s City Centre Plans
Auckland’s city centre has been growing strongly with more and more people living, working or studying there. On top of that, over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen a significant shift with more people now arriving in the city centre ...2 weeks ago - Whitireia and WelTec MergerCE and Commissioner must listen to staff and make regional needs a priority in proposed merger of Whitireia and WelTec The Tertiary Education Union (TEU) today called on Chief Executive Chris Gosling and Commissioner Neil Barnes to take seriously ...2 weeks ago
- Trans-Tasman partnership behind cocaine bust
Police Minister Stuart Nash says the seizure of 190 kilograms of cocaine in Auckland demonstrates the strength of partnership between Australian and New Zealand law enforcement agencies in preventing the harm drugs cause in our communities. “Targeting transnational organised crime ...1 day ago - Extra Police constables deployedSeventy-nine new Police constables will be deployed across New Zealand following the graduation of a new wing of recruits. Police Minister Stuart Nash has congratulated the recruits of Wing 320 at the formal graduation parade at the Royal New Zealand ...2 days ago
- SPEECH – Andrew Little confirms Pike River Mine Drift re-entry plan to proceedNext Monday is the 8th anniversary of the dreadful tragedy at Pike River Coal Mine. Two men escaped with their lives. 29 others never came home. ...4 days ago
- Andrew Little confirms Pike River Mine Drift re-entry plan to proceedThe Pike River Mine Drift will be re-entered, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little announced today. ...4 days ago
- Significant step in Pike River drift re-entryMinister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little has received the report on re-entering the Pike River drift following nine months of intensive work by Te Kāhui Whakamana Rua Tekau Mā Iwa Pike River Recovery Agency. ...2 weeks ago
- The Nation: Shane Jones
• Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones said he takes responsibility for the mulching of $160,000 worth of seedlings destined for Ngati Hine Forestry Trust. He said while it was a slip up between the "advisers and the actual officials" ...10 hours ago - The Nation: Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker• Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker says New Zealand is trying to position itself as the bridge between the United States and China. “We have a bit of a reputation for the honest broker, and it’s times like ...11 hours ago
- Musicians join call to stop incarcerating children on Nauru"Children Don’t Belong in Jail" is a new protest song released today by New Zealand musicians Luke Buda and Don McGlashan in response to the plight of the refugee children still detained on the island of Nauru. Don and Luke ...12 hours ago
- NZUS Council Mike Moore Congressional Interns departThe New Zealand United States Council today farewells four interns on their way to work in Washington DC courtesy of the NZUS Council Mike Moore Internship Programme. The programme is conducted in partnership with the University of Canterbury, Victoria ...1 day ago
- Ministry of Education offers $10,000 to most teachersIt is hard to understand why the teaching unions are threatening further campaigns before the NZEI members get the opportunity to vote on the settlement offer, and while the PPTA is still in active bargaining with the Ministry. ...1 day ago
- Trout Anglers Want Whitebait and Eels “De-commercialised”A trout and rivers advocacy group the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers want native fish in whitebait and eels largely de-commercialised. Federation president Graham Carter spoke out in support of the Forest and Bird Society who recently said whitebait ...1 day ago
- Questions Remain for Justice Select CommitteeSignificant questions remain for the Justice Select Committee as it finishes hearing oral evidence from more than 2,000 New Zealanders on the End of Life Choice Bill. ...1 day ago
- Israel Institute condemns hate speech at Music AwardsIsrael Institute of New Zealand director, Dr David Cumin, has condemned a speech given at the recent Vodafone Music Awards by the lead of New Zealand hip-hop music group Upper Hutt Posse calling it ‘blatant incitement to violence’. ...1 day ago
- TOP Leadership Election Candidates announcedThe Opportunities Party has announced candidates for the Leadership and Member Representative roles in the party elections to be held in early December. ...1 day ago
- Hamilton-Auckland rail plan would cost $185 per personA passenger service between Auckland and Hamilton requiring a reported $57.7 million in ratepayer and taxpayer subsidies works out as at least $185 per passenger per trip, calculates the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. ...1 day ago
- Blind people significantly under employed around the worldToronto, Ont. – People with sight loss are significantly less employed full-time than their sighted counterparts, according to a recent survey from the CNIB Foundation, Vision Australia and the Blind Foundation of New Zealand. The results were nearly ...2 days ago
- Tauranga rough sleeping ban vote callousThe Tauranga council voted in favour of a bylaw banning begging and rough sleeping within 5m of public entrances to retail and hospitality premises in Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Greerton. Auckland Action Against Poverty condemns the move by the ...2 days ago
- NZBA calls for resolution to court strikeThe country’s professional body for barristers, the New Zealand Bar Association, says the current dispute between the Ministry of Justice and court staff should be resolved as quickly as possible because of safety considerations. ...2 days ago
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- Scroogey Auckland Council Spoils Kids’ Santa ParadeA Family First NZ is labelling a decision by Auckland Council’s events group (ATEED) to defund the Auckland Santa Parade as scroogey and a politically correct hijack of one of the city’s most iconic annual events. ...2 days ago
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- Working people killed in Pike River will not be forgottenThe Council of Trade Unions President Richard Wagstaff today welcomed the long-awaited release of the Pike River re-entry plan as a victory for the Pike River community and families of the men killed working in the mine. "For eight years, ...4 days ago
- Working people killed in Pike River will not be forgottenThe Council of Trade Unions President Richard Wagstaff today welcomed the long-awaited release of the Pike River re-entry plan as a victory for the Pike River community and families of the men killed working in the mine. "For eight years, ...4 days ago
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