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Remembering Chris Morley
Written By: - Date published: 3:21 am, August 27th, 2018 - 7 comments
On Friday 27 July 2018, Wellington Tramways Union Vice President Chris Morley passed away after a short battle with Cancer, aged 62. Chris had been a Wellington bus driver since 1978, when public transport in the city was run and controlled by Wellington City Council. In 2008 I was privileged to be elected to the Tramways Union […]
Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, July 2nd, 2018 - 48 comments
Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.
Petrol is going up, and up
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, June 30th, 2018 - 57 comments
Not all the current government’s fault, but the arrival of the fuel tax this weekend heralds a number of very sharp rises in what we have to pay in order to run a car.
English Council Elections
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, May 7th, 2018 - 16 comments
By Nick Kelly – Upper Hutt boy in London.
National wants to add to Auckland’s gridlock
Written By: - Date published: 4:11 pm, May 2nd, 2018 - 16 comments
National has promised to overturn Auckland’s Regional Fuel Tax. But has no proposal for how the funding will be replaced.
The Big Auckland Transport announcement
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, April 26th, 2018 - 39 comments
Minister Phil Twyford and Mayor Phil Goff announced the ATAP, the transport programme for Auckland for the next ten years. At $28 billion it is the largest civil infrastructure programme since World War II.
Auckland’s new fuel tax
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 37 comments
The signs are that Aucklanders are going to support a regional fuel tax designed to alleviate congestion.
A storm is coming
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 am, February 12th, 2018 - 65 comments
A big storm is set to hit Auckland next week. And it won’t be the last.
Auckland Council by election hypocrisy alert
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, January 22nd, 2018 - 13 comments
The National candidate for the Maungakiekie Tamaki Auckland Council by election is complaining that if the Labour candidate wins it will trigger a costly by election. But he is ignoring the fact that the three current by elections have all been caused by National endorsed local government representatives resigning.
Can This Government Regain Power on Its Policies?
Written By: - Date published: 11:46 am, January 17th, 2018 - 82 comments
The sixth Labour led Government has made a good start to its term. But what policy results will New Zealand have to vote for and campaign on in 2020?
Is it time to Nationalise Auckland?
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 am, January 13th, 2018 - 52 comments
It has been a decade now since Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide proposed amalgamating all of Auckland’s city councils into one enormous entity by dumping much of the Royal Commission’s proposals. Well it’s time to hold its results to account.
Sea level rise: coming to a town near you
Written By: - Date published: 10:52 am, December 12th, 2017 - 39 comments
From Newsroom:
“We now see building new suburbs on land prone to liquefaction in much of the country as foolish … We should see allowing new subdivisions on vulnerable coastal land as equally foolish.”
– Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright
All aboard for awesome public transport
Written By: - Date published: 10:03 am, November 30th, 2017 - 40 comments
What’s actually behind the employment discontent in New Zealand’s public transport? Turns out its the rule changes National brought in. CTU Secretary Sam Huggard blogs from Together.
Nett migration – still coming in fast and not going out.
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, November 23rd, 2017 - 42 comments
Statistics NZ has released the latest nett permanent and long term migration figures for the year to date at October 2017. There is a slight fall from a few months previously. But it remains a sustained high putting major pressure on infrastructure and resources – especially in Auckland. We need to massively cut any new migration here for years to catch up with the work.
Auckland’s impending environmental crisis
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, November 2nd, 2017 - 12 comments
Unless Auckland Council finds more funding for the environment the predictions for what will happen are dire.
NRT: This stinks
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 am, October 11th, 2017 - 71 comments
Idiot/Savant points to the unfairness of the Government having forced Christchurch red zone families off their land and now trying to sell that land at a profit.
Transport in Auckland and National’s deliberate incompetence
Written By: - Date published: 6:58 am, July 25th, 2017 - 35 comments
National appear to be completely uninterested in spending Aucklander’s transport taxes on Auckland. Instead they want to put in roads that have no economic measurable benefits for Auckland except to increase the road congesting trucks on our roads. Why do National hate Auckland?
National again subsidises their land banking contributors from taxpayer funds.
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, July 24th, 2017 - 25 comments
The announcement that National were granting infrastructure funds to develop housing projects in the far north and south of Auckland caused me some amusement. Wisely Auckland council resisted this boondongle that only benefits land bankers, speculators and their political party (National) for some time. To the point where National used taxpayer funds instead.
The possible privatisation of Ports of Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, May 19th, 2017 - 134 comments
The Government is attempting through coercion and cajoling to get Auckland Council to privatise Ports of Auckland.
Brownlee determined that Christchurch should suffer too
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, April 19th, 2017 - 25 comments
Christchurch rebuilt must suffer the same central traffic madness as Auckland. Thus decrees Gerry Brownlee, as short-sighted, bullying, and ignorant as ever.
National’s flawed RMA ripoff still failing
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, March 15th, 2017 - 13 comments
Maori Party Co-Leader, Marama Fox, is playing hardball over Nick Smith latest attempts to weasel out of commitments on the deeply flawed RMA changes that National has spent the last few years trying to find any support for in Parliament. The bill is crap. The Maori party should just drop it regardless how many baubles they think they will get from it.
Justin Lester: Why Wellington, why Labour, and how did he make conference cry?
Written By: - Date published: 4:49 pm, March 12th, 2017 - 9 comments
Via Noted, the Mayor of Wellington talks about his city, his mayoralty, and why he’s Labour.
Weak Cities
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, December 16th, 2016 - 44 comments
Current governance structures for our cities that rely on corporate management are proving to be ineffective and are not delivering the sort of result our democracy needs.
The best you can hope for, after the Local Government elections
Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, October 11th, 2016 - 55 comments
Now that the local government elections have been completed what is the best that local communities can expect of their elected representatives?
Utopians and pragmatists
Written By: - Date published: 11:43 am, October 10th, 2016 - 32 comments
Nick Leggett places himself in the “pragmatic” part of the Labour Party spectrum and derides others as being “utopian” and not interested in winning. But given the recent election result for the Mayoralty is he right?
Local Government results good for Labour and terrible for National
Written By: - Date published: 11:18 am, October 9th, 2016 - 80 comments
In Auckland, Christchurch and in mayoral races throughout the country Labour and Progressives had a very good day while National and its proxies must be wondering what they did wrong.
Local Government election results
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, October 8th, 2016 - 119 comments
A running post for people to comment on local government election results as they come in.
Expect results to come in from 1 pm.
Campaigning South Auckland style
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, October 7th, 2016 - 8 comments
The South has responded to the Matafai West Auckland effort from yesterday. Sua William Sio says that South Auckland is the Gateway to the nation and the land of the young, beautiful and gifted. Judging by this video he may be right.
Campaigning westie style …
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, October 6th, 2016 - 12 comments
The Matafai aiga from West Auckland show how to campaign.
Goff on foreign buyers; and Vote!
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 5 comments
Ban them / tax them, but lets reduce demand. And make sure you get your vote in for local elections!
WMBAD: #PleaseNewZealand, get out and vote
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, September 30th, 2016 - 14 comments
Your voting papers may be terrifying, but you have to make them count.
- ATs Student Travel Survey
While browsing the Auckland Transport website recently looking for some information, I stumbled across the results of a survey by Gravitas Research and Strategy on how students travel to and from university campuses It consists of a report (2.6MB) and a giant ...3 hours ago - Proctor struggles to explain why he also took two cans of beans, a beer, 60 dollars, and a bath
Despite his name and appearance, Dave Scott insists he is just “a human” and not “some kind of proctorbot.” Otago University proctor Dave Scott has landed himself in hot water this week after entering a student flat without permission and ...12 hours ago - Media statement: Response to Interim report from the Tax Working group
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Radio New Zealand asked me this morning to write an opinion piece on whether Jacinda Ardern and her government did the right thing by declining to sign up to President Donald Trump's Global Call to Action on the World Drug ...18 hours ago - Proctor steals bongs from houses in Leith Street
A Dunedin Proctor was recently found to have obtained a large quantity of bongs from houses in Leith Street, near Otago University. The Proctor in question, Mr Scott David, was distributing a New Zealand Fire Service pamphlet, which warns the ...19 hours ago - Abolishing urgency?
Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard has suggested an effective abolition of parliamentary urgency:Speaker Trevor Mallard has suggested sweeping changes to the use of Parliamentary urgency, effectively abolishing the practice in all but the most extreme circumstances. Currently, the Government ...20 hours ago - Climate change: Two-facedBack in April, the government put a bold stake in the ground for decarbonising New Zealand, by announcing that they would end offshore oil exploration. Now, they seem to be trying to roll that back:Energy Minister Megan Woods has opened ...22 hours ago
- North Shore New Network from Sunday
On Sunday Auckland Transport roll out the new bus network for the North Shore which is the final major implementation of the network. It’s been a long and windy bus ride to get to this point with the first discussions ...1 day ago - New narratives for discussing child poverty in New Zealand
There is great enthusiasm these days for using research and science to inform policy across the political spectrum. However, this has not always translated into how we talk about the solutions that are most likely to influence key policy actors. ...1 day ago 
...1 day ago- New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
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Suspended between a home they love and a world they are only beginning to understand, the kids of Kiribati face the harsh realities of climate change – rising sea levels, and changing weather patterns that threaten everything from safe food ...2 days ago - Climate change: Toned downNorth Carolina is flooded with animal corpses, pigshit, and toxic coal ash after a hurricane. A hundred people have died in the Philippines due to Typhoon Mangkhut. Extreme wildfires have ravaged California. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ...2 days ago
- NZDF’s contempt for democracyThe government's "inquiry" into SAS war crimes in Afghanistan is to be heard almost entirely in secret:Almost the entire inquiry into allegations of a deadly "revenge" raid in Afghanistan by the NZSAS is to be held in secret, with evidence ...2 days ago
- Making America Great Again?
In his successful 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump used a number of slogans which he and his supporters repeated ad nauseam. They memorably included “lock her up” and “build the wall” – but the one that seemed to resonate most ...2 days ago - A burglaryWhat is it with Otago University's proctor? First, they steal and destroy hundreds of copies of Critic because they didn't like the cover. And now, they're committing theft and burglary:A Leith Street flat says University Proctor Dave Scott trespassed and ...2 days ago
- Let’s Get Welly Moving – tough choices ahead
It’s been a while since there were any major updates on the Let’s Get Welly Moving project, so I had a look at their website to see whether there had been any major progress since the options that were announced ...2 days ago - Has Neoliberalism Colonised Our Minds?
3 days ago - Is this the week we lose the US climate battle?
By Rob Taylor By a 5-4 vote in 2007, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) said that greenhouse gas emissions should be regulated by the EPA under the Clean Air Act; this decision was the legal basis for Obama’s actions on ...3 days ago - Legal Beagle: The Ray Avery case; or just because you don’t like a law doesn’t mean it w...Businessman Ray Avery recently invoked the Harmful Digital Communication Act to make a complaint to Netsafe arising from a series of investigative pieces about him appearing on the website Newsroom.It is important to note that Avery didn’t complain that Newsroom ...3 days ago
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #38
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Solar Energy Largely Unscathed by Hurricane Florence’s Wind and Rain North Carolina gets nearly 5 percent of its electricity from ...3 days ago - Behind Trump’s lies about Puerto Rico death tollby The Spark September 20 marked one year since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. President Trump referred back to that storm, and the death count on the island, when he was warning people in North and South Carolina to flee ...4 days ago
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- Flashback Saturday: The demographics of travel to work
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This by post Matt was originally published in March 2015. The last census was two years ago and there’s already been a lot of analysis of the results of it. In terms of ...4 days ago - Media Statement: Fonterra, home of the poor-performance bonusFor Immediate Release Sunday 16th September 2018 FONTERRA, HOME OF THE POOR-PERFORMANCE BONUS The directors of Fonterra have set a dangerous precedent in rewarding the departing chief executive a $3.85m performance bonus for the 2017 financial year when the co-operative ...5 days ago
- Victory!Back in 2017, Greenpeace activists Russel Norman and Sara Howell protested against a foreign seismic survey ship as it explored for oil. The protest violated National's "Anadarko amendment", a law specifically outlawing protest against the oil industry at sea. But ...5 days ago
- Open Government: Business as usualThe SSC has released its draft Third National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership. The idea of the OGP is that countries make concrete commitments of policies which advance the OGP's values of transparency, participation, and accountability, but New ...5 days ago
- If you missed connecting NZ’s Meth Hysteria with National’s broader Privatisation Agenda, you re...
It seems bizarre that the idea the State under the then National-led Government wouldn’t use meth hysteria to further line their “moral stance” towards the poor, and the use of that in terms of their ongoing policy of offloading at ...5 days ago - An Authoritarian Tumour In New Zealand’s Democratic Brain.
5 days ago - No Substance To Her Stardust: Has Jacinda Lost The Magic?
5 days ago - Fuck tax cutsThe government's Tax Working Group released its interim report yesterday, which supported some form of capital gains tax. But Finance Minister Grant Robertson today wouldn't commit to taxing capital gains, with the usuual "not ruling it out, not rulign it ...5 days ago
- Hard News: Friday Music: Popping offI've said before that I think we're living in a rich era for New Zealand music, one in which the ambition and creativity of the artists is bulwarked with skills in the technical and commercial parts of the music business ...5 days ago
- The housing crisis: NZers deliver their verdict
. . New Zealanders appear to have rejected National’s on-going carping at the Coalition government’s ‘Kiwibuild’ programme. In a recent Ipsos Survey, 50% of respondants chose housing as the country’s most pressing problem facing New Zealand. (A similar question put ...5 days ago - Free Light Rail in the city?
The Herald ran a couple of interesting pieces on the weekend looking at Queen St and its future. The main piece is relatively good – although annoyingly gets my name wrong – but importantly shows the growing support for improving ...5 days ago - Trade War or Financial Crash?
A senior and respected economist recently remarked that he thought that there was a danger of an economic crisis precipitating a financial crisis rather than the other way around. He was reflecting on the current trade war which Trump is ...5 days ago - You’re not the boss of me now6 days ago
- Hard News: A painful reflectionThe report outlining Housing New Zealand's response to the harm caused by its misguided policies around supposed methamphetamine contamination of its properties is long and thorough.It puts a number on the tenants harmed by evictions which were very largely unwarranted ...6 days ago
- Better than expectedWhen the news emerged two weeks ago that the Tax Working Group had backed away from recommending a capital gains tax, I was angry. After all, producing such a recommendation was the purpose of the group, and imposing such a ...6 days ago
- Doing the right thingBack in May, the Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser revealed that the meth-testing industry was a scam, and that hundreds of Housing NZ tenants had been evicted from their homes under false pretences. Now, Housing NZ will be compensating its ...6 days ago
- NZ First’s Radical Conservatism Must Triumph Before Labour-Greens’ Radical Progressivism Can Suc...
6 days ago - Flight MH17 tragedy in Ukraine – new evidence
New evidence presented at Russian Ministry of Defence press conference, 17 September 2018. In July 2014 the Malaysian Airline Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew died. A Dutch-led international Joint Investigation Team ...6 days ago - Council chooses parking over housing
In June and July a series of guest posts ran on Greater Auckland about Co-housing, and the proposed Co-housing development in Grey Lynn. In summary these posts: Introduced the concept of co-housing Explained the proposed co-housing development on Surrey Crescent ...6 days ago - A New Monetary Policy NeededPositive Money New Zealand is a voluntary organisation that campaigns for monetary reform. It is affiliated to other similar organisations across the globe and in particular to Positive Money in the UK. I have the honour to be its patron. ...7 days ago
- In support of urban representation
Summary slides My story is the story of many Ngāpuhi who grew up in urban environments. We were raised away from our hapū and iwi. We do not always know the tikanga and kawa of our marae. We do not ...7 days ago - The Kopako1 Protest: A View from the Inside
7 days ago - Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warningsOne day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of ...7 days ago
- An open and shut caseWhen Massey University Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas vetoed a speech by Don Brash on the Massey campus, she claimed it was due to "security". Now, an OIA request from David Farrar has revealed that she lied:Thomas started discussing Brash's speech ...7 days ago
- Grudging progressAfter months of back-pedalling, the government has finally agreed to keep its promise and raise the refugee quota to 1500. But not until 2020:New Zealand will lift the refugee quota from 1000 to 1500 within this political term, Prime Minister ...7 days ago
- Britain: Corbyn spineless in face of Zionist onslaughtby Robert Clough As the Zionist campaign against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party reached fever pitch in July, the passage of the racist Nation-State of the Jewish People Bill through the Israeli Knesset exposes ...7 days ago
- Member’s DayToday is a Member's day. First up there is a local bill: the Muldoonist Tasman District Council (Waimea Water Augmentation Scheme) Bill to enable the Waimea dam. This has the support of everyone by the Greens, so unless it is ...7 days ago
- Another OIA reviewYesterday's announcement that the government would be proactively releasing Cabinet papers had a buried lead: the government may be planning another review of the Official Information Act:The documents revealed the existence of a Cabinet business committee paper produced last month ...7 days ago
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7 days ago - Jul & Aug-18 Ridership
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- Belgium stands up for freedom of speech in SpainBack in February, Spain sentenced rapper Valtonyc to three and a half years in prison for insulting the monarch. He promptly fled the country. Now, a Belgian court has refused to extradite him:A Belgian court on Monday ruled that Spanish ...1 week ago
- Freyberg Place to become a pedestrian mall
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- Council add expectations to Auckland Transport
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- Rise for Climate Report: Aotearoa to the World
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- Maori language on life support
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- How to complain about Heather du Plessis-Allan’s racist comments
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- Extra police to combat organised crime
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- New catch limits for thirty-two fish stocksThe commercial tarakihi catch in the fisheries areas off the east coast of the North and South Islands is to be reduced by 20 percent in an effort to rebuild the depleted stock. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash has also signalled ...7 days ago
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- OT pay equity agreementThe Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) is pleased to see that Oranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children, has reached an agreement in principle with its social workers on pay equity. ...19 hours ago
- Pay rates for NGO social workers should not be left behindNZCCSS welcomes the announcement today that Oranga Tamariki social workers have reached agreement on a pay equity settlement. ...19 hours ago
- Waste Forum: New Zealand’s Response to China’s Trash BanOn October 4th 2018, the Victoria Development Society is hosting a panel discussion featuring Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage, Wellington City Councillor Iona Pannett, CEO of Flight Plastics Keith Smith, and Lyn Mayes of The Packaging ...19 hours ago
- NZ joins Alliance shut down global trade in torture toolsAt a Ministerial meeting in New York on Monday, the Alliance for Torture-Free Trade agreed to step up the pace of its efforts and work towards a United Nations instrument - such as a binding convention - to stop the ...19 hours ago
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- Tobacco excise recommendation is a victory for evidenceThe decision of the Tax Working Group to recommend no further increases in tobacco excise should be applauded, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. ...21 hours ago
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- TEU coat-tailing to Massey Vice-Chancellor ‘sad’The Free Speech Coalition is labelling the Tertiary Education Union "sad" for not following the leadership of the student unions in expressing no confidence in Massey Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas for her ban of Dr Don Brash from campus and ...5 days ago
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- Antarctica’s ‘moss forests’ are drying and dyingSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melinda Waterman, Associate lecturer, University of Wollongong The lush moss beds that grow near East Antarctica’s coast are among the only plants that can withstand life on the frozen continent. But our ...15 hours ago
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return to surplusSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The budget outcome for 2017-18 shows a deficit of A$10.1 billion – dramatically less than expected in May, and just 0.6% of GDP. In this ...19 hours ago
- PE firm takes stake in Hellers
Australian private equity firm Adamantem Capital's bid to buy a majority stake in Hellers from Rangatira investments should get a green light from the Overseas Investment Office but may face more scrutiny than it would have previously, says David Pilkington, ...19 hours ago - Economic growth and ‘Trump-proofing’ – why the latest inter-Korea summit mattersSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Habib, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University Last week’s fifth inter-Korean summit provided another round of iconic moments in a year of extraordinary drama in ...20 hours ago
- Everything he does, he does it for us. Why Bryan Adams is on to something important about copyrightSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Giblin, ARC Future Fellow; Associate Professor, Monash University Last Tuesday Bryan Adams entered the copyright debate. That’s Bryan Adams the singer and songwriter, the composer of “(Everything I Do) I Do ...20 hours ago
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- Aged care failures show how little we value older people – and those who care for themSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bridget Laging, PhD Candidate, ACEBAC La Trobe University, La Trobe University As the royal commission begins investigating the failures of the residential aged care sector, it is important such a review also ...20 hours ago
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Pacific Equity Partners will buy a controlling stake in New Zealand private hospital operator Evolution Healthcare for an undisclosed sum. The Australian private equity firm has agreed to buy a majority position in Evolution from institutional investors including Roc Partners, ...20 hours ago - Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 25 2018
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- Peter Manning: Despite her good intentions, Michelle Guthrie was never the right fit for the ABC
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- We’re living in a golden age of feminist storytelling. And it’s only beginningThe rise in feminist writing is long overdue and will only grow, writes Claire Murdoch for RNZ.A year ago today I stood around our local school playground watching other New Zealanders going in and out of the hall there, quietly ...22 hours ago
- Derek Handley and the CTO saga that refuses to die
The aborted appointment of Derek Handley to the government’s CTO role continues to drag on – the latest installment is a folder of communications between himself, Clare Curran and Jacinda Ardern.Derek Handley has released a cache of communications relating to ...22 hours ago - Appeal Court scuppers Stuff-NZME merger
The Court of Appeal has upheld the rejection of plans to create a dominant newspaper and web publisher through the merger of Stuff and NZME. But the media companies haven't ruled out taking the case to the Supreme Court. The ...22 hours ago - Hey, proctor, leave our bongs alone: How Otago’s ‘campus cop’ is breaking the lawIf the Otago University proctor won’t respect students’ private property rights, students may have to take matters into their own hands, writes Otago law professor Andrew Geddis.Calling out members of your own institution for what you think is bad, indeed ...23 hours ago
- Official oil and gas analysis is ‘flimsy’ – PetersThe acting prime minister is dismissing an official report estimating billions could be lost by halting offshore oil and gas exploration as flimsy. ...23 hours ago
- Court upholds rejection of Stuff, NZME merger
The Court of Appeal has upheld the rejection of plans to create a dominant newspaper publisher through the merger of Stuff and NZME. The full judgment will be released later this week, but the court has dismissed the media companies' appeal. Stuff ...24 hours ago - MBIE’s Smol joinsContact board
Former top public servant David Smol is to join the board of Contact Energy next month. Smol previously ran the Ministry of Economic Development. He established the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in 2012 and ran it until 2017. ...1 day ago
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