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“Creating quagmires” – US policy in Syria
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, September 5th, 2018 - 79 comments
Things are coming to a head in Syria, with a key meeting on 7 August between Syria, Turkey and Russia to discuss future strategy re the Idlib enclave where terrorist groups have been concentrated. The US and its allies want to retain influence, having lost it to Russia. A shooting war based on a false flag is a real albeit disastrous possibility to maintain US “quagmire” policy in the Middle East to date.
Clare Curran Demoted
Written By: - Date published: 4:11 pm, August 24th, 2018 - 51 comments
Clare Curran has been demoted after failing to properly account for a meeting with entrepreneur Derek Handley.
Daily Review 20/08/2018
Written By: - Date published: 5:40 pm, August 20th, 2018 - 28 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
The Pied Piper
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, August 6th, 2018 - 32 comments
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
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. […]
The Benefit Arrives
Written By: - Date published: 7:32 pm, July 31st, 2018 - 38 comments
Simon ‘Soimon’ Bridges calls his deputy by her critic’s favourite nickname. Cui bono, as the Romans used to say. Who benefits?
There’s nothing vague about National’s education policy announcement *
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, July 30th, 2018 - 30 comments
* according to Simon Bridges.
Caption contest
Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, July 29th, 2018 - 76 comments
Keep it seemly …
Bridges and his cheerleaders
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, July 29th, 2018 - 112 comments
National is pulling out all stops to suggest that Simon Bridges is not so bad as a leader.
Unparliamentary Language
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, July 11th, 2018 - 13 comments
“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”
The trade war
Written By: - Date published: 1:56 pm, July 9th, 2018 - 27 comments
The speed of the growing trade war between the United States and China will hit New Zealand. Our long term diplomatic arc, such that it is, was to follow a modernist impulse set after World War Two: that economic growth and democracy matched deep human impulses for freedom and prosperity together. China has never assented […]
Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, July 9th, 2018 - 60 comments
The Court of Appeal has released its decision in the Kim Dotcom extradition case. The case has had a lot of resources thrown at it by both sides and I hope my brief description does the arguments and the judgment justice. The decision can be read here. As befits the resources that have been poured […]
Daily Review 05/07/2018
Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 5th, 2018 - 27 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
The future of the left
Written By: - Date published: 6:45 pm, July 1st, 2018 - 40 comments
Australian Guardian columnist Van Badham writes “the future of the left is bright if it looks like Jacinda Ardern and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes.” She concludes “We can hope the influence of Jacinda Ardern and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes spread, or we can ensure that it does. The stakes for the marginalised remain life and death.” Very worth a read.
Daily Review 28/06/2018
Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 28th, 2018 - 26 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Student Fees
Written By: - Date published: 11:36 am, June 26th, 2018 - 26 comments
Reposted from Nick Kelly’s Blog One of the big policies the NZ Labour Party took into the 2017 election was to start reintroducing free education. Labour in the UK took a similar policy into their 2017 election, which is thought to have contributed to the “youth quake” which saw young voters turn out and vote for […]
It’s a girl!
Written By: - Date published: 6:20 pm, June 21st, 2018 - 25 comments
Congratulations to Jacinda and Clarke on the birth of a girl!
Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 17th, 2018 - 363 comments
Poverty is directly responsible for a growing number of people losing their teeth to decay. Adults unable to afford dental treatment are resorting to using pliers to extract their own teeth. Meanwhile, children as young as one are also losing their teeth. The numbers losing their teeth is phenomenal. During the 2015 and 2016 period alone over 29,000 children had teeth removed and over 6,600 children were hospitalised because of rotting teeth.
In defence of Eugenie Sage
Written By: - Date published: 7:28 am, June 15th, 2018 - 154 comments
Eugenie Sage has been criticised for granting OIO consent to the foreign buy out of a water bottling company and a piece of sensitive land. But from the looks of the details that have been released she may have had no choice.
Kiwis trust in Government surges
Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, June 13th, 2018 - 61 comments
At the same time that business confidence is in negative territory overall trust in the Government has surged. Why is this?
Caption contest
Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, June 11th, 2018 - 38 comments
Keep it seemly.
Donald Trump’s unusual diplomatic behaviour
Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, June 11th, 2018 - 44 comments
Donald Trump has chosen to insult Canadian leader Justin Trudeau and buddy up to North Korean leader Kim Jon Un all in the same week.
Who gives a hooton about climate change?
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, June 10th, 2018 - 125 comments
Matthew Hooton and Fran O’Sullivan have claimed that the Government’s decision to ban off shore petroleum exploration is “Orwellian”, part of an attempt to divert attention from other issues, bad for the environment and bad for jobs. Are they right?
The Northcote by election
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 pm, June 9th, 2018 - 212 comments
The Northcote election could be be extremely close.
lprent: Update. It was close. The preliminary results show a 1362 margin, reduced from about 6210 last election. The turnout was a bit under half of the previous election – not bad for a by-election.
Populism and population decline
Written By: - Date published: 7:55 pm, June 9th, 2018 - 63 comments
As we enter the era of relative world wide population declines, we are are seeing populist movements trying to put the finger in the dike. The two are related. Big cities beset by congestion and housing issues as the young flood into them. Populistic movements driven from left-behind areas. Voting patterns show the distinct differences between the large urban centres and those in the declining regions.
Who Really is Judging the Poor?
Written By: - Date published: 2:46 pm, June 3rd, 2018 - 89 comments
Some conversations about poverty are harming those in need. Those conversations contribute to the stigma and shame experienced by struggling families, who are barely surviving, but still trying to maintain some dignity. As a result even those in need are differentiating between the deserving and undeserving poor.
Simon Bridges, the three strikes law and the Bill of Rights
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, June 2nd, 2018 - 17 comments
National obviously desperately want to divert attention away from the Housing Corp methamphetamine fiasco. After five days of continuous bad news who can blame them.
It’s Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farming
Written By: - Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2018 - 166 comments
Not just, ‘we’ve got to make the good outweigh the bad’. I mean: why should dairy farming exist here?
Doofus of the week – May 27, 2018
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, May 27th, 2018 - 28 comments
Lots of competition this week with Katie Hopkins preferring to be called a racist to being described as being on drugs, Judith Collins for fronting the most naff scandals in the last decade, and Simon Bridges for going on tour to strange places. But the real contest was between Paula Bennett and Gerry Brownlee …
Why is Mark Richardson such a Nimby and …?
Written By: - Date published: 11:58 am, May 25th, 2018 - 46 comments
Being a nimby is the least of Mark Richardson’s problems. His disguised hate speech is harmful to his victims and anyone else in need of help who are left feeling the shame imposed upon them by such careless dialogue.
Daily Review 24/05/2018
Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, May 24th, 2018 - 8 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
- 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 ...18 mins ago - Media statement: Response to Interim report from the Tax Working group
Response to Interim Report from the Tax Working Group The Equality Network* welcomes the Tax Working Group’s interim report. Reducing income and wealth inequality in New Zealand is critical. The research is unequivocal – addressing inequality is fundamental to a ...39 mins ago - Australian fruit brands promise items found in strawberries will be ‘more fun’ from now on
Strawberries have traditionally contained more strawberry. Australian fruit brands affected by the recent spate of needles found in their strawberries are attempting to win back customers by promising that items found in their fruit will be “much more fun” from ...1 hour ago - Hard News: Drugs and the road forward
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 ...6 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 ...7 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 ...8 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 ...10 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 ...15 hours 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. ...16 hours ago 
...23 hours ago- New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere by around mid-century. Since the late 1800s scientists have been trying to answer the question, how much global warming will that cause? In 1979, top climate ...1 day ago - Wireless Docs: Suspended Generation
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 ...1 day 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 ...1 day 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 ...1 day 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 ...1 day 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 ...1 day 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?
2 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 ...2 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 ...3 days ago
- New research, September 10-16, 2018A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history (open access) State of the Climate in 2017 (open access) Temperature, precipitation, wind The strengthening of Amazonian precipitation during the ...4 days ago
- 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 ...4 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 ...4 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 ...4 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 ...4 days ago - An Authoritarian Tumour In New Zealand’s Democratic Brain.
4 days ago - No Substance To Her Stardust: Has Jacinda Lost The Magic?
4 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 ...4 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 ...4 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 now5 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 ...5 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 ...5 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 ...5 days ago
- NZ First’s Radical Conservatism Must Triumph Before Labour-Greens’ Radical Progressivism Can Suc...
5 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 ...5 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. ...6 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 ...6 days ago - The Kopako1 Protest: A View from the Inside
6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 days ago
- 125 years
6 days ago - Jul & Aug-18 Ridership
Auckland Transport have published the ridership data for July and August and they both look positive. Here is a quick breakdown of the two months. July The numbers for July look impressive, particularly with non-busway buses which saw double digit growth, ...7 days ago - Future for two ITPs lies in commissioner connecting to staff and communities
Press release 18 September 2018 Future for two ITPs lies in commissioner connecting to staff and communities Staff at Whitireia and Weltec polytechnics are resigned to the fact that the Minister of Education will be appointing a commissioner to replace ...1 week ago - Netsafe defends freedome of the pressLast week, rich prick Ray Avery tried to use the Harmful Digital Communicatins Act to suppress media coverage about him. But approved agency Netsafe has rejected his complaint:Internet regulator Netsafe has declined to pursue a complaint by entrepreneur Sir Ray ...1 week ago
- 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
Some good news yesterday with Auckland Transport announcing that Freyberg Square will be changed to a pedestrian mall following their consultation a few months ago. It’s a simple but important change that will see the retractable bollards defaulted to being ...1 week ago - Proactive releaseIn a major victory for transparency, the government will start proactively releasing Cabinet papers:Cabinet papers will be proactively released, Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins announced today. The move is part of the Government’s wider plan to improve openness and ...1 week ago
- HealthCarePlus Newsletter Spring 2018HealthCarePlus is a not-for-profit incorporated society that assists participating union members and their families access to competitive health cover. Read the latest HealthCarePlus newsletter here ...1 week ago
- Novichock detection and the Salisbury touristsImage credit: EU Today. The Salisbury novichok poisonings are a real can of worms. Media coverage is obviously politically, rather than scientifically, driven. Social and mass media reporting is highly partisan and the scientific components and reports (which are ...1 week ago
- Council add expectations to Auckland Transport
Every year Auckland Transport publishes a Statement of Intent (SOI) which sets out what they plan to achieve for the next three years, how they’ll monitor their performance and how they will contribute to the longer-term outcomes Auckland Council aims ...1 week ago - Doctoral theses in Māori: Advice for universitiesIntroduction – writing in te reo Māori at university Standard university policies in Aotearoa-New Zealand allow for any essay or dissertation to be submitted in te reo Māori as an official language, given suitable assessment arrangements are made. Alongside other ...1 week ago
- California plans to show the world how to meet the Paris climate targetLast week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed State Senator and US Senate candidate Kevin de León’s SB 100, which mandates that the state obtain all of its electricity from zero-carbon sources by 2045. That in itself was a big deal, but ...1 week ago
- Bring them homeIn 2016, Labour promised that they would withdraw kiwi troops from Iraq if elected. They lied:New Zealand will extend its military presence in Iraq until June 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced. Cabinet signed off on five military deployments on ...1 week ago
- Predator-free Waiheke?Over the weekend the government announced an ambitious plan to make Waiheke Island predator-free:Waiheke Island is set to become the world's largest predator-free urban island under a bold new $11 million plan to rid the Hauraki Gulf Island of rats ...1 week ago
- No more charter schoolsNational's charter schools are now officially dead:All 12 of New Zealand's charter schools have been approved for transition to state integrated schools. It marks the end to a rather short era. [...] "We have worked with the charter schools to ...1 week ago
- The police owe us some answers on Thompson & ClarkBack in March, the State Services Commission began an inquiry into government departments' use of Stasi-as-a-service firm Thompson & Clark. But there's one significant group which appears to have a deep and disturbing collaboration with TCIL which isn't covered by ...1 week ago
- Rise for Climate Report: Aotearoa to the World
Saturday 8 September was a wonderful, inspiring moment to be a part of the climate justice movement. An international day “Rise for Climate,” organized by 350.org, resulted in over 250 000 people, 900+ events, in 95+ countries, organizing local days ...1 week ago - A more convincing take on prenatal maternal dietary effects on child IQImage credit: Nutrition and Pregnancy: Choline For Baby’s Development Prenatal maternal nutrition is more likely to influence child cognitive abilities than fluoride. A new paper shows this by cionisder the effects of good or bad prenatal nutrition for the women in ...1 week ago
- Maori language on life support
by Daphna Whitmore Maori language week has just concluded and it felt like there was a lot more buzz around it this year. From media commentators, to friends, family and workmates more people are talking about learning Maori and plenty are ...1 week ago - Vienna Re-visited – A PT Model for Auckland?
This is a guest post from Taka-ite Introduction A couple of months ago Matt wrote of the extraordinary public transport system of Vienna. What Vienna has been able to achieve, and is continuing to achieve is so remarkable that, in ...1 week ago - More evidence of the class divide in NZby Daphna Whitmore A substantial report on class privilege in New Zealand has just been published in the Herald. It’s a compelling piece of journalism by Kirsty Johnston with solid evidence of entrenched class divisions in universities, particularly in enrolment ...1 week ago
- How to complain about Heather du Plessis-Allan’s racist comments
Some leaders of the Mau, a non-violent movement for Samoan liberation from harsh colonial rule by New Zealand. The New Zealand police killed eleven protestors at a Mau demonstration in 1929. What were her racist comments? Some items from ...1 week ago - Life Jackets Are NeededAs we sit on our deck in the spring sunshine at Ohiwa and enjoy the warmer temperatures, we notice each day another unmistakable sign that spring is upon us. There is a large and growing number of small boats out ...1 week ago
- Protesters greet mining conference field trip, demanding rapid phase-out of coal
PRESS RELEASE Protesters today greeted mining conference delegates on their field trip to the North Island’s largest coal mine near Huntly calling for New Zealand to rapidly phase out the use of coal to help stop climate change. The 15 ...1 week ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #37
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Paris Conundrum: How to Know How Much Carbon Is Being Emitted? An industrial complex in Oberhausen, Germany in January 2017. LUKAS ...1 week ago - What the Prime Minister Should Have Said to Business[After introductory remarks] This morning I want to address the fact that surveys of business opinion suggest that business confidence is not high. This seems to contradict the reports in the same surveys that firms are expecting higher sales, taking ...2 weeks ago
- Extra police to combat organised crime
The deployment of 500 extra Police to target organised crime will make significant inroads to efforts to reduce victimisation and improve the wellbeing of our communities, says Police Minister Stuart Nash. “The Commissioner of Police has today revealed details of ...7 hours ago - Largest Police graduation in over a decadeNinety-eight new Police constables will be deployed around the country with the graduation today of the largest single Police recruit wing in more than a decade. Police Minister Stuart Nash has congratulated the new constables who passed through the final ...5 days ago
- 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 ...6 days ago
- Next steps in digital monitoringFisheries Minister Stuart Nash has confirmed the next stage of digital monitoring across the wider commercial fishing fleet will begin in January 2019. “Electronic catch and position reporting is already in place for trawl vessels over 28 metres in length ...2 weeks ago
- Andrew Little to visit Ahitereiria (Australia) for Ngāpuhi huiMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little will hui with members of Ngāpuhi in Ahitereiria (Australia) next week to continue discussions on the Ngāpuhi Treaty settlement progress. It is estimated that more than 25,000 Ngāpuhi are currently living in ...2 weeks ago
- Reducing family violence harm top priorityMinister of Justice Andrew Little has today announced amendments to the Family and Whānau Violence Bill, designed to strengthen the legislative foundations of the family violence system. ...2 weeks ago
- Let’s not be chicken when it comes to animal welfare
New animal welfare regulations will be coming into effect in October. They are a step in the right direction but it’s more of a clean-up of the rules than an overhaul. There’s now guidelines regulating the use of tethers, fines ...3 weeks ago - Te Rohe o Te Wairoa third readingMinister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Andrew Little, welcomed hundreds of people from the iwi and hapū of Te Rohe o Te Wairoa to Parliament today to witness the third reading of their Treaty settlement legislation. ...3 weeks ago
- Historic Auckland Police graduationTwenty new Police officers have today made history at the first graduation ceremony of recruits in Auckland for more than 40 years. Police Minister Stuart Nash says the graduation of Section 5 of Wing 314 marks a generational shift in ...3 weeks ago
- Family justice reforms seek public support...3 weeks ago
- Think Big electricity?
The Electricity Price Review is tied to a Think Big energy strategy paid for by consumers instead of taxpayers. ...4 hours ago - Women’s Refuge congratulates Oranga TamarikiWomen’s Refuge congratulates Oranga Tamariki for their milestone pay equity deal for social workers, however voice concerns about the extension of this deal to social workers contracted by Oranga Tamariki. ...6 hours ago
- Unions and NGOs announce Two-day huiThe call for real alternatives to controversial trade and investment treaties like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is being heard around the world. ...6 hours ago
- 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. ...7 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. ...7 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 ...7 hours ago
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- Government extends troop deployments to Iraq and AfghanistanNew Zealand government extends troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 21 September 2018 (original url: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/21/nziq-s21.html ) New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government announced on September 17 that 121 ...3 days ago
- 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 ...4 days ago
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- Maniapoto and the Crown agree to a deferred timelineAs you will recall, in December 2016, the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) received the mandate to represent Maniapoto in Treaty settlement negotiations. Since then, significant progress was made with the signing of the Agreement in Principle with ...4 days 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 ...7 hours ago
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- 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 ...8 hours ago
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- Pacific Equity buys stake in Evolution
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, ...8 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 ...10 hours ago
- Derek Handley and the CTO saga that refuses to die
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- 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. ...11 hours ago
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- When falling home ownership and ageing baby boomers collideSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University Until now, the majority of older people in Australia have achieved the goal of owning their own home ...13 hours ago
- Privatising WestConnex is the biggest waste of public funds for corporate gain in Australian historySource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Standen, Transport Analyst, University of Sydney The NSW government has confirmed it will sell 51% of WestConnex — the nation’s biggest road infrastructure project — to a consortium led by Transurban, ...13 hours ago
- Art and science come together to examine the power and perversions of perfectionSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University Review: Perfection, Science Gallery Melbourne. It would be easy to assume that art and science occupy separate worlds. Art invites us to encounter ...13 hours ago
- The dumbfounding nastiness of Simon Bridges’ ‘meth crooks’ remarksThe National position on compensation over the meth contamination scare is incompatible with the party’s values, and reeks of weak and desperate leadership, writes Danyl MclauchlanLet’s take a stroll over to the National Party website and cast our eyes over their ...14 hours ago
- “It feels like Star Trek”
The Government which once called itself the "most open and transparent" the country had seen has been beaten to the punch in disclosing texts and emails with the man it terminated from the new role of Chief Technology Officer before he began. ...14 hours ago - Ardern calls for UN to improve conflict prevention
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called on the United Nations to ramp up conflict prevention efforts, saying the world must get better at identifying the warning signs before violence occurs. Ardern’s remarks, her first on the floor of the UN ...14 hours ago - Derek Handley releases correspondence with Jacinda Ardern and Clare CurranTech entrepreneur Derek Handley says his correspondence with the prime minister and former Digital Services Minister Clare Curran shows there was nothing inappropriate or untoward. ...14 hours ago
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A research breakthrough is slowly proving genetics could be a viable way to fight pests. Farah Hancock looks at whether gene technology could be used to achieve Predator Free 2050. In a world first, London-based researchers have used gene technology to kill ...15 hours ago - Ardern shares ‘joy’ of motherhood on US talk show
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- Jacinda Ardern on US breakfast TV show: joy of parenthood ‘far surpassed’ expectations&#...Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appeared on US TV talking of parenthood and joking about taking a three-month-old on a 17-hour flight. ...16 hours ago
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