My civics – the New Zealand civil war

Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:19 pm, November 18th, 2018 - 67 comments
Categories: democratic participation, education, history, military, political education, schools, war - Tags: Maori, new zealand wars

I was looking at Feeds on the right hand side of the site, and saw an interesting post from Briefing Papers titled ““Follow the Money” Archives new Zealand, the National Library and the Department of Internal Af..”. However it appears to have been taken down (more on that later ¹).

But there was a series of posts on the New Zealand Civil War from Otago and Wellington University that were interesting.

“The Need to Diversify New Zealand’s War Narratives” by Richard Jackson
“The costs of choice in the New Zealand history curriculum” by Rachel Rafferty

“Te Pūtake o Te Riri” by Arini Loader

“The New Zealand Wars and the School Curriculum” by Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley

Rachel Rafferty’s post in particular resonated with me.

History 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 are left in the hands of individual educators. The 2010 curriculum requires pupils to develop skills of historical enquiry, but does not specify any compulsory topics. The curriculum does nothing to prevent educators ignoring events or perspectives that they do not personally consider important. This means that teachers can be influenced by their own biases when selecting which time periods, and whose perspectives, they share with their pupils.

Despite growing diversity among pupils in New Zealand’s state schools, 74% of primary and secondary teachers are of Anglo-European ancestry. While this does not mean they will all have biases that impact their teaching, research suggests New Zealand’s history teachers often avoid any topic they deem controversial. In fact, there is evidence that a core group of around 20% of history teachers resist engaging with New Zealand’s colonial history, including the New Zealand wars. As a result, many schools continue to teach European history while ignoring key events that have shaped the development of New Zealand society into the present.

New Zealand is a place that really doesn’t go much for rah-rah patriotism or even basic civics. Sure there are some crazies ² who seem to pour their patriotic instincts into sporting events and wave their favorite flags for region or country of origin. But I guess it keeps such obsessives carefully involved in inconsequential things that don’t impact the rest of us too much.

But it is extremely important that we don’t leave our young (and old) to ignore our history and its effects. I’d say that there is simply nothing as important in New Zealand as understanding where our society formed and what the enduring effects of it are. And I can’t think of anything else that was quite as important the our civil wars of the 1845-1872 (and onward).

My ancestral families settled here from the 1820s and right the way through this period. So like many of the descendants of that period, I’ve always been aware of it, and it forms a large part of my thinking on our society. Moderation and a clear understanding is what is required to deal with the fools, bigots, and demagogues who, for their own selfish purposes, are willing to let this society fall into civil conflicts.

If you look at the partisan and ill-informed debacle that is the state of United States politics over the last couple of decades (or even our Australian cousins) you can probably see why that is a good thing. While we tend to muddle on with our largely understated and often unstated constitutional matters. It generally seems to work out with a lot of hiccups and bumps on the way – but with a clarity of dialogue. Both internally and externally..

Since the second world war, we have largely tended get involved in other countries militarily when it is required internationally. Like supporting the process of independence in East Timor, the civil conflict in the Solomon Islands, trying to deal with the chaos spilling into other societies arising out of the anarchy of Afghanistan, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, etc.

Of course that list isn’t complete, as it seems to skip a few like Vietnam, Borneo, Malaysia, and others that were done not as part of international multilateral efforts. Generally multilateral internationalist efforts to diminish conflicts tend to work way better than the other almost imperialistic interventions.

But our lack of any sense of a patriotic divine mission tends to mean that we don’t often get too involved in daft unwinnable wars with dubious objectives. For me there is nothing worse than the “Coalition of the Willing” in the illegal, unwarranted, and outright stupid 2003 invasion of Iraq. History has shown that we’ve good reason to stay out of such strange disasters.

In a large part, I think that this attitude reflects our colonial history and the makeup of our armed forces. From teara you can see the ethnicity of our armed forces in 2012.

Note: most responses in the ‘other’ ethnicity category were ‘New Zealander’ or ‘Kiwi’.

That over represented percentage of Māori (approx 15% of the population identify as Māori) in our army represents a population who are still directly dealing with the after effects of an ill-advised and rather stupid military conflict that started here about 150 years ago. As any soldier involved in the post-WW2 army is aware, the vast majority of soldiers and especially the professionals are either Māori or from families that have been long settled here. They also tend to be the most skeptical about reasons for deploying the military and demand clear rationales.

The reason for this is some bloody stupid political deployments of the military in the past. Our civil war and the Gallipoli campaign in particular. Or the proposed deployment of the SAS by David Lange to Fiji in 1987.

There is however no better example in our history of the root causes of our own colonial politicians deployment of British Imperal and settler troops in 1860. they were triggered by simple greed and scams over land and a monumental set of misunderstandings. As Wikipedia summarizes:-

Though the wars were initially localised conflicts triggered by tensions over disputed land purchases, they escalated dramatically from 1860 as the government became convinced it was facing united Māori resistance to further land sales and a refusal to acknowledge Crown sovereignty. The colonial government summoned thousands of British troops to mount major campaigns to overpower the Kīngitanga (Māori King) movement and also acquire farming and residential land for British settlers.^[4]^[5] Later campaigns were aimed at quashing the so-called Hauhau movement, an extremist part of the Pai Mārire religion, which was strongly opposed to the alienation of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity.^[6]

At the peak of hostilities in the 1860s, 18,000 British troops, supported by artillery, cavalry and local militia, battled about 4,000 Māori warriors^[7] in what became a gross imbalance of manpower and weaponry.^[8] Although outnumbered, the Māori were able to withstand their enemy with techniques that included anti-artillery bunkers and the use of carefully placed pā, or fortified villages, that allowed them to block their enemy’s advance and often inflict heavy losses, yet quickly abandon their positions without significant loss. Guerilla-style tactics were used by both sides in later campaigns, often fought in dense bush. Over the course of the Taranaki and Waikato campaigns, the lives of about 1,800 Māori and 800 Europeans were lost,^[4] and total Māori losses over the course of all the wars may have exceeded 2,100.

It is a conflict that caused widespread dislocation and dispossession of the Maori population with some pretty severe medical effects (to the point of nearly wiping out the Maori population through introduced diseases), and bigot driven distortions in the subsequent society that last through to today.

Large areas of land were confiscated from the Māori by the government under the New Zealand Settlements Act in 1863, purportedly as punishment for rebellion.^[63] In reality, land was confiscated from both “loyal” and “rebel” tribes alike. More than 16,000 km² (6,200 sq mi) of land was confiscated. Although about half of this was subsequently paid for or returned to Māori control, it was often not returned to its original owners.^[64] The confiscations had a lasting impact on the social and economic development of the affected tribes.

The legacy of the New Zealand Wars continues, but these days the battles are mostly fought in courtrooms and around the negotiation table. Numerous reports by the Waitangi Tribunal have criticised Crown actions during the wars, and also found that the Māori, too, had breached the treaty.^[65] As part of the negotiated out-of-court settlements of tribes’ historical claims (Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements), as of 2011 the Crown is making formal apologies to tribes.^[66]

The social effects and costs show directly within our society. No more so than the appalling and persistent ethnic makeup of our prison population. From the Stats department (my highlights) :-

Table 2 shows that at 30 June 2012, Māori made up 51 percent (4,391) of the total prison population. European prisoners made up 33 percent (2,835), and Pacific peoples accounted for 12 percent (1,006) of the total.

The ethnic proportions differ between the sexes. In 2012, 58 percent of female prisoners were Māori, while 51 percent of males identified as Māori. In contrast, 12 percent of all male prisoners were Pacific peoples, while just 5 percent of women in prison were this ethnicity. The percentages for prisoners of identifying as European were very similar (31 percent of females and 33 percent of males).

Table 2

Ethnicity of prisoners By sex
Ethnicity	Female		Male		Total
Ethnicity	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Māori	304	58	4,087	51	4,391	51
European	163	31	2,672	33	2,835	33
Pacific peoples	24	5	982	12	1,006	12
Asian	17	3	218	3	235	3
Other/unknown	19	4	132	2	151	2
Total	527	100	8,091	100	8,618	100

That appalling statistic is a direct consequence of a poorly conceived and badly run war by self-interested settler politicians in the 1860s and the subsequent deliberate political disintegration of Māori society through various policies.

So when you hear your next ill-informed romantic or bigot on radio, family or in the pub who clearly hasn’t had their civics and history lessons, ask them when they served and if they understand our own history. And pressure those educators to grow a spine to explain this episode with all its gory detail to our kids.

You’ll be doing them and us all a favor. Remember

I’m always interested in things to do with our national archive. This site has a special dispensation for trawling by the NatLib (and here) after I got irritated with a harvesting bot. If anyone has an archive of http://briefingpapers.co.nz/follow-the-money/ or knows Don Gilling and what he was writing about, I’d be interested in reading it.
As an aside, I personally find it ridiculous and pointless for adults to vicariously get involved in obsessing on other people’s sporting activities. While I played a great deal of sport when I was a kid in the process of learning to run my growing body. That lapsed after I went into the territorials ³ and work, and started to use my mind and body towards some serious purposes.
As anyone who has ever seen me moderating on this site will be aware, I am neither a pacifist nor a person who tolerates ideological stupidity from any side much. In the quite obvious real-world position of having fools running political systems and a lack of world or civil peace, having a military is exactly the insurance policy that our society and most others need. I spend considerable amounts of time trying to improve military training. So I give fair warning. If I see anyone trying to drag this post off into strange off-topic areas, I’m quite prepared to show how just how irritated I get with arguments that I looked at and and probably discarded before I left my teens. I’d suggest that OpenMike would be a better place to launch into such discussions. Stay on topic.

67 comments on “My civics – the New Zealand civil war ”

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R.P Mcmurphy 1

18 November 2018 at 5:50 pm

there are some people in the middle east who are still going on about Alexander the Great.
I hate war.
when I was young I loved it.
violence.
mayhem.
bloodshed.
death.
hatred.
resentment.
I dont like that anymore.
Ad 2

18 November 2018 at 6:43 pm

“…a core group of around 20% of history teachers resist engaging with New Zealand’s colonial history, including the New Zealand wars.”

Meaning 80% of history teachers are fine with it. That’s pretty good.

And 74% of teachers are European ancestry apparently means that they have some implied bias again teaching about local wars?

Lyn it ain’t the locals who are ignorant. It’s the foreign teachers.

Other than the just-completed state funded full four-year programme of national commemoration together with multiple teaching units, televised national ceremonies, massive extensions to the national war memorial in Wellington, and absolutely zero support from the left for even talking about war when they would rather talk about a breakdown in the National Party (over 900 comments here alone), maybe there’s simply a limit to young people giving a damn.

As for worrying about who serves in the military or not having an opinion, our military is insignificant, and that is a good thing across all levels of our society.
- locus 2.1
  
  18 November 2018 at 9:54 pm
  
  … there are many problems identified in this excellent post by LPRENT: one is the failure of NZ school history curriculum to require the land wars to be taught to all school children, a second is that research by two academics has shown that a “hard core of history teachers refuse to teach the country’s colonial history” Both of these issues need to be thoroughly investigated and challenged.
  
  From my point of view teaching colonial history should not be an option in New Zealand schools and should be considered a core element in the curriculum.
  
  I haven’t read the academic research, but it seems unlikely that the findings identified NZ Europeans or “foreign teachers” as “ignorant”. But if you can point me in the direction of the basis for your comment, perhaps that would be an important aspect to address. However, my reading is that ‘refusal’ to teach the subject does not imply ignorance.
  
  Your point about the Left not supporting “talking about war” is somewhat of a non-sequitur. TS is not the Left, as you undoubtedly know…. Just because people are fascinated by the complete disaster that is unfolding in the opposition party and don’t talk about war on TS doesn’t mean that they don’t have a view or don’t talk about war in other forums.
  
  Regarding your comment on military experience, have you been a professional solder Ad? If so, perhaps you can give some context to your assertion that “our military is insignificant” and that this is “a good thing across all levels of our society”.
  - Ad 2.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 10:19 am
    
    We have one of the smallest armed forces in the world.
    We provide a very small part of our national budget to our armed forces.
    On both counts not significant.
    
    It plays a very small part in our society because we are a peaceful and settled country with very few threats anywhere near our horizon.
    That means in terms of security we don’t need much of a military.
    Which is a very good thing across all levels of our society.
    
    They do a great job in the stuff they do.
- lprent 2.2
  
  19 November 2018 at 2:49 am
  
  As for worrying about who serves in the military or not having an opinion, our military is insignificant, and that is a good thing across all levels of our society.
  
  At some point figure out the numbers of people who rotate through the various services – military, police, emergency services, front line medical, social welfare, trade unionists and other hard line systems that our society relies upon and where they wind up after they have done their service. Then consider exactly what kind of people volunteer to do those duties for even the short time that they can do them.
  
  You’d be surprised how it adds up over the decades, and how they never forget the hard lessons learnt. There are more things around that you learn by doing than you can see from the policy wonk levels.
  
  It often makes talking to civilians about the real fragility of societies to be so tedious – as you have just demonstrated.
  
  The military was just used in this case as an example relevant to the discussion.
  
  You have this platform here precisely because I never did forget.
  - Ad 2.2.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 10:22 am
    
    We don’t have a fragile society. We are not another country. We are New Zealand.
    
    We are a successful country with very little need for a military other than to fulfill our international obligations and to protect economic interests.
    
    I have full respect for those who served, and I go to all remembrances.
    
    The armed forces are simply not as important as they used to be.
    They’ve never got over that, and they should.
    - lprent 2.2.1.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 11:42 am
      
      Compared to what? Your statement is essentially meaningless and pretty ill-informed without a comparison. And I note that you didn’t address the points raised.
      
      The RF Army is about the same size, and the territorials about half (due to recruitment) of what it was when I joined in 1978. The RF deployments were diminishing then post-vietnam.
      
      I think that the airforce and navy have reduced personnel as the force composition has changed. But I have less background info on them.
      
      The budget as a percentage of GDP is about the same as in 1978. It is ~1.5% now compared to 1.7% then – but the GDP has grown considerably.
      
      We have never had a large standing armed forces post WW2. We didn’t have between the wars or before WW1. Our large armed forces arose from volunteers and conscription in large conflicts, or as in the civil war – from Imperial forces being deployed.
      
      The armed forces have always been cadre for training and for unexpected events.
      
      We have a country that is geologically active (think Taupo or ChCh earthquakes). Any country with that kind of potential threat will always maintain a minimum reaction force.
      
      We are always engaged in active deployments offshore.
      
      Basically I think you are indulging in simple minded wishful thinking.
      - Ad 2.2.1.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 5:28 pm
        
        We are one of the most stable and threat-free societies, according to our 2016 Defence White Paper. We’ve been that way for a while.
        
        Even a decade ago, when our region had a few flare-ups, the Prime Minister Helen Clark could comment:
        
        “Our high level of social cohesion and inclusion, and our international good citizenship was recognised in May this year with the release of the Global Peace Index, compiled with the support of the Economist Intelligence Unit.”
        
        https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/social-democracy-under-southern-cross-new-zealand-21st-century
        
        It may well be a great idea to teach “civics”, but your post stems from completely the wrong premise.
        
        Telling us that we should all on average know more about what James Belich calls the “New Zealand Wars” is fine, except that the number of countries who sustain public consciousness as well as we do about these wars and their impact already, can be counted on one hand. Few others have such an extensive set of institutions to redressing such wrongs and publicising them and educating us about them – the Waitangi settlement process and its Tribunal, together with all the other institutions devoted to raising public consciousness about the role and importance of Maori and its people to New Zealand. So using that as an example is not useful.
        
        Same for World Wars 1 and 2. For a non-militant country we have pretty significant remembrance programmes and education programmes. They are so effective that ANZAC Days grow more and more popular with young people every year.
        
        It would be more useful to try and education people about civics not by making more comparisons to the supposed nation-building capacities of military action, but by looking at the different approaches to nationbuilding from the Depression and through the 1990s structural adjustment policies.
        
        You could have a more convincing and relevant civics education programme about the growth and role of electricity, health, education, local government, transport, and social welfare.
        
        Looking at “civics” through the eyes of military engagement has no bearing on how we are living today, in New Zealand.
        
        We should study war no more.
JanM 3

18 November 2018 at 8:57 pm

Until a few years ago I was lecturing in Early Childhood Education, and the provider I worked for was very passionate about teachers having a bi-cultural perspective, including a reasonable grasp of the history of this country and the implications it had, particularly for Maori communities and the impact on teaching and learning for their children. I was horrified to discover, especially in one-on-one conversations with training teachers in their centres to discover how little they often knew about their own country as the result of a failure of the education system.
I really think there is some reform needed here. It is wilful ignorance to ignore the reality that if you don’t know where you’ve come from you don’t know where you’re going to. It is not good enough to permit the continuation of the out-dated way of history teaching written by the winners. In fact, I think that continuing to teach in this way actually does more harm than good,
- greywarshark 3.1
  
  18 November 2018 at 10:00 pm
  
  Leaving so much for individual schools to decide for themselves what to teach, and Boards full of self-important accountants and middle class men and women who seem to be fairly conservative, style-conscious and money-oriented, was a backward step,.
  Wasn’t that one of David Lange’s.
  
  I thought we had broken through that know-nothing settler thinking but it is there all the time. Anti-Maori Brash and old white guys popping up with their founts of vinegar at the Constitution Conversation some years back. I was horrified and walked out.
  - Gosman 3.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 3:05 pm
    
    There is no indication that knowing about NZ history will make you more inclined towards a particular Maori based narrative.
    - DJ Ward 3.1.1.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 4:05 pm
      
      Don’t expect lessons on the Chatham’s or other murdous, slave taking raiding parties. Or the prostitution of females to sailors.
      
      The problem with history like any form of propaganda is that you can lie by omission creating a distorted understanding of history. School kids are easy prey.
      
      It’s the “knowing about NZ history”, by indoctrination.
- Aaron 3.2
  
  20 November 2018 at 2:32 pm
  
  It wasn’t until my 40s that I learned that Gandhi got his ideas of non violent resistance from Parihaka – and only because I was interviewing someone who had just been to visit.
  
  The entire western world is aware of Gandhi – and Martin Luther King who followed on with the spirit of non-violence. Apparently people in India are very aware of Te Whiti and what he did but here in New Zealand we don’t have a clue. The only reason most of us have even heard of Parihaka is because Tim Finn wrote a song about it.
  
  I still don’t know many Pakeha who are aware of these basic facts so yes – we badly need a change in the way history is taught in this country.
  
  Oddly, I feel proud to come from the land that originated this concept even though my forebears were on the side of the oppressors.
Tamati Tautuhi 4

18 November 2018 at 9:11 pm

Problem is most History Teachers in New Zealand know very little about New Zealand History and if they do they teach their version of New Zealand History.
- JanM 4.1
  
  18 November 2018 at 9:22 pm
  
  My take on that is that they should not be able to get away with such ignorance and sloppiness – they are meant to be professionals!
  - WeTheBleeple 4.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 9:22 am
    
    Professor Margaret Mutu’s ‘Te Ao Maori’ paper should be compulsory for our teachers (and pupils but let’s start with teachers). Especially history teachers.
    
    Part of disenfranchisement is blatantly ignorant teachers.
    - JanM 4.1.1.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 9:43 am
      
      Utterly agree, WeTheBleeple!
    - Siobhan 4.1.1.2
      
      19 November 2018 at 11:02 am
      
      I agree with the need for change, change that should have happened ‘yesterday’, but to be fair to history teachers, they went through the same limited education system as the rest of us, and went on to Universities with the same biased, eurocentric understanding of the world.
      
      They are a product of a fundamentally racist, classist system.
      
      When I was doing 7th form Art at school in the 80’s we had a section called “Maori Art’, or something.
      I wouldn’t actually know, because my teachers presented it as something ‘we have to do’, but its a ‘waste of time ‘ and ‘ridiculous’.
      These were Art teachers, people I thought of as half smart liberals, educated broad minded decent people, not (I thought) racist bumpkins.
      
      So, we all just absorbed their crap, dismissive attitude.
      
      Presumably History followed in a similar if somewhat more nuanced vein.
      
      What is needed is demand for change from below, and a directive for change from above.
      And it starts with Te Reo as a core subject at school.
      (Which has a better chance of gaining traction when people dump the loaded term ‘Compulsory’).
      - Gosman 4.1.1.2.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 3:02 pm
        
        There is this idea that if only people were better educated about NZ History they would understand the structural racism inherent in NZ society and support more progressive policies. That is a load of nonsense. The history of Maori and NZ European interaction in NZ is incredibly complex. As such it does not lead to any definitive conclusions along the lines I suggest.
Antoine 5

19 November 2018 at 12:25 am

Well spoken lprent.

A.

P.S. But we shouldn’t expect teachers to teach any subject accurately – be it the NZ Wars or anything else
P.P.S. Also note that badly taught history can in fact be very educational about human prejudice and bias, _assuming the student knows they are being badly taught_. Some parental input can be very valuable here
JanM 6

19 November 2018 at 7:35 am

“Also note that badly taught history can in fact be very educational about human prejudice and bias, _assuming the student knows they are being badly taught_. Some parental input can be very valuable here”. That’s asking rather a lot of a 12 year old isn’t it? And does that strange notion extend to all subjects?
- Antoine 6.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 9:57 am
  
  Even a bright 9 year old can recognise biased BS with a bit of practice and guidance
  
  A.
  - WeTheBleeple 6.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 10:12 am
    
    I didn’t learn critical thinking till my 40’s. Religion and Asperger’s will do that to a person. Plenty of children would be in the same or similar boats, fed utter nonsense by their caregivers who use fear, bribery and all manner of coercion to try and ‘save us’.
    
    When your world is broken you hang onto any thread, no matter how tenuous.
    
    And I was a VERY BRIGHT 9 year old, whipping all adult butt in studies, that unfortunately were bible studies.
  - DJ Ward 6.1.2
    
    19 November 2018 at 10:49 am
    
    Yes children see it plain as day when the family court removes fathers from their lives. They unlike the court are first hand witness to actions and haven’t prejudged the parents due to gender.
Dennis Frank 7

19 November 2018 at 7:38 am

This topic is essential to our future. I agree with the gist of the essay and Rachel Rafferty’s quote is indeed crucial: “History 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.”

What I got from the education system in the fifties & sixties is that our history is so boring that everyone ought to ignore it. Took me more than twenty years to overcome that bias. Tony Simpson’s Road to Erewhon was a revelation! I remember David Lange proudly announcing Tomorrow’s Schools, thinking `gee, dunno if Labour can live up to that hype, since when have they ever made genuine progress?’ Thirty years later, we can see it was all total crap. Nothing changed.

Also from Rafferty: “When discussing how emotions could cloud students’ objectivities, with negative results for social cohesion, the problem cited was that of nationalistic emotions which caused students to ignore not only the historical experience of other groups but even to dispute clear historical evidence which did not agree with their communal narratives. Conversely, caring, when understood as the skill of empathizing with other points of view, was widely viewed by interviewees as beneficial.”

Emotional intelligence has yet to be factored into education, but we see in this quote how crucial it is when dealing with group relations. The origin of identity politics can be seen clearly in the classroom, as soon as the history is discussed in terms of affected groups. Kids either belong to such groups, realise they are on one side of an historical divide, or are dispassionate observers (immigrants). A skilful teacher may have the finesse to mediate between kids who have already had pro & anti biases brainwashed into them, but you can see why most teachers would bail out.
Gosman 8

19 November 2018 at 7:45 am

Your use of prison statistics and link to the outcome of the conflict between Maori and the Crown in the mid to late 19th century is unscientific. It would have more credence if the areas where Maori suffered the most from the conflicts (Taranaki, Waikato, King Country) had the worst outcomes. However I strongly suspect it is not the case and in fact it is likely areas least affected by the conflicts that have the higher social issues.
- lprent 8.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 11:47 am
  
  Have you ever looked at the urban migration stats for Maori over the 20th?
  
  Perhaps you should rather than just making shit up.
  - Gosman 8.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 2:04 pm
    
    But urban migration was always going to be difficult for Maori regardless of whether they lost a war with the Settler government or not. The Urban environment was always going to be a different cultural environment given they were set up and developed by the Settlers. Even if we had the best race relations record on the planet and managed to live in harmony with each other groups of Maori learning to live in an alien environment will have caused social upheaval and had negative social consequences.
    - solkta 8.1.1.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 2:09 pm
      
      If they still had their land and other resources why would they be moving outside their rohe or choosing to live in nuclear family style housing?
      - Gosman 8.1.1.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 2:27 pm
        
        Do you know which Iwi in the country that had the most land alienated (either from confiscation or land sales)?
        
        Do you know which Iwi were able to keep control of their land the most compared to other Iwi?
        
        Do you know which Iwi are the most urbanised?
        
        Of these which ones are suffering from the greatest amount of negative social statistics?
Gosman 9

19 November 2018 at 7:53 am

The post does raise an interesting point about teaching history. I think there is an idea from some that teaching about the conflict between the settler society and some Maori in the 19th Century will allow people to understand the negative social outcomes for many Maori today. This view is not necessarily correct. in fact learning about the conflict might highlight some counter-intuitive facts about Maori that calls in to question the whole victim of colonialism paradigm.
Gosman 10

19 November 2018 at 8:22 am

Take a look at the largest Iwi in NZ and the one with a high proportion of people that have negative social indicators such as unemployment, drug use, lack of education, high crime and incarceration rates. This would be Ngapuhi in Northland. The impact of Setller society on this tribe post the 1840’s were minimal. The Tribe itself managed to keep more land than most other Iwi in the country and instead of the Crown starting the War against them it was the other way around and they did not have much (if any land confiscated) as a result of the conflict. The question then becomes why are Ngapuhi at the bottom of social statistics if they were impacted less than other Iwi that lost more land or subject to greater sanction from the Crown in conflict.
- JanM 10.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 9:42 am
  
  Your comments show a woeful ignorance of the effects of colonisation on a culture. It would seem that you are a victim of ignorant history teaching 🙁
  - DJ Ward 10.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 10:36 am
    
    You therefore make the assumption that Moari were socially, and technologically equal to the Invaders. What is the starting point? He points out that the direct effects of colonisation were small on that group but the long term effects are the greatest. Therefore the negative developement effects of colonisation increases as British influence decreases.
    
    Culture is a specific thing. It may influence imprisonment rates but so does the socio economic policy of government.
    
    The reality is the isolationist Northland lacked investment in critical stages of NZ’s developement. Economically our major port should be in Northland with a top grade rail network into the rest of NZ. This didn’t happen as investers due to isolationism didn’t have confidence or the ability to invest in Northland.
    
    The end result is Gosman makes a good point.
    
    You just made a baseless Personal attack.
  - Professor Longhair 10.1.2
    
    19 November 2018 at 11:55 am
    
    Teaching has nothing to do with such ignorance. Blame his parents, and his own lack of curiosity.
    - Roflcopter 10.1.2.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 1:28 pm
      
      Fucktard comments like this are why Teachers are unwilling to engage in teaching this stuff properly.
      They’ll always get told they’re wrong by someone, so it’s just easier to bypass it.
      - Professor Longhair 10.1.2.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 2:49 pm
        
        The reason you enjoyed so little respect at school probably had a great deal to do with your use of such unimaginative and boorish language as “fucktard”.
        
        Gosman 10.1.2.1.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 2:58 pm
        
        Ironic much? Your reply to me insults both my parent and myself without any evidence. That suggests a very unimaginative and boorish approach to debate.
    - Gosman 10.1.2.2
      
      19 November 2018 at 2:07 pm
      
      What part of my comment is ignorant and are you going to argue the counter point or just engage in pointless personal attacks?
      - DJ Ward 10.1.2.2.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 3:51 pm
        
        Looks like Personel attacks only day.
        
        They can’t argue the point so plead that ‘you’ are ignorant.
        They even passed blame to your parents like they imply sympathy for your state of mind. This is an implication that it’s ‘you’ that’s racially inferior due to parentage.
        Different opinion divergent from the idealist view is not permitted. Facts result in the Personel attacks as the story or ideology no longer works.
Kay 11

19 November 2018 at 9:47 am

I think I caught the very tail end of the “Empire” curriculum at school- which was still going into the 1980s. Third & Fourth Form Social Studies plus 7th Form History (didn’t do 5th/6th Form History so not sure what was taught there) left me with an extremely dodgy version of the Treaty and great expertiese in the English reformation, some European WW2 battles and the home front in Britain during WW2 (but not a peep about NZ during the same period). I recall being somewhat short changed for many years after that, and still do, although of course I’ve subsequently educated myself on NZ history.

An ancestor of mine was high up in the British army in 1860s and involved in some of the atrocities that went on here in Taranaki/Whanganui, subsequently rewarded politically and with a knighthood, and memorialised with a street (and road sign) in central Wellington so I’m constantly reminded I’m related to him…ugh.

I have to wonder if the family connection is the only reason I ever felt short changed by the school curriculum- would I have felt like anything more that a fleeting and yes- very Eurocentric reference to the “Maori Wars” (which none of us questioned, that’s what it was known as) was necessary, or that it really didn’t matter because English history was WAY more exciting anyway. And you could see it too- all those castles! /sarc
SHG 12

19 November 2018 at 9:59 am

ask them when they served

when did you serve lprent?
- lprent 12.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 11:50 am
  
  1978-1983. By then I was running a factory in New Lynn so didn’t have the time. Plus I was rather pissed of at Muldoon getting the EMEs stringing barbed wire and barricades up at the top of my street in Kingsland in 1981.
  
  When did you?
  - lprent 12.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 12:02 pm
    
    Actually July 1977. But I didn’t go into basic until November
mary_a 13

19 November 2018 at 1:55 pm

My school years were in the ’50s & early ’60s. When learning NZ history through social studies, we were taught about the “Maori wars.” Not the land wars, or the invasion of Aotearoa, or the theft of property by way of land from the indigenous people of Aotearoa, or the destructive colonisation of Maori. No it was “Maori wars!” Propagandized nonsense, that if any of what was taught was questioned or challenged was to be disobedient, more often than not resulting in punishment.

Can’t remember much about the Treaty of Waitangi, just bits and pieces, much of which was based on Maori being protected by the British Crown and not much else. The impression was, how fortunate for Maori!

Can even remember being taught how proud and grateful we pupils (of various ethnicities btw) should be for being British subjects as part of a great empire ffs!
- Gosman 13.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 2:08 pm
  
  Do you know why Hone Heke rebelled against the Crown in 1845/46 in Northland?
  - mary_a 13.1.1
    
    19 November 2018 at 3:12 pm
    
    OK I’ll give it a go.
    
    As far as I can remember from what I was taught at school Gosman (13.1), Hone Heke challenged the authority of the British in Northland. As a result war erupted between Maori and the British, during 1845/46, which I think might have been the first war post the signing of the Treaty. His protest was to cut down the British flag pole. If my memory serves me correct, Hone Heke wanted to protect his people from becoming servants of the crown.
    - Gosman 13.1.1.1
      
      19 November 2018 at 3:21 pm
      
      Partially correct. However the real reason was that Hone was concerned about the loss of Mana (not to forget and the loss of custom revenue he previously received) that he felt he had occurred as a result of the actions after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. His fears of being made a slave/servant of the British were stoked by external forces such as French Missionaries and more effectively the American Whaling community in the Bay of Island. The reason he started a War with the British was not as a result of bad behaviour from Settlers but because he regretted what had occurred as a result of agreeing to the terms of the Treaty. Noone had really broken the Treaty at this stage. This also explains why Ngapuhi was split between those supporting Hone and those supporting Waka Nene who fought on the side of the British during the Northern war.
      - McFlock 13.1.1.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 3:32 pm
        
        Doesn’t your expounding forth support mary_a’s original description of her education about NZ history?
        
        Gosman 13.1.1.1.1.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 3:36 pm
        
        Possibly. Although her lack of education on the causes of the Northern War does not necessarily mean she is less disposed to Maori as is implied by some.
        
        McFlock …
        
        19 November 2018 at 3:51 pm
        
        When it comes to human behaviour, nothing “necessarily” means anything 100%.
        
        But that doesn’t mean any particular thing wouldn’t be sufficient to cause particular reactions and conditions for many or even most people in a specific population.
        
        tldr: when it comes to individuals or societies, exceptions do not invalidate general observations.
      - mary_a 13.1.1.1.2
        
        19 November 2018 at 4:27 pm
        
        Righto Gosman. I concede you are far more knowledgeable than me when it comes to NZ history. Let’s leave it at that shall we?
        
        Gosman 13.1.1.1.2.1
        
        19 November 2018 at 4:39 pm
        
        I’m not trying to you are ignorant. In fact your understanding on the causes of the Northern war were in the ballpark. What I’m more interested in is that you highlighted your education being shaped by a particular view of Maori and whether that make you more or less understanding of Maori issues.
      - mauī 13.1.1.1.3
        
        20 November 2018 at 11:43 am
        
        However the real reason was that Hone was concerned about the loss of Mana (not to forget and the loss of custom revenue he previously received) that he felt he had occurred as a result of the actions after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
        
        Can’t remember historian James Belich mentioning that in his documentary series…
        
        Gosman 13.1.1.1.3.1
        
        20 November 2018 at 11:47 am
        
        Then you were obviously not paying attention.
        
        mauī …
        
        20 November 2018 at 12:38 pm
        
        Hobson had the United Tribes flag removed from the flagstaff at Kororāreka (the New Zealand Company’s version of the flag was also hauled down at Port Nicholson). Heke saw this as denying Māori equal status with the government. He had gifted the flagstaff to Kororāreka so that the Māori flag could be flown there. Attacking the flag would emphasise that his grievance was with the government. He had no desire to hurt or alarm settlers.
        
        https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/northern-war/origins
        
        Nor do the Ministry of Culture and Heritage seem to make any mention of it…
        
        Gosman …
        
        20 November 2018 at 1:23 pm
        
        Yes, his Mana was diminished by having the Union flag flying over Kororāreka. This coupled with the fact his revenue from Ships calling in at the Bay of Islands had diminished significantly since 1840. There was not really any major events that lead to Heke starting the conflict (Although the trial of Maketū for murder may have been influential in moving him away from a pro British position). Instead Heke seems to have got the hump at how he felt he was being treated and the Flag flying over Kororāreka became the manifestation of this feeling. The truth of the matter was that the British were more interested in setting up settlements in other parts of the country .
R.P Mcmurphy 14

19 November 2018 at 4:23 pm

I am just as anxious as anyone else to read the full story of the NZ civil wars.
Can you recommend a good reading list
Tamati Tautuhi 15

19 November 2018 at 5:57 pm

Well f%&k me Gosman has got a PhD in Maaori History as well ?
- R.P Mcmurphy 15.1
  
  19 November 2018 at 7:48 pm
  
  that is his version anyway.
  - Gosman 15.1.1
    
    20 November 2018 at 9:53 am
    
    What element of my version of history do you dispute?
    - R.P Mcmurphy 15.1.1.1
      
      26 November 2018 at 5:36 pm
      
      none of it and all of it.
      were you there?
      do you know anyone who was there?
Tamati Tautuhi 16

20 November 2018 at 12:11 am

The Musket Wars 1820-1835 written by a lawyer from Nelson, should be compulsory reading for every NZ citizen, they believe 80,000 Maoris were killed in that era with Internal Civil War, Hongi ika was destructive in the North and virtually cleaned out Ngati Whatua, he traveled as far South as the Hawkes Bay and attacked Ngati Kahangungu. Te Rauparaha after being removed from Kawhia by the Waikato tribes was equally as brutal as he cleaned up the Taranaki and the Horowhenua tribes, and went as far South as Akaroa with his fire and brimstone.

Te Rauparaha had 2000 slaves tending his gardens in the Horowhenua, Kapiti Island was his base where he supplied the British Navy Pacific Fleet with spars, rope, fresh fruit & vegetables, water etc,

This lead to the signing of the Treaty Of Waitangi as te maaori had virtually extinguished themselves, this should be compulsory reading for all New Zealand school children.
- Dennis Frank 16.1
  
  20 November 2018 at 6:31 am
  
  Wikipedia: “The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand as well as the Chatham Islands among Māori between 1807 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats. The battles resulted in the loss of between 20,000 and 40,000 lives and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the imposition of colonial government in the 1840s.”
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/musket-wars/overview
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/new-zealands-19th-century-wars/the-musket-wars
  - Dennis Frank 16.1.1
    
    20 November 2018 at 6:35 am
    
    For interested readers, there’s also these:
    Ballara, Angela, Taua: Musket Wars, Land Wars or tikanga? Warfare in Maori society in the early nineteenth century, Penguin, Auckland, 2003
    Crosby, Ron, The Musket Wars – A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806–45, Reed, Auckland, 1999
    Wright, Matthew, Guns & Utu: A short history of the Musket Wars (2012), Penguin
Antoine 17

20 November 2018 at 1:34 am

> This lead to the signing of the Treaty Of Waitangi as te maaori had virtually extinguished themselves

This sounds like BS to me.

1. A people cannot ‘extinguish themselves’ through civil war. Wars kill some people and shift around the power balance but an entire people cannot wipe themselves out in this way (not using conventional weapons anyway). When the death toll gets high, people simply stop fighting and retrench. Lick their wounds, grieve for the dead, enjoy the spoils, whatever.

2. The Maori population in 1840 was a healthy 100,000 or so – only a little lower than in the mid 18th century. ‘Virtually extinguished?’ Hardly.

3. The main decline in Maori population was actually in the 20-30 years _after_ the signing of the ToW, due mainly to introduced germs (measles, flu, TB etc). Population dropped by more than half. Now infectious diseases really can ‘virtually extinguish’ a population as was seen in North America in the 16th/17th centuries.

4. There is no single reason why the ToW was signed. Different signatories had different hopes/expectations.

5. There is no such thing as ‘compulsory reading for all NZ school children’. Different children read different things, different schools hand out different books. That’s just how it is and how it’s going to be for the foreseeable future.

6. Why would someone with a Maori handle make anti Maori comments? Puzzling.

A.

(Sources include: https://teara.govt.nz/en/population-change/page-6)
Sam A 18

22 November 2018 at 7:18 pm

The post about Archives NZ, National Library and DIA, is currently up:

http://briefingpapers.co.nz/follow-the-money/

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In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
Gareth’s WorldBy admin
2 days ago

Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
2 days ago

Jones finds $410,000 to help the government muscle in on a spat project
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
2 days ago

Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
2 days ago

Despair – construction consenting edition
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

Coalition promises – will the Govt keep the commitment to keep Kiwis equal before the law?
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

An impermanent public service is a guarantee of very little else but failure
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

What happens after the war – Mariupol
Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
Open ParachuteBy Ken
2 days ago

Babies and benefits – no good news
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
2 days ago

Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
2 days ago

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours, as of 9:16 am on Thursday, April 18 are:Housing: Tauranga residents living in boats, vans RNZ Checkpoint Louise TernouthHousing: Waikato councillor says wastewater plant issues could hold up Sleepyhead building a massive company town Waikato Times Stephen ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
2 days ago

Gordon Campbell on the public sector carnage, and misogyny as terrorism
It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
2 days ago

Meeting the Master Baiters
Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
David FarrierBy David Farrier
2 days ago

How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blog In 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
Skeptical Science
2 days ago

Backbone, revisited
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
3 days ago

Ministers are not above the law
Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
3 days ago

What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
Buzz from the Beehive Point of Order first heard of the Oceans Secretariat in June 2021, when David Parker (remember him?) announced a multi-agency approach to protecting New Zealand’s marine ecosystems and fisheries. Parker (holding the Environment, and Oceans and Fisheries portfolios) broke the news at the annual Forest & ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
3 days ago

Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
3 days ago

Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
3 days ago

A TikTok Prime Minister.
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
3 days ago

Texas Lessons
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
3 days ago

Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours as of 6:06 am on Wednesday, April 17 are:Must read: Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked RNZ Farah HancockScoop: Revealed: Luxon has seven staffers working on social media content - partly paid for by taxpayer Newshub ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
3 days ago

Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
PolitikBy Richard Harman
3 days ago

Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
4 days ago

At a glance – Is the science settled?
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Skeptical Science
4 days ago

Apposite Quotations.
How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014. This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...
Bowalley Road
4 days ago

What’s a life worth now?
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
4 days ago

Howling at the Moon
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
4 days ago

Newshub is Dead.
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
4 days ago

Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loose...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
4 days ago

Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
4 days ago

Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
4 days ago

PRC shadow looms as the Solomons head for election
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time. A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
4 days ago

Climate Change: Criminal ecocide
We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Last year was (again) the hottest year on record. NOAA has just announced another global coral bleaching event. Floods are threatening UK food security. So naturally, Shane Jones wants to make it easier to mine coal: Resources Minister Shane Jones ...
No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
4 days ago

Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced ...
The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
4 days ago

Fast-track submissions period must be extended
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
Greens
18 hours ago

Release: Progress on climate will be undone by Govt
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
Labour Blog
18 hours ago

Release: Dark day for Kiwi kids as a third of Govt cuts affect them
News that 1000 jobs at the Ministry of Education and Oranga Tamariki could go is devastating for future generations of New Zealanders. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Release: Alarm as Government signals further blow to school lunches
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Labour Blog
3 days ago

Release: Quick, submit – stop Govt’s dodgy approvals bill
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Labour Blog
4 days ago

Government throws coal on the climate crisis fire
The Government’s policy announced today to ease consenting for coal mining will have a lasting impact across generations. ...
Greens
4 days ago

Release: Public transport costs to double as National looks at unaffordable roading project instead
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
Labour Blog
5 days ago

Release: Cost of living in Auckland still not a priority
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Labour Blog
5 days ago

Greens look to fast-track submissions on harmful law
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Release: Govt should stop making people’s lives harder and build more homes
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Release: Melissa Lee missing in action on media
The action Melissa Lee promised to protect democracy and the media sector is missing, Media and Communications spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Landlord Government leaves little hope for renters
The Government’s announcement on tenancy rules prove that it does not care about renters. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Opportunity to build a more sustainable economy
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Significant step forward in fixing cruel and unjust past
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Missed opportunity but NZ will surely one day recognise the right to a sustainable environment
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Greens
1 week ago

Release: Don’t cut our lunches – clear message sent to Government
Tens of thousands of people are demanding the Government commits to fully funding free and healthy school lunches. ...
Labour Blog
1 week ago

Release: Govt makes U-turn on Suicide Prevention Office
Labour welcomes the Government’s U-turn on the closure of the Suicide Prevention Office, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

CCC issues warning over further climate delay
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Luxon targets lame and lousy example of leadership
If talk is cheap, Chris Luxon’s “targets” are bankrupt. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Luxon targets are lousy example of leadership
If talk is cheap, Chris Luxon’s “targets” are bankrupt. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Commitment to disability communities missing from Govt priorities
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Methane target review is dangerous duplication
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Government must commit to school building project for disabled students
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Release: National must take mental health seriously
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Referendums for Māori wards a racist step backwards
The Government's imposed referendum on Māori wards is a racist step backwards for Māori representation, and disregards Te Tiriti o Waitangi. ...
Greens
2 weeks ago

Release: Job losses at Health not worth it for tax cuts
New Zealand will feel the harm of the National Government’s reckless cuts to jobs at the health ministry for generations, says Ayesha Verrall. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Press release: No Māori initiatives in Government’s nothing plan
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
Labour Blog
2 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Thirty six point PR spin
The Government’s ‘36 point’ plan for the next three months is as pointless as it is hollow. ...
Greens
3 weeks ago

Release: Social housing off Government’s to-do list
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Labour Blog
3 weeks ago

Release: Less money in most people’s pockets this April
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
Labour Blog
3 weeks ago

PM’s South East Asia mission does the business
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 hours ago

$41m to support clean energy in South East Asia
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
18 hours ago

Minister releases Fast-track stakeholder list
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
20 hours ago

Judicial appointments announced
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
21 hours ago

Education Minister heads to major teaching summit in Singapore
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
22 hours ago

Value of stopbank project proven during cyclone
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
22 hours ago

Anzac commemorations, Türkiye relationship focus of visit
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
22 hours ago

Minister to Europe for OECD meeting, Anzac Day
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 day ago

Comprehensive Partnership the goal for NZ and the Philippines
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Government commits $20m to Westport flood protection
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Taupō takes pole position
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Cost of living support for low-income homeowners
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Government backing mussel spat project
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Government focused on getting people into work
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Clean energy key driver to reducing emissions
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Earthquake-prone buildings review brought forward
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
2 days ago

Thailand and NZ to agree to Strategic Partnership
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Government consults on extending coastal permits for ports
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Inflation coming down, but more work to do
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

School attendance restored as a priority in health advice
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Unnecessary bureaucracy cut in oceans sector
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
3 days ago

Patterson promoting NZ’s wool sector at International Congress
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

Removing red tape to help early learners thrive
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

RMA changes to cut coal mining consent red tape
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

McClay reaffirms strong NZ-China trade relationship
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
4 days ago

Prime Minister Luxon acknowledges legacy of Singapore Prime Minister Lee
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

PMs Luxon and Lee deepen Singapore-NZ ties
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Antarctica New Zealand Board appointments
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Finance Minister travels to Washington DC
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Pet bonds a win/win for renters and landlords
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

Long Tunnel for SH1 Wellington being considered
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
5 days ago

New Zealand condemns Iranian strikes
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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Huge interest in Government’s infrastructure plans
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Health Minister thanks outgoing Health New Zealand Chair
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Roads of National Significance planning underway
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Navigating an unstable global environment
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

NZ welcomes Australian Governor-General
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Pseudoephedrine back on shelves for Winter
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

NZ and the US: an ever closer partnership
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Joint US and NZ declaration
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
1 week ago

Restoring coastal habitat boosts wildlife numbers by 61% – but puzzling failures mean we can still...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Sievers, Research Fellow, Global Wetlands Project, Australia Rivers Institute, Griffith University Chris Brown Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we’ve destroyed valuable coastal habitat – in the case of some types of habitat, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
11 mins ago

Public sector job cuts: Affected staff criticise leaders' handling of announcements
Staff are shell shocked and frustrated, and say leaders handled the announcements poorly. ...
Radio NZ – political
18 mins ago

‘The room went dead quiet’: Josh Thomson on his worst 7 Days moment
Josh Thomson on the 80s milk ad jingle he can’t stop singing, the beauty of The Simpsons, why Jersey Shore is as good as Shakespeare and more. For someone who spends a lot of time on our screens, popping up in everything from 7 Days to Taskmaster, Educators to Good ...
The SpinoffBy My Life in TV
1 hour ago

Shadow-boxing turns real for Israel and Iran
In apparent defiance of the Biden administration, the Netanyahu government has now initiated missile strikes against Iran. Last Saturday night (Sunday morning in New Zealand) Iran launched more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles against Israeli military targets. With the assistance of US, UK and possibly French forces, ...
NewsroomBy Newsroom Contributor
3 hours ago

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon meets KPIs on Southeast Asia mission
Power Play - Asked for his own assessment of the visit, the prime minister said he was returning home "excited and energised". ...
Radio NZ – political
4 hours ago

Embracing Māori Representation Enriches Democracy, Not Divides It
Māori representation brings a perspective that encompasses not only the interests of Māori communities but also a broader, holistic approach to environmental stewardship and community well-being, principles deeply embedded in Te Ao Māori (the Māori ...
Scoop politics
4 hours ago

Anne Salmond: My open submission on this radical, flawed fast-track bill
This week in Auckland, a group of young people took over the microphone at a ministerial press conference, to explain why they oppose the Fast-Track Approvals Bill. One young woman said, ‘We’re here because we love Aotearoa New Zealand. We want to raise our children in an environment that’s thriving, ...
NewsroomBy Dame Anne Salmond
4 hours ago

Short story: Finally, by Caoimhe McKeogh
The summer was wonderful. Evie was wonderful, too; finally a teenager, finally worthy of long, hot days. She shaved her legs for the first time and bought cut-off shorts from the op-shop that made them look long. She got a Warehouse singlet so tight on her new shape that her ...
NewsroomBy Caoimhe McKeogh
4 hours ago

Thomas James is a master of invention
When Thomas James was on his solo camp as part of Outward Bound, the keen outdoorsman didn’t find it too challenging, as others often do. In what might just be the perfect illustration of his character, he saw it as a great opportunity to solve a few problems. “I thought, ...
NewsroomBy Ben Fahy
4 hours ago

All 28 road tunnels in New Zealand ranked from worst to best
From the unstable and drippy to the hi-tech and pretty, here’s our ranking of all the tunnels you can drive through in this country. The first tunnel seems to have been built in 2200BC in Babylonia, kicking off a global phenomenon for digging holes in order to get places more ...
The SpinoffBy Group Think
5 hours ago

How to make the most of your market haul
Lucinda Bennett on the art of being greedy but resourceful. This is an excerpt from our weekly food newsletter, The Boil Up. When I picture the market, it is always this time of year. Crisp air, dripping nose, counting coins with cold fingers. Sunlight pale, filtered through specks of dew still ...
The SpinoffBy Lucinda Bennett
5 hours ago

From a library basement comes a fashion history
Zoë Colling’s favourite piece in the ‘That’s So Last Century’ collection is a lubrication chart for a sewing machine from the ’60s. It’s about the size of a postcard, and carefully maintained. “I like it that this piece of ephemera highlights that manual and technical side of the skill involved ...
NewsroomBy Sharon Brettkelly
5 hours ago

Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to ...
Evening ReportBy Asia Pacific Report
12 hours ago

Communities Against The Fast-track Heartened By ‘Overwhelming’ Public Response; Disgusted By ‘...
With submissions closing today, Macassey-Pickard says groups around the country have been supporting a huge range of people to make their submissions. ...
Scoop politics
14 hours ago

Renters Rights To Drastically Reduce Under Landlord Government
The Government’s announced changes around tenancy rules set renters’ rights back by nearly a decade. ...
Scoop politics
14 hours ago

NZPI Submission on Fast Track Approvals Bill
Our response to the new legislation is informed by targeted conversations with practitioners working in the system and through an implementation lens. ...
Scoop politics
14 hours ago

Fast Track Invite List Includes Most Destructive Industries In New Zealand
The new ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’ would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. They would avoid the usual checks and balances that are in place to protect rivers, land, the ocean, and communities. ...
Scoop politics
14 hours ago

Eugene Doyle: Helen Clark on why AUKUS isn’t in New Zealand’s national interest
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
Evening ReportBy Asia Pacific Report
14 hours ago

Government releases list of organisations shoulder-tapped for fast-track consents
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Radio NZ – political
15 hours ago

The Week in Politics: Job cuts surge and Waitangi Tribunal trouble
Analysis - It's been a grim week for public servants, while trouble is also brewing between the government and Waitangi Tribunal. ...
Radio NZ – political
16 hours ago

It never rains but it pours: intense rain and flash floods have increased inland in eastern Australi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
17 hours ago

Watch: Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Manila
The PM has defended how he's talked up NZ trade on his trip to Southeast Asia, after criticism from his own delegation. ...
Radio NZ – political
17 hours ago

‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
17 hours ago

Government signs off $41m clean energy deal with Asian Development Bank
The government has committed $41 million to clean energy transition at the Asian Development Bank's Energy Transition Mechanism. ...
Radio NZ – political
17 hours ago

Are 2 mid-career AFL retirements a sign Australian athletes are taking brain health more seriously?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
19 hours ago

Luxon: Waitangi Tribunal comments from coalition parties 'ill considered'
Comments from ACT and NZ First ministers about the Tribunal were "ill considered" and "that message will be underscored" to them, the PM says. ...
Radio NZ – political
19 hours ago

Mental Health Foundation Facing Staff Cuts From Govt Funding Squeeze
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Scoop politics
20 hours ago

I wholeheartedly recommend The President: a brilliant revival of a play of decay, terror and revulsi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
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20 hours ago

How the coolest little capital is shrinking
It's not the first time a government has targeted public servants for job cuts, but this time Wellington is really feeling it. ...
Radio NZ – political
20 hours ago

Many prisoners go years without touching a smartphone. It means they struggle to navigate life on th...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
20 hours ago

Ministers accused of Cabinet Manual breach with threats to Waitangi Tribunal
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
NewsroomBy Marc Daalder
20 hours ago

Good news: midlife health is about more than a waist measurement. Here’s why
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
20 hours ago

The Friday Poem: ‘Mitochondrial Problem’ by Evangeline Riddiford Graham
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
The SpinoffBy Evangeline Riddiford Graham
20 hours ago

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending April 18
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38) Hot off the press, this debut ...
The SpinoffBy The Spinoff Review of Books
20 hours ago

Department of Conservation closing Dunedin centre, but no jobs lost
Visitor habits are changing and DOC needs to adapt in a financially sustainable way, its operations director says. ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

Unions Collaborate With Thousands Of Job Cuts
With New Zealand officially in recession, a swathe of mass sackings is currently sending shockwaves through the entire working class. ...
Scoop politics
21 hours ago

Watch live: Christopher Luxon speaks to media in Manila
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to reporters in Manila after pledging greater defence cooperation with the Philippines. Watch live. ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

Government sent please explain letter to Wellington City Council over transport disagreement
The contents were revealed in correspondence from Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop to Wellington's Mayor. ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

Some families push back against journalists who mine social media for photos – they have every rig...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
21 hours ago

Mental Health Foundation staff cuts loom, with funding falling behind rising costs
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
Radio NZ – political
21 hours ago

The ‘devil comet’ 12P/Pons-Brooks has finally become visible from Australia. What can we expect?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Pons–Brooks visible from Utah, March 9 2024. James Peirce/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND If you’re a fan of all things space, you’ve doubtless heard about the “devil comet”, which has been captivating keen-eyed observers in the ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
22 hours ago

Rugby stadiums are sold as an economic asset – but NZ needs to ask if they’re really worth it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hamlin, Senior Lecturer in Marketing , University of Otago A multi-billion dollar stadium precinct has been proposed for Auckland, one of three proposals in front of Auckland Council for a new stadium in the city. The council is also considering revamping ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
22 hours ago

Auckland dog attacks: Callouts for attacks on other animals going up
Roaming dogs are responsible for more than a thousand attacks on animals each year, and the number is growing. ...
Radio NZ – political
22 hours ago

What access to puberty blockers means for trans young people and their whānau
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
The SpinoffBy Julia de Bres
22 hours ago

NZ and Philippines pledge defence cooperation amid rising tensions
The commitment came after a sit-down meeting between Christopher Luxon and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr overnight. ...
Radio NZ – political
24 hours ago

How superblocks can help reimagine city life
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
The SpinoffBy Ellen Rykers
24 hours ago

Fire engineering expertise may take a big hit with job cuts at MBIE
The public sector cuts are poised to take out a big chunk of expertise at the country's building regulator. ...
Radio NZ – political
1 day ago

“Fast-track Law To Kill Kiwi”: Students Say Fight Against Anti-democracy Legislation Is Only Jus...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Scoop politics
1 day ago

‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Online schooling is not just for lockdowns. Could it work for your child?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Hear me out: You can shove your reusable period products
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
The SpinoffBy Kristin Kelly
1 day ago

Rip It Up And Start Over – Fast-Track Approvals Bill Needs To Be Scrapped
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
Scoop politics
1 day ago

Maori Authority Warns Government On Fast Track Legislation
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
Scoop politics
1 day ago

Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to haunt it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Associate Professor, Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Many suicides are related to gambling. How can we tackle this problem?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Hronis, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Darya Sannikova/Pexels Whether you’re watching TV, attending a footy game, or eating a meal at your local pub, gambling is hard to escape. Although the rise of gambling is not unique to Australia, ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Things that go buzz in the night – our global study found there really are more insects out after ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wong, Forrest Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Why don’t Australians talk about their salaries? Pay transparency and fairness go hand-in-hand
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol T Kulik, Research Professor, University of South Australia IR Stone/Shutterstock In Australia, it’s not the done thing to know – let alone ask – what our colleagues are paid. Yet, it’s easy to see how pay transparency can make pay ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

‘Character’ And Its Impact On Immigration Status
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is sounding a warning to migrants, that running foul of the law may see them leaving the country prematurely. ...
Scoop politics
1 day ago

20,000 more on jobseeker benefits than this time last year
The government’s plan to get 50,000 people off jobseeker support by 2030 has had a rocky start, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Beneficiary numbers are up – and so are ...
The SpinoffBy Catherine McGregor
1 day ago

All of the Raglan Roast cafes in Wellington, ranked from worst to best
Raglan Roast is a staple of Wellington coffee culture. But with five branches across the capital, which one is the best? I am a die-hard Raglan Roast fan. It’s consistently the most affordable cafe in Wellington, and one of the only places you can get a coffee after 3pm. So, ...
The SpinoffBy Zoë Mills
1 day ago

Auckland uni students threaten rent strike over rising accommodation fees
Residents of University of Auckland halls are being urged to withhold their accommodation fees from May 1, in a bid to force the university to take student concerns over rent hikes seriously. The University of Auckland is facing a strike from students over the cost of on-campus accommodation. The Students ...
The SpinoffBy Stewart Sowman-Lund
1 day ago

Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 19 April
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1 day ago

Financial literacy should be on all of us
Opinion: With maths understanding at 42 percent for Year 8 students, there’s no doubt something has to be done. But how? The post Financial literacy should be on all of us appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Bryce Marsden
1 day ago

Missy rustles to stardom in Canada
Hineaupounamu ‘Missy’ Nuku has been scaling mountains in Canada for her college basketball team, the Lakeland Rustlers. Alberta is currently home for the 20-year-old point guard, who is in her first year of a scholarship at Lakeland College, where she is studying for a business degree. She has certainly made ...
NewsroomBy Aiden McLaughlin
1 day ago

Emissions fall again – now NZ needs to up the pace
Official figures confirm New Zealand produced less climate pollution in 2022 than in any other year in the 21st century The post Emissions fall again – now NZ needs to up the pace appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Marc Daalder
1 day ago

Warning of death from a million cuts as Oceans Secretariat dissolved
Shane Jones says people voted for change, but opponents say small cuts such as ending a special oceans secretariat are starting to add up The post Warning of death from a million cuts as Oceans Secretariat dissolved appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Andrew Bevin
1 day ago

Defence deal to counter Beijing’s aggression in South China Sea
New Zealand and the Philippines have signed a new maritime security agreement and stated their concerns over activity in the South China Sea, as Chinese vessels continue to flout international law. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos committed to signing a Mutual Logistics Supporting Arrangement by ...
NewsroomBy Laura Walters
1 day ago

Wellington’s ebb and flow of public servants
The thousands of government “back-office” job cuts are causing widespread pain in the capital city. In today’s episode of The Detail, we speak to three journalists and a think tank researcher, looking at the larger picture around the cuts and what effect it will have on Wellington, a city that’s ...
NewsroomBy Tom Kitchin
1 day ago

New Zealand transport planning has gone off the rails
Opinion: The famed American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham once said, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood!” Burnham wouldn’t have been referring to the transport plans in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past five years; projects so big they hadn’t the credibility to ...
NewsroomBy Dr Timothy F Welch
1 day ago

Daily crossword, Friday 19 April
The post Daily crossword, Friday 19 April appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Newsroom Puzzles
1 day ago

Brakes on transport and logistics sector as demand for freight slows
The transport sector is currently in the slow lane The post Brakes on transport and logistics sector as demand for freight slows appeared first on Newsroom. ...
NewsroomBy Emma Hatton
1 day ago

Grattan on Friday: Ethnic tensions will complicate the Albanese government’s multicultural policy ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When ASIO boss Mike Burgess delivered his annual threat assessment earlier this year, he stressed the rising danger posed by espionage and foreign interference. “In 2024, threats to our way of life have surpassed ...
Evening ReportBy The Conversation
1 day ago

Group plans work to improve safety of female MPs
New research shows harassment of elected officials - especially women - is on the rise. ...
Radio NZ – political
2 days ago

Ukraine warns of WW3 ahead of long-stalled Congress aid vote
Ukraine's Prime Minister says his country desperately needs the US to approve long-stalled security assistance. ...
Radio NZ – political
2 days ago

PSA astonished Education Minister expects hiring of contractors to review curriculum
Hiring contractors is an appalling solution when people who could do the work are losing their jobs, the PSA says. ...
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2 days ago

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