The Canadian team is said to have played a key role in the negotiations that led to the adoption of the rulebook that will govern how the Paris Accord will cut emissions and curb global warming. “Our team worked hard throughout the negotiations to find common ground between developed and developing countries,” said Catherine McKenna (Minister of the Environment and Climate Change)…..
……Canada’s behaviour at COP conferences is not the problem. We behave as a good climate leader should. We play that role quite well.
The Canadian government has just announced a new handout of $1.6 billion to the Alberta oilsands despite already purchasing the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion earlier in 2018.
In November, Canada posted the G20’s highest per capita GHG emissions
In Ottawa the Doug Ford government dismantled the province’s successful carbon cap-and-trade program, cancelled 758 renewable energy contracts, and stopped construction of the White Pines wind farm as it neared completion.
But the harshest attacks were reserved for campaigners on the front lines of the Trans Mountain fight.
Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge casually and chillingly suggested that “people will die” on the protest lines at Burnaby Mountain, asserting that killing off a few “extremists” might be the price Canada would have to pay to get the Trans Mountain expansion built.
*sigh* turned on the radio and remembered that RNZ like to use January to save money by pretending that nothing is happening and we all love hearing their back catalogue of shit music from anodyne presenters.
Ouch. The RNZ director of music is a personal friend. Is there something in particular you’d like me to pass on? What in particular do you feel is “shit” about the music presented?
I am a big fan of music 101.
Although I realise it is a team that puts the show together, Alex Behan was an ideal presenter for the format. Inclusive, humble, amiable.
I will miss his vibe.
As for matinee idol, as others have said more eloquently down thread, great for a while, but can become too much of a good thing.
The one thing wrong about Matinee Idle is Simon Morris. Not only is everything that comes out of his mouth complete and utter drivel, his voice is one that should never be allowed on radio. The show was great when it began a number of years ago because Phil O’Brien did it on his own.
Agreed Ad, Matinee Idle is great fun and how radio should be used. Endless carping on about how unfair life is to some and regurgitated non-news may maintain the dreary angst of the Woe Is Us Tragics but January is time for some fun.
There are eleven other months for the The World Is Fucked depressives to get their fix.
agree +1000 Sanctuary…..why oh why should RNZ foist this rubbish on us…the BBC keeps broadcasting as usual and the news never stops..tsunamis….stock market plunges….Trump…always Trump
RNZ basically only operate for 47 weeks of the year.
Taking Xmas week plus a month off might be great for saving a few pingers and and as well I guess it suits the disconnected life style of the Wellington political/media elites. They live in a world where all the pollies and the journos bugger off to a flash bach for a month. Meanwhile, truck drivers, hair dressers, shop owners, retail workers and all the rest get the stats and the bit in between if they are lucky.
Public radio not serving the public for 5 weeks every year while the skeleton staff left to keep the place running indulge in the pernicious fantasy that Kiwis all live in an upper-middle class white collar utopia of a month of beach life at the bach simply makes me think they are disconnected from reality.
Sure, shut down for two weeks. But five? That’s taking the piss. By the time Morning Report starts up again 90% of the population has been back at work for at least two weeks.
I agree that RNZ was highjacked by the larte set for their interest not our and has become now a meaning less copy of BBC broadcasting.
We in Gisborne.HB have no real interested RNZ reporter anywhere here now to meet the public on climate change transport or environmental issues,
So RNZ needs to be scrapped; – and Government needs to produce a fresh “voice of the people” TV channel, as ‘channel 7’ was before ‘Johnny key’ closed it down.
“In 2008 the Government announced that the broadcaster was to become “more public-service” like. TVNZ responded by launching two commercial free channels; TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. By 2011 Prime Minister John Key announced the closure of these channels.”
Well let’s hope (as I mentioned the other day on another thread that @VV thought was brutal), the board and CEO of RNZ’s new charge to be relevant and become good media citizen’s in the digital age, DON’T preoccupy themselves with demographics and The Market The Market share.
If they are to remain, or at least pretend interest as a Public Service broadcaster, it’ll be less about demographics and The Market The Market as it’s drivers, and more about Genre and Diversity.
Concentration on Demographics – especially when focused on age, assumes the yoof of today has no interest in classical music or jazz, and the geriatric has no interest in rap or whatever passes as rythm and blues these days.
They shouldn’t even be trying to compete with the commercial alternatives – they’re perfectly capable of self flagellation beating each other to death all on their own.
OwT
It seems to me that radionz are trying to compete with commercial radio’s listings, wanting to be in the top. That is not why we have public broadcasting. While it is important to stay in the public eye, PB doesn’t need to crawl to every new whim but just stay current, being aware of what interests people, and what is coming forward in the arts and literature and critique etc. And be thinking and choosing presentation of what a well and widely informed person would want, or need, to know and understand the wider issues.
Now we have video killing the radio star; pictures that don’t tell 1,000 words because the images are so easy to slant. I refer ito it still as Radionz because that honestly states its purpose and importance. Television, videos etc are adjuncts. Reading the article is the base from which viewing the images reinforces and illustrates the subject, points, line on which the news is written; it backgrounds and shows faces, detail.
Encouraging people listening to radio, to communicate and present a range of views and anecdotes relating to the item is good. Not good is to then choose some dinosaur example of negative or fairy godmotherish or religious fundamentalist comment to read out; which happens too often. This being aired on the wider broadcasting medium just reinforces those who are uninformed and living in their own bubble of certainties and limited learning.
The Standard is good because people can be informed of links giving a wider comparative news outlets. Regular commenters may be reliable for one particular view and be trusted to give reasoned comment from that bent and be interested in justifying it when questioned. I often put up Radionz links to matters that raise new points or examples and that could pass by unnoticed that day. Radionzthey are pretty good but have to watched for a tendency to gloss over the pressing problems to concentrate on the views and wants of the chattering classes.
Indeed @ grey….. there’s nothing in that comment I disagree with.
Don’t really have time to reply properly now, but I’m both worried and hopeful about the future of PSB in this country.
There are things RNZ management are doing that lead me to believe they’re a little too concerned with “the Market The Market’ and demographics on the one hand, while on the other Chris F-F-F-Faa-F-F-FFoi is genuinely considering various options (but bearing in mind he’s only ever experienced a life, and broadcasting experience in a neo-liberal environment). Plus of course he’s got all that fiscal responsibility shit going on around him.
And somewhere back in the never-never I made another comment on PSB – several actually. One on the fact that the Coalaition for Better Broadcasting, (or whatever they call themsleves these days) isn’t actually being ambitious enough (perhaps because the shit about we’re a nation of only 4.5 mill and can’t afford stuff, and more).
Another, on the fact that we effectively have a model that isn’t too unlike all that funder-provider shit that went with health care provision in the Ruthenasia era.
Another that we have a rather huge bureaucracy with some rather large salaries that sap a lot of that money the 4.5 million supposedly can’t afford, and its all glued together -primarily due to self interest and preservation
We have:
RNZ ………. CEO and Board
TVNZ ditto
NZoA dittto
Kordia ditto
TMP ditto
MTS ditto
…….oh, and then there’s that Freeview thing
Shit……….sorry, beginning to rave, but hopefully you might be getting to understand where I’m coming from – but basically
we CAN afford 2, and probably 3 radio networks, and at least 2 TV networks that include children (Oh!!! won’t you PLEASE PLEASE think of the children)
AND we have a shitload of sources where content can come.
OwT
I love your brimming-over interest in our PBS.
Keep at it won’t you.
And PLEASE think of the childrens’ tv. It’s awful watching the c r a p with coloured morals (the colours referring to purple and hot pink rather than various shades of gold or dark skin as opposed to deadfish white or spotty pink).
I think of children’s TV quite often. I think of its potential for education as well as its entertainment value.
I also think of things like public service broadcasting’s responsibilities towards the arts and sport, and the amount of corporate welfare that goes into propping up commercial operators that have competed themselves almost to death, and now expect (as of some sort of right) to more handouts.
I think of the way public assets have been used to give commercial interests preferential treatment over time (such as transmission facilities that were once an inherent part in providing all that Reithian educate, inform and entertain stuff).
I think of the supposed efficiencies promised by all the tinkering and interference that’s gone on over decades.
There’s a lot to it all, but what worries me most is that if we ever do get to a PSB Nirvana, it will need to be protected from further political interference and viewed in the same way we see the independence of the Judiciary as being important ( if we’re ever going to be a fully functioning democracy).
But right now, (to use the neo-lib’s own language), we have a pretty inefficient system of delivering PSB and it’s overburdened with quite a few ticket clippers
“… I mentioned the other day on another thread that @VV thought was brutal…”
I have my worried face on now, OWT, as I am having a ‘senior moment’ as I cannot recall this exchange. Grateful for some clues as to when (approx) this was, and any other (gentle) clues to help my memory. LOL
mmmm – maybe it was the greywarshark I had a response from.
But…..stuff is underway at RNZ (as you’ll no doubt be aware of) – and its not necessarily for the better, but more about shuffling a few chairs about.
From Guyon to Mora/Chapman to an Alex Behan being dumped.
Yep I was thinking of this and confused you with @ Greywarshark;
Knew a person who worked at Chapman Tripp and was expected to work excessive hours well over the 40 hours a week of salary that they were paid for. The labour inspectorate should be investigating a lot more of this practise as this person actually worked over 100 hours in one week at one point and everyone was telling them, leave the firm!! They also got paid a salary lower than the person was worth, even without considering the extra hours! So no surprises that a firm like that with their own staff is keen to ‘help’ migrant labour.
Would be interesting to find out with the amount of qualifications the women had, what the salary was, $100k, $80k, surely not lower than that with masters in International Studies from IPU in Palmerston North?? and supermarket experience to boot!!! Lucky then, that Burger King can qualify and so can every other food business as importing in food is now being touted as international trade by lawyers!!!
Don’t forget many of these law firms are also sexually harassing their staff…
Bear in mind international fees are $19,000 per year, and around $15,000 per year for accomodation plus other fees so you are up for $35k+per year, not sure what their ‘international’ ranking is for a masters, but I’m not sure they are in the top 100 universities even Auckland university these days is struggling to stay on international rankings lists for education…. but here in NZ we just don’t worry about quality, as long as the fees are paid!
IPU doesn’t exactly have an international reputation like Harvard, but I guess you can then get a job in a food import business and residency on the basis of it so money well spent especially when NZ law firms are so supportive of the process!
Knew a person who worked at Chapman Tripp and was expected to work excessive hours well over the 40 hours a week of salary that they were paid for. The labour inspectorate should be investigating a lot more of this practise as this person actually worked over 100 hours in one week at one point and everyone was telling them, leave the firm!!
This is why we had penal rates and need to bring them back. If there’s enough work for two people then two people need to be employed. And 100 hour weeks is enough for three people to be employed.
Would be interesting to find out with the amount of qualifications the women had, what the salary was, $100k, $80k, surely not lower than that with masters in International Studies from IPU in Palmerston North?
I’m seeing a restaurant and bakery that serves NZ. Probably doesn’t need the degree at all.
So, the degree would be just another back door for immigrant labour. For her and her husband.
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.
Reading between the lines, I doubt the world is ready for these particular selfies.
Concord Management, the Russian company charged by Mueller for funding internet trolling, is asking the judge to force prosecutors to let the company's employees see "sensitive" discovery, in a filing that's a little TMI pic.twitter.com/8e7n6ANsQM— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) December 20, 2018
Also, apparently, among the millions of pages of records Mueller's has collected on Russian election interference is a "nude selfie." pic.twitter.com/E8eh3i0jxV— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 27, 2018
a previous Concord filing suggested that there were multiple "personal selfie naked photographs" https://t.co/jTZ7tKYiO8— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) December 27, 2018
Caught red handed in scamming the American people.
LinkedIn founder admits to funding a Democrat Cyber Security entity to the tune of $100,000. It created Russian Bots. IE it created fake Russian internet entities supporting Republican candidates with comments to make those Republican candidates look bad.
Trump did it. LOL.
Meanwhile the MSNBC ran of story of boarder guards destroying water stashes left by illegal immigration cartels, or good Samaritans? Then did there Hate Trump opinion panel fake news rubbish. The video is from 2011, slightly Obama era.
I looked up this Dunning-Kruger effect – it applies a lot on the blog. A certain number of people think ‘I can Write my Ideas, and being mine, I Consider Them Awfully Good’. (And that will always be true, as ‘awfully’ has a number of meanings, some of them contradictory!)
catalogofbias.org
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
Dunning–Kruger effect – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
“The flyby technically began on Christmas. Unlike Pluto, whose orbit has been precisely charted for a long time, MU69 was only discovered 4 years ago and its trajectory is not perfectly known. Because of this, the team has to rely on direct observation of the body, which for now still appears as little more than a pixel in its telescope, to understand its location relative to New Horizons.
Until this weekend, the team is using the probe’s telescope to get a handle on the uncertainty of MU69’s location. Although it will be too late to tweak the spacecraft’s trajectory, the team will be able to rework the script of its high-resolution camera so that it can be certain of imaging MU69. This final update will then be relayed to New Horizons on 30 December.
I love it for what it is. Imo purity. A purity of vision and skill.
Also if we can do this we CAN make the changes as a species that we need to do
Funnily enough Imo space and everything external to earth actually helps us connect to earth, to nature. This is why we have fucked up imo – we have tried to forget that we are nature and nature is us as it is for all life – animate and inanimate.
Blessings of the festive season to you and your loved ones.
lso if we can do this we CAN make the changes as a species that we need to do
We can but there’s our ‘leaders’ preventing us.
This is why we have fucked up imo – we have tried to forget that we are nature and nature is us as it is for all life – animate and inanimate.
IMO, we’ve spent so much of our time fighting nature just to live that we’ve forgotten that we’re part of it. It’s in living memory that one in four children were dying before they were five.
We’re well beyond those times now but now we need to journey back to living with nature rather than fighting her.
Labour is sickeningly astonishingly very slow at giving us the “long promised “non commercial channel with more investigative journalism context” as ‘TVNZ 7 was when they began that one in 2008 and Johnny Key closed it down in 2011?
Quote from Wikipedia;
“In 2008 the Government announced that the broadcaster was to become “more public-service” like. TVNZ responded by launching two commercial free channels; TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. By 2011 Prime Minister John Key announced the closure of these channels.”
Conducted by the National Māori Authority, a survey found the top three concerns for Māori included financial insecurity, homelessness and the state of New Zealand’s rivers and lakes.
Next on the list was the number of Māori children in state care, the number of Māori in prison and the rising suicide rates.
I am leaving the IEA as of 1 Jan 2019. I will miss it. But I won't miss the endless "who funds you?" tweets. They reveal a profound misunderstanding of the kind of people who work at think tanks and what motivates them. And always irrelevant to the issue at hand. So stupid.— Jamie Whyte (@_JamieWhyte) December 27, 2018
I am leaving the IEA as of 1 Jan 2019. I will miss it. But I won't miss the endless "who funds you?" tweets. They reveal a profound misunderstanding of the kind of people who work at think tanks and what motivates them. And always irrelevant to the issue at hand. So stupid.
This is a very fine NZ cricket team. The Sri Lankan team by contrast is one of their weaker line ups – not surprising when they’ve lost so many fine players over the last few years.
I tau toko/ support these people words the fossil fuel industry pushed plastic and are still pushing it on us why did we switch from glass milk bottles to plastic because of money being used to influnce our reality making us believe that plastic was better than glass laws need to be passed to make manufactures make enviromently safe packging
Stemming plastic production should be focus, says researcher
Recycling will not be enough to dig the world out of the dangerous mountain of plastic it is drowning in, a leading plastic pollution researcher says.
Massey University’s Dr Trisia Farrelly is part of an expert group advising the United Nations.
Globally as little as 5 percent of plastic was ever recycled, meaning recycling would never address the problem, she said.
Instead an effort must be made to turn off the tap on the amount of plastic being produced.
“The plastics industry is driven by the fossil fuel industry and if they have their way, these figures are going to grow exponentially. In fact there is predicted to be a 33 percent increase in fossil fuel based plastic production in the next five years. So it’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.”
Dr Farrelly said a legally binding global treaty was needed to force producers to stop the supply of plastic. Ka kite ano links below.
I can not even leave my house for 5 minutes with out the sandflys breaking into my house to try and intimadate Eco Maori. The big picture is that the policeforce of all the countrys of Papatuanuku are corrupt if these muppets had anything except lies well they would have locked me up but know they have nothing .Some one makes a excuse that they cannot interfare when they know the state is breaking my human rights right under there noses
New GCSB bill allows spying on Kiwis
A new bill which gives New Zealand’s security and intelligence agencies more power to spy on Kiwis is likely to be introduced this week.
Prime Minister John Key said the expansion of powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was for good reason.
“If you wanted to allow GCSB to spy against a New Zealander, at the moment they can’t do that,” Key said on Breakfast link below ka kite ano . P.S thanks for the mana sandflys
We are the Guardian of all the creatures on Papatuanuku we need to use all the tools we have to protect the precious wildlife from extinction. This story about the northern white rhino is sad and a catastrophe on a world scale all the creatures going extint in 2018
‘We held a memorial service’: the keeper of the last male northern white rhino
The head keeper at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya remembers Sudan We really cried, all the keepers. We held a memorial service for him, which helped. He was a great ambassador for all rhinos, not just his own kind.
I’m still working hard to ensure the two remaining northern white rhinos are content and in good condition for the rest of their lives. They continue to help raise awareness of rhino conservation. If there was no poaching, there would still be good wild populations of northern white rhinos. We are trying to tell everyone that rhino horn does not possess any medicinal value.
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This may not be the end of Sudan’s story. Semen was collected from him, and from other captive males, before they died. Scientists now plan to harvest eggs from our two remaining females, create more than one embryo and implant them in surrogate female southern white rhinos. In Berlin, scientists have managed to create an embryo using northern white rhino semen and southern white rhino eggs. Using IVF to try to save rhinos has never been done before. I keep my fingers crossed. I still hope we can save these magnificent creatures. links below ka kite ano P.S I smell some thing its a puppet.
This is like a story from a film. A businessman masquerading as a farmer, called Randy Constant! has been selling ordinary grains as organic for a nice mark-up for all concerned. Anyone who bought from him didn’t have the necessary wry sense of humour one needs to survive along with a smart brain these days.l
Constant, of Chillicothe, Missouri, and three others have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Constant, who owned an Iowa grain brokerage, acknowledged that he sold $142 million worth of corn, soybeans and wheat over a 7½-year period that wasn’t organic despite his representations.
So he grew stuff, bought off others to add to his, put it through his grain broker business, and the greedy shit clipped tickets all the way on this fraudulent scheme.l Bet they don’t have the guts to go through with it; the fairground hucksters who run things over in the good ole USA.
This sort of rip-off is what you get when you have an amoral and wilfully neglectful regulation scheme for quality in anything , which is what we have under the enforced neo-liberal free market scheme. Coupled with poor regulations and lax policing of them, is the belief in the ‘free fairy’ which is that in the free market things are so much better than if government is fully involved, and that you can trust business. People made gullible by anti-government propaganda. 👿
Kia ora Te kaea tepuia marae is getting swomped with people in need of food and housing ka pai Dennis.
It must be hard living in Tamikimakau
That is a good deed Jacinda giving aid to Indonesia to help with there recovery from the tsunami .
That’s a good sign that our government is making the correct moves with spending on boxing day up more than 10% that shows me that some business leaders are putting a negative spin on Aotearoa economy
It’s cool Te tangata whenua are celebrating the spring equinox I was researching that yesterday.
I alcohol is a big for our younger maori tane they have to learn that drink driving is not cool.ka kite ano
Kia ora Newshub One has to show respect for te awa and tangaroa and be careful it is to easy to drown .
Some people do dumb stuff blowing up a shop to get insurance in Britain.
That elephantseal in Whakatane is a awsome sight they are huge creatures and one has to be very carefull around them good to see the wild creatures around Aotearoa are doing ok but we must do more to protect them.
Its good to see the south island council looking after our guest freedoom campers with showers wifi and a loo dump.
Brixit has put a lot of unneeded presure on busness and people in Britain .
Thats sad that the Bushman center is closing.
That show how a big surge in elitricty can make a strange glow that was freaky.
Kate instant family is a cool movie its all about the family. I see Aquaman has broken movie release sales records in Aotearoa biggest sales Ka pai I seen Tofiga from Laughing Samoans interview Jason Momoa so funny .
Ka kite ano
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Over the weekend, Labour released its welfare policy: an increase in benefit abatement thresholds. And that's it. Faced with clear evidence of ongoing hardship among beneficiaries and a call from its on Welfare Expert Advisory Group to raise core benefits by between 12 percent and 47 percent, Labour's response is ...
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Story of the Week... La Niña Update... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – reportAnimal populations have plunged an average of 68% ...
Gabrielle Po-Ching In November 1918, the cargo and passenger ship Talune travelled to Apia, Samoa from Auckland, carrying a number of passengers who had pneumonic influenza. From these passengers stemmed the biggest pandemic Samoa had ever seen. With around 8,500 deaths, over 20% of the country’s population at the ...
Prof Nick Wilson*, Prof Michael Baker In this blog the arguments for and against shifting all COVID-19 related isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base at Ōhakea are considered. The main advantage would be a reduction in the risk of border control failures, which can potentially involve outbreaks ...
So the Greens co-leader James Shaw recently made a mistake. In his role as Associate Finance Minister approving funding for “shovel-ready” projects, he fought hard for a private “Green school” to get funding to expand their buildings and, therefore, their student capacity. There are many problems with what he did: ...
Over the last three years there have been growing calls for the government to provide dental services under the health system – universal free dental care. This is because at the moment there’s an anomaly in which teeth are regarded as different from the rest of the body which means ...
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Sep 6, 2020 through Sat, Sep 12, 2020Editor's ChoiceWith California ablaze, Newsom blasts Trump administration for failing to fight climate change Trinity River Conservation Camp crew members drown ...
Dear Sir, As we head into the run up to the upcoming election I feel it is my duty to draw your attention to the lack of fun we are currently forced to ensure by the Adern regime. In their efforts to keep the nation’s essential workers, health compromised people, ...
It finally happened: about 13 years after first watching Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” (AIT) in 2007 when it became available in Germany, I recently completed the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training! Participating in this particular training had been on my to-do list for quite some time but it ...
Windows 95 is famous for requiring the shutting down the system by clicking ‘start, like stopping your car by turning the ignition key on. Why are so many interfaces so user-unfriendly? The Covid app to register your entering premises can be so clumsy. Sometimes I have signed in, sat down ...
Is the 2020 election result really the foregone conclusion that the polls and commentators are suggesting? Josh Van Veen suggests otherwise, pointing to some of the shortcomings of opinion polling, which could ready some politicians to say “bugger the pollsters” on election night. In November 1993, opinion polls foretold ...
Back in 2019, six select committees of the UK Parliament established a Citizen's Assembly to investigate how to respond to climate change. The Assembly's deliberations were forced online by the pandemic, but it has finally reported back, and overwhelmingly supports strong action: Taxes that increase as people fly further ...
I am feeling a bit impish today and so for no particular reason I thought I would share this thought, which I first posted over on twitter: “Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, heatwaves, street protests, armed vigilante militias, a lethal pandemic and a corrupt authoritarian using the federal government for partisan and ...
Wayne Mapp (Photo: Tsmith.nz via Wikimedia) A former Minister of Defence says the government was too slow to involve the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) in New Zealand’s response to Covid-19. But Wayne Mapp, a National MP from 1996-2011 who served as Minister of Defence for three ...
Transport is our second biggest polluter after agriculture, making up 17% of our national emissions. Cars and trucks emit 15 million tons of CO2 every year. So, if we're serious about tackling climate change, we need to eliminate this entirely. Public transport and better urban design will be a key ...
Five things we’ve learnt 1. We know where the virus ultimately came from We know that the virus originally came from bats, and most probably a species of horseshoe bat in South East Asia. However, the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2, which allows the virus to attach to cells and infect ...
The Greens' greatest disappointment while in government this term has been the failure to implement a ban on mining on conservation land. Promised by Jacinda Ardern immediately after gaining power, it had long been assumed that the problem was NZ First (who have a long history of environmental vandalism). But ...
If they get into Parliament, everyone expects the Greens to form a coalition with Labour. But James Shaw has said that that might not be the case, and that they might instead choose to sit on the cross-benches: The Greens are prepared to forego a coalition or confidence and ...
Chantal Denise Pagel, Auckland University of Technology; Mark Orams, Auckland University of Technology, and Michael Lueck, Auckland University of TechnologyThree people were injured last month in separate humpback whale encounters off the Western Australia coast. The incidents happened during snorkelling tours on Ningaloo Reef when swimmers came too close ...
Den Of Thieves: They describe themselves, and the money-making rackets they dignify with the name of church, “Christian”, but these ravening wolves are no such thing. The essence of the Christian faith is the giving of love – not the taking of money. It is about opening oneself to the ...
David Pomeroy, University of Canterbury; Kay-Lee Jones, University of Canterbury; Mahdis Azarmandi, University of Canterbury, and Sara Tolbert, University of CanterburyAcademic streaming in New Zealand schools is still common, but according to recent reports it is also discriminatory and racist. Also known as tracking, setting and ability grouping, streaming ...
A New Holy-Day: Perhaps, by accepting this gift of Matariki from the first arrivals in Aotearoa, we late arrivals, shorn of our ancestors’ outlandish fleeces, can draw strength from the accumulated human wisdom of our adopted home. Perhaps, by celebrating Matariki, we can learn to take ownership of our colonial ...
If there was any doubt left, we can surely call it now. Time and date. End of. Finito. Perhaps you thought you saw a flickering eyelid or a finger move? You were wrong. Labour has given up on tax reform for the foreseeable future. One of the key remaining left/right ...
Will the rich get richer under Labour’s latest tax policy? Based on the analysis in reaction to yesterday’s announcement, the answer would seem to be yes. The consensus from commentators is that inequality and severe economic problems will remain unchanged or even be made worse by Labour’s new policy. Although ...
Labour has released its energy policy, and its basicly business as usual: bring forward the 100% renewable target to 2030, build pumped storage if the business case stacks up, restore the thermal ban and clean car standard (but not the feebate scheme), and spread a bit of money around to ...
What's wrong with Labour? The end of yesterday's RNZ health debate says it all: Do you have private health insurance? Reti: "I do." Hipkins: "Yes, I do." Hipkins is Minister of Health. But it turns out that he won't be waiting in the queue with the rest ...
McKayla HollowayThe helicopter carries a team of four Lakes380 scientists and me; we hug the Gneiss rock walls that tower over Lake Manapouri. It’s arguably one of New Zealand’s most well-known lakes – made famous by the ‘Save Manapouri’ campaign of the 1970s. My chest is drawn back into ...
Rainy-Day Man: Is Labour’s tax policy a disappointment? Of course it is! But it’s the best the Traditional Left is going to get. Why? because Labour’s pollsters are telling them that upwards of 200,000 women over the age of 45 years have shifted their allegiance from National to Labour. (Where else, ...
When we last left our intrepid Drow Rogue, he was sitting in a tavern with his companions, only for a crazy Paladin to burst in, and start screaming about the Naga. It soon turned out that ...
Slight tweak to New Research Articles in NR are categorized by domain, roughly. This introduces the problem of items that don't neatly fit in one slot, or that have significance in more than one discipline (happily becoming more frequent as the powerful multiplier of interdisciplinary cooperation is tapped more frequently). ...
Today AstraZeneca pushed the pause button on its late-stage trials of a COVID-19 vaccine. A clinical trial participant has experienced a serious health event and an investigation is underway to determine the cause. What does it mean? A cautious approach – trials can halt to assess safety data With over ...
Kaya Klop-Toker, University of Newcastle; Alex Callen, University of Newcastle; Andrea Griffin, University of Newcastle; Matt Hayward, University of Newcastle, and Robert Scanlon, University of NewcastleOn an island off the Queensland coast, a battle is brewing over the fate of a small population of goats. The battle positions the ...
Dr Ben Gray* This blog discusses what will be needed to operationalise the End of Life Choice Act in the event that it is approved at referendum. It argues that this will take significant resources. Judging by the experience in Oregon it is likely that this may only benefit ...
Nau mai, haere mai – welcome to our newest addition to Sciblogs: Tuhia ki te rangi. Over the eleven years Sciblogs has been operating, the face of science communication has changed dramatically. Where a decade ago there was a burgeoning number of scientists and other experts looking to stretch their ...
I'm grappling with my sheer fucking anger over Labour's pathetic tax policy. Yes, it utterly contradicts their pretence of being a "centre-left" party and shows that they have no interest whatsoever in fixing any of the problems facing New Zealand. Yes, its self-inflicted helplessness, which will allow them to cry ...
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Queensland University of Technology and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Queensland University of TechnologyA disturbing video purporting to show a suicide is reportedly doing the rounds on the popular short video app TikTok, reigniting debate about what social media platforms are doing to limit circulation of troubling material. ...
Labour announced its tax policy today: a new top tax rate of 39% on income over $180,000. And that's it. No intermediate rate between the current top rate of 33% at $70,000 and the new one. No land tax. No wealth tax. Nothing (in fact worse than nothing, because they ...
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nzMethane is a shorter-lived greenhouse gas – why do we ...
Most mornings, when we’re at home, my wife and I will have coffee on our deck. I am the barista of the household and I make the coffee, the way we like it, on our espresso machine. This winter we have sat with our coffee, day after day, in glorious ...
Guest post by Gleb TsipurskyHow do we get politicians to stop lying? How do we get private citizens to stop sharing fake news on social media? A new book, Pro Truth: A Pragmatic Plan to Put Truth Back Into Politics, provides an answer, documenting a new Pro Truth movement centered ...
Back in February, Stuff revealed that the government was planning to review industrial allocations under the Emissions Trading Scheme, due to concerns it was over-subsidising pollution and causing windfall gains for polluters. Now, it looks like that work is finally going ahead. Late last month, the government issued calls for ...
National’s ‘alternative budget’ that includes huge cuts to the government’s operating allowance would risk gutting critical public services, and put health, education and nature at dire risk. ...
Data released this week shows that, while New Zealand is not immune to the economic impacts of the global pandemic, our strong health response has meant we’ve been able to get our economy going faster than many other countries. ...
This year’s election is on 17 October - and it’s coming up fast! With one month to go until Election Day, we’ve come up with 17 ways you, your friends and family can get involved in our campaign and help Labour keep New Zealand moving. ...
PREFU has given a good insight into what was required to ensure New Zealanders were largely supported to continue work and remain healthy during COVID-19, but it is clear we need additional revenue raising measures ongoing, Green Party Co-leader James Shaw said today. ...
The Green Party is disappointed with the Labour Party’s decision to reverse their three free years education policy and back down on their commitment to postgraduate student allowances. ...
In the first two years of our term in Government, we gave teachers record pay rises as a way of recognising the lack of adequate adjustments over the previous decade and the significant role they play in the lives of children and young people. We also increased the number of ...
Labour has a proud history of supporting working New Zealanders, whether through the implementation of the 40hr work week or the introduction of the Working for Families package. ...
The Green Party welcome Labour’s commitment to extend the living wage to Government contractors, but will push for Fair Pay Agreements across industries in the next Government so more New Zealanders can earn a dignified income. ...
The Green Party is urging the Government to act on its commitment to te reo Māori, by making it a core subject up to year 10, and including te reo courses in the Targeted Training and Apprenticeships scheme. ...
We're officially back to the campaign for the 2020 General Election. The campaign may look a little different this year, but our candidates are still getting out and about in their communities and spreading the word about how another term of Labour will keep New Zealand moving in the right ...
You might have heard a bit of discussion about Government debt lately, as experts weigh in on the COVID-19 economic recovery. If you’re wondering why it’s such a contested topic, or even if you’re unsure of what Government debt actually is, then read on - we’ve got you covered! ...
The Green Party has released its Farming for the Future Plan, including a $297m fund to support farmers and growers to transition to climate-friendly practices. ...
We believe every New Zealander deserves the chance to make an informed decision on Election Day. We’ve answered some of the most common questions on our 2020 tax policy, including how much money will be raised from our new top tax rate, and how this will be used to control ...
The Green Party says Labour’s energy policy is a step in the right direction, but the Greens would go further and faster to meaningfully tackle the climate crisis. ...
All this tax talk leaving you a bit dazed and confused? Read below to find out more about our progressive tax system and what Labour's policy means for you. ...
We’re committed to managing the Government’s books responsibly and keeping debt under control while supporting our people and our economy through the 1-in-100 year shock caused by COVID-19. ...
The Labour Party has moved towards more progressive income tax, but is not addressing the growing wealth gap and inequality in Aotearoa. Labour’s new revenue policy also doesn’t help pay for the necessary response to the COVID-19 crisis, Green Party Co-leader James Shaw said today. ...
As New Zealanders we are proud of who we are, what we stand for, and the way we weave together different worlds and cultures to create our unique national identity. ...
It is appalling and negligent that landlords are being encouraged to keep their properties cold and damp until after the election, as advised by the NZ Property Investors Federation, Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson said today. ...
People planning to head outdoors now have a resource that lets them know how accessible an area is for people with varying levels of mobility, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced today. The Halberg Foundation, Sensibel, and the Department of Conservation (DOC) have launched Accessibel, a new tool which helps ...
One of the most significant battle sites of the 1860s Land Wars will receive $2.96 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to improve the site and help tell the New Zealand story to visitors, Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced. Nanaia Mahuta ...
The journey towards recognising Māori as an official language and taonga has been captured as a web series and launched today during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, announced Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Carmel Sepuloni. “Te reo Māori is a living language, and understanding its significance, and pathways to ...
Today’s better-than-forecast GDP figures show the expected impact of the decision to act quickly to protect New Zealanders from the global COVID-19 pandemic. GDP fell 12.2% in the June quarter from March, reflecting decisions to close New Zealand’s borders and enter Alert Level 4. “This result was better than the ...
The Government is investing $39.7 Million over four years to support the educational needs of Pacific learners and families in the regions hardest hit by COVID-19, with Auckland getting an immediate boost, Associate Minister of Education Jenny Salesa says. “Like all New Zealanders Pacific families want learners to do well ...
New Zealand’s goal of 100,000 kiwi by 2030 is being helped by an extra $19.7 million in funding to accelerate iwi and community efforts to protect kiwi, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced. “$19.7 million of Jobs for Nature funding is being invested in kiwi conservation activities including increased predator ...
Ensuring New Zealanders can get the best deal on their electricity takes a step in the right direction today with the South Island launch of the EnergyMate pilot run by the Electricity Retailers’ Association, says Minister of Energy and Resources, Dr Megan Woods. EnergyMate is an industry-led programme providing coaching ...
Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter announced today that the Government has reached its target of 50 percent on women on state sector board and committees – setting a new record level of women on state sector boards. “This Government is committed to having more women in leadership roles - ...
Transport Minister Phil Twyford released today the final Government Policy Statement on land transport (GPS) 2021 which outlines the planned $48 billion investment in services and infrastructure over the next decade. “The final GPS supports our Government’s five-point plan for economic recovery by confirming our record investments in transport infrastructure ...
Three ambitious and cutting-edge research programmes that will lift New Zealand’s advanced energy technology research capability over seven years, have been supported by Government today, says Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods. The projects will each receive a share of $40.7 million investment from the Strategic Science Investment Fund. ...
The critical area for forensic examination known as Pit Bottom in Stone has been reached in what is a major milestone for the Pike River re-entry project, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little announced. “The infrastructure located in Pit Bottom in Stone is of very significant interest in ...
The Government is working on how New Zealand’s retirement income policies and settings can best support Kiwis in light of the COVID-19 economic recovery, with the help of the Retirement Commissioner’s latest review, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi said. “The Retirement Commissioner’s three-yearly review into New Zealand’s retirement ...
A new digital hub and development centre in Murupara will be instrumental in growing the region’s productivity, said Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau at the official opening of two community initiatives today. “I’m pleased to be here celebrating a significant milestone for two projects set to make a ...
PREFU shows economy doing better than forecast Unemployment to peak at 7.8%, down from 9.8% forecast in the Budget Year-to-June accounts show tax revenue, debt and OBEGAL better than forecast Global forecast downgraded as COVID-19 second waves and uncertainty grows Balanced plan to support critical public services, manage debt and ...
The Kāpiti Coast town of Ōtaki will receive $1.4 million in Government funding for two projects providing scores of jobs for locals while improving community facilities, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. The Māoriland Charitable Trust will receive a $900,000 Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) grant to upgrade the ...
The Provincial Growth Fund will provide $11.88 million to fund fencing and waterway projects nationwide that will improve the environment and create jobs in their communities, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. “These projects will create more than 100 jobs nationwide with work starting within the next couple ...
As part of the COVID-19 recovery, the Government has strengthened its procurement rules to ensure its annual $42 billion spend creates more jobs, uses more sustainable construction practices and results in better outcomes for Māori and Pasifika, Government Ministers announced today. Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford says the $42 ...
The Government is supporting a major upgrade of Timaru’s iconic Theatre Royal and the construction of a new connected Heritage Facility museum and exhibition space with $11.6 million from the Government’s Infrastructure Fund, Jacinda Ardern announced today. “We heard the call from the community and the council. The Theatre Royal ...
Chrissy Montague (formerly Armstrong), barrister of Auckland has been appointed as a District Court Judge with Family Court jurisdiction to be based in Wellington, Attorney-General David Parker announced today. Ms Montague commenced practice in Auckland in 1987 and went into general practice dealing with Wills, Estates, Trusts, Conveyancing, Relationship Property ...
A Proposal to provide for the development and operation of commercial film and video production facilities in areas of Christchurch has been given the go ahead. Hon Poto Williams, Associate Minister for Greater Christchurch Regeneration, has approved the Proposal, which was prepared and submitted by Regenerate Christchurch. Minister Williams ...
As part of the Government’s focus on building closer partnerships with Māori and enhancing the quality of, and access to, Māori medium education, a payment of $8 million will be made to Te Wānanga o Raukawa in partial recognition of its Waitangi Tribunal claim (WAI 2698), Associate Education Minister Kelvin ...
The Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage has announced a $19 million investment over four years in an important forest restoration project involving a partnership between the Department of Conservation, iwi/hapū, the Bay of Plenty and Waikato Regional Councils, community conservation groups and organisations such as Forest and Bird across the ...
New Zealand will be the first country in the world to require the financial sector to report on climate risks, the Minister for Climate Change James Shaw announced today. The changes build on the huge progress this Government has made to tackle the climate crisis. “Today is another step on ...
Economic activity across the Auckland region and the country bounced back to levels experienced under Alert Level 1 following Auckland’s move out of Alert Level 3, analysis in the Treasury’s latest Weekly Economic Update shows. The analysis of economic data since Auckland’s move out of Level 3 shows: Auckland card ...
Takiri mai te ata, ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea, tihei mauriora! Tātou katoa ngā iwi o Aotearoa, tēnā koutou! Tēnā tātou e whakanuia ana i te wiki nei, te wiki o te reo Māori Greeting to you all from Otepoti, Dunedin. This week is the Māori Language week and ...
More mental health and addiction services are available for young New Zealanders in Rotorua and Taupō, Wairarapa, South Canterbury, Dunedin and Southland from next month, Health Minister Chris Hipkins and Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter say. “The Government is serious about making sure New Zealanders struggling with mental health ...
The Manuherekia catchment in Central Otago is the third exemplar catchment to be targeted as part of the Government’s plan to clean up waterways by supporting community-led programmes. Environment Minister David Parker said the Manuherekia catchment is vitally important to the people of Central Otago. “The Manuherekia rises in the ...
The Government has agreed on a preferred design for the new Dunedin Hospital featuring two separate buildings, and has provided funding for the next stages of work. Minister of Health Chris Hipkins says Cabinet has approved in principle the detailed business case for the new hospital, giving people in ...
New Zealanders across the country are set to mark history as part of the Māori Language Week commemorations led by Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori this year. Māori Development Minister, Nanaia Mahuta says the initiative will mark history for all the right reasons including making te reo Māori ...
More than 1000 teachers, support staff and school leaders have graduated from a programme designed to grow their capability to use te reo Māori in their teaching practice, as part of the Government’s plan to integrate te reo Māori into education, Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis announced today. Being trialled ...
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, says the Toloa Tertiary Scholarships which aims to encourage more Pacific student numbers participating and pursuing STEM-related studies in 2021, are now open. “These tertiary scholarships are administrated by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP), and are part of MPP’s overall Toloa ...
Four Bay of Plenty timber businesses will receive investments totalling nearly $22 million through the Provincial Growth Fund to boost the local economy and create jobs, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. Rotorua-based sawmill Red Stag Wood Solutions will receive a $15 million loan to develop an engineered ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced that New Zealand is exploring the viability of working with partners to conduct a search for the black box on the Gulf Livestock 1. “We know how much it would mean to the families of those on the ship to understand more about ...
Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has today announced the Government is supporting the creation of new marine infrastructure in northern Te Tairāwhiti on the North Island’s East Coast. The Government has approved in principle an allocation of up to $45 million to support the construction of a marine transport facility at ...
E Epineha. Ka tangi te iwi, ki a koe e ngaro nei i te kitenga kanohi. Kua mokemoke to whānau, to iwi, te motu whanui. Haere ki o matua, tipuna. Haere ki te okiokinga tuturu mo te tangata. Haere i runga i te aroha o ngā reanga kei muri i ...
Catch limits will be increased for 26 fisheries and reduced for three fisheries as part of a regular round of reviews designed to ensure ongoing sustainability of fisheries resources. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash has announced decisions following a review of catch limits and management controls for 29 fish stocks. The ...
The Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson says while it is disappointing the Rugby Championship will not be held in New Zealand, the country will host two Bledisloe Cup games in October and has the capacity in managed isolation facilities to host other international sporting events. “We offered flexible quarantine ...
Up to 350 more people in regional New Zealand will gain a pathway to trades training through a $14 million government investment in apprenticeships, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced today. The apprenticeships are part of the $40 million Regional Apprenticeship Initiative (RAI) announced in June. The funding comes ...
A Government brokered solution to the parking woes at Christchurch Hospital will deliver more than 1000 new car parks near the Hospital for staff and visitors while also ensuring the completion of the Metro Sports Facility, say Minister for Christchurch Regeneration, Dr Megan Woods. The new parking package is made ...
The Minister of Immigration has announced adjustments to immigration instructions to provide more clarity to the assessment criteria for employers wanting to request a border exception for their workers under the ‘other critical worker’ category. “As New Zealand continues on the path to recovery from COVID-19, it is important that ...
By RNZ News New Zealand reported no new cases of covid-19 today – for the first time since early August. There was no media conference today. In a statement, the Health Ministry said the number of active cases had dropped to 70, with seven more people now recovered from the ...
By RNZ Pacific Pro-independence advocates in New Caledonia say a vote for full sovereignty next month would allow the country to step up onto the international stage. The next referendum on independence from France will be held on October 4 and determine whether New Caledonia will obtain the powers still ...
With the Māori Party and the Advance Party both vying to push out Labour's Kelvin Davis from the northern-most Māori seat, RNZ asked Te Tai Tokerau voters who they would vote for. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Carter, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney Facebook has announced the latest version of its successful standalone virtual reality (VR) headset, the Oculus Quest 2. The new device packs more computing power and a sharper screen than ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hayen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Technology Sydney A preliminary study, posted online this week by researchers at the Australian National University and elsewhere, estimates 71,000 Australians had COVID-19 by mid-July — 60,000 more than official number of cases diagnosed by ...
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Israel, Czechia, and French Polynesia. Chart by Keith Rankin. In mid-September, new cases of Covid19 are higher than they have ever been. (See here for previous weekly charts, which included the ‘little’ countries.) While this still-rising incidence is partly due to more testing, ...
News about the Provincial Growth Fund, which often features in our daily Latest from the Beehive reports, typically involve announcements of the latest grants or loans. Today Māori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced a battle site of the 1860s Land Wars will receive ...
Labour’s attack on National’s prudent plan to grow the economy, pay down debt faster, and put more money in Kiwis’ pockets shows how clueless they are when it comes to plotting a roadmap out of this economic crisis, National’s Finance spokesperson ...
Netflix drama Ratched aims to rehabilitate the villain from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but would do better in the electric chair.Nurse Ratched is, quite rightly, one of the most famous movie villains of all time. The source of all of McMurphy’s despair and angst in One Flew Over ...
Board chair Simon Gutschlag in a statement said they would contribute "vast, real-world experience to steering New Zealand out of the trouble it's in". ...
Learning Māori is first and foremost about having fun, according to Precious Clark, director of Maurea Consulting LTD, in a Newshub report on learning te reo Maori and embracing tikanga. “It’s about giving people the tools so they can pronounce our words correctly and it’s about giving them the confidence ...
The Fold host Duncan Greive speaks to NZ On Air’s new chief executive Cameron Harland about his first six months in the job and the findings of the recent Where Are the Audiences? report.Cameron Harland started his new job as the chief executive of NZ On Air in March, the ...
New Conservative is incredibly proud to announce its 24-strong party list for the 2020 General Election, and to confirm that the party is standing a candidate in every electorate. This includes candidates in every Maori electorate, at the request of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. This week the pair discuss the numerous energy announcements made by the government, including a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Professor, Art History, University of Adelaide Review: If the future is to be worth anything, curated by Patrice Sharkey and Rayleen Forester, ACE Open “If the future is to be worth anything” rings true as a question for many in ...
The Forest Owners Association says taxpayers are likely to have to pay billions of dollars for imported carbon credits, if planting production forests is to be restricted with the idea of protecting farming. The Environment Minister, David Parker has said ...
The Electoral Commission has said 2564 voting places will be available for the 17 October general election, though more are being finalised in hopes to get that number above 2800. ...
Analysis: The recession draws strong criticism from opposition parties, Labour dumps its fees-free policy, Jami-Lee Ross decides to try to slip into Parliament as a list MP and National delivers its health policy. ...
Tara Ward chats to Farmer Harry, one of the Australian bachelors looking for love on reality series The Farmer Wants a Wife. All Farmer Harry wants is a woman as reliable as his John Deere tractor, and Farmer Wants a Wife might be the answer to his farmy prayers. A chaotic ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland People infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spread the virus when they speak, sing, cough, sneeze or even just breathe. Scientists think face masks help limit virus ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Louise Uitdenbogerd, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, RMIT University You might have seen a recent article from The Guardian written by “a robot”. Here’s a sample: I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling out RNZ for not having a single right wing voice amidst its chorus of left wing political commentators announced for its election night coverage . The panellists include: Tau Henare (Independent Maori Statutory ...
Some party leaders are adjusting better than others on a campaign trail troubled by Covid-19 restrictions. RNZ political reporters give a perspective from the campaign trail. ...
Covid-19 and its economic impacts have wreaked havoc on New Zealanders’ mental health – especially in the workplace. But amid all the chaos and noise, there are small ways to keep yourself present and calm.It’s been nearly a year since Covid-19 first emerged into our lives, and the devastating mental ...
By RNZ Pacific Bougainville’s retiring president says some candidates are bullying or offering inducements to buy their way into the new parliament. John Momis first raised his concerns while speaking during Papua New Guinea’s 45th anniversary celebrations on Wednesday. Momis praised the success of PNG’s constitution, and contrasted this with ...
In the first of a weekly column on the campaign trail, James Elliott looks at the art of the slogan during a Covid election, and warns not to count political chickens before they've hatched There’s an election campaign on. Apparently. It’s an election campaign unlike any other. Shopping malls are not ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer Management, Western Sydney University The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from politics in society, but wider issues have always been a part of sport – including the Olympics. Sometimes political statements have been ...
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Canada’s climate policy rotting corpse puts on a clean shirt and a nice tie to attend COP 24
The Canadian government has just announced a new handout of $1.6 billion to the Alberta oilsands despite already purchasing the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion earlier in 2018.
In November, Canada posted the G20’s highest per capita GHG emissions
In Ottawa the Doug Ford government dismantled the province’s successful carbon cap-and-trade program, cancelled 758 renewable energy contracts, and stopped construction of the White Pines wind farm as it neared completion.
But the harshest attacks were reserved for campaigners on the front lines of the Trans Mountain fight.
Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge casually and chillingly suggested that “people will die” on the protest lines at Burnaby Mountain, asserting that killing off a few “extremists” might be the price Canada would have to pay to get the Trans Mountain expansion built.
*sigh* turned on the radio and remembered that RNZ like to use January to save money by pretending that nothing is happening and we all love hearing their back catalogue of shit music from anodyne presenters.
Ouch. The RNZ director of music is a personal friend. Is there something in particular you’d like me to pass on? What in particular do you feel is “shit” about the music presented?
Print more t shirts you idiots
‘Scuse me for butting in here riffer.
I am a big fan of music 101.
Although I realise it is a team that puts the show together, Alex Behan was an ideal presenter for the format. Inclusive, humble, amiable.
I will miss his vibe.
As for matinee idol, as others have said more eloquently down thread, great for a while, but can become too much of a good thing.
The one thing wrong about Matinee Idle is Simon Morris. Not only is everything that comes out of his mouth complete and utter drivel, his voice is one that should never be allowed on radio. The show was great when it began a number of years ago because Phil O’Brien did it on his own.
I find it a relief, the presenters quirky, and the music both avoids pop hits and is stupid enough to laugh at.
We don’t need no education.
Agreed Ad, Matinee Idle is great fun and how radio should be used. Endless carping on about how unfair life is to some and regurgitated non-news may maintain the dreary angst of the Woe Is Us Tragics but January is time for some fun.
There are eleven other months for the The World Is Fucked depressives to get their fix.
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It’s only occasionally. There is no intention of having it each week. A very well done thing – even the drivel is okay.
agree +1000 Sanctuary…..why oh why should RNZ foist this rubbish on us…the BBC keeps broadcasting as usual and the news never stops..tsunamis….stock market plunges….Trump…always Trump
RNZ basically only operate for 47 weeks of the year.
Taking Xmas week plus a month off might be great for saving a few pingers and and as well I guess it suits the disconnected life style of the Wellington political/media elites. They live in a world where all the pollies and the journos bugger off to a flash bach for a month. Meanwhile, truck drivers, hair dressers, shop owners, retail workers and all the rest get the stats and the bit in between if they are lucky.
Public radio not serving the public for 5 weeks every year while the skeleton staff left to keep the place running indulge in the pernicious fantasy that Kiwis all live in an upper-middle class white collar utopia of a month of beach life at the bach simply makes me think they are disconnected from reality.
Sure, shut down for two weeks. But five? That’s taking the piss. By the time Morning Report starts up again 90% of the population has been back at work for at least two weeks.
100% sancuary.
I agree that RNZ was highjacked by the larte set for their interest not our and has become now a meaning less copy of BBC broadcasting.
We in Gisborne.HB have no real interested RNZ reporter anywhere here now to meet the public on climate change transport or environmental issues,
So RNZ needs to be scrapped; – and Government needs to produce a fresh “voice of the people” TV channel, as ‘channel 7’ was before ‘Johnny key’ closed it down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVNZ
“In 2008 the Government announced that the broadcaster was to become “more public-service” like. TVNZ responded by launching two commercial free channels; TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. By 2011 Prime Minister John Key announced the closure of these channels.”
Perhaps you’re not worth the bother.
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Anusha Bradley
Senior journalist Hawke’s Bay / Gisborne Reporter – anusha.bradley@radionz.co.nz
Napier City, New Zealand
radionz.co.nz
Well let’s hope (as I mentioned the other day on another thread that @VV thought was brutal), the board and CEO of RNZ’s new charge to be relevant and become good media citizen’s in the digital age, DON’T preoccupy themselves with demographics and The Market The Market share.
If they are to remain, or at least pretend interest as a Public Service broadcaster, it’ll be less about demographics and The Market The Market as it’s drivers, and more about Genre and Diversity.
Concentration on Demographics – especially when focused on age, assumes the yoof of today has no interest in classical music or jazz, and the geriatric has no interest in rap or whatever passes as rythm and blues these days.
They shouldn’t even be trying to compete with the commercial alternatives – they’re perfectly capable of self flagellation beating each other to death all on their own.
OwT
It seems to me that radionz are trying to compete with commercial radio’s listings, wanting to be in the top. That is not why we have public broadcasting. While it is important to stay in the public eye, PB doesn’t need to crawl to every new whim but just stay current, being aware of what interests people, and what is coming forward in the arts and literature and critique etc. And be thinking and choosing presentation of what a well and widely informed person would want, or need, to know and understand the wider issues.
Now we have video killing the radio star; pictures that don’t tell 1,000 words because the images are so easy to slant. I refer ito it still as Radionz because that honestly states its purpose and importance. Television, videos etc are adjuncts. Reading the article is the base from which viewing the images reinforces and illustrates the subject, points, line on which the news is written; it backgrounds and shows faces, detail.
Encouraging people listening to radio, to communicate and present a range of views and anecdotes relating to the item is good. Not good is to then choose some dinosaur example of negative or fairy godmotherish or religious fundamentalist comment to read out; which happens too often. This being aired on the wider broadcasting medium just reinforces those who are uninformed and living in their own bubble of certainties and limited learning.
The Standard is good because people can be informed of links giving a wider comparative news outlets. Regular commenters may be reliable for one particular view and be trusted to give reasoned comment from that bent and be interested in justifying it when questioned. I often put up Radionz links to matters that raise new points or examples and that could pass by unnoticed that day. Radionzthey are pretty good but have to watched for a tendency to gloss over the pressing problems to concentrate on the views and wants of the chattering classes.
Indeed @ grey….. there’s nothing in that comment I disagree with.
Don’t really have time to reply properly now, but I’m both worried and hopeful about the future of PSB in this country.
There are things RNZ management are doing that lead me to believe they’re a little too concerned with “the Market The Market’ and demographics on the one hand, while on the other Chris F-F-F-Faa-F-F-FFoi is genuinely considering various options (but bearing in mind he’s only ever experienced a life, and broadcasting experience in a neo-liberal environment). Plus of course he’s got all that fiscal responsibility shit going on around him.
And somewhere back in the never-never I made another comment on PSB – several actually. One on the fact that the Coalaition for Better Broadcasting, (or whatever they call themsleves these days) isn’t actually being ambitious enough (perhaps because the shit about we’re a nation of only 4.5 mill and can’t afford stuff, and more).
Another, on the fact that we effectively have a model that isn’t too unlike all that funder-provider shit that went with health care provision in the Ruthenasia era.
Another that we have a rather huge bureaucracy with some rather large salaries that sap a lot of that money the 4.5 million supposedly can’t afford, and its all glued together -primarily due to self interest and preservation
We have:
RNZ ………. CEO and Board
TVNZ ditto
NZoA dittto
Kordia ditto
TMP ditto
MTS ditto
…….oh, and then there’s that Freeview thing
Shit……….sorry, beginning to rave, but hopefully you might be getting to understand where I’m coming from – but basically
we CAN afford 2, and probably 3 radio networks, and at least 2 TV networks that include children (Oh!!! won’t you PLEASE PLEASE think of the children)
AND we have a shitload of sources where content can come.
Anyway……duties call
OwT
I love your brimming-over interest in our PBS.
Keep at it won’t you.
And PLEASE think of the childrens’ tv. It’s awful watching the c r a p with coloured morals (the colours referring to purple and hot pink rather than various shades of gold or dark skin as opposed to deadfish white or spotty pink).
I think of children’s TV quite often. I think of its potential for education as well as its entertainment value.
I also think of things like public service broadcasting’s responsibilities towards the arts and sport, and the amount of corporate welfare that goes into propping up commercial operators that have competed themselves almost to death, and now expect (as of some sort of right) to more handouts.
I think of the way public assets have been used to give commercial interests preferential treatment over time (such as transmission facilities that were once an inherent part in providing all that Reithian educate, inform and entertain stuff).
I think of the supposed efficiencies promised by all the tinkering and interference that’s gone on over decades.
There’s a lot to it all, but what worries me most is that if we ever do get to a PSB Nirvana, it will need to be protected from further political interference and viewed in the same way we see the independence of the Judiciary as being important ( if we’re ever going to be a fully functioning democracy).
But right now, (to use the neo-lib’s own language), we have a pretty inefficient system of delivering PSB and it’s overburdened with quite a few ticket clippers
….a nation of 5 million now
actually
“… I mentioned the other day on another thread that @VV thought was brutal…”
I have my worried face on now, OWT, as I am having a ‘senior moment’ as I cannot recall this exchange. Grateful for some clues as to when (approx) this was, and any other (gentle) clues to help my memory. LOL
mmmm – maybe it was the greywarshark I had a response from.
But…..stuff is underway at RNZ (as you’ll no doubt be aware of) – and its not necessarily for the better, but more about shuffling a few chairs about.
From Guyon to Mora/Chapman to an Alex Behan being dumped.
Yep I was thinking of this and confused you with @ Greywarshark;
Back l8r
Knew a person who worked at Chapman Tripp and was expected to work excessive hours well over the 40 hours a week of salary that they were paid for. The labour inspectorate should be investigating a lot more of this practise as this person actually worked over 100 hours in one week at one point and everyone was telling them, leave the firm!! They also got paid a salary lower than the person was worth, even without considering the extra hours! So no surprises that a firm like that with their own staff is keen to ‘help’ migrant labour.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379077/christmas-joy-for-woman-previously-denied-visa-to-stay-in-nz
Would be interesting to find out with the amount of qualifications the women had, what the salary was, $100k, $80k, surely not lower than that with masters in International Studies from IPU in Palmerston North?? and supermarket experience to boot!!! Lucky then, that Burger King can qualify and so can every other food business as importing in food is now being touted as international trade by lawyers!!!
Don’t forget many of these law firms are also sexually harassing their staff…
One in five NZ lawyers sexually harassed, Law Society survey finds
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12061142
About IPU
http://www.ipu.ac.nz
Bear in mind international fees are $19,000 per year, and around $15,000 per year for accomodation plus other fees so you are up for $35k+per year, not sure what their ‘international’ ranking is for a masters, but I’m not sure they are in the top 100 universities even Auckland university these days is struggling to stay on international rankings lists for education…. but here in NZ we just don’t worry about quality, as long as the fees are paid!
http://www.ipu.ac.nz/tuition-accommodation-fees.html
IPU doesn’t exactly have an international reputation like Harvard, but I guess you can then get a job in a food import business and residency on the basis of it so money well spent especially when NZ law firms are so supportive of the process!
Cheap for an entire family to get residency, super and healthcare, for the rest of their lives.
Which is why our education scam, works so well.
It is certainly not for the quality of education. Which has been dumbed down, so foreign students always pass.
Many of these courses are, frankly, crap. Relying in the carrot of residence to gain students.
/agreed
Need a serious review into this and to put a stop to an obviously corrupt practice.
I passed university history attending one lecture and then reading a book. Not proud but it was that easy. The science subjects required hard work.
This is why we had penal rates and need to bring them back. If there’s enough work for two people then two people need to be employed. And 100 hour weeks is enough for three people to be employed.
I’m seeing a restaurant and bakery that serves NZ. Probably doesn’t need the degree at all.
So, the degree would be just another back door for immigrant labour. For her and her husband.
A job where you end up working more hours than you are paid for?
Shocking stuff…..Quick some one call the human rights commission!
I think a royal commission of enquirey is required here HRC just won’t cut it
That’s called slavery Chris.
Glad to see you announce that you’re clearly in favour of it.
“There was no collusion…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DatXfA3UMAAuYK2.jpg
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/re-examining-the-dossier-after-a-year-of-indictments-guilty-pleas-1407774787776
Reading between the lines, I doubt the world is ready for these particular selfies.
Coming soon for the space tragics, New Horizons’Ultima Thule flyby at sparrow fart, January 2nd NZDT.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/UltimaThule
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Oh my, the poor Dems.
Caught red handed in scamming the American people.
LinkedIn founder admits to funding a Democrat Cyber Security entity to the tune of $100,000. It created Russian Bots. IE it created fake Russian internet entities supporting Republican candidates with comments to make those Republican candidates look bad.
Trump did it. LOL.
Meanwhile the MSNBC ran of story of boarder guards destroying water stashes left by illegal immigration cartels, or good Samaritans? Then did there Hate Trump opinion panel fake news rubbish. The video is from 2011, slightly Obama era.
Fake News, more soon.
You really are a walking example of Dunning-Krueger.
I looked up this Dunning-Kruger effect – it applies a lot on the blog. A certain number of people think ‘I can Write my Ideas, and being mine, I Consider Them Awfully Good’. (And that will always be true, as ‘awfully’ has a number of meanings, some of them contradictory!)
catalogofbias.org
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
Dunning–Kruger effect – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
I made a mistake. Was meant to be No 6. Was expecting a similar response.
I think everybody suffers from that disorder, Dunning-Krueger occasionally.
Thanks Joe90. I didn’t know about this flyby.
Great bonus for the mission.
Awesome
“The flyby technically began on Christmas. Unlike Pluto, whose orbit has been precisely charted for a long time, MU69 was only discovered 4 years ago and its trajectory is not perfectly known. Because of this, the team has to rely on direct observation of the body, which for now still appears as little more than a pixel in its telescope, to understand its location relative to New Horizons.
Until this weekend, the team is using the probe’s telescope to get a handle on the uncertainty of MU69’s location. Although it will be too late to tweak the spacecraft’s trajectory, the team will be able to rework the script of its high-resolution camera so that it can be certain of imaging MU69. This final update will then be relayed to New Horizons on 30 December.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/nasa-spacecraft-readies-new-years-rendezvous-primordial-object-far-beyond-pluto
I particularly like that we didn’t know it was there when the probe was launched.
Can’t help but think there’s a metaphor in there, somewhere.
Thanks to you – and marty mars – for the links. Really excited about this !!!!!
I love it for what it is. Imo purity. A purity of vision and skill.
Also if we can do this we CAN make the changes as a species that we need to do
Funnily enough Imo space and everything external to earth actually helps us connect to earth, to nature. This is why we have fucked up imo – we have tried to forget that we are nature and nature is us as it is for all life – animate and inanimate.
Blessings of the festive season to you and your loved ones.
We can but there’s our ‘leaders’ preventing us.
IMO, we’ve spent so much of our time fighting nature just to live that we’ve forgotten that we’re part of it. It’s in living memory that one in four children were dying before they were five.
We’re well beyond those times now but now we need to journey back to living with nature rather than fighting her.
yes all true this is.
Labour is sickeningly astonishingly very slow at giving us the “long promised “non commercial channel with more investigative journalism context” as ‘TVNZ 7 was when they began that one in 2008 and Johnny Key closed it down in 2011?
Quote from Wikipedia;
“In 2008 the Government announced that the broadcaster was to become “more public-service” like. TVNZ responded by launching two commercial free channels; TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. By 2011 Prime Minister John Key announced the closure of these channels.”
Time to act Jacinda. “Lets do this” !!!!!
Broadcast TV is dead.
But streaming TV isn’t.
Yes I also have have these concerns.
https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/top-five-concerns-among-maori-2018
Jamie incest Whyte doesn’t do honesty.
Just another empty vassal.
We know exactly the type of people who fund such ‘think’ tanks – people who desire power and control over others.
OMG the cricket.
Best we’ve been in decades.
The Hadlee-Crowe era wasn’t as good as this.
This is a very fine NZ cricket team. The Sri Lankan team by contrast is one of their weaker line ups – not surprising when they’ve lost so many fine players over the last few years.
I tau toko/ support these people words the fossil fuel industry pushed plastic and are still pushing it on us why did we switch from glass milk bottles to plastic because of money being used to influnce our reality making us believe that plastic was better than glass laws need to be passed to make manufactures make enviromently safe packging
Stemming plastic production should be focus, says researcher
Recycling will not be enough to dig the world out of the dangerous mountain of plastic it is drowning in, a leading plastic pollution researcher says.
Massey University’s Dr Trisia Farrelly is part of an expert group advising the United Nations.
Globally as little as 5 percent of plastic was ever recycled, meaning recycling would never address the problem, she said.
Instead an effort must be made to turn off the tap on the amount of plastic being produced.
“The plastics industry is driven by the fossil fuel industry and if they have their way, these figures are going to grow exponentially. In fact there is predicted to be a 33 percent increase in fossil fuel based plastic production in the next five years. So it’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.”
Dr Farrelly said a legally binding global treaty was needed to force producers to stop the supply of plastic. Ka kite ano links below.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379167/stemming-plastic-production-should-be-focus-says-researcher
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
I can not even leave my house for 5 minutes with out the sandflys breaking into my house to try and intimadate Eco Maori. The big picture is that the policeforce of all the countrys of Papatuanuku are corrupt if these muppets had anything except lies well they would have locked me up but know they have nothing .Some one makes a excuse that they cannot interfare when they know the state is breaking my human rights right under there noses
New GCSB bill allows spying on Kiwis
A new bill which gives New Zealand’s security and intelligence agencies more power to spy on Kiwis is likely to be introduced this week.
Prime Minister John Key said the expansion of powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was for good reason.
“If you wanted to allow GCSB to spy against a New Zealander, at the moment they can’t do that,” Key said on Breakfast link below ka kite ano . P.S thanks for the mana sandflys
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/83160725/new-gcsb-bill-allows-spying-on-kiwis
Hope you had a good Christmas eco Maori. We can only guess why the ‘sandflys’ are stressing you out. Thanks for the links.
We are the Guardian of all the creatures on Papatuanuku we need to use all the tools we have to protect the precious wildlife from extinction. This story about the northern white rhino is sad and a catastrophe on a world scale all the creatures going extint in 2018
‘We held a memorial service’: the keeper of the last male northern white rhino
The head keeper at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya remembers Sudan We really cried, all the keepers. We held a memorial service for him, which helped. He was a great ambassador for all rhinos, not just his own kind.
I’m still working hard to ensure the two remaining northern white rhinos are content and in good condition for the rest of their lives. They continue to help raise awareness of rhino conservation. If there was no poaching, there would still be good wild populations of northern white rhinos. We are trying to tell everyone that rhino horn does not possess any medicinal value.
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This may not be the end of Sudan’s story. Semen was collected from him, and from other captive males, before they died. Scientists now plan to harvest eggs from our two remaining females, create more than one embryo and implant them in surrogate female southern white rhinos. In Berlin, scientists have managed to create an embryo using northern white rhino semen and southern white rhino eggs. Using IVF to try to save rhinos has never been done before. I keep my fingers crossed. I still hope we can save these magnificent creatures. links below ka kite ano P.S I smell some thing its a puppet.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/24/people-of-2018-head-keeper-last-male-northern-white-rhino-dies
This is like a story from a film. A businessman masquerading as a farmer, called Randy Constant! has been selling ordinary grains as organic for a nice mark-up for all concerned. Anyone who bought from him didn’t have the necessary wry sense of humour one needs to survive along with a smart brain these days.l
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2018/12/26/organic-grain-fraud-scheme-u-s-says-thousands-were-victims/2418272002/
Constant, of Chillicothe, Missouri, and three others have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Constant, who owned an Iowa grain brokerage, acknowledged that he sold $142 million worth of corn, soybeans and wheat over a 7½-year period that wasn’t organic despite his representations.
So he grew stuff, bought off others to add to his, put it through his grain broker business, and the greedy shit clipped tickets all the way on this fraudulent scheme.l Bet they don’t have the guts to go through with it; the fairground hucksters who run things over in the good ole USA.
This sort of rip-off is what you get when you have an amoral and wilfully neglectful regulation scheme for quality in anything , which is what we have under the enforced neo-liberal free market scheme. Coupled with poor regulations and lax policing of them, is the belief in the ‘free fairy’ which is that in the free market things are so much better than if government is fully involved, and that you can trust business. People made gullible by anti-government propaganda. 👿
Kia ora Te kaea tepuia marae is getting swomped with people in need of food and housing ka pai Dennis.
It must be hard living in Tamikimakau
That is a good deed Jacinda giving aid to Indonesia to help with there recovery from the tsunami .
That’s a good sign that our government is making the correct moves with spending on boxing day up more than 10% that shows me that some business leaders are putting a negative spin on Aotearoa economy
It’s cool Te tangata whenua are celebrating the spring equinox I was researching that yesterday.
I alcohol is a big for our younger maori tane they have to learn that drink driving is not cool.ka kite ano
Kia ora Newshub One has to show respect for te awa and tangaroa and be careful it is to easy to drown .
Some people do dumb stuff blowing up a shop to get insurance in Britain.
That elephantseal in Whakatane is a awsome sight they are huge creatures and one has to be very carefull around them good to see the wild creatures around Aotearoa are doing ok but we must do more to protect them.
Its good to see the south island council looking after our guest freedoom campers with showers wifi and a loo dump.
Brixit has put a lot of unneeded presure on busness and people in Britain .
Thats sad that the Bushman center is closing.
That show how a big surge in elitricty can make a strange glow that was freaky.
Kate instant family is a cool movie its all about the family. I see Aquaman has broken movie release sales records in Aotearoa biggest sales Ka pai I seen Tofiga from Laughing Samoans interview Jason Momoa so funny .
Ka kite ano
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute