yes . Good to see capable people who know the science and cant be bamboozled by reports written by farmer interest getting elected to Regional Councils.
Nick Smith must stirring up these stories about 'poor little farmers' after years of government anti democratic meddling with Ecan is going to be swept away in next months elections
Greta is an inspiration to all of her generation and a pity most millennials are not grasping/supporting their boldness to speak up for the global catastrophe about to hit us all.
Well I saw that fossil John Armstrong holding forth with his reckons on this and that on the TVNZ site and I was like, WTF??? This guy has been retired for years now, he wouldd have sweet fuck all idea about what people are thinking outside his managed care unit, yet he talks as though he is still an insider…
Then I saw out of touch Audrey doping the same sort of thing. It is just a constant barrage of pro-National offense at Labour being in government.
What makes you so confident you know what everyone is thinking. You’re to busy defending the indefensible. Feeding a few kids at school is a nice touch but its hardly the solution to housing them. Oh and I see the suicide rate has dropped. Not. Shall I go on.
I am not saying IO know what is going on "out there", on the other hand I don't get a column every week in the paper to indulge my wild reckons.
And I'll be rogered to a gentle rumba beat if a long retired geriatric ex-horse race reporter and the utterly out of touch sister of an ex-National party minister know either.
WHINSEC (formerly the SOA) has some competition in the death squad export business.
GROZNY — A 45 minute drive outside of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia is building a special forces university in Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya. Tsarizm was given a private, first look tour of the impressive site.
When completed in the near future, a sprawling campus of over 420 hectares will provide unprecedented training opportunities for elite soldiers of the Russian Federation’s Spetsnaz forces. The facility will have the capability to train 1,500 personal at the same time; many of these students will be from foreign nations allied with Russia.
There was a 3 week break in September every year ( party conferences)
What Johnson has done has removed about 4- 5 "sitting days" from the Commons schedule. The debate about Brexit has gone round and round in circles for 18 months or so. More debate isnt required.
Prime Ministers have prorouged parliament when it suits them before , Blair did it, Major did ( to get rid of questions in the lead up to an election)
Harper in Canada did it for 2 months – a month after an election- as his minority government was going to be replaced by an opposition coalition.
Australia does it every year now , to shut down the opposition controlled Senate over the long summer break.
Listening to nonsense stories about an unsusual but valid parliamentary tactic doesnt provide a dose of reality ( you should look more closely at how the Remain Mps and the Speaker have broken conventions from 1600s about being a nuetral Speaker, to derail any sort of Brexit at all)
Jimmy Nail singing on Radionz Requests ‘It was a big river’ – and thinking about those who worked on it (one of the northern coasts I guess) and the ships.
‘There was a bond between the future and the past
We used to make things so they would last’ … or such.
Wasn't he in Auf Wiedersehn Pet?
That is what the Conservatives and their Prime Monster Boorish are effectively polishing off, bonds and commitment to the idea of a working class of skilled blokes. Thatcher didn't do anything for the ordinary working people and less in the last few decades. Away from the EU they will just be making more weapons for the USA and Europe uneasily looking at them wondering what these quixotic bastards are going to do next. Like, do they have a plan, or play it by ear?
Keith Ng is in Hong Kong, live tweeting from one of the protests. He is suggesting shit might kick off today with police crack down as it's the first big protest that's not had permissions.
Thank you Lesley Elliott for starting The Sophie Elliott Foundation – to have begun that after the tragedy of losing your daughter is a testament to your love and strength – you have made a real difference in "educating and empowering young people about abusive relationships for nearly a decade" and now that you have to make a change I wish you all the best for the next stage of your journey. Thank you again.
"…its founder said this week that health issues, which included the onset of Parkinson's disease, meant she would end the project.
The heavy workload carried by Elliott and foundation trustee Bill O'Brien, who are both in their 70s, had also played a part in the decision.
What a kind beautiful soul – I love seeing old animals especially the poor farmed ones – it brings their inherent dignity into sharp focus. Kia kaha Jasmine.
Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Hubber has rescued nearly 200 cows and calves from a one-way trip to the meatworks with her not-for-profit cow sanctuary 'Til the Cows Come Home.
The 9/11 defendants arrived in Guantánamo having undergone at least three years of “enhanced interrogation” at CIA black sites. Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding – simulated drowning – 183 times. Hawsawi comes to court with a special cushion and is unable to bear sitting down for long after repeated surgeries made necessary by forced rectal examinations in CIA detention.
The FBI took statements from the defendants in 2007, some months after their arrival in Guantánamo, which included extensive confessions. But the defence lawyers say they were still under the sway of the preceding years of torture, which had left a “learned helplessness”.
So I see that Auckland is descending into a measles epidemic, the sort of thing that even Third World shithole countries left behind fifty years ago. Nice work.
The Gostdivers cleaning up our ports and river Ka pai.
The its great that our government has invested more in drugs with out Pharmac our spend on drugs will be dubbled. What I'm getting at is we get better value for money than the Americans and Australia with Pharmac.
That's human cause climate change trump the STRORM landing in Florida at the minute hope no people are lost to the Storm. Did your golf course have plans to mittergate Climate Change if not OPPs
There you go whanau these sandflys treat Eco Maori like I'm not human Susan.
The reason cancer is increasing is the drug in our food the carbon car fumes every were one looks chemical are poisoning us Te Papatuanuku needs to change to a Organic food eating society I grow my vegetables with out chemicals.
The carbon barons people wrote solar and wind clean green energy off saying it could never replace coal as the cheapest energy source. Now a few short years later these people have to eat there words as solar and wind energy is much clearer cheaper than coal.
WHAT I'm getting at is there will be many attempts by the carbon people to put doubt in the 99.9 %, minds about carbon free flying being possible. Ma Te Wa in time this will be achieved . If there is a will theres a way.
Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?
Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay
In the global battle against carbon, aviation is one of the toughest challenges of all. Grids are getting ever greener thanks to renewables, cars are going electric, even construction is exploring new ways to become more sustainable.
But air travel is popular, dirty and, most importantly of all, hard to power with anything other than hydrocarbons
That’s where Megill comes in. The German-Canadian is seeking the holy grail of air travel – a manned aircraft powered by a liquid hydrogen fuel cell. The technology, engineered by the non-profit organisation AeroDelft which he co-founded in 2017, promises a sort of atmospheric alchemy: a power source whose principal emission is water vapour
“It’s not tomorrow that we fly fully solar aeroplanes with passengers … but it will come,” says Piccard, who points to fuel-saving aircraft towing systems (ATS) and route-optimising software such as SkyBreathe as “an intermediate way” to reduce the carbon cost of flying.
The other technology under exploration is battery-powered aircraft. Norway announced last year that it wants all short-haul flights to be electric by 2040. But sceptics counter that battery cells will never be enough to power big aircraft and long-haul flights, and that hybrid solutions will have to come first. Ka kite Ano link below.
Condolences to the whanau of the people who died in the Philippines plane crash.
That attempted cash machine robbery and the burning car being dumped will be a persons attempt to get money to pay for PEE addiction
One of the most powerful Hurricane in human history trump.
So long as hydrogen is made using renewable energy than its a clean energy. Off shore wind farms would be great to there were a few planned by last Labour Green government but they got cancelled by shonky.
That is shocking a mass shooting in Texas the same week they losen their gun control laws to many ultrights in power in that state.
Ngāti Rongamai Community having a fool high on PEE shooting the place up idiot for taking PEE a terrising people.
Make sure to get our tamariki vacancies whanau.
Our Coalition Government is spending more putea on fixing the water quality problems hand to them from the previous government mess of chasing export dollars over our waters environmental protection.
Maori Language week Te reo Maori week Ka pai. Big parades plans for the regions good to see.
There you go Whanau our Coalition government has invested heaps into cancer treatment and mental health issue.
Keith Quin a great sport reporter who has seen how bad some kiwis can behave at some sports events over seas. Some of it will be caused by the crowd effects phenomenon.
Exactly my thoughts Keith Quin should have houners title before others I can think of.
It would be nice to have some of the capital gains in Aotearoa flow back to the common tangata kia Ora.
Its great to see that Aotearoa agricultural sector is stable and export prices on the rise
I think with tamariki sports there should be a prize for the losing team tell them that losing is part of the game make all the players in the game feel good not just the winning teams.
Ka pai to all the business people who are tau toko their workers to strike for our future climate. ALL the intelligent people of the Papatuanuku need to strike teno pai
Australian tech giant Atlassian will encourage its 3500 employees to take part in this month's global strike for climate action in a move it hopes will reverberate through corporate Australia.
The firm's billionaire co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, said companies had to take their share of responsibility for the "climate crisis" and warned Australians in particular could not rely on governments "at all" to address the problem.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, he said prominent politicians such as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has been critical of corporate activism in the past, should "stick to [their] knitting", something Dutton has previously told chief executives to do.
The National Party government is doubling down on a grim, regressive vision for the future: more prisons, more prisoners, and a society fractured by policies that punish rather than heal. This isn’t just a misstep; it’s a deliberate lurch toward a dystopian future where incarceration is the answer to every ...
The audacity of Don Brash never ceases to amaze. The former National Party and Hobson’s Pledge mouthpiece has now sunk his claws into NZME, the media giant behind the New Zealand Herald and half of our commercial radio stations. Don Brash has snapped up shares in NZME, aligning himself with ...
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 13, 2025 thru Sat, April 19, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a ...
“What I’d say to you is…” our Prime Minister might typically begin a sentence, when he’s about to obfuscate and attempt to derail the question you really, really want him to answer properly (even once would be okay, Christopher). Questions such as “Why is a literal election promise over ...
Ruth IrwinExponential Economic growth is the driver of Ecological degradation. It is driven by CO2 greenhouse gas emissions through fossil fuel extraction and burning for the plethora of polluting industries. Extreme weather disasters and Climate change will continue to get worse because governments subscribe to the current global economic system, ...
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MFB Co-Founder Cecilia Robinson runs Tend HealthcareSummary:Kieran McAnulty calls out National on healthcare lies and says Health Minister Simeon Brown is “dishonest and disingenuous”(video below)McAnulty says negotiation with doctors is standard practice, but this level of disrespect is not, especially when we need and want our valued doctors.National’s $20bn ...
Chris Luxon’s tenure as New Zealand’s Prime Minister has been a masterclass in incompetence, marked by coalition chaos, economic lethargy, verbal gaffes, and a moral compass that seems to point wherever political expediency lies. The former Air New Zealand CEO (how could we forget?) was sold as a steady hand, ...
Has anybody else noticed Cameron Slater still obsessing over Jacinda Ardern? The disgraced Whale Oil blogger seems to have made it his life’s mission to shadow the former Prime Minister of New Zealand like some unhinged stalker lurking in the digital bushes.The man’s obsession with Ardern isn't just unhealthy...it’s downright ...
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When the National Party hastily announced its “Local Water Done Well” policy, they touted it as the great saviour of New Zealand’s crumbling water infrastructure. But as time goes by it's looking more and more like a planning and fiscal lame duck...and one that’s going to cost ratepayers far more ...
Donald Trump, the orange-hued oligarch, is back at it again, wielding tariffs like a mob boss swinging a lead pipe. His latest economic edict; slapping hefty tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada, has the stench of a protectionist shakedown, cooked up in the fevered minds of his sycophantic ...
In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI will release Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain world, a report promoting public debate and understanding on issues of strategic importance to ...
One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tallSongwriter: Grace Wing Slick.Morena, all, and a happy Bicycle Day to you.Today is an unofficial celebration of the dawning of the psychedelic era, commemorating the ...
It’s only been a few months since the Hollywood fires tore through Los Angeles, leaving a trail of devastation, numerous deaths, over 10,000 homes reduced to rubble, and a once glorious film industry on its knees. The Palisades and Eaton fires, fueled by climate-driven dry winds, didn’t just burn houses; ...
Four eighty-year-old books which are still vitally relevant today. Between 1942 and 1945, four refugees from Vienna each published a ground-breaking – seminal – book.* They left their country after Austria was taken over by fascists in 1934 and by Nazi Germany in 1938. Previously they had lived in ‘Red ...
Good Friday, 18th April, 2025: I can at last unveil the Secret Non-Fiction Project. The first complete Latin-to-English translation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s twelve-book Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (Disputations Against Divinatory Astrology). Amounting to some 174,000 words, total. Some context is probably in order. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) ...
National MP Hamish Campbell's pathetic attempt to downplay his deep ties to and involvement in the Two by Twos...a secretive religious sect under FBI and NZ Police investigation for child sexual abuse...isn’t just a misstep; it’s a calculated lie that insults the intelligence of every Kiwi voter.Campbell’s claim of being ...
New Zealand First’s Shane Jones has long styled himself as the “Prince of the Provinces,” a champion of regional development and economic growth. But beneath the bluster lies a troubling pattern of behaviour that reeks of cronyism and corruption, undermining the very democracy he claims to serve. Recent revelations and ...
Give me one reason to stay hereAnd I'll turn right back aroundGive me one reason to stay hereAnd I'll turn right back aroundSaid I don't want to leave you lonelyYou got to make me change my mindSongwriters: Tracy Chapman.Morena, and Happy Easter, whether that means to you. Hot cross buns, ...
New Zealand’s housing crisis is a sad indictment on the failures of right wing neoliberalism, and the National Party, under Chris Luxon’s shaky leadership, is trying to simply ignore it. The numbers don’t lie: Census data from 2023 revealed 112,496 Kiwis were severely housing deprived...couch-surfing, car-sleeping, or roughing it on ...
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts & talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including: on a global survey of over 3,000 economists and scientists showing a significant divide in views on green growth; and ...
Simeon Brown, the National Party’s poster child for hubris, consistently over-promises and under-delivers. His track record...marked by policy flip-flops and a dismissive attitude toward expert advice, reveals a politician driven by personal ambition rather than evidence. From transport to health, Brown’s focus seems fixed on protecting National's image, not addressing ...
Open access notables Recent intensified riverine CO2 emission across the Northern Hemisphere permafrost region, Mu et al., Nature Communications:Global warming causes permafrost thawing, transferring large amounts of soil carbon into rivers, which inevitably accelerates riverine CO2 release. However, temporally and spatially explicit variations of riverine CO2 emissions remain unclear, limiting the ...
Once a venomous thorn in New Zealand’s blogosphere, Cathy Odgers, aka Cactus Kate, has slunk into the shadows, her once-sharp quills dulled by the fallout of Dirty Politics.The dishonest attack-blogger, alongside her vile accomplices such as Cameron Slater, were key players in the National Party’s sordid smear campaigns, exposed by Nicky ...
Once upon a time, not so long ago, those who talked of Australian sovereign capability, especially in the technology sector, were generally considered an amusing group of eccentrics. After all, technology ecosystems are global and ...
The ACT Party leader’s latest pet project is bleeding taxpayers dry, with $10 million funneled into seven charter schools for just 215 students. That’s a jaw-dropping $46,500 per student, compared to roughly $9,000 per head in state schools.You’d think Seymour would’ve learned from the last charter school fiasco, but apparently, ...
India navigated relations with the United States quite skilfully during the first Trump administration, better than many other US allies did. Doing so a second time will be more difficult, but India’s strategic awareness and ...
The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi is concerned for low-income workers given new data released by Stats NZ that shows inflation was 2.5% for the year to March 2025, rising from 2.2% in December last year. “The prices of things that people can’t avoid are rising – meaning inflation is rising ...
Last week, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment recommended that forestry be removed from the Emissions Trading Scheme. Its an unfortunate but necessary move, required to prevent the ETS's total collapse in a decade or so. So naturally, National has told him to fuck off, and that they won't be ...
China’s recent naval circumnavigation of Australia has highlighted a pressing need to defend Australia’s air and sea approaches more effectively. Potent as nuclear submarines are, the first Australian boats under AUKUS are at least seven ...
In yesterday’s post I tried to present the Reserve Bank Funding Agreement for 2025-30, as approved by the Minister of Finance and the Bank’s Board, in the context of the previous agreement, and the variation to that agreement signed up to by Grant Robertson a few weeks before the last ...
Australia’s bid to co-host the 31st international climate negotiations (COP31) with Pacific island countries in late 2026 is directly in our national interest. But success will require consultation with the Pacific. For that reason, no ...
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The introduction of AI in workplaces can create significant health and safety risks for workers (such as intensification of work, and extreme surveillance) which can significantly impact workers’ mental and physical wellbeing. It is critical that unions and workers are involved in any decision to introduce AI so that ...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House and aggressive posturing is undermining global diplomacy, and New Zealand must stand firm in rejecting his reckless, fascist-driven policies that are dragging the world toward chaos.As a nation with a proud history of peacekeeping and principled foreign policy, we should limit our role ...
Sunday marks three months since Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president. What a ride: the style rude, language raucous, and the results rogue. Beyond manners, rudeness matters because tone signals intent as well as personality. ...
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Taiwan has an inadvertent, rarely acknowledged role in global affairs: it’s a kind of sponge, soaking up much of China’s political, military and diplomatic efforts. Taiwan soaks up Chinese power of persuasion and coercion that ...
The Ukraine war has been called the bloodiest conflict since World War II. As of July 2024, 10,000 women were serving in frontline combat roles. Try telling them—from the safety of an Australian lounge room—they ...
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This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). From "founder" of Tesla and the OG rocket man with SpaceX, and rebranding twitter as X, Musk has ...
Back in February 2024, a rat infestation attracted a fair few headlines in the South Dunedin Countdown supermarket. Today, the rats struck again. They took out the Otago-Southland region’s internet connection. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360656230/internet-outage-hits-otago-and-southland Strictly, it was just a coincidence – rats decided to gnaw through one fibre cable, while some hapless ...
I came in this morning after doing some chores and looked quickly at Twitter before unpacking the groceries. Someone was retweeting a Radio NZ story with the headline “Reserve Bank’s budget to be slashed by 25%”. Wow, I thought, the Minister of Finance has really delivered this time. And then ...
So, having teased it last week, Andrew Little has announced he will run for mayor of Wellington. On RNZ, he's saying its all about services - "fixing the pipes, making public transport cheaper, investing in parks, swimming pools and libraries, and developing more housing". Meanwhile, to the readers of the ...
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In the week of Australia’s 3 May election, ASPI will release Agenda for Change 2025: preparedness and resilience in an uncertain world, a report promoting public debate and understanding on issues of strategic importance to ...
Yesterday, 5,500 senior doctors across Aotearoa New Zealand voted overwhelmingly to strike for a day.This is the first time in New Zealand ASMS members have taken strike action for 24 hours.They are asking the government tofund them and account for resource shortfalls.Vacancies are critical - 45-50% in some regions.The ...
For years and years and years, David Seymour and his posse of deluded neoliberals have been preaching their “tough on crime” gospel to voters. Harsher sentences! More police! Lock ‘em up! Throw away the key. But when it comes to their own, namely former Act Party president Tim Jago, a ...
Judith Collins is a seasoned master at political hypocrisy. As New Zealand’s Defence Minister, she's recently been banging the war drum, announcing a jaw-dropping $12 billion boost to the defence budget over the next four years, all while the coalition of chaos cries poor over housing, health, and education.Apparently, there’s ...
I’m on the London Overground watching what the phones people are holding are doing to their faces: The man-bun guy who could not be less impressed by what he's seeing but cannot stop reading; the woman who's impatient for a response; the one who’s frowning; the one who’s puzzled; the ...
You don't have no prescriptionYou don't have to take no pillsYou don't have no prescriptionAnd baby don't have to take no pillsIf you come to see meDoctor Brown will cure your ills.Songwriters: Waymon Glasco.Dr Luxon. Image: David and Grok.First, they came for the Bottom FeedersAnd I did not speak outBecause ...
The Health Minister says the striking doctors already “well remunerated,” and are “walking away from” and “hurting” their patients. File photo: Lynn GrievesonLong stories short from our political economy on Wednesday, April 16:Simeon Brown has attacked1 doctors striking for more than a 1.5% pay rise as already “well remunerated,” even ...
The time is ripe for Australia and South Korea to strengthen cooperation in space, through embarking on joint projects and initiatives that offer practical outcomes for both countries. This is the finding of a new ...
Hi,When Trump raised tariffs against China to 145%, he destined many small businesses to annihilation. The Daily podcast captured the mass chaos by zooming in and talking to one person, Beth Benike, a small-business owner who will likely lose her home very soon.She pointed out that no, she wasn’t surprised ...
National’s handling of inflation and the cost-of-living crisis is an utter shambles and a gutless betrayal of every Kiwi scraping by. The Coalition of Chaos Ministers strut around preaching about how effective their policies are, but really all they're doing is perpetuating a cruel and sick joke of undelivered promises, ...
Most people wouldn't have heard of a little worm like Rhys Williams, a so-called businessman and former NZ First member, who has recently been unmasked as the venomous troll behind a relentless online campaign targeting Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle.According to reports, Williams has been slinging mud at Doyle under ...
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That's the conclusion of a report into security risks against Green MP Benjamin Doyle, in the wake of Winston Peters' waging a homophobic hate-campaign against them: GRC’s report said a “hostility network” of politicians, commentators, conspiracy theorists, alternative media outlets and those opposed to the rainbow community had produced ...
That's the conclusion of a report into security risks against Green MP Benjamin Doyle, in the wake of Winston Peters' waging a homophobic hate-campaign against them: GRC’s report said a “hostility network” of politicians, commentators, conspiracy theorists, alternative media outlets and those opposed to the rainbow community had produced ...
National Party MP Hamish Campbell’s ties to the secretive Two By Twos "church" raises serious questions that are not being answered. This shadowy group, currently being investigated by the FBI for numerous cases of child abuse, hides behind a facade of faith while Campbell dodges scrutiny, claiming it’s a “private ...
National Party MP Hamish Campbell’s ties to the secretive Two By Twos "church" raises serious questions that are not being answered. This shadowy group, currently being investigated by the FBI for numerous cases of child abuse, hides behind a facade of faith while Campbell dodges scrutiny, claiming it’s a “private ...
The economy is not doing what it was supposed to when PM Christopher Luxon said in January it was ‘going for growth.’ Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāLong stories short from our political economy on Tuesday, April 15:New Zealand’s economic recovery is stalling, according to business surveys, retail spending and ...
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The growth of China’s AI industry gives it great influence over emerging technologies. That creates security risks for countries using those technologies. So, Australia must foster its own domestic AI industry to protect its interests. ...
Unfortunately we have another National Party government in power at the moment, and as a consequence, another economic dumpster fire taking hold. Inflation’s hurting Kiwis, and instead of providing relief, National is fiddling while wallets burn.Prime Minister Chris Luxon's response is a tired remix of tax cuts for the rich ...
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After stonewalling requests for information on boot camps, the Government has now offered up a blog post right before Easter weekend rather than provide clarity on the pilot. ...
More people could be harmed if Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey does not guarantee to protect patients and workers as the Police withdraw from supporting mental health call outs. ...
The Green Party recognises the extension of visa allowances for our Pacific whānau as a step in the right direction but continues to call for a Pacific Visa Waiver. ...
The Government yesterday released its annual child poverty statistics, and by its own admission, more tamariki across Aotearoa are now living in material hardship. ...
Today, Te Pāti Māori join the motu in celebration as the Treaty Principles Bill is voted down at its second reading. “From the beginning, this Bill was never welcome in this House,” said Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader, Rawiri Waititi. “Our response to the first reading was one of protest: protesting ...
The Green Party is proud to have voted down the Coalition Government’s Treaty Principles Bill, an archaic piece of legislation that sought to attack the nation’s founding agreement. ...
A Member’s Bill in the name of Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter which aims to stop coal mining, the Crown Minerals (Prohibition of Mining) Amendment Bill, has been pulled from Parliament’s ‘biscuit tin’ today. ...
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty’s Members Bill to make the law simpler and fairer for businesses operating on Easter, Anzac and Christmas Days has passed its first reading after a conscience vote in Parliament. ...
Nicola Willis continues to sit on her hands amid a global economic crisis, leaving the Reserve Bank to act for New Zealanders who are worried about their jobs, mortgages, and KiwiSaver. ...
Today, the Oranga Tamariki (Repeal of Section 7AA) Amendment Bill has passed its third and final reading, but there is one more stage before it becomes law. The Governor-General must give their ‘Royal assent’ for any bill to become legally enforceable. This means that, even if a bill gets voted ...
Abortion care at Whakatāne Hospital has been quietly shelved, with patients told they will likely have to travel more than an hour to Tauranga to get the treatment they need. ...
Thousands of New Zealanders’ submissions are missing from the official parliamentary record because the National-dominated Justice Select Committee has rushed work on the Treaty Principles Bill. ...
Today’s announcement of 10 percent tariffs for New Zealand goods entering the United States is disappointing for exporters and consumers alike, with the long-lasting impact on prices and inflation still unknown. ...
The National Government’s choices have contributed to a slow-down in the building sector, as thousands of people have lost their jobs in construction. ...
Willie Apiata’s decision to hand over his Victoria Cross to the Minister for Veterans is a powerful and selfless act, made on behalf of all those who have served our country. ...
The Privileges Committee has denied fundamental rights to Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Rawiri Waititi and Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, breaching their own standing orders, breaching principles of natural justice, and highlighting systemic prejudice and discrimination within our parliamentary processes. The three MPs were summoned to the privileges committee following their performance of a haka ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Garland, PhD Candidate, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University The faces of living and extinct theropod dinosaurs.Left: Riya Bidaye; right: Indian Roller model (NHMUK S1987) from TEMPO bird project – MorphoSource. Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (Climate Science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/EvaL Miko If heat rises, why does it get colder as you climb up mountains? – Ollie, 8, Christchurch, New Zealand That is an ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Rindert Algra-Maschio, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Sciences, Monash University Three weeks into the federal election campaign and both major parties have already pledged to spend billions in taxpayer dollars if elected on May 3. But with so many policies ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Palazzo, Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney For more than a century, Australia has followed the same defence policy: dependence on a great power. This was first the United Kingdom and then ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Farah Houdroge, Mathematical Modeller, Burnet Institute ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock Needle and syringe programs are a proven public health intervention that provide free, sterile injecting equipment to people who use drugs. By reducing needle sharing, these programs help prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Lucigerma/Shutterstock Caring for a new puppy can be wonderful, but it can also bring feelings of depression, extreme stress and exhaustion. This is sometimes referred to as “the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Kent, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Wollongong StoryTime Studio/ Shutterstock Being a university student has long been associated with eating instant noodles, taking advantage of pub meal deals and generally living frugally. But for several ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harrison, Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University Justin Sullivan/Getty You may have seen them around town or in the news. Bumper stickers on Teslas broadcasting to anyone who looks: “I bought this before ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney A new state-of-the-art tube fishway technology called the “Fishheart” has been launched at Menindee Lakes, located on the Baaka-Darling River, New South Wales. The technology – part of ...
This Easter Sunday harassment of the victim’s family is part of a deliberate tactic to silence the victims, who were wrongfully duped of their money, efforts and hopes for a better future. ...
Māori own huge areas of land in Aotearoa but as climate change accelerates and carbon markets take hold, many are being backed into a corner.Māori connections to the whenua and ngahere run deep, rooted in whakapapa and sustained through generations. Today, that whenua is at a crossroads – squeezed ...
Comment: Two decades ago, I drove from Germany to Southern Belgium to visit the Commonwealth Memorial at Tyne Cot. The remains of my great grandmother’s brother, Private Robert Macalister, lay there. I didn’t know what to expect.Even in early summer, nine decades later, Passchendaele was blanketed in a thick, low ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As it seeks to gain some momentum for its campaign, the Coalition on Monday will focus on law and order, announcing $355 million for a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team to fight ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne With less than two weeks to go now until the federal election, the polls continue to favour the government being returned. ...
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday, the day after it was announced that a documentary she appears in would premier in Cannes next month. Her name was ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University Darryl Fonseka/Shutterstocl What do you think of when it comes to extra terrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings could live on other planets. But when astronomers ...
By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatchpresenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly ...
The governments blueprint of how it will invest $12 billion over the next four years into the New Zealand Defence Force mentions climate change twice. ...
Protesters are occupying the site of a proposed fast-tracked coal mine on the Denniston Plateau, near Westport. The 70-strong group, organised by climate activism group 350Aotearoa, says this is just the first of a series of protest actions they are prepared to take against the mining company, Bathurst Resources Ltd., if ...
In an art world context, photography has evolved significantly over the years pushing boundaries in both technique and concept. No longer the poor cousin of painting, but still much more affordable thanks to photographs being sold in numbered editions, an art photograph doesn’t merely capture a moment—artists use the medium ...
Last year, 20,000 observations of Christchurch species were made during the annual City Nature Challenge, a way for anyone to get involved in biodiversity. It’s back again this month. Even in suburbia, even on grey autumn weekends, there is biodiversity. You just need the time to look for it: to ...
Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally ...
ANALYSIS:By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. ...
By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite ...
New Zealand commemoration lead John McLeod said a small team, including members of the NZDF and the NZ Embassy, assisted in the covering up of remains that were exposed. ...
This Bill is a great opportunity to improve our system of government across all levels. Let’s make sure we get it right and give the public a say on a simple and enduring solution. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney Tech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a landmark antitrust case. This follows on from the company’s loss in a similar case last ...
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Alex Casey delves into the enduring success of The Artist’s Way, a self-help book beloved by everyone from retirees to famous rappers. On the video call, my mum is gesticulating so wildly while recounting all her recent creative endeavours that she knocks her cup of tea over a work-in-progress jigsaw ...
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Chef, author and reality television judge Colin Fassnidge takes us through his life in television. Colin Fassnidge is a huge television fan. He watches every blockbuster TV series the moment it drops and scores every single show on his Instagram account. It’s a habit that recently caught the attention of ...
Big shake-up for Canterbury!
That woman in the boat's got guts.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/115312065/will-ecans-proposed-nitrate-reductions-make-dairy-farming-untenable#comments
yes . Good to see capable people who know the science and cant be bamboozled by reports written by farmer interest getting elected to Regional Councils.
Nick Smith must stirring up these stories about 'poor little farmers' after years of government anti democratic meddling with Ecan is going to be swept away in next months elections
Greta is an inspiration to all of her generation and a pity most millennials are not grasping/supporting their boldness to speak up for the global catastrophe about to hit us all.
🙂
I think Robert was referring to Ecan Councillor and freshwater ecologist Lan Pham who’s pictured in a dingy in the article that Robert linked to @ 1.
Coming up at 9.30am TV3, am looking forward to this piece….
https://twitter.com/NewshubNationNZ/status/1167307234809827333
Stream live on this link https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows.html
Shorter Audrey Young: Create straw man measure for the PM. Decide the PM isn't meeting said straw man measure. Declare Simon Bridges the winner.
FIFY
BTW, I have no idea what you’re referring to 😉
Who needs to, with hacks like her? It's the opposite of journalism. #winning
Well I saw that fossil John Armstrong holding forth with his reckons on this and that on the TVNZ site and I was like, WTF??? This guy has been retired for years now, he wouldd have sweet fuck all idea about what people are thinking outside his managed care unit, yet he talks as though he is still an insider…
Then I saw out of touch Audrey doping the same sort of thing. It is just a constant barrage of pro-National offense at Labour being in government.
This government has had plenty of time to generate allies in the media. It's on them.
Polishing the turd that is this coalition is proving difficult.How is smalley going with kiwibuild ?
Patience, Ian.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115416403/the-government-can-wrest-something-from-the-wreckage-of-kiwibuild
What makes you so confident you know what everyone is thinking. You’re to busy defending the indefensible. Feeding a few kids at school is a nice touch but its hardly the solution to housing them. Oh and I see the suicide rate has dropped. Not. Shall I go on.
I am not saying IO know what is going on "out there", on the other hand I don't get a column every week in the paper to indulge my wild reckons.
And I'll be rogered to a gentle rumba beat if a long retired geriatric ex-horse race reporter and the utterly out of touch sister of an ex-National party minister know either.
WHINSEC (formerly the SOA) has some competition in the death squad export business.
GROZNY — A 45 minute drive outside of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia is building a special forces university in Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya. Tsarizm was given a private, first look tour of the impressive site.
When completed in the near future, a sprawling campus of over 420 hectares will provide unprecedented training opportunities for elite soldiers of the Russian Federation’s Spetsnaz forces. The facility will have the capability to train 1,500 personal at the same time; many of these students will be from foreign nations allied with Russia.
https://tsarizm.com/news/central-asia/2019/08/27/first-inside-look-at-russias-new-spetsnaz-university-in-kadyrovs-chechnya-2/
The Chills were average last night on K'Road.
But Blam Blam Blam were awesome.
Shoutout to Robertson for joining in.
Cheers Ad, I put a plea up for feedback on Arvo Social.
The Blams sound hasn't dated at all and there still is no depression in New Zealand.
Sudden stratospheric warming has commenced.Warming and decrease in strength of SH polar vortex forecast .
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/STRAT/gif/pole10_sh.gif
https://twitter.com/DrAHButler/status/1166734289976926210
I feel a bit worried by this Sudden Stratospheric Warming – I don't think we really have too much of a clue what the effects will be.
Fake news are all media are about today I’m afraid.
We are just sponges for their crap.
They never discuss climate change now as if it was never there.
It just messes up my head with the noise behind their jabbering,
So why do they need all that pipped music behind their constant rambling?
I’d rather watch this.
https://www.space.com/hurricane-dorian-nasa-kennedy-space-center-prep.html
Stratospheric warming
Keep track of the 10 hPa temperatures here (I think that link will auto – refresh, but not sure)
You can navigate from Menu on the page anyway, height |10 hPa, and overlay |Temp
The best demolition of Borisian parliamentary runaround from Amy Sorkin at the NewYorker ..
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/boris-johnsons-brexit-driven-parliamentary-runaround
Nonsense.
There was a 3 week break in September every year ( party conferences)
What Johnson has done has removed about 4- 5 "sitting days" from the Commons schedule. The debate about Brexit has gone round and round in circles for 18 months or so. More debate isnt required.
Prime Ministers have prorouged parliament when it suits them before , Blair did it, Major did ( to get rid of questions in the lead up to an election)
Harper in Canada did it for 2 months – a month after an election- as his minority government was going to be replaced by an opposition coalition.
Australia does it every year now , to shut down the opposition controlled Senate over the long summer break.
Listening to nonsense stories about an unsusual but valid parliamentary tactic doesnt provide a dose of reality ( you should look more closely at how the Remain Mps and the Speaker have broken conventions from 1600s about being a nuetral Speaker, to derail any sort of Brexit at all)
Jimmy Nail singing on Radionz Requests ‘It was a big river’ – and thinking about those who worked on it (one of the northern coasts I guess) and the ships.
‘There was a bond between the future and the past
We used to make things so they would last’ … or such.
Wasn't he in Auf Wiedersehn Pet?
That is what the Conservatives and their Prime Monster Boorish are effectively polishing off, bonds and commitment to the idea of a working class of skilled blokes. Thatcher didn't do anything for the ordinary working people and less in the last few decades. Away from the EU they will just be making more weapons for the USA and Europe uneasily looking at them wondering what these quixotic bastards are going to do next. Like, do they have a plan, or play it by ear?
Why ‘Murica need nukes!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1167192404992151552
Keith Ng is in Hong Kong, live tweeting from one of the protests. He is suggesting shit might kick off today with police crack down as it's the first big protest that's not had permissions.
https://twitter.com/keith_ng
Thank you Lesley Elliott for starting The Sophie Elliott Foundation – to have begun that after the tragedy of losing your daughter is a testament to your love and strength – you have made a real difference in "educating and empowering young people about abusive relationships for nearly a decade" and now that you have to make a change I wish you all the best for the next stage of your journey. Thank you again.
I hope someone picks it up and runs with it.
What a kind beautiful soul – I love seeing old animals especially the poor farmed ones – it brings their inherent dignity into sharp focus. Kia kaha Jasmine.
Cat's out of the bag.
https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1167578706379988992
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1167578706379988992.html
Cos someone let the village idiot look inside.
justice? you can't handle justice! You don't even know what the word means.
'Murican justice.
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1167156786186596357
So I see that Auckland is descending into a measles epidemic, the sort of thing that even Third World shithole countries left behind fifty years ago. Nice work.
Kia Ora The Am Show.
The Gostdivers cleaning up our ports and river Ka pai.
The its great that our government has invested more in drugs with out Pharmac our spend on drugs will be dubbled. What I'm getting at is we get better value for money than the Americans and Australia with Pharmac.
That's human cause climate change trump the STRORM landing in Florida at the minute hope no people are lost to the Storm. Did your golf course have plans to mittergate Climate Change if not OPPs
There you go whanau these sandflys treat Eco Maori like I'm not human Susan.
The reason cancer is increasing is the drug in our food the carbon car fumes every were one looks chemical are poisoning us Te Papatuanuku needs to change to a Organic food eating society I grow my vegetables with out chemicals.
Ka kite Ano
The carbon barons people wrote solar and wind clean green energy off saying it could never replace coal as the cheapest energy source. Now a few short years later these people have to eat there words as solar and wind energy is much clearer cheaper than coal.
WHAT I'm getting at is there will be many attempts by the carbon people to put doubt in the 99.9 %, minds about carbon free flying being possible. Ma Te Wa in time this will be achieved . If there is a will theres a way.
Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?
Greta Thunberg’s zero-carbon Atlantic crossing is not an option for most. But it might be in years to come, if experiments with hydrogen, solar and batteries pay
In the global battle against carbon, aviation is one of the toughest challenges of all. Grids are getting ever greener thanks to renewables, cars are going electric, even construction is exploring new ways to become more sustainable.
But air travel is popular, dirty and, most importantly of all, hard to power with anything other than hydrocarbons
That’s where Megill comes in. The German-Canadian is seeking the holy grail of air travel – a manned aircraft powered by a liquid hydrogen fuel cell. The technology, engineered by the non-profit organisation AeroDelft which he co-founded in 2017, promises a sort of atmospheric alchemy: a power source whose principal emission is water vapour
“It’s not tomorrow that we fly fully solar aeroplanes with passengers … but it will come,” says Piccard, who points to fuel-saving aircraft towing systems (ATS) and route-optimising software such as SkyBreathe as “an intermediate way” to reduce the carbon cost of flying.
The other technology under exploration is battery-powered aircraft. Norway announced last year that it wants all short-haul flights to be electric by 2040. But sceptics counter that battery cells will never be enough to power big aircraft and long-haul flights, and that hybrid solutions will have to come first. Ka kite Ano link below.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/31/flight-risk-can-we-take-the-carbon-out-of-air-travel
Kia Ora Newshub.
Condolences to the whanau of the people who died in the Philippines plane crash.
That attempted cash machine robbery and the burning car being dumped will be a persons attempt to get money to pay for PEE addiction
One of the most powerful Hurricane in human history trump.
So long as hydrogen is made using renewable energy than its a clean energy. Off shore wind farms would be great to there were a few planned by last Labour Green government but they got cancelled by shonky.
That is shocking a mass shooting in Texas the same week they losen their gun control laws to many ultrights in power in that state.
Ka kite Ano link below.
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
Ngāti Rongamai Community having a fool high on PEE shooting the place up idiot for taking PEE a terrising people.
Make sure to get our tamariki vacancies whanau.
Our Coalition Government is spending more putea on fixing the water quality problems hand to them from the previous government mess of chasing export dollars over our waters environmental protection.
Maori Language week Te reo Maori week Ka pai. Big parades plans for the regions good to see.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora The Am Show.
There you go Whanau our Coalition government has invested heaps into cancer treatment and mental health issue.
Keith Quin a great sport reporter who has seen how bad some kiwis can behave at some sports events over seas. Some of it will be caused by the crowd effects phenomenon.
Exactly my thoughts Keith Quin should have houners title before others I can think of.
It would be nice to have some of the capital gains in Aotearoa flow back to the common tangata kia Ora.
Its great to see that Aotearoa agricultural sector is stable and export prices on the rise
I think with tamariki sports there should be a prize for the losing team tell them that losing is part of the game make all the players in the game feel good not just the winning teams.
Ka kite Ano
Ka pai to all the business people who are tau toko their workers to strike for our future climate. ALL the intelligent people of the Papatuanuku need to strike teno pai
Australian tech giant Atlassian will encourage its 3500 employees to take part in this month's global strike for climate action in a move it hopes will reverberate through corporate Australia.
The firm's billionaire co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, said companies had to take their share of responsibility for the "climate crisis" and warned Australians in particular could not rely on governments "at all" to address the problem.
Are you a worker planning to strike on September 20? Email rebecca.stevenson@stuff.co.nz
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, he said prominent politicians such as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has been critical of corporate activism in the past, should "stick to [their] knitting", something Dutton has previously told chief executives to do.
Millions are expected to walk out of work or school on September 20 as part of "Strike 4 Climate Action" – inspired by 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl and activist Greta Thunberg– to demand global action on climate change ahead of a major United Nations summit in New York the following week Ka kite Ano link below.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/world/115491461/climate-crisis-australian-billionaire-encourages-his-staff-to-strike