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.
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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.
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
Every year, in the Budget, Parliament forks out money to government agencies to do certain things. And every year, as part of the annual review cycle, those agencies are meant to report on whether they have done the things Parliament gave them that money for. Agencies which consistently fail to ...
Mike Grimshaw writes – Recent events in American universities point to an underlying crisis of coherent thinking, an issue that increasingly affects the progressive left across the Western world. This of course is nothing new as anyone who can either remember or has read of the late ...
The thing about life’s little victories is that they can be followed by a defeat.Reader Darryl told me on Monday night:Test again Dave. My “head cold” last week became COVID within 24 hours, and is still with me. I hear the new variants take a bit longer to show up ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Angus Deaton on rethinking his economics IMFLocal scoop: The people behind Tamarind, the firm that left a $500m cleanup bill for taxpayers at Taranaki’s Tui oil well, are back operating in Taranaki under a different company name. Jonathan ...
Normally when we talk about accessing public transport it’s about improving how easy it is to get to, such as how easy is it to cross roads in a station/stop’s walking catchment, is it possible to cycle to safely, do bus connections work, or even if are there new routes/connections ...
Politicians are not renowned for telling the truth. Some tell us things that are verifiably not true. They offer statements that omit critical pieces of information. Gloss over risks, preferring to offer the best case scenario.Some not truths are quite small, others amusing in their transparency. There are those repeated ...
The pressure is mounting on the Government as it finalises its Budget Policy Statement, but yet more predicted revenue ‘goes missing’. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The Climate Commission has delivered another funding blow to the National-ACT-NZ First coalition Government’s tax-cutting plans, potentially carving $1.4 billion off the ‘climate ...
The Government now faces the prospect of having to watch another tax raise the price of petrol when, only six days ago, it abolished the Auckland Regional Fuel tax. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon argued that the regional fuel tax imposed costs on lower-income people with less fuel-efficient vehicles and that ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
New story out, as part of the Winter 2024 edition of New Maps Magazine: https://www.new-maps.com/news/2024/03/spring-2024-announcement/ You may recall that The Library of the Ratio is the one set in Central Otago, focussing on the preservation of knowledge in a deindustrial environment. So this one is uncharacteristically local. It’s ...
Let’s play “spot the difference”. Above this text, you can see a copy of one small part of a briefing paper prepared for the Incoming (but not very outgoing) Minister for Media and Communications, Melissa Lee. The amount of enlightenment which resulted from Point of Order’s request to have a ...
Buzz from the Beehive The settings for New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme – a tool intended to help meet the country’s climate goals – need adjusting and the number of ETS units reduced, Climate Change Commission Chair Rod Carr says in a report released today. There are too many units ...
It a remarkable turn of events my son is home 8 days after surgery. The contrast with his September surgical and post-operation experience is stark: what too 5-7 days in September (removal of most IVs and draining tubes, catheter, getting … Continue reading → ...
Barrie Saunders writes – A few weeks ago I joined some contemporaries by abandoning the near sixty year habit of watching nightly TV news. I dropped it because I felt it did not give me real information that I had not acquired from other media sources, including some ...
Is Wellington absolutely, positively ensuring it has enough housing supply? Yeah, nah …. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington faces an existential threat from NIMBYs, land-bankers and politicians of all shapes, colours and sizes who have successfully strangled housing supply until now.This week may well be the capital’s last ...
Chris Trotter writes – HISTORICAL PARALLELS between the impact of the printing press and the impact of the Internet are not new. Both inventions almost immediately began to undermine the command and control hierarchies of their respective societies. In the case of the printing press, the reimposition of ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has released its latest advice on NZ ETS unit limits and price control settings for 2025–2029. This is, in theory, technical advice on how many units the government should allow to be auctioned. But because the ETS system is under pressure due to ...
During the PM’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, Christopher Luxon claimed that renters will be feeling “grateful” for the way the government is putting “downward pressure“ on rents. Really. Allegedly, the coalition government is doing renters a massive favour (a) by giving landlords a huge tax break on the interest payable ...
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. This extra 4bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) by 2030 would cause global ...
Note: A lot of you seemed to appreciate that I recorded last week’s story, “Gary”, as a mini-podcast. So I’ve done that again today. I can’t do this every time, but when I can, I will. Listen or read, you choose. Read more ...
Buzz from the Beehive As Minister of Science Innovation and Technology, Judith Collins had been perturbingly quiet – until now. She was invited to address a BioTechNZ and NZTech summit today, giving her a platform to explain what she intends doing in the science domain. She told her audience she ...
Woke up this morning with a head cold. Probably. On the other hand, you never know these days do you? Best to check. All good, pleased to say, just the single line on the COVID test.Do you do this too? Do you leave the test sitting there for the day ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – When news media took a pummelling last week at both TVNZ and TV3, a number of critics said part of the reason ratings are poor is the public don’t trust them. The public believe that the media is biased. The print media is similarly ...
Sometimes it might not feel like it, but our public transport system is significantly better than what it was 10 to 15 years ago. However one area where Auckland Transport continue to really struggle is with events and the most recent weekend was no exception with complaints about trains from ...
It's a stormWithout endWhere's the lighthouse?Where's a friend?Come to thinkIt can't lastOnly if we resist“How would you describe the Government's first 100 days?”, Gerard Otto asked the other night. I replied, “a catastrophic clusterf#ck of corrupt cronyism, colonialist comprehension, cigarette butt charisma and craven cruelty.” Maybe some of you agree, ...
Wellington’s Transmission Gully is an example of a PPP-funded project that was delivered late and over budget. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/Getty ImagesTL;DR: The Government is trumpeting the speed, breadth and single-decision-making tools it is creating for itself to get big projects consented quickly, but its funding plans remain on decidedly slower ...
Photo by Savannah Wakefield on UnsplashTL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include a Cabinet meeting today, selected price indices for February on Wednesday and migration data for January on Thursday.Next week, Parliament resumes on Tuesday for two weeks, the US ...
Jonathan Hunt, who died aged 85 last week, was a Parliamentary institution. Few MPs have embraced its traditions and processes with as much devotion as Hunt. First as Labour’s Chief Whip back in the late 70s and early 80s and then as one its most successful Speakers between 1999 and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 3, 2024 thru Sat, March 9, 2024. Story(s) of the week Two stories on one topic inexorably lead to a third story. Fury after Exxon chief says ...
As in 2023, Dunedin’s Regent Theatre Booksale is no longer held at the Regent Theatre. Nor does it run from noon Friday to noon Saturday, allowing midnight visits. No, it is now held at the Edgar Centre, and runs from 10 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday. So it ...
How are you?Recent weeks have felt pretty rough for the left. The resignation of Grant Robertson, the loss of his towering intellect, wit, and compassion. The heartbreaking loss of Efeso Collins, a young man with so much positivity who wanted to do good things for people. All the while this ...
..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.David Seymour has come a long way from portraying himself as a “lovable scamp”, etching a vision of his distended derrière - baboon-style - for unlucky viewers of Dancing with the Stars. It reinvented ...
I didn't just go to school to eat my lunch, I also went to play bullrush.Class time was fun too. We learned about Captain Cook and the Vietnam War and the life cycle of insects. One morning we trooped next door to the headmaster's house to watch something that might ...
..Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Writing for Newsroom on a Friday mid-morning, veteran investigative journalist, Marc Daalder’s story on Chris Luxon’s ministerial allowances exploded onto the nation’s political stage:..The Prime Minister will receive a $52,000 top-up to his $471,000 ...
Although my son is still in hospital he is recovering well and should be sent home soon. We dodged a bullet thanks to the Starship medical staff. While at the hospital a reporter from one of Argentina’s oldest and most … Continue reading → ...
************************* The biographical notes about Tama Potaka on the National Party website suggest he should be able to eloquently answer a Parliamentary question. He has had a diverse career across legal, public service, education, advisory, tribes, investment, charities and enterprise. He was the chief executive of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki ...
Today’s newsletter is about things that make us ask - Why?I don’t mean the big philosophical unknowns, like why does God let good dogs die? Clearly she’s a cat person. But we all know the world would be a better place if she preferred dogs.You know where you are with ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.Friday: Week in review, quiz styleThursday:Fast track is outright assault on environmentA new sweeping fast-track consenting bill being tabled in parliament today is anti-nature, anti-democracy, and will leave a mess for ...
National, ACT and NZ First MPs at the signing of their coalition agreement, before launching their 100-day plan - achieved by using urgency in Parliament more than any other recent government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and ...
The Government says it will give localities more control over healthcare decisions. But how? New Zealand’s political reflex is that any problem can be resolved by further centralisation. Students will be officially banned from having cell phones at school from Term 2. The decision could have been left to individual ...
New Zealand journalism is in crisis. TVNZ – our state-owned television broadcaster – announced cuts to programming this afternoon. Spooked by falling revenues, they are dropping the axe on New Zealand institution Fair Go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Go For forty-seven years, New Zealanders have had a consumer-rights advocate in the form of ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree laws in the same day” said health spokesperson and co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. ...
Today marks a tragic milestone for New Zealanders as the Coalition Government side with big tobacco to repeal the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins and Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Te Pāti Māori has this morning written to the speaker of the house requesting an urgent debate around the use and abuse of urgency to expedite the progression of its agenda, including the disestablishment of the Māori health authority. “The governments use and abuse of urgency has created a dictatorship ...
We are saddened to hear of the passing of Charles Crofts ONZM (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri) yesterday. Charles’ made a tremendous contribution to New Zealand in service to his country, iwi and a wide range of organisations and causes. He was dedicated to serving his communities, starting with 20 years’ ...
The Green Party condemns the Government’s latest trashing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in rushing through legislation, without any public input, that will see Te Aka Whai Ora scrapped and the health of Māori neglected. ...
The Green Party welcomes the Government’s decision to accept the recommendations of the review into the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) but calls on Ministers to address the core of exploitation by decoupling work visas from single employers. ...
Disestablishing Te Aka Whai Ora ahead of an emergency Waitangi Tribunal hearing is not only hasty, it goes against the treaty and the advice of experts, says Associate Health (Māori Health) spokesperson Peeni Henare. ...
The Government's re-announcement of its impractical policy on gang insignia isn't going to make it work any better, and will only put more pressure on already stretched frontline Police, justice spokesperson Duncan Webb and police spokesperson Ginny Andersen said. ...
The financial tales the Coalition Government told to get elected continue to unravel as advice from the Ministry of Transport shows removing the Regional Fuel Tax will end up costing Aucklanders more. ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
This year’s Pacific Language Weeks celebrate regional unity and the contribution of Pacific communities to New Zealand culture, says Minister for Pacific Peoples Dr Shane Reti. Dr Reti announced dates for the 2024 Pacific Language Weeks during a visit to the Pasifika festival in Auckland today and says there’s so ...
Today’s announcement of five major health targets means the coalition Government has delivered all 49 actions in its 100-day plan. “I am proud to lead a Government that delivers on its commitments. We committed to 49 actions in 100 days, and we have delivered 49 actions in 100 days,” Prime ...
The coalition Government’s commitment to five key health targets will drive better outcomes for all New Zealanders, in the concluding announcement to its 100 day plan. Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced the targets in Whangārei, saying they represented a vigorous new direction in health from a Government determined to deliver ...
The Government has introduced legislation today which will give Police additional tools to go after gangs who inflict fear and misery on everyday Kiwis, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Gangs have recruited more than 3000 members over the last five years, a 51 per cent increase. Meanwhile, gang-related violence, public ...
Wednesday 6 March, Christchurch Opening kōrero Can I start by first acknowledging the Te Aka Whai Ora staff, the leadership and the board, and all those who were a part of its establishment. I acknowledge for some, Te Aka Whai Ora was a dream and a vision. I understand ...
The coalition Government will introduce legislation to make it easier for overseas investors to invest in Build to Rent developments in New Zealand, Housing and Associate Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. Cabinet has agreed to make changes to the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to better support Build to Rent housing ...
The Coalition Government has used its first 100 Days rejuvenating New Zealand’s connections with the world, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand is a country whose prosperity and security rely upon the quality of our international relationships. We have therefore spent our government’s first 100 Days re-engaging with ...
The Coalition Government’s new one-stop-shop fast track consenting regime for regional and national projects of significance will cut red tape and make it easier for New Zealand to build the infrastructure and major projects needed to get the country moving again, say RMA Minister Chris Bishop and Regional Development Minister Shane ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Every year the Auckland Business Chamber organises a lunch where the minister of finance addresses its members. Today, Gabi Lardies, a fresh homeowner, went along to see if she aligned with them. I confess, I have joined the privileged in our society by becoming a homeowner. The evidence points in ...
EDS has today released a first draft of its submission on the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Bill was introduced to Parliament on 7 March and has been referred to the Environment Select Committee. Submissions to the Select Committee close 19 April. ...
PNG Post-Courier Prime Minister James Marape has announced comprehensive relief operations in Papua New Guinea’s devastating weather that has killed at least 21 people and impacted on 16 provinces. The 21 who died were buried under tonnes of mud in three separate mudslides in Chimbu province. Sixteen provinces in three ...
Greenpeace says that the result of the EPA hearing for the Australian miner Trans Tasman Resources' seabed mining proposal for Taranaki could set a globally significant precedent. "Commercial seabed mining does not happen anywhere else on planet ...
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 The Tasmanian state election is on March 23. A uComms poll for The Australia Institute, conducted March 4–5 from a sample of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taylor Brydges, Research Principal, University of Technology Sydney New Africa, Shutterstock Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. But the sheer volume of garments being whipped up, sold and soon discarded is ...
Analysis - The party finds itself embroiled in yet another political crisis. So who knew what and when, and what does it mean for the Green MP's future? ...
59 members of the Amalgamated Workers Union NZ (AWUNZ) and 16 members of First Union have voted to go on strike after months of negotiations resulted in a failure to come to an agreement with their employer Infracore. Infracore is a CCO of Rotorua ...
One quarter of respondents taking part in the Hurunui Welcoming Communities survey found accessing transport in the district the biggest challenge to settling in the Hurunui – ranking it even more of a difficulty than finding work, making friends ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is urging the National Party to reconsider its decision to implement the App Tax it campaigned to repeal following reports that Expedia will remove thousands of accomodation providers from its platform when the new tax comes ...
The Finance Minister is urging businesses to play a greater role in rebuilding the economy while revealing the books are in worse shape than thought. ...
Media coverage of the Late Show host’s monologue about the woman rumoured to be the Prince of Wales’s mistress is radically different, depending on where you look.The online frenzy around Kate Middleton’s disappearance from the public eye reached boiling point two weeks ago. Surgeons, bum lifters and abdomen specialists ...
A new poem by Pōneke poet Khadro Mohamed. 20 daughters of the east // the 1st daughter was only 6 when she realised she held the entire universe in the palm of her hand. the milky way snaking around her wrist, stars sat in the centre, a million moons dangled ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber & Faber, $25)May the reign of ...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist University of the South Pacific staff unions are giving management “one more chance to come to the table” before they go on strike. On Wednesday, the staff association received the secret ballot outcome from Fiji’s Labour Ministry, which confirmed that they had a mandate ...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist University of the South Pacific staff unions are giving management “one more chance to come to the table” before they go on strike. On Wednesday, the staff association received the secret ballot outcome from Fiji’s Labour Ministry, which confirmed that they had a mandate ...
The Finance Minister is urging businesses to play a greater role in rebuilding the economy while revealing the books are in worse shape than thought. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Miller, PhD candidate in Politics, University of Otago As the 2024 academic year begins in Australia and New Zealand, optimism over the state of foreign language learning at universities is in short supply. Languages have taken a post-pandemic battering. In 2023 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Miller, PhD candidate in Politics, University of Otago As the 2024 academic year begins in Australia and New Zealand, optimism over the state of foreign language learning at universities is in short supply. Languages have taken a post-pandemic battering. In 2023 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Belvoir Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of Holding the Man is playing, I pass by the York Theatre. This was ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Belvoir Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of Holding the Man is playing, I pass by the York Theatre. This was ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney No photos of the war. No photos of its victims. No mention of the hundreds of photographers who have died taking them. We are a group of activists and artists who ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney No photos of the war. No photos of its victims. No mention of the hundreds of photographers who have died taking them. We are a group of activists and artists who ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney No photos of the war. No photos of its victims. No mention of the hundreds of photographers who have died taking them. We are a group of activists and artists who ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is celebrating the lodging of ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar’s Member’s Bill to remove the obligation on employers to automatically deduct fees from union members’ pay. Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: ...
Kiwis are telling the government to focus most on improving health, rising food prices and affordable housing. Horizon Research presented a list of 42 issues and asked adults nationwide which were the most important for the current government ...
E tū, the union for journalists and media workers in Aotearoa, is today launching a campaign to stop the proposed changes at TVNZ. The Save Our Stories campaign is a response to last week’s announcement of a proposal for significant cuts across ...
Following the news that TVNZ is proposing to axe two of its most popular shows, Alex Casey tunes in for a reminder of what’s at stake. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here.In typical Fair Go style, they tackled the issue head ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacinta L. Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of South Australia Lia Kos/Shutterstock Hair loss (also known as alopecia) often affects the scalp but can occur anywhere on the body. It’s very common and usually nothing to worry about; ...
‘We must closely guard the welfare of our national parks and reserves. These should not be regarded as the property of our minister or the government. They belong to the people of today and tomorrow. We must fight for their protection if necessary.’ ...
NZEI Te Riu Roa members working in early childhood education (ECE) say the Government should come clean on whether it is going to scrap pay parity for early childhood teachers. Pay parity means the pay rates of ECE qualified kaiako (teachers) are determined ...
Auckland’s Daily Bread cafe is facing customer backlash for poisoning birds outside its premises, and the SPCA has confirmed it is investigating. So what other options are there for dealing with unwanted feathered guests?High-end Auckland bakery Daily Bread, which has been inundated with negative reviews online after wild sparrows ...
Kāpiti Coast District Council is now an accredited Living Wage employer, the first district council in New Zealand to achieve the milestone. After a long process Council received accreditation from the Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alessandra Sutti, Associate Professor, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Orbiting 400 kilometres above Earth’s surface, the astronauts on the International Space Station live a pretty normal social life, if not for one thing: they happily wear ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can have a considerable impact on the day-to-day functioning and overall wellbeing of people affected. It causes a variety of symptoms including difficulty focusing, impulsivity and hyperactivity. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Menkes, Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Pharmaceutical industry payments to doctors are common, often substantial and can affect clinical decision making. Seven years after the industry trade association Medicines New ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giselle Natassia Woodley, Researcher and Phd Candidate, Edith Cowan University Mart Production/ Pexels , CC BY Sexting involves taking self-made naked or partially naked sexual photos, videos or explicit texts and sending them online or via a mobile phone. They ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University Shutterstock The mention of ancient Egypt usually conjures images of colossal pyramids and precious, golden tombs. But as with most civilisations, the invisible world of infectious disease underpinned life and ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Crabtree-Hayes, Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. At a time when everything from abolishing negative ...
This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the ...
An armful of recommendations from the jam-packed programme that landed this week.Of the (many) writers festivals in New Zealand, the Auckland Writers Festival is the mothership. Purely talking in terms of scale it outweighs the rest through sheer volume and market share of audience. The 2024 edition of the ...
After decades of under-investment, councils are facing up to their infrastructure deficits – and being pummelled by high inflation and interest rates in the process, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...
The axing of Sunday and Fair Go and the scaling back of Re: News have weakened the case for TVNZ to remain in state ownership The post Sellout TVNZ should be sold appeared first on Newsroom. ...
Inland Revenue predicts the government's plans to raise money from online casinos will bring in much less money than National had costed for in the campaign. ...
FICTION 1 The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna by Erin Palmisano (Hachette, $36.99) Like reading a Nicky Pellegrino novel set in Greece. 2 Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace (Penguin Random House, $37) 3 The Space Between by Lauren Keenan (Penguin Random House, $37) Historical novel set ...
The War for Wellington is over, and there is one overwhelming winner: housing. There is no other way of putting it. The new Wellington District Plan is the biggest, fattest W in the history of the pro-housing movement in this country. For the Yimbys, the New City, the progressives, the ...
Since 2019, extremist groups have become increasingly sophisticated in exploiting online platforms, and New Zealand lags behind in regulation.How long is five years? It’s enough time for a newborn to grow into a school-aged child, learning language and movement in those intervening years. It’s enough time for a sapling ...
Analysis: The new fast-track regime could enable an enlightened minister to extract a higher price for access to national resources – but the cards are stacked against the environment The post Stacking the odds at the consenting casino appeared first on Newsroom. ...
Friday marks the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch terror attack. In the morning, the families of the victims will gather at the cemetery for a private service. They’ll have a private prayer at the mosque after that, with a handful of notables like former mayor Lianne Dalziel in attendance. The ...
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The three agencies that run Auckland’s rail system will soon be under one roof together, after the ribbon-cutting of a new rail operations centre in Ellerslie. From the end of next week, teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail will all be punching in at the same location, ...
Changes to electoral laws in Samoa will allow overseas voters for the first time, and opponents say it could shift the balance of power, allowing the Samoan diaspora to decide elections. Most countries allow citizens living abroad to vote, albeit with some restrictions. But in a country where more of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If history had taken a different turn, Australia might now not be debating nuclear power but have had it up and running for decades. John Gorton, who was prime minister from 1968 to 1971, ...
With Labour and National both taking time to reflect after the government's first 100 days, the leaders are looking at next steps - and engaging in a bit of verbal sparring. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia The American aerospace giant Boeing has been synonymous with safe air travel for decades. Since the 1990s, Boeing and its European competitor Airbus have dominated the market for large passenger jets. But this year, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University Firebrand senator Jacqui Lambie is furious. Amid the Tasmanian election campaign (in which she’s running candidates), her party, the Jacqui Lambie Network, has fallen victim to one of the many pitfalls in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stanislav Roudavski, Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock When we make roads, houses or farmland, we often find large old trees in the way. Our response is often to lop off offending branches or even ...
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 [email protected]
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