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Comment: Trump shot
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 5:41 am, July 15th, 2024
Violence begets violence and we should condemn it. I hope everyone including Trump keeps cool heads and reflects on the reasons why this is happening. Disinformation is rife on social media and Trump will become a martyr for the Proud Boys et al. I hope he ...Comment: Conflict what conflict?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:58 am, July 13th, 2024
Sunny K has called for dairy owners to be able to defend themselves. With guns.Comment: Sham consultation – sham contracting
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 5:48 pm, July 8th, 2024
Have a look at the actions on 1 July around 65,000 care and support workers. PSA/NZNO/Etū, coming together on the huge injustice of their pay inequity. That imho opinion is a front of political organising underway and includes the PSA. Sometimes we are a ...
Sham consultation – sham contracting
Written By: darien fenton - Date published: 10:59 am, July 7th, 2024
Minister for Workplace Relations and Health & Safety Brooke van Velden hasn’t met with the CTU Te Kauae Kaimahi since November last year. Apparently not with Business NZ either. Though to be fair, she did manage to get to the Biz NZ cocktail party and ...
Categories: act, Unions, workers' rights
Tags:Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:26 am, July 7th, 2024
You said it. What, after all is a "successful career?" Does this mean anyone who isn't a business corporate and making huge amounts of money is unsuccessful? What a sorry outlook.Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:35 am, July 7th, 2024
Yes. Thanks.Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 5:12 pm, July 6th, 2024
100%. Here's a little memory from me about Labour politicians' union backgrounds. In my time as MP, there was me, Sue Moroney, Carol Beaumont, Vui Mark Gosche, Rick Barker, Lianne Dalziel and others. Current MPs : Rachel Boyack worked for FIRST Union, ...Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 4:55 pm, July 6th, 2024
I doubt any of them were members of a union,Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 4:22 pm, July 6th, 2024
FYI most of the Labour MPs were or are members of unions, Mostly before but some joined when they became MPs. Jacinda joined SFWU when she was an intern in HC 's office and union liaison. She went to work as a volunteer for the SEIU in the US. I gave her a ...Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:58 am, July 6th, 2024
Imagine having a Deputy PM who was active in a union? Instead what we have here is an old fart who is a career politician since 1978 and a young fart who is famous for twerking and being a jerk. But btw aren't Winston and Seymour chosen by their party?Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:49 am, July 6th, 2024
Paula Bennett never set her foot anywhere near a union. You need to inform yourself better.Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 8:32 am, July 6th, 2024
I am celebrating Angela Rayner as Deputy PM. Genuine working class, left school early, worked as a caregiver, trade unionist. Younger woman. Now compare that to NZ DPMs. If only they were like her.Comment: United Kingdom election watch
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 7:21 pm, July 5th, 2024
Takeaways from UK election. Firstly great victory for Labour but interesting they only got 35% of the vote. Glad Reform only got 4 seats - Greens with 4 most seats ever, Lib Dems big increase ; glad Jezza gets another five years, but just note he is older ...Comment: Assange back in Australia
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:36 pm, July 1st, 2024
Anyone notice what Kim DotCom is up to these days? Not that I saying there's a comparison, though he sees himself as a victim of US law. I see on Twitter he's now an avid Trump supporter. Once was part of the Mana movement ; shows you how wrong we can be ...Comment: Should Joe Biden do an Andrew Little?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 11:20 am, June 30th, 2024
Thx. Typing too fast.Comment: Should Joe Biden do an Andrew Little?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:44 pm, June 29th, 2024
I have been reading Robert Reich today. Much better analysis. Not ignoring the poor performance of Joe B last night, but also following on Twitter the response of Democrats, including Joe's marvellous stump speech. Humility, decency, honesty,. Values. [ ...Comment: Should Joe Biden do an Andrew Little?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:37 pm, June 29th, 2024
Yep.Comment: Should Joe Biden do an Andrew Little?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:54 am, June 29th, 2024
Changing horses in midstream is never a good idea in the middle of an election campaign. Biden could stand down, but immediately you have a candidate hardly anyone has heard of. Jacinda was well known, (if we are making comparisons which are not ...Comment: What the Aratere Grounding Means
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 3:50 am, June 23rd, 2024
Very good observation Advantage. As the day wore on, it became obvious to me the Kiwirail Inter Islander is heading for privatisation and this incident will be used as an excuse. Never mind there was a plan for replacement that Nicola Willis scotched and ...Comment: When you remove nuts & bolts, things tend to fall over
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 4:01 pm, June 22nd, 2024
You are so right Anne. Aratere being a case in point ; Watch as Simeon tries to blame the workers.Comment: C Listers and tag alongs
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 1:08 pm, June 19th, 2024
As a tragic follower of Twitter, I am amused by his (Luxon's) repeated pics of himself in his tight blue suit meeting with lots of other blue suits and tasting food. He even had which I thought was too woke for school kids. No $3 prepackaged sandwiches in ...
Health & safety of workers is apparently about Cones
Written By: darien fenton - Date published: 11:19 am, June 15th, 2024
ACT MP and Minister for Employment and Safety, Brooke van Velden has announced a “consultation” on our Health & Safety laws, saying this : Our health and safety culture can be summed up by the sea of orange road cones that have taken over the country. ...
Categories: act, health and safety, workers' rights
Tags:Comment: The Big Budget Backflip *
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 6:07 am, June 4th, 2024
Totally agree Micky. Our Pharmac model is unique in the world so comparing us with what other countries fund is not comparing apples with apples. I never want us to be in a position where our drug purchasing and supply agency is dictated to by politicians ...Comment: Putting Politics over People
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 4:05 pm, June 1st, 2024
I agree ; it's cruel and not possible anyway. Pharmac makes independent purchasing and clinical decisions based on evidence and should never be about what politicians think they know better about, or state in the name of winning cynical votes. I remember ...Comment: The Budget Day Protests
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 11:47 am, May 30th, 2024
I am loving it. What else can the left behind, dispossessed and perpetually hurt by right wing governments do? I dont care that much about legalities around employment law and strikes, though I know them backwards. Note that the right use the word "strike" ...Comment: Is Shane Jones Right About Mining?
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 1:45 pm, May 25th, 2024
I am sickened by Shane Jone's deliberate attempt to undermine Labour History by launching this at Blackball. He couldn't even take a moment to visit the Wheel of Remembrance for the 29 Pike River Miners, still lying in the mine. I heard that bosses gave ...Comment: “It’s the end of the Tories…”
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 8:16 am, May 25th, 2024
Loving these clips. Wish we could have some of our own about the mayhem we have with the horrific CoC. I know it's not election time (though you wouldn't know it from the constant ACT and NZ First pronouncements on Twitter and ghastly pics of the PM trying ...Comment: Making up for lost time
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 4:35 am, May 23rd, 2024
Great post Nigel.Comment: Speech time
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:56 am, May 21st, 2024
Good on you Greg for going along. Interesting to hear about the younger audience. I always want to hear the word "union" in any speech from a Labour leader. On class, it's an interesting discussion. It certainly was a thing when I was growing up, when my ...Comment: Charter schools are back
Written By: Darien Fenton - Date published: 10:34 am, May 16th, 2024
Also important is the influence of the NZ Institute (right wing think tank) on the development of the new curriculum for state schools, appointed by Erica Stanford. https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/08/meet-the-man-behind-the-governments-education-policy/? ...
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- Luxon’s ‘going for growth’ actually means ‘going for debt reduction’
Long story short: PM Christopher Luxon said in January his Government was ‘going for growth’ and he wanted New Zealanders to develop a ‘culture of yes.’ Yet his own Government is constantly saying no, or not yet, to anchor investments that would unleash real private business investment and GDP growth. ...3 weeks ago - Luxon’s ‘going for growth’ actually means ‘going for debt reduction’
Long story short: PM Christopher Luxon said in January his Government was ‘going for growth’ and he wanted New Zealanders to develop a ‘culture of yes.’ Yet his own Government is constantly saying no, or not yet, to anchor investments that would unleash real private business investment and GDP growth. ...3 weeks ago
- Life after D-notices: Australia can learn from Britain’s updated system
For decades, Britain and Australia had much the same process for regulating media handling of defence secrets. It was the D-notice system, under which media would be asked not to publish. The two countries diverged ...3 weeks ago - Should Auckland demolish Spaghetti Junction?
This post by Nicolas Reid was originally published on Linked in. It is republished here with permission. In this article, I make a not-entirely-serious case for ripping out Spaghetti Junction in Auckland, replacing it with a motorway tunnel, and redeveloping new city streets and neighbourhoods above it instead. What’s ...3 weeks ago - Should Auckland demolish Spaghetti Junction?
This post by Nicolas Reid was originally published on Linked in. It is republished here with permission. In this article, I make a not-entirely-serious case for ripping out Spaghetti Junction in Auckland, replacing it with a motorway tunnel, and redeveloping new city streets and neighbourhoods above it instead. What’s ...3 weeks ago
- Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Wednesday, April 2
In short this morning in our political economy:The Nelson Hospital crisis revealed by 1News’ Jessica Roden dominates the political agenda today. Yet again, population growth wasn’t planned for, or funded.Kāinga Ora is planning up to 900 house sales, including new ones, Jonathan Milne reports for Newsroom.One of New Zealand’s biggest ...3 weeks ago - Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Wednesday, April 2
In short this morning in our political economy:The Nelson Hospital crisis revealed by 1News’ Jessica Roden dominates the political agenda today. Yet again, population growth wasn’t planned for, or funded.Kāinga Ora is planning up to 900 house sales, including new ones, Jonathan Milne reports for Newsroom.One of New Zealand’s biggest ...3 weeks ago
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- Book of the Week: Naomi walks the earth
Down at the local hall a 50-strong community meeting had just finished and the crowd was milling around, catching up, pouring itself a last glass of wine, before home to bed. Two women came up to me wanting a conversation about Te Araroa, and I mentioned I’d just then finished ...5 days ago - Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week “official travel overseas” to visit Fijian peacekeepers in the Middle East. Pio Tikoduadua’s supporters say he should “disregard critics” for his commitment to Fijian peacekeepers, which “highlights a ...5 days ago - Election Diary: there were a couple of ‘moments’ in second Albanese-Dutton encounter
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Two “moments” stuck out in Wednesday’s leaders’ debate, the second head-to-head of the campaign. Peter Dutton cut his losses over his faux pas this week when he wrongly named Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto as having ...5 days ago
- Second leaders’ debate is a tame affair befitting a ‘deeply uninspiring’ campaign
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Marks, Vice-President, Public Affairs and Partnerships, Western Sydney University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have had their second showdown of the 2025 federal election campaign. The debate, hosted by the ABC, was moderated by David Speers in ...5 days ago
- Poll shows Australians hate Trump policies and have lost trust in US, but still strongly believe in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australians strongly disagree with key policies of US President Donald Trump, and have overwhelmingly lost trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll. Despite ...5 days ago
- NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporar...
Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand for international law and human rights by following the Maldives with a ban on visiting Israelis. Maher Nazzal, chair of the Palestine Forum of New ...5 days ago
- Bipartisanship On The Field And In The House
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- We compared the Labor and Coalition’s income tax proposals to see who benefits most
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Shutterstock We now have the competing bids for our votes by the alternative governments on income tax policy. From Labor, future cuts to the lowest marginal ...5 days ago
- Half of Australian landlords sell their investments after 2 years, adding to renters’ insecurity
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ranjodh B. Singh, Senior Economics and Finance Lecturer, Curtin University Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock Australia’s renters have to battle rising rents and a lack of available properties. They also face ongoing instability. Our new research suggests half of all landlords sell their investment ...5 days ago
- Labor and the Greens likely to gain Senate seats at the election
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 As well as the election for the full House of Representatives, there will be an election on May 3 for 40 of ...5 days ago
- 3 in 4 meth users relapse – outcomes could improve if treatments considered the drug’s effect on...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bodeker, Teaching Assistant in Behavioural Psychology, University of Canterbury Getty Images Methamphetamine is New Zealand’s most harmful illicit drug and wastewater testing shows its use and availability are on the rise. Much of the harm results from reckless and ...6 days ago
- This election, disinformation is swirling on Chinese social media. Here’s how it spreads
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fan Yang, Research fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., The University of Melbourne Shutterstock/The Conversation Since 2024, the RECapture research team has been monitoring political disinformation and ...6 days ago
- Politics with Michelle Grattan: Warwick McKibbin on trying to model economic certainty in uncertain ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Global markets have remained on edge after Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs caused panic worldwide. Now, more than ever, markets and economists are looking for trying to read the implications. Joining us from ...6 days ago
- ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for April 16, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 16, 2025. Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylightEDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist ...6 days ago
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- There’s a new best hot cross bun in Auckland
Breaking news for those who just want a really good, classic hot cross bun. “This is the best hot cross bun I’ve ever had.” “I don’t usually like hot cross buns but fuck that was good.” Just two of the many overhead comments in The Spinoff office this morning after ...6 days ago - Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight
EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that is corrupt at its core. Trump’s advisor Elon Musk, who often seems to be the actual president, is handing his companies multiple contracts as his ...6 days ago
- Why the Coalition’s tone-deaf diss track was bound to hit all the wrong notes
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Ward, Senior Lecturer in Music, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast Hip-hop is a cultural powerhouse that has infiltrated every facet of popular culture, across a global market. That said, one place you usually don’t see ...6 days ago
- Homelessness – the other housing crisis politicians aren’t talking about
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Parsell, Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Igor Corovic/Shutterstock Measures to tackle homelessness in Australia have been conspicuously absent from the election campaign. The major parties have rightly identified deep voter anxiety over high house prices. They ...6 days ago
- Superb fairy-wrens’ songs hold clues to their personalities, new study finds
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Senior Lecturer, Animal Behaviour, Flinders University Two superb fairy-wrens (_Malurus cyaneus_). ARKphoto/Shutterstock When we think of bird songs, we often imagine a cheerful soundtrack during our morning walks. However, for birds, songs are much more than background music – they ...6 days ago
- ‘De-extinction’ of dire wolves promotes false hope: technology can’t undo extinction
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martín Boer-Cueva, Ecologist and Environmental Consultant, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Colossal Biosciences Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ...6 days ago
- The tiniest rebuild in Ōtautahi is finally complete
For the last four years, one artist has been rebuilding the lost icons of the city in miniature form. It’s a Friday morning and Mike Beer, aka Ghostcat, is flitting about Pūmanawa Gallery in Ōtautahi making last-minute adjustments. “These are actually from the Canterbury sale yards,” he says, gesturing to ...6 days ago
- ‘Makes me feel better about humanity’: Hannah Tunnicliffe’s favourite writer
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Hannah Tunnicliffe, author of new mystery book for children Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum (illustrated by Erica Harrison). The book I wish I’d written Anything ...6 days ago
- Students are neither left nor right brained: how some early childhood educators get this ‘neuromyt...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate E. Williams, Professor of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast MalikNalik/ Shutterstock Many teachers and parents know neuroscience, the study of how the brain functions and develops, is important for children’s education. Brain development is recommended as part of ...6 days ago
- Reserve Bank’s budget to be slashed by 25%
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has announced the cut for the next year. ...6 days ago
- Review: The Polkinghorne documentary and what the trial was missing
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- $20 billion of funding needed, first ‘Health Infrastructure Plan’ reveals
Simeon Brown has released what he says is a first-ever plan for a national, long-term health infrastructure plan. ...6 days ago
- The rise of linkrot: What happens when the internet starts to disappear?
The internet seems to be permanent. But all those dead links are a reminder that useful information sometimes only stays accessible when someone is paying for it. Sometime in the early 2010s, it occurred to my high school teachers that they ought to be teaching us something about how to ...6 days ago
- ‘Made-up number’: Doctors dispute Simeon Brown’s pay claim
Simeon Brown has accused the senior doctors' union of using patients as "bargaining chips". ...6 days ago
- NZ plugs in to boost US Navy’s space race with China
New Zealand is becoming increasingly involved in operations designed to benefit the US Navy in its space race against China, even as the defence force denies its tentative steps into space have anything to do with military operations. ...6 days ago
- Trump’s trade war puts America’s AI ambitions at risk
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Zomaya, Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney remotevfx.com/Shutterstock The global trade war triggered by US President Donald Trump earlier this month shows no signs of ending anytime soon. In recent days, China suspended exports of a wide range ...6 days ago
- More bulk billing is fine. But what the health system really needs this election is genuine reform
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne Worrying signs are emerging about aspects of Australia’s health system, which will require the attention of whoever wins the ...6 days ago
- Half way through the campaign, how are the major party leaders faring?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney More than two weeks in, we know one thing for sure. This time, the election campaign does matter. In decades past, when voters were more loyally rusted ...6 days ago
- Safe seat syndrome? Why some hospitals get upgrades and others miss out
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anam Bilgrami, Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University On his campaign trail, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged A$200 million to upgrade St John of God Midland Public Hospital in Perth. He promised more beds and operating ...6 days ago
- Allowing forests to regrow and regenerate is a great way to restore habitat
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Thomas, PhD candidate in Environmental Policy, The University of Queensland Cynthia A Jackson, Shutterstock Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what’s not so well known is many of the cleared trees can grow back ...6 days ago
- A century after its discovery, scientists capture first confirmed footage of a colossal squid in the...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kat Bolstad, Associate professor, Auckland University of Technology The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species ...6 days ago
- Students are neither left or right brained: how some early childhood educators get this ‘neuromyth...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate E. Williams, Professor of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast MalikNalik/ Shutterstock Many teachers and parents know neuroscience, the study of how the brain functions and develops, is important for children’s education. Brain development is recommended as part of ...6 days ago
- Pagan loaves, Christian bread, a secular treat: a brief history of hot cross buns
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University Jasmine Waheed/Unsplash Hot cross buns aren’t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have ...6 days ago
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