Lester Levy: “Significant, Not Painless” Changes Needed
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Date published: 10:08 am, August 16th, 2024 - 14 comments
Lester Levy gave a keynote address this weak signalling painful, strong medicine is needed for Health NZ. But his claims contradict frontline staff and experts.
Open mike 16/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 16th, 2024 - 35 comments
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Daily review 15/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 15th, 2024 - 36 comments
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Open mike 15/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 15th, 2024 - 77 comments
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Daily review 14/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 14th, 2024 - 6 comments
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Mountain Tui: Luxon’s $1000 A Week Is His “Entitlement”. Just Not Yours.
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Date published: 1:06 pm, August 14th, 2024 - 32 comments
When Luxon claimed $1000 a week of tax-free, taxpayers money for accommodation, because he didn’t want the 2 free properties he was offered, he said he was entitled to it. But according to the government, all beneficiaries now require harsher rules or risk having their entitlements stripped. Yet only ~5% aren’t compliant and last quarter, 1500 were cut off. What do the numbers say?
Open mike 14/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 14th, 2024 - 87 comments
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Daily review 13/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 13th, 2024 - 31 comments
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Mountain Tui: Beneficiary sanctions & targets don’t add up
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Date published: 1:23 pm, August 13th, 2024 - 9 comments
The jobseeker beneficiary sanctions and targets are not adding up. It also inflicts a lack of dignity and shame on recipients at a time when austerity is actively increasing unemployment.
Calculated cruelty
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Date published: 12:44 pm, August 13th, 2024 - 36 comments
National has engaged in more performative and calculated cruelty designed to make some poor people’s lives worse and all so that the Government can feed its base.
Open mike 13/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2024 - 56 comments
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Daily review 12/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 12th, 2024 - 20 comments
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NZ not attending Nagasaki event, insists decision unrelated to Israel invite snub
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Date published: 1:41 pm, August 12th, 2024 - 27 comments
New Zealand’s decision to stay away from the event in Nagasaki paying tribute to victims of the city’s 1945 nuclear bombing called outrageous.
Open mike 12/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2024 - 38 comments
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What does this Government have against Te Ao Māori?
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Date published: 10:24 am, August 11th, 2024 - 28 comments
Te Ao Māori forms an increasingly important part of our cultural identity. And most of us realise this and celebrate it. This Government’s stance is at odds with this increasingly strong consensus.
Open mike 11/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2024 - 62 comments
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Gender Essentialists Hate the Olympics
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Date published: 9:53 am, August 10th, 2024 - 157 comments
The Olympics are a real persistent problem for gender essentialists.
Open mike 10/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 10th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Daily review 09/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 9th, 2024 - 24 comments
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We should have kept the power company shares
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Date published: 8:19 am, August 9th, 2024 - 29 comments
Shane Jones, went onto radio yesterday and pledged a solution to high power prices. What are his chances and why are we in this mess?
Open mike 09/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 9th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Daily review 08/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 8th, 2024 - 10 comments
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English rising anti-fascism
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Date published: 10:55 am, August 8th, 2024 - 68 comments
This is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time
Open mike 08/08/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 8th, 2024 - 53 comments
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Daily review 07/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 7th, 2024 - 54 comments
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Maritime Union v Willis
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Date published: 12:16 pm, August 7th, 2024 - 49 comments
National’s decision to cancel the replacement Cook Strait ferry project is developing into a full blown political crisis for the Government with estimates that it could cost the Crown up to a billion dollars and with further costs to come.
Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Chris
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Date published: 11:19 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments
“Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Rob. I can buzz around like a Beehive boy, but I’d like to see you do my job”
Luxon is numerically illiterate
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Date published: 8:45 am, August 7th, 2024 - 5 comments
National has been caught out yet again using dubious analysis of data to justify policy.
Israel is in Serious Trouble
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Date published: 8:36 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments
Israel’s failure to solve its own problems, its weakening democratic institutions, fraying civil patience, massive wastage of global patience and U.S. aid, and inability to plan for civic success following military conflict, point to a country in very serious trouble with no apparent way out.
Open mike 07/08/2024
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Daily review 06/08/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2024 - 5 comments
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- Camera Roll-out A Win For The Ocean, Now Needed For Full Fleet
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Fewster, Lecturer in Performing Arts, University of South Australia Matt Byrne/State Theatre Company South Australia Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to ...4 days ago - Kāinga Ora set to cut about 330 jobs
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- Revealed: A cost-benefit analysis for public servants returning to the office
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- Kāinga Ora set to cut about 330 jobs, RNZ understands
RNZ understands some of the job cuts come on top of 232 already announced, in a second round of restructuring. ...4 days ago
- Ministry of Education’s head Iona Holsted to leave role early
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Culum Brown, Professor, Macquarie University Karen Willshaw/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution lifts the veil on what happens when octopuses and fish hunt together. As it turns out, this cross-species relationship is more complex than ...4 days ago
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The deputy prime minister has been quick to criticise what fellow MPs are wearing or how they speak, but what about the decorum of his own party? Parliament – it’s full of suits, ties, and clerks with purple hair. In the debating chamber, members often interrupt and rarely treat each ...4 days ago
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- Fostering a love of stories in a child’s first years is key to lifelong reading
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elaine Reese, Professor of Psychology, University of Otago Children’s literacy rates are falling around the globe. In response, a number of governments, including New Zealand’s, are overhauling the way reading is taught in primary school. One key change is a renewed ...4 days ago
- New Zealanders’ trust in key institutions declines, Stats NZ survey shows
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- Can we find hidden graves of murder victims with soil imaging? New Australian study gives it a try
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Berezowski, Lecturer, Forensic Science, Deakin University Kyle Towns/Shutterstock To avoid being caught, murderers often attempt to hide bodies using various methods. This can include shallow or deep burials, submersion in water, encasing in concrete or even disposing of remains in ...4 days ago
- Reproductive coercion is a form of gender-based violence. It’s likely more common than we realise
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Desireé LaGrappe, PhD Candidate & Coordinator, Reducing Gender-based Violence Network | NHMRC and Fulbright grantee, La Trobe University Peopleimages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock From contraception access to safe abortion, there is growing awareness about reproductive health and rights. Around the world, ...4 days ago
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'All of our children are not the same," ACT says, as Labour calls it "the worst type of experiment". ...4 days ago
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- Legislation re-introducing charter schools passes final reading
The legislation is part of National's coalition agreement with the ACT party. ...4 days ago
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Staff had raised concerns about the refurbishment of the tower in 2021. ...4 days ago
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National campaigned on removing individual ministerial approval but Judith Collins says they're in a coalition government and satisfied with the current regime. ...4 days ago
- Christopher Luxon’s chief press secretary resigns
The departure means the prime minister's office will be without its two most senior press secretaries by Christmas. ...4 days ago
- What is going on with Taika Waititi’s Instagram?
The film director turned influencer has been promoting a weird range of products – including full body health scans, spa pools and mattresses. Amid Instagram’s amorphous scroll of pyjama pants that look like work pants and skincare that looks like a glue stick, it really looked like Taika Waititi was ...4 days ago
- The hidden crisis of preschoolers in poverty
Early childhood is an intensely vulnerable time. As families struggle with the cost of living, under-fives are bearing the impact – without many of the supports available to their older siblings. Naomii Seah reports. “We have a single dad who comes in with his daughter – it’s obvious he loves ...4 days ago
- 59 jobs to go at GNS Science
Seven roles were retained from the initial cuts proposed as part of the public sector downsizing. ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Gately, Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock In Australia and most countries, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Because of this, keeping someone in detention before trial comes with serious legal, practical and human-rights consequences, not just for the person ...4 days ago
- AI is fuelling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What’s behind it – and how can it be fixed...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sungshin (Luna) Bae, PhD student, Gender Equality Policy Special Public Officer at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in South Korea, Monash University It’s difficult to talk about artificial intelligence without talking about deepfake porn – a harmful AI byproduct that has been used ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Zomer, Associate Research Fellow at the Centre of the Digital Child, Deakin University This article is part of a series on the great internet letdown. Read the rest of the series. Ever found yourself unable to resist checking out a ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darryn Snell, Associate professor, School of Management, RMIT University James Jones Jr, Shutterstock Oil and gas wells are dotted off Australia’s shores. They involve huge steel structures fixed firmly to the sea floor, and thousands of kilometres of pipelines. Most ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Reeve, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan relies on many of Australia’s coal-fired power stations running for at least another 12 years – far beyond the time ...4 days ago
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"The Government is wilfully blind to the damage its attack on science is wreaking on our ability to be prepared for future earthquakes or tsunamis," said Duane Leo, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. ...4 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marie McEntee, Senior Lecturer, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The government’s recently announced plan to end New Zealand’s effective ban on the use of gene technologies outside the laboratory has reignited debate about this historically ...4 days ago
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