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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 12:38 pm, April 3rd, 2024So what's your solution for the Auckland West Coast coastal communities? Because I absolutely guarantee that Auckland ratepayers aren't going to bail them out a second time. Nor do I see why taxpayers should, if sensible managed retreat options aren't ...
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Comment:The future of UK Labour and what it means for Aotearoa
Date published: 6:35 pm, April 2nd, 2024Principles like these ones? This other election address, targeting a different demographic, tells another story. It trumpets Galloway’s record of backing Brexit, opposing Scottish independence and supporting family values. A whole paragraph is dedicated to...
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Comment:The future of UK Labour and what it means for Aotearoa
Date published: 6:29 pm, April 2nd, 2024I'm not sure why you think it's an astonishing victory. The Labour candidate was effectively disavowed by his own party - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Rochdale_by-election
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 5:45 pm, April 2nd, 2024I don't have a problem with you buying - just not prepared to fund your escape from a bad bargain.
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 5:44 pm, April 2nd, 2024Very steep, unstable cliffs - landslide risk under with monsoon rains. As well as the standard sea-level rise risk, common to all beach adjacent properties. https://ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2023/08/piha-and-karekare-geotechnical-update/
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 11:32 pm, April 1st, 2024Grey Lynn villa on TradeMe for $6,995 per/week. Perhaps the Dotcom Mansion might attract $11K+ per/week! Well outside the experience of most Kiwis.....
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 11:18 pm, April 1st, 2024It's clear that you find there are lots of potential problems with my proffered solution. Do you have an alternative? Or do we just sit here paralysed by the fear of multi-millionaires with lawyers - and a strong case of NIMBY syndrome. Because - no matter...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 11:12 pm, April 1st, 2024And sugar kills the cellulose in the skin..it gives ya wrinkles..eh..? Which is why all those fat people have wrinkly skin? /sarc/ There is such a thing as over-doing your argument. We already know (from tobacco) that health warnings don't affect most ...
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 10:35 pm, April 1st, 2024Well, those multi-millionaires better be prepared with deep pockets for the next disaster. Because I don't think that either the government or the Council are going to bail them out twice.
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 5:48 pm, April 1st, 2024Not proposing to buy out the houses at the current valuation. But to relocate them to a new suburb. You get the same land area size you currently have. Yes. People will on paper lose value (no longer will they have the sea view adding an extra 200K to the ...
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 5:04 pm, April 1st, 2024I have been expecting the insurance companies to become much harder nosed about insurance premiums in a wide range of areas of NZ - effectively making houses in high-risk areas uninsurable (or at least the premiums unaffordable for most people). But it ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 4:53 pm, April 1st, 2024Did you see Nick acknowledge that an elderly woman was assaulted by a trans activist? His quoted words from the link above: So far as I’m aware the only people actually assaulted were Marama Davidson, Green Party co-leader, who was ridden into by a ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 4:48 pm, April 1st, 2024And has he retracted his mis-statement - in his regular and often publishing schedule?
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Comment:A year on From Gabrielle: are we any further on?
Date published: 2:32 pm, April 1st, 2024The biggest problem in terms of resilience - is that no one wants to do it if they are disadvantaged. Big picture thinking would have been that Piha, etc. wasn't an environmentally sustainable location for homes. And that, therefore - the sustainable thing...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 2:16 pm, April 1st, 2024Just to be clear, you're not objecting to his message (in fact, you probably agree with him in his call for ceasefire in Gaza now) - you just don't think that he should be making it? Which political or religious leaders do you think should be making ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 2:10 pm, April 1st, 2024Just waiting for the said bricks to be hefted through windows of cars by young hooligans... Or taken to smash the windows of parked cars, either for theft or wanton destruction. If you're so concerned about being seen on a pedestrian crossing - take your ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/04/2024
Date published: 1:53 pm, April 1st, 2024So what's your solution? Ban the sale of these highly sugared drinks in NZ? Because otherwise, you have no way of knowing that they aren't being given to children... Or ban them for everyone (good luck in getting that one through parliament - given the ...
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Comment:Daily review 28/03/2024
Date published: 1:33 pm, April 1st, 2024In a similar case - the targeting of the 'pink church' on the West Coast - all the perpetrators were able to be charged with was intentional damage. That case, was however, significantly worse -since direct threats were spray painted on, and it was an ...
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Comment:Daily review 28/03/2024
Date published: 1:24 pm, April 1st, 2024Just not been found yet? Or the media have lost interest and not reported the subsequent arrest?
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Comment:Open mike 28/03/2024
Date published: 1:17 pm, April 1st, 2024It appears to me that some on the left (cf Robert's comments on this issue) appear to have a blind spot when it come to conservative (with a small c) voters. Often these people don't have particularly Conservative (with a capital c) voting alignment (e.g. ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/03/2024
Date published: 7:03 pm, March 31st, 2024The reaction was to repaint the rainbows; Tamaki will use that somehow??? Yes, indeed. I've heard from multiple people the comment, along the lines of: Council can't repair potholes or deal with gang graffiti [substitute the grievance de jour for the ...
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Comment:Daily review 28/03/2024
Date published: 6:53 pm, March 31st, 2024If you mean the Gisborne incident - then, yes, the perpetrators (most of whom were Destiny Church linked) were arrested. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/three-charged-with-vandalism-after-gisborne-rainbow-crossing-painted-over.html And a...
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Comment:Open mike 30/03/2024
Date published: 6:41 pm, March 31st, 2024Given the open threats made by senior Russian politicians - Poland has every justification for feeling unsafe. (Reuters) - A top ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Poland on Thursday that the NATO member state was now considered a "dangerous enemy" by...
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Comment:The GCSB revelations
Date published: 2:24 pm, March 25th, 2024It seems highly probable that this is a fake news story https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/water-in-chinese-missiles-tanks-is-a-fake-story/
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 9:17 am, March 25th, 2024You clearly didn't bother reading or understand, either. It is not possible to 'strike' unless you are employed. Refusing to bid on a contract (because you don't like the terms or remunderation) is not a strike. I'm not arguing about the rest of your ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/03/2024
Date published: 6:20 pm, March 22nd, 2024Well, yes. That's the point. There was no need for him to do so. There is no win for Labour in this.
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Comment:Open mike 22/03/2024
Date published: 4:10 pm, March 22nd, 2024Literally sickening. Those poor kids. I can't imagine how anyone could let this happen - let alone participate in it. Our current legal system does nothing to punish the perpetrators (if they all remain silent then there will be no prosecution). But much ...
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Comment:Hoatu he tumanako ki a rātou
Date published: 2:07 pm, March 22nd, 2024But then re-elected him again in 1951.... I think that his electoral defeat in 1946 has much more to do with the war-weariness and association of Churchill with that stressful period; rather than objection to his policies per-se.
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 1:32 pm, March 22nd, 2024I don't know whether you're unfamiliar with the idiom - or are attempting to be amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkeys_voting_for_Christmas
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 1:31 pm, March 22nd, 2024I find that your last point is the one holding most sway with people. They're perfectly happy to consider 4 years terms, so long as 'their' party (or at least a government they can live with) is in power. But when the roles are reversed, 3 years is too ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/03/2024
Date published: 1:28 pm, March 22nd, 2024Your confidence rating, however, must be taking a downwards tick. Since he's been proved comprehensively wrong on this occasion.
- Diary cock-up heaps pressure on fast-track ministers
Minister Shane Jones’ failure to declare a dinner with mining interests is just one red flag of many about the Government’s proposed fast-track legislation, Transparency International says. Earlier this week, Newsroom revealed Jones, the Resources Minister, at a dinner on the West Coast on February 16, encouraged a mining company ...7 days ago - Deadnaming, insults and harassment: trans Corrections officer brings landmark human rights case agai...
Exclusive: A transgender man is bringing an unprecedented human rights case against the Department of Corrections. He tells Alex Casey about his experience at work and what he’s fighting for. This story contains transphobic language and references to self-harm. Take care. A trans Corrections officer is taking a case against ...7 days ago - Vaping and how to stop another chemical generationOpinion: A recent study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports recently presented a novel approach to predicting which chemicals might be emitted from a vape. During heating, chemicals can break down into smaller molecules. A process known as pyrolysis. This study combined deep learning computational methods with chemical structure information from ...7 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 16 MayLoading…(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){var ql=document.querySelectorAll('A,DIV,A[data-quiz],DIV[data-quiz]'); if(ql){if(ql.length){for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){ql[k].id='quiz-embed-'+k;ql[k].href="javascript:var i=document.getElementById('quiz-embed-"+k+"');try{qz.startQuiz(i)}catch(e){i.start=1;i.style.cursor='wait';i.style.opacity='0.5'};void(0);"}}};i['QP']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','https://take.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/quiz-embed-v1.js','qp'); Got a good quiz question? Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 16 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...7 days ago
- Olympic runner’s zippy secret weaponWhile women’s sport is exploding in Aotearoa and around the world, you still don’t hear a lot of talk about athletes and their periods, RED-S, breastfeeding and visible panty-lines. SASS Talk isn’t afraid to have that kōrero. LockerRoom founder Suzanne McFadden and Olympian broadcaster Sarah Cowley Ross host the episodic podcast, sparking ...7 days ago
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- Daily crossword, Thursday 16 MayThe post Daily crossword, Thursday 16 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...7 days ago
- Bishop indicates RMA reform could tackle heritage debateWith 10 Wellington sites retaining heritage status, Minister for RMA Reform Chris Bishop is looking for new pathways to enable de-listing The post Bishop indicates RMA reform could tackle heritage debate appeared first on Newsroom. ...7 days ago
- NZ holds its own on defence spending but global volatility is a challengeOpinion: Future governments will have to decide whether they can afford to keep up with security partners’ defence budgets The post NZ holds its own on defence spending but global volatility is a challenge appeared first on Newsroom. ...7 days ago
- Time to rebalance our food system towards cheap healthy foodOpinion: New Zealand is a country of food producers. We may be a small, isolated nation at the end of the world, but we create an outsized amount of kai, most of it bound for faraway shores. Each year New Zealand exports enough food to feed 39 million people their ...7 days ago
- The unsung heroes keeping our lights onWhen households and businesses pulled the country back from the brink of painful power cuts on the coldest day of the year, there was no reward for the sacrifices they made in turning off their heat pumps and lights. Matt Ward, SolarZero CEO Photo: Supplied Consumers saved the day ...7 days ago
- Health negotiators told to put sovereignty ahead of stopping pandemicsDiplomats have been tasked with ensuring New Zealand can opt out of health rules rather than focusing on strong new pandemic prevention measures The post Health negotiators told to put sovereignty ahead of stopping pandemics appeared first on Newsroom. ...7 days ago
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- Emily Perkins takes home top prize for fiction at Ockham book awardsBooks editor Claire Mabey reports on the winners of this year’s book awards. Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction ($65,000 prize) Lioness by Emily Perkins (published by Bloomsbury), about a middle-aged woman wrestling with her life choices, has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Hooo boy this ...7 days ago
- Police cannot rush pulling out of attending mental health callouts, foundation says
There are worries the crackdown on gangs could come at the cost of mental health. ...7 days ago - Ockhams: Emily Perkins wins $65K fiction prizeEmily Perkins has won the fiction prize at the 2024 Ockham book awards for her novel Lioness. She collects $65,000, the most loot you can pocket in New Zealand letters, as winner of the Jan Medlicott Acorn fiction prize for her satire of the anxious rich. It’s kind of ...1 week ago
- Carbon credit supply might need to be cut as efficient furnace comes onlineA new steel-making furnace will reduce emissions so much, environment officials have pitched reducing the whole country's supply of carbon credits. ...1 week ago
- Waitangi Tribunal to hear a claim into government disestablishing the Māori Health AuthorityClaimants have been notified that they have met the criteria for a 'priority inquiry' scheduled for October 2024. ...1 week ago
- The police minister loves numbers. Except when he’s asked about lowering themWhy worry about accurate messaging around gangs when you can throw out some scary numbers instead? As sure as night follows day, Mark Mitchell will premise a gang policy announcement with a spine-tingling stat about soaring gang membership. “New Zealanders need only look at the fatal shooting in Ponsonby recently ...1 week ago
- Auckland won’t complete big busway in PM and minister’s electoratesA new 10-year budget for Auckland has dropped funding for the fourth and final part of the up to $1.4 billion dollar Eastern Busway, partly because the Government ditched the regional fuel tax. The Auckland Council believes it has been left $600m short by that early call to do away ...1 week ago
- Netsafe investigating Facebook page pretending to be New Zealand First MP Tanya UnkovichThe page impersonating Tanya Unkovich sent a message to someone in relation to her bathroom bill. ...1 week ago
- Watch: PM Christopher Luxon speaks to business leaders ahead of Budget 2024Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says do not expect any curveballs in this month's Budget, but he reaffirmed a commitment to tax relief. ...1 week ago
- Anything Less Than $49/week Isn’t Tax Relief, It’s Shortchanging New Zealanders
Connor Molloy, said: “Christopher Luxon is right to point out that inflation over the last 14 has pushed New Zealanders into higher income tax brackets so that they are paying more of their wages in tax even when they are not better off." ...1 week ago - How easy is it to leave a gang?As police focus on curbing gang activity, community leaders say arrests won't solve issues that run deeper. ...1 week ago
- Why Ngāti Toa is standing up against the fast-track billWe won’t be violent, but we will organise and do everything in our power to prevent further degradation of our taiao, writes Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Toa Rangatira chief executive Helmut Modlik. In the early 1950s, prime minister Sidney Holland’s National government was under enormous pressure to increase housing supply ...1 week ago
- Watch live: PM Christopher Luxon speaks to business leaders ahead of Budget 2024The Prime Minister is speaking to business leaders ahead of this month's Budget. ...1 week ago
- Waka Kotahi pays PWC to meld together technologies, then again to pull them apartThe Transport Agency wanted to see if it could combine two vehicle-spotting technologies. It couldn't. ...1 week ago
- Live Export: New Zealand Sails Backwards Whilst The UK And Australia Competitively Sail Forward"The United Kingdom’s Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill has just passed its final stage in Parliament (last night, NZ time) and will soon be enshrined into law. This will mean that the UK has banned export of farmed animals by sea. The Australian ...1 week ago
- Landscape Architects Have Much To Offer For Climate Change AdaptationThe Government’s success in designing a national climate adaptation framework will depend entirely on its propensity to utilise landscape architects. ...1 week ago
- ‘One hell of a lesson’: a conversation with Ngāhuia Te AwekōtukuMatariki Williams speaks with Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku about her extraordinary memoir, Hine Toa. Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku has a seemingly effortless approach to knowledge: the ingesting, digesting and sharing of it has been part of her scholarship for decades. The week after I interviewed her, I was heading to Venice to ...1 week ago
- Comical Incompetence As Wellington Council Might Have To Dig Up Brand New $55 Million Bus Lanes And ...A memo accidentally released by Wellington City Council shows at least $5.2 million of pipes needing urgent repair have just been covered up by $55 million of brand new bus and cycle lanes on Thorndon Quay. ...1 week ago
- Offshore Wind Industry Warns Against Taranaki Seabed MiningA damning briefing paper released by a group of offshore wind developers warns that if Trans Tasman Resources gets the go-ahead to mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight, it would spell the end of New Zealand’s chance to embrace offshore wind ...1 week ago
- What are charter schools, and why are they so controversial?The government intends for new charter schools to be operating by the beginning of 2025. How does the model work? Shanti Mathias explains. What did David Seymour announce? On Tuesday, Act Party leader and minister for education David Seymour said the upcoming government budget would include $153m of new funding ...1 week ago
- Cricket’s pilgrimage: Go north, young womanSome of our brightest talent has flown north for the British summer as cricketing opportunities increase for our up-and-coming female cricketers. Included in that group is Otago Sparks batter and wicketkeeper Olivia Gain who has travelled to England for the second successive year as she looks to gain more ...1 week ago
- Strike Force Raptor 3.0? The new anti-gang unit, and the questions that remainA new national gang unit – coupled with smaller ‘disruption units’ – will target and ‘harass’ gang members, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. A gang crackdown Throughout National’s election campaign and into its time in government, ...1 week ago
- Questions about coalition's Covid-19 mandate pledgeThe government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...1 week ago
- Questions about coalition's Covid-19 vaccine mandate pledgeThe government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...1 week ago
- Treatment hopes dashed for MS sufferersIt was the first glimmer of hope – ever – for New Zealanders with the worst type of multiple sclerosis. A drug treatment that can halt a cruel descent into immobility, incontinence and the loss of agency that comes with PPMS – the primary progressive form of the disease. Pharmac ...1 week ago
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- Thousands of New Zealand students have to work for free each year. Is that fair?Nurses, teachers, med students, midwives and social workers are among professions that require students to complete unpaid work placements to qualify. A campaign is seeking to change that reality. “It’s really hard to write an essay when you’ve only had two hours’ sleep because you’re been up all night attending ...1 week ago
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- Govt reviewing ‘counterintuitive’ fishing permits for biosecurity zoneDespite the $11m invested in eradication of exotic caulerpa, commercial crayfish permits were issued for an impacted area The post Govt reviewing ‘counterintuitive’ fishing permits for biosecurity zone appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 15 MayLoading…(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){var ql=document.querySelectorAll('A,DIV,A[data-quiz],DIV[data-quiz]'); if(ql){if(ql.length){for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){ql[k].id='quiz-embed-'+k;ql[k].href="javascript:var i=document.getElementById('quiz-embed-"+k+"');try{qz.startQuiz(i)}catch(e){i.start=1;i.style.cursor='wait';i.style.opacity='0.5'};void(0);"}}};i['QP']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','https://take.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/quiz-embed-v1.js','qp'); Got a good quiz question? Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 15 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- Former Kiwi MPs’ names aired in Hong Kong security trialThe controversial national security trial of a Hong Kong newspaper founder has touched on the work of former Kiwi MPs The post Former Kiwi MPs’ names aired in Hong Kong security trial appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- The Reserve Bank’s double-pronged cash planWhat happens when cash is king – and then your bank leaves. A businessman in a town that hasn’t had a bank for three years says the Reserve Bank’s plans to put more cash in the hands of its people and introduce digital cash could save hours of time. John ...1 week ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 15 MayThe post Daily crossword, Wednesday 15 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- Taskforce disestablishment a setback for pay equity claims – employersEmployers in the funded NGO sector say the goal of reaching pay parity with the public service is now further away The post Taskforce disestablishment a setback for pay equity claims – employers appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- Ockhams: Catton wins People’s ChoiceThe people have spoken, in their hundreds. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton has been overwhelmingly voted the favourite New Zealand book of 2023 as nominated by ReadingRoom readers. The vote can informally be regarded as the People’s Choice award – ahead of tonight’s Ockham book awards, where Catton’s novel is competing ...1 week ago
- Resolving funding block only way forward for infrastructureOpinion: The pressure of funding the infrastructure deficit must be reduced or at least shared by central government The post Resolving funding block only way forward for infrastructure appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
- Doubts about value, results from charter schools – education figuresReintroduced charter schools will be tightly monitored, but a lack of transparency in reporting was a key criticism they faced last time around. ...1 week ago
- Gang unit will disproportionately affect Māori and Pasifika, Te Pāti Māori sayAmid criticism from opposition parties, a gang expert says it focuses on an area of political and public worry. ...1 week ago
- Sir Maarten Wevers to lead Ministry for Disabled People reviewThe review will investigate how to keep disability support services funded by the ministry going in the long-term. ...1 week ago
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- Trans Community To Rally Against HateThe transgender community, whānau & allies will rally outside Tākina/Wellington Convention Centre against anti-trans confederation “Inflection Point NZ,” who are hosting a conference to encourage parliamentarians to restrict trans people’s ...1 week ago
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- Christchurch Call to continue as charityThe initiative, established by former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, aims to stop violent extremism online. ...1 week ago
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- ‘I thought we could wear Zoolander outfits’: Pip Adam and Emily Perkins on the OckhamsAudition by Pip Adam and Lioness by Emily Perkins are both shortlisted for the fiction award at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Here the authors discuss awards, writing, Selling Sunset, review culture, Zoolander and more. Pip Adam: Whenever I think about writers and our ambitions, I can’t help ...1 week ago
- Police to establish national gang unitPolice are setting up frontline teams to tackle crime and intimidation by gangs, Andrew Coster has announced. ...1 week ago
- Watch: Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announces new 'National Gang Unit'Police are setting up frontline teams to tackle crime and intimidation by gangs, Andrew Coster has announced. ...1 week ago
- Watch live: Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announces new 'National Gang Unit'Andrew Coster has revealed new dedicated police teams will tackle organised crime. ...1 week ago
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