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Comment:Open mike 22/08/2022
Date published: 4:27 pm, August 22nd, 2022I questioned regardingRosieLee was making, that could be read that his ethnicity has issues with woman !! Or can we all make sweeping generalisations and apply them to attack an individual and belittle them ???
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Comment:Open mike 22/08/2022
Date published: 11:23 am, August 22nd, 2022Where is your EVIDENCE in this,"Maybe that's why Sharma had trouble working with colleagues" ???? No accusations levelled at Dr Sharma have been proven as far as I can find. Yet many here have accepted this to be fact, and at the same time accepting that ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/08/2022
Date published: 3:38 pm, August 12th, 2022So sad Whakanewha Regional Park, Waiheke is a bit of a hidden gem, as can be seen very tidal. Thoughts go out to the rangers and those locals assisting- this will be deeply emotional for all. Take care https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mass-dolphin-stranding-...
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Comment:Open mike 12/08/2022
Date published: 3:35 pm, August 12th, 2022https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mass-dolphin-stranding-on-aucklands-waiheke-island/SKAPTMTC4KGSSJHZNQKCFZW7VU/
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 9:18 pm, August 9th, 2022Inco still at your games of trying to divert from the point I was making !!! We can see that there are those out there who couldn't give a crap about those who are suffering and I gather the government has rewarded the developer by increasing the kiwibuild...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 7:18 pm, August 9th, 2022"However, I have indeed limited understanding of KiwiBuild, but even I know that an eligible KiwiBuild buyer is not necessarily a first-home buyer." - Yet your link from stuff refer ONLY to 1st home buyers !!! Please re read my initial comments - They were...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 6:59 pm, August 8th, 2022Are you for real ?? "The Government could set an even higher sale price but would then make it even harder for eligible KiwiBuild buyers, so they compromised. Year $860k is really making many eligible 1st home buyers. Perhaps (like most Labour MP's) you ...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 5:00 pm, August 8th, 2022She is crap at her job and understanding of the industry. And after 6 years (2012) in opposition telling us that Labour had the solutions. We find out that they made the Kiwibuild targets up was 50,000 but then decided 100,000 was a better number. Only to ...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 4:15 pm, August 8th, 2022YES the government SETS the price - That is why we are progressively being told of the lift in Kiwi Build prices from $600k to $650 now $860k. Pity our minister has no idea as to what affordability is. $860k for a 1st home, she has NO IDEA of reality. The ...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 3:29 pm, August 8th, 2022The government underwrites the development https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/389669/underwrite-triggered-more-unsold-kiwibuild-houses-bought-by-govt https://www.interest.co.nz/property/103493/kiwibuild-stock-take-govt-currently-26-million-out-pocket-...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 2:09 pm, August 8th, 2022The full email for those that seek proof of any claim and just fro those without a calculator the increase in price has meant ONLY a $3.36MILLION windfall for someone that as of the 19 July 2022 before the ceilings were raised was not there !!! More ...
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Comment:Open mike 08/08/2022
Date published: 1:55 pm, August 8th, 2022Recently it was announced that kiwibuild ceilings had increased from $650k to $860k. 19A Freeland Ave Mt Roskill ballet has just come out. "These brand new terraced homes are priced at $860K, offer 99m2 and include the following features:..." Who has ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/08/2022
Date published: 1:02 pm, August 4th, 2022Blame the minister this commitment was made well before anyone new the existence of COVID. So now we have to just throw a cohort of those currently at school into the rubbish bin ?? That covers new entrance to yr 13. when depts bid for money during the ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/08/2022
Date published: 10:42 am, August 4th, 2022https://theconversation.com/amp/mental-health-wins-record-funding-in-new-zealands-first-well-being-budget-118047 thank you to the NZ govt after a 3 year wait we have been informed that 1 member has been taken off the waiting list and we will have to find ...
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Comment:Open mike 03/08/2022
Date published: 5:19 pm, August 3rd, 2022Perhaps Shortland at could have a story how Little screwed the nurses and other health workers regarding pay rates and working conditions ? Union action to replicate reality as agreed conditions on pay equity from the 2017pay round has not been adhered to?...
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Comment:Brian Tamaki really annoys Auckland by adding to traffic congestion
Date published: 2:32 pm, July 24th, 2022Because white middle class wearing Lycra is acceptable, the police/ govt would lose at lot of public support should they have acted in a similar manner as they are proposing here, those middle class need to feel that they can protest take over the harbour ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/07/2022
Date published: 3:12 pm, July 22nd, 2022The link displays the source of electricity production. You can modify the search by country, the 2nd link is the NZ position. The world position Coal & Gas dominance is a concern and how to replace our dependancy with BAU ?? https://ourworldindata.org/...
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Comment:Open mike 22/07/2022
Date published: 1:17 pm, July 22nd, 2022Where does the government get its understanding of reality. $860,000 IS affordable for a 1st home or at the lower end $550,000 for 1 bedroom ??đ€Ź . I am well aware that the kiwibuild managers are in the market with fixed price contracts, donât they follow ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/07/2022
Date published: 3:51 pm, July 18th, 2022You are fortunate. Where I live in Auckland diesel is still over $3/l. Why are we still being fleeced? We were told in 2017 the government was watching the industry and would action if there was anything untoward. $0.40/l price difference, perhaps the govt...
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Comment:Open mike 14/07/2022
Date published: 6:08 pm, July 14th, 2022Where is any comment from you to question Littles behaviour and actions ?? It appears you can see everything Wrong with parties other than Labour BUT are blinded by this governments performances and unable to make comment. Not great use of language by ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/07/2022
Date published: 5:00 pm, July 14th, 2022Nice DEFLECTION, what about .... On the issue nice to see that you cannot find anything to counter to support Littles performances. And for his attach on a union, nice to have friends like that in a Labour party. But I gather you totally support him. How ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/07/2022
Date published: 1:55 pm, July 14th, 2022Are we so lucky to have Andrew Little as the minister of Health and this ONE nurse in Manila that the minister bases his support for his actions on. Then as a âunion manâ he craps on the nurses union. Why is it that so many on the left accept this without ...
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Comment:Predator Free Rakiura Stewart Island
Date published: 9:30 am, July 10th, 2022This may give some background https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/300535889/pest-control-efforts-in-te-urewera-have-changed--some-conservationists-worry-about-the-fate-of-native-species
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Comment:Daily review 01/07/2022
Date published: 6:24 pm, July 1st, 2022On a day that a trade agreement with the EU is announced allowing our wine to be exported without taffifs, an increase of exercise tax comes into effect INCREASING domestic prices by 8%. Perhaps our government needs to start to think about those of us who ...
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Comment:Open mike 29/06/2022
Date published: 1:42 pm, June 29th, 2022Why are those managing Kiwibuild now approaching lead contractors requesting fixed price contracts and the message is being relayed to sub contractors with expectations of those prices to both drop and be adhered to? All so price ceilings announced 4 years...
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Comment:Open mike 22/06/2022
Date published: 6:41 pm, June 22nd, 2022Here you are - And special mention for Weka in the moderation of the post. https://thestandard.org.nz/womens-human-rights-and-the-vulnerability-of-pregnant-women/
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Comment:Open mike 22/06/2022
Date published: 12:43 pm, June 22nd, 2022This story on ABC 2 Feb 22 It takes 5 months for Hipkins to be made away and react ? Hipkins had his information questioned by Bellis immediately at the time. Would for someone with an eye to detail not go back on his information to verify when questioned ...
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Comment:Open mike 21/06/2022
Date published: 5:50 pm, June 21st, 2022But at least Woods is REACTING on her new brief, due to embarrassment. Fixed that for you AD. FFS what has she been doing ?? This shortage has been an issue mid last year, perhaps it is time that ministers in this government went out and interacted with ...
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Comment:The Cabinet reshuffle
Date published: 9:25 pm, June 14th, 2022M'bird do you think DOC will is better served with having Poto instead of Kiritapu as their minister ? As I have more focus in DOC/environment in this area than most others, by being involved on a volunteer basis. So this appointment concerns me as I ...
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Comment:The Cabinet reshuffle
Date published: 6:41 pm, June 14th, 2022Where in any of her bios are references to DOC or the environment there in nothing I can find. If DOC was of a high priority why then has Kiritapu Allan had this taken away from her??? Should it not go to someone who has displayed they have the ability to ...
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Comment:The Cabinet reshuffle
Date published: 5:21 pm, June 14th, 2022How can someone who goes missing in their role as minister of police be then gifted the conservation role ?? To me this tokenism oin finding a safe ministry to place her as the minister. Instead there should be someone with a passion for then ministry, and...
- Hollywood didnât know exactly what to do with Donald Sutherland â so they did everything with hi...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland I donât think Hollywood knew what to do with Donald Sutherland, who has died at age 88. He was not your classically handsome A-list actor like contemporaries Warren Beatty or ...5 days ago - How would a switch to nuclear affect electricity prices for households and industry?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Dargaville, Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University Peter Dutton has announced that under a Coalition government, seven nuclear power stations would be built around the country over the next 15 years. Experts have declared nuclear power would be expensive and ...5 days ago
- The Week in Politics: Scrutiny Week takes off while PM's plane gets grounded
Analysis - The PM's plane breaks down, but Luxon tries to keep things rolling, while MPs face tough questions at home, Peter Wilson writes. ...5 days ago - Fast Track bill has more supporters than opponents – Taxpayers Union-Curia pollA Taxpayers Union-Curia poll suggests more New Zealanders support the government's fast-track bill than oppose it. ...5 days ago
- Peter Duttonâs nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australiansâ hip-pocket pain, now o...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Of all the debates unleashed by the Coalitionâs nuclear energy announcement this week, energy prices is among the hottest. As Australians struggle with the skyrocketing cost of living, Opposition Leader Peter Duttonâs plan gives little ...5 days ago
- Does One NZâs new ad campaign connect? Many adopted people might not think soSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury One NZ/YouTube Adoption is often portrayed as a beautiful, loving act. It enables people to become parents to a child who is given a second chance at being part of ...5 days ago
- Why canât I sleep? It could be your sheets or doonaSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chin Moi Chow, Associate Professor of Sleep and Wellbeing, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock Itâs winter, so many of us will be bringing out, or buying, winter bedding. But how much of a difference does your bedding make to your thermal ...5 days ago
- NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissionsPublic submissions have closed on a bill which would offer a pathway to New Zealand citizenship to a group of Samoans born between 1924 and 1949. Public hearings on the Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship Act Bill start on Monday. In 1982, the Privy Council ruled that because those born ...5 days ago
- Energy Minister orders Electricity Authority review into pylon collapseSimeon Brown has ordered the Electricity Authority to review the Northland outage. ...5 days ago
- Education Ministry breached collective agreement in job cuts process – PSAThe union has told the Employment Relations Authority the ministry has grossly underestimated its obligations to staff. ...5 days ago
- Northland Power Outages Could Be Mitigated With Increased Battery Storage. Government Must Prioritis...
Extreme weather events, increased peak demand, and failures of supply are costing New Zealanders millions of dollars in lost revenue. ...5 days ago - Kangaroo teeth grow forever â and keep a record of their ownerâs age and sexSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Parker, PhD Candidate, Monash University How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a new paper published in Archives of Oral Biology, we ...5 days ago
- A âgenerational winâ for NZâs seabirds
New rules to protect seabirds from fishing will help Aotearoaâs threatened albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. The 145 seabird species that frequent New Zealand waters will have stronger protection from capture on fishing lines, with new rules announced ...5 days ago - The Friday Poem: âSome boysâ by Nicola EasthopeA new poem by Raumati poet Nicola Easthope. Some boys Some boys pass you on skateboards fractionally faster than your smoking hot roller skates so that you donât so much eat their dust as slowly choke on it. Some boys pass you byâ their heads in the clouds, just not ...5 days ago
- The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending June 21The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Booksâ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. First, a quick PSA: Unity Books has a flash new website that lets you search and purchase ...5 days ago
- High Levels Of Trust And Confidence In Firearms Regulation Undermine McKeeâs Justification For Cha...New data from Police shows a big shift in trust and confidence in its work from the firearms community. ...5 days ago
- Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia â Brisbaneâs Olympic planners ne...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diti bhattacharya, Senior research fellow, Griffith University As preparations for Parisâ Olympic and Paralympic Games gather momentum, South East Queensland is preparing its legacy strategy in anticipation for the 2032 Brisbane games. The Queensland governmentâs Olympic committee recently published its legacy ...5 days ago
- Plucking numbers from the air: Victoriaâs big build for housing relies on impossible targetsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock The Victorian government this week gave the stateâs local councils a gargantuan task: solve the housing crisis by accelerating new housing. Each council now has a target for new ...5 days ago
- When the siren wails: The comforts of dystopian fictionOn the darkest day of the year, Lucy Black considers the dystopian novels she loves, and why. When I was 22 I moved to a seaside village. My house was next to the ocean and very near the volunteer firefighters station. Regularly the peaceful rush of waves would be disturbed ...5 days ago
- A dark day: Five big news stories you might have missed (according to RNZ)Friday June 21 will be remembered as the day Prince Philip died, Cardinal Pell was sentenced and Theresa Mayâs Brexit deal was voted down. Thereâs an understanding in journalism that bad news tends to drop on a Friday afternoon. This has been proven indisputably true today after RNZ sent out ...5 days ago
- Former Green MP Keith Locke dies, age 80Locke, known as a human rights and anti-war advocate, was in Parliament from 1999 to 2011. ...5 days ago
- The $60 million cost of the Northland power cutThe bill highlights the impact of a region too often cut off in recent years. ...5 days ago
- Cabinet to consider Pharmac boost for promised cancer drugsCabinet ministers will consider a major cash injection for Pharmac after backlash from cancer patients, RNZ understands. ...5 days ago
- Australiaâs first civilian jury was entirely female. Hereâs how âjuries of matronsâ shaped o...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Neikirk, Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle A French jury of matrons in 1771. British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA Itâs hard to imagine now, but for almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death ...5 days ago
- Cabinet looking to boost Pharmac funding for promised cancer drugsCabinet ministers will consider a major cash injection for Pharmac after backlash from cancer patients, RNZ understands. ...5 days ago
- The return of Kid Sisterâs 30-year-old childThereâs plenty to love about season two of Simone Nathanâs comedy series. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Lulu Emanuel is pushing like sheâs never pushed before. Her hospital bed is surrounded by a midwife, Luluâs mother and the rest of her ...5 days ago
- Watchdog Protests Minister Jones VisitCoromandel Watchdog of Hauraki will be protesting the visit from Minister Shane Jones to Kopu, near Thames on Friday June between 11am and 12 Noon. ...5 days ago
- Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: âEverything is negotiable, except independenceâBy Mong Palatino of Global Voices The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after protests and riots erupted in response to the passage of a bill in Franceâs National Assembly that would have diluted the voting power of the ...5 days ago
- Invercargill Mayorâs Behaviour Demonstrates Need For Recall ElectionsFollowing allegations of inappropriate behaviour from the Invercargill mayor, Nobby Clark, the Taxpayersâ Union is renewing calls for the Government to implement a recall option in local government to allow residents to remove embarrassing, inappropriate ...5 days ago
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- Rules for earthquake-prone buildings likely to 'become less onerous'A review into better managing the risks of earthquake-prone buildings has kicked off. ...6 days ago
- PSA Takes Ministry Of Education To Employment Relations Authority TodayThe PSA action against the Ministry of Education in relation to job cuts begins this morning at 9.30am at the Employment Relations Authority. ...6 days ago
- Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babiesâ spines. Hereâs what the evidence ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fernandez, Senior lecturer and researcher in chiropractic, CQUniversity Australia Dmitry Naumov/Shutterstock Chiropractors in Australia will not be able to perform spinal manipulation on children under the age of two once more, following health concerns from doctors and politicians. But what ...6 days ago
- Australia needs large-scale energy production â here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fitSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ty Christopher, Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong ShutterDesigner, Shutterstock On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australiaâs fourth offshore wind energy zone. Itâs the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting ...6 days ago
- Australian coal mine and power station workersâ prospects look bleak â unless we start offering ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Triggs, Visiting research fellow, Australian National University MarekVelechovsky/Shutterstock Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs. This was the staggering finding ...6 days ago
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- A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these a...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brianna Le Busque, Lecturer in Environmental Science, University of South Australia Netflix Another year, another movie with a shark in the leading role. The new French thriller film Under Paris is currently ranked second in Australiaâs Top 10 list and has ...6 days ago
- Weâve reached the shortest day, but winter illnesses havenât slowed downCovid may have peaked (again), but itâs not the only sickness worrying officials, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Itâs the shortest ...6 days ago
- Inside the Defence Force's 757 planes: Breaking down the detailsWith the NZDF's 757s past their best-before date, RNZ's Anneke Smith and Nate McKinnon reveal what they're like inside, what they're for, and the case for buying new ones. ...6 days ago
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 21 June
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- The teaching profession straying from university captureOpinion: University programmes are not adequately preparing teachers for the classroom The post The teaching profession straying from university capture appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- This weekâs bestselling books â June 21FICTION 1 At the Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Random House, $37) A free copy of the Dunedin author’s latest novel, set in a grand, rambling hotel beside a glacier in the South Island, is up for grabs in this week’s book giveaway. To enter, describe the most ...6 days ago
- Recovered cycling star back on track for ParisIt was a niggling knee irritation that Ally Wollaston didnât think much of. But when the New Zealand cyclist started to struggle with the simple act of walking or turningthe pedals on her bike, she knew something was really wrong. And that it wasnât good timing. The 23-year-old from ...6 days ago
- Why Asia is so critical to New Zealandâs futureComment: In the first of a regular column for Newsroom, Asia NZ chief executive Suzannah Jessep examines NZ’s increasingly strategic focus on Asia The post Why Asia is so critical to New Zealand’s future appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- No long-term prosperity without productivityOpinion: Quarterly numbers grab headlines, but theyâre just a snapshot. NZâs true economic wellbeing hinges on productivity. The post No long-term prosperity without productivity appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- A small win for youth in care just the start for bank account accessFinancial helpers say months of back and forth to get a bank account is damaging to rangatahi trying to enter the real world The post A small win for youth in care just the start for bank account access appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- No more excuses: How employers can calculate their ethnic pay gaps Opinion: The last Government said theyâd make gender pay gap reporting mandatory for employers and this Government recently announced theyâd implement a voluntary regime. The Human Rights Commission has, quite rightly, pointed out that any pay gap reporting regime, voluntary or not, should include Aotearoaâs lowest-paid workers: MÄori and Pacific ...6 days ago
- Scrutiny Week saves some of the most contentious issues for lastExhausted Members of Parliament made their way to the airport or back home on Thursday evening as the final day of a marathon week of select committee hearings came to a close. Parliament’s first ever Scrutiny Week saw nearly 100 hours of hearings by Newsroom’s count, with more than 90 ...6 days ago
- Raw Politics: A-listers only for hustler LuxonThe hustler-in-chief Christopher Luxon almost managed to upstage his own visit to Japan this week, dissing some leading business figures and playing politics even ahead of his Air Force plane breakdown. The Raw Politics team discusses if the latest case of prime ministerial foot-in-mouth matters, and if the substantive achievements ...6 days ago
- A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earthâs primordial crust near PerthSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of. The oldest rocks ...6 days ago
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- Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton is seated aloft the nuclear tiger, hoping not to get eatenSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra No one doubts Peter Dutton has a huge task to sell his radical nuclear plan, with many experts throwing buckets of cold water over it. But on Thursday the opposition leader received some welcome backing. ...6 days ago
- Too much politics clouding cancer drugs process, decision – Pharmac MinisterThere was a danger cancer patients were being overlooked in the political points scoring that has arisen, David Seymour says. ...6 days ago
- Victoriaâs $1.2 billion school tutoring program has not âsignificantly improvedâ learning. How...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute The Victorian Auditor-General has just released an audit of Victoriaâs A$1.2 billion tutoring program designed to help struggling students post-COVID. The report found the program âdid not significantly improve studentsâ learning compared to ...6 days ago
- Coalition shrugs off attrition concerns over 500 police promiseThe coalition is confident it can deliver on its promise by the end of next year - despite questions over attrition. ...6 days ago
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