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Comment:Open mike 24/03/2024
Date published: 6:00 pm, March 24th, 2024The irony is "anti farmer" Labour has shovelled more funding into farming than any National Government since Muldoons " social welfare for sheep". Including bio- security, the laughably called "free trade agreements", flood and draught relief, research, ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/03/2024
Date published: 5:55 pm, March 24th, 2024They will blame "the Greenies"!
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Comment:Open mike 23/03/2024
Date published: 3:26 pm, March 24th, 2024Comparing Jacinda Adern, who did her best to save lives, to Hitler is simply a joke. David Seymour however, whose policies if enacted will kill tens of thousands with the illnesses of poverty and despair, and blight the lives of millions more to come, is ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/03/2024
Date published: 3:14 pm, March 24th, 2024Are there any actual farmers left? It seems most farm owners are engaged in Capital Gains farming. "Queen Street farmers?
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Comment:The GCSB revelations
Date published: 3:09 pm, March 24th, 2024Thanks for reminding me about my Anzac Day. post. Still relevant now with the election of a bunch of wannabee, if they thought they could get away with it, Fascists, in our current Coalition of Clowns.
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Comment:Open mike 23/03/2024
Date published: 2:40 pm, March 24th, 2024Alwyn. "carried out necessary economic changes that improved the average living standards of the New Zealand populace". Absolute bullshit. Most people's living standards have dropped ever since. We still haven't recovered from the absolute disaster they ...
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Comment:Open mike 23/03/2024
Date published: 10:05 am, March 24th, 2024Amazing how ideology can blind someone. Just out of interest how many blighted lives and deaths does someone have to cause to be comparable to Hitler? 1000, 10 000, 100, 000, millions? Is there a scale of evil equivalence? Bombing 100 children as against ...
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 8:50 am, March 24th, 2024You didn't bother reading. Or didn'understand? A "strike" is a collective withdrawal of Labour. If a Telecoms "contractor" individually refused to work it is a breach of contract. Illegal. If they all clubbed together and refused to work asking for more ...
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 1:44 am, March 22nd, 2024It was, effectively, a strike. I am fully aware that he was a contractor. Individually he could refuse contracts that didn't suit him. However! "Colluding" with other contractors is nowadays illegal. As is getting unconnected employees to strike in support...
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 9:13 pm, March 21st, 2024significant social, economic and cultural reasons for their high levels of happiness. Such as Unions right to strikes, effect on equality and social welfare, access to education and opportunity? Noting that Parnells contractors work to rule, for an 8 hour...
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 7:48 pm, March 21st, 2024In NZ it is illegal to strike for any other reason than the negotiation of an expired employment contract. And only the workers directly involved can strike. Supposedly, you can also strike for safety reasons. An infringement on human rights, to withdraw ...
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 7:42 pm, March 21st, 2024Illegal. Unlike civilised countries. Finland Strikes. Though note the new right wing Government wants to place limits on the right to strike. Strikes, as a non violent political protest, should have remained legal in any society which pretends to be ...
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Comment:Daily review 21/03/2024
Date published: 7:32 pm, March 21st, 2024Meanwhile. More civilised countries still have the right to strike.
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Comment:Open mike 21/03/2024
Date published: 6:27 pm, March 21st, 2024National and the Reserve Bank have been talking the country into a recession for at least a year. And real business confidence, as reflected by investment in plant and staff, not the perceptions held by the delusional, in the near future is non existent, ...
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 8:37 pm, March 19th, 2024Auckland exists, because of the port.
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 8:36 pm, March 19th, 2024How to say in several different ways, that you haven't a bloody clue about shipping. Don't know where you got 3% from, but that is total rubbish. After the Kaikoura earthquake Lytelton/Auckland shipping took the freight that road and rail could not.
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 6:52 am, March 19th, 2024That is what really incensed the, laughably called "centre right" . The country had an example of the effectiveness of Government putting people first, ahead of 'their' profits. A people working together for good, instead of for the increased wealth of ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 7:59 pm, March 18th, 2024Things such as upgrading schools and infrastructure, road safety improvements to name just a few. Keeping everyone in jobs during and after COVID. Wasted? You really want to see waste. Just hold my beer, for the next three years. Watch the recession, ...
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 5:36 pm, March 18th, 2024You have no bloody idea. Coastal shipping pays it's own way, including paying the artificial profit levels imposed on infrastructure/ports. Roads are not expected to make a profit. Also Ports have a requirement to make an additional artificial opportunity ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 2:36 pm, March 18th, 2024We live in a mirror image of a Robin Hood society, one in which resources are indeed being redistributed, not downward, from rich to poor, as Robin Hood was reputed to do, but upward, from poor to rich," Case and Deaton argued.
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Comment:Tell Auckland Council don't privatise the Port
Date published: 1:47 pm, March 18th, 2024Extremely foolish. Given the need for more, not less, environmentally and economically more efficient coastal shipping. Privatisation of ports, puts shipping at even more of a disadvantage compared to heavily subsidised trucking. While there is a case for ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/03/2024
Date published: 1:18 pm, March 18th, 2024I love right wing tragics when they are being satirical.
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 2:58 pm, March 15th, 2024Yep. Went after Meteria was dumped. Funny that.
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 11:03 am, March 15th, 2024Meteria went there with the full agreement of the party hierarchy. In fact Greens went up in the polls after that. So. The idea that she disadvantaged the party is debatable.
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:41 am, March 15th, 2024Unfortunately. A work around is needed.
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 10:40 am, March 15th, 2024No problem. Not the first time a debate has hinged on semantics, not disagreement. Something people who want to slant polling are also well aware of. I often struggle on here with the need to write for many people's different backgrounds and training, with...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 9:32 am, March 15th, 2024Objections to tax on a primary residence for capital gains can be removed by putting a floor on it. Even my National voting business mates, agree Key should have been taxed on his 10 million property windfall in Auckland. They don't agree the average house...
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Comment:Open mike 15/03/2024
Date published: 9:12 am, March 15th, 2024Meteria was following Green party principles. The fact that some in the party threw her under the bus was not a good look. Golriz was clear mental health issues. I would be sympathetic to anyone in that case regardless of party. I didn't join the ...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:42 am, March 15th, 2024In fact, if you are, for example, a builder in the business of building houses and you build a "spec house" or renovate a house, whether you live in it or not, you are liable for tax on total earnings from the sale. Less expenses of course. That is treated...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:29 am, March 15th, 2024The "purpose of raising the loan" is to make a tax free capital gain on sale of the property. Land prices are too high to make rentals a viable ongoing business. And force many more people into renting. Paying the landlords mortgage. This, of course, has ...
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Comment:Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Date published: 8:12 am, March 15th, 2024Even Adam Smith, the guru of capitalism, argued that unearned income, such as land rents, should be taxed rather than work income. Your position isn't even logical. And definitely economically counter productive. In NZ with the current tax settings, we are...
- Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ 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 Coalition’s nuclear energy announcement this week, energy prices is among the hottest. As Australians struggle with the skyrocketing cost of living, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan gives little ...5 days ago - Does One NZ’s 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 can’t 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 It’s 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 collapse
Simeon 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 – and keep a record of their owner’s 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 ‘generational win’ for NZ’s seabirds
New rules to protect seabirds from fishing will help Aotearoa’s 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: ‘Some boys’ 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 don’t so much eat their dust as slowly choke on it. Some boys pass you by— 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 Books’ 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 McKee’s 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 – Brisbane’s Olympic planners ne...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diti bhattacharya, Senior research fellow, Griffith University As preparations for Paris’ Olympic and Paralympic Games gather momentum, South East Queensland is preparing its legacy strategy in anticipation for the 2032 Brisbane games. The Queensland government’s Olympic committee recently published its legacy ...5 days ago
- Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s 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 state’s 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 May’s Brexit deal was voted down. There’s 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
- Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ 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 It’s 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 Sister’s 30-year-old childThere’s plenty to love about season two of Simone Nathan’s comedy series. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Lulu Emanuel is pushing like she’s never pushed before. Her hospital bed is surrounded by a midwife, Lulu’s 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: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’By 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 France’s National Assembly that would have diluted the voting power of the ...5 days ago
- Invercargill Mayor’s Behaviour Demonstrates Need For Recall ElectionsFollowing allegations of inappropriate behaviour from the Invercargill mayor, Nobby Clark, the Taxpayers’ 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
- Local Government Minister Right To Put Wellington Regional Council On The Naughty StepLocal Government Minister Simeon Brown has rebuked Wellington Regional Council after discussions were held around purchasing Wellington Airport shares from the City Council. Commenting in support of the Minister, Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs ...5 days ago
- How the Canterbury Rams became the hottest – and loudest – ticket in townLast year they won their first NZNBL title since 1992. This season they’re on the road to make it back-to-back. As Joseph Harper finds, the electric atmosphere inside Cowles Stadium is both the product of and secret to the Rams’ success. Aranui has a bad reputation in Ōtautahi. It rears ...5 days ago
- Political Editors Panel: Scrutiny week, Luxon's plane problemsRNZ Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch and Newsroom Political Editor Laura Walters look back on the first "scrutiny week", and the PM's trip to Japan. ...5 days ago
- Green MP Darleen Tana OK’d migrant on fruit-picker visa for job in husband’s bike shopGreen MP Darleen Tana has been stood down since initial allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's bike business. Now a worker's messages raise fresh questions. ...5 days ago
- Rules for earthquake-prone buildings likely to 'become less onerous'A review into better managing the risks of earthquake-prone buildings has kicked off. ...5 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. ...5 days ago
- Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s 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 ...5 days ago
- Australia needs large-scale energy production – 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 Australia’s fourth offshore wind energy zone. It’s the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting ...5 days ago
- Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – 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 ...5 days ago
- Marriage, civil union or de facto: In 2024, which one should you choose?The legal status of each type of relationship is similar, so why opt for one over the others? We spoke to three couples on why they made the choice they did. After my Sunday Essay was published, exploring what a forever relationship looks like when you don’t believe in marriage, ...5 days ago
- Resource management is always political – the Fast-track Approvals Bill is just honest about itSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images The government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill has been widely criticised for potentially handing too much power to three cabinet ministers, and raising the risk of conflicts of ...5 days ago
- 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 Australia’s Top 10 list and has ...5 days ago
- We’ve reached the shortest day, but winter illnesses haven’t slowed downCovid may have peaked (again), but it’s 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. It’s the shortest ...5 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
- A tribute to the best and weirdest community Facebook groupsFrom Avondale to Rolleston, there’s something for every nosy neighbour. There’s that old saying, “never read the comments” about social media. In 2024, it’s still really bad advice. It’s like telling KFC-eaters to throw out the delicious, crispy skin, or cigarette smokers not to inhale that sweet, sweet nicotine. I ...6 days ago
- How to celebrate the darkest day of the yearWe’ve made it to the darkest day of the year, an official turning point sanctioned by the earth’s axis. Don’t let this achievement go by without celebrating. Today, the sun rose at 7:48am and will set at 5pm, giving us a measly nine hours and 12 minutes of daylight. It ...6 days ago
- Raw Politics: A-listers only for hustler Luxon
The 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 - Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 21 JuneLoading…(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, Friday 21 June appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Inside DoC’s restructure on the Chatham IslandsThere’ll be fewer conservation workers on the Chatham Islands, leading to concerns the department’s work will suffer The post Inside DoC’s restructure on the Chatham Islands appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- 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 week’s bestselling books – 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 didn’t 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 wasn’t good timing. The 23-year-old from ...6 days ago
- Why Asia is so critical to New Zealand’s 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 they’re just a snapshot. NZ’s 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 they’d make gender pay gap reporting mandatory for employers and this Government recently announced they’d implement a voluntary regime. The Human Rights Commission has, quite rightly, pointed out that any pay gap reporting regime, voluntary or not, should include Aotearoa’s lowest-paid workers: Māori 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
- A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earth’s 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
- ‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt officialBy Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been no clear path put forward by Paris as far as the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) is concerned. Yesterday, eight people — including ...6 days ago
- 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
- Victoria’s $1.2 billion school tutoring program has not ‘significantly improved’ 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 Victoria’s A$1.2 billion tutoring program designed to help struggling students post-COVID. The report found the program “did not significantly improve students’ learning compared to ...6 days ago
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- New play American Signs looks at the nefarious world of consultancies – but leaves Australia off t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alana Lentin, Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company Anchuli Felicia King’s new one-performer piece, American Signs, written for the talented Catherine Văn-Davies, thrusts us into the world of a campus hire at “The Firm”, ...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
- Does Israel really want to open a two-front war by attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Among the many sayings attributed to Winston Churchill is, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” This sentiment seems appropriate as Israel potentially appears ...6 days ago
- Student Nurses Angered By Recruitment RestrictionsNew Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) have voiced concerns about Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora restricting the employment of graduate nurses into their workforce due to budget constraints. ...6 days ago
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- Transport Minister celebrates 'record investment' in public transportSimeon Brown also announced the roll-out of contactless debit and credit card payments for use on public transport, starting this year. ...6 days ago
- Marine Protection Bill Encouraging, But More Work Required“The Green Party campaigned on protecting 30 percent of our oceans. We will continue to fight for our marine environment so it can be enjoyed across future generations,” says Marama Davidson. ...6 days ago
- Responses To Our Recommendations About Improving Crown Entity MonitoringWe asked public organisations for an update on their response to the recommendations in our 2022 report Improving value through better Crown entity monitoring. ...6 days ago
- Kiwis Keep Getting Poorer Because Government Won’t Take ActionThe economy keeps limping along, and people keep getting poorer. GDP per capita has fallen yet again, and it's now been in freefall for well over a year. ...6 days ago
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