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Comment:Open mike 26/04/2024
Date published: 11:15 am, April 26th, 2024There's so much Southland adventure tourism potential in on-farm bog snorkeling
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Comment:Open mike 26/04/2024
Date published: 10:21 am, April 26th, 2024With 63 of the 129 seats, the SNP will stumble on as an administration until the next election in 2026. On the issues in play to Scotland's political makeup, only climate registers with voters here. If Scotland is what successful coalition government looks...
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Comment:Open mike 26/04/2024
Date published: 9:19 am, April 26th, 2024Apparently the war on farming is over. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2404/S00323/government-ends-war-on-farming.htm Looks like our rivers lost that war. 45% of our river length is unswimmable. And our wetland lost tens of thousands of hectares. And of ...
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Comment:Open mike 26/04/2024
Date published: 9:00 am, April 26th, 2024Scotland's Labor Party have been on the rise for a decade, now into the mid-30% and primed to replace SNP. With the Greens struggling to crack 5% forever. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/polls_scot.html That's a whole different scenario to New Zealand.
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Comment:New Zealand Needs a Security Alliance Fast
Date published: 7:05 pm, April 25th, 20241947-49 Arab invasion of Israel 1967 More of that 1973 and again 2023 and again
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Comment:Daily review 24/04/2024
Date published: 7:52 pm, April 24th, 2024So here's the question: With Luxon extending direct Ministerial control into so many areas that have previously been protected by entity boards and management layers, is Luxon in fact undoing 1980s New Public Management theory that stripped democratic ...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 5:58 pm, April 24th, 2024Ardern reshuffled way too late and too light, so by the end it was just a political laxative. Luxon could do one of these a quarter and enable his bench to play to their peak.
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 5:55 pm, April 24th, 2024Well at least he's treating his own team with the same disdain he shows for public servants.
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Comment:What does this Government have against the environment
Date published: 3:17 pm, April 24th, 2024+100 Mickey The entire centre and left united and marched for climate and the environment in 2018. Only needs Hipkins and Chloe to talk to start it again. Pick up the phone people.
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 2:15 pm, April 24th, 2024Hard to disagree with Goldsmith in there. Dry as toast and quite happy for market forces in purest form alter the media landscape. Simmons without any TEC guardrails is turning our tertiary education sector into risible mash. Her blindsided of the ...
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Comment:It's not a culture war, it's a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
Date published: 1:00 pm, April 24th, 2024That is precisely the kind of political "strategy" this moment doesn't need. Think back to the last time we had a massive all-in protest on the left. No party was so vain as to seek ascendancy. What they did was work together on draft legislation using ...
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Comment:It's not a culture war, it's a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
Date published: 12:30 pm, April 24th, 2024The very simplest thing anyone can do is call their MP and demand that Green and Labour leaders front to the media with unified attack against this government. That in itself is the signal to unions and NGOs and the newly unemployed thosands that there's ...
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Comment:It's not a culture war, it's a class war, and the left should be naming it as such
Date published: 11:50 am, April 24th, 2024It's not a "war", its a disaster. If 5,000 people lost their jobs from (say) the collapse of Fletchers or Fonterra, it would be viewed as an economic crisis so grave that government would form an immediate crisis Cabinet with a plan akin to the East Coast ...
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Comment:Joining US military alliance not in our national interest
Date published: 10:06 pm, April 23rd, 2024Yes it really was China that keeps pouring money into the UN and UNRWA, China that last month fought back against the Houthis and enabled sea trade to go through the Red Sea again, China that has armed Taiwan to deter invasion, China that just completed ...
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Comment:Joining US military alliance not in our national interest
Date published: 9:54 pm, April 23rd, 2024These "South Pacific neighbours" Clark wants us to join with are for the most part strongly aligned already with just four countries: New Zealand, Australia, France and the United States. By strongly aligned I mean already part of their territory in a ...
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Comment:Joining US military alliance not in our national interest
Date published: 7:06 pm, April 23rd, 2024In most respects Muldoon was more Labour than Labour dared to be.
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Comment:Open mike 21/04/2024
Date published: 2:49 pm, April 21st, 2024May you never be asked to defend yourself.
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Comment:Open mike 21/04/2024
Date published: 12:55 pm, April 21st, 2024... that Putin must lose." He added that the U.S. had...
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Comment:Open mike 21/04/2024
Date published: 12:22 pm, April 21st, 2024Oh you propose Mike Johnson for nobility? Mike Johnson of Louisiana has bragged that he doesn't believe in the climate crisis - even though his home state has been ravaged by it. He is comprehensively against abortion in fact calling it "An American ...
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Comment:The Liz Truss of the South Seas
Date published: 11:03 am, April 21st, 2024Very hard to see a massive and sustained depression in the Wellington region being worth a minor income tax bracket adjustment (unless you're a landlord of course in which case the payoff is stupendous).
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Comment:Open mike 20/04/2024
Date published: 8:43 am, April 21st, 2024But clearly we have too many public servants, and it's bloated because Jacinda hired too many, and they're all unproductive backroom paper shufflers.
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Comment:Open mike 21/04/2024
Date published: 7:55 am, April 21st, 2024Starting the lettuce countdown on US Speaker Johnson now the Ukraine package has a successful vote.
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Comment:Open mike 20/04/2024
Date published: 8:24 pm, April 20th, 2024Huge shoutout to all those brave workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee who have successfully fought to form a union with the United Auto Workers. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tennessee-volkswagen-workers-vote-join-uaw-historic-win-...
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Comment:Open mike 20/04/2024
Date published: 9:54 am, April 20th, 2024An adventurous president of either party would propose legislation to make the big tech platforms subject to the same broadcasting regulations as tv news, and subject to publishing libel laws. It's a clear bipartisan need.
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Comment:Open mike 20/04/2024
Date published: 8:34 am, April 20th, 2024This won't be the last time this Cabinet gets in trouble with the judiciary. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350249617/lawyers-politicians-battle-over-waitangi-tribunals-oranga-tamariki-inquiry And the question that will follow will be: will this ...
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Comment:How to slow down the Fast Track Bill
Date published: 10:12 am, April 19th, 2024As a long time member I am so proud of the role Forest and Bird are playing in both this legislative contest and in the many battles won against stupid major projects. Their latest huge win in the Supreme Court against NZTA is precisely the kind of project...
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Comment:Towards Banana Republic Status
Date published: 2:41 pm, April 18th, 2024Well in front of Tarras Airport on the Ministers's approval pile will be the massive open cast gold mine close to Tarras. After open cast comes tunnelling, and best of luck finding A Grade tunnellers in New Zealand. https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-...
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Comment:Open mike 18/04/2024
Date published: 1:32 pm, April 18th, 2024Hey congrats but keep your self-satisfied smugness to yourself while thousands of lives are ruined.
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Comment:Open mike 18/04/2024
Date published: 1:28 pm, April 18th, 2024We have to go back as far as the late 1980s when Richard Prebble reduced the size of the NZRail work for from 20,000 in 1984 to under 5,000 by 1991. That's the scale Wellington is facing. The poll sugar hit National will get in May's budget will ensure ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/04/2024
Date published: 11:12 am, April 18th, 2024Wellington has very few other industries other than public service. Not much policy work in Weta Workshop. Those fired will be either retiring or moving city. Most are just lost to retirement. Also this guts the PSA's remaining union membership.
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Comment:Open mike 18/04/2024
Date published: 8:00 am, April 18th, 20242,000 direct job losses in the public sector, and massive cuts to the subcontractor services in design, construction, policy advice, and beyond. This is how to collapse the Wellington region economy for over a term.
- Gordon Campbell on the Hamas Ceasefire Offer, and Mark Mitchell’s Incompetence
With hindsight, it was inevitable that (a) Hamas would agree to the ceasefire deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar and that ( b) Israel would then immediately launch attacks on Rafah, regardless. We might have hoped the concessions made by Hamas would cause Israel to desist from slaughtering thousands more ...3 weeks ago - Bernard’ s Dawn Chorus & Pick ‘n’ Mix for Wednesday May 8
Placards and mourners outside the Kilbirnie Mosque following the Christchurch terror attack: MSD has terminated the Kaiwhakaoranga service, which has been used by 415 families since the attacks. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The Government’s pledge to only cut ‘back office’ staff rather than ‘frontline’ services is on increasingly shaky ground, with ...3 weeks ago - A few PT announcements
There’s been a few smaller public transport announcements over the last week or so that I thought I’d cover in a single post. Fareshare I’ve long called for Auckland Transport to offer a way to enable employer-subsidised public transport options. The need for this took on even more importance ...3 weeks ago - Jacqui Van Der Kaay: Green Party grapples with persistent scandals
Parliament’s speaker had no option but to refer Green MP Julie Anne Genter to the Privileges Committee for her behaviour in the House last Wednesday evening. The incident, in which she crossed the floor to wave a book and yell at National Minister Matt Doocey, reflects poorly on Genter and ...3 weeks ago
- NZ Students Join Global Campus Protests
This nationwide protest expresses our unapologetic solidarity with Palestinians and our commitment to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We refuse to be silent or complicit in genocide, and we reject all forms of cooperation between our institutions ...5 days ago - Oranga Tamariki warned of legal action if job cuts delay release of victims' records
A law firm that works with survivors of abuse in state care says job cuts will further slow down the release of victims' records. ...5 days ago - Age verification for social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. ...5 days ago - Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. ...5 days ago
- ‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riotsBy Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Liberation “must come” for Kanaky New Caledonia, says one of the few New Zealand journalists who have worked consistently on stories across the French Pacific territories. Journalist David Robie was arrested at gunpoint by French police in January 1987, and is no stranger to ...5 days ago
- Someone must front cost of land-use changes to protect environment, report warnsSomeone will have to front the cost of land-use changes necessary to protect the environment, the government's top environmental advisor warns. ...5 days ago
- Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Jevanto Productions/Shutterstock Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition ...5 days ago
- Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the busine...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University On Tuesday, Telstra announced it will be cutting up to 2,800 jobs as part of a major restructure. Of these layoffs, 377 will take effect immediately from within the Telstra Enterprise ...5 days ago
- Government confirms First Home Grants to be scrappedBut Housing Minister Chris Bishop has also announced $140 million in new funding for 1500 new social housing places from July next year. ...6 days ago
- Reserve Bank holds official cash rate at 5.5 percentThe central bank has not moved the rate since May last year. ...6 days ago
- He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determin...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Sherlock, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, won February’s presidential election in a landslide victory of nearly 59% of the nationwide vote, more than double ...6 days ago
- ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an ea...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong “I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6’5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone ...6 days ago
- ‘Anyone who’s written one will tell you…’: Jo Pearson on the picture book that nails it
Welcome to The Spinoff Bookseller Confessional, in which we get to know Aotearoa’s booksellers. This week: Jo Pearson, illustrator of Five Wee Pūteketeke (written by Nicola Toki) and owner of children’s bookshop and studio Pictura in Port Chalmers, Ōtepoti. The book I wish I’d written I Want my Hat Back by ...6 days ago - Don’t eat that! Food recalls, explainedWhat happens when contaminated food accidentally makes it onto consumers’ shelves? Shanti Mathias explains the process of food recalls. A small sign at the supermarket announcing a problem with a product you’ve never heard of in your life might be all you ever hear of a food recall. Or maybe, ...6 days ago
- RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New CaledoniaPacific Media WatchThe Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Capedonia after an increase in intimidation, threats, obstruction and attacks against them. After a week of violence that broke out in the capital ...6 days ago
- Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with musicians and their work when they are found to have been abusive has arisen again this week, as distressing video footage of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs ...6 days ago
- How much have First Home Grants really been helping buyers?They look like they're on the way out, but how much difference were they making? ...6 days ago
- Strong Support For Disability FundingTwo thirds of Kiwis in a new poll want funding flexibility reinstated for disabled people and carers. ...6 days ago
- Former justice minister Kiri Allan pleads guilty to crash chargesThe former justice minister was charged with careless driving and failing to accompany a police officer after a late-night crash. ...6 days ago
- Greens Justice Spokesperson, Academics To Protest MegaprisonWHAT: Prison abolitionist community group People Against Prisons Aotearoa has called for a demonstration to protest the Government’s announcement of a $1.9 billion megaprison in Waikeria. The protest will call for the Government to cancel the prison ...6 days ago
- If you want to actually help people in Gaza, don’t just block celebs. Do BDSSocial media stars are being targeted by a campaign aimed at drawing attention to the bombing of Palestinian civilians. Gabi Lardies looks at what the ‘blockout’ hopes to achieve, and the alternative way to boycott. On May 6, celebrities flocked to the Met Gala wearing tulle, crystals, lace and lamé. ...6 days ago
- Government killing homeownership dreams, giving billions to landlords – Chris HipkinsThe government talks of funding social housing, while criticising Labour's spending on the same, its leader says. ...6 days ago
- Coalition confirms $24m for Gumboot Friday charity I Am HopeThe move comes a week ahead of Budget 2024 and meets a commitment set out in coalition agreements. ...6 days ago
- Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Ashe, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of ...6 days ago
- Lost: one police pistol, last seen high above a Manawatū weed patchNew Zealand police have a lot of guns, and every year one or two are briefly misplaced. Oscar Francis reports on an official investigation into a singularly striking case, that of a helicopter-borne constable who dropped their pistol into an illegal cannabis plantation. You know how sometimes you find yourself ...6 days ago
- Mental Health Groups Call For Urgent Investment In Open Letter To MinisterAn alliance of mental health organisations is urging the Minister for Mental Health, Matt Doocey and the Coalition Government to invest in the Aotearoa New Zealand’s mental health system in an open letter. ...6 days ago
- We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite dataSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Bartley, Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than ...6 days ago
- Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to accessSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna DeMello, Research Fellow, University of Otago Getty Images Despite measures to reduce young people’s access to vapes, many countries are recording rising use by underage adolescents, especially since refillable “pod mods” and disposable devices have become widely available. In ...6 days ago
- Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also ...6 days ago
- Education Ministry takes charge of school expansions as companies lose faith in PPP modelThe Education Ministry has taken back the job of financing, designing and building several school expansions, after companies said the public-private-partnership approach was too difficult. ...6 days ago
- Why Tauranga is going to the polls a year earlyBarring an unplanned byelection, the July 20 council election will be our only major election of the year, explains Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...6 days ago
- New Zealand quietly added to US military trade lawThe US has included New Zealand in a law without the New Zealand government's involvement. ...6 days ago
- Fast track committee not undermined by MP's donation – NationalThe National Party insists there has been no conflict of interest in David Macleod's chairing the committee considering the contentious fast-track bill. ...6 days ago
- Fear, hate and a putrid stench: Inside the Unsilenced anti-trans eventJoel MacManus endures five hours of fear and hatred as some of New Zealand’s most controversial figures – and a sitting MP – gather to fight against trans rights. Note: This article contains quotes that may offend. They have been included to present an accurate report of what was said ...6 days ago
- The Kāinga Ora review avoids the big and obvious questionsIt raises valid concerns about Kāinga Ora, but there’s little to suggest the new direction for state housing charted in Sir Bill English’s report will address Aotearoa’s chronic shortage of affordable rental housing, argues Alan Johnson. Given previous National governments’ indifference or even hostility toward the idea of state housing, ...6 days ago
- Changing the building blocks of reading
Education is facing a bunch of changes, but the important ones are not banned cell phones or ‘woke’ foods. The Government has ordered teachers to adopt ‘structured literacy’ to get children reading. That means Reading Recovery, a system New Zealand pioneered and spread to the world, along with ‘whole language’, ...6 days ago - Badminton champ finds her freak for ParisWhat a difference a year has made for Caroline Powell. After coming last at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2023, Powell triumphed at this year’s event earlier this month, on board her sometimes-feisty Irish-bred mare Greenacres Special Cavalier – much to her astonishment. Now she hopes to succeed at the ...6 days ago
- These siloed reviews into extreme weather are alarmingOpinion: Latest report says there appears to be a limited understanding of recovery across the nerve centre of the Government’s oversight capacity The post These siloed reviews into extreme weather are alarming appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Pippa and other heroinesThe publishing sensation of 2024 is wartime memoir The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson, which tells the amazing story of a woman who operated behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Sales went through the roof as soon as it was published: in its first week it became ...6 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 22 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 22 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- National accused of breaking election promise by delaying offshore wind rulesNational promised a permitting system for offshore wind farms would be in place within a year, but that has now been pushed out to mid-2025 The post National accused of breaking election promise by delaying offshore wind rules appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Bridging the Aukus chasmComment: NZ’s main political parties need to reach a consensus on how to adjust to China’s dominance and coercion The post Bridging the Aukus chasm appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Badminton champ one jump closer to ParisWhat a difference a year has made for Caroline Powell. After coming last at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2023, Powell triumphed at this year’s event earlier this month, on board her sometimes-feisty Irish-bred mare Greenacres Special Cavalier – much to her astonishment. Now she hopes to succeed at the ...6 days ago
- Does NZ still have Ardern’s political capital to spend on serious change?Opinion: Jacinda Ardern’s leadership significantly enhanced New Zealand’s profile on the global stage. In the first five months of her second term of government, between December 2020 and April 2021, her name appeared 24 times in the Washington Post, 10 in the New York Times, 27 in the Times and ...6 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 22 MayThe post Daily crossword, Wednesday 22 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Christopher Luxon the disciplinarianComment: The public has seen the PM’s ruthless side, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where a member of the coalition faces the same punishment The post Christopher Luxon the disciplinarian appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- How trust evaporated between a council and its holdings companyThe sudden resignations of four Christchurch City Holdings Ltd board members might be explained by condescension and hard-headedness The post How trust evaporated between a council and its holdings company appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- NZ’s first New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in AucklandBy Maia Ingoe, RNZ News journalist A NZ Defence Force plane carrying 50 New Zealanders evacuated from New Caledonia landed at Auckland International Airport last night. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it would be working with France and Australia to ensure the safe departure of several evacuation ...6 days ago
- We’re helping farmers access future climate projections as easily as checking the weatherSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Snow, Research Scientist, CSIRO CSIRO How often do you check your local weather forecast? How about your local climate projections for 2050? For many farmers, the answer to the first question is all the time. But the answer to the ...6 days ago
- France to blame for ‘constructing’ Kanaky crisis, says Kia MauPacific Media Watch A Māori supporter of Pacific independence movements claims the French government has “constructed the crisis” in New Caledonia by pushing the indigenous Kanak population to the edge, reports Atereano Mateariki of Waatea News. A NZ Defence Force Hercules is today evacuating about 50 New Zealanders stranded in ...6 days ago
- First New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in AucklandA Defence Force plane carrying 50 New Zealanders evacuated from New Caledonia has landed at Auckland Airport this evening. ...6 days ago
- Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisisCOMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell The split opening up in Israel’s “War Cabinet” is not just between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his long-term rival Benny Gantz. It is actually a three-way split, set in motion by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It was Gallant’s open criticism of Netanyahu that finally flushed ...6 days ago
- Government expected to scrap first-home grants in favour of funding social housingRNZ understands the government plans to get rid of first-home grants in favour of putting more money toward social housing. ...6 days ago
- Bill repealing section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act passes first reading in ParliamentIt does not mean Oranga Tamariki will stop working with iwi and Māori organisations, Children's Minister Karen Chhour says. ...6 days ago
- Statistics NZ leaving Auckland CBD office due to safety concernsA government agency is moving out of Auckland City because its staff members do not feel safe there. ...6 days ago
- Labour Must Walk The Talk And Join The Campaign Against Corporate WelfareReacting to today’s Budget Speech from Labour’s Finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “It is encouraging to see that one of Labour’s stated priorities is to focus on creating ‘a level ...6 days ago
- Ministry of Education failing to help redundant staff – unionIt isn't meets obligations to find alternative roles for staff it is making redundant, the Public Service Association says. ...6 days ago
- Will government investment make green hydrogen a reality in Australia?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Turner, System Lead, Sustainable Economies, Climateworks Centre atk work/Shutterstock In the budget last week, the government was keen to talk about its efforts to turn Australia into a renewable superpower under the umbrella of the Future Made in Australia policies. ...6 days ago
- Peter Dutton makes Labor’s case. Tax breaks for landlords should be restricted to those who build ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Opposition Leader Peter Dutton might have done us a favour. As part of his budget reply speech on Thursday night he promised to stop foreigners buying existing Australian homes. ...6 days ago
- ‘No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for int...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the effort to ...6 days ago
- The budget pledged $12.5 million for free menstrual products in Indigenous communities. Here’s why...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Lansbury, Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Last week’s federal budget committed A$12.5 million over four years to deliver tampons, pads and other period care products to people who menstruate in rural and remote Indigenous communities. ...6 days ago
- New tech bill will allow consumers to share dataA bill designed to give consumers more control over their data will be introduced into Parliament tomorrow. ...6 days ago
- Green Party raises Darleen Tana advert with Electoral CommissionTana's electoral returns show she spent $2415 on the article, published in Verve Magazine last year. But it does not contain a promoter statement. ...6 days ago
- Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educatorRNZ Pacific A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation “must come” for Kanaky/New Caledonia. Professor David Robie sailed on board Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand in July 1985 ...6 days ago
- First Kiwis stranded in New Caledonia expected back in NZ tonightNew Zealand is working alongside Australia and will help out Pacific Island nations as well as others, Winston Peters says. ...6 days ago
- Farewell Anchor, Fresh’n Fruity and Mainland: what’s behind Fonterra’s decision to sell its co...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Renwick, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand Fonterra caught the business world by surprise last week with plans to sell off its consumer brands and businesses – including supermarket mainstays such as Anchor, Fresh’n Fruity and Mainland. The move ...6 days ago
- Working with iwi and hapū a core capability for councils’ freshwater management, says Auditor-gen...Regional councils must focus on building meaningful and enduring relationships with iwi and hapū to support better freshwater management, says the Auditor-General in a new report. ...6 days ago
- Ngā Wharerau O Aotearoa acknowledges the Government’s response to the Independent review of Kāin...Chris Glaudel, Deputy Chief Executive of Community Housing Aotearoa, sees the announcement as a step towards addressing New Zealand’s high and rising levels of homelessness by improving our approach and system to delivering affordable homes. ...6 days ago
- Scrapping free flu vaccines has put vulnerable kids at riskThe end of universal flu shot funding for under-12s is a step backwards for New Zealand child health, say experts from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago. New Zealand’s decision to no longer offer free influenza vaccines for all children under 12 will likely wipe out recent ...7 days ago
- Education Ministry must try harder to redeploy as many laid off workers as possibleThe PSA is taking action to force the Ministry of Education to comply with its legal obligations to do everything it can to find other roles for staff it is laying off because of the Government’s spending cuts. ...7 days ago
- National MP David MacLeod may face police probe over undeclared donations – law professorNew Plymouth's David MacLeod says he made an inadvertent error in his failure to declare $178,000 of donations. ...7 days ago
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