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Comment:Open Mike 11/12/2016
Date published: 11:00 am, December 11th, 2016She makes some valid points, particularly: "As tired as we are of listening to and looking at Nick Smith, Gerry Brownlee and Steven Joyce, they're still a preferable option to the ideas vacuum on the other side." Labour is bereft of new ideas, and if one ...
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Post:Meanwhile, the Housing Crisis
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 9:38 am, December 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
Categories: housing
Tags: aucklandWhile National's caucus focuses on itself, as backbenchers enjoy their one shot at relevance, the country's big problems continue. Auckland's housing supply continues to lag behind demand. National's answer – Special Housing Areas – aren't going to …
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Post:Mr Key's Achievements
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 4:55 pm, December 6th, 2016 - 56 comments
Categories: john key
Tags:I was tempted to just have an empty post, but John has of course had his achievements. There are the 3 election wins, and enduring popularity, that was only now starting to decline (only 36%!). But what he's done with that popularity, that mandate, for the…
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Comment:Labour sticks to the high road
Date published: 1:56 pm, December 3rd, 2016"Actually, they’re not. They’re well defined and costed." Or this: Future of Work: A flop. Ask the bloke on the street what it means for the future of work, and odds are they will not have a clue what you talking about. Local workers: Impose a tax on ...
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Comment:Labour sticks to the high road
Date published: 12:30 pm, December 3rd, 2016Do you seriously believe that National is influencing opinion writers, and has somehow mobilised a bunch of "rightwing trolls" to show up on TS? What is it exactly that Labour is doing? Every policy announcement is a flop, ill-conceived or quickly ...
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Comment:Fund the Police!
Date published: 12:49 pm, December 2nd, 2016certainly those things are needed too. (Although teacher aids may not be the best bang for buck in education, but won't sidetrack...) Bill English talks 'social investment', but ends up building prisons. We do need to focus on mental health / social ...
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Post:Fund the Police!
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:25 am, December 2nd, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: Judith Collins, labour, police
Tags:So it turns out Judith Collins is letting organised criminals off the hook as she insists the Police make burglary a priority. If you're the minister, and notice the police aren't managing to cope in one area after successive funding freezes, you can: a) …
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Post:Tolley needs to apologise
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 2:00 pm, November 30th, 2016 - 34 comments
Categories: child abuse, child welfare, human rights
Tags: anne tolley, state careKim Hill had an astounding and outstanding interview with Anne Tolley this morning on RNZ. The 7.30 news was delayed 12 minutes as Tolley evaded the fact that thousands of children were abused by the state in the 50s and 60s, and she refused to hold an …
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Post:Elf & Safety
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 3:56 pm, November 24th, 2016 - 6 comments
Categories: health and safety
Tags:It was disappointing to see Michael Woodhouse's complacency for the government at one worker each week dying on the job. That can't be acceptable. The new health & safety laws are a big improvement, and are making a difference in NZ businesses. It took a …
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Comment:QC describes Pike River mine as a 'homicide scene'
Date published: 11:37 am, November 23rd, 2016You cannot contract yourself or anyone out of the H&S Act.
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Post:The sharemarket moved because...
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 10:07 am, November 23rd, 2016 - 17 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, Economy, economy, journalism, making shit up
Tags: stock marketThis is just something that gets my goat, and there was a particularly egregious example on the RNZ Business News this morning. Apparently Wall St was going 'gangbusters', and the reason they came up with for that was 'Wall St' liking Donald Trump's …
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Comment:Lessons?
Date published: 11:02 pm, November 12th, 20162 things: 1/ while I stood in 2011 for Labour in the North Shore, I'm not sure whether being a local party member makes me "part of the machine". 2/ you've misinterpreted what I've written anyway. I personally make no claim to be proper 'working class', ...
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Post:Lessons?
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:05 am, November 12th, 2016 - 116 comments
Categories: Politics, us politics
Tags: lessonsWhat can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf? Not a huge amount. And would the lessons be completely different with just a small adjustment in a few states? I guess one thing is: Don't neglect your base. That's where your vote is coming from, …
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Post:Margins
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:40 am, November 11th, 2016 - 82 comments
Categories: us politics
Tags:Woe is us with President Trump. How could the pollsters get it so wrong? How could people prefer a racist sex-pest to someone so qualified? The Democrats’ supposed “blue wall” … has crumbled. Indeed, with Hillary Clinton’s defeat, Democrats may have …
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Post:Gate-gate
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:52 am, November 9th, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: Gerry Brownlee
Tags: airport, gate-gateSomehow Brownlee's got away with it. Felix Marwick did good work on his OIA, to find out that Gerry Brownlee's account of events didn't stack up. Oddly only Rodney Hide is calling him out for it. He forced his way through (entry was "not freely given"), …
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Comment:Daily Review 07/11/2016
Date published: 8:23 pm, November 7th, 2016Labour has lodged a formal complaint with TVNZ over its coverage of their youth work scheme, with Twyford engaged in a Twitter tit-for-tat with Vance and Trevett. How retarded can they get? Why would Labour want to draw more attention to a policy that is ...
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Comment:Open Mike 06/11/2016
Date published: 9:03 pm, November 6th, 2016Not hate Richard, not even close. Trust that doesn't take the soar out of your soul.
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Comment:Open Mike 06/11/2016
Date published: 8:01 pm, November 6th, 2016Retracted - you are obviously unhinged, and I'll leave it at that.
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Comment:Open Mike 05/11/2016
Date published: 6:58 am, November 5th, 2016Just in time for the Labour conference: During October support for National rose by 6.5% to 48% now clearly ahead of a potential Labour/ Greens alliance 38% (down 7.5%) after Prime Minister John Key travelled extensively overseas – including an address to ...
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Post:Tax-cuts or... Education
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:24 am, October 28th, 2016 - 6 comments
Categories: education
Tags: tax cuts orThe government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn’t quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. Continuing where I left off, here’s some other …
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Comment:Tax-cuts or… fixing Child Poverty
Date published: 1:18 pm, October 25th, 2016I don't speak for Labour, I don't know what's under consideration. I guess that they'd argue that $60/week/child was a significant increase in benefits? I mainly mentioned announced policies as alternatives to have costs by them - there's lots of different...
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Post:Tax-cuts or… fixing Child Poverty
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:52 am, October 25th, 2016 - 128 comments
Categories: poverty
Tags: tax cuts orThe government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn’t quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. Continuing where I left off, here's some other …
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Post:Tax-cuts or… Housing
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:36 am, October 21st, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: housing
Tags: tax cuts orThe government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn’t quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. But may I continue on where I left off on other …
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Post:One Billion Dollars
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 1:57 pm, October 18th, 2016 - 6 comments
Categories: housing, same old national
Tags:Treasury papers just released show National's Housing Infrastructure Fund to be everything you expected it to be: a quickly cobbled together headline. For National's party conference they needed to come up with a big sounding number so that they could …
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Post:Tax-cuts or... Health
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 8:16 am, October 18th, 2016 - 135 comments
Categories: economy, health
Tags: tax cuts orThe government is proud of their surplus, which at 0.7% of GDP isn't quite as dramatic as the 9% of GDP deficit they had in 2011. But as soon as we have a surplus, National starts salivating over tax cuts. Not sensible things like investing in the Cullen …
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Post:unCOOL
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 1:35 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 6 comments
Categories: Hekia parata, schools
Tags: COOLsIn August Hekia Parata announced her new COOL solution, that distinctly isn't what it says on the tin. While research shows that peer-to-peer learning is amongst the most effective, and parents are working on reducing class sizes to increase teacher …
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Post:'Too busy'
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 12:16 pm, October 17th, 2016 - 61 comments
Categories: paula bennett, same old national
Tags:You can only piss the journos off for so long… National ministers have a habit of not wanting to turn up to the 'hard' questions, but Paula Bennett has been severely caught out by RNZ: Back in August RNZ's Insight programme spent two weeks chasing Social…
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Post:Goff on foreign buyers; and Vote!
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 2:06 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 5 comments
Categories: housing, local body elections, phil goff
Tags:The story seems to be cast as Goff proposing a 15% tax on foreign buyers (the Vancouver model), when in fact he'd prefer foreign buyers only being able to invest in new housing (the Australian model), but at any rate he's for action. As he pointed out to …
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Post:How difficult to measure poverty?
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 9:47 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 104 comments
Categories: john key, poverty, radio
Tags:Amazing lead story on RNZ – Easier to count rodents than kids in poverty, suggests Key. There are a number of good measures, any one of which would do, but the new Children's Commissioner just wants to get past that debate and get onto doing stuff to …
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Post:False Equivalence
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 4:47 pm, October 2nd, 2016 - 21 comments
Categories: us politics, youtube
Tags: john oliverJohn Oliver excellent as always – this time on the difference in scandal quality between Clinton & Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Lfd1aB9YI
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Post:New GG
Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 10:31 am, September 29th, 2016 - 24 comments
Categories: Media, Politics, republic
Tags: dame patsy reddyYesterday we got a new effective Head of State. The Queen is of course still the nominal Head of State, so no change for 63 years there, but the actual person doing the duties was sworn in. Dame Patsy Reddy took over the role, and will over the next 5 …
- The mystery of the massive sporting comeback: what’s the psychology of momentum in sports?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Fox-Harding, Lecturer/Researcher, Edith Cowan University The unpredictability of sport is in many ways its greatest attraction, and unforgettable come-from-behind victories are especially captivating. During these epic comebacks, one team or athlete is generally said to have captured or capitalised on ...5 days ago - Hollywood didn’t know exactly what to do with Donald Sutherland – 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 don’t 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 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 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 – 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. ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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. ...6 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. ...6 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. ...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 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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, ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- NZCTU Slams Govt Cutting Disabled Workers Wages As DisgracefulThe NZCTU is slamming a decision by the Government in Budget 2024 to cut a programme which ensured that disabled workers are paid the minimum wage. ...6 days ago
- NZTA put on notice over cost of cones, traffic managementThe agency will soon need to count up what it spends on an "infestation" of road cones and temporary traffic management. ...6 days ago
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