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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 7:00 am, April 29th, 2024Salient visited the Provost/Acting Vice Chancellor, Bryony James, for a kōrero. The conversation was productive and wide-ranging, and revealed a genuine desire from James and Reece Moores (Director of the Office of the VC) to counter what they see as ...
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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 7:49 pm, April 28th, 2024Do you mean trying to get shut down? Or more that it's healthy for them to be making the critique? Yes, healthy - questioning the potential value (and cost) of events is healthy. I often question the value of sporting events, but never tried to shut one ...
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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 7:17 pm, April 28th, 2024Absolutely. I'd be comfortable with 16 / 17 / 18-year-old (potential) university students questioning the value of free speech events on campus, on a case-by-case basis. At that age, nascent, open-minded and/or changeable views might not be such a rarity,...
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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 12:30 pm, April 28th, 2024Do you think it's a good idea for students (at a University of all places) to be exposed to a range of views and opinions? A range? Absolutely. I'd draw a line at, say, advocating white supremacy, but The Christchurch Call isn't everyone's cuppa - we each...
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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 4:26 pm, April 27th, 2024@weka - My tertiary education wasn't free for NZ taxpayers, but it was practically free for me, and I became a taxpayer in due course. @Traveller - Yes, life is hard, for some, and learning the hard way is all some people understand. Commodification of ...
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Comment:Open mike 27/04/2024
Date published: 2:04 pm, April 27th, 2024This is the weird country we have become. Yes - a backlash led by (fee-paying) students, i.e. Victoria Uni stakeholders - what has become of our notionally independent tertiary education institutions? Will free speech stop the rot in universities, and ...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 11:47 am, April 26th, 2024Our opinions all have a degree of bias, Drowsy. "That's very shrewd." Interesting BE headline - is our (present) era (or the people in it) unusually angry, and if so, then why? What does Bryce think? And where to from here for anger? Time and the cost of ...
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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: 9:02 am, April 26th, 2024But the post wasn't about the pandemic. Fair enough; my comment @6 was addressing a part of the post (as quoted) that seemed to draw on "the pandemic" and "vaccination" against COVID-19. And the final point of the post - the importance of welcoming ...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 8:51 am, April 26th, 2024Both Clark and Key made decent PM's. Depends how you define 'decent' - my biased pick is Ardern over DP Key. From stardust to an empty tank: one-of-a-kind leader Jacinda Ardern knew her time was up [19 Jan 2023] Over the next six years, her leadership was...
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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: 8:40 am, April 26th, 2024Apparently yes. The entire liberal left "apparently" believes ostracism promotes progressive values? That's a narrow characterisation, ane a tight straitjacket, imho. which people? Those who have different views from you? Trying to shift agreeable views ...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 3:42 pm, April 25th, 2024Another day another anecdote. Love anecdotes - so entertaining; healing even - laughter is the best medicine. Keep 'em coming. The ones about John 'tax haven' Key's legacy were hysterical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Politics https://www....
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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: 3:20 pm, April 25th, 2024My question is this: why do the liberal left believe that ostracising those people will lead to more people adopting progressive values and voting in progressive governments? Do "the liberal left" believe that? Maybe some do, but it's been my observation ...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 12:55 pm, April 25th, 2024Re Lux and Lee - "This is how I roll" - painful(ly).
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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: 12:37 pm, April 25th, 2024We saw this [losing the ethic of ‘working for the good of all’ and replacing it with something fearful, reactionary and polarised] in the pandemic, a time when the left’s authoritarianism spiked around ideas like, vaccination should be mandatory (...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 12:22 pm, April 25th, 2024I met a former Air NZ flight attendant recently. She told me how their conditions were cut to the point that she had to pay for her own tickets to Auckland to work on international flights. On a return trip to Wellington she was told she'd be sitting next...
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Comment:Goneburger
Date published: 2:55 pm, April 24th, 2024Journalism's loss was Parliament's gain? Or something like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Lee#Early_life_and_career
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Comment:Open mike 24/04/2024
Date published: 2:25 pm, April 24th, 2024I really hope this doesn’t signal more government intervention in media. Wouldn't worry if I were you, but I'd like to see our CoC govt support Aotearoa's media sector - news/journalism in particular, as these seem a bit anaemic at the moment. Tbf, Luxon ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/04/2024
Date published: 2:07 pm, April 24th, 2024Same, on laptops/desktops.
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Comment:Open mike 24/04/2024
Date published: 1:56 pm, April 24th, 2024... lives for money – and I’m appalled by that.” “Retrograde policy...
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Comment:Daily review 23/04/2024
Date published: 1:09 pm, April 24th, 2024... lives for money – and I’m appalled by that.” https://www...
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Comment:Daily review 23/04/2024
Date published: 10:02 am, April 24th, 2024“Please, M’Lud, a crust of bread ... lives for money – and I’m appalled by that.” Hmm, trading...
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Comment:Open mike 22/04/2024
Date published: 7:00 am, April 23rd, 2024Pansy Wong has not been an MP since 2011. Owing to a spot of bother in 2010, our 1st Asian cabinet minister was replaced in the 2011 Botany by-election by Jami-Lee Ross, who in turn generated his own spot of bother and was replaced by Luxon. I'm not sure ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/04/2024
Date published: 7:55 pm, April 22nd, 2024Do all those Chinese women look the same to you? "All those Chinese women" being Wong and Lee? Honestly couldn't say - more interested in actions, and lack thereof. Stuff's Tova O'Brien said it had been a month and a half since the prime minister asked ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/04/2024
Date published: 7:14 pm, April 22nd, 2024It’s a time for choosing [23 Oct 2023] The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza requires each of us to make a choice. Which leads me, finally, to the choice the mostly unrepentant keyboard cavalry who are happily saddling up once more – in ...
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Comment:Open mike 22/04/2024
Date published: 5:15 pm, April 22nd, 2024Pansy - sorry, wong National party minister - hope Lee is listening.
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Comment:Open mike 22/04/2024
Date published: 2:00 pm, April 22nd, 2024"It is vital the new organisation be independent of government. Any legislation should be free from the kind of instructions the previous Government loaded into its otherwise sensible and still-needed Public Interest Journalism policy." Agreed re the PIJF...
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Comment:Open mike 22/04/2024
Date published: 9:09 am, April 22nd, 2024Actually unbelievable, actually - peak Luxon. "It's pretty intuitive, pretty natural."
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Comment:Open mike 20/04/2024
Date published: 11:19 am, April 20th, 2024Might inconvenient courts/commissions be fast-tracked for 'fixing'? Time will tell. Aotearoa is small, with poverty aplenty. Trust 'our' CoC govt to be fair? That's a joke
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Comment:How to slow down the Fast Track Bill
Date published: 2:05 pm, April 19th, 2024Done - the venal architects of 'fast-track' are bent on short-sighted shortcuts, and shortcuts + 'fast-track' 'fast-buck' is a sad scam. Can't trust 'em, but I put it more gently.
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Comment:Daily review 18/04/2024
Date published: 11:53 pm, April 18th, 2024Cuts to science and environment funding will hinder NZ’s climate response – scientists [15 April 2024] New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of ...
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Comment:At least Chris Bishop sleeps in a well made bed
Date published: 9:00 pm, April 18th, 2024That we are becoming a nation of renters. Your own data confirms that. Agreed, but characterising NZ as "a follower not a leader" in such a trend seems inconsistent with our current 9th place - wouldn't it be more accurate to say NZ is in the vanguard of ...
- Brainwashed People Think Everyone Else is Brainwashed
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...3 weeks ago - Peters’ real foreign policy threat is Helen Clark
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...3 weeks ago
- Risk of ‘genetic discrimination’ by insurance companies is ruining people’s trust in vital med...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Elphinstone, Lecturer in psychology., Swinburne University of Technology A DNA sequence. Gio.tto/Shutterstock Should you be denied life insurance or have to pay extra if you have a genetic risk for certain diseases? Should insurance companies even have access to your genetic ...6 days ago - Investigating social media harm is a good idea, but parliament is about to see how complicated it is...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior research associate, University of Sydney Barely a day has gone by this month without politicians or commentators talking about online harms. There have been multiple high-profile examples spurring on the conversation. There was the circulation of videos of Bishop ...6 days ago
- Popeyes battle shows how big businesses protect their trademarks – even when they have no plans to...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Allen-Franks, Lecturer and Co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Robert Gauthier/Getty Images At first sight, the battle between a Manawatū fish-and-chip shop and a Louisiana-based chicken joint ...6 days ago
- Trump vs Biden round two: The 2024 US presidential election, explained
With less than six months to go, it’s time to start paying attention to what could be the most consequential election of our lifetimes. It’s less than half a year until election day in the United States, which makes this a good opportunity to review what’s happened thus far in ...6 days ago - Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play spor...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology The topic of homophobia in sport has recently made headlines in Australia, with a series of homophobic incidents involving men’s AFL players. These homophobic incidents are usually well-reported in news media, but research ...6 days ago
- ‘Too difficult to work out’ – new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sportSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology The topic of homophobia in sport has recently made headlines in Australia, with a series of homophobic incidents involving men’s AFL players. These homophobic incidents are usually well-reported in news media, but research ...6 days ago
- Explainer: What sparked New Caledonia's deadly civil unrest?
At least four people are dead and hundreds are injured amid widespread fires, armed clashes with police and mass looting. ...6 days ago - Nouméa ‘was on fire’ – New Zealander in New Caledonia tells of unrestRNZ News A New Zealand man has described scenes of chaos in the New Caledonia capital of Nouméa during the escalating civil unrest. Four people have died and hundreds have been injured during rioting by pro-independence supporters over electoral changes. French president Emmanuel Macron has declared a 12-day state of ...6 days ago
- France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia – four die in riotsAsia Pacific Report France has declared a state of emergency on the Pacific territory of New Caledonia — New Zealand’s closest neighbour — after four people, including a police officer, have been killed in pro-independence riots over voting changes that further marginalise indigenous Kanaks, news agencies report. The move came ...6 days ago
- MPI slashes 10% of workforce in response to Govt spending cuts
The agency charged with safeguarding and growing our key primary exports has today confirmed it is cutting 10% of its nationwide workforce. ...6 days ago - A conversation with Emily Perkins the morning after winning big at the OckhamsThe biggest winner from the 2024 Ockham book awards talks to Madeleine Chapman about her fascination with stages of life, advocating for the arts, and what’s next. Last night, at a not-as-long-as-expected ceremony at Q Theatre in downtown Auckland, Emily Perkins won the Big Prize for the second time. Her ...6 days ago
- NZTA to cut more than 120 jobs, as MPI confirms 391 roles goingThe transport agency is axing more than a hundred extra jobs, as the Ministry for Primary Industry looks to lose 10 percent of the work force. ...6 days ago
- ‘All our rabbits are dead’: 10 moments of national insignificance from the NZ ArchivesWith funding ending for Archives New Zealand’s digitisation programme, Hera Lindsay Bird shares a taste of what’s being lost – because history isn’t just about the big-ticket items. On Tuesday morning the PSA held a snap protest outside the National Library in Wellington, urging the government to continue funding the ...6 days ago
- Hollow Words From Winston Peters“North Korea would better serve its people by meaningfully re-engaging with the international community through diplomacy rather than threats” says Mr Peters. ...6 days ago
- NEW POLL: Luxon Wants Tax Bracket Indexation, So Do KiwisFollowing comments from Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in yesterday’s pre-budget speech that not adjusting tax brackets for inflation each year is “lazy”, the Taxpayers’ Union is releasing a new poll that reveals that the vast majority of ...6 days ago
- What is allyship? A brief history, present and futureSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Marie Cumming-Potvin, Associate Professor/ Director of Research (School of Education), Murdoch University Shutterstock Despite social change, LGBTQI+ people still face discrimination at school and in the community. Language for diverse genders and sexualities is continually changing. LGBTQI+ allyship is part ...6 days ago
- Help Me Hera: I want to switch hairdressers but I feel sooo guilty about itShould I tell her before I see someone else? Invent a story about being stuck overseas? Grow my hair long? Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nz Hello Hera, I’ve been seeing my hairdresser for about 12 years, making this one of the longest relationships of my adult life (longer than my ...6 days ago
- Government Held Accountable By A Broad Coalition In Herald Ad To Protect Te Tiriti O Waitangi And Te...More than 25 environmental and community groups have published an Open Letter calling on Parliament to honour Te Tiriti and protect the environment. ...6 days ago
- Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakob Weis, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Tasmania Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC, Author provided The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known ...6 days ago
- Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those ...6 days ago
- Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mona Nikidehaghani, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform ...6 days ago
- Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the s...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University National Archives of Australia In 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alighted from a helicopter to announce a grand plan: Snowy Hydro 2.0. It would turn the famous hydroelectric scheme into a ...6 days ago
- Living across the road from Loafers LodgeIn some ways, I couldn’t have been closer to the tragedy. In others, I was a whole universe away. This essay was first published on 3 March, 2024. The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand. Had you been trying to market a suburb in ...6 days ago
- WorkSafe not to prosecute FENZ over Muriwai landslide deaths, despite shortcomingsWorkSafe has found shortcomings at Fire and Emergency (FENZ) over how two volunteer firefighters died in a landslide in Cyclone Gabrielle. But it will not prosecute FENZ, nor release its ...6 days ago
- Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtroomsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession. This month is the first anniversary of the Judicial Commission of Victoria’s ...6 days ago
- Auckland Council set to approve 10-year budget planAuckland Council will go over the final proposal for the city's 10-year-budget two days after it was revised by the mayor. ...6 days ago
- With two weeks to go, what do we know about Budget 2024?The prime minister has made it clear this is a no frills budget in all but name, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...6 days ago
- Government's invite list shows fast-track process is flawed – Forest & BirdThe group has also raised concerns about the power that ministers could have after it was revealed Shane Jones failed to report a dinner with a company deputy chair. ...6 days ago
- Hamilton councillor Melaina Huaki quit after being queried about regular absencesMelaina Huaki attended only two-thirds of the meetings she was scheduled to be at, and resigned after RNZ asked why. ...6 days ago
- Diary cock-up heaps pressure on fast-track ministers
Minister Shane Jones’ failure to declare a dinner with mining interests is just one red flag of many about the Government’s proposed fast-track legislation, Transparency International says. Earlier this week, Newsroom revealed Jones, the Resources Minister, at a dinner on the West Coast on February 16, encouraged a mining company ...6 days ago - Deadnaming, insults and harassment: trans Corrections officer brings landmark human rights case agai...Exclusive: A transgender man is bringing an unprecedented human rights case against the Department of Corrections. He tells Alex Casey about his experience at work and what he’s fighting for. This story contains transphobic language and references to self-harm. Take care. A trans Corrections officer is taking a case against ...6 days ago
- Vaping and how to stop another chemical generationOpinion: A recent study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports recently presented a novel approach to predicting which chemicals might be emitted from a vape. During heating, chemicals can break down into smaller molecules. A process known as pyrolysis. This study combined deep learning computational methods with chemical structure information from ...6 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 16 MayLoading…(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){var ql=document.querySelectorAll('A,DIV,A[data-quiz],DIV[data-quiz]'); if(ql){if(ql.length){for(var k=0;k<ql.length;k++){ql[k].id='quiz-embed-'+k;ql[k].href="javascript:var i=document.getElementById('quiz-embed-"+k+"');try{qz.startQuiz(i)}catch(e){i.start=1;i.style.cursor='wait';i.style.opacity='0.5'};void(0);"}}};i['QP']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','https://take.quiz-maker.com/3012/CDN/quiz-embed-v1.js','qp'); Got a good quiz question? Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Thursday 16 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Olympic runner’s zippy secret weaponWhile women’s sport is exploding in Aotearoa and around the world, you still don’t hear a lot of talk about athletes and their periods, RED-S, breastfeeding and visible panty-lines. SASS Talk isn’t afraid to have that kōrero. LockerRoom founder Suzanne McFadden and Olympian broadcaster Sarah Cowley Ross host the episodic podcast, sparking ...6 days ago
- Building firms uncertain about work pipeline after post-Covid highsThe construction sector wants to know when it can rely on state-funded projects again The post Building firms uncertain about work pipeline after post-Covid highs appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Daily crossword, Thursday 16 MayThe post Daily crossword, Thursday 16 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Bishop indicates RMA reform could tackle heritage debateWith 10 Wellington sites retaining heritage status, Minister for RMA Reform Chris Bishop is looking for new pathways to enable de-listing The post Bishop indicates RMA reform could tackle heritage debate appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- NZ holds its own on defence spending but global volatility is a challengeOpinion: Future governments will have to decide whether they can afford to keep up with security partners’ defence budgets The post NZ holds its own on defence spending but global volatility is a challenge appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Time to rebalance our food system towards cheap healthy foodOpinion: New Zealand is a country of food producers. We may be a small, isolated nation at the end of the world, but we create an outsized amount of kai, most of it bound for faraway shores. Each year New Zealand exports enough food to feed 39 million people their ...6 days ago
- The unsung heroes keeping our lights onWhen households and businesses pulled the country back from the brink of painful power cuts on the coldest day of the year, there was no reward for the sacrifices they made in turning off their heat pumps and lights. Matt Ward, SolarZero CEO Photo: Supplied Consumers saved the day ...6 days ago
- Health negotiators told to put sovereignty ahead of stopping pandemicsDiplomats have been tasked with ensuring New Zealand can opt out of health rules rather than focusing on strong new pandemic prevention measures The post Health negotiators told to put sovereignty ahead of stopping pandemics appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Are best-before dates a waste of time – and a waste of food?6 days ago
- New Caledonia violence ‘unfortunate’ but ‘not surprising’, says Pacific Forum chiefRNZ Pacific Outgoing Secretary-General Henry Puna of the Pacific Islands Forum is “not surprised” with the violent unrest in New Caledonia which has shut down the French Pacific territory. New Caledonia has come to a virtual stop after three days of civil unrest, resulting in burning, shooting and looting, as ...6 days ago
- Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over GazaCOMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. ...6 days ago
- Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be freeAsia Pacific Report As Israel drives the Palestinians deeper into another Nakba in Gaza with its assault on Rafah, the Palestine Youth Aotearoa (PYA) and solidarity supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand tonight commemorated the original Nakba — “the Catastrophe” — of 1948. The 1948 Nakba . . . more than ...6 days ago
- The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowan...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney Victoria Labadie/Shutterstock The government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these ...6 days ago
- Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say abo...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne On one level, the 2024 federal budget brought few big surprises for universities. The two key measures were already announced leading up to May 14: ...6 days ago
- Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaksSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday handed down his third budget. It had a second successive surplus and sweeteners, including relief on energy bills, and tax breaks for development of green hydrogen and critical minerals processing. ...6 days ago
- Emily Perkins takes home top prize for fiction at Ockham book awardsBooks editor Claire Mabey reports on the winners of this year’s book awards. Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction ($65,000 prize) Lioness by Emily Perkins (published by Bloomsbury), about a middle-aged woman wrestling with her life choices, has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Hooo boy this ...6 days ago
- Police cannot rush pulling out of attending mental health callouts, foundation saysThere are worries the crackdown on gangs could come at the cost of mental health. ...6 days ago
- Ockhams: Emily Perkins wins $65K fiction prizeEmily Perkins has won the fiction prize at the 2024 Ockham book awards for her novel Lioness. She collects $65,000, the most loot you can pocket in New Zealand letters, as winner of the Jan Medlicott Acorn fiction prize for her satire of the anxious rich. It’s kind of ...6 days ago
- The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good managementSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute This year’s budget has “something for everyone”, with very little in the way of cuts and no new taxes. It’s a classic “good news” pre-election budget. Whether it is too good to ...6 days ago
- Carbon credit supply might need to be cut as efficient furnace comes onlineA new steel-making furnace will reduce emissions so much, environment officials have pitched reducing the whole country's supply of carbon credits. ...6 days ago
- Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrestThree people have now died in New Caledonia in the wake of pro-independence protests and escalating unrest. Charles Wea, a spokesperson for international relations in the New Caledonian territorial President’s office, confirmed the deaths to RNZ Pacific. The circumstances are unclear in the French territory’s third day of violence. France’s ...6 days ago
- Waitangi Tribunal to hear a claim into government disestablishing the Māori Health AuthorityClaimants have been notified that they have met the criteria for a 'priority inquiry' scheduled for October 2024. ...6 days ago
- Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne The federal government is due to introduce legislation on Thursday to enable new caps on the number of international student places at educational institutions in Australia. These include ...6 days ago
- For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and techSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Crazy Owl Productions/Shutterstock This year’s federal budget is making up for decades of lost time – both in our clean energy transition and in betting on new technological breakthroughs. The Future Made in ...6 days ago
- The police minister loves numbers. Except when he’s asked about lowering themWhy worry about accurate messaging around gangs when you can throw out some scary numbers instead? As sure as night follows day, Mark Mitchell will premise a gang policy announcement with a spine-tingling stat about soaring gang membership. “New Zealanders need only look at the fatal shooting in Ponsonby recently ...6 days ago
- Auckland won’t complete big busway in PM and minister’s electoratesA new 10-year budget for Auckland has dropped funding for the fourth and final part of the up to $1.4 billion dollar Eastern Busway, partly because the Government ditched the regional fuel tax. The Auckland Council believes it has been left $600m short by that early call to do away ...7 days ago
- Netsafe investigating Facebook page pretending to be New Zealand First MP Tanya UnkovichThe page impersonating Tanya Unkovich sent a message to someone in relation to her bathroom bill. ...7 days ago
- Watch: PM Christopher Luxon speaks to business leaders ahead of Budget 2024Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says do not expect any curveballs in this month's Budget, but he reaffirmed a commitment to tax relief. ...7 days ago
- Anything Less Than $49/week Isn’t Tax Relief, It’s Shortchanging New ZealandersConnor Molloy, said: “Christopher Luxon is right to point out that inflation over the last 14 has pushed New Zealanders into higher income tax brackets so that they are paying more of their wages in tax even when they are not better off." ...7 days ago
- How easy is it to leave a gang?As police focus on curbing gang activity, community leaders say arrests won't solve issues that run deeper. ...7 days ago
- Why Ngāti Toa is standing up against the fast-track billWe won’t be violent, but we will organise and do everything in our power to prevent further degradation of our taiao, writes Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Toa Rangatira chief executive Helmut Modlik. In the early 1950s, prime minister Sidney Holland’s National government was under enormous pressure to increase housing supply ...7 days ago
- Watch live: PM Christopher Luxon speaks to business leaders ahead of Budget 2024The Prime Minister is speaking to business leaders ahead of this month's Budget. ...7 days ago
- Waka Kotahi pays PWC to meld together technologies, then again to pull them apartThe Transport Agency wanted to see if it could combine two vehicle-spotting technologies. It couldn't. ...7 days ago
- Live Export: New Zealand Sails Backwards Whilst The UK And Australia Competitively Sail Forward"The United Kingdom’s Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill has just passed its final stage in Parliament (last night, NZ time) and will soon be enshrined into law. This will mean that the UK has banned export of farmed animals by sea. The Australian ...7 days ago
- Landscape Architects Have Much To Offer For Climate Change AdaptationThe Government’s success in designing a national climate adaptation framework will depend entirely on its propensity to utilise landscape architects. ...7 days ago
- ‘One hell of a lesson’: a conversation with Ngāhuia Te AwekōtukuMatariki Williams speaks with Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku about her extraordinary memoir, Hine Toa. Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku has a seemingly effortless approach to knowledge: the ingesting, digesting and sharing of it has been part of her scholarship for decades. The week after I interviewed her, I was heading to Venice to ...7 days ago
- Comical Incompetence As Wellington Council Might Have To Dig Up Brand New $55 Million Bus Lanes And ...A memo accidentally released by Wellington City Council shows at least $5.2 million of pipes needing urgent repair have just been covered up by $55 million of brand new bus and cycle lanes on Thorndon Quay. ...7 days ago
- Offshore Wind Industry Warns Against Taranaki Seabed MiningA damning briefing paper released by a group of offshore wind developers warns that if Trans Tasman Resources gets the go-ahead to mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight, it would spell the end of New Zealand’s chance to embrace offshore wind ...7 days ago
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- Questions about coalition's Covid-19 mandate pledgeThe government is still trying to work out how it will meet its pledge to end Covid mandates, given the mandates were scrapped more than a year ago. ...7 days ago
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