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Comment:Key prepares to backflip on Auckland housing
Date published: 11:48 am, April 26th, 2016The problem is not overseas buyers, the real problem is that one – people, overseas and in New Zealand – are buying up property and rent it so the tenants pay the mortgage and the owner collect the profit tax free, and two – Key is hanging out to fleece ...
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Comment:NRT: Bill English wants to end your privacy
Date published: 12:39 pm, April 22nd, 2016The repeat of the old Soviet state, fascist and Nazi state is drawing closer, because this is actually how they controlled their people. We know the result. I am old enough to remember the aftermath. Now New Zealand?
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 1:42 pm, April 21st, 2016I agree with you that Key did not make it a tax haven for residents with ‘low’ tax rates for Kiwis of 17% like Singapore. That's why he needs to be kicked out. “Tax havens” as Hong Kong and Singapore have no tax for low income families, in Hong Kong a ...
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 1:19 pm, April 21st, 2016It is actually, because the Chinese people have chosen the system they have. It took from 1912 to late 70s to get there, and cost around 100 million lives, but now it is working and is very prosperous. The government of China has today over 90% support ...
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 1:10 pm, April 21st, 2016New Zealand does not execute people by taking away their life, but by taking away their living. I agree with you that an extradition treaty is a bad thing, because now China can demand that New Zealand citizens and residents be handed over if China deems ...
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 1:05 pm, April 21st, 2016“Card”, maybe your view, from that little US controlled and indoctrinated island in the bottom corner of the map, but I am on site and can se and experience myself. When I am back in New Zealand I see the complete opposite, latest, today - six teenage ...
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 1:02 pm, April 21st, 2016Correction - to quote the US propaganda and false rumors. Just for your information, censorship is very strong in New Zealand, ask Vince Siemer if you don’t believe me.
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 12:58 pm, April 21st, 2016”Propagandachannel”, maybe needs to be clarified, stressing ”channel”. They are not a US propaganda organization, but one of the many purportedly “neutral” channels US is using to spread propaganda to serve its causes. Besides, “Who pays the piper…. ...
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Comment:Coming Down To Beijing
Date published: 12:29 pm, April 20th, 2016First, remember that Amnesty is an American propaganda channel. Secondly, while China has successfully worked to stamp out its human rights abuses from past times, what really should concern everyone is the human rights abuses in New Zealand. Poverty, ...
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Comment:Only way to deal with tax evasion
Date published: 11:32 am, April 16th, 2016Tax evasion, maybe we should call it by its right name, let’s take a step further and implement true Soviet communism philosophy, all money earned must be regarded as common property and available to pay others bills. It is an unnecessary long way around ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 2:34 pm, April 13th, 2016Actually, I prefer a good breakfast, lunch and dinner with a good bottle of wine, a bit of travel, a free life and personal satisfaction with life way ahead of “principles”. The whole Panama issue feels more like that proverbial small town bitch behind the...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 2:23 pm, April 13th, 2016Just interesting to experience that you are vastly more in a police state in New Zealand than in Singapore. You are constantly monitored in New Zealand whatever you do. But of course, in Singapore they monitor the bad guys, sure, they don’t have the ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 2:18 pm, April 13th, 2016New Zealand democracy is an elected dictatorship based on personal cults of popularity. The difference in places as Singapore is that the people can decide on the issues, not only the party, the ideology or the person. Bloggers with an opinion of their own...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 2:10 pm, April 13th, 2016And on what level of “psychopathic, numbskull ideology” is the commentator who makes that judgement.
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 2:05 pm, April 13th, 2016Yeha – Right. You have obviously never tried to run a business in New Zealand, or can compare with other places. How about getting your own experiences instead of relying on the propaganda tidal wave. China is a dreamland for business compared to New ...
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Comment:Obama calls for international tax reform - what will Key do now?
Date published: 1:48 pm, April 13th, 2016Right, they do, and those financial instruments finance jobs. But I agree with you, they don’t invest in rip-off anti tax havens as New Zealand. So to attract those investment, to create jobs and welfare, why nor be a tax haven, or – of course – kiwis can ...
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Comment:Obama calls for international tax reform - what will Key do now?
Date published: 1:43 pm, April 13th, 2016*Yes, it is an opportunity to fleece the system, you fleece the ones that been saving and planning, to feed the lazy and incompetent. *In countries as Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the official average tax is 52%, for a successful one man business it hits 80...
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Comment:Whitewash a certainty in tax haven review
Date published: 11:29 am, April 13th, 2016Not sure. The end result of the “WineBox” saga was that both wealthy people and companies joined an exodus from New Zealand, jobs and money was lost to overseas. People started to earn money from speculation, in housing, but not everyone – as we know. ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:25 pm, April 12th, 2016The definition of “money laundering” today is all money the government not managed to confiscate part of for its own purposes.
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:22 pm, April 12th, 2016Keys censorship brigade maybe kicked into action.
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:20 pm, April 12th, 2016Yes – you are right, since you have a Kiwi level pay and tax. In Singapore you can afford them, and get money left over. What about the Kiwi hose price level. How many impoverished people is that creating, and how man wealthy.
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:16 pm, April 12th, 2016Draco, Talking about dictatorship, how much can you have influence in New Zealand, on the TPP, the USA spy organization, the overseas US wars New Zealand support, no – your democracy is reduced to a vote every three year on an ideology – then shut up. Look...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:10 pm, April 12th, 2016New Zealand is the third world today, high taxes, big bureaucracy, and regulated to the extreme. Business and creative people are pariahs. So what massive investment in education has New Zealand done? What about productive people who create wealth as ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:04 pm, April 12th, 2016Yes – it is crazy. But if investors are treated the way they are in New Zealand, not even Kiwi investors stay, they don’t invest. All we can do is to sell out our commodities and companies to be moved overseas so other gets the jobs. How much will the TPP ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 11:59 am, April 12th, 2016I agree that Key, or other so called governments, did not give Kiwis a low tax, the tax in New Zealand is in fact over 40% if everything is summed up. That is just the difference between New Zealand and Singapore. In Singapore you don’t pay tax on earnings...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 11:52 am, April 12th, 2016I have a bit of idea, because I lived through it. Brutal, yes, against terrorists and likeminded that wanted to develop Singapore to their own private advantage and profits. Brutal, yeas, against those who were an IS or Al-Qaida of the time. Yes – it took ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 11:47 am, April 12th, 2016How about you grind through the “volumes” of the other millions of people living a better live than Kiwis, the ordinary Joe bloke, who does not have to live in moldy, damp and cold houses like in New Zealand. Talking about over regulating, New Zealand is ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 11:43 am, April 12th, 2016I lived in Singapore so I know what I am talking about. I love the freedom of not having chewing gum on my clothes, I love to see a government that create a good life for me and other non extremists – just ordinary people, I love the freedom of not having ...
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Comment:Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Date published: 12:36 pm, April 11th, 2016Intersting. Think of Singapore. 60 years ago, it was a poor fishing village living off aid. Today it has the highest living standard in Asia. Forget the word “tax haven”, rip-off tax laws does not create wealth. Where do you want to be yourself in the ...
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Comment:Obama calls for international tax reform - what will Key do now?
Date published: 9:49 pm, April 8th, 2016And what do you think the oligarchy is doing with the money, they invest it, and that creates jobs. What they hand over to the politicians and bureaucrat mafia is creating jobs too, for the like-minded of the mafia. More bureaucrats. Apple, as everyone, ...
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Comment:Obama calls for international tax reform - what will Key do now?
Date published: 9:40 pm, April 8th, 2016This is difficult to grasp, once money is created out of thin air, it is moved around, this is the opportunity to fleece the system with tax. Once the money is in the control of the bureaucratic mafia, they need much of it for their fat salaries, fine ...
- Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza
COMMENTARY: 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. ...5 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 ...5 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 ...5 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: ...5 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. ...5 days ago
- Emily Perkins takes home top prize for fiction at Ockham book awards
Books 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 says
There are worries the crackdown on gangs could come at the cost of mental health. ...6 days ago - Ockhams: Emily Perkins wins $65K fiction prize
Emily 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
- Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg Australians have more pet cats than ever before – more than 5 million in total. With the growing number, expectations on pet owners are shifting. Many cat owners are now ...6 days ago
- Symphonie of the Bicycle: on the desire to be great, and the desire to live a life with great meanin...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Tracey Leigh/State Theatre Company of South Australia Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tour de force. Actor and writer Hew Parham takes the audience through comic and heartfelt parallel stories ...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
- Curious Kids: why is blood red?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong BonNontawat/Shutterstock Why is blood red? – Asher, 6 years 11 months, New South Wales What a great question about something in our body, Asher. Blood is inside our body, but ...6 days ago
- ‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empi...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Wilson Mountford, Associate Professor in History, Australian Catholic University State Library of Western Australia, call number: BA428/1 Around 90 years ago, two-thirds of Western Australian voters voted in favour of leaving the Commonwealth at a state referendum. This 1933 ...6 days ago
- Israel’s invasion of Rafah will not eliminate Hamas or end the war. So, what is Benjamin Netanyahu...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The Gaza war has now entered its eighth month and a resolution to the conflict still seems far off. Israel claims to have killed 13,000 Hamas militants so far. ...6 days ago
- New Zealanders have had their say on climate adaptation: here’s where we agree and disagreeSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raven Cretney, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Getty Images Adaptation to climate change will challenge New Zealand politically and economically. As such, it becomes a problem of imagination. We will need to fund things differently, build differently, restructure aspects ...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 ...6 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. ...6 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. ...6 days ago
- Anything Less Than $49/week Isn’t Tax Relief, It’s Shortchanging New Zealanders
Connor 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." ...6 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. ...6 days ago
- Cheaper medicines and a new approach for mental health care. Will the budget make us healthier?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Health was a centrepiece of last year’s budget, based on a new vision for Medicare. This year, there is less health reform, but the budget does set the foundation for ...6 days ago
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- 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 ...6 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. ...6 days ago
- New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence calls for calm ‘to preserve peace’By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A group belonging to New Caledonia’s pro-independence movement, UNI (Union Nationale pour l’Indépendance), has released a communiqué saying they were “moved by and deplored the exactions and violence taking place“. UNI member of New Caledonia’s Northern provincial assembly Patricia Goa said ...6 days ago
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- 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 ...6 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. ...6 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 ...6 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. ...6 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 ...6 days ago
- What are charter schools, and why are they so controversial?The government intends for new charter schools to be operating by the beginning of 2025. How does the model work? Shanti Mathias explains. What did David Seymour announce? On Tuesday, Act Party leader and minister for education David Seymour said the upcoming government budget would include $153m of new funding ...6 days ago
- A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’. What’s going...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Lecturer (Law), Southern Cross University Drones are an example of the ‘dual-use technologies’ that can fall foul of research security concerns. Goh Rhy Yan / Unsplash Over the weekend, Queensland University of Technology PhD student Xiaolong Zhu became national ...6 days ago
- I’m pregnant. Do I need a multivitamin?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Gallo, Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences, School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast gpointstudio/Shutterstock Growing a healthy baby relies on getting enough nutrients while pregnant. But rather than following a healthy diet to provide those nutrients, we’re concerned too many ...6 days ago
- Green industry yes, conservation no: a budget for people, not for natureSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neal, Senior lecturer in Economics / Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Sonpichit Salangsing/Shutterstock Last night’s budget is another missed opportunity to arrest the poor and deteriorating state of the Australian environment. Subsidising green industry in Labor’s ...6 days ago
- From Bridgerton to Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes is the queen of romance. Here’s how she gets ou...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Trelease, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology Netflix/ABC Television producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes has come a long way since being a scriptwriter for the 2002 film Crossroads. Her production company Shondaland now shines in its delivery ...6 days ago
- Cricket’s pilgrimage: Go north, young womanSome of our brightest talent has flown north for the British summer as cricketing opportunities increase for our up-and-coming female cricketers. Included in that group is Otago Sparks batter and wicketkeeper Olivia Gain who has travelled to England for the second successive year as she looks to gain more ...6 days ago
- Strike Force Raptor 3.0? The new anti-gang unit, and the questions that remainA new national gang unit – coupled with smaller ‘disruption units’ – will target and ‘harass’ gang members, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. A gang crackdown Throughout National’s election campaign and into its time in government, ...6 days ago
- 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. ...6 days ago
- Questions about coalition's Covid-19 vaccine 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. ...6 days ago
- Treatment hopes dashed for MS sufferersIt was the first glimmer of hope – ever – for New Zealanders with the worst type of multiple sclerosis. A drug treatment that can halt a cruel descent into immobility, incontinence and the loss of agency that comes with PPMS – the primary progressive form of the disease. Pharmac ...6 days ago
- Jones’ undeclared dinner had two more mining industry attendees“Sadly, these things are never a juicy conspiracy,” Shane Jones says of his office neglecting to include a dinner with mining interests in his ministerial diary. “They’re largely a cock-up – not a particularly polite expression but it is a regular feature of politics.” On Tuesday, in a Newsroom story, ...6 days ago
- Suicide Prevention Office to continue in name – but with no full-time staffThe office that was initially expected to close survives in name, but may have no full-time roles and the likely addition of greater oversight. ...6 days ago
- Hazard-prone development likely under fast-track law, insurers and engineers warnMore building in flood prone areas is 'highly likely' as a result of the proposed Fast Track Bill, scientists and engineers warn. ...6 days ago
- British High Commissioner Speech To The NZIIA: In An Unstable World, Standing With Our Friends Is Ne...This decade is becoming increasingly characterised by accelerating instability and standing with our friends is needed now more than ever. ...6 days ago
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- The Reserve Bank’s double-pronged cash planWhat happens when cash is king – and then your bank leaves. A businessman in a town that hasn’t had a bank for three years says the Reserve Bank’s plans to put more cash in the hands of its people and introduce digital cash could save hours of time. John ...6 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 15 MayThe post Daily crossword, Wednesday 15 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Taskforce disestablishment a setback for pay equity claims – employersEmployers in the funded NGO sector say the goal of reaching pay parity with the public service is now further away The post Taskforce disestablishment a setback for pay equity claims – employers appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Ockhams: Catton wins People’s ChoiceThe people have spoken, in their hundreds. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton has been overwhelmingly voted the favourite New Zealand book of 2023 as nominated by ReadingRoom readers. The vote can informally be regarded as the People’s Choice award – ahead of tonight’s Ockham book awards, where Catton’s novel is competing ...6 days ago
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- Libraries covering a third of NZ to migrate data to AustraliaWhy your library might be shifting its information to Australian data centres, and whether experts think that’s a problem The post Libraries covering a third of NZ to migrate data to Australia appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Transpower takes blame for Simeon Brown’s ‘misleading’ chartThe energy minister said there were no low power supply notices issued before 2019, but that’s because the system was only introduced that year The post Transpower takes blame for Simeon Brown’s ‘misleading’ chart appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Govt reviewing ‘counterintuitive’ fishing permits for biosecurity zoneDespite the $11m invested in eradication of exotic caulerpa, commercial crayfish permits were issued for an impacted area The post Govt reviewing ‘counterintuitive’ fishing permits for biosecurity zone appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
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- Former Kiwi MPs’ names aired in Hong Kong security trialThe controversial national security trial of a Hong Kong newspaper founder has touched on the work of former Kiwi MPs The post Former Kiwi MPs’ names aired in Hong Kong security trial appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Doubts about value, results from charter schools – education figuresReintroduced charter schools will be tightly monitored, but a lack of transparency in reporting was a key criticism they faced last time around. ...6 days ago
- At a glance: the 2024 federal budget split four waysSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer The government has handed down its budget for 2024–25. It’s delivered a $9.3 billion surplus for the financial year just about to finish but is forecasting a $28.3 billion deficit for next year. Here’s the key points: ...6 days ago
- View from The Hill: What the Reserve Bank thinks of Chalmers’ budget will be nearly as important a...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Jim Chalmers has produced a benign third budget aimed at soothing hard-pressed voters agitated about their high cost of living and punishing interest rates. At the same time he has walked a tightrope, trying ...6 days ago
- Relief on energy bills for all in a federal budget that bets on lower inflationSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND A $300 energy rebate for all households from July 1 and a 10% increase in Commonwealth Rent Assistance are key measures in a budget targeting cost-of-living relief that put ...6 days ago
- Budget 2024: Chalmers fights inflation, will it be enough for a rate cut?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers promised an “inflation-fighting and future-making budget” and he has delivered by introducing measures aimed at directly bringing down inflation. Combined, his A$300-per-household energy rebate and ...6 days ago
- Budget 2024: As Chalmers fights inflation, will it be enough for a rate cut?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers promised an “inflation-fighting and future-making budget” and he has delivered by introducing measures aimed at directly bringing down inflation. Combined, his A$300-per-household energy rebate and ...6 days ago
- Chalmers is bitten by the giveaway bug in a budget that contains good news for almost everyoneSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been bitten by the giveaway bug. This budget contains not only the well-foreshadowed tax cuts for all taxpayers, but a range of new spending measures in health, education, infrastructure, aged ...6 days ago
- Curfew in New Caledonia after Kanak riots over French voting change planBy Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews French authorities have imposed a curfew on New Caledonia’s capital Nouméa and banned public gatherings after supporters of the Pacific territory’s independence movement blocked roads, set fire to buildings and clashed with security forces. Tensions in New Caledonia have been inflamed by ...7 days ago
- Gang unit will disproportionately affect Māori and Pasifika, Te Pāti Māori sayAmid criticism from opposition parties, a gang expert says it focuses on an area of political and public worry. ...7 days ago
- Sir Maarten Wevers to lead Ministry for Disabled People reviewThe review will investigate how to keep disability support services funded by the ministry going in the long-term. ...7 days ago
- 71st Everest Day: A Celebration Of New Zealand-Nepal Relationship And The Quest To Preserve The Ever...As the world commemorates the 71st Everest Day, it's not just a celebration of human achievement but also a reflection of the enduring bond between New Zealand and Nepal. This day marks the historic feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa ...7 days ago
- Activists Seek To Shut Down Gender-critical Event: Tākina Events Must Uphold Speech RightsIndividuals in Wellington, led by City Councillor Nīkau Wi Neera, are working to use the ‘hecklers veto’ to shut down Inflection Point , a gender-critical event to be held at a Te Papa venue this weekend featuring speakers such as Bob McCoskrie ...7 days ago
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