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: Comment:Open mike 19/09/2012
Date published: 2:57 pm, September 19th, 2012
... it has authorized a nonprofit organization, the Syrian Support Group (SSG), to... fundraise for the FSA. The SSG is composed of Syrian exiles...
- The tories knew all along
For the past few weeks pressure has been growing on the British government over its persecution of the "Windrush generation". People who legally came to the UK, lived there their entire lives, and had a permanent right of residency are ...36 mins ago - Letting In The Light.
1 hour ago - Mainstream media-political alliance gets vindictive
Hala Jaber, highly Respected Middle East correspondent and author of The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman’s Fight to Save Two Orphans.” Image Credit: Goodreads. Several things have come together in the last few months – centred around news ...1 hour ago - Democracy wins in ArmeniaFor the past eleven days Armenians have been protesting against their Prime Minister's efforts to do a Putin and make himself ruler for life. Initially, he had responded with repression, arresting protesters and the leader of the opposition. But now, ...2 hours ago
- Is this the Political Cartoon of the Year?!
. . Can this political cartoon from a Fairfax community newspaper be the most insightful and damaging to National, ever penned? . . After all the criticisms; all the protests; all the thousands of media stories; and seven years ...3 hours ago - Cheaper Fares or Better Services?
The draft Government Policy Statement clearly indicates that the Government are keen on encouraging more people to use public transport. In the release for the GPS they state this about the 46% increase in funding for PT: This will support ...4 hours ago - Foreign drivers and NZ’s crash stats: click-bait commentary VS actual data
People should try not to abuse the real statistics for simplistic cheap points scoring, whether this is on social media or through the media itself (in other words, politicians current or former making a play of it). Currently there is ...10 hours ago - Hard News: The shared-use path that no one will use
One of the things that gives me pause before setting off on my bike from Point Chevalier to anywhere in the direction of the city is the prospect of navigating the many traffic hazards in the area either side of ...17 hours ago - An open letter to the Law Commission on abortion law reform
"The law seems designed to strip patients of their dignity." Photo: Josh Adamski / Unsplash The Law Commission is seeking public input on how New Zealand’s abortion laws can be reworked to treat terminations as a ...18 hours ago - Climate change: What about coal?Now the government has banned offshore oil exploration and effectively called time on the gas industry's future, people are asking the obvious question: what about coal? But the government says they haven't done any work on this - something National ...21 hours ago
- How the FBI has disrupted NZ’s sex work industry
The closure of Backpage.com in a sex trafficking bust has had unexpected consequences in New Zealand. Photo: Filip Mroz / Unsplash Before New Zealand Cracker - a classifieds website used by sex workers - was shut down ...21 hours ago - The Politics of Road Safety
This is a guest post from Bevan Woodward. He is the project director for SkyPath and spokesperson for Movement, an alliance of national organisations seeking safe journeys for active transport users. bevan@movement.org.nz Last week Julie Anne Genter released an evaluation report ...23 hours ago - Tough Crowd – James Malcolm
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- Simon Bridges: It’s not fair!
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Public Transport in Auckland has improved remarkably over the last few decades. The number of annual boardings have almost tripled from a low of just 33 million to 92 million today, well ahead of population growth and most of that ...1 day ago - War remembrance: Acting out or working through?
The way we go about remembering the past matters. Trump’s pledge to “Make America Great Again,” and the pro-Brexit visions of Imperial Britain are urgent reminders that our narratives about the past can have a strong effect on the present. ...1 day ago - How Open an Economy?
What Donald Trump meant by announcing that he wanted the US to rejoin the TPP left everyone a bit baffled. His withdrawal from the original deal was one of his first presidential announcements following an election campaign promise. His opponent, ...2 days ago - Hannity II
Another conflict of interest / undisclosed relationship type thingy is emerging, involving Sean 'Death of Journalism' Hannity and people who got frequent boosts on his show, without Mr Hannity bothering to acknowledge that he had a relationship with them beyond ...2 days ago - The Dogs of War
In 1954, Sir Winston Churchill famously advised an American audience that “to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war”. Churchill was of course someone who knew about “war-war”. His political career had encompassed both world wars and he had been ...2 days ago - Novichock – a marketing ploy?A new line of sunflower oil on Russian supermarket shelves.Image credit: Marcel Sardo @marcelsardo I came across this on twitter – a new line of sunflower oil launched on the Russian market. The labels claim the product is conducive to a ...2 days ago
- Imperialism, Syria and geopolitics
by Yassamine Mather Irrespective of what the experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say, there is no doubt that the Syrian dictator is capable of using weapons of mass destruction against his own population and it ...2 days ago - Flashback Sunday: How rail was saved in Auckland
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in April 2014. Next Monday will be a historic day for transport in Auckland as for the first time the city will have electric trains carrying ...2 days ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #16
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message When the hockey stick was first attacked in the late 1990s ...2 days ago - New research, April 9-15, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation 1. Pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C: a tale of turning around in no time? (open access) 2. Climate change and technology: examining opinion formation of geoengineering 3. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: ...3 days ago - Material for next Imperialism Study/Discussion GroupFollowing a break after the discussions on Imperialism in the 21st Century, the Imperialism Study/Discussion Group is moving on to Tony Norfield’s work on the global financial system. These discussions are being led by Tony, who recommends the following: ...4 days ago
- On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective.
The announcement that the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS), Cheryl Gwynn, has convened an external Reference Group to discuss issues of intelligence agency oversight (specifically, that of the NZSIS and GCSB, which are the agencies under her purview) ...4 days ago - Busting the Oil and Gas industry’s Alternative Facts about Jacinda’s offshore oil exploration ba...
After Jacinda’s historic announcement that brought an end to new offshore oil and gas exploration, we’ve been hearing a lot from the industry about how the sky is about to fall in. Fun fact: it isn’t. But just in case ...4 days ago - Jacinda Ardern’s excellent adventure
NZ's 'pregnant leftie PM' gets photographed with various world leaders across Europe. The Internet loses its mind. Image: The Internet Jacinda Ardern has been in Paris, Berlin and London this week for talks with French President Emmanuel ...4 days ago - Differentiation vs deliveringFor the first time in their history, the Green Party is in government, with ministers and a confidence and supply agreement and the ability to change things directly rather than through the long, slow process of persuasion. And this seems ...4 days ago
- Improving Wellington’s Rail Network Part 4
In the previous post, I wrote about how we could improve the Wellington rail network including how we could possibly make the Melling line fit better for Wellington from a network operations perspective In this last post for this series, ...4 days ago - Baking bread with Kimbra-collaborator Timon Martin
"There's a work ethic that I think the bread is teaching me." Timon Martin makes music and bread. Photo: Luke McPake Thanks to reality TV, most of us don’t associate baking with calm. But observing Timon ...4 days ago - Hard News: Friday Music: The Shopping NewsTomorrow, Saturday, is international Record Store Day – you can tell by the appearance of solemn thinkpieces about how Record Store Day is ruining everything. This year, it's the Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group, which which published a blast about ...4 days ago
- Britain’s Interests Nowhere Near The Moral High Ground.
4 days ago - Proactive release of Ministerial briefingsFor a while I've been posting about Ministerial weekly briefings, encouraging people to OIA them as a resource for finding out what the government is doing. There's been some pushback from Labour over this, and I have a complaint in ...4 days ago
- Sean Hannity (hopefully, the fist of many)
Then the other day: Sean Hannity mourns the death of journalism, having personally viciously stabbed it repeatedly.Who says Americans don't do irony?Love the "Coming Up: Newt Gingrich" in the corner. Newts live in swamps, don't they? And now this:Hannity declared––and ...4 days ago - Covering the news, Motorways and Safety
4 days ago - Continuing the debate on imperialism todayThe Imperialism Study/Discussion Group initiated by Redline is now moving on to Tony Norfield’s work on the global financial system. At the same time, people involved in the study/discussion continue to chat about imperialism in the 21st century and, in ...5 days ago
- On living under a hyperreal sky
On the morning of 11 August 1993, my partner and I took a train and then a bus from Milan, where we lived, to Courmayeur, an alpine town near the French border. We didn’t book any accommodation, but headed with ...5 days ago - Remembering the soldiers from our patch
by Don Franks At the end of our street, there’s a little stone memorial. It was raised in 1920, for local working people whose lives were cut short or ruined by the Great War. The young men from Holloway Road and ...5 days ago - Working conditions an impediment to ITP success, Minister claims
Tertiary Update – Vol 21 No 8 Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) should be allowed to renegotiate conditions of work so staff can be used “more efficiently,” according to a paper agreed by Cabinet Ministers last month. Written by Minister ...5 days ago - Staff call for greater representationNearly 500 staff working in the tertiary education sector have hold MPs that they would like to see greater representation for students and staff on institution councils. The call comes as part of a public submission process to inform the Education ...5 days ago
- Ministry sets out plans for VET reviewThe government should ensure a network of regional provision, support a diverse range of learners and facilitate work-based learning, according to a paper published by the Ministry of Education. The paper sets out the scope and process for a review the ...5 days ago
- Union fears government will ignore lessons of failed TAFE reformsSandra Grey, national president of the Tertiary Education Union, shares her experience of last week’s Australian Education Union’s technical and further education Council – and draws alarming parallels between reforms in Australia and ideas put forward in a Cabinet paper ...5 days ago
- TEU members celebrate general staffUnion members across New Zealand will come together tomorrow to celebrate the contribution general staff make to their institutions. They go by many names – general staff, professional staff, allied staff – and they are crucial to making sure students enjoy a ...5 days ago
- Why Record Store Day still matters
Waxing lyrical. Photo: 123RF Everyone loves music. And for most people these days, their music listening is conducted online through streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. However, for some fans, the physical still trumps ...5 days ago - When extension becomes effective refusalI've had a lot of bad OIA experiences, and my fair share of Ministers and officials playing games with extensions to delay access to documents until an issue is out of the media. However, I've never had anything as bad ...5 days ago
- Copies of CPTPP Submissions – Jane Kelsey, Laila Harre, Barry Coates, NZCTU, BWI and the Alliance ...Please click on the links below each name to download their submission on the CPTPP Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP Submission Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Barry Coates’ CPTPP Submission Barry Coates’ ...5 days ago
- Laila Harre’s CPTPP SubmissionClick the link below to download Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission The post Laila Harre’s CPTPP Submission appeared first on It's Our Future. ...5 days ago
- Less than open IIBack in March, I received some OIA'd documents from Clare Curran, the Minister of Open Government. Among other things, they showed that SSC had presented her with an draft open government strategy in November. Naturally, it was kept secret. I ...5 days ago
- Jane Kelsey’s CPTPP SubmissionSUBMISSION ON THE REVISED TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, The University of Auckland 1. I am a Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, specialising in international economic regulation. From 2010 I closely monitored the ...5 days ago
- “Clarkism” Still Driving The Labour Party.
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- Tough Crowd – Amanda KennedyCan comedians make their parents laugh? Check out the first episode of Tough Crowd, season two. Made with funding support from NZ On Air. ...5 days ago
- It is ten seconds to midnight. . The unthinkable has happened. US, French, and British military forces attacked various targets in Syria. The attack took place at around mid-day-1.00PM local time (14 April); . . Trump described the attack with flowery words that served only ...5 days ago
- Transport is about people
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- Why Labour is going along with Trumpby Don Franks Last year, US ambassador Scott Brown clashed with our then prime minister Bill English, who’d described Trump’s threat to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea as “not helpful”. In a TVNZ interview on October 15th , Scott Brown ...6 days ago
- Glacier loss is accelerating because of global warmingWith global warming, we can make predictions and then take measurements to test those predictions. One prediction (a pretty obvious one) is that a warmer world will have less snow and ice. In particular, areas that have year-round ice and snow will ...6 days ago
- Meet the New Zealand world champion of a classic arcade game
Grinding out scores. Andrew Barrow receives his oversized cheque. Photo: Kate Russell/Meow Wolf I met Andrew Barrow in an empty Timezone. The arcade is tucked behind The Warehouse’s central Wellington store and doubles as a Laserforce. ...6 days ago - Workers Against War – Canterbury Socialist Society Anzac event, April 24...6 days ago
- The REAL Sex Talk: Nudes, sexy selfies & revenge pornMade with funding support from NZ On Air. ...6 days ago
- Years Of Pressure On Oil and Gas Exploration Pay Off: Jacinda Ardern Announces An End To Offshore Oi...
by Zella Downing. Good on Jacinda Ardern and the current New Zealand government for their courage in announcing an end to offshore oil exploration, and issuing no new onshore permits outside of Taranaki. This vital first step re-directs our focus ...6 days ago - More on Labour / Anti-Semitism
6 days ago - Ellie Jay’s waste free diary: ‘Is it easy to stop throwing stuff away?’
Ellie Jay tries (and fails gloriously) to go waste free for a week. Le bin bag heureuse The sea is full of plastic, dolphins are choking on it. There’s a garbage patch bigger than the ...6 days ago - A convenient purgeAt the moment the UK government is persecuting the "Windrush generation". People who legally migrated to the UK and have a legal right to remain are being thrown out of their jobs and threatened with deportation unless they can prove ...6 days ago
- Karen Walker, RUBY and Trelise Cooper score low on fashion ethics
But do their grades paint the full picture? Ando International garment factory in Vietnam Photo: ILO / Aaron Santos Some of New Zealand’s top fashion brands have landed at the bottom of this year’s Ethical Fashion Report. The ...6 days ago - A good ideaIn the wake of Tony Blair's illegal war in Iraq, the UK had been developing a constitutional convention which saw Parliament vote on waging war, and this had prevented the UK from bombing Syria in 2013. But over the weekend, ...6 days ago
- Climate change: Making farmers payYesterday the government announced its interim climate change committee - a group of experts to advise it on climate change policy. The group is intended to eventually become a permanent independent climate change commission once the government's Zero Carbon Act ...6 days ago
- No Enemies To Labour’s Left?
6 days ago - Labour and Anti-Semitism (probably the first of many)So, you might wonder what has prompted me to stir in my Cthulhuesque slumber?Today in parliament a debate was held on the issue of anti-Semitism. Its a rather important issue and one which - you'd hope - would transcend party ...6 days ago
- One minute to midnight?. . Founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) ...6 days ago
- Guest Post: Auckland’s Road Safety Crisis
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- Andrew Little enters Pike River portal
Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little, and Pike Family representatives Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse have entered the Pike River Mine portal. ...5 days ago - Minister welcomes Wakatohea reportTreaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Andrew Little has welcomed the Waitangi Tribunal’s report on the Whakatōhea mandate. “The Tribunal acknowledged that the package on the table is a good package but there are some concerns about the process. ...7 days ago
- Privacy Bill to protect and promote privacy risksA Bill introduced by Justice Minister Hon Andrew Little to replace New Zealand’s Privacy Act has had its first reading. ...2 weeks ago
- Bill protects Māori protocols around deathJustice Minister Andrew Little’s Māori death protocols Bill had its first reading in Parliament last night. “The Bill requires coroners to consider Māori cultural protocols when determining who can view, touch or remain near a tūpāpaku - body of deceased. ...2 weeks ago
- Poroti land secured for Treaty settlementTreaty Minister Andrew Little has announced the Government has secured land near Whangarei that’s been the focus of Ngāpuhi concerns about the health and well-being of Porotī Springs. ...2 weeks ago
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- SPEECH – Opening address to the Massey University National Security Conference 2018- Check Against Delivery - Tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna koutou katoa. Professor Rouben Azizian, Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies - thank you for the invitation to speak. ...3 weeks ago
- Bill wipes historic homosexual convictionsThe third reading of a Bill to wipe historic homosexual offences from criminal records marks the end of an historic struggle for New Zealand’s gay community says Justice Minister Andrew Little. ...3 weeks ago
- Seatbelts save lives and we want everybody wearing them
NZ Transport Agency and NZ Police welcome the AA research report findings that identify those groups of people who aren’t wearing seatbelts. ...1 hour ago - Seatbelt deaths a serious problem across NZ societyPeople in rural areas, driving for work and the elderly were some of the surprising groups new research has found to be dying in road crashes when not wearing seatbelts. The AA Research Foundation led a project in partnership with ...1 hour ago
- Call For Expanded Cannabis DecriminalisationThe Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill doesn’t go far enough, says criminal justice research group People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA). ...2 hours ago
- Supermarket shoppers rethink buying porkPigs are amongst the most intensively farmed animals on the planet, suffering at every stage of their lives, and a new study for World Animal Protection has found that: ...2 hours ago
- In support of Golriz GhahramanOn Wednesday, 11 April, the Zionist Federation of New Zealand (ZFNZ) published a vicious attack on Green MP Go lriz Ghahraman for accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people. Unable to deny the decades of ideologically-driven oppression ...16 hours ago
- Final week for submissions on draft Terms of ReferenceThe Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care has received over 200 submissions from the public on the draft Terms of Reference. Public submissions close on April 30th. ...19 hours ago
- BAS’ Vision for Beneficiaries (part 2): Benefit LevelsThis is our second segment in our series of suggestions for the future based on our vast experience helping people on benefits. ...22 hours ago
- Apology to Hon. Steven JoyceOn 2 March 2018 a column I wrote was published in the print edition of the NBR and on the NBR’s website. It was titled: “Joyce sacking first test of Bridges’ leadership”. ...23 hours ago
- NZASA calls for govt review of UN Child Rights ConventionMedia reports that New Zealand children of 14 or 15 years of age are now being targeted for contracts by sporting franchises, should prompt New Zealand authorities to review laws preventing the exploitation of children. ...23 hours ago
- Is illegally-created art protected by copyright?If Banksy was to ever indulge in a little graffiti on our shores, how would our laws protect his art? ...1 day ago
- One week left to have your say on the future of taxNew Zealanders have a week left to submit their ideas on the future of tax. ...1 day ago
- Government must provide certainty over RONS routesRoad Transport Forum Chief Executive Ken Shirley is urging the Government to let communities know their plans for the former RONS routes. ...1 day ago
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- Q+A: Megan Woods interviewed by Corin DannEnergy Minister assures consumers they can still cook with gas Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods says New Zealand consumers will still be able to cook and heat their water with gas for many years to come, despite the government’s ...2 days ago
- Q+A: Reserve Bank Governor Adrian OrrReserve Bank Chief: No need for banking inquiry in NZ The new head of the Reserve Bank does not think New Zealand’s banks conduct themselves as badly as their Australian counterparts and he does not think institutions here need to ...2 days ago
- Will Jacinda Ardern Champion WomenWill Jacinda Ardern Champion Women in Seeking Legal Recognition for the Humanity of the Unborn Child and its Right to Life? Media Release Friday 20th April 2018 ...2 days ago
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- The Nation: Satyanand on historical state abuse inquiryLisa Owen: The Royal Commission into historical state abuse is currently taking public submissions on its draft terms of reference. There’s already been plenty of debate over the time period the inquiry will cover, whether churches should be ...3 days ago
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- Preparing for the end of the Queen’s reignThe Commonwealth heads of government are discussing and possibly deciding who will be the next symbolic head of the Commonwealth after Queen Elizabeth. ...4 days ago
- Over 10,000 sign against mega egg farm in WaikatoA petition to Waikato District Council demanding they decline a proposed mega egg farm has reached over 10,000 signatures. ...4 days ago
- NZ preventive detention violates human rights: UN expertsPreventive detention in New Zealand violates human rights, UN experts find GENEVA (19 April 2018) – New Zealand violated its obligations under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights by keeping two men convicted of rape in exceptionally ...5 days ago
- Grave concerns for future of social work – PSAThe future of social work could be gravely affected by a rushed and short-sighted Select Committee report, the PSA says. ...5 days ago
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- Southern Response Hunger Strike UpdatePeter Glasson, the Southern Response earthquake claimant who started a hunger strike at midnight on Monday 16 April is continuing to refuse all food, 3 days on. ...5 days ago
- Wake up call on NZ land use – GreenpeaceThe Ministry for the Environment has released Our Land 2018 which reveals that the large scale conversion and intensification of dairying is a key driver of environmental degradation. ...5 days ago
- Portal walk marks new chapter in Pike storyToday Pike River families walked further into the mine’s drift than they have ever been allowed to. ...5 days ago
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- We Are Growing Houses Instead of Food – FedsWe are losing our most productive land to houses - that’s the most significant point Federated Farmers takes from the ‘Our Land 2018’ report released today. ...5 days ago
- Report is a call for action on environmentThe Environmental Defence Society has commended the Ministry for the Environment and Stats New Zealand for their latest environmental report, Our Land 2018. ...5 days ago
- Select Committee unwilling to travel on Cannabis BillMedical Cannabis Awareness NZ Select Committee unwilling to travel to meet those who need Medical Cannabis the most. ...5 days ago
- Why Fairtrade can help CHOGM build a true common wealthIncreasing trade between Commonwealth nations can lead to shared prosperity – but only if five key issues are prioritised. ...5 days ago
- Land report highlights issues with soil degradationAn environmental report released today has found we are damaging and losing our soils and our native plants and animals. ...5 days ago
- L’Oréal celebrates a decade of changing livesReach for the stars is the message that has been shared with hundreds of care-experienced young people who have been through the innovative social impact programme L’Oréal Face Your Future. ...5 days ago
- Sensible Sentencing disgusted with Sex Slavery sentenceA mother who kept her teenage daughter as a sex slave, pimping her out more than one thousand times, has been jailed for less than four years. ...5 days ago
- Seekers was the bonkers high-concept drama that 80s New Zealand deserved
Long-lost siblings? A high-stakes and seemingly pointless quest? A fake death? Sounds like a good time. Sam Brooks celebrates the forgotten Kiwi drama Seekers.Before Filthy Rich was even a glimmer in Gavin Strawhan’s eye, Seekers brought the unpredictable and improbable drama to ...12 mins ago - The final resting place: Home or abroad?
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Stopping a woman's benefit before a tip she was cheating the system had been properly investigated is "not okay", and a culture change at the ministry is needed, says the prime minister. ...3 hours ago - Watch: Jacinda Ardern back in NZThe Prime Minister is back in the country after a week-long trip to Europe and is in the RNZ studio to discuss the week's big issues. Watch a live stream here. ...3 hours ago
- The Bulletin: Food grant stats show poverty is worsening
Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Food grant stats show poverty in NZ is getting worse, woman’s benefit wrongly cut off by WINZ over dates, and the budget responsibility rules are set to be bent.The number of ...4 hours ago - Can Spark fix Lightbox’s tech in time?
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All seven seasons of Prime Suspect drop on Lightbox today, and Sam Brooks is here to tell you why its central character Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) is one of television’s most significant characters – ever.Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison doesn’t show up ...3 days ago - Cheat sheet: New Zealand music’s making money
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