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Comment:The Greek referendum
Date published: 8:48 pm, July 6th, 2015The 'economic miracle' that occurred in Germany after WW2 was a combination of massive investment from the USA (motivated by a fear of the Soviet Bloc) and being excused a large part of their foreign debt. I do not take anything away from the workers who ...
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Comment:The Greek referendum
Date published: 3:29 pm, July 6th, 2015Germany would not be in a position to loan money at high interest rates to Greece and to strong arm the Greek government into 'austerity' measures without the massive post-WW2 loans it received from the USA, and the cancellation of 60% of its foreign debt ...
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Comment:What is it with Herald Gossip Columnists?
Date published: 3:24 pm, July 6th, 2015Am I right in inferring that you think the outrage was disproportionate?
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Comment:The Greek referendum
Date published: 3:19 pm, July 6th, 2015King Constantine - backed by a cabal of ultra-rightists in the military and the upper class - sacked Papandreou's centrist government which was heading steadily leftwards. This and the subsequent military coup were very likely at the behest (and certainly ...
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Comment:Open mike 06/07/2015
Date published: 11:09 am, July 6th, 2015If Pebbles Hooper loses her job it should be because she's not a journalist, is not clever, insightful or witty. Her clumsily cruel tweet about Cindy George is evidence of that. But, if people push for Hooper to be sacked because of a tweet made in her own...
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Comment:There never was a rockstar
Date published: 11:16 am, July 4th, 2015A tweet : "Instead of claiming to be a rockstar economy how about we aspire to be a really talented & innovative jazz quartet?"
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Comment:Caption Contest
Date published: 4:31 pm, June 30th, 2015Key: "Does my head look big in this helmet?"
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Comment:Another disease of poverty making a comeback
Date published: 3:17 pm, June 30th, 2015And age.
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Comment:Another disease of poverty making a comeback
Date published: 1:56 pm, June 30th, 2015Yes it is - see my comments above. To build and maintain healthy bone you need to be able to metabolise dietary calcium + other bone building minerals and Vit D is necessary to that metabolic process. Vit D is also involved in neuromuscular function and ...
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Comment:Another disease of poverty making a comeback
Date published: 11:07 am, June 30th, 2015Vit D from fortified milk is not the only or the best answer. It's put it in milk is because milk is a good (and used to be cheap) source of dietary calcium. There's a reason there was a health movement in the 1920s and 30s which focussed on fresh air, ...
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Comment:Another disease of poverty making a comeback
Date published: 10:08 am, June 30th, 2015Rickets is osteomalacia in childhood and where there's rickets there's also likely to be adult osteomalacia (AO) AO's obvious symptoms are generalised bone pain and muscle weakness - often misdiagnosed as polymyalgia or fibromyalgia and treated with ...
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Comment:Imperator Fish: A clarification
Date published: 4:12 pm, January 28th, 2015I am so glad you clarified that for us. The low effort thinkers' response to Ms Catton proves her point and the fact that that completely escapes them makes it all the more delicious. My Mum, who has aphasia as a result of a stroke, called Sean Plunkett ...
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Comment:The difference between the left and the right
Date published: 3:08 pm, January 10th, 2015I find that the actual and the virtual watering holes of the Less Evolved Ones are best avoided - their behaviour is disturbing to any person of conscience. I once tried to discuss the use of bits on a US equestrian web site and was called a 'rabid PETA ...
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Comment:Lone nutters and suicide by cop
Date published: 9:00 am, December 16th, 2014Good public email comments on Morning Report just now.
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Comment:Lone nutters and suicide by cop
Date published: 8:39 am, December 16th, 2014In the current climate, the actions of any mentally unstable person who happens to be Muslim will be used to justify the repressive and anti-democratic laws that have been passed under the guise of controlling terrorism.
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Comment:Latest Roy Morgan Poll
Date published: 12:48 pm, December 13th, 2014Thoughtful post as usual Puddleglum. For a lot of people (my mother included) criticism of Key evokes the same knee-jerk, emotion laden response as a criticism of New Zealand does. These people stay afloat, in psychological terms, by clutching on to (a ...
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Comment:Rushing in to Freed?
Date published: 10:16 am, December 13th, 2014How can any who claims to be a journalist blithely state "Increasingly there is a crossover between paid content and editorial"? I had a fall out with a person on Twitter over his assertion that Patrick Gower cannot be called a journalist because he ...
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Comment:Russell Brown on rubbish HoS article
Date published: 12:18 pm, December 7th, 2014This really is bottom of the barrel stuff. Those who wrote and published this piece of schlock journalism know very well that a hint of salacity combined with a pinch of prodigality usually ensures a well risen moral panic - and a moral panic about someone...
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Comment:John Key vs the truth
Date published: 10:11 am, November 26th, 2014Tell me Fisiani - how does Key swat away insect bites? Does he wave his wand and -just like that - they disappear? Key might continue to grow in your esteem but 57% of the respondents on the unfailingly right wing Yahoo NZ news poll yesterday said they do ...
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Comment:Little announces Labour's new front bench
Date published: 12:57 pm, November 24th, 2014I'm reserving judgement on the line up. I'm not sure about the message that's been sent out by pushing Cunliffe down to 14 in the rankings - it's hardly a conciliatory gesture to those in the party who supported him and seems to be more of a conciliatory ...
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 10:33 pm, November 23rd, 2014Gower's either had too much to drink and/or someone in the Caucus is leaking like a sieve - again.
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 10:14 pm, November 23rd, 2014Gower claiming King deputy, Robertson finance.
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 7:34 pm, November 23rd, 2014He's a she. And yes I was being sarcastic.
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 7:08 pm, November 23rd, 2014Because I want to destroy the Labour Party. Just asking if anyone has heard anything of course.
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 7:00 pm, November 23rd, 2014Patrick Gower @patrickgowernz 17 minutes ago Word from inside Labour that David Cunliffe has been ABCed. Not on Front Bench.
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Comment:Open mike 23/11/2014
Date published: 6:58 pm, November 23rd, 2014Anyone heard if it's actually the case that David Cunliffe is not on the front bench - as opined by Patrick Gower in a tweet. Claims comes from an inside source.
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Comment:A late run succeeds
Date published: 9:04 pm, November 18th, 2014Patrick Gower needs to work on his spite issues.
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Comment:A late run succeeds
Date published: 9:03 pm, November 18th, 2014Negative bs? How many farmers are struggling to stay afloat with the current milk payout? Most of them are mortgaged to the eyeballs so it wouldn't take much to send them to the wall. How many Kiwis could afford to pay $90k a hectare for land? The only ...
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Comment:A late run succeeds
Date published: 8:29 pm, November 18th, 2014Response to b waghorn at 5
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Comment:A late run succeeds
Date published: 8:28 pm, November 18th, 2014Farming in NZ is doing a pretty good job of going broke on its own by investing in dairy conversions and being way too reliant on expensive imported agri-ichemicals. But there certainly is a lot of potential support for Labour in rural towns and among ...
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Comment:And the winner is ...
Date published: 8:19 pm, November 18th, 2014Ssh - don't break his little reverie, the shock to the system could be fatal.
- Green Party grapples with persistent scandals
Jacqui Van Der Kaay writes – Parliament’s speaker had no option but to refer Green MP Julie Anne Genter to the Privileges Committee for her behaviour in the House last Wednesday evening. The incident, in which she crossed the floor to wave a book and yell at National ...3 weeks ago - A law school to be avoided – Auckland University of TechnologyGary Judd writes – The Dean of the law school at the Auckland University of Technology is someone called Khylee Quince. I have been sent her social media posting in which she has, over the LawNews headline “Senior King’s Counsel files complaint about compulsory tikanga Maori studies for ...3 weeks ago
- 17 people in Malaita stand in way of China’s takeover of the Solomons
Cleo Paskal writes – WASHINGTON, D.C.: ‘Many of us have received phone calls from [the opposing camp] telling them if they join the camp they will be given projects for their wards and $300,000 [around US$35,000] each’, says former Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani. The elections in Solomon Islands aren’t ...3 weeks ago
- The deal with charter schools
By the time term one starts next year up to 35 state schools will be open as charter schools, six years after the model was abolished the first time around. They have just six months to get ready for the change but even the old charter schools haven’t decided whether ...5 days ago - Failed entrepreneur resurfaces with bold business claimsA property development in Waimate, a global parallel import syndicate, a silo, and a resin factory. The disgraced entrepreneur Evan Price is back. The post Failed entrepreneur resurfaces with bold business claims appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- Too many public servants isn’t the problemOpinion: Did we really have too many public servants loitering in the back office? The Government will have felt justified in trimming back the numbers, especially those whose evidence it no longer wished to consider or whose findings it no longer wished to hear. It may have even led to ...5 days ago
- The swathe of mysterious Belt and Road agreementsNZ’s stance on China’s Belt and Road is purposefully vague, and it’s leading to contradictions between the country’s foreign policy and locally signed agreements The post The swathe of mysterious Belt and Road agreements appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- Daily crossword, Thursday 23 MayThe post Daily crossword, Thursday 23 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- A brief history of racist lawOver half of Fragile Foundations, a new history of criminal trials in New Zealand before 1907 by former Solicitor-General and Court of Appeal judge David Collins, is devoted specifically to how English criminal law impacted on Māori communities. Prior to 1840 tikanga was the law of the land. Māori who ...5 days ago
- Govt paid Kāinga Ora reviewers out of urgent housing fundBuried deep in Cabinet papers released with Sir Bill English’s radical review of Kāinga Ora is a two-line table that stood out like the proverbial canine’s family jewels. The table, from the minutes of the Cabinet 100-day Plan Committee’s meeting on December 13, shows approval for a “fiscally neutral adjustment” ...5 days ago
- Vanuatu minister calls for referendum voters in spite of Nouméa crisis
By Tensly Sumbe Vanuatu’s Elections Minister Johnny Koanapo is urging every Ni-Vanuatu person living in New Caledonia to take part in the upcoming vote for the national referendum next Wednesday. He highlighted that the current situation in New Caledonia presented exceptional circumstances that could impact on people’s participation on polling ...5 days ago - Solidarity action group calls on NZ to support Kanak, Papuan independenceAsia Pacific Report A New Zealand solidarity action group has called on the New Zealand government to back indigenous independence calls in the Pacific and press both France to grant Kanaks sovereignty and Indonesia to end its rule in West Papua. Catherine Delahunty, a former Green Party MP and spokesperson ...5 days ago
- Journalists challenge PNG government over ‘media control’ policyBy Stephen Wright of BenarNews The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organisations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week as Parliament hears testimony from journalists and top officials. The effort to wield influence over the news, first announced last year as a “media development ...5 days ago
- Stringent criteria blamed for lower than expected uptake of first home buyer grants
"A lot of criteria, a lot of boxes to be ticked" is said to be part of the reason. ...5 days ago - NZ Refugee Ahmed Zaoui Languishes In Jail In Algeria, No Trial Date On The Horizon
The New Zealand refugee and political activist was arrested at gunpoint in October. ...6 days ago - PCE Condemns Govt’s Property Rights Approach To Environmental ProtectionGreenpeace Aotearoa says that it’s clear the Government’s approach to environmental policies is actively harming nature after the release of the Going With the Grain report today by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE). ...6 days ago
- New Zealand Needs To Confront The Challenges Of Land Use ChangeGoing with the grain: Changing land uses to fit a changing landscape, sets out the multiple environmental problems facing rural New Zealand and makes suggestions on how to approach the land use change needed to prevent further degradation. ...6 days ago
- Are some routes more prone to air turbulence? Will climate change make it worse? Your questions answ...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia Trinity Moss/Unsplash A little bit of turbulence is a common experience for air travellers. Severe incidents are rare – but when they occur they can be deadly. The recent Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from ...6 days ago
- How risky is turbulence on a plane? How worried should I be?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock The Singapore Airlines turbulence incident that has sadly left one person dead and others hospitalised has made many of us think about the risks of air travel. We’ll hear more in coming ...6 days ago
- Labor takes a hit in Resolve polls in Queensland and VictoriaSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A Resolve poll for The Brisbane Times, conducted over four months from February ...6 days ago
- Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is knocking on Australia’s doorSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Wille, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania. While we remain free from this virus for now, it’s only ...6 days ago
- Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is everywhere but Australia, for nowSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Wille, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania. While we remain free from this virus for now, it’s only ...6 days ago
- NZ Students Join Global Campus ProtestsThis nationwide protest expresses our unapologetic solidarity with Palestinians and our commitment to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We refuse to be silent or complicit in genocide, and we reject all forms of cooperation between our institutions ...6 days ago
- Oranga Tamariki warned of legal action if job cuts delay release of victims' recordsA law firm that works with survivors of abuse in state care says job cuts will further slow down the release of victims' records. ...6 days ago
- Age verification for social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. ...6 days ago
- Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. ...6 days ago
- ‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riotsBy Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Liberation “must come” for Kanaky New Caledonia, says one of the few New Zealand journalists who have worked consistently on stories across the French Pacific territories. Journalist David Robie was arrested at gunpoint by French police in January 1987, and is no stranger to ...6 days ago
- Someone must front cost of land-use changes to protect environment, report warnsSomeone will have to front the cost of land-use changes necessary to protect the environment, the government's top environmental advisor warns. ...6 days ago
- Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Jevanto Productions/Shutterstock Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition ...6 days ago
- Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the busine...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University On Tuesday, Telstra announced it will be cutting up to 2,800 jobs as part of a major restructure. Of these layoffs, 377 will take effect immediately from within the Telstra Enterprise ...6 days ago
- Government confirms First Home Grants to be scrappedBut Housing Minister Chris Bishop has also announced $140 million in new funding for 1500 new social housing places from July next year. ...6 days ago
- Reserve Bank holds official cash rate at 5.5 percentThe central bank has not moved the rate since May last year. ...6 days ago
- He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determin...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Sherlock, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, won February’s presidential election in a landslide victory of nearly 59% of the nationwide vote, more than double ...6 days ago
- ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an ea...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong “I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6’5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone ...6 days ago
- ‘Anyone who’s written one will tell you…’: Jo Pearson on the picture book that nails it
Welcome to The Spinoff Bookseller Confessional, in which we get to know Aotearoa’s booksellers. This week: Jo Pearson, illustrator of Five Wee Pūteketeke (written by Nicola Toki) and owner of children’s bookshop and studio Pictura in Port Chalmers, Ōtepoti. The book I wish I’d written I Want my Hat Back by ...6 days ago - Don’t eat that! Food recalls, explainedWhat happens when contaminated food accidentally makes it onto consumers’ shelves? Shanti Mathias explains the process of food recalls. A small sign at the supermarket announcing a problem with a product you’ve never heard of in your life might be all you ever hear of a food recall. Or maybe, ...6 days ago
- RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New CaledoniaPacific Media WatchThe Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Capedonia after an increase in intimidation, threats, obstruction and attacks against them. After a week of violence that broke out in the capital ...6 days ago
- Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with musicians and their work when they are found to have been abusive has arisen again this week, as distressing video footage of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs ...6 days ago
- How much have First Home Grants really been helping buyers?They look like they're on the way out, but how much difference were they making? ...6 days ago
- Strong Support For Disability FundingTwo thirds of Kiwis in a new poll want funding flexibility reinstated for disabled people and carers. ...6 days ago
- Former justice minister Kiri Allan pleads guilty to crash chargesThe former justice minister was charged with careless driving and failing to accompany a police officer after a late-night crash. ...6 days ago
- Greens Justice Spokesperson, Academics To Protest MegaprisonWHAT: Prison abolitionist community group People Against Prisons Aotearoa has called for a demonstration to protest the Government’s announcement of a $1.9 billion megaprison in Waikeria. The protest will call for the Government to cancel the prison ...6 days ago
- If you want to actually help people in Gaza, don’t just block celebs. Do BDSSocial media stars are being targeted by a campaign aimed at drawing attention to the bombing of Palestinian civilians. Gabi Lardies looks at what the ‘blockout’ hopes to achieve, and the alternative way to boycott. On May 6, celebrities flocked to the Met Gala wearing tulle, crystals, lace and lamé. ...6 days ago
- Government killing homeownership dreams, giving billions to landlords – Chris HipkinsThe government talks of funding social housing, while criticising Labour's spending on the same, its leader says. ...6 days ago
- Coalition confirms $24m for Gumboot Friday charity I Am HopeThe move comes a week ahead of Budget 2024 and meets a commitment set out in coalition agreements. ...6 days ago
- Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Ashe, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of ...6 days ago
- Lost: one police pistol, last seen high above a Manawatū weed patchNew Zealand police have a lot of guns, and every year one or two are briefly misplaced. Oscar Francis reports on an official investigation into a singularly striking case, that of a helicopter-borne constable who dropped their pistol into an illegal cannabis plantation. You know how sometimes you find yourself ...6 days ago
- Mental Health Groups Call For Urgent Investment In Open Letter To MinisterAn alliance of mental health organisations is urging the Minister for Mental Health, Matt Doocey and the Coalition Government to invest in the Aotearoa New Zealand’s mental health system in an open letter. ...6 days ago
- We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite dataSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Bartley, Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than ...6 days ago
- Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to accessSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna DeMello, Research Fellow, University of Otago Getty Images Despite measures to reduce young people’s access to vapes, many countries are recording rising use by underage adolescents, especially since refillable “pod mods” and disposable devices have become widely available. In ...6 days ago
- Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also ...6 days ago
- Education Ministry takes charge of school expansions as companies lose faith in PPP modelThe Education Ministry has taken back the job of financing, designing and building several school expansions, after companies said the public-private-partnership approach was too difficult. ...6 days ago
- Why Tauranga is going to the polls a year earlyBarring an unplanned byelection, the July 20 council election will be our only major election of the year, explains Stewart Sowman-Lund in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. ...6 days ago
- New Zealand quietly added to US military trade lawThe US has included New Zealand in a law without the New Zealand government's involvement. ...6 days ago
- Fast track committee not undermined by MP's donation – NationalThe National Party insists there has been no conflict of interest in David Macleod's chairing the committee considering the contentious fast-track bill. ...6 days ago
- Fear, hate and a putrid stench: Inside the Unsilenced anti-trans eventJoel MacManus endures five hours of fear and hatred as some of New Zealand’s most controversial figures – and a sitting MP – gather to fight against trans rights. Note: This article contains quotes that may offend. They have been included to present an accurate report of what was said ...6 days ago
- The Kāinga Ora review avoids the big and obvious questionsIt raises valid concerns about Kāinga Ora, but there’s little to suggest the new direction for state housing charted in Sir Bill English’s report will address Aotearoa’s chronic shortage of affordable rental housing, argues Alan Johnson. Given previous National governments’ indifference or even hostility toward the idea of state housing, ...6 days ago
- Changing the building blocks of readingEducation is facing a bunch of changes, but the important ones are not banned cell phones or ‘woke’ foods. The Government has ordered teachers to adopt ‘structured literacy’ to get children reading. That means Reading Recovery, a system New Zealand pioneered and spread to the world, along with ‘whole language’, ...6 days ago
- Badminton champ finds her freak for ParisWhat a difference a year has made for Caroline Powell. After coming last at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2023, Powell triumphed at this year’s event earlier this month, on board her sometimes-feisty Irish-bred mare Greenacres Special Cavalier – much to her astonishment. Now she hopes to succeed at the ...6 days ago
- These siloed reviews into extreme weather are alarmingOpinion: Latest report says there appears to be a limited understanding of recovery across the nerve centre of the Government’s oversight capacity The post These siloed reviews into extreme weather are alarming appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Pippa and other heroinesThe publishing sensation of 2024 is wartime memoir The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson, which tells the amazing story of a woman who operated behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Sales went through the roof as soon as it was published: in its first week it became ...6 days ago
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- National accused of breaking election promise by delaying offshore wind rulesNational promised a permitting system for offshore wind farms would be in place within a year, but that has now been pushed out to mid-2025 The post National accused of breaking election promise by delaying offshore wind rules appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Bridging the Aukus chasmComment: NZ’s main political parties need to reach a consensus on how to adjust to China’s dominance and coercion The post Bridging the Aukus chasm appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Badminton champ one jump closer to ParisWhat a difference a year has made for Caroline Powell. After coming last at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2023, Powell triumphed at this year’s event earlier this month, on board her sometimes-feisty Irish-bred mare Greenacres Special Cavalier – much to her astonishment. Now she hopes to succeed at the ...6 days ago
- Does NZ still have Ardern’s political capital to spend on serious change?Opinion: Jacinda Ardern’s leadership significantly enhanced New Zealand’s profile on the global stage. In the first five months of her second term of government, between December 2020 and April 2021, her name appeared 24 times in the Washington Post, 10 in the New York Times, 27 in the Times and ...6 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 22 MayThe post Daily crossword, Wednesday 22 May appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- Christopher Luxon the disciplinarianComment: The public has seen the PM’s ruthless side, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where a member of the coalition faces the same punishment The post Christopher Luxon the disciplinarian appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- How trust evaporated between a council and its holdings companyThe sudden resignations of four Christchurch City Holdings Ltd board members might be explained by condescension and hard-headedness The post How trust evaporated between a council and its holdings company appeared first on Newsroom. ...6 days ago
- NZ’s first New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in AucklandBy Maia Ingoe, RNZ News journalist A NZ Defence Force plane carrying 50 New Zealanders evacuated from New Caledonia landed at Auckland International Airport last night. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it would be working with France and Australia to ensure the safe departure of several evacuation ...6 days ago
- We’re helping farmers access future climate projections as easily as checking the weatherSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Snow, Research Scientist, CSIRO CSIRO How often do you check your local weather forecast? How about your local climate projections for 2050? For many farmers, the answer to the first question is all the time. But the answer to the ...6 days ago
- France to blame for ‘constructing’ Kanaky crisis, says Kia MauPacific Media Watch A Māori supporter of Pacific independence movements claims the French government has “constructed the crisis” in New Caledonia by pushing the indigenous Kanak population to the edge, reports Atereano Mateariki of Waatea News. A NZ Defence Force Hercules is today evacuating about 50 New Zealanders stranded in ...6 days ago
- First New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in AucklandA Defence Force plane carrying 50 New Zealanders evacuated from New Caledonia has landed at Auckland Airport this evening. ...6 days ago
- Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisisCOMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell The split opening up in Israel’s “War Cabinet” is not just between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his long-term rival Benny Gantz. It is actually a three-way split, set in motion by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It was Gallant’s open criticism of Netanyahu that finally flushed ...6 days ago
- Government expected to scrap first-home grants in favour of funding social housingRNZ understands the government plans to get rid of first-home grants in favour of putting more money toward social housing. ...6 days ago
- Bill repealing section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act passes first reading in ParliamentIt does not mean Oranga Tamariki will stop working with iwi and Māori organisations, Children's Minister Karen Chhour says. ...7 days ago
- Statistics NZ leaving Auckland CBD office due to safety concernsA government agency is moving out of Auckland City because its staff members do not feel safe there. ...7 days ago
- Labour Must Walk The Talk And Join The Campaign Against Corporate WelfareReacting to today’s Budget Speech from Labour’s Finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “It is encouraging to see that one of Labour’s stated priorities is to focus on creating ‘a level ...7 days ago
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