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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 12:53 pm, October 4th, 2020. the party vote numbers must be absolutely terrifying the National Party leadership. Only somewhat ... if you made the assumption that Colmar Brunton measured the Party-Vote in Auckland Central accurately & that this 2017-20 swing was mirrored throughout ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 11:57 am, October 4th, 2020Ha ! ... have a strong feeling Winnie rose again to most Preferred PM (albeit briefly) in the run-up to the 1996 campaign ... have the data somewhere ... would've been around mid-96 as NZF skyrocketed into 2nd place behind National in the polls but then - ...
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Comment:Open mike 04/10/2020
Date published: 10:42 am, October 4th, 2020. Red A bit of a populist at times, he oddly lacked that populist gift of the gab which otherwise might have propelled him over that polling hurdle he never leapt, to 'most preferred PM'. Pretty sure Peters was Preferred PM (in TV1 Heylen Polls) briefly in...
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Comment:Open mike 29/09/2020
Date published: 10:40 am, September 29th, 2020Update on my Parents Just before Midnight last night, their neighbour returns swearing violently along their fenceline & then outside his house, just 4 or 5 metres from their bedroom: "F*king Ct !!!, Fking come here, you Fking Ct !!!, Fking Move, you Fking...
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Comment:Daily review 28/09/2020
Date published: 8:42 am, September 29th, 2020. anker 61,524 = 2.34% of all votes (incl informal & disallowed). = 2.37% of valid votes only.
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Comment:Latest Newshub/Reid Research poll - Labour cruising, National floundering
Date published: 3:59 pm, September 28th, 2020We might do well to bear in mind that this latest Reid Research poll was largely conducted before the Leaders' Debate (Fieldwork: Sep 16-23) / Leaders' Debate Sep 22. (Vast majority of fieldwork would've been over by final day). You never know, Judith's ...
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Comment:Latest Newshub/Reid Research poll - Labour cruising, National floundering
Date published: 3:17 pm, September 28th, 2020Fantastic single ... would occasionally hear it's post-punk (slightly gothic / slightly Kraftwerk) tones emanating from my older Brother's bedroom c 1981. Hint of Dada, whiff of Nosferatu, Dub-influenced feedback & echo effects. Always liked it. Then again...
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Comment:Open mike 26/09/2020
Date published: 7:38 am, September 26th, 2020. Labour 2017 Campaign Slogan: Let's Do This Labour 2020 Campaign Slogan: For Chrissakes, Let's Get This Over With !
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Comment:Open mike 25/09/2020
Date published: 9:49 am, September 25th, 2020. Yeah ... but wasn't it Sandy Edmonds herself who informed us way back in 1967: "Oh, Daylight Saving Time, you're going to give me more time to find love with my Bay-bee" ? Wise words indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbaYSX_QQU
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Comment:Open mike 24/09/2020
Date published: 9:07 am, September 25th, 2020Despite coming in for a silly bit of flak here back in early Feb, Chris Martenson has always been well ahead of the game. Works from the principle: Perfect is the enemy of Good ... in a fast-moving Pandemic, don't wait for peer-reviewed perfection ... just...
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Comment:Open mike 21/09/2020
Date published: 11:42 am, September 21st, 2020. Least ways, that's how I sees it, says I.
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Comment:Open mike 21/09/2020
Date published: 11:30 am, September 21st, 2020. Probably believes it'll go down well with NZF's target audience. As various iterations of the NZ Election Study have highlighted, the Party's current & recent voters sit at the opposite end of the Cultural-Moral spectrum from Green Party supporters ... (...
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Comment:Open mike 20/09/2020
Date published: 10:47 am, September 20th, 2020. almost 21% undecided ... is particularly high however Yep ... usually 10-15% in pre-Election Individual Electorate Polls.
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Comment:Open mike 20/09/2020
Date published: 9:08 am, September 20th, 2020Undecideds disproportionately stay home on Election Day (or should that be Election Month, these days) ... analysts generally place far too much importance on them.
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Comment:Open mike 19/09/2020
Date published: 12:35 pm, September 19th, 2020. If we assumed, for argument's sake, that the Poll was both accurate & reflected the swing across the Country as a whole (a somewhat dodgy assumption but, for the love of Christ, humour me just this once !) ... then: 2017 .......... 2020 Lab 36.9 ..... 55...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2020
Date published: 11:32 am, September 18th, 2020Cheers, Grey. This is a good summary for the uninitiated: http://undergroundhistory.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-tragedy-of-phyllis-symons.html Comes up in the media regularly in relation to the Mt Vic Road Tunnel's Tooting Tradition in Wellington. Phyllis's ...
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Comment:Open mike 18/09/2020
Date published: 10:54 am, September 18th, 2020Anniversary of the Savage Govt's First State House Opening ... a personal memoir https://sub-zero-politics.blogspot.com/2020/09/first-state-house-anniversary-personal.html
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Comment:What just happened with Israel?
Date published: 11:31 pm, September 16th, 2020but history says that the Palestinians never miss a chance to miss a chance. A mindless repetition of the slogan trotted out by Israeli Apologists everywhere. Close analysis of the various negotiations suggests the polar opposite.
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Comment:What just happened with Israel?
Date published: 10:37 am, September 16th, 2020. Norman Finkelstein is generally the sharpest (and most well-informed) analyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict ... this is my summary of one of his key insights over recent weeks: Crucially, UAE recognition shows Arab States can now Cross the Rubicon and ...
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Comment:Open mike 10/09/2020
Date published: 10:12 am, September 10th, 2020. National spends Quarter of FB Budget on chasing Likes for Judith Collins The National Party has spent almost $30,000 getting people to 'like' Judith Collins' Facebook page ... Since July her Facebook page has gained roughly 20,000 new likes, at a ...
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Comment:Open mike 09/09/2020
Date published: 11:42 pm, September 9th, 2020Evidence is starting to come through The evidence has been there for a long time.
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Comment:Open mike 09/09/2020
Date published: 11:21 pm, September 9th, 2020But me does want a cookie ! Least ways, that's how I sees it, says I.
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Comment:Open mike 03/09/2020
Date published: 8:20 am, September 3rd, 2020. Khmer Rouge's Year Zero - its wholesale purges & attempted destruction of all existing culture, traditions & norms - continues to be an enormous inspiration to the power-hungry little cabal of Upper-Middle Class Woke. I presume Intersectional Cult ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/09/2020
Date published: 10:38 am, September 2nd, 2020I can feel an Enya song coming on.
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Comment:Open mike 02/09/2020
Date published: 8:58 am, September 2nd, 2020. While Greenies can be relatively satisfied with their Party's 3.5 point increase to 11.5% in the latest Roy Morgan ... best they don't become too euphoric or take the figure literally. Roy Morgan tend to overstate Green support.... For example, the ...
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Comment:The Herald's idea of balance
Date published: 8:19 am, September 2nd, 2020. Here are some of the breakdowns I tweeted yesterday: https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1300542329858654209 . And ... Support for Extension (ie those who chose either (1) 4 day extension was appropriate response + (2) Should have been further ...
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Comment:Open mike 01/09/2020
Date published: 8:59 am, September 1st, 2020https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1300538075093716993
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2020
Date published: 11:07 am, August 30th, 2020https://twitter.com/nealejones/status/1299611913492393984
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Comment:Open mike 30/08/2020
Date published: 10:47 am, August 30th, 2020. a bearded chap who's willing to die in a ditch for the Green Party Which is more than you can say for the people of Riverton. Greens took 18 out of 795 total Party-Votes in 2017. Just be mindful, Robert, Greenies have occasionally been burned as witches ...
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Comment:Open mike 29/08/2020
Date published: 11:56 am, August 29th, 2020. Chinese New Zealanders not part of Major Party Support Re-alignment A strong majority of Chinese New Zealanders say they still prefer National to Labour, even though they're pretty happy with the government's Covid response. . Ethnic Chinese voters Party...
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Comment:Open mike 28/08/2020
Date published: 8:05 am, August 29th, 2020Smells like Green Spirit.
- The cicada’s deafening shriek is the sound of summer, and humans have been drawn to it for thousan...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eliza Middleton, Invertebrate and behavioural ecology laboratory manager, University of Sydney Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of the country is untouched by their song. ...1 week ago - What Clive Palmer must now ask himself: would China’s ‘bastards’ buy a mine from him?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kenneth Yin, Lecturer in law, Edith Cowan University Colourful mining magnate Clive Palmer’s political ambitions appear to be in tatters. But what of his multibillion-dollar legal ambitions? On Sunday he announced his United Australia Party will not contest Western Australia’s state election ...1 week ago
- What’s next after Bridgerton? 5 romance series ripe for TV adaptationSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi McAlister, Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University Bridgerton, Netflix’s lush adaptation of Julia Quinn’s historical romance series, has been viewed by 63 million households since its December 25 premiere, and is Netflix’s fifth biggest original series debut. On the ...1 week ago
- Govt accused of being 'too relaxed' over new Covid strains
A former WorkSafe inspector says procedures at airports, ports and MIQ facilities are far too relaxed to prevent one of the new strains of Covid-19 getting into the community. Opposition parties are also accusing the government of drifting into a summer slumber. But officials say they are still at the ...1 week ago - Reserve Bank says it wasn't directly targeted in cyber attack
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand was not the direct target of a cyber attack that breached its data systems, it says. On Sunday, the RBNZ revealed it was responding to a data breach of a third party file sharing system it used to share and store sensitive information. In an ...1 week ago - Government accused of being 'too relaxed' over new Covid strains
A former WorkSafe inspector says procedures at airports, ports and MIQ facilities are far too relaxed to prevent one of the new strains of Covid-19 getting into the community. ...1 week ago - Alice Snedden’s Bad News: How do we fix the racial bias in our healthcare system?
Summer reissue: In the third episode of all new Bad News, Alice recounts her overwhelmingly positive experiences with the health system and wonders: why isn’t it the same for all New Zealanders? First published August 18, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is ...1 week ago - A strong recovery depends on investing in talent
To build a more prosperous society we must invest in our top talent, including advanced level tertiary education, Professor Dawn Freshwater writes The context for addressing New Zealand’s long-standing productivity challenge is more complex than ever. Climate change, social inequalities, digital disruptions; the challenges are indeed many and huge. Along ...1 week ago - Covid-19 testing numbers plummet, worrying experts
Average daily Covid-19 test numbers have plummeted over summer, with the Government falling far short of its 4000-tests-a-day benchmark for the past three weeks. ...1 week ago - Rights or riots? Why real prison reform means turning the hierarchy upside downPrisoner advocate Sir Kim Workman on how New Zealand’s human rights record has taken a battering, and the Māori-led measures that are actually working.The six-day stand-off between prisoners in Waikeria’s top jail and prison management partially destroyed a building already targeted for demolition. It was variously described as “a protest”, ...1 week ago
- The next six months are make or break for LabourThe government should hit the ground running in 2021, writes Pattrick Smellie of BusinessDesk. For anyone still looking for a transformational agenda from the cautious Ardern Labour government, there’s good news: if it’s going to happen, it will happen in the next six months.Of course, like most public policy, the ...1 week ago
- Covid-19 in New Zealand: our status in numbersThe latest Covid-19 data in New Zealand, and how it compares with the world.If you’re like me, you’ll be back in the office today slowly recovering from three weeks of sun, sea, sand and a distinct lack of thinking about Covid-19. But as the pandemic continues to rage around the ...1 week ago
- Privacy Commissioner posts his peeve about the power of private companies (on Twitter) after social ...
The Point of Order team was alerted by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union to the Privacy Commissioner’s “crusade” for government regulation, apparently to curb the rights of corporate giants in the social media game to decide who may post what sorts of material on their websites. Twitter and Facebook have blocked ...1 week ago - Sydney Festival review: politics of care in Force Majeure’s The Last SeasonSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Maguire-Rosier, Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Literature, Art, and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney Review: The Last Season, directed and choreographed by Danielle Micich, Force Majeure at Sydney Festival The only ...1 week ago
- Battlegrounds: highly skilled Black African professionals on racial microaggressions at workSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial microaggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found ...1 week ago
- Impeaching Trump a second time is a complex and politically risky act. Here’s how it could workSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong President Donald Trump is extremely unlikely to capitulate to pressure to resign in the final days of his presidency. And his Cabinet is equally unlikely to force him out by invoking the 25th ...1 week ago
- Battlegrounds: highly skilled Black African professionals on racial microagressions at workSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial microaggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found ...1 week ago
- Rotorua’s Monument To Government Waste Structurally Insecure?
The Taxpayers’ Union is alarmed to learn that Rotorua’s Hemo Gorge Sculpture, labelled a ‘monument to waste’ by locals , potentially poses a health and safety risk due to structural movements since its installation. Taxpayers’ Union Rotorua ...1 week ago - 3 things we can do now to help people with disability prepare for disasterSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Villeneuve, Associate Professor, University of Sydney People with disability are disproportionately affected by disasters, but have fewer choices when emergencies unfold. Our previous research showed how, for people with disability, natural hazard disasters can mean: loss of power for ...1 week ago
- Trump is silenced (on social media at least) but may be impeached in the dying days of his presidenc...
The wheels are fast falling off the presidency of Donald J Trump as the FBI, various police forces, US intelligence agencies and now the political parties consider his fate. The more agencies inquire into the conduct, motives and organisation of the rioters who stormed the Capitol last week, the more ...1 week ago - Billionaire Vendor Of Meghan Markle Mansion Takes Legal Action To Obtain Emails From New Zealand New...The Russian billionaire vendor of the mansion recently sold to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has sought to obtain private emails from New Zealand-based law news site LawFuel.com. Russian banker Sergey Grishin has indicated that he will take legal ...1 week ago
- Covid-19: UK variant raises risk of NZ community transmission, says expertBy RNZ News New Zealand faces an increased risk of community transmission from the UK strain of covid-19 that is now arriving in the country, says epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker. There were 31 new imported cases of covid-19 reported today, with the Health Ministry also revealing that 19 people have ...1 week ago
- Lockdown expected if new Covid variant found in community, expert says
New Zealand's managed isolation facilities now house both the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new one associated with South Africa. Almost a quarter of the country's live cases are now the UK variant with that amount expected to increase. Australia is tightening its MIQ rules after the UK variant was ...1 week ago - Official ruling: When is it too late to say ‘Happy New Year’?Summer reissue: Tara Ward wades bravely into one of the thorniest January questions: how late is too late to greet someone with a cheery ‘Happy New Year’? First published January 23, 2020.New Zealand’s breakfast TV shows returned to our screens on Monday, with their jubilant hosts throwing out “Happy New Year” ...1 week ago
- Greyhound Summer Death Toll Reaches Eight DogsEight greyhounds have been euthanised since December 18 after sustaining racing injuries. This includes five in Whanganui at what animal rights organisation SAFE is calling a ‘death track’. SAFE spokesperson Will Appelbe is calling on the ...1 week ago
- Taxpayers To Privacy Commissioner: This Is Not What We Pay You For.The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is labelling the Privacy Commissioner’s crusade for government regulation over Facebook and Twitter’s de-platforming practices as ‘bizarre’ and more akin to a anti-corporate political campaign, rather than ...1 week ago
- Take me back to the rainbowSummer reissue: Being in the midst of a global pandemic does funny things to you, finds Michelle Langstone as she gives in to an overwhelming urge to return to the Auckland amusement park of her youth.First published September 22, 2020.I don’t know if it’s nostalgia working, but my husband and ...1 week ago
- Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 11 2021Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content US politics and NZ Chris Keall (Herald): NZ Privacy Commissioner critical of Facebook and Twitter’s decision to ban Trump Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZ privacy commissioner says social media bans on Trump ...1 week ago
- Twelve changes to what we'll eat in 2021
Our panel of food and retail experts predict the new food products that find the right balance of affordability, sustainability and old-fashioned flavour to feature on our kitchen shelves this year. It's not easy being green, Kermit the Frog ...1 week ago - Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long gameSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hoffmann, Professor of Economics and Chair of Behavioural Business Lab, RMIT University Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning into a permanent fixture that might forever ...1 week ago
- Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However, our recent study of academics in Australia and Japan suggests Australian universities are still very much focused on supporting the ...1 week ago
- The commuter’s paradox: there’s something to gain in the space between home and workSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University For many of us, one of the upsides of 2020 was being freed from the grind of the daily commute. For the 40% of the workforce able to “telecommute”, ...1 week ago
- Ongoing Worker Dissatisfaction Shows Need For Fundamental ChangeThis year’s CTU work life survey shows the need for a fundamental overhaul of New Zealand’s employment framework says CTU Secretary Melissa Ansell-Bridges. The survey, which was answered by 1200 respondents, shows more than half of respondents ...1 week ago
- Fast food worker: 'It was just overwhelming'
Unionised workers hope new Fair Pay Agreements will improve minimum wages, redundancy and overtime standards across whole sectors – like the heated environment of hospitality where one fast food employee tells how she felt forced to quit. Halaena McKeague says she'd had enough. The 21-year-old had been flipping patties for Burger King for four years, increasing her ...1 week ago - Alice Snedden’s Bad News went to a ‘gender critical’ feminist event at parliament, and it didn...Summer reissue: In the second episode of Alice Snedden’s Bad News, Alice goes to an event at parliament to try to talk with a group of ‘gender critical’ feminists – but things don’t go quite as planned.First published August 13, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in ...1 week ago
- Kiwi grinding veteran can't shake Auld Mug
As the challengers for the 36th America's Cup prepare to square off this week, Suzanne McFadden finds Kiwi sailor Sean Clarkson making an eighth bid for the silverware - but this time for the Americans Sean Clarkson is a rarity in the America’s Cup sailing fraternity. At 52, the Kiwi ...1 week ago - Calling Out The Injustices Of Israeli Government Actions Does Not Constitute Anti-SemitismStatement by: Sh’ma Koleinu / Alternative Jewish Voices collective https://ajv.org.nz/ , 10/1/21 Two organisations – the Israel Institute of New Zealand and the NZ Jewish Council - have again accused groups and individuals – including Green Party MP ...1 week ago
- What Lizzo did for meSummer reissue: To see someone like us – a band geek, a joyful dancer, a plus size beauty – being unapologetically who she is, is powerful. Applying that to your own life for the better is precious. And then she gives you a shout-out on the radio? Beautiful.First published January ...1 week ago
- How extreme materialism is killing the climate
Marketing and advertising have led us to a dead end, figuratively, and potentially literally, argues Jack Santa Barbara What does it mean to be rich? And what does that have to do with climate change? An often-heard argument against New Zealand taking effective action on climate change is that we ...1 week ago - White rage and the Capitol rampage
If Black Lives Matter protesters had acted the way Trump supporters did last week, the number of dead, injured and arrested would have been incredibly high. Neal Curtis looks at the role of racism in America's 'democracy'. In 1964, Black Americans effectively forced the United States to become a democracy. Up until that ...1 week ago - NZ politics in 2021: The big issues on which the year will hinge1 week ago
- New minister driven by injustices witnessed in mental hospital as a child
Jan Tinetti traces her passion for social justice back to a childhood spent living at Templeton psychopaedic institution. ...1 week ago - Trump adviser tries to avoid burning bridges with NZ
ANALYSIS: White House deputy chief Chris Liddell was castigated for staying silent during the worst of the Trump Administration’s actions; now he’s being criticised for choosing this time to speak out. New Zealander Christopher Liddell’s chances of winning the backing of the world’s 37 most powerful nations to lead the OECD ...1 week ago - Trump advisor tries to avoid burning bridges with NZWhite House deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell has been castigated for staying silent during the worst of the Trump Administration’s actions. Now he’s criticised for choosing this time to speak out publicly. ...1 week ago
- I got kiss cam’d at Eden Park and it was truly horribleSummer reissue: Crowd entertainment at sports games is a hard task, but please let’s stick to T-shirt cannons and on-field japes instead of watching strangers smooch, eh?First published July 13, 2020.Funny kiss cam footage is a key element of any viral fail video compilation. A “she’s my sister” sign pulled ...1 week ago
- Can you really make $400 a day picking cherries?Summer reissue: Claims that cherry pickers can pull in $400 a day should have all of us packing our bags and heading south. But is orchard work really that lucrative?First published November 27 2020Every year, as a crisp and blissful summer thaws the South Island out of its languor, students ...1 week ago
- Reserve Bank 'urgently' responding to system breach
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand says it is responding "with urgency" to a breach of one of its data systems. In a statement, the bank said a third party file-sharing service it used to share and store some sensitive information had been illegally accessed. Governor Adrian Orr said the ...1 week ago - Police Funding Delay By Govt – Utter MadnessThere should be no delay for desperately needed funding for Police recruitment, says Sensible Sentencing Trust. “Funding is needed now more than ever, with the ballooning numbers joining gangs; up almost 15% last year, victims of violent crimes ...1 week ago
- Alice Snedden’s Bad News: Why is sex work still only legal for some?Summer reissue: The first episode of the all new Alice Snedden’s Bad News asks why migrant sex workers aren’t legally allowed to operate in New Zealand.First published August 11, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is funded by its members – click here to ...1 week ago
- What is the objectively correct number of tabs to have open?Summer reissue: This is yet another tab clogging up your browser, and that’s fine, writes Sam Brooks. First published March 13, 2020.Welcome to this article! Chances are you didn’t read it immediately after it was published. It’s one of however many tabs filling up whatever browser you happen to be ...1 week ago
- Every meat-free fast food burger in New Zealand, reviewed and rankedSummer reissue: Kind-of vegetarian Alex Casey brings you the only meat-free fast food burger ranking you’ll ever need. First published October 31 2020At the start of the year, several centuries ago, I went vegetarian. Kind of. As a coward with commitment issues, I decided to enter into a dietary Yes Man ...1 week ago
- Students, start your engines: A short history of the Undie 500Summer reissue: By the end it was was best known for the drunken brawls that marked its conclusion each year, but for a time the Undie 500 was a (relatively) innocent Christchurch-to-Dunedin lark. Chelle Fitzgerald met up with Undie 500 founding member Matt McCloy for a nostalgic look back.This is ...1 week ago
- Gangs Training Recruits Faster Than Police“The Police Minister Poto Williams needs to explain why her agency has stopped training new recruits when gang recruitment is skyrocketing,” says ACT’s Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “This short-sighted move will mean the gangs ...1 week ago
- The New Zealand $10 note that you can sell for $88Summer reissue: Alex Casey goes on a hunt to find the rarest $10 note in the land. First published February 10, 2020.I’ve always been really good at finding money. Not in the useful, fiscal hole kind of a way, but in the literal, frequently picks up bottle caps thinking they are ...1 week ago
- A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death of Mispo GwijanggeAsia Pacific Report newsdesk West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations and torture over alleged crimes he did not commit. Some human rights advocates and lawyers, including Amnesty International Indonesia, have expressed their condolences for his ...1 week ago
- Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol HillBy RNZ Pacific The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress. In a statement, CNMI’s Governor Ralph Torres said he was disappointed and saddened to see the nation’s senators and representatives threatened and law enforcement officials ...1 week ago
- Bryan Bruce: The hope that arises in spite of the chaotic pro-Trump stormCOMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce On Wednesday, from behind a wall of bulletproof glass, outgoing US President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to be brave and incited them to march on the Capitol Buildings where the electoral college votes were being counted. They stormed it and in the ...1 week ago
- New Zealand’s gluten-free bread, reviewed and rankedSummer reissue: A definitive answer to a burning question: what is the best gluten-free bread of them all?First published October 21 2020Outside of coeliac circles, not many people know that gluten-free bread is actually better than regular bread. It’s true.* After years of fastidious experimentation and perfecting, gluten-free bakers have ...1 week ago
- Ranking the strongest ladies in New Zealand – our tunnel boring machinesSummer reissue: In an effort to bring The Spinoff’s favourite format – the ranking – to its knees, Alice Webb-Liddall ranks the most boring thing she can think of: borers.First published October 29, 2020.If something is to be named after me when I have passed away after a lifetime of ...1 week ago
- Youth Wings: The election year debate we’ve been waiting for is hereSummer reissue: The stars of Youth Wings brought the banter, and the party slogans, to the Auckland Town Hall earlier this month for a very special election year debate.First published 25 August, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is funded by its ...1 week ago
- Trumpian twitter catches on Down Under – our PM and Foreign Minister are tweeting to transmit thei...It looks like our government leaders have decided there’s one thing the disgraced US President Donald Trump can teach them. It’s to turn to the Twitosphere for communicating with their people. Press statements have been spurned in recent days and they are tweeting to tell us what they think – ...1 week ago
- Please enjoy these savage reviews of New Zealand’s favourite landmarksSummer reissue: Turns out that a lot of people are very mad at a lot of our iconic tourist attractions. First published on January 9, 2020.This summer will go down in history as the first time that I stood in the shadow of the mighty L&P bottle in Paeroa. The rumours ...1 week ago
- Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium and Ireland – Three PerspectivesAnalysis by Keith Rankin. While Belgium is the worst historically, Ireland has the British Bug Badly. Chart by Keith Rankin. While Belgium is the worst historically, Ireland has the British Bug Badly. Chart by Keith Rankin. In my latest charts, I include a robust set of estimates of actual proportion ...2 weeks ago
- Holy crêpe! A food comic about a hidden French gem in NelsonIn the second in her series of food comics, Liliana Mañetto Quick introduces us to her hometown go-to Rustic Cuisine, a slice of France at the top of the South Island. ...2 weeks ago
- Motorsport great Hayden Paddon on bouncing back from the toughest years of his lifeSummer reissue: After hitting a career-low in recent years, New Zealand’s most successful rally driver ever is ready to once again take on the world. He talks to George Driver from his Cromwell garage about reaching WRC success against all odds, the trauma and disappointment of the last few years, ...2 weeks ago
- Ardern pledges to care 9% more by 2030Summer reissue: Some observers are questioning whether there are sufficient Facebook livestreams to support the goal, writes chief caring correspondent Danyl Mclauchlan.First published November 24, 2020. Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is funded by its members – click here to learn ...2 weeks ago
- The disgraceful end of a disgraceful presidentNew Zealand needs to be intellectually curious about what has taken place in the US under Donald Trump and what it may mean for our country. Trends in governance there can easily spread, writes former NZ prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.The long and disgraceful end of Donald Trump’s tenure as ...2 weeks ago
- Brisbane’s COVID lockdown has a crucial difference: it aims to squash an outbreak before it even s...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Greater Brisbane’s 72-hour COVID lockdown, which takes effect at 6pm on Friday, has a crucial difference from the months-long lockdown endured by Melbourne earlier this year, or the current restrictions aimed at stamping out Sydney’s ...2 weeks ago
- Liddell stays to manage presidential transition: 'I was horrified by the events yesterday'
The NZer at the heart of Donald Trump's White House administration pressed 'go' this morning on the orderly transition promised, belatedly, by the outgoing president. Chris Liddell talks to Jonathan Milne at the end of a grim week in Washington DC. ...2 weeks ago - The real Tongan boys of ‘Ata were not the real Lord of the FliesSummer reissue: The 1954 novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a story about young boys shipwrecked on a desolate island, is a parable for the supposedly innate cruelty and selfishness of human nature. In May 2020, an excerpt was published on The Guardian from the book Humankind ...2 weeks ago
- Cities could get more than 4°C hotter by 2100. To keep cool in Australia, we urgently need a nation...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Maund, Research Affiliate, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle In cities around the world, temperatures could rise by more than 4℃ by 2100 under a high-emissions climate change scenario, suggests research published this week in Nature Climate Change. ...2 weeks ago
- With mass arrests, running for office in Hong Kong is now not only futile, it can be criminalSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne Nearly overshadowed by the chaos in the US this week was a dramatic escalation of the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Authorities arrested more than 50 pro-democracy figures in early ...2 weeks ago
- E Tū Condemns Arrests Of Hong Kong Democracy ActivistsE tū has joined New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister , global unions and others in condemning the arrest this week of over 50 prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists. Among those arrested was aviation worker Carol Ng, the chair of the Hong Kong Council ...2 weeks ago
- Fees-free Polytechnic Drain Should See University Subsidies ScrappedThe finding that fees-free tertiary education is leading students away from polytechnic study should see the policy scrapped and all university subsidies reviewed, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . The Union ’s 2017 briefing paper, Robin Hood ...2 weeks ago
- Clamour grows for Trump to go after mob takes over the Capitol – but his days are numbered officia...By the time Donald Trump leaves office on January 20, assuming he lasts that long, he will depart the White House as the most despised US president in more than a century. The appalling scenes at the Capitol on Wednesday epitomised his time in office, shocking western leaders let alone ...2 weeks ago
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