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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 3:35 pm, July 13th, 2023Fair enough: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR564.html This study relates to education in correctional facilities rather than boot camps. But the key point is that dealing with educational deficiencies reduces offending. Inmates who participate...
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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 11:57 am, July 13th, 2023And, I just asked Chat GPT for supporting studies. Here was the result: Absolutely, here are a few studies and reports as of my knowledge cut-off in September 2021, related to the points mentioned: Education: A report from RAND Corporation, "How Effective ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 11:18 am, July 13th, 2023relying on ChatGPT for research without thoroughly checking the sources of what it produces is the action of a gullible idiot. Ask it for pinpoint reference links and then check them. Yeah, I would agree with you normally on this. Except, I wasn't just ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 10:33 am, July 13th, 2023Which party do you think will actually do the stuff known to work? Well, what the current government is doing certainly doesn't seem to be working. But, all I have done, is asked Chat GPT about essentially National's policy on this. From the article: ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 10:29 am, July 13th, 2023I have asked the same question. I wish they didn't call it a boot camp. That just makes it a target for critics.
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Comment:Open mike 13/07/2023
Date published: 10:04 am, July 13th, 2023When considering National's boot camp idea, I think it is very important to consider the specifics of the proposed program before making broad judgements. I checked with Chat GPT about the effectiveness of boot camps. It came back and said that the ...
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Comment:NZ's Mission in Vilnius - "to defeat Russia." Really?
Date published: 10:01 am, July 10th, 2023If Russia being defeated was going to caused the use of nukes then they would have nuked Afghanistan. And, prohibiting the use of cluster munitions would be fine if the Russians weren't also using them, and the Russians weren't using also using white ...
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Comment:A government looking at the climate challenges, not with fear but with hope
Date published: 4:58 pm, July 9th, 2023Similar could be done around water ways as is being done in new subdivisions, in Christchurch anyway. That is, ensure the banks of water ways are well planted out with flaxes and other native plants that grow well in those locations. These tend to grow ...
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Comment:A government looking at the climate challenges, not with fear but with hope
Date published: 10:43 am, July 9th, 2023I was actually very pleased to see the Greens put forward a proposal for encouraging farmers to plant indigenous forest on farm land. I assume this would be best applied on land that is marginally productive or unproductive. This would encourage our native...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 2:36 pm, July 7th, 2023I will have a look at that. But, that field leaves plenty of scope for Woo on steriods, as the multitude of views on Closer To Truth suggests. Lots of interesting stuff there.
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 1:05 pm, July 7th, 2023I would give some concession when it comes to the softer sciences such as psychology. Because, it is very difficult to treat people the same way we may treat chemicals in a test-tube. But, for the harder sciences, I think there is little scope for a ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 11:59 am, July 7th, 2023The problem with a holistic approach is that it seems to me to become highly subjective. What I include in my holistic view of something may be quite different to yours. And neither of us would necessarilly be right or wrong. And scientists studying the ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 11:07 am, July 7th, 2023One of the main issues I see with taking a "holistic" approach to science, is that much of science has progressed by taking the opposite approach. By that, I mean, reducing the scope of issues being studied so that the variable of interest can be studied ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:06 am, July 7th, 2023With respect to science, woo, to me, means smuggling unscientific stuff into science then masquerading it as if it were science.
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:05 pm, July 6th, 2023I totally agree with you. I have two year old twin grandchildren. My son has been very successful in his business, so likely will have more options available to him when the boys are of school age. I have already told him he should go private with ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 9:57 pm, July 6th, 2023Yes. Mine is only an MA unfortunately. I would have liked to do it as a science, but it was the best I could do as an extramural student at Massey.
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 4:51 pm, July 6th, 2023The other thing about p values, is that they are likely meaningless if the r value they decribe is very small. So, there might be a high probability that a given result may have been due to the predicted effect (high p value), but the amount of the given ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 4:43 pm, July 6th, 2023I would agree with that. And partly why I am sceptical about a lot of research where statistical analysis is applied. Particularly in the area of research based on questions where responses are given on a five point scale or whatever. The actual design in ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 4:16 pm, July 6th, 2023Others here may have a different opinion. But, I don't think statistics is a stand-alone science. It is more like a tool to be used as part of scientific investigation. So, the statistical results might advance understanding in areas of science. But, it ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 3:56 pm, July 6th, 2023The practioners in that are likely think that lol. I think statistics would qualify as scientific, because most scientific studies, rely on statistics to analyse the results. Including medical studies from which is used to validate new medicines etc. ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 1:13 pm, July 6th, 2023Did you, by any chance, study the mechanism of action of monoamine oxidase inhibitors as anti-depressants? Yes, I believe we touched on that in a third year paper on Abnormal Psychology, or Brain and Behaviour, or both. But, I don't think we went deeper ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:31 am, July 6th, 2023have you seen anything that says RNZ have actually seen the draft? Actually, it looks like Newshub has the full thing. I thought I had seen that a media organisation had it. Newshub has obtained the document, which was sent to a few teachers for their ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:20 am, July 6th, 2023I don't know why the draft hasn't been released. I understand it has been sent to RNZ? Surely, the best thing to do would be for this to be publicly released by whichever media organisation has it, rather than release bits and pieces. I agree, that it ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:05 am, July 6th, 2023You have sort of validated my concerns. Notice that the current curriculum is very specific about the building blocks of science to be of studied. For instance, I have no problems at all with how the current curriculum under "material world" defines how ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 8:49 am, July 6th, 2023I understand the need to make science relevant to students. One problem with that approach is that, in order to make the study in a particular area comprehensible, it is necessary to limit the amount of time devoted to specific areas. For example, in my ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 7:03 am, July 6th, 2023An interview last night at around 6.07pm with Kathy Bunting who has been involved in preparing the draft curriculum. Make of it what you will. Someone who knows how to do this better may like to link exactly to the interview. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 6:47 am, July 6th, 2023In my day I think it was sodium they chucked in. And that was one of the best parts of chemistry seeing that stuff react in water.
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 5:50 am, July 6th, 2023Ranting out insults like a child in a school yard is a bit below you isn't it? If you really don't think I have a clue, then it would be far more insulting and make you look much more wise for you to point out how I am so wrong rather than the way you are ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 10:24 pm, July 5th, 2023My understanding has always been as described by Wiki. So, enlighten me on the gaps in my understanding? I was always more interested in, say, the atomic bonds that allow water to expand when freezing rather than contract. I saw little point in memorising ...
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 4:41 pm, July 5th, 2023I think this sort of thing is the future for learning in maths and science.
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Comment:New curriculum: science to be taught in the context of the great challenges of our time
Date published: 4:19 pm, July 5th, 2023Although I disagree with you in respect to holistic learning being applied to science, I think this is a good discussion. So, glad you raised it, even though you are getting a bit of push back from some of us.
- Climate Change: How to vote
Climate change is a big problem, and it often seems overwhelming. While individual action will help - every little bit helps - a lot of the changes we need to make are at a level far above that of individual action. Changes to the global energy system, or to farm ...2 weeks ago - You are looking for Nanaia Mahuta? She is bound for Suva, to engage in talanoa and help build PIF c...
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- At a glance – Does cold weather disprove global warming?
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...2 weeks ago - Who Cares About Facts and Figures?
Who cares about facts and figures – especially if they don’t back up political prejudices? In the light of today’s Prefu forecasts as to where the economy is heading, which showed a pretty positive picture of the economic future, National’s Luxon and Willis were not to be deterred. “Labour has ...2 weeks ago - The PREFU can be interpreted to support this party – or that one – but in the upshot, whatever w...There was nothing new, when Point of Order checked out the government’s official website around noon, but Finance Minister Grant Robertson has posted good news since then. At least, he shared with us the best of the news in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update, released today. He said it ...2 weeks ago
- Climate Change: Reducing emissions makes us better offBack in 2020, the Auckland Council committed to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and reduce them to net-zero by 2050. At the time this was seen as enormously expensive. But it turns out that it will make Aucklanders much better off: Auckland could be more than $100 billion ...2 weeks ago
- Unlawful secrecy in Rotorua IILast year, in an effort to improve Māori representation, the Rotorua Lakes District Council attempted to advance the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill. The bill was controversial, violating the Bill of Rights Act, and the mayor’s efforts to have a secret discussion about it caused one councillor to resign. ...2 weeks ago
- Opinion polls signal Labour stumbling to defeat, but tough times await a new Right-of-Centre coali...
Three different opinion polls in quick succession have signalled the Hipkins Labour-led government is crashing to defeat at next month’s election. As many as 34 of its members could lose their seats. All three polls — the Post-Freshwater, Morgan, and Newshub-Reid— showed Labour below 30%. Moreover, the Newshub-Reid had National reaching ...2 weeks ago - It ain't over 'til it's over.
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- Media Link: The geopolitics behind the reaction to the Fukushima wastewater release.
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Hi,Growing up in New Zealand — with my eyes often glued to a cinema screen — it’s always been a dream to have something I’ve made play at the movies in America.So even if you’re not in America, let me have my moment of going, “Holy hell yes, Mister Organ ...2 weeks ago - Hotter ocean temperatures from global warming likely increased Idalia’s destructive power by at le...This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters Hurricane Idalia charged ashore into Florida’s Big Bend coast on Wednesday morning, Aug. 30, as a powerful high-end Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds, bringing an extremely dangerous storm surge, destructive winds, and torrential rains to an area unused ...2 weeks ago
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- Ignoring Tax Tradeoffs
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- What do people think about when they go to sleep?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melinda Jackson, Associate Professor at Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University Shutterstock You’re lying in bed, trying to fall asleep but the racing thoughts won’t stop. Instead, your brain is busy making detailed ...2 days ago - Election 2023: The health policies in two minutes
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More young people are turning out to vote each election, but their numbers still lag far behind the country's older voters. ...2 days ago - Luxon’s red light for beneficiaries
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- “The Deficit Diaries: Six Years Of Red” Unveils Labour’s Fiscal Miscalculations
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- Election 2023: ACT promises to scrap several climate change policiesACT Party leader David Seymour says his party will stop what he says is wasteful climate change spending. ...2 days ago
- What’s going to happen to the famous Mangaweka plane?2 days ago
- Greens would double best start, make it universal for young childrenThe Greens say their new policy of doubling the Best Start payment and extending it for every child under three years would end child poverty in New Zealand. “Parents all over the country are being forced to cut back on food to pay the bills,” said co-leader Marama Davidson. “Our ...2 days ago
- Green Party pledges to double Best Start payment, extend to all under threeThe Green Party says it will double the Best Start payment from $69 a week to $140; it will also make it available for all children under three years. ...2 days ago
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- 7 years, billions of kilometres, a handful of dust: NASA just brought back the largest-ever asteroid...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eleanor K. Sansom, Research Associate, Curtin University NASA After a journey of billions of kilometres, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing through the sky before touching down in the Utah desert. Inside is likely ...2 days ago
- Handing Climate Policy To Appointed Bureaucrats Is Undemocratic And IneffectiveResponding to Labour’s promise to hand control over carbon pricing under the Emissions Trading Scheme to the Climate Change Commission, Taxpayers’ Union Deputy Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “Handing control of carbon pricing away to faceless ...2 days ago
- Friendship ended with Sky Sport. Now Rabbitholebd Sports is my best friendHow to watch the Black Caps vs Bangladesh for free – and why YouTube is actually the best live sports streaming platform. New Zealand Cricket nerds hoping to watch the first match of the Black Caps’ pre-World Cup ODI series against Bangladesh last week were out of luck – not ...2 days ago
- Taxpayers’ Union Welcomes National’s Sanction Regime On The Job-Seeker BenefitTaxpayers’ Union welcomes National’s sanction regime on the Job-Seeker Benefit Responding to National’s proposed changes to the Job-Seeker benefit scheme, Taxpayers’ Union National Campaigns Manager, Callum Purves, said: “The current job-seeker ...2 days ago
- Green List Good News, But Don’t Stop There...2 days ago
- PNG’s Chief Censor warns over ‘fake nudes’ harassment of young girlsBy Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby The rise in social media platforms uploading naked pictures of women and girls has come to the attention of the Censorship Board in Papua New Guinea with Chief Censor Jim Abani warning about the dangers. In what many have termed as cyber bullying, a ...2 days ago
- Labour promises to ‘turbocharge’ medicine fundingLabour would invest over $1 billion in new funding at Pharmac if reelected, leader Chris Hipkins has promised. It will mean $181 million of funding a year from 2024/25, along with an extra $50 million for new treatments in the first year, rising to $100 million a year in 2026/2027. ...2 days ago
- Labour promises $1b boost to Pharmac over four yearsAiming to fund more medicines, Labour leader Chris Hipkins has announced over $1 billion of new funding for Pharmac, if re-elected. ...2 days ago
- Voting Starts Soon In The 2023 General ElectionVoting in the 2023 General Election will be underway soon, with overseas voting starting tomorrow Wednesday 27 September and voting places opening in New Zealand next Monday 2 October. Overseas voting Voters who are overseas can vote from Wednesday ...2 days ago
- A mega list of Megapod listensLast week’s 12-hour Gone By Lunchtime Megapod saw a number of fascinating chats in The Spinoff studio – and now you can listen back to all of them. Head to the Gone By Lunchtime feed wherever you get your podcasts to catch up on all the interviews, including with Labour’s ...2 days ago
- Whatever happened to the streaming wars?A pandemic made the rivalry between Netflix, Disney, Apple, Amazon and more the hottest story in business. Now two strikes have the industry at a crossroads. It’s easy to forget, but the first “streaming war” actually broke out in music. In the mid-2010s, when Obama was still president, the rivalry ...2 days ago
- National Party reveals traffic light system for Jobseeker beneficiariesThe National Party has announced a system that could leave people "who are able to work" on the Jobseeker benefit with reductions or suspensions. ...2 days ago
- National Party reveals traffic light system for Jobseeker beneficiariesThe National Party has announced a system that could leave people "who are able to work" on the Jobseeker benefit with reductions or suspensions. ...2 days ago
- McAnulty butts heads with National candidate over water reformsAt a public meeting in Waipukurau, Labour’s Kieran McAnulty said National’s unreleased economic plan won’t have any money set aside for the reforms once known as Three Waters. Stewart Sowman-Lund reports. Labour’s Kieran McAnulty has “bet” that National’s forthcoming fiscal plan won’t have any money in it for water reforms ...2 days ago
- National pledges ‘traffic light’ system, with more sanctions, for beneficiariesNational would introduce a tiered “traffic light” system for beneficiaries, pledging to penalise unemployed people who persistently do not meet their benefit obligations. The party’s social development spokesperson Louise Upston said that benefit dependency had surged under Labour, with almost 60,000 more people on the jobseeker benefit compared with when ...2 days ago
- Winston Peters a ‘force for chaos’, says HipkinsIt’s Tuesday, September 26 and welcome back to The Spinoff’s election live updates. I’m Stewart Sowman-Lund, on deck from Palmerston North, with support from our news team around the country. Get in touch with me on [email protected] Learn more about the political parties and where they stand at Policy.nz ...2 days ago
- John Key floats Winston Peters as speaker of the houseFormer prime minister Sir John Key has backed National leader Christopher Luxon’s decision to rule in working with New Zealand First. And he’s floated a possible governing arrangement that he thinks could work. Speaking to RNZ’s Checkpoint yesterday, Key said that having New Zealand First propping up National and Act ...2 days ago
- A national digital ID scheme is being proposed. An expert weighs the pros and (many more) consSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erica Mealy, Lecturer in Computer Science, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is proposing a national digital identity scheme that will ...2 days ago
- The ‘yes’ Voice campaign is far outspending ‘no’ in online advertising, but is the message g...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University With early voting set to open next week for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, this is a critical time for campaigners to win over voters. If ...2 days ago
- Is it normal to forget words while speaking? And when can it spell a problem?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greig de Zubicaray, Professor of Neuropsychology, Queensland University of Technology mimi thian/unsplash We’ve all experienced that moment mid-sentence when we just can’t find the word we want to use, even though we’re certain we know it. Why does this ...2 days ago
- Container deposit schemes reduce rubbish on our beaches. Here’s how we proved itSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kay Critchell, Lecturer in Oceanography, Deakin University Shutterstock Our beaches are in trouble. Limited recycling programs and a society that throws away so much have resulted in more than 3 million tonnes of plastic polluting the oceans. An estimated 1.5–1.9% ...2 days ago
- As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better model...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Inga Smith, Associate Professor in Physics, University of Otago Jan Lieser, CC BY-SA After two seasons of record-breaking lows, Antarctica’s sea ice remains in dramatic decline, tracking well below any winter maximum levels observed since satellite monitoring began during the ...2 days ago
- Take risks, embrace failure and be comfortable with uncertainty: 3 activities to help your child thi...Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Zouwer, Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra As a visual artist and educator, I know how important it is to encourage your child to think and behave like an artist. But this is not necessarily about drawing ...2 days ago
- Workplace loneliness is the modern pandemic damaging lives and hurting businessesSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shea X. Fan, Senior Lecturer in International Business, School of Management, RMIT University Shutterstock Loneliness is a much discussed social issue, but it is rarely considered to be a workplace problem that needs to be managed like other health issues ...2 days ago
- From Luna Park to neo-Nazis – why the Middle Ages still matters to middle AustraliaSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University The medieval is part of the mosaic of modern Australia. Our nation’s heritage on this island continent is full of it: in aesthetics, institutions, laws, languages, identities, moralities. ...2 days ago
- The cost of being: A suburban homeowner in their 30sAs part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a healthcare worker $700-a-week mortgage shares where their money goes. Want to contribute? Email [email protected] to receive the form. Gender: Male Age: 34 Ethnicity: Pākehā Role: Healthcare/Social Services Manager My living location is: Suburban Rent/Mortgage per ...2 days ago
- Labour wins election (in 1984)
A memoir of David Lange leading Labour to victory in the 1984 election, as told by an author and family friend There’s a New Zealand Herald photograph of David Lange, family and followers celebrating Labour’s win on election night, 1984. It’s taken in the Metro Theatre, Mangere, where a ...2 days ago - The Bulletin: Change of direction for source of cryptosporidium outbreakAs Stuff’s Debbie Jamieson reports, efforts to hunt out the source of Queenstown’s cryptosporidium outbreak are moving away from the water supply toward businesses in the central town. Yesterday, the council received negative results from water supply samples taken last week and Public Health South has confirmed it is looking for alternative ...2 days ago
- ‘Change to what?’ Hipkins says NZ worried about possible National-Act-NZ First coalitionNew polling shows Winston Peters would be the kingmaker after this year’s election, but Chris Hipkins said if that’s the case he’s comfortable with it meaning a new National-led government. The Newshub Reid-Research poll had New Zealand First up to 5.2%, meaning they would bring six MPs back to parliament ...2 days ago
- Young candidates debate as poll sets stage for return of ‘Matua Winston’Juxtaposition aplenty as candidates front for young voters’ debate and new polling proves you can never write Winston Peters off, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Young voters’ debate provides juxtaposition ...2 days ago
- Labour leader Chris Hipkins does not regret ruling out working with NZ First after latest pollLabour leader Chris Hipkins says he "absolutely" does not regret ruling out working with NZ First, after the latest political poll showed Winston Peters would return as Kingmaker. ...2 days ago
- Live Election 2023 updates: All the latest developments on 26 SeptemberThe latest Newshub Reid Research poll indicates National and ACT would have 60 seats, just short of the 61 needed to form a government ...2 days ago
- Sparks fly at youth debate as candidates forced to defend policiesAnalysis - A fast-paced election debate focused on young voters got heated as it drilled into parties' answers to the cost of living, housing, climate change and rainbow issues. ...2 days ago
- What would the different parties’ policies mean for disabled people?Looking at the election policies stacked in front of the New Zealand public this year, I feel as though I have time-travelled back to the 1980s, writes disability advocate Colleen Brown. I’ve always thought New Zealand was a a decent place to live, and a country based on “fairness”. I ...2 days ago
- It’s the tail that directs the fish: The political heft of Te Tai TokerauWill Labour deputy leader Kelvin Davis retain his grip on the northernmost Māori electorate, or will strategic voting see a new name follow in the footsteps of Matiu Rata and Hone Harawira as a strong Māori voice for Te Tai Tokerau? Some elders in the north say that when the ...2 days ago
- Grocery reforms do nothing for cost of living, says early adopter Huckleberry
The organic grocer Huckleberry was first to sign up, but now says its plans are cramped by political uncertainty ...2 days ago - Where is she now? Penny Whiting
Major surgery hasn't slowed down sailing trailblazer Penny Whiting - still racing yachts at 75. Now NZ's most noted yacht club has honoured her for always going that extra mile, Suzanne McFadden writes. Penny Whiting sensed something was up. She just couldn't decipher what. Sitting among the crowd in the ballroom of the Royal ...2 days ago - Disrupting trades education an expensive game
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While most focus is on the prospects of four or five major parties, a range of smaller parties are fighting for the vote from the edges ...2 days ago - The Sure Things: Lan Pham goes from hermit life to public life
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We cannot give up on the communities who have already been severely impacted by climate change, or the communities who will be impacted by it in the years to come ...2 days ago - Needs assessment services under fire from families
People with disabilities are waiting longer to have their needs assessed ...2 days ago - Peters, 78 not out, reaches towards history
Winston Peters is on the brink of parliamentary history if re-elected, becoming one of the oldest leaders ever and primed to surpass great names of NZ politics. Tim Murphy reports. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters joked at a public meeting of mainly older people that, unlike his questioner, "I don't ...2 days ago - Recycling the wrong ideas about climate change
Did you catch public transport to work today? Choose a meal that didn't involve beef? If you said 'Yes', you're doing better than either of our two main party leaders when it comes to your personal efforts over climate change. There was an answer to a question in the ...2 days ago - Pseudoregulation: the failure to stop meth production
Ban on the only cold medicine that seems to work never seemed likely to work ...2 days ago - Newsroom daily quiz, Tuesday 26 September
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- View from The Hill: ‘Player’ Mike Pezzullo undone by power playSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mike Pezzullo, one of Canberra’s most powerful and certainly most controversial public servants, cannot survive the revelation of the trove of text messages showing him blatantly inserting himself into the political process. Pezzullo, the ...2 days ago
- Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public ServiceSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about ...2 days ago
- Australian rugby has reached its lowest point. How did it get here?Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University The Wallabies have suffered a record-breaking defeat to Wales at the Rugby World Cup. This represents Australia’s worst result in a World Cup match and its biggest-ever losing margin to Wales. And it will ...3 days ago
- Greens the winners in latest poll
The Green Party is eating up the vote on the left in a new poll, and for the third time this month National needs Winston Peters to form a government Monday night’s Newshub-Reid Research poll has the Greens on the up, hitting 14.2 percent. It’s reminiscent of the 15 percent ...3 days ago - NZ election 2023: Overstayers issue kicks off Pacific communities debateBy Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist The Pacific Election 2023 debate kicked off today with one of the most pressing issues for Pacific communties — an amnesty for overstayers. The Dawn Raids apology was two years ago, and weeks out from the election, the Labour Party has announced it would ...3 days ago
- Sir John Key to Luxon – 'I would advise him to rule Winston in'Former PM John Key says it is pragmatic for Christopher Luxon to not rule out working with NZ First's Winston Peters, despite having done the same himself in the past. ...3 days ago
- National and Act would need NZ First to govern according to latest pollJust this morning, Christopher Luxon announced he would work with NZ First to form a government after the election and would make the call to Winston Peters on election night if he had to. He later revealed to reporters he wasn’t sure if he even had Peters’ phone number. According ...3 days ago
- Peters returns as Kingmaker under Newshub-Reid Research pollNational and ACT would need Winston Peters' support to form a government under the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll. ...3 days ago
- Labour to consider 2.1 million hectares of native reforestation
Labour released the first ever climate-specific policy manifesto from a political party in New Zealand on Monday but not everything in the document was new, Marc Daalder reports Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the climate manifesto released at a campaign stop in Taranaki on Monday is the first such document ...3 days ago - 1 in 5 Australian workers are either underemployed or out of work: white paperSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Commonwealth Treasury Today’s employment white paper has adopted the broadest-ever definition of what “full employment” means for Australia. The new paper says closer to 2.8 million ...3 days ago
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