Waiting for the Eurogroup: Explosive IMF Leak Re: Greece | Julian Assange
An Reform Proposal For The EU: PACE Proposes An Alternative To Brexit
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Binoy Kampmark: Arms And Embargoes | The Acquittal Of Vojislav Šešelj
Workplace Safety: Helen Kelly To Be Acknowledged At Awards
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Arts: Decline In Lotto Revenue To Affect Funding | Arts Foundation
Wellington.Scoop: Man Charged With Murder After Stabbing Victim Dies
What is the more rational use of taxpayer money? In one instance, we have New Zealanders with orthopedic problems living in pain until they can get access to the surgery they need...
Or on the other hand, should we spend hundreds of millions of dollars instead on new submarine spotting equipment for the military’s Orion airplanes, to enable them to operate in regions far from New Zealand, and in a threat environment where the actual threat to this country is acknowledged to be currently so low as to be virtually non-existent.
Now, guess which of these options is more likely to be funded. More>>
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Welfare, Min Wage, Parental Leave, ACC...: April 1 Changes 'To Help New Zealand Families'
More paid parental leave, stronger work expectations for beneficiary parents and the first non-inflation increase to benefits in 43 years are part of a raft of measures coming into force tomorrow to help families get ahead, Finance Minister Bill English says. More>>
Refugee Petition: Labour, Greens, United Future Join Calls To Double The Quota
Labour will double New Zealand’s refugee quota when in Government because it’s the right thing to do, Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little says. More>>
Govt Responds To Inquiry: Huge Win For Sexual Violence Survivors And Services
The Government’s decision to accept all recommendations from a Select Committee inquiry initiated by Green Party MP Jan Logie is a huge win for sexual violence survivors and those working to help them, the Green Party says. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On The SIS Crying Wolf (And Syria, And Max Edwards RIP)
This week, the SIS reported back on their use of the special powers granted to them in late 2014 to conduct surveillance without a warrant, in cases of serious and urgent threat. It turns out that between July and December 2015 that power was used only once. Moreover, as others have pointed out, where are the arrests for terrorist activity? More>>
Highest Rate In World: Experts Call For Realistic Melanoma Funding
Melanoma experts are calling for increased action by the New Zealand government to address this country’s world-leading melanoma rates. More>>
Drug Law: Greens Welcome Dunne's Reform Talk
The Green Party is offering to work with other political parties on evidence-based drug law reform and welcomes Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne’s suggestion that drugs be viewed as a health issue. More>>
NZ Post Plans To Cut 500 Jobs: Govt Must Do More For Workers - Labour
“The changes at NZ Post have been known about for years. Instead of being bystanders, National should be working with the SOE, unions and businesses to ensure a decent work transition for employees instead of leaving them on the scrapheap." More>>
Water: Tourism Industry Supports Petition For Freshwater Policy
The Tourism Export Council was delighted to be with the Choose Clean Water team and continue the support to campaign for better freshwater standards when they presented their petition of more than 13,000 signatures to parliament ... More>>
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CTU: Another Forestry Worker Killed At Work
This is the fourth forestry worker (or fifth including a construction worker who was killed on a forestry block) to be killed in forestry this year. “Are we heading for another 2013? 10 men were killed at work in forestry in 2013, our most shameful year on record." More>>
Re-Defibrillating: Bunnings Listens To Community Feedback
We sincerely appreciate the constructive feedback from our Customers and Team. This has always been very important to us and has provided us with the opportunity to review our current approach. More>>
Employment: Bunnings Dispute Heads To ERA
The development comes after Bunnings suspended hundreds of workers across the country for removing their signature aprons in a symbolic protest against the company’s repeated refusal to compromise on rostering. More>>
Invaders: Velvetleaf Weed Hunt Goes National
The call for sightings of the aggressive weed velvetleaf has shifted to a national one following the detection of the plant in fodder beet crops in the North Island... Velvet leaf is a serious weed pest overseas, damaging crops by competing with them for nutrients and water. In New Zealand, it is an Unwanted Organism under the Biosecurity Act. More>>
Above Forecast: NZ Economy Grows 0.9% In 4th Quarter 2015
New Zealand's economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the final three months of 2015 on increased activity in business services, a boost in retail and accommodation spending, and renewed construction activity. The kiwi dollar jumped. More>>
'When Not If': Big Carbon Emitters To Lose ETS Subsidy: Bennett
Big industrial emitters of greenhouse gases will lose their right under the emissions trading scheme to offset only half of their emissions, Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told an international energy conference in Wellington today. More>>
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Max Rashbrooke At 'Future Of Work' Conference: Labour: Lions Or Pussycats?
So far the debate generated by Labour’s conference has been about the universal basic income (UBI), a guaranteed annual payment to every adult regardless of status. It’s probably the big new idea in this field and has proponents across the political spectrum. But Labour won’t actually go there soon ... More>>
Richard McLachlan: Sanders - Who Dares Wins
This past Wednesday, Rolling Stone magazine stamped the Clinton campaign with the boomer generation’s rock’n roll imprimatur. The editor Jann Wenner, in a cogent but not especially persuasive article, endorsed Hillary as the Joan of Arc of this current debacle. More>>
Current Flag Wins: Jitterati 28/3/16
Flag Referendum: Electoral Commission Makes Referral To The Police
On 8 and 9 March 2016, the Electoral Commission referred four incidents to Police for further investigation involving individuals who posted on social media that they have voted or intended to vote more than once using other electors’ voting papers in the second flag referendum. More>>
3 To 24 March: Flag Referendum Voting Papers Out
3/3 The second referendum on the New Zealand flag begins today, with more than three million voting packs being delivered to mailboxes over the next week. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On How Obama’s Supreme Court Choice Says Everything (Bad) About His Presidency
Nothing has epitomised the presidency of Barack Obama quite like his Supreme Court nominees. Time and again, Republican presidents will blithely nominate right wing ideological extremists (Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas) who only sometimes misfire and turn out to be liberals in disguise (David Souter). Yet Obama has consistently skipped over the judicially qualified liberals and gone for a succession of centrists... More>>
Turkey: UN Secretary-General On The Terrorist Bombing In Ankara
The Secretary-General condemns the terrorist attack in Ankara earlier today. According to the latest reports, the explosion in the Kizilay district killed and wounded dozens of people. More>>
Five Years On: Fukushima And New Zealand
Science Media Centre: It was the worst nuclear event since Chernobyl. In the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a crippled Japanese nuclear powerplant went into meltdown, and the world watched as emergency workers scrambled to shut down and contain the reactors. More>>
UNICEF: 1 In 3 Syrian Children Has Grown Up Knowing Only Crisis
An estimated 3.7 million Syrian children – 1 in 3 of all Syrian children - have been born since the conflict began five years ago, their lives shaped by violence, fear and displacement, according to a UNICEF report. This figure includes more than 151,000 children born as refugees since 2011. More>>
Franklin Lamb: Syria’s Truce Bodes Well For Salvaging Our Cultural Heritage
The tentative cessation of hostilities in Syria, which came into effect on 2/28/2016, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is only in its second week... It is well documented that there have been daily incidents of artillery shelling, airstrikes and clashes. Yet, for the nearly 12 million displaced civilians, half of Syria’s population, it’s a much welcomed respite. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On Rubio’s Last Stand (And Sleater-Kinney)
Well, it certainly was entertaining to watch Rubio succeed in getting under Donald Trump’s skin the other day, in the last debate before tomorrow’s Super Tuesday multi-state sweepstakes... The real killer for Rubio was that the most recent poll from Florida which shows him losing his home state to Trump by a huge margin in the primary due on March 15. More>>
Cyclone Winston: NZ Aid For Fiji
22/2 Foreign Minister Murray McCully has announced a further Defence Force flight to Fiji and $1.8 million in funding, bringing New Zealand’s total contribution to relief efforts following Tropical Cyclone Winston to $2.2 million… More>>
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Pokie Money: Decline In Lotto Revenue To Affect The Arts
Creative New Zealand is reviewing its budgets for the 2016/17 financial year and beyond, following a further forecast decline in revenue from New Zealand Lottery Grants Board (NZLGB) for the 2015/16 financial year. More>>
The Green Party is introducing a members’ bill today that will reduce environmental degradation as a result of dairy intensification by requiring all cows to wear nappies. More>>
Review: The Light-Hearted Hermeneutics Of 'Hail, Caesar!'
Despite rave reviews in both 'Variety' and 'The New Yorker,' 'Hail, Caesar!' is a box-office dud, costing an estimated $22 million, but only grossing $29 million in the US since its 2015 release. Like many Coen brothers films, however, beneath its frantic and farcical surface is a serious underlying level ... More>>
Scoop Review Of Books: Before The ‘Thrones’
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a spinoff of George R.R. Martin’s 'A Song of Ice and Fire', the fantasy books whose first volume was A Game of Thrones... More>>
Very Acting: The Seven Sons Of Supparath: The Winch Of Fate - Part One
Paul Waggott, local actor and international fantasy nerd, will be playing all the roles in this production in what will no doubt be a virtuoso display of both physical endurance and actorly skill. More>>
Scoop Review Of Books: Adventures In Persia
This is a true story of a French couple’s amazing archaeological expeditions in the late nineteenth century in what is now Iran and Iraq. More>>
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Collection Of April Fools Joke (As Far As We Can Tell): Green Party To Launch “Cow Nappies” To Combat Pollution