Super-Wards: Commission Proposes New Boundaries For Auckland
The Local Government Commission presented its proposals on the boundaries and representation arrangements for the new Auckland Council today.
Under the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, the Commission is required to determine boundaries for the new Auckland Council, wards and local boards, ward and board names and the number of members per local board. More>>
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Polytechs: Council-Slashing Bill Now Also Removes Student & Staff Reps
Student representatives are outraged at today’s release of an Education and Science Select Committee report on a Bill which will fundamentally alter the nature and quality of Polytechnic Councils. More>>
Greenwash II: Government Baits Guardian Columnist
"When New Zealand's sink forests are harvested in the 2020s, as is likely, all that carbon will return to the atmosphere. The government of New Zealand responded with some irritation to my column last week ... " More>>
John Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power
If you drive from Auckland to Hamilton you pass through some of the richest farmland in the world… virtually everything you see in all directions is confiscated land. More>>
Harm Mimisation: NZ Needle Exchange One Of World's Most Successful
Initial results from the National Needle Exchange Blood-borne Virus Seroprevalence Survey 2009 show New Zealand continues to have the lowest rate of HIV amongst its intravenous drug users compared to other countries, and that a significant reduction in hepatitis B and C among injecting users has been achieved over the last five years. More>>
Protest: Smacking March, On Day After UN Child Convention Anniversary, Also Has Popera
“We’re thrilled to have such awesome talent as Yulia and Lapi Mariner make themselves available to lead us in the national anthem and to perform other items before and after the march,” says organiser Colin Craig. More>>
Submissions: Finance Unions Says ACC Changes Dangerous For Workers
“The changes present a real threat to the coverage of workers with gradual process injuries or OOS,” said Finsec General Secretary Andrew Casidy. “These injuries are common in the banks and raising the bar for their rehabilitation could be devastating for those affected.” More>>
Military: Airman Killed At Waiouru, Another Injured
Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott, has confirmed that at just after 9 am, in the Waiouru Training Area, an unexpected explosion occurred, causing instant and fatal injuries to Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster. A second Air Force Sergeant received minor injuries. More>>
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Smellie Sniffs The Breeze: Oil Fever Follows Wind
What an irony it would be if, after nine years of a government pushing uneconomic investment in wind power, it was followed by an equally uncommercial push by the current government to establish a bigger oil and gas industry in New Zealand. More>>
Getting There: Joyce Gives Telecom More Time For Separation
Communications Minister Steven Joyce has granted Telecom Corp. nine months to cut down potential information-sharing among its units as part of the company’s government-enforced operational separation. More>>
Scoop Business: Wrightson To Raise $180M In Discount Rights Issue
PGG Wrightson, the rural services company aiming to shed debt to woo a new cornerstone investor, plans to raise $180 million in a rights issue at a deep discount. More>>
Medical: Liley Medal Holds The Key To Fertility
The Health Research Council of New Zealand’s (HRC) Liley Medal was awarded to Professor Allan Herbison. Professor Herbison has been honoured for his outstanding work, which has made a breakthrough that may lead to new treatments for infertility. More>>
Consensus-Breaking: Goff To Give Reserve Bank Magic Wand
The ideal is a stable and competitive exchange rate. But our Reserve Bank policy targets are not well designed to produce a stable and competitive exchange rate, nor to keep interest rates as low as possible. More>>
Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices increased 2.0 percent for the year ended March 2009, Statistics New Zealand said today. This increase is the lowest since the year ended March 1999 and follows a 7.7 percent increase in the March 2008 year. More>>
Miner Strike: Negotiations Resume
1000 Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Solid Energy’s four main mines have voted to return to work at 6am Saturday morning. More>>
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John Minto: Hone Harawira - Speaking Truth To Power
John Minto writes: None of this should need to be said but the reaction of so many to Harawira's angry email resembles the deeply embedded racism which Don Brash tapped into so successfully a few years back at Orewa. More >>
Damien Baker: Profits Mask Food Shortages in a Land of Plenty
The petroleum industry arrived in the Lake Kutubu area, around 20 years ago with Chevron and BP and soon the delicate ecological balance often in play in remote areas began to shift. More >>
The Israeli Exception: Gilo And East Jerusalem
In 1987, the conservative author Midge Decter described her association with Israel and those willing to place it above conventional judgment. ‘We know ourselves to be bound by ties so deep, so essential, so unconditional, that they are beyond daylight... More >>
Gordon Campbell: The 9/11 Terrorists On Trial
For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing fairly with crime... More >>
Paul Buchanan: The Strategic Utility of Terrorism (and why jihadism is losing)
A Word From Afar: Paul Buchanan writes: One of the axioms of counter-terrorism is that the nastiness of the atrocity is inversely proportional to the terrorist’s chances of success. That is to say, the worse the act, then less likely that terrorist... More >>
East Timor: The Role Of Journalists In The Freedom Struggle
The struggle for justice is not a contest between Indonesians and non-Indonesians. Rather, it is a contest between those around the world who want to justice to prevail and those who want to see impunity prevail... More >>
Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video channel, MTV. ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Falling Leaves, and Squirrels
One is so accustomed to seeing the gray squirrels in the parkland leap from branch to branch with perfect dexterity that it came as quite a shock to see one miss his mark and fall into the creek. More >>
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Recession: Recovery Depends On Rebalancing Global Demand
Washington - To establish a global foundation for growth and avert future economic crises, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says, the major advanced economies must rebalance global demand. More >>
Asylum Boats: Kevin Rudd Should Face Senate Inquiry
''The Prime Minister should be subject to a Senate Inquiry over his handling of the various asylum boat debacles of the last month, which include reports that the Oceanic Viking was directed away from Australian waters after rescuing asylum seekers in ... More >>
Terrorism: Chile Invokes Pinochet-Era Anti-Terrorism Law
In comparison to other countries in Latin America, Chile boasts relatively stable political institutions, particularly free and fair elections, and a substantial middle class. More >>
Humanitarianism: President Yudhoyono Should Uphold Free Expression
President Yudhoyono (Indonesia) has a chance to show Papuans before the December 1 anniversary that Indonesia is a rights-respecting country that upholds free expression. Yudhoyono should have these men freed without delay. More >>
US State Department: Address To All Troops In Afghanistan
Thanks a lot. Thank you. Well, I am delighted to have this chance to come by and thank you in person for what you’re all doing. I’m very grateful to the leadership that both General McChrystal and General Rodriguez are giving to NATO-ISAF and to ... More >>
Land Theft: Israeli Decision To Expand Jerusalem Settlement
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the Israeli Government's decision today to expand Jerusalem’s Gilo settlement, stressing that it was built on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. More >>
Australia: RAAF Jets Take To The Skies For Exercise
Royal Australian Air Force personnel will play an important role as fighter jets take to the skies for the East Coast Air Defence Exercise (ECADEX 09), to be conducted off the coast of New South Wales. More >>
Press Business: Finding New Business Models For Newspapers
One of the most intriguing new business models for newspapers -- an individualised newspaper in Germany composed of selected pages and sections from other papers, delivered each morning to one's door -- will be examined when the world's press gathers.More >>
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Soroptimists: 70 Years Of Sisterhood
The country’s oldest branch of a little-known international women’s service club, the Soroptimists, celebrates its 70th anniversary in Wellington this Sunday (Nov 22 2009). Over the years, Soroptimist International Wellington has been working hard without fanfare to raise funds for hundreds of causes that assist the plight of women all over the globe. More>>
Kiwi Pride / Charity: Chinese To Be Awestruck By Power Of Kiwi-Made Rayguns
Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson spoke today at the announcement of a major original exhibition by Weta Workshop which will tour China later this year. More>>
Party On The Internet: C4 And Telecom Present The Non-Stop Gig
C4 and Telecom have joined forces to deliver a New Zealand first. On Sunday 6th December a collection of New Zealand’s hottest musicians will get together to perform a mammoth 12 hour gig - streamed live, and non-stop, on the internet. The only way to see this concert will be online at www.c4tv.co.nz/thenonstopgig. More>>
Massed Strings: Young Kiwis' Rehearsal Smashes World Record
New Zealand kids have proven they have easily the biggest ukulele orchestra in the world. Gathering at Mt Smart on Friday November 13th to rehearse for this Saturday’s BNZ Ukulele Festival performance, 961 children from the Kiwileles, New Zealand’s massed children’s ukulele orchestra, smashed the current world record of 851. More>>
Bats: The Elephant Is Still In The Room
After completely selling out the remaining dates of its season at BATS Theatre the critically-acclaimed production Death and the Dreamlife of Elephants is pleased to announce a Matinee show. The matinee will be performed this Saturday November 21 at 2pm, at BATS Theatre, Kent Terrace. More>>
Sport-O-Drome: Auckland Roller Derby Season Final 28th Nov
Roll on up to the biggest of bout of the season! See death-defying Dead Wreckoning take on the masters of masquerade, Mascara Massacre in the third and final game of Pirate City Rollers 2009 season on Saturday 28 November. More>>
Retail: Newmarket Calls Out Queen St Over Santa Abuse
The bandage that’s tightly wrapped around Queen Street’s giant Santa Claus is upsetting children and too scary for Christmas, says the chief executive of the Newmarket Business Association Cameron Brewer. More>>
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