New Court Orders, Screening, Guardianship Changes...: Government Ignoring Poverty, Again
It remains to be seen if announcements today will better protect children, but the National Government is forgoing an opportunity to really help kids by ignoring the elephant in the room, which is poverty, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei says.
"All the experts have told the Government that very low income is associated with higher rates of child maltreatment and neglect -- something which was totally ignored in the Government's Children's Action Plan and the announcements today," Mrs Turei said. More>>
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Party Time: Dunne Welcomes UnitedFuture’s Re-Registration
United Future leader Peter Dunne has welcomed the Electoral Commission’s decision to re-register United Future as a political party. More>>
Wellington.Scoop: “Irrevocable Damage” From Two Flyovers
The last stop for Generation Zero’s nationwide speaking tour on smart responses to climate change became a venue, in Wellington last night, for an attack on the Transport Agency’s plans for flyovers at the Basin Reserve. More>>
Fonterra: Ex-CBA Boss Ralph Norris To Lead Board Inquiry
Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief Ralph Norris is to lead Fonterra Cooperative Group’s board inquiry into the botulism contamination scare, helped by former High Court judge Judith Potter and Chapman Tripp lawyer Jack Hodder QC. More>>
Customs: "Crackdown" On Psychoactives
Customs Minister Maurice Williamson says a crackdown on the importation of psychoactive substances shows targeted efforts by Customs are paying off. More>>
National Party Annual Conference: Key Speech - Expanded Kiwisaver Access For Home Buyers
"Under our plan, we have protected the most vulnerable New Zealanders through difficult times, set a path back to surplus, and built a solid platform for growth." More>>
National Party Conference: Major Changes To RMA 'Undermine Environmental Safeguards'
Forest & Bird is describing the proposed changes to the core of the Resource Management Act as confirmation that the government's strategy is to create short term economic growth at the expense of the environment... More>>
Gordon Campbell: On The Smelter Deal, Fonterra And Iran
Well, it does seem that about $30 million is the kind of pocket money that the government has readily at hand to throw at foreign corporates – at Warners over The Hobbit, and now at Rio Tinto over the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. One would love to know how the size of these handouts – yes, this is corporate welfarism – are calculated. More>>
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Need To Sell Moa Beer: Moa Slumps To Record Low After Warning On 2014 Sales
Moa Group is the worst performing stock on New Zealand’s benchmark index, dropping to a record low, after the boutique beer maker said it will miss its 2014 sales forecasts as volumes sold in New Zealand and Australia lag expectations. More>>
Now In Red: Martin Aircraft Company Reveals Latest Jetpack
Martin Aircraft Company’s CEO, Peter Coker, said that the P12 prototype was a “huge step up” from the previous prototype. More>>
Scoop Business: Meridian Earnings Strong, But Smelter Deal Cuts Value
Meridian Energy has turned in a strong 53 percent increase in underlying net profit after tax of $162.7 million, but has had to write down the total value of its assets by $476 million to reflect the lower power prices it will get from the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. More>>
Quake Rules Announced: Owners Urged To Strengthen Buildings Over Minimum
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering has urged building owners to strengthen earthquake prone buildings to double the Government’s minimum requirement... More>>
Power Market: Tiwai Point Smelter Safe To Jan 2017 Under New Power Deal
Meridian Energy has had to give up previously negotiated price increases and the government has chipped in with a $30 million “incentive payment” to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open until at least January 2017. More>>
Telecommunications Review: Government's Telco Intervention "Unprecedented"
Today's announcement by the government effectively puts the needs of Chorus's shareholders ahead of those of every day New Zealanders, says the chief executive of the Telecommunication Users Association of New Zealand, Paul Brislen... More>>
Scoop Business: NZ Unemployment Rate Rises To 6.4% In 2Q
New Zealand’s unemployment rate rose more than expected in the second quarter while the participation rate increased, with little evidence of wage inflation. More>>
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Selpius Bobii: Genocide continuing against Ethnic Papuans: For whom and for what was the UN created?
West Papua is continuously burning. It has become the arena for the playing out of a conflict between a number of parties. The consequence of the fundamental political rights of the nation of West Papua having been pawned unilaterally by the Netherlands, ... More>>
Franklin Lamb: What happened to the Palestinian refugees at Masnaa this Eid al Fitr weekend?
On 8/5/13 this observer decided, quite on the spur of the moment, to take a three day break from Damascus the next morning and make a quick trip to Beirut to do some errands because offices would be closed starting at dawn for Eid al Fitr celebrations ... More>>
Sherwood Ross: U.S., Russia, China, All Torture Prisoners
The three most powerful nations all operate prison systems that are places of sadism, sickness, and madness unfit for human habitation, much less human reformation. More>>
Franklin Lamb: Seven of Syria’s Palestinian Camps Controlled By Salafi-Jihadists
Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal ... More>>
David Swanson: Her Name Is Jody Williams
Jody Williams' new book is called My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, and it's a remarkable story by a remarkable person. It's also a very well-told autobiography, including in the early childhood chapters ... More>>
Bathurst Decision: Denniston's "Caviar" Of Coal And Westport's Story
A little known aspect to the controversy around mining coal on the Denniston is the remarkable story of the coal itself. This has been mined continuously for the past 130 years due to its special properties - properties which also mean that it commands the highest prices in the world for "metallurgical" coking coal. More>>
Walter Brasch: Royal Dutch Shell: They Really Have A Friend In Pennsylvania
Royal Dutch Shell, which owns or leases about 900,000 acres in the Marcellus Shale, had a great idea. It wanted to frack the Ukraine. But, there was opposition. So, Royal Dutch Shell decided to create a junket for some of the Ukrainians opposed to ... More>>
Afghanistan: UN Mission Condemns Attack On Female Afghan Senator & Family
The United Nations has condemned the attack on Wednesday which led to the wounding of Afghan Senator Rouh Gul Khairzad and various members of her family, as well the death of her eight-year-old daughter and her driver... More>>
Middle East: $100 Million Saudi Contribution For UN Counter-Terrorism
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his sincere gratitude to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia for his announcement of a $100 million contribution for United Nations counter-terrorism efforts... More>>
North America: Wind Power Capacity Expanding Rapidly In U.S.
Wind power is gaining a greater share of the U.S. energy market, according to a new assessment from the Department of Energy, making the United States one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets for this clean and renewable source of energy... More>>
West Papua: Threatened With OPM Stigma, Village Leaders Intimidated
Merauke, like the rest of West Papua, is a militarized zone bearing the scars of fifty years of conflict. Now, as plantation companies continue to push their way in, it is not the first time that companies have been accused of using the ‘separatist’ stigma as a way to threaten indigenous people to give up their ancestral land... More>>
Middle East: Palestinian Political Prisoner Savagely Beaten By Soldiers
Lawyer Fares Ziad recently visited three of the twelve Palestinian political prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails. Ziad confirmed that the health of all three continue to rapidly deteriorate, with one hunger striker savagely beaten by five Israeli soldiers... More>>
Russia: All Out Escalates Campaign Against Russia Anti-Gay Crackdown
All Out publicly delivered a petition with more than 340,000 signatures against the Russian anti-gay crackdown to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, as he met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York City... More>>
Egypt: Response To Military-Installed Putschist Presidency
Following the announcement by the military-appointed president of the failure of negotiations, the pro-democracy, pro-legitimacy coalition holds the putschists responsible for any massacres that their forces may execute against peaceful protesters... More>>
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Lib/Lab Divide On Trans-Pacific Trade Issues Deplored
“As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) trade negotiations between the US, Australia and ten Asia Pacific countries are about to resume in Malaysia on Monday July 15, we urge the Rudd government to maintain its policy to refuse key demands by US industry which would reduce its ability to keep medicines affordable and to regulate tobacco advertising... More>>
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Wellington.Scoop:
My Forty Film Festival Awards
I’ve been going to the Wellington Film Festival for every one of its 42 years, even before it was rebranded as the NZ International Film Festival. So I’m claiming the right to offer my own personal festival awards. More>>
Oracle's Unapproved Modifications: Emirates Team New Zealand Stunned
Emirates Team New Zealand managing director Grant Dalton says he is stunned by revelations that Oracle Team USA AC45 yachts competing in the four America’s Cup World Series regattas were illegal. More>>
Improvised Soap Returns: Wellingtons Riskiest Show Gets Rural
In its tenth year of bringing spontaneous theatre to Wellington’s stages, Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) is ecstatic to present the seventh annual season of the capital’s longest running improvised theatre experience - The Young and the WITless 7. More>>
Malcom Tucker Gets Tardis Keys: Peter Capaldi Revealed As The Twelfth Doctor
Peter Capaldi has been revealed as the Twelfth Doctor in PRIME’s popular sci-fi drama, Doctor Who. Amid much hype and speculation, Peter Capaldi was unveiled as the next Doctor during a special live television event on BBC ONE in the United Kingdom. More>>
Back in Town: Helen Clark To Deliver Lecture At The University Of Auckland
The Rt Hon Helen Clark will present the 2013 Robert Chapman Lecture at The University of Auckland next month. Helen Clark became administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in April 2009 and the first woman to lead the organisation. More>>
Tama Waipara: Fill Up The Silence
After much anticipation Tama Waipara celebrates the release of his second album Fill Up The Silence set for release 6 September 2013. More>>
Culture: Film On New Zealand In Afghanistan Nominated For Top Award
Professor Annie Goldson has received further success for her latest film He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan. The University of Auckland lecturer in Film, Television and Media Studies is about to have her documentary screen nationwide in the New Zealand ... More>>
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