Snow Forecast: Red Cross Prepares For Severe Weather Conditions
A Red Cross Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) is being set up in Christchurch to respond to the snow forecast for the South Island.
An Incident Management Team will be in place at the EOC from 10.00am tomorrow morning and Emergency Response Teams around the country are on standby.
South Island Emergency Management Officer Stephen Manson says that final preparations are underway to ensure the EOC is in a position to respond to emergency community needs as they arise. More>>
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Wellington: NZTA's Plans For Basin, Mt Vic Tunnel, Transport Spine
The NZTA, GWRC and Wellington City Council today released the final report of the Public Transport Spine Study about future public transport options for the city. At the same time, NZTA released refined plans for State Highway 1 including the Basin Bridge, Mount Victoria Tunnel duplication, and widening of Ruahine Street and Wellington Road. More>>
Since the Arab Spring began, the rebellion in Syria has been the only one to evolve into full scale civil war, and still is the only conflict with the potential to shape the politics of the entire Middle East… More>>
Manufacturing Intent: Inquiry 'Produces Blueprint For Future'
The Parliamentary Inquiry into Manufacturing has released its report, Manufacturing: The New Consensus, A blueprint for better jobs and higher wages, which finds that a sensible set of policy changes can be made to turn around the decline in manufacturing… More>>
The Consents Of The Governed: Brownlee Sends Specialist Team To Assist Council Consenting
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee and Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson have reached agreement with Christchurch City Council for a team of technical experts from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to join the council’s consenting department and work with council officers to speed the flow of consent approvals. More>>
Gambling: Greens Drop Support For Flavell Bill After Changes
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill was today reported back from the Commerce Select Committee. The Green Party submitted a minority report outlining concerns over changes to the original bill that had been made during the select committee process. More>>
Werewolf Satire: From The Hood – Plot, Mega-Plot
As Dotcom took The List out of the bedside drawer and uncapped the black marker he kept for these occasions, he sleepily tried to remember exactly how Peter Dunne had slighted him... More>>
Psychoactives Bill Reported Back: A Win For Communities And Animals - Greens
The Green Party welcomes the Psychoactive Substances Bill as it is reported back to the House today, and is delighted that an amendment limiting animal testing has finally been included, despite the submissions on animal testing being rejected by the chair of the Select Committee. More>>
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Company Fails To Provide Records: Initial Action Over $4-An-Hour Wage Claims
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has filed action with the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) in Auckland against an Auckland restaurant chain following complaints that workers are being paid less than $4-an-hour. More>>
Greens: Fonterra To Avoid Drilling-Waste Farms
Fonterra has released information to Radio New Zealand detailing costs of $80,000 a year to test milk from a few farms which have been used as sites for drilling waste from the oil and gas industry and it announced a policy not to collect milk from any new land farms. More>>
Beer: Tuatara Set To Grow With New Investor
In a sale sealed over ale, Tuatara Brewing Company has announced it has sold a 35 percent stake in the business to a Wellington-based investment company. Rangatira Limited paid an undisclosed sum for its share which will see Tuatara are look to increase exports to the United States and boost production volume. More>>
Stat! New Statistics NZ Chief Executive Appointed
State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, today announced the appointment of Liz MacPherson to the position of Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand and Government Statistician. Ms MacPherson is currently Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Governance at the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE). More>>
PC Magazines Gone. Mad? Fairfax Magazines Resign Technology Title Licences
Fairfax Magazines will resign the licences, owned by IDG, to publish technology titles Computerworld, Reseller News and PC World early next month. More>>
Scoop Business: Mediaworks Receivership - New Ownership Planned
MediaWorks NZ, the broadcaster whose stable includes TV3 and Four, and radio stations including Radio Live, the Rock and MoreFM, is “well advanced” with plans for new ownership after being placed in receivership this morning. More>>
Scoop Business: NZ Consumer Confidence Jumps To 3-Year High In June
New Zealand consumer confidence surged to its highest level in three years in June, buoyed by improving economic prospects, rising house values, low interest rates and falling prices, according to the latest Westpac McDermott-Miller Consumer Confidence survey. More>>
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Franklin Lamb: The End Of Syria As We Know It? Why Obama Is Declaring War
The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories... More>>
Paul Bruce: Why Light Rail Must Go Ahead In Wellington
In introducing a debate on Wellington’s future, the Dominion Post challenged us to think about big changes. The current transport model has failed to deliver, and all the recent studies show more of the same is going to make things worse. We need a different approach if we want a vibrant, economically successful city. More>>
Binoy Kampmark: Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing At The NSA
He has been so naughty, at least in the eyes of the security establishment. The British are up in arms about what information is being obtained on their citizens via U.S. channels. Foreign Secretary William Hague has tried dousing the fires, claiming that GCHQ’s alleged involvement in the global surveillance program PRISM did not involve any circumvention of the law. More>>
Martha Rosenberg: A Little Arsenic Never Hurt Anyone, Says US Chicken Industry
A study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found detectable levels of arsenic in chicken from grocery stores in 10 American cities, including in organic chickens. If the drug were fed to all chickens, over 100 US deaths would result from arsenic-related lung and bladder cancers, report the authors. More>>
Franklin Lamb: The West To Pay A High Price For Targeting The Syrian Govt
A number of analysts and security experts who specialize in intelligence and security subjects in Lebanon and France have expressed this week shock at the way many Western authorities, including several in Europe and the United States, are avoiding engagement with the Syrian authorities and thus missing important avenues to help end the crisis in Syria. More>>
Andrea Brower: Coming Soon To Your Backyard, Monsanto And Gang!
When the handful of corporations set on owning, controlling and über-profiting from our common seed heritage — Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, BASF and Bayer — began experimenting with their proprietary chemicals and genetically engineered crops in Hawaii in the 1990s, barely a peep was made. Two decades later, we can’t even convince our Hawaii state government... More>>
Greenpeace: The Video Every Kiwi Should See
John Wathen is an award winning photojournalist who recently toured Aotearoa recounting his experience both on the ground and in the air documenting the catastrophic 2011 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. John flew out over the gulf in a light plane and captured the event as it was unfolding resulting in some amazing footage and images of the worst environmental disaster in American history. More>>
Mitchel Cohen: For Each & Every Warrior Whose Strength Is Not To Fight
The weakness of strategies based on Lowest Common Denominatorism was in full evidentiary blossom during the 1991 bombardment of Iraq, re-packaged as “the Gulf war.” “Support Our Troops, Not the War!” insisted the National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East, which grew out of the old National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam... More>>
Werewolf Issue #40: Talking Dotcom
Turkey: Law Broken Once Again: Children Are Blacklisted!
Children have been exposed to many different forms of state violence in the protests that took place in many different parts of Turkey, in order to support the protests that commenced in Taksim Gezi Park as of May 31st. Hundreds of people, including children were arrested and thousands of people were wounded. More>>
M23 Rebels: UN Welcomes Impending Talks Between DR Congo, M23 Rebels
Welcoming the possible resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the 23 March Movement (M23), the United Nations Special Envoy for Africa's Great Lake's region has urged both sides to engage in earnest discussion to resolve all outstanding issues. More>>
Cambodia: Expulsion Of Opposition Parties From Cambodian Parliament
The United States is deeply concerned by reports that the Permanent Committee of the Cambodian National Assembly, made up entirely of members of the ruling party, has expelled opposition lawmakers from the National Assembly. Such a decision starkly contradicts the spirit of a healthy democratic process. More>>
Syria: UN Announces Largest Ever Humanitarian Appeal
The UN has launched a US$5 billion appeal for Syria, the largest emergency funding call in its history. Save the Children says gaining access to the millions of children trapped in Syria and at acute risk from the conflict must become the international community’s priority. More>>
Turkey: UN Calls On Turkish Government To Ensure Freedom Of Assembly
New York, Jun 4 2013 - The United Nations human rights office urged the Government of Turkey to guarantee that its citizens have the right to assemble freely and in a peaceful manner, following days of violent clashes between protestors and police. More>>
Egypt: NGO Trial Verdicts And Sentences
The United States is deeply concerned by the guilty verdicts and sentences, including the suspended sentences, handed down by an Egyptian court today against 43 NGO representatives in what was a politically-motivated trial. More>>
Tamil Eelam: Freedom Charter Declared
The Transnational Government of TamilEelam declared Tamil Eelam Freedom Charter on on May 18, 2013. Tamil groups from around the world, coordinated by the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), initiated the process of drafting the Freedom Charter, through extensive consultation from Tamils worldwide. More>>
Indonesia: Amnesty International Report Bashes Indonesia Rights
Amnesty International has decried a repressive human rights climate in Indonesia and a worrying lack of progress in addressing past abuses, in a report that is also the third in as many weeks to criticize rising religious intolerance in the country. More>>
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Best Talks Show Host: New York Gold For Kim Hill
Radio New Zealand presenter Kim Hill has won her second major international broadcasting award of the past year, being awarded a Gold Medal by the Grand Jury at the 2013 New York Festival Radio Awards. More>>
Werewolf: The Complicatist : Lil B, The Based God
Lil B could either be a train wreck or a triumph when he plays in Wellington this month. (The audience chemistry in New Zealand is going to be a complete unknown.) There’s also the setlist question. There is a heck of a lot of Lil B music, and some options are better than others. More>>
Ian Wedde: Poet Laureate Awarded $40,000 Creative New Zealand Residency
New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, will spend almost a year in Germany from October as this year’s recipient of the Creative New Zealand $40,000 Berlin Writer’s Residency. More>>
Depot Artspace: The Quirky World Of Dede Puppets
These vibrant and colourful characters are the artist’s response to the hyper-communicative world we live in. Her eccentric sculptures are homage to real friends and real people with all their flaws and idiosyncrasies. Conceived as heads only, or “No Bodies”, the characters come to life when someone lends them a hand. More>>
Snow: Coronet Peak First Ski Area In Australasia To Open
Queenstown is officially open for winter as the 2013 season kicks off at Coronet Peak on Saturday. Coronet Peak will be the first ski area to open in Australasia, boasting some of the best opening day snow cover seen in recent years More>>
Queen's Birthday: Road Toll At Zero
Police are praising Kiwi motorists after achieving the first ever fatality free Queen's Birthday Weekend on the country's roads. More>>
Queen's Birthday: Honours Announced
Full list of the 2013 New Zealand Queen's Birthday honours. More>>
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