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Radio networking killed radio - not music tv or streaming
Friday, 17 August 2018, 5:01 pm | Glen Clifford
In late 1980 UK novelty song ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ charted well in pacific countries. It was also the first song ever to be played on America’s MTV (Music TV), sparking much debate about the future of radio. As the records kept playing, ... More >>
Trump Parade Canceled — Peace Parade Goes Forward
Friday, 17 August 2018, 3:31 pm | David Swanson
A few days after an over-hyped white supremacist rally in Washington, D.C., was massively outnumbered by people opposed to racism, and one day after 187 organizations (more than that now) publicly committed to turning out people to counter Donald Trump’s ... More >>
Proposed euthanasia bill in NZ 'needs tweaking'
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 3:54 pm | RNZ
The wording of proposed euthanasia legislation should be tightened to ensure it only applies to the terminally ill, members of an Australian advisory panel say. More >>
Media banned from Māori King's koroneihana celebrations
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 3:45 pm | RNZ
John Boynton , Te Manu Korihi Reporter Media have been banned from the grounds of Tūrangawaewae Marae at Ngaruawahia for the anniversary celebration of Māori King's koroneihana or coronation this weekend. More >>
Rushed legislation on animal tracking system faces scrutiny
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 3:32 pm | RNZ
Legislation has been rushed through to its final reading at Parliament today to beef up the country's animal tracking system, NAIT. More >>
Hipkins: Teachers' pay demand 'out of kilter'
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 2:22 pm | RNZ
The Education Minister says teachers' demand for a 16 percent pay rise over two years outstrips what others in the workforce are receiving. More >>
Inquiry launched into leak on Simon Bridges' expenses
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 2:08 pm | RNZ
An inquiry has been launched to find out who leaked the National Party's expenses to the media this week. More >>
MPs' spending expenses revealed
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 2:06 pm | RNZ
MPs spending on travel and accommodation across all parties has rocketed up to more than $2,000,000. More >>
Emergency call handlers fear being penalised for sick days
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 1:54 pm | RNZ
Police communications staff who work 24-hour rosters are worried about being penalised for taking too many sick days. Staff have told RNZ they have been known to come into work in extreme pain or when unwell to avoid impacting their sickness score. More >>
Galaxy Note 9 offers longer life, bigger screen
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 1:29 pm | Digitl
Galaxy Note 9 is now Samsung's most important phone. It matters because lacklustre Galaxy S9 sales mean falling revenues. A successful Note launch could help reverse that. Two days before the launch I wrote that the Galaxy Note 9 had better be good ... More >>
5G mobile challenge for New Zealand carriers
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 1:19 pm | Digitl
New Zealand's mobile carriers are keen to talk about 5G mobile. Telecommunications equipment makers are even keener to talk about it. They have more to gain in the short term. It's possible they have more to gain in the long term too. More >>
Oppo R15 Pro review: An Android chasing the iPhone
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:47 pm | Digitl
Android phone makers often borrow ideas from Apple. Oppo takes this further than its rivals. Oppo’s need to emulate Apple runs through Its phones like Blackpool through a stick of English seaside rock. More >>
Best phones 2018: Handsets to consider
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:46 pm | Digitl
This year's phones are better than last year's. They alway are. The best phones are great, yet 2018 has not been a vintage year for mobile innovation. More >>
Sluggish demand dents Samsung profit
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:43 pm | Digitl
Samsung reported a second quarter operating profit of US$13.4 billion. That's up 5.7 percent on the same time as a year ago, but behind analyst expectations. Revenue for the quarter dropped 4 percent year-on-year. More >>
Education, technology and digital divides
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:41 pm | Digitl
As education minister, Hekia Parata upset New Zealand's tech sector by not elevating digital technology teaching to the level they asked for. More >>
Service quality needs Commerce Commission scrutiny
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:35 pm | Digitl
The Commerce Commission says retail telecoms service will be one of its priorities for the next year. More >>
Great Barrier Reef Politics
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 12:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Australia’s environment has been in precarious hands since European settlement found its lengthy and persistent way to the continent. It has been mined, mauled, drained, farmed, deforested and despoiled at a rate that was only restrained by the ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on another reason to loathe HR departments
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 11:46 am | Gordon Campbell
This morning’s news item about Police emergency call centre staff turning up for work while they’re sick – because they’re afraid their sick leave statistics will be used against them – is not an isolated case. More >>
'Stop the lies' graffiti takes aim at Defence Force
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 5:04 pm | RNZ
Fresh graffiti that takes aim at the Defence Force has appeared on Wellington's streets. More >>
Ilhan Omar for Peace
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 3:51 pm | David Swanson
Ilhan Omar is the second person this year to win a Democratic Party nomination for Congress in a Democratic Party district with a platform advocating peace in a way not seen inside the Beltway. The first was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City, ... More >>
Teachers prepared for two-day strike
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 3:37 pm | RNZ
Striking teachers held rallies throughout the country and showed support for a two-day strike if they don't get an improved offer from the Ministry of Education. More >>
“I Survived Because . . .”
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 2:19 pm | David Swanson
“I survived because I was walking to a building that was behind a small hill that faced downtown. I was standing in such a way that the building was to my right and the stone garden was to my left. It was my daughter’s wedding day and I was pushing ... More >>
Saudi Arabia And Iran Reignite The Oil Price War
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 2:13 pm | Oilprice.com
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is becoming increasingly evident in the oil pricing policies of the two large Middle Eastern producers. The two countries are currently reigniting the market share and pricing war ahead of the returning ... More >>
Genoa Bridge Collapse: 'Everybody knows somebody'
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 12:41 pm | RNZ
A New Zealander living in Genoa said the community is in shock following the bridge collapse. More >>
Facebook investigating online abuse of Samoan author
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 12:14 pm | RNZ
She has spoken out on her blog and social media as a survivor of child sexual abuse and is an LGBT rights advocate - both highly contentious issues in conservative Samoa. More >>
Use of motels for high-risk offenders under review
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 12:05 pm | RNZ
Corrections is reviewing the use of motels as emergency accommodation for high-risk offenders, and has charged a convicted sex offender with breaching his court-imposed conditions. More >>
NZ Servicemen Repatriation: Tears of Love and Tears of Grief
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 4:41 pm | RNZ
The son of rugby legend George Nepia is one of a number of New Zealand servicemen whose remains will be returned to this country next week. More >>
Yemeni Children Matter
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 3:04 pm | David Swanson
We’ve been given a rare opportunity. While the United States military has slaughtered innocents by the hundreds of thousands in the Middle East over the past couple of decades, almost never have U.S. television viewers seen images of the victims, in ... More >>
Mission Accomplished
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 12:51 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When Mike Treen, the National Director of the ‘Unite Union’ in New Zealand arrived at the airport in the capital, Auckland, on August 1, a group of people were anxiously waiting for him at the terminal with Palestinian flags and flowers. They hugged him, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the stereotypes about Jacinda Ardern
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
O n Monday, Act MP David Seymour’s depiction of PM Jacinda Ardern as a clueless lightweight was yet another example of the double bind faced by women who attain positions of political power. Routinely, female politicians get depicted as either ... More >>
Future of hunting statutory body under review
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 10:24 am | RNZ
The future of the publicly funded hunters body, the Game Animal Council, hangs in the balance with the Minister of Conservation puting it under review. More >>
Hamilton bus strike: Go Bus says fleet up to standard
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 10:14 am | RNZ
Hamilton-based bus company Go Bus is rejecting union claims drivers have been asked to drive old and faulty buses. More >>
Bridges: National caucus didn't leak travel expenses
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 10:11 am | RNZ
Opposition leader Simon Bridges is standing by his MPs, saying he doesn't believe one of them leaked his travel expenses to media. More >>
PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference 13/8/18: Trees Company
Monday, 13 August 2018, 5:38 pm | The Scoop Team
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was joined by Minister for Forestry Shane Jones and Associate Minister Meka Whaitiri to announce plans to spend $240 million more in grants from the Provincial Growth Fund toward the government's One Billion Trees ... More >>
Taupō teenagers fright as sinkhole forms under them
Monday, 13 August 2018, 12:39 pm | RNZ
Two teenagers have described how "frightening" it was to see land moving from under them when a large sinkhole formed in Taupō. More >>
Abolishing Māori seats 'much more trouble than it's worth'
Monday, 13 August 2018, 12:21 pm | RNZ
National party leader Simon Bridges says New Zealand needs a more efficient parliament and a smaller executive, which he says is a big make-work scheme. More >>
Ngāpuhi hui: 'People went away feeling quite frustrated'
Monday, 13 August 2018, 12:07 pm | RNZ
The deadlock over Ngāpuhi treaty negotiations shows no sign of breaking, with people leaving a series of hui over the weekend frustrated, and without any resolution. More >>
Businessman challenges Hawke's Bay council on feedlots
Monday, 13 August 2018, 11:53 am | RNZ
A Hawke's Bay businessman is taking the regional council to the Environment Court over its failure to regulate feedlots he says are polluting the district. More >>
Vintage Air Force plane crash lands near Ōhakea
Monday, 13 August 2018, 11:45 am | RNZ
A vintage Defence Force plane has crash landed in a Manawatū paddock, but the two staff members on board walked away, emergency services say. More >>
Steel defend title in thrilling finish
Monday, 13 August 2018, 11:43 am | RNZ
Behind by six goals with less than four minutes to play, the Steel have stormed back to score the last seven goals of the match and snatch a 54-53 victory in Sunday's final against the Central Pulse in Palmerston North. More >>
Population And the Environment
Saturday, 11 August 2018, 7:06 pm | John Scales Avery
One hopes that human wisdom and ethics will continue to grow, but unlimited growth of population and industry on a finite earth is a logical impossibility. More >>
2018 – Images of a year and a place in time
Friday, 10 August 2018, 4:31 pm | Kent Blechynden
But the camera was also an important part of his life. Kent is unemployed after a 25-year career in newspaper photography and has found there is no place for him in the new media world to make a living. More >>
Economic Review of the Status of Beneficiaries in NZ
Friday, 10 August 2018, 4:02 pm | Gail E. Duncan
This paper is an investigation of the human rights of beneficiaries against those of wage and salary earners and highlights some major differences. And proposes a new approach to benefits by regarding each individual as an economic unit due a basic ... More >>
International Prisoner's Justice Day
Friday, 10 August 2018, 12:00 pm | Christine McCarthy
Forty four years ago, on 10 August 1974, Canadian prisoner Edward Nation died in the segregation unit of an Ontario prison. He had bled to death after the emergency call button in his cell, which had been deactivated by guards, failed to work. His ... More >>
Fighting on after Nagasaki
Friday, 10 August 2018, 11:19 am | Jim Rose
After Hiroshima was bombed, the Imperial War Council was told the Americans only had one bomb. More >>
Wally Haumaha: Allegations of bullying raised in Parliament
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 3:52 pm | RNZ
The inquiry into Wally Haumaha's appointment as deputy police commissioner may now also consider allegations of bullying, detailed in Parliament today. More >>
Group of teenagers involved in shooting of seal
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 1:06 pm | RNZ
Four teenagers were involved in the shooting of a protected leopard seal in Northland, Dargaville police say. More >>
More than half of KiwiBuild proposals still under evalutaion
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12:58 pm | RNZ
The processing of potential KiwiBuild developments is taking longer than the government hoped. More >>
Taxi drivers compensated after being paid below minimum wage
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12:46 pm | RNZ
A Dunedin taxi company has been ordered to pay four former drivers almost $100,000 in arrears over minimum wages and holiday pay underpayments. More >>
Claims of threats made after reaction to Don Brash ban
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12:34 pm | RNZ
The man who wrote to Massey University with concerns over Don Brash's event, before the cancellation, says he has been targeted by critics. More >>
Firefighting foam: Shell contaminates groundwater
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12:23 pm | RNZ
Oil company Shell has contaminated groundwater in New Plymouth using a firefighting foam banned in New Zealand 12 years ago. More >>
Taxpayers to fork out $20k to defend Peters' lawsuit
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 12:11 pm | RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her deputy Winston Peters are refusing to answer questions about how much taxpayers might ultimately have to fork out for Mr Peters' legal pursuit of National Party MPs over his superannuation privacy leak. More >>
Why New Zealand needs Skilled Migrants
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 10:57 am | Creative Content
Immigration is a hot topic in the news, stories highlighting an increase in migrant workers often brings a backlash from the public as there is a perception that skilled migrants are taking opportunities for lower pay that could be filled by a local workforce. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the EU’s battle with Washington over Iran
Thursday, 9 August 2018, 10:43 am | Gordon Campbell
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini used the occasion in Wellington to challenge the White House intensely, over Iran. More >>
APEC host PNG eyes the main chance
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 5:07 pm | RNZ
Papua New Guinea's government is anticipating a wonderful opportunity on the near horizon, but the jury is out on whether holding an APEC summit will help the country. More >>
Asking prospective tenants for bank statements unethical
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 4:27 pm | RNZ
Landlords and property managers are being criticised for asking prospective tenants for their bank statements when vetting for new lets. More >>
Mahmoud Abbas: Stop Exploiting Ahed Tamimi for Personal Gain
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 2:31 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The father of 11-year-old, Abdul Rahman Nofal contacted me, asking for help. His son was shot in the leg during Gaza's ‘Great March of Return’ protests. The Strip's dilapidated health care system could not save the little boy's leg, as it was later ... More >>
Ministry's new disability guidelines baffle family lawyer
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 11:38 am | RNZ
A lawyer fighting on behalf of families over the disabled support services says the Ministry of Health policy in the area borders on cruel. More >>
Ditching youth rates on the back burner for govt
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 11:23 am | RNZ
Labour's pre-election policy of ditching youth rates within its first year in power appears to be on the back burner for now as it negotiates with its coalition partner New Zealand First. More >>
Massey university compromises free speech
Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 2:54 pm | Don Franks
Former National leader Don Brash, invited to address a Massey university student club, was stopped by vice-chancellor Jan Thomas. More >>
