Gordon Campbell: On Our Weird Ways Of Funding Care For The Dying
National Party leader Judith Collins thinks the government’s traffic light system for emerging from Covid lockdowns is “confusing.” Perhaps she could be looking in the mirror because in recent weeks, National has hardly been a model of crystalline clarity. On RNZ this morning Collins was calling for the scrapping of all vaccine certificates and mandates once we hit 90% double dose vaccination. Yet in recent weeks, Chris Bishop, National’s Covid spokesperson has been indicating that vaccine certificates and employment mandates will be, and should be, part of our new Covid landscape... More>>
Covid-19: Two Cases Notified In Christchurch Last Evening
The Ministry of Health was notified last evening of two positive COVID-19 cases in Christchurch from the same household. One member of the household had recently returned to Christchurch from Auckland. The local public health unit is gathering information from the cases to identify close contacts and exposure events, including any locations of interest... More>>
Government: Considers Regulatory Safeguards For Three Waters Services
Public feedback is being sought on the regulatory safeguards required to ensure consumers and communities receive three waters services that meet their needs, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister, Dr David Clark announced today... More>>
Three Waters: Government To Protect Vital Public Water Services For Future Generations
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta today confirmed the Government will create four publicly owned water entities to ensure every New Zealander has access to affordable, long-lasting drinking, waste and storm water infrastructure... More>>
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- National - Three Waters Asset Grab To Be Forced On Councils
- ACT - If They Steal It, We'll Give It Back
- Local Government NZ - Three Waters Decision To Mandate Disappointing But Way Forward Responds To Councils’ Critical Concerns
- Porirua City Council - Local Leaders Welcome 3 Waters Decision
Government: Responds To Independent Review Into WorkSafe
The Government has clear expectations that WorkSafe must action the recommendations of the independent review into the regulator to improve its management of adventure activities following the tragedy at Whakaari White Island, Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood says... More>>
Government: First Step In Managed Isolation Changes; Expanding QFT With Pacific
The Government is starting a phased easing of border restrictions that will see the time spent in an MIQ facility halved for fully vaccinated overseas arrivals from 14 November and home isolation introduced in the first quarter of 2022 at the latest, Chris Hipkins said today... More>>
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- National - MIQ Changes Don’t Go Nearly Far Enough
Government: New Investment Framework Aligns With Govt’s 2050 Carbon Neutrality Goal
The Green Party is deeply concerned that space launches by Rocket Lab may be breaching nuclear-free laws, given our long-standing position as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty... More>>
Pay Cheque To Pay Cheque: Half A Million New Zealanders Have No Savings
New findings from the Consumer NZ sentiment tracker found that 15% of New Zealanders had no savings, and a further 27% were anxious about their level of savings and would like to have more tucked away... More>>
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- Labour Party Drops Labour Party Bill 7:27 PM | ACT New Zealand
- Robertson’s Head-in-the-sand Approach To Struggling Businesses A Disgrace 4:14 PM | New Zea...
- Government Still Hasn't Ordered Covid Vaccine For Kids Aged 5-11 3:29 PM | New Zealand Nati...
- Andrew Little Wrecking DHBs In A Pandemic 3:07 PM | New Zealand National Party
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- Wellington Scoop
- Lower Hutt Riverlink housing project closer to getting infrastructure finance
- Wgtn rents up 9% in a year, but Porirua, Upper Hutt and Kapiti are more expensive
- Sedimentological conference commits to new Convention Centre in 2026
- No replacement Northern Ward councillor till voters decide next October
- WCC is keeping the city “safe and sound” with projects and campaigns
- Lions raise $500,000 for rehabilitative playscape at Children’s Hospital
- Daran Ponter and Anita Baker welcome decision on “3 waters” reforms
Auckland: Quarterly Update: Rents Stable During Third Quarter
The average weekly rent for a home in Auckland moved less than $1 during the third quarter, ending 30 September at $606.25, according to data from more than 16,000 rental properties managed by Barfoot & Thompson... More>>
Electricity Authority: Review Of Competition In The Wholesale Electricity Market Raises Questions
In March 2021 the Electricity Authority announced it would conduct a review into competition in the wholesale electricity market. The period of the review covers the sustained elevated electricity prices since an unplanned outage at the Pohokura gas facility in Spring 2018... More>>
Government: RSI ‘State Of The Nation’ Report Published
latest research, science and innovation system report card is now available, and outlines how the system is performing, Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods has announced. “The report seeks to increase transparency, act as a reliable data source and stimulate discussion... More>>
LAWA: New Zealand Lakes Are Diverse In Their Condition And Type
Freshwater scientists have come together through the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) project to summarise the condition of New Zealand’s monitored lakes. They have found a varied picture of lake condition... More>>
Pamu & Westpac: Market-leading Sustainability-Linked Loan
Westpac NZ and Pāmu have signed New Zealand’s most comprehensive Sustainability-Linked Loan to date, also the largest in the agricultural sector, and the first involving a state-owned enterprise. Pāmu, also known as Landcorp, is New Zealand’s biggest farming business. It will borrow $85m from Westpac NZ over three years... More>>
Retail NZ: Some Good News In COVID Announcements, But Firm Dates Needed
Retail NZ is welcoming news that the Government is increasing financial support for businesses in light of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, and that retail will be able to open at all stages of the new “Covid Protection Framework... More>>
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- Select Committee Backs Retail NZ And Ditches Discriminatory And Costly Bill 7:31 PM
- UK Government Slashes Keg Beer Tax While New Zealand Presses Ahead With More Tax... 7:24 PM
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- Food Insecurity In The Covid Pandemic – Expert Q+A 5:44 PM | Science Media Centre
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Binoy Kampmark: Congress, Skulduggery And The Assange Case
Is the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence Committee is on a mission of discovery. Its subject: a Yahoo News report disclosing much material that was already in the public domain on the plot to kidnap or, failing that, poison Julian Assange... More>>
The Conversation: Old wine in new bottles – why the NZ-UK free trade agreement fails to confront the challenges of a post-COVID world
When the sales pitch for a free trade agreement is that “British consumers will enjoy more affordable Marlborough sauvignon blanc, mānuka honey and kiwifruit, while Kiwis enjoy the benefit from cheaper gin, chocolate, clothing and buses”, you know this is hardly the deal of the century... More>>
Philip Temple: Hang On A Minute, Mate
Peter Dunne quietly omits some salient facts when arguing for retention of MMP’s coat-tailing provision that allows a party to add list seats if it wins one electorate and achieves more than 1% or so of the party vote... More>>
Dunne Speaks: Labour's High Water Mark
If I were still a member of the Labour Party I would be feeling a little concerned after this week’s Colmar Brunton public opinion poll. Not because the poll suggested Labour is going to lose office any time soon – it did not – nor because it showed other parties doing better – they are not... More>>
Our Man In Washington: Morrison’s Tour Of Deception
It was startling and even shocking. Away from the thrust and cut of domestic politics, not to mention noisy discord within his government’s ranks, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could breathe a sign of relief. Perhaps no one would notice in Washington that Australia remains prehistoric in approaching climate change relative to its counterparts... More>>
Binoy Kampmark: Melbourne Quake: Shaken, Not Stirred
It began just after a news interview. Time: a quarter past nine. Morning of September 22, and yet to take a sip from the brewed Turkish coffee, its light thin surface foam inviting. The Australian city of Melbourne in its sixth lockdown, its residents fatigued and ravaged by regulations. Rising COVID-19 numbers, seemingly inexorable... More>>
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- Rotary Divests From Weapons Companies 3:21 PM | David Swanson
- Crystal Ball Jurisprudence: The US Appeal Against Assange Opens 3:15 PM | Binoy Kampmark
- Why I’m Going To The Frontlines Of The Wet’suwet’en Resistance 3:06 PM | David Swanson
- Covid19: Revaccinate Now, And Address Influenza Too 11:34 AM | Keith Rankin
- Jerusalem’s ‘Liveliest Parties’: Has Biden Proved Different From Trump On Palest... 9:58 AM
- Congress, Skulduggery And The Assange Case 27/10/21 | Binoy Kampmark
- Old wine in new bottles – why the NZ-UK free trade agreement fails to confront t... 27/10/21
Euro-Med Monitor: Sudan Military Coup Shatters Democratic Path, Threatens With Authoritarian Rule Return
The Sudanese army's seizure of power in the country diminishes the hard-won human rights and civil gains achieved after the December 2018 protests, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said today in a statement...More>>
Weather: Pacific Likely To Experience Double Dip La Niña Episode
The Pacific is likely to experience a rare occurrence of what is called a double dip La Niña in the coming months, Climate models and predictions tools used by Pacific National Meteorological and Hydrological services (NMHSs) show...
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CNS: Will India's 1 Billion Vaccination-dose-milestone Be Catalytic For Vaccinating All?
On 21 October 2021, India crossed its milestone of administering over 1 billion (100 crores) doses within 278 days since it began the vaccination rollout (on 16th January 2021)... More>>
Focus On: UN SDGs
Climate: ‘Vague’ Net Zero Promises Not Enough: Planet Still On Track For Catastrophic Heating, UN Report WarnsNew and updated commitments made ahead of the pivotal climate conference COP26 in the past months are a positive step forward, but the world remains on track for a dangerous global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C this century even if fully met, a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned... More>>
Pacific: Young Climate Leaders Call For Urgent Climate Action Ahead Of COP26
Eight Pacific Young Climate Leaders shared their experiences of climate resilience and activism in an inaugural dialogue with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Mr Henry Puna on 21 October 2021... More>>
UN: With Clock Ticking, Sustainable Transport Key To Global Goals
From electric cars and buses to zero-carbon producing energy sources, new and emerging technologies along with innovative policy changes, are critical for combating climate change. But to be effective, they must ensure that transport strategies benefit everyone, including the poorest... More>>
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- COP26: The World’s Best Chance To Save Our One Blue Planet - 7:29 PM | Forum Secretariat
- Latin America And Caribbean Sees COVID-19 Progress, But Must Remain Vigilant 5:50 PM
- Syria: Progress Still Possible, Following ‘disappointment’ Over Constitutional T... 5:49 PM
- Dusit Intl Partners With Leading Educational And Culinary Institutes To Develop ... 5:14 PM
- UK High Court Assange Hearing UPDATE Day 1 2:19 PM | Aotearoa 4 Assange
- Rare Disorders NZ Invited To Present At An International United Nations Event 1:04 PM
- ‘Vague’ Net Zero Promises Not Enough: Planet Still On Track For Catastrophic Hea... 7:51 AM
Howard Davis: Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman'
The Guardian needed not one, but three reviews to do justice to Fennell's unsettling approach, which indicates exactly how ambiguous and controversial its message really is. More>>
Howard Davis: Jill Trevelyan's Rita Angus
Although Angus has become one of Aotearoa’s best-loved painters, the story of her life remained little known and poorly understood before Jill Trevelyan's acclaimed and revelatory biography, which won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009, and has now been republished by Te Papa press. More>>
Howard Davis: The Back of the Painting
Painting conservators are the forensic pathologists of the art world. While they cannot bring their subjects back to life, they do provide fascinating insights into the precise circumstances of a painting's creation, its material authenticity, and constructive methodology. More>>
Howard Davis: Black Panthers on the Prowl
A passionate and gripping political drama from Shaka King, this is an informative and instructive tale of human frailty that centers around the charismatic Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was murdered at the age of twenty-one during a police raid. More>>
Howard Davis: Controlling the High Ground
Stephen Johnson's raw and angry film not only poses important questions with scrupulous authenticity, but also provides a timely reminder of the genocidal consequences of casual bigotry and xenophobia. More>>
Howard Davis: Dryzabone - Robert Conolly's The Dry
After the terrible devastation caused by last year’s bushfires, which prompted hundreds of Australians to shelter in the ocean to escape incineration and destroyed uncountable amounts of wildlife, The Dry has been released during a totally different kind of dry spell. More>>
Howard Davis: Hit the Road, Jack - Chloé Zhao's Nomadland
Nomadland is perhaps the ultimately 'road' movie as it follows a group of dispossessed and disenfranchised vagabonds who find a form of communal refuge in camp sites and trailer parks after the economic contraction of 2008. More>>
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- Maritime Museum’s “Little Tall Ship” Breezes Into Its 40’s 1:33 PM | NZ Maritime Museum
- Auckland And Otago To Honour Ross Dykes With Memorial Trophy 10:57 AM | Auckland Cricket
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