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Human Bridges: What Happened To Our Ape Ancestors?

Budget 2024: Mental Health - Disappointment Over Broken Promise

Government: PM Congratulates King’s Birthday Honours Recipients

Christine Massey: Naming Our Architects In Wellington

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Gordon Campbell: On The Curse Of Being Politically Moderate About Everything

While the Tories move further right to defend their base against the new threat of Brexit architect Nigel Farage's Reform Party, Keir Starmer is marching Labour right into the centre, by actively stripping out what little remains of Labour’s left-wing identity. Voters looking to Labour for deliverance from a cruel and incompetent Tory government are likely to find that a Starmer-led administration will not transform their lives to the extent they were hoping.

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Labour Party: More Than $1.5 Billion Slashed From Housing

Fewer public homes, maintenance funding slashed and millions gone from rangatahi youth transitional housing and Māori housing. “National has made the wrong choices in Budget 2024,” Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said.

NZ Government: Champions Of Women Top King’s Birthday Honours

Acting Minister for Women Louise Upston has congratulated the large number of women who received King’s Birthday Honours this year, including two inspiring new Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

DPMC: The King's Birthday Honours 2024 List

The New Zealand Royal Honours system provides a way for New Zealand to thank and congratulate people who have served their communities and to recognise people’s achievements.

Jeremy Rose: Gold Fever - From King Ferdinand to Shane Jones

With the benefit of hindsight, the obscenity and irrationality of the European lust for gold is all too stark. Despite gold's lack of utility throughout centuries, that lust continues to this day.

RNZ In Pictures: Thousands Join Budget Day Protest Hīkoi Across Aotearoa

Thousands across New Zealand have joined convoys or hīkoi for a National Māori Action Day to coincide with Thursday's Budget announcements. Three 'carkoi' slowed traffic on Auckland's Southern, Northern, and Western motorways during peak morning commuter time. In Hamilton, people left their cars at home, instead walking en masse towards Waikato University.

First Union: 'A Brain Drain Budget': Luxon Offering Kiwis A One-way Ticket To Australia

FIRST Union General Secretary Dennis Maga says today’s Budget 2024/25 is one of the most regressive in the country’s history, and represents a 'Brain Drain Budget' that will encourage many more Kiwis to consider moving overseas.

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Gyles Beckford: More Than Half Of Synlait Milk's Suppliers Want To Quit

Embattled dairy company Synlait Milk has confirmed that more than half of its suppliers want to quit, its earnings outlook has been downgraded, and it's scrapped the sale of an asset.

Antarctica New Zealand: New Zealand Leading Antarctic Environmental Committee

New Zealand is leading the conversation in Antarctic environmental protection, with the appointment of Antarctica New Zealand’s GM Policy, Environment and Safety as the new Chair of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP).

NZ Aluminium Smelters: Tiwai Smelter To Stay Open In 20-year Deal

The aluminium smelter at Tiwai in Southland has secured energy supply from three generators until at least 2044, giving certainty to employees and the local community, and supporting New Zealand’s contribution to a low carbon future.

ActionStation: Progressive Campaigning Organisation Slams Budget 2024 - A ‘Backwards Budget Of A Thousand Cuts’

“This is a shift in power and resources from marginalised communities to the already wealthy. We have seen $1.22 billion in public sector cuts that have not been reprioritised,” says Kassie Hartendorp, Director of ActionStation.

Tax Justice Aotearoa: Coalition Budget Tax Switch Will Hurt Most Vulnerable

“We should also look at making income tax more progressive rather than less - and introduce an excess profits tax, given the increasing evidence of excess profit-taking by big business”, says Glenn Barclay. TJA believes New Zealand is not unique in facing significant challenges that can only be resolved with government involvement and better resourcing.

Ia Ara Aoteara Transporting New Zealand: Roading Investment Welcomed Amid Tough Times For Industry

Transporting New Zealand, the main national association representing road transport operators, is welcoming the Budget announcement of substantial funding increases for roading and infrastructure projects. But it warns that many operators are facing tough times - and the rising cost of living is having a major impact on businesses.

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Binoy Kampmark: Ming Vase Politics, UK Labour And Purging The Corbynistas

Riling, obstructing and barring such figures serves to cloud the message, impairing an electoral effort that may, ironically enough, see the Ming Vase slip out of Starmer’s desperate hands.

Gordon Campbell: On Nicola Willis And Her Surplus Fetish

According to the Treasury, we’ll have to borrow $17.1 billion by June 2028, to help fund (among other things) a nearly $10B tax cut programme, also paid for by slashing billions – and 240 line items – from our public services. Conventional political wisdom to the contrary, there is little public support for this slash-burn-and-borrow approach to economic management.

Scoop Team: Budget 2024 - Full Coverage

Summary of Budget 2024 PR coverage and commentary compiled by the Scoop team.

Gordon Campbell: On South Africa’s Harsh Election Choices

The ANC’s goal in Wednesday’s South African election will be to staunch the bleeding of its support, with polls indicating it will lose its overall majority for the first time since the Mandela election of 1994.

Binoy Kampmark: Soaking Sunak Calls The Sodding Election

On July 4, the United Kingdom will be going to the polls. Necks will find themselves in nooses and placed in the guillotine – metaphorically speaking. The stretch to slaughter has been laid out. The oddity of this drenched occasion was made all the more pungent by a protester playing, in most audible fashion, the anthem of Tony Blair’s Labour’s victory in 1997, Things Can Only Get Better.

Peter Dunne: Nicola Willis Gives Voters The Money, Not The Bag

Notwithstanding all the usual pre-Budget media hype it is worth remembering that Budgets seldom defeat governments. Game-changing Budgets – like Sir Roger Douglas’s 1984 Labour Budget or Ruth Richardson’s 1991 National “Mother of All Budgets” – which profoundly shook up the existing social and economic order, did not lead to their governments’ defeat at the next election.

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Plant and Food Research: New Zealand Joins Global Initiative To Enhance Uptake Of Biological Controls

Plant & Food Research has joined a global initiative looking at finding new ways to control plant pests and diseases. The Platform10 initiative is an international collaboration that aims to speed up the development of new biological control products for protecting crops against pests and diseases.

Abren: Ethiopia: Assessing The Pretoria Peace Agreement

Implementation of the Pretoria agreement has been sluggish, principally due to deficient disarmament of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). According to the letter of the Peace Agreement, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of TPLF fighters was to take precedence.

UN News: UN Supports Response As Cyclone Remal Batters Communities In Bangladesh, India

At least 16 people are reported to have been killed as the region was hit by Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening, local time, bringing gales of over 110 kilometres per hour (about 70 miles per hour), torrential rain and storm surges that inundated low-lying areas.

UN News: Gaza: World Court Orders Israel To Halt Military Operations In Rafah

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate’s border crossing for urgent aid deliveries.

RNZ: Three Kiwis injured in turbulence-stricken Singapore Airlines flight in hospital, one in intensive care

Three New Zealanders injured on the Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence are in hospital in Bangkok, one of them in intensive care. The flight from London to Singapore hit turbulence over Myanmar, resulting in the death of one man and seriously injuring others.

Globetrotter: Confrontations Continue Over Planned Voting Rules Change In New Caledonia

Six people were killed last week in New Caledonia following widespread unrest triggered by changes to voting rules approved by French lawmakers. The changes would allow individuals who moved to the island after 1998 to vote in provincial elections.

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Ministry For Culture And Heritage: Theme For Matariki 2024 Announced - ‘Matariki Heri Kai’

"Matariki Heri Kai - The feast of Matariki is the theme for Matariki 2024," announced Chief Advisor Mātauranga Matariki, Professor Rangi Mātāmua. Matariki Heri Kai comes from the Māori proverb ‘Matariki whetū heri kai’ meaning ‘Matariki, the bringer of food’.

University of Canterbury: Study Shows Service Users Can Improve Mental Health Care

A new study exploring how people with direct experience of mental health services can make a valuable contribution to the system, making it kinder and more accessible for others.

Te Matatini: Biggest Investment In Kapa Haka Announced In Today’s Budget

Te Matatini is delighted with the Government’s budget announcement today to boost its baseline funding, from 1 July 2025, to $48.7m over the next three years. This new funding is a figure of approximately $19m per year which will continue into out years.

Kindergartens Aotearoa: Budget Funding Delivers An Effective Cut To Early Childhood Education

“Although kindergartens welcome any increase to funding, the latest Government budget has increased the funding to early childhood services by only half the rate of inflation, meaning an effective funding cut to services,” says Kindergartens Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Coulston.

Amie Richardson: Dunedin Artist Finalist In Archibald Prize With Portrait Of NZ Photographer Fiona Pardington

Dunedin-based artist Simon Richardson has today been announced as a finalist in Australasia’s prestigious portraiture awards, the Archibald Prize, with a painting of renowned New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington.

Te Wananga o Aotearoa: To Sell Tokoroa Site With Lease-back Condition

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa has maintained a presence in Tokoroa for more than 2 decades, running a diverse range of programmes including reo Māori, toi, and rongoā, empowering many tauira with valuable knowledge and skills. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa delivers a range of programmes from certificate to degree from over 80 sites across the motu and manages a substantial property portfolio.

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Labour Party: More Than $1.5 Billion Slashed From Housing

NZ Government: Champions Of Women Top King’s Birthday Honours

DPMC: The King's Birthday Honours 2024 List

Jeremy Rose: Gold Fever - From King Ferdinand to Shane Jones

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Gyles Beckford: More Than Half Of Synlait Milk's Suppliers Want To Quit

Antarctica New Zealand: New Zealand Leading Antarctic Environmental Committee

NZ Aluminium Smelters: Tiwai Smelter To Stay Open In 20-year Deal

ActionStation: Progressive Campaigning Organisation Slams Budget 2024 - A ‘Backwards Budget Of A Thousand Cuts’

Tax Justice Aotearoa: Coalition Budget Tax Switch Will Hurt Most Vulnerable

Ia Ara Aoteara Transporting New Zealand: Roading Investment Welcomed Amid Tough Times For Industry

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Binoy Kampmark: Ming Vase Politics, UK Labour And Purging The Corbynistas

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Plant and Food Research: New Zealand Joins Global Initiative To Enhance Uptake Of Biological Controls

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UN News: UN Supports Response As Cyclone Remal Batters Communities In Bangladesh, India

UN News: Gaza: World Court Orders Israel To Halt Military Operations In Rafah

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Ministry For Culture And Heritage: Theme For Matariki 2024 Announced - ‘Matariki Heri Kai’

University of Canterbury: Study Shows Service Users Can Improve Mental Health Care

Te Matatini: Biggest Investment In Kapa Haka Announced In Today’s Budget

Kindergartens Aotearoa: Budget Funding Delivers An Effective Cut To Early Childhood Education

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Te Wananga o Aotearoa: To Sell Tokoroa Site With Lease-back Condition

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