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From the desk of Renee Mundy, 95bFM Radio, News and Editorial Director
Binoy Kampmark: A Looting Matter: Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities
Cambodia has often featured in the Western imagination as a place of plunder and pilfering. Temples and artefacts of exquisite beauty have exercised the interest of adventurers and buccaneers who looted with almost kleptocratic tendency. In 1924, the French novelist and future statesman André Malraux, proved himself one of Europe’s greatest adventurers in making off with a ton of sacred stones from Angkor Wat... More>>
Dunne Speaks: Labour Leadership Speculation Premature And Facile
Speculation that the Prime Minister’s leadership of the Labour Party may be at risk because of this week’s adverse poll results is as exaggerated as it is premature and facile. While her popularity has plummeted from the artificially stellar heights of a couple of years ago and is probably set to fall further to what would be a more realistic assessment... More>>
Ian Powell: Colossal ‘Porkies’ And Band-aids Don’t Make A Health Workforce Plan
On 1 August Minister of Health Andrew Little announced what he described as the start of a plan for the beleaguered workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system: Government’s 5 year late health workforce announcement. In October 2017, when Labour became government with its two coalition parties, it inherited a health workforce crisis from the previous National-led government... More>>
Binoy Kampmark: The Fuss About Monkeypox
The World Health Organization has been one of the easier bodies to abuse. For parochial types, populist moaners and critics of international institutions, the WHO bore the brunt of criticisms from Donald Trump to Jair Bolsonaro. Being a key institution in identifying public health risks, it took time assessing the threat posed by SARS-CoV-2 and its disease, COVID-19... More>>
Dunne Speaks: Time For MPs To Think For Themselves
One of the more frequently quoted statements of the Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, was his observation that “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”... More>>
- Community Scoop
- The School Strikers Are Back – And They Demand Urgent Climate Action
- The School Strikers Are Back – And They Demand Urgent Climate Action
- Increasing Accessibility For Disabled People—tāngata Whaikaha
- Indigenous Tech Entrepreneur, Tech Peak Body, And Te Whare Wānanga Join Forces
- The Cancer Society Is Returning To Street Collecting This Daffodil Day
- Lack Of Cross-government Ownership A Major Barrier, Warns Disability Rights Report
- Getting The Balance Right With Youth Crime
- Wellington Scoop
- Diesel-to-electric bus conversion and Sky Stadium projects seek low carbon funding
- SH58 reopens, after two days of repairs to burst sewage pipe
- Regional Council welcomes backing for public ownership of transport assets
- New model for public transport – aims for reliability and job security
- School strikers are back – demanding action on climate change
- After large slip is cleared, one lane of Haywards Hill road reopens
- Karori street reopened after massive slip is cleared
