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DOC: Report Sightings Of Pygmy Blue Whale Freed From Kawau Wharf

Government: Minister Commends Police For Gang Operation

NZ Labour Party: Sentencing Package Misses The Mark By A Mile

Go Carterton: Carterton Celebrates World Space Week 2024

TRAC: Government Shows Little Understanding Of Climate Change

Helene Ritchie: Have they or haven’t they?

Green Party: Govt Attacks Workers’ Rights Once Again

Government: Draft Critical Minerals List Released For Consultation

Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Plans To Strip Away The Rights Of Gig Economy Workers

The ways the ACT Party are aiming to redraw the lines between being an employee and being a contractor will set back the clock, and reduce the ability of workers to organise collectively. In all parts of the gig economy, ACT wants to individualise the employment relationship. ACT wants the gig economy to be governed not by general principles of employment law, but mainly via a signed contract between an individual and their boss. What's left unsaid is that the terms of any such “agreement” can readily be presented to jobseekers as a precondition of them getting the job.

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NEW ZEALAND POLITICS

NZ Police: Three-year Investigation Into Comancheros Results In Over 100 Charges Laid, Assets Restrained

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says cumulatively 137 charges have been laid against the gang’s members and associates. This investigation represents the single biggest blow to the Comancheros’ operations since Operation Nova.

Te Pāti Māori: Government Warned - Increasing Snapper Quota Breaches Fisheries Settlement

"Since the 1992 settlement, increases in TACC for any species should have been met with the same increases to Māori quota. This government has been continuous in its breach of this settlement and the Treaty,” said Tākuta Ferris, spokesperson for fisheries and MP for Te Tai Tonga.

Global Road Safety Partnership: Open Letter To NZ Prime Minister & Minister Of Transport - Grave Concerns Over Proposed Speed Increases

The letter emphasizes that increasing speed limits directly undermines New Zealand's commitments to several UN Resolutions and Political Declarations regarding road safety.

NZ Government: Government Eliminates $190 Million In Trade Barriers To Boost The Economy

The focus on NTBs continues as a priority to back Kiwi exporters and grow the economy through trade. It is only through a strong economy we can lift incomes, reduce the cost of living and afford the public services Kiwis deserve.

Greenpeace: Local Government Freshwater Protections Must Not Be Hamstrung By Anti-nature Government

Successive Govts have failed to regulate NZ’s worst freshwater polluter - the intensive dairy industry, who pollute lakes, rivers and drinking water with contaminants like E coli and nitrate. And now, Luxon’s govt is removing the only effective freshwater protections New Zealand ever had.

Otago Museum: Hoiho - The World's Rarest Penguin Takes The Spotlight

Often described as 'ocean sentinels,' Hoiho are highly sensitive to changes in marine ecosystems, making them key indicators of ocean health. However, the cumulative effect of multiple threats has made them increasingly vulnerable.

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Wellington Airport Debacle Whacks Hard-up Ratepayers 12:50 PM | ACT New Zealand
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Sentencing Package Misses The Mark By A Mile 16/09/24 | New Zealand Labour Party

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Trade Me Property: Auckland House Prices Hit Four-year Low, Dropping Below One Million

New Trade Me Property data shows in August 2024 the average asking price in Auckland was $986,750, down 1.3 per cent from July and the first time since September 2020 it sat at less than one million dollars.

AgResearch: New Funding For ‘Smart Ideas’ To Address Challenges For Primary Sector

The three AgResearch projects to receive funding, outlined in summaries below, feature research using technology known as RNAi to control fungal diseases threatening plants and animals, nanofertilisers to reduce pollution from nitrogen loss, and development of new generation biomaterials from protein.

Forest and Bird: Hoiho Wins Bird Of The Year 2024

Hoiho, securing a decisive victory with 6,328 votes, wears the coveted crown atop its golden head for the second time. It previously won in 2019.

FIRST Union: Future Of 75 Jobs At Auckland Pulp Mill In The Balance

Oji Fibre Solutions announced to its Penrose staff last month that it was considering closure and entered into a 4 week consultation period with the workforce and their unions, FIRST and E tū, followed by a 2 week decision period.

Plant and Food Research: Government Funding For Developing Fish Products In The Lab

This technology has the potential to change the way we produce seafood and generate marine products (for example, marine collagen) through a technology known as cellular agriculture (CellAg).

Ashburton Art Gallery: Crustacean Celebrities Of Aotearoa New Zealand On Display At Ashburton Art Gallery And Museum

Mawhiti Tino Rawe | Clever Crustaceans is a playful exploration of the bizarre and diverse world of five marine crustaceans.

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Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Sunday Morning In California As The Season Changes

Behind the impossibility of finding freedom in man’s theological contortions is a refusal to face the human condition as it is, and do the spadework of finding out for oneself what is true and what is false.

Ramzy Baroud: Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy - So, Who Speaks On Behalf Of The Palestinian People?

Only those who truly reflect the wider collective Palestinian experience and aspiration deserved to be centered, listened to or engaged with. Doing so would help protect the Palestinian cause of the self-seeking few, who use the Palestinian struggle as an opportunity for personal or factional gains.

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Resolving The Problem Of Evil

The problem of evil has been irresolvable because of the belief in an omniscient God. Let’s drop the childish belief in an omniscient deity, and begin to question the existence of darkness within us in the context of man’s evolution and alienation from nature.

Binoy Kampmark: Childish Fantasies - Age Verification for Social Media Down Under

Instead of encouraging fine circumspection and growing maturity, these laws encourage comforting insularity and prolonged immaturity.

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Meditation Is Mutation

Does mutation mean the irrevocable ending in the brain of thought as the ground of our existence, subsumed by attention and awareness?

Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Ailing Wellington Needs More Than Frothy Talk

Carrying on the same way as the last few years will do nothing to arrest Wellington’s decline. Rather than throwing rocks at each other, the government and the city’s civic leaders must start working together, if the ailing capital is to be revived.

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UN News: How Aid Is (And Is Not) Getting Into Gaza

A relentless siege, deadly targeted attacks and chronic restrictions on lifesaving aid deliveries into the war-torn Gaza Strip by Israeli forces: that’s just some of what aid workers are grappling with as they try to provide the level of lifesaving assistance needed to stave off widespread famine and epidemics in the strip.

People with Disability Australia: PWDA Says Centre Co-design, Choice And Control To Get Registration Right

PWDA President Marayke Jonkers is calling for genuine co-design with people with disability so any changes to registration are done right.

UN News: Unchecked AI Threatens Democracy, Warns UN Chief

Left unchecked, artificial intelligence (AI) could destabilise democratic systems by spreading disinformation, fueling hate speech and distorting public opinion through deepfakes, the UN Secretary-General has warned.

MSF Australia: West Bank - Access To Medical Care At Risk As Israeli Incursions Gain In Intensity

Médecins Sans Frontières reports severe obstruction of medical care in Palestine’s West Bank due to Israeli military incursions, with growing humanitarian needs and widespread infrastructure damage.

ITUC: Democracy May Not Always Guarantee Strong Workers’ Rights, But It Helps Fight For Them

This International Day for Democracy, 15 September, is particularly important because 2024 is a big year for democracy.

Climate Action Network: Protest Actions Across The World Kick Off Global Fight To End Fossil Fuels

To be compliant with the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the transition out of oil, gas and coal must be done at a pace and scale required to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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How Aid Is (And Is Not) Getting Into Gaza 10:14 AM | UN News
Gender Equality: Distant, Yet Achievable 8:13 AM | UN News
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Climate Change: Ozone Layer Still Well On Track For Full Recovery 7:45 AM | UN News
What’s Going On With The World (And The Future) At The UN? 7:33 AM | UN News
Sanitary Disaster In Gaza ‘Worsening By The Day’, Warns UNRWA 7:12 AM | UN News
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Jim Beam Homegrown: Jim Beam Homegrown 2025 Expands To Two Epic Days & Celebrates 18 Years!

With five stages along Wellington’s stunning waterfront, fans can explore a diverse range of genres, from reggae to rock and pop to electronic, making it feel like five festivals in one.

New Zealand Amateur Sport Association: Community Sport Clubs Are Not Companies

Community sport volunteers are not company directors. Yet the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 and the Incorporated Society Regulations 2023 place new obligations on volunteers equivalent to those placed on directors of public companies.

NZEI: Curriculum Change Too Fast To Be Effective, Say Teachers And Principals

In a member survey conducted over the first two weeks of September, 77.5% of principals and 73.7% of teachers said change was happening too fast to be effective.

Prostate Cancer Foundation: Prostate Cancer Foundation Accepts National Screening Programme Premature, But Says Regional Pilots Must Start Now

The Prostate Cancer Foundation has accepted the view of an influential committee that a national screening programme is premature, but is encouraging it to support pilot programmes in two locations.

World Press Photo Exhibition: The Post Brings World-Renowned Photography Exhibition To Wellington

This globally acclaimed showcase of photojournalism will be on display each day, 10 am till 5 pm, from Saturday, 21st September to Sunday, 13th October 2024, at the Asteron Centre's Ground Floor, conveniently located opposite Wellington Railway Station.

NZ Breast Cancer Foundation: New Breast Cancer Wonder Drug Would Be Life-Changing For NZ Women

Breast Cancer Foundation NZ has been campaigning for Enhertu (also called trastuzumab deruxtecan or T-Dxd) to be publicly funded because of its dramatic potential to keep patients alive for longer.

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Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Plans To Strip Away The Rights Of Gig Economy Workers

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NZ Police: Three-year Investigation Into Comancheros Results In Over 100 Charges Laid, Assets Restrained

Te Pāti Māori: Government Warned - Increasing Snapper Quota Breaches Fisheries Settlement

Global Road Safety Partnership: Open Letter To NZ Prime Minister & Minister Of Transport - Grave Concerns Over Proposed Speed Increases

NZ Government: Government Eliminates $190 Million In Trade Barriers To Boost The Economy

Greenpeace: Local Government Freshwater Protections Must Not Be Hamstrung By Anti-nature Government

Otago Museum: Hoiho - The World's Rarest Penguin Takes The Spotlight

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BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

Trade Me Property: Auckland House Prices Hit Four-year Low, Dropping Below One Million

AgResearch: New Funding For ‘Smart Ideas’ To Address Challenges For Primary Sector

Forest and Bird: Hoiho Wins Bird Of The Year 2024

FIRST Union: Future Of 75 Jobs At Auckland Pulp Mill In The Balance

Plant and Food Research: Government Funding For Developing Fish Products In The Lab

Ashburton Art Gallery: Crustacean Celebrities Of Aotearoa New Zealand On Display At Ashburton Art Gallery And Museum

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COMMENT

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Sunday Morning In California As The Season Changes

Ramzy Baroud: Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy - So, Who Speaks On Behalf Of The Palestinian People?

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Resolving The Problem Of Evil

Binoy Kampmark: Childish Fantasies - Age Verification for Social Media Down Under

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Meditation Is Mutation

Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Ailing Wellington Needs More Than Frothy Talk

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WORLD

UN News: How Aid Is (And Is Not) Getting Into Gaza

People with Disability Australia: PWDA Says Centre Co-design, Choice And Control To Get Registration Right

UN News: Unchecked AI Threatens Democracy, Warns UN Chief

MSF Australia: West Bank - Access To Medical Care At Risk As Israeli Incursions Gain In Intensity

ITUC: Democracy May Not Always Guarantee Strong Workers’ Rights, But It Helps Fight For Them

Climate Action Network: Protest Actions Across The World Kick Off Global Fight To End Fossil Fuels

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LIFESTYLE

Jim Beam Homegrown: Jim Beam Homegrown 2025 Expands To Two Epic Days & Celebrates 18 Years!

New Zealand Amateur Sport Association: Community Sport Clubs Are Not Companies

NZEI: Curriculum Change Too Fast To Be Effective, Say Teachers And Principals

Prostate Cancer Foundation: Prostate Cancer Foundation Accepts National Screening Programme Premature, But Says Regional Pilots Must Start Now

World Press Photo Exhibition: The Post Brings World-Renowned Photography Exhibition To Wellington

NZ Breast Cancer Foundation: New Breast Cancer Wonder Drug Would Be Life-Changing For NZ Women

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