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Upper Hutt: Bridge At Birchville Collapses – Homes Cut Off, With No Water Or Sewage
Surface Flooding, Slip: Heavy Rain Eases In Kapiti
Amnesty: Damning Evidence On Australia Asylum Seekers | More
Gordon Campbell: On Our Role In The Deliberate Non-Defeat Of Islamic State
2.75%: OCR On Hold; High Kiwi May See Lower Rates | RBNZ | More
Link: New Zealand Not World's Wealthiest Country, After All
Wellington.Scoop: Council Overrules CEO, Votes For Contractor Living Wage | More
Pacific.Scoop: RSF Criticises Nauru Govt Over Blocking Media Visas
78 Jobs Go, 27 New Roles: AgResearch Confirms Job Cuts
AgResearch, the crown research institute, will cut 78 staff, five fewer than first flagged a month ago, as the government puts pressure on the science body to deliver more bang for its taxpayer-funded buck.
The Waikato-based CRI will lose 32 scientists and 46 science technician roles across different research areas, while hiring 18 new scientists and nine new technicians, taking the net loss of staff to 51, out of its 769 full time and 95 casuals. Chief executive Tom Richardson said after reviewing submissions from staff they were able to reduce the net loss of staff from 56. More>>
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"Stopping The Boats": Damning Evidence Over Australia & Asylum Seekers
Through interviews with asylum-seekers, a boat crew and Indonesian police, a new report exposes evidence that, in May 2015, Australian officials paid six crew who had been taking 65 people seeking asylum to New Zealand USD 32,000 and told them to take the people to Indonesia instead. The Australians also provided maps showing the crew where to land in Indonesia. More>>
Wellington.Scoop: City Council Votes To Pay Living Wage To Employees Of Its Security Contractor
The Wellington City Council tonight voted 9-6 to extend an $18.55-per-hour living wage to contractors working under a proposed new contract to supply security services to the Council. More>>
Missed Targets: New Evidence Shows Charter School Experiment Not Working
The Green Party is calling on the Government to stop plans to open another round of charter schools after documents reveal existing charters are failing to achieve agreed targets for NCEA Level 2. More>>
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19 Things Only Restructured Journalists Will Get
Mediapocalypse Satire From Lyndon Hood: If, like most of New Zealand (as far as I can tell from my Twitter stream), you work in modern journalism, you've experienced some things the rest of the world just won't get... More>>
Migration: Beyond The Metropoles – Asian Dimension Grows In Small Cities
The report provides an overview of demographic change in each of the six cities and provides case studies of specific Asian communities, such as the Japanese community in Queenstown; the Filipino population of Southland; the Burmese and Bhutanese communities in Nelson; and the Indian population of Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On The Gender Pay Gap
By virtue of their gender, men commonly receive economic compensation and political representation that is not based on ability – and ironically, since men tend to live in denial about the extent of their own privilege, they will often then righteously rail against gender quotas on the grounds that selection should be based on merit…! More>>
Electronic Media: Inside The Hunt For Rawshark - The Hager Raid Court File
Scoop Independent News has secured access to the court file for the Hager Rawshark Raid Case and has published partially redacted versions an initial group of documents released by the High Court. More>>
Aussie Deportations: Detainees Isolated And Desperate
New Zealanders in Australia’s remote Christmas Island Detention Centre have spoken about the trauma of being locked up thousands of miles away from their families in a facility designed to house people considered to be a terrorism threat. More>>
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Interest Rates: RBNZ Keeps OCR On Hold, Warns High Kiwi May See Cut
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler kept the official cash rate unchanged, while reiterating another cut is likely and warning that a recent gain in the kiwi dollar could restrain inflation, adding to the case for a lower interest rate path. More>>
Computing: InternetNZ Excited About Kiwi Cyber Security Group
InternetNZ welcomes an announcement made today by the New Zealand Internet Task Force that it has launched a public funding campaign to build a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)... “A CSIRT would mean Kiwi organisations and not-for-profits will have help from real independent experts if they are hacked by criminals or are dealing with some kind of cyber threat,” says Carter. . More>>
Scoop Business: Fletcher Building Wins Auckland Convention Centre Contract
Fletcher Building’s construction unit has won the $477 million contract to build a convention centre, five-star hotel and associated infrastructure for SkyCity Entertainment Group in Auckland that the casino and hotel company agreed to with the government in exchange for gaming concessions and a licence extension. More>>
Science Media Centre: Red/Processed Meat And Cancer - Expert Reaction
"Group 1 carcinogens are those where IARC believes the cancer hazard is well-established, regardless of its strength. Group 1 includes asbestos, tobacco, and plutonium, but it also includes sunlight, oral contraceptives, and alcohol." More>>
Scoop Business: Net Migration At Record High As Kiwis Come Home, Fewer Go
New Zealand had a record net gain in migrants of 61,200 in the September year, driven mainly by both more kiwis coming home and fewer leaving for Australia. More>>
Productivity Commission Report: Let Government Intervene On Housing Land
The government should be allowed to force local authorities to release land for urban development in the face of rampant house-price inflation and current land allocation policies cause "a number of harmful social effects", the Productivity Commission says. More>>
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Max Rashbrooke on Good Journalism: "We Need Both Tougher And Gentler Ways To Get At The Truth"
When I look at New Zealand's media landscape, I see great work being done, but also massive gaps. One is in the field of investigative journalism. Some good investigations happen – the work of the Herald team, Nicky Hager's world-class exposés, Jon Stephenson's foreign reporting – but nowhere near enough. Another big gap is in the place where civilised debate should be... More>>
Binoy Kampmark: Portugal’s Coup Against Anti-Austerity
The combined Left bloc won 50.7 percent of the vote, while the conservative premier, Pedro Passos Coehlo’s Right-wing coalition gained 38.5 percent – a loss of 28 seats. One would have to be a rather brave and foolish individual to let the latter form government. This, in fact, is what Aníbal Cacavo Silva, the country’s constitutional president, did. More>>
Werewolf: ‘Disruption’ Is For Losers
Disruption – anarchic, dynamic, table-tipping, mould-breaking, consensus-shattering disruption – has become part of every corporate bout of auto-hype to the faddish point where the term has lost any useful meaning it might once have had. More>>
Werewolf: Coney Island (And The Trumps), Baby
Like much of that part of the coast, and given the storm surges of Hurricane Sandy, Coney Island should be occupied only by clumps of grass and seabirds. Instead there are 60,000 people in multi-storey apartment buildings living among the faded remnants of a once-spectacular fantasyland.. More>>
Gordon Campbell:
On Corbyn, Trump And Outsider Politics
Jeremy Corbyn elevated to the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party! Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on the rise in the US… On both sides of the Atlantic, these are dark days for the political Establishment. More>>
Binoy Kampmark: US Bomb Strikes Hospital In Kunduz
According to US military sources, “there may have been collateral damage” to the medical facility. “This incident is under investigation.” A statement issued by the office of the President Ashraf Ghani said that Army General John Campbell, chief of US-led forces in Afghanistan, apologised. More>>
Binoy Kampmark: The Fall Of Tony Abbott
The question was one of timing. The Coalition had been registering losses in poll after poll. The Abbott style hardly improved after a spill was forced on the party. Despite claiming that he would be ushering in a spring clean, he continued bypassing ministers and MPs... More>>
Pacific.Scoop: Smaller Pacific States Call For Coal Moratorium
PNG Loop: Leaders of the Pacific Smaller Island States have called on all nations – especially the advanced economies in the region – to rise to the challenge of climate change. They want to steer the world on a path where climate change is no longer a threat to earth. More>>
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NZ v Aussie Final: Not Everyone Excited By Rugby World Cup
As the All Blacks gear up for the Rugby World Cup final, spare a thought for the surprisingly high number of Kiwis who are holding their breath just waiting for the whole thing to be over... “They don’t like what they see as the link to violence, the increasing commercialisation of the All Blacks, or the way that New Zealanders invest so much of their identity into sport.” More>>
Meanwhile, In Football: Capital Backs Phoenix To Remain With A-League
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says she is disappointed at the decision of Football Federation Australia to reject the Wellington Phoenix bid for a 10-year A-League licence extension. More>>
Bird Crowing: Bar-Tailed Godwit (Kuaka) Crowned Bird Of The Year
The bar-tailed godwit (kuaka) has been crowned New Zealand's Bird of the Year after three weeks of close competition, heated campaigning and scandal. These lunatic long-distance fliers have the longest migratory flight of any bird in the world, and travel over 11,000 kilometres from Alaska to reach New Zealand in less than 9 days. More>>
That Band You Like: Sleater-Kinney Announce Their First NZ Show In 13 Years
It is with a great deal of excitement we announce the return to New Zealand shores of the hugely influential SLEATER-KINNEY. They will bring their full No Cities to Love touring show to the Powerstation on Monday 29 February - the perfect setting for what The Guardian calls a "no-frills, high-kicking, hard-rocking" show. More>>
“For this milestone Festival we’ve pulled together the very best international artists. We’re creating experiences you wouldn’t be able to enjoy without flying across the world, and bringing them right to your doorstep…” Image: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - The Rite Of Spring. Credit: Ulli Weiss. More>>
New Music Review: Fat Freddy’s Drop – Bays
New Zealand’s self-styled "seven-headed soul monster," Fat Freddy’s Drop have come a long way from their humble origins in the 90s, as a group of local lads jamming together. They now regularly play sold-out shows across Europe and hold a place in the hearts of their home fan base similar to that of Los Lobos in LA... More>>
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Wynton Marsalis, Pina Bausch's Company, Sufjan Stevens... New Zealand Festival Launches 2016 Programme