How bad is this outcome? Forget the dulcet tones of his victory speech last night – Trump was trying to project a sweet Reaganite ‘morning in America” tone – and nor should you be lulled by the generosity he extended to the woman he had vilified and has threatened to imprison. Donald Trump has never had a problem with women who concede to him.
There’s no getting away from the fact that Trump’s victory makes the world a more dangerous place. More>>
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RMA: Māori Party Deal Revives Reform Bill
An agreement on policy issues in the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill has been reached between National and the Māori Party, which will enable the Bill to pass its second and third readings, Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith says. More>>
Correcting Corrections: Serco's Failures Are As Plain As Day
Reports that Corrections management felt unable to censure Serco over fight clubs at Mt Eden Prison cast serious doubts over whether the Government can properly monitor privately run prisons, the Green Party said today. More>>
(Some Already Announced): PM’s Press Conference - New Funding For Housing
Today’s Press Conference began with the announcement of the government’s plan to spend $300M over the next 4.5 years on housing. Prime Minister John Key allowed Minister for Social Housing Paula Bennett to introduce a breakdown of where the money will be spent and to answer relevant questions. More>>
Emergency Housing Emergency: Government Injects Another $300m
More emergency housing places, more support for tenants and more frontline staff have been funded in the next step in the Government’s comprehensive housing plan. More>>
Labour And Work: Youth Community Jobs, Business Training Levy
“We will give these young Kiwis the kick start they need to get back on the right track. This job experience will help them develop strong work ethics and make them more attractive to employers. We will get them ready for work.” More>>
Climate Change: Historic Paris Agreement Comes Into Force
Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett has welcomed the historic Paris Agreement, which comes into force today. More>>
Education Policy: Seclusion In Schools To Be Made Illegal
Ms Parata’s proposal will make it illegal for schools and ECE services to use seclusion, which is defined as the practice of a student being involuntarily placed alone in a room at any time or for any duration, from which they cannot freely exit or believe they cannot freely exit. More>>
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Easing Ending? RBNZ's Wheeler Cuts OCR
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler cut the official cash rate to a new record low to try to stoke inflation in an economy growing ahead of expectations and signalled the end of the easing cycle. The kiwi dollar gained after the statement. More>>
Media: Commerce Commission Initial Decision To Decline NZME/Fairfax Merger
The Commission has assessed the impact of the merger on competition in both advertising and reader markets for a number of media platforms as well as the overall impact on quality and plurality (diversity of voices). More>>
Inflation: Those With Lowest Living Standards Face Highest Price Rises
CTU: In the year to September, while a typical household experienced price increases of 0.1 percent, the lowest spending households saw prices rise by 0.6 percent, beneficiaries by 0.8 percent and superannuitants by 0.4 percent. At the end of the scale, the highest spending households saw prices fall by 0.3 percent. More>>
Royal Society: Increased Number Of Projects
Funded In 2016
A total of 117 research projects have been allocated $65.2 million (excl. GST) of funding in this year’s Marsden Fund grants, which support New Zealand’s best investigator-initiated research in the areas of science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On Britain’s Landmark Court Ruling Against Uber
The shockwaves from Uber’s defeat last week in a British court have reportedly already begun to wash up here in New Zealand with some local drivers thinking of taking a similar class action. More>>
Trade: NZ Trade Deficit Widens To A Record In September
Oct. 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's monthly trade deficit widened to a record in September as meat exports dropped to their lowest level in more than three years. More>>
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Alastair Thompson: Helen Kelly And The Compassionless People
I wasn't a close friend of Helen Kelly's. But her passing has moved me to tears more than once in the past two weeks. I feel honoured to be one of the many who worked with her and was helped by her. More>>
Postnatal Depression: 'The Thief That Steals Motherhood' - Alison McCulloch
Post-natal depression is a sly and cruel illness, described by one expert as ‘the thief that steals motherhood’, it creeps up on its victims, hiding behind the stress and exhaustion of being a new parent, catching many women unaware and unprepared. More>>
Gordon Campbell: On News From The US Election Eve
Here’s a somewhat scary headline from October 30 on Nate Silver’s 538 site, which summed up the statistical factors in play at that point: “The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does” More>>
David Swanson: Of All The Opinions I've Heard On Syria
It's all Assad's fault and the U.S., ISIS, al Nusra, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and anybody who will help should overthrow him come what may. It's all a U.S. crime, and Syria, Russia, and Iran should fix it with bombs. More>>
Julien Troussier: Loving Trump
It’s 3am. Cannot sleep. Restless. Slide to unlock. Open the New York Times App. Look for the latest incident. He did it again. He lashed out. Fear. Anger. Outrage. I needed to see this. I needed to check that the madness was still there. More>>
Werewolf: Living With Rio’s Olympic Ruins
Mariana Cavalcanti Critics of the Olympic project can point a discernible pattern in the delivery of Olympics-related urban interventions: the belated but rushed inaugurations of faulty and/or unfinished infrastructures... More>>
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Gordon Campbell: On The US Election Home Stretch
Once again at the business end of a US election, the result will hinge on the same old bits of geography as always: the Five Crucial Counties in Ohio, the Two Crucial Counties in Pennsylvania and the I-4 Interstate Corridor in Florida that runs from Tampa Bay through Orlando to Daytona Beach. More>>
Haiti: $5 Million To Kick-Start Aid In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew
UN emergency fund allocates $5 million to kick-start assistance in wake of Hurricane Matthew More>>
Preliminary Results: MH17 Investigation Report
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is convinced of having obtained irrefutable evidence to establish that on 17 July 2014, flight MH-17 was shot down by a BUK missile from the 9M38-series. According to the JIT there is also evidence identifying the launch location that involves an agricultural field near Pervomaiskyi which, at the time, was controlled by pro-Russian fighters. More>>
Not Helen Clark: António Guterres Favourite For Next UN Secretary-General
Former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres has emerged as the clear favourite to become the next United Nations Secretary-General following the sixth secret ballot held today by the UN Security Council, which is expected to take a formal decision tomorrow and forward Mr. Guterres’ name to the 193-Member General Assembly for final confirmation. More>>
At The UN: Paris Climate Agreement Moves Closer To Entry Into Force
Gordon Campbell: On The End Game In Spain (And Other World News)
The coverage of international news seems almost entirely dependent on a random selection of whatever some overseas news agency happens to be carrying overnight... Here are a few interesting international stories that have largely flown beneath the radar this past week. More>>
Amnesty/Human Rights Watch: Appalling Abuse, Neglect Of Refugees On Nauru
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru, most of whom have been held there for three years, routinely face neglect by health workers and other service providers who have been hired by the Australian government, as well as frequent unpunished assaults by local Nauruans. More>>
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Howard Davis: Review - The Cosmic Dance Of 'String Theory'Fly My Pretties sixth album is quite possibly their best yet - a concept album in the best sense, with superb arrangements, funky grooves, and some great vocalizing, all organized around the lyrical leitmotif of string theory. More>>
Non-Natural History: Dinosaur Eggs 'Discovered' At Auckland Gardens
Auckland Botanic Gardens plant curators have unearthed what are thought to be prehistoric dinosaur eggs in the Gondwana Forest section of the expansive garden in Manurewa... In fact, the “dinosaur eggs” are part of an innovative, larger-than-life dinosaur performance and display featuring a raptor, a crested therapod and a towering Tyrannosaurus Rex. More>>
For The Birds: Kōkako Crowned Bird Of The Year
The Kōkako has been crowned New Zealand's Bird of the Year after two weeks of close competition and heated campaigning. More>>
New Zealand Geographic: Photographer Of The Year Announced
Shaun Jeffers, has won the Landscape category at the New Zealand Geographic, Photographer of the Year awards for his stunning shot of the glowworms at the Waitomo Glowworm Caves! More>>
Howard Davis: Review - 'I, Daniel Blake' - Ken Loach's Bleak Masterpiece
'I, Daniel Blake' is a bleak masterpiece, a chilling and moving story of two people striking up an unlikely friendship under extremely adverse circumstances. It is both a polemical indictment of a faceless benefits bureaucracy that strips claimants of their humanity by reducing them to mere numbers, and a celebration of the decency and compassion of ordinary people who look out for one another when the state has abandoned them. More>>
Howard Davis: Review - A Girl Named Mo
Moana Ete brought her three-piece band A Girl Named Mo to Wellington's intimate and iconic Bats Theatre last week for a five-night residency. Each show was recorded and filmed live for the release of her debut album 'Platonic/Romantic' on Loop records later this year. More>>
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