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Seed funding: Govt spends up on rural plant nursery
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 4:40 pm | RNZ
Bay of Plenty village Minginui is to get a funding boost of almost $6 million from the government's provincial growth fund. More >>
GDP growth slowed by hot weather
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 4:33 pm | RNZ
The economy continued to expand at the end of last year, but hot, dry weather curbed the rate of growth. More >>
Students demand end to Russell McVeagh's govt contracts
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 4:27 pm | RNZ
Hundreds of university students, lawyers and academics have marched through Wellington, asking for under-fire law firm Russell McVeagh to be suspended from all government contracts. More >>
Treasury poverty estimate out by 24,000 children
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 3:21 pm | RNZ
Treasury overstated how many children would be lifted out of poverty by the government's families package by 24,000. More >>
Developer disappointed with Air NZ over Kāpiti move
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 1:19 pm | RNZ
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To progress pay gap we must critically discuss prostitution
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 12:16 pm | Renee Gerlich
There is a question I always want to ask those who advocate for full prostitution decriminalisation, while they are also vocal critics of both epidemic sexual harrassment, and the gender pay gap. The question is: How do you propose your goal of sexual equality ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the PM’s Indonesian guest and West Papua
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 11:39 am | Gordon Campbell
A s David Lange once said, it is almost impossible to get New Zealand to think about Indonesia, the huge nation sitting right on our doorstep. The visit to this country early next week by Indonesian president Joko Widodo won’t change that situation, ... More >>
Fit for a King - The King's Singers and Voices New Zealand
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 4:54 pm | Max Rashbrooke
To be good at one thing is impressive; to be so versatile across a range of genres is truly exceptional. That was my conclusion from an evening listening to the world-renowned King's Singers, performing at the New Zealand Festival with the Voices New Zealand ... More >>
House prices rise across New Zealand
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 4:29 pm | RNZ
The Real Estate Institute said the house price index rose 1.4 percent in February, over January, with the annual rate up 3.9 percent More >>
Afghan raid inquiry needed to dispel confusion - lawyer
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 4:25 pm | RNZ
A lawyer representing Afghan people caught up in a defence force raid in 2010 says persisting confusion about the detail shows an independent inquiry is needed. More >>
Amazon: Digital Assistants, Home Surveillance and Data
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 4:20 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It says a lot that societies who are still part of what is rather weakly called the free world could do this. Technology, viewed as emancipating and rewarding, can actually introduce different chains and shackles, becoming repellent and self-defeating. More >>
Video: Jacinda Ardern on Young Labour camp fallout
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 4:10 pm | RNZ
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says she cannot rule out other instances of sexual abuse at previous Young Labour events. More >>
Glaciers in trouble after marine heatwave
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 3:33 pm | RNZ
From Our Changing World , 11:51 am today Alison Ballance , Senior Producer @alisonballance alison.ballance@radionz.co.nz More >>
Will Israeli Policies change If Netanyahu Leaves Office?
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 2:33 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Will Israeli Policies change If Netanyahu Leaves Office? By Ramzy Baroud If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as Israel's Occupation ... More >>
Mishandling of sex assault complaints a political mess
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 12:32 pm | RNZ
Power Play - No one disputes victims of sexual assault should be treated with respect and confidentiality, and offered the greatest level of support possible. More >>
Police investigating Labour camp sexual assaults
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 12:22 pm | RNZ
One of the victims of sexual assault at a Labour Summer School Camp has contacted police and now an investigation has been launched. More >>
NZDF admits Afghan raid same location as in Hit & Run
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 12:07 pm | RNZ
A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) report has admitted that photographs in the controversial book Hit and Run are of an Afghan village the SAS attacked in 2010. More >>
Cory Doctorow talks machine learning and big data in NZ
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 11:00 am | Joseph Cederwall
International internet and digital technology commentator Cory Doctorow talked about machine learning and big data at the Privacy Commissioner’s PrivacyLive event on 13 March 2018 in Wellington. More >>
Interview: Dominic Hoey on hip-hop, poetry, gentrification and dealing with chronic illness
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 4:55 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Dominic Hoey is a poet, author, musician, actor and chronic illness sufferer. He has previously performed under the stage name Tourettes as a hip-hop artist releasing a number of acclaimed solo works. After a sold out debut season in 2017, Dominic ... More >>
Windows no longer Microsoft’s main focus
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 4:48 pm | Digitl
Microsoft's rebirth and success in cloud and enterprise computing has implications for the company's Windows operating system. They are not positive. More >>
NZ signs up to anti-plastic pledge
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 3:25 pm | RNZ
New Zealand is turning the tide on the production and use of plastic to help clean up the oceans. More >>
PM Jacinda Ardern defends Winston Peters' Russia remarks
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 3:13 pm | RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is defending Foreign Minister Winston Peters over his recent remarks about Russia, saying she is not concerned. More >>
Explainer: Young Labour summer camp controversy
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 3:07 pm | RNZ
The Labour Party is under fire over its handling of the sexual assault or harassment of four 16-year-olds at its annual Summer School Camp. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters' cozying up to Trump
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 11:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters' attempts to cozy up to Trump, and to Russia First published on Werewolf More >>
NZ’s “Pacific reset” aims to reassert imperialist dominance
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 9:38 am | Tom Peters
A five-day tour by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of four small and impoverished Pacific island countries has been seized on by the corporate media to once again glorify the Labour Party-led government. More >>
PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference 12/3/18: Steel Diplomacy
Monday, 12 March 2018, 6:11 pm | The Scoop Team
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened her press conference with a summary of the government's Pacific mission , from which she had recently returned. She also indicated plans for the week including bilateral discussion with Viet Nam’s Prime Minister Nguyn ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Police pursuits
Monday, 12 March 2018, 10:50 am | Gordon Campbell
T he willingness of the Police to play Russian roulette with public safety via its current policy on pursuits continues to end in carnage: three dead in Nelson, two in the speeding car, and one member of the public unlucky enough to be in the wrong ... More >>
Why phone makers are obsessed with cameras
Sunday, 11 March 2018, 3:22 pm | Digitl
Phone makers spend more time talking about cameras than on any other aspect of new phone design. There are good reasons why they do this. More >>
Cyclone Hola expected to hit NZ Monday morning
Saturday, 10 March 2018, 2:45 pm | RNZ
Tropical Cyclone Hola is forecast to hit the upper North Island in the early hours of Monday morning, but the tides could be in New Zealand's favour, says MetService. More >>
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?
Saturday, 10 March 2018, 1:56 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens sapiens is on the fast track to extinction, most likely some time between 2025 and 2040. More >>
NZ Wars commemorations begin with mass haka
Friday, 9 March 2018, 4:11 pm | RNZ
The first national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars begins with a mass haka at Te Tii Marae at Waitangi this afternoon. More >>
Bitcoin, cars and 'brown sugar' seized in Wellington bust
Friday, 9 March 2018, 3:24 pm | RNZ
Five people have been arrested and hundreds and thousands of dollars in assets seized in a drug bust in Wellington. More >>
New Caledonia goes to highest alert ahead of Hola
Friday, 9 March 2018, 3:18 pm | RNZ
As Cyclone Hola bears down on New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands the government has issued the maximum alert for residents. More >>
Evacuation of stranded tourists begins
Friday, 9 March 2018, 2:58 pm | RNZ
The air evacuation of around a hundred tourists stranded at Blue Duck Station near Taumarunui is now under way. More >>
Man shot in Pukekohe, school on lockdown
Friday, 9 March 2018, 2:45 pm | RNZ
A school in Pukekohe, south of Auckland, is in lockdown after a man was shot at a nearby house, police say. More >>
Govt has 'bamboozled' voters over new TPP
Friday, 9 March 2018, 12:46 pm | RNZ
The government has "bamboozled" voters over plans to sign the revised Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, a Wellington solicitor says. More >>
New TPP deal signed by NZ in Chile
Friday, 9 March 2018, 8:38 am | RNZ
Amid rising fears the US will spark a new global trade war, a revised Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal has been signed this morning in Chile. More >>
Govt too upbeat about AI - expert
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 3:39 pm | RNZ
New Zealand needs to have a conversations about the enormous disruption AI will unleash over coming decades, the head of New Zealand's artificial intelligence forum says. More >>
PM offers NZ help with mental health in Gita's aftermath
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 3:25 pm | RNZ
Jacinda Ardern has drawn parallels with children who experienced the Christchurch earthquakes and those who were caught up in Cyclone Gita. More >>
Bullied Relations: Aus, East Timor and Natural Resources
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 3:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
“The Commission instead opted for the easiest way out, which is a shame as in my perception it reveals a lack of impartiality on your behalf!” More >>
Airbnb owners cream millions in Auckland rent
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 2:49 pm | RNZ
Airbnb may be fuelling rents on Waiheke Island, with new research showing more than 1200 Auckland houses are permanently rented through the accommodation website. More >>
Deluge causes slips, flooding, road closures and evacuations
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 2:35 pm | RNZ
Flooding and slips have closed state highways and roads across the central North Island from Hawke's Bay to Whanganui, New Plymouth and Wairarapa, with some evacuations near Napier. More >>
Syrian Sentinels are daily risking their lives
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 2:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
One of this observer’s favourite meeting spots in bustling central Damascus and which is located just outside the walls of Damascus’ Old City where I like to chat and learn from a range of interlocutors about recent developments, is Marjeh Square, More >>
Suffrage 125: Watch RNZ live panel for Whakatū Wāhine
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 2:18 pm | RNZ
Join RNZ's Megan Whelan for Whakatū Wāhine: an event beginning 2018's Suffrage 125 programme, celebrating New Zealand's past leadership in women's suffrage and the women who have been championing social change ever since. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the #MeToo movement in Sweden
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 1:35 pm | Gordon Campbell
I n the week leading up to International Women’s Day (today!) the Oscars enabled the rich and famous to do what elites can usefully do: namely, they can shine a spotlight on the attitudes and practices that oppress women, blacks, Hispanics and indigenous ... More >>
Cyclone Hola upgraded to category four, could hit NZ
Thursday, 8 March 2018, 12:48 pm | RNZ
Another cyclone gathering force to the north-west of New Zealand is now a category four storm. More >>
Katya Rivas' Passion : Jesus Prays in the Garden
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:58 pm | Katya Rivas
Nobody really believes that I perspired blood that night at Gethsemane, and few believe that I suffered much more in those hours than in the Crucifixion. It was more painful because it was clearly revealed to Me that the sins of everyone were made Mine and ... More >>
Climate change response needs tools that 'bite', Upton says
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 7:40 pm | BusinessDesk
March 7 (BusinessDesk) - Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says New Zealand's legislative response to climate change needs broad, cross-party support to deploy the country's sophisticated tools so they actually "bite". More >>
NZ commits a further $10m to Gita-hit Tonga
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 4:34 pm | RNZ
New Zealand has committed a further $10 million to help Tonga recover from Cyclone Gita. More >>
Government finances exceed forecast
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 4:26 pm | RNZ
The Government's finances are in better shape than expected because of a stronger tax take. More >>
OIO to take over forestry registration
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 4:19 pm | RNZ
Forestry registration rights are to be brought under the control of the Overseas Investment Office. More >>
Joyce's departure puts spotlight on Nats' generation gap
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 4:14 pm | RNZ
Power Play - The generational power shift within National continues with the departure of campaign strategist and all-round trouble shooter Steven Joyce, writes Jane Patterson . More >>
Cyclone Hola could hit New Zealand this weekend
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 3:55 pm | RNZ
A cyclone which has developed to the east of northern Vanuatu has been upgraded to a category two storm. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the departure of Steven Joyce
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
I n the end, the party leadership left the loaded revolver on Steven Joyce’s desk, and he did the decent thing. Amy Adams as Finance spokesperson will now become the main “change” element in the generational shift promised by new party leader ... More >>
Brownlee defends EQC over assessor claims
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:46 am | RNZ
Gerry Brownlee is defending the Earthquake Commission over claims some of its Christchurch assessors were not properly qualified. More >>
Youth in Palestine Must Break Free from Dual Oppression
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:24 am | Ramzy Baroud
As global voices continue to demand the freedom of 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her family. More >>
Hungary: Opinion Editorial
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:01 am | United Nations
“Last week, the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, said it was "slanderous" and "unacceptable" of me to call his Prime Minister a racist. He claimed I had "accused Hungary of being comparable to the worst dictatorships of the last century" and demanded ... More >>
Katya Rivas' Passion : Jesus Prepares Himself
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 10:40 pm | Katya Rivas
There are souls who consider My Passion, but very few who think about My preparation for My public life: My loneliness! More >>
Joyce to leave parliament; leaked letter shows anger
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 7:22 pm | BusinessDesk
March 6 (BusinessDesk) - The National Party's chief political strategist since the mid-2000s, Steven Joyce, has announced his decision to retire from Parliament after new leader Simon Bridges did not offer him the finance spokesmanship in a shadow ... More >>
We need to change our laws on prostitution
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 3:05 pm | Renee Gerlich
Alison Mau has just launched a #MeTooNZ investigation – “a planned, organised outlet for survivors of sexual harrassment to come forward... and help stop repeat predatory behaviour”. There is one industry we know will barely be touched by this ... More >>
