Hard News Photos and the People Who Took Them
Reporters are expected to take their own pictures. Some do their best, but it’s not the same. There are still a handful of skilled and dedicated news photographers around, but they are pitifully few.
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So What Is It All About
It’s good that we have the Freedom Movement and the organisations that have sprung from it: may they long continue to stand and speak for the rights we didn’t realise we valued until they were gone.
The Dilworth Charitable Trust Should Be Wound up
And the funds paid to the sexual abuse victims.
The Strongest Reason For Seymour’s Treaty Bill
I fear this corruption will only become stronger when the bill inevitably dies on the parliament floor. You must tell people how they are being robbed – and warn them that, if no changes are made, more will be taken from them in the future.
When Staff Massage the Data
NZTA and councils programmed fake data used in public consultation to justify lowered speed limits.
News Briefing: 13 March 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, WEALTH VISA Alice Peacock (Newsroom): Guardrails needed to protect NZ from foreign investors – ex-SolarZero employee Giles Dexter (RNZ): What's on the table at the government's infrastructure summit Catherine McGregor (Spinoff): Government sets out its wares
Labour Need to Lift Their Own Game If They Want Luxon Rolled
Labour could do more to destabilise the National Party, but will they?
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Face of the Day
A Herald reporter on the bus heard a passenger yelling “perv” and asking the driver to pull over. Another person was heard saying “you don’t treat women like that”, while another was heard sobbing.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… obtuse (adjective): 1a: not pointed or acute : blunt b (1) of an angle : exceeding 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees (2): having an obtuse angle c of a leaf : rounded at the free end 2a: lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive,
The Good Oil Daily Proverb
Wise words will win you a good meal, but treacherous people have an appetite for violence
Wednesday Weapons
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How much Damage can this Napoleonic Cannon Do?
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