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NZ Race Relations Roundup
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com News: Kelvin Davis launches new Maori Pathways prisoner rehabilitation scheme The Government is hoping “a for Maori, by Maori approach” will reduce reoffending and the over-representation of tangata whenua in prison. Maori make up about 15 per cent of the general population but more than 50
Nasa’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flight on Mars Opens up New Frontiers in Space Exploration
Jesse Rogerson York University, Canada Jesse is an Assistant Professor at York University where he teaches Astronomy and Planetary Science. He is an avid science communicator and educator; you’ll often find him on social media nerding out on something super cool in space. History has been made on Mars:
Daily News Roundup – 23 April 2021
NZ-China-Australia relations Chris Trotter: The Kangaroo encounters the Taniwha Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Speculation Five Eyes will become Four Eyes is completely ridiculous Richard Harman: Mahuta has to defend her Five Eyes comments Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Commentators need to calm down over Five Eyes, NZ
Daily News Roundup – 22 April 2021
Health reforms: Analysis Luke Malpass (Stuff): Government’s DHB overhaul is the latest salvo in the Wellington vs local control war Stuff: Editorial – Healthcare change needed but crucial staff shortages need to be addressed Audrey Young (Herald): Little’s Cabinet paper shows how Heather Simpson was rolled (paywalled) Herald: Editorial:
Disappeared, No One Knows Where
19th April 2021 As reports are getting evermore difficult, it is a miscellany of incidents today. Today, Kyawt Kay Khine, a 17-year-old girl studying at BESH (3) Bahan was abducted by the Military from Thurein Aluminum, BoSeinHman Street. She is just one of many as the military has
Daily News Roundup – 21 April 2021
Ihumatao unlawful government spend Henry Cooke (Stuff): Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumatao was unlawfully spent Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Housing Minister Megan Woods promises to ‘tidy up’ unlawful purchase of Ihumatao 1News: Unlawful Ihumatao payment another ‘messy chapter’ in the saga, 1News political
Junta Troops Take More Casualties
19th April 2021 The Junta troops continue to take casualties. There are sporadic conflicts throughout the regions and the civilians are fighting back in low scale conflicts. The troops are having problems with supplies and are “foraging” for food. They are stealing rice and chickens from the local villagers and
Schools Reopening and No More Mask-Wearing Outdoors as Israel Praises Its Vaccination Campaign
rt.com Israel has lifted its requirement for wearing a mask in the street and has fully opened schools, as officials believe “progress” in fighting the pandemic is apparent. Less than one per cent of recent Covid-19 tests showed positive. The nationwide ban on going outside without an obligatory
Pakistan’s Draconian Blasphemy Laws Claim Two More Victims
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. District Headquarters Hospital Faisalabad is a 570-bed hospital in the second-largest city in the Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province. Like all hospitals in Pakistan, it is under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has
Daily News Roundup – 20 April 2021
NZ-China relations: Mahuta Speech Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): Without evidence of real progress, NZ’s foreign policy towards China looks increasingly empty Luke Malpass and Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The taniwha and the dragon: Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta talks China in major speech Audrey Young (Herald): Nanaia Mahuta likens NZ-
YouTube Censors Panel of Medical Experts over COVID-19 “Misinformation”
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Stalemate?
18th April 2021 The conflict in Myanmar is reaching a stage where the Military won’t lose, but equally they can’t win. The Tatmadaw have about 350,000/400,000 troops and the EAOs about 100,000. The Tatmadaw are better armed and have an air force, most of
The Week in Review
Like many Kiwis across New Zealand, we were shocked to find, yet again, that the Government have not been doing their job to keep our border secure. After all the carefully choreographed public reassurances and spin, we find that a border worker went without mandatory testing for six months, 450
Daily News Roundup – 19 April 2021
Housing crisis Reuters: ‘Explosion of wealth inequality’ as housing boom leaves many behind – economist Dan Satherley (Newshub): Housing crisis: Price falls coming, but ‘nothing compared to’ how much they’ve risen – economists Miriam Bell (Stuff): What will happen if house prices fall? Tara Shaskey (Stuff): Poverty will cripple Maori if