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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Whānau Ora shake-up: Tamihere-led agency among three losing contracts
The government has awarded contracts to four new agencies, with Ngāti Toa and Ngāi Tahu confirming they are among the successful bidders.
Man Up stages Pride protest, says it’s standing for families
Summarised by Centrist Destiny Church-linked group Man Up staged a protest at the Wellington Pride...
NZ Herald dismisses Winston Peters’ anti-DEI bill as a distraction
“It might be better if this bill stays in the tin.”
NZ’s ‘worst mayor’ calls police on rogue YouTuber over public meeting filming
“Why do you need to film Mr Simpson?”
Richard Prebble resigns from Waitangi Tribunal, sparks backlash from cultural elites
“They have to show that everyone who TRULY understands the Treaty and its history agrees with them. Everyone else is an uneducated racist buffoon."
Health NZ’s accounting fiasco: $28 billion tracked on a single Excel spreadsheet
Health NZ was essentially flying blind.
South Africa’s ‘co-governance’ disaster
"There have been endless anti-white laws, boiling us like a frog in a pot.”
Gangs run New Zealand’s prisons
This shift is already creating “two prisons” within the system.
NZ First moves to scrap diversity requirements in public service
“The public service exists to serve New Zealanders—not to be a breeding ground for identity politics.”
John Tamihere’s defence risks credibility of kaupapa Māori governance
“What I do reject is the idea that every single time a Māori organisation is questioned, it’s racist.”
