DTNZ Daily Telegraph New Zealand Coroner Marcus Elliott criticized Oranga Tamariki for not providing full and accurate information, which was essential for the court’s decision-making. Despite the suppression orders surrounding the case, it was revealed that the man, who had a long history of violence and criminal behaviour,
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards MEDIA Duncan Greive (Spinoff): An abrupt U-turn from National, a brave new world for news in New Zealand Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Ministers will shake the Facebook and Google money tree for NZ media RNZ: 'Terrible precedent' - Expert concerns about Fair Digital
American R&B and blues musician and activist, Daryl Davis once said, “a stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.” And along comes Paul Goldsmith to prove the point. The National-led coalition will progress the Fair
Professor Rex Ahdar University of Otago Forget the NBA or NHL Finals. Who cares about UEFA Euro 2024 and the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals? We have the Intersectionality Playoffs 2024. Despite a poor regular season, the Free Palestine coalition have made it through to their first semi-finals in
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science Digital ID is being sold as an essential change to modern society via public-private partnerships as global as the World Economic Forum to as local as Digital Identity New Zealand. The stated vision of Digital Identity NZ, whose members include large
Dennis Wesselbaum, University of Otago Associate professor, Department of Economics In the ups and downs of the global economy over the last decade, New Zealand has had one relatively consistent challenge: persistent productivity stagnation. Productivity compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Dan Brunskill (Interest): An unlikely coalition of New Zealand voters are backing Housing Minister Chris Bishop’s mission to bring down house prices Susan Edmunds (RNZ): House prices need to fall 'a further 16%' to become affordable 1News: Tumultuous time for
Christopher Luxon’s dreams came true after Labour’s own pollsters have found a majority of voters would green-light the purchase of replacements for the aging and decrepit B757s that have embarrassed Prime Ministers from Clark to Key, to Ardern and now Luxon. A majority of New Zealanders want
THERE ARE LESSONS to be learned from the Biden-Trump debate/debacle. Important lessons, which New Zealanders would be most unwise to ignore. The first and most important of these is the need to face some harsh truths.
The sleepy, leafy suburbs of quaint conservative Cambridge were torn apart by the Waipa District Council’s infamous BLUE BLOB. Residents awoke to the local newspaper’s report about a new bridge location and the shifting of the town’s main arterial route through their back streets. There was no
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
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Brian Tamaki The Drag Debacle that happened this week gave glaring evidence to the NZ Public how deep the Trans/Drag/Gay agenda is in our Politicians, Parties and Parliament. National’s Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ “I can’t help myself” reaction to my comment on X revealed (not only
The less affluent Auckland suburb of Otahuhu and others in South Auckland have been targeted by the Auckland City Council’s tree planting programme to increase the tree canopy and green residential areas, whether residents like it or not. “In 2019, Auckland Council voted unanimously to declare a Climate Emergency,
Last week Chris Bishop said out loud what no politician ever wants to be heard, by anyone, but especially home owners. He said he wanted house prices to drop significantly. Matthew Hooton writes about that in his weekly column at the NZ Herald: Bishop is obsessed about massively increasing the
