Daily review 13/06/2025
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- In their dreams
Order of Ceremony for the Jacinda Ardern Show Trial and Ritual HumiliationMs HDPB-Allen will rise to say:I want to hear you apologise for showing empathy during a crisis. She may, if she chooses, add: This made me feel very uncomfortable.Mr M Hosking, wearing Armani and looking as though he has ...1 hour ago - Enter a title40 years on, the Rainbow Warrior, the bombing and French colonial culture in the Pacifi...
Provide a desJournalist and former university professor Dr David Robie reflects on the 1985 Rainbow Warrior mission to Rongelap atoll to help US nuclear refugees and the bombing of the Greenpeace campaign ship by French secret agents. His analysis is that far from the sabotage being an isolated incident, it ...2 hours ago - ASPI Defence Conference: Putting the ‘national’ in national preparedness and resilience
The ASPI Defence Conference in June highlighted the critical importance of national preparedness and resilience to Australia’s national security. Chief of the Defence Force, Admiral David Johnston, set the stage by emphasising a pivotal shift ...2 hours ago - Qantas hack: limits to the government’s reach
A cyberattack on a Qantas call centre, revealed last week, put cyber risk back in the headlines, as did similar attacks on Medibank and Optus. But these are not one-off shocks: they represent a new ...3 hours ago
- Prison for One: Accepted
A very, very nice bit of writing news today. Prison for One, my 3,250-word piece of Space Opera, has earned itself an acceptance by Bullet Points (https://bulletpoints.nathantoronto.com/), a magazine specialising in speculative military fiction. To call this an exciting acceptance is to understate the case. You see, Prison for ...3 hours ago - Tuesday 8 July
The Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments on whether it should uphold or overturn previous court rulings that four Uber drivers were entitled to be treated as employees of the firm, rather than as contractors. Hospital workers are pushing back against a trial to reduce the number of maternity beds ...6 hours ago - Uber drivers taking a stand on behalf of all platform workers
As the Uber drivers have their case heard in the Supreme Court today, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi believes that the outcome of the case will have lasting implications for people working the in the platform economy and workers who have been misclassified as contractors. ...6 hours ago
- Capital gaps and complacency: investment imbalance undermines sovereignty
Australia’s ability to generate breakthrough ideas has never been in doubt. But despite increasing recognition of the need for national resilience, the country still lacks a capital system built to serve strategic purpose. The failure ...7 hours ago
- NZ economy sliding back into recession
There are clear signs from leading indicators that the economy is sliding back into recessionary territory in a third consecutive winter of economic discontent. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Tuesday, July 8:On the eve of an ...8 hours ago - How to fill a 155 mm hole in Australian defence strategy
In Canberra, it’s called taking out the trash. Late on Friday, 27 June, the Department of Defence quietly issued a media release with news it must have hoped would get little media attention: it had ...10 hours ago
- Gordon Campbell On Using The Tax System To Boost Funding For The Arts
Despite the myriad concerns being expressed about the Regulatory Standards Bill – including misgivings by his own Regulations Ministry and scorn from constitutional law expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer – David Seymour has professed to find no merit in any of the objections. Sure, he’ll add in a reference to the ...18 hours ago - Horses for courses: where quantum computing is, and isn’t, the answer
Despite the impressive and undeniable strides quantum computing has made in recent years, it’s important to remain cautious about sweeping claims regarding its transformative potential. To avoid future disillusionment as the technology matures and ensure ...1 day ago
- People Linked to Jeffrey Epstein Who Have Died
The web of Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network and its ties to powerful figures continues to unravel, revealing a chilling pattern of suspicious deaths, allegations of intelligence connections, and unanswered questions. From Epstein’s own mysterious death in 2019 to the unsolved murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, the apparent suicide of ...1 day ago - Don’t kid yourself, Australia: a Taiwan war would spread across the Indo-Pacific
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s second visit to China—pencilled in for this month—will come weeks before the People’s Liberation Army’s 98th anniversary on 1 August 2025, a date laden with symbolism as Beijing approaches the military modernisation ...1 day ago
- A good way to say goodbye
It can feel as though I'm often saying goodbye here. Friends who have gone; and I remember when.I’m at an age where I have more years behind me than ahead, and I'm writing for many people in the same position. But it's not always or ever just goodbye, I hope. ...1 day ago - The psychosocial imperative of food security preparedness
The dust has barely settled on the 2025 federal election and the returning government has already reaffirmed its commitment to delivering a national food security strategy. That’s a welcome and long-overdue step forward. But unless ...1 day ago
- Submission on the Public Finance Amendment Bill
This submission comments on select aspects of the Public Finance Amendment Bill. The NZCTU opposes the removal of the wellbeing provisions from the Act. These were inserted in 2020 to make clear that the goal of fiscal policy is to support the wellbeing of New Zealanders. The wellbeing provisions help ...1 day ago
- Legislating For Liberty.
Revolutionary Intentions: The Regulatory Standards Bill sounds like one of those pieces of legislation debated on a dreary Thursday afternoon in an almost empty House of Representatives - it is anything but.FOR A BILL set to transform New Zealand into a libertarian nightmare, it has an extremely boring name. The Regulatory ...1 day ago - Reality Check Radio’s Unhinged Petition
Reality Check Radio’s petition to prosecute former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, alongside Chris Hipkins, Ashley Bloomfield, and a cadre of public health experts, is a bewildering display of political theatre. Launched on the cusp of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, this campaign is less a call ...1 day ago
- Whose cloud is it, anyway? Rethinking sovereignty in the shift to cloud infrastructure
Cloud infrastructure is now the backbone of everything from social services and emergency response to critical industry operations and defence. The shift has been fast, and often invisible to users. What began as a convenience ...1 day ago
- Another attack on the rule of law
Over the past few years New Zealand fisheries ministers have been repeatedly found to have acted illegally in their quota decisions, ignoring the Fisheries Act's environmental and information principles and setting quota at unlawfully high levels to pander to the fishing industry. But current fisheries minister Shame Jones has a ...1 day ago - Monday 7 July
The PSA are saying that months after commissioning a report into sexual harassment, Corrections has not moved fast enough to address its “old boys club” culture that has impacted a quarter of their staff. A survey of student nurses has found almost 62 percent are considering a job overseas if one ...1 day ago
- Willis eyes more tax from banks
Willis says she has sought advice on whether the major banks are paying their fair share of tax. Photo: Getty ImagesBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, July 7:Finance Minister Nicola Willis is considering changing the tax settings for banks in Budget ...1 day ago - The Red Flag
Then raise the scarlet standard highBeneath its folds, we'll live and dieThough cowards flinch and traitors sneerWe'll keep the red flag flying hereLyrics: Billy Bragg / Traditional.On this day in 1916, smaller socialist parties and trade unions came together to form our New Zealand Labour Party. So, congratulations to all ...1 day ago - Australia urgently needs a national security strategy
Many nations, including Australia, continue to operate as if strategic shocks are exceptional, not the new norm. This illusion of peace leaves us dangerously unprepared for the multipolar, contested, and volatile world rapidly unfolding around ...1 day ago
- “I Wanted, So Badly, To See His Face”
Hi,Four years ago on Webworm, my friend Kate wrote an essay about having aphantasia. In her words, “Aphantasia is the inability to visualise mental images. Most people who have aphantasia are also unable to recall sounds, smell or sensations of touch. That’s me. I can’t do any of it. Never ...1 day ago - FamilyBoost changes will exacerbate inequity of ECE access
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi is warning that the FamilyBoost changes announced today by Finance Minister Nicola Willis will fail to make early childhood education more affordable for the families who need it most and will instead widen inequities. “The Government has missed an opportunity ...2 days ago
- Unresolved Questions About Epstein’s Paedophile Network
Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise represents one of the most sophisticated pedophile and blackmail operations in modern history, facilitated by an extensive surveillance network that recorded illicit activities across his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach mansion, Little St. James island, New Mexico’s Zorro Ranch, and the New Albany estate. Despite numerous investigations ...2 days ago
- 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #27
A listing of 27 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 29, 2025 thru Sat, July 5, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (4 articles) What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less ...2 days ago - Mountain Tūī’s 1 & Taking A Break
2 days ago - Common People
You will never understandHow it feels to live your lifeWith no meaning or controlAnd with nowhere left to goYou are amazed that they existAnd they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder whySongwriters: Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Steve Mackey, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle.Under every government, there are winners and ...3 days ago - The Dangerous Lie That Homelessness is a Choice
The callous rhetoric emerging from this Government's housing ministers reveals a profound disconnect from the harsh realities facing thousands of New Zealanders. When politicians like Mark Mitchell and Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell suggest that homelessness is somehow a matter of personal choice, they perpetuate a dangerous myth that absolves the ...3 days ago
- The Dangerous Lie That Homelessness is a Choice
The callous rhetoric emerging from this Government's housing ministers reveals a profound disconnect from the harsh realities facing thousands of New Zealanders. When politicians like Mark Mitchell and Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell suggest that homelessness is somehow a matter of personal choice, they perpetuate a dangerous myth that absolves the ...3 days ago
- Investing in the Public Health System
What can you do when you have hit your borrowing limit and still want to spend? One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top condition. The government does the same. Hence our three water ...4 days ago - The case for boosting defence spending is compelling—we shouldn’t need US prodding
The Australian government’s dispute with the United States over the level of defence spending has distracted our media and public from the core issue. The main driver of increased defence spending should not be requests ...4 days ago
- A reminder that music lifts you out of everything
Questions 1. What were participants in this year’s Youth Parliament effectively prohibited from saying?a. Death, death to the IDFb. There’s some hoes in this housec. Freddie Starr ate my hamsterd. Anything critical of the government2. About what does this government like to flex like a gym bro?a. Being tough on ...4 days ago - British public backs defence and security partnership with Australia
Australia was high on the list for Britain’s revamp of its alliances after Brexit, and the stormy geopolitical climate that followed has only reinforced the need for a more ambitious partnership. Looking ahead, public demonstrations ...4 days ago
- Qantas data breach shows compliance doesn’t always mean protection and resilience
Cybersecurity requires more than legal compliance; it demands constant vigilance and adaptation. A cyberattack on a third-party platform used by a Qantas customer contact centre in Manila, discovered on 30 June, made this clear. Six ...4 days ago
- How Taiwan must prepare to face Chinese drone saturation
Taiwan urgently needs to overhaul its air defence strategy to prevent the rising threat of low-cost drone saturation attacks from China. This demands three major reforms: expanding air-defence capability with low-cost weapons; improving survivability with ...4 days ago
- Friday 4 July
NZNO says Health New Zealand’s latest pay offer is a “massive backward step” for the health system and patients, and there are “very strong indications” members will want to strike. The amount of money Health New Zealand is spending each year on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing ...4 days ago
- Europe’s lesson for Australia: invest in defence now, or spend more later
Instead of learning from Europe’s mistakes in the decade leading into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—underinvesting in defence, increasing trade with a strategic adversary and expecting the United States to disproportionately carry the security burden—Australia ...4 days ago
- Make New Zealand Proud Again
Prime Minister Luxon makes Alt-Right Extremist Group Proud Boys Legal AgainPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has removed the extremist group “Proud Boys” from New Zealand’s terrorist list despite its history of violence1 and far-right extremism. Journalist Paula Penfold notes the group is operating cross border, and have made their own New ...4 days ago - Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman & Ed Miller ‘Hoon’ around the news ...
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Mark Mitchell walked around Rotorua’s shops for TV cameras and said some rough sleepers did it more as a ‘lifestyle choice’. File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Friday, July 4:Police Minister Mark Mitchell says people who ...4 days ago - Australia can leverage SMEs to build national resilience
Australia needs a national strategy that explicitly prioritises the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into its defence industrial base to strengthen sovereign capability and infrastructure resilience. Despite high-level pledges to build a self-reliant ...4 days ago
- Protesters deluge Parliament
It has long been a cliché whenever Parliament is seriously discussed that the real work is done in the Select Committees. It is not anymore entirely true. The Committees are becoming platforms for political protest. One left-wing activist has recently widely circulated a document on how to “deluge” a Select ...5 days ago - Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action
Canada has just made a great step forward in minimising the security risk from China. Now Australia should step forward and propose to work with Canada to create international, harmonised arrangements to protect critical infrastructure. ...5 days ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #27 2025
Open access notables The Emergence of Near-Permanent Marine Heatwave State in the Tropical Indian Ocean During 2023–2024, Soumya, International Journal of Climatology In 2023/24, global mean surface temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and the Tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) experienced a record-breaking basin mean anomalous warming of 0.88°C. This unprecedented warming ...5 days ago
- A further descent into tyranny
A protest group carries out repeated non-violent actions to highlight its cause, highlighting the fact that the regime's foreign policy is in violation of international law and is at odds witht he values and wishes of its people. The regime responds by banning the organisation, and threatening 14 year jail ...5 days ago
- Strangle it, strangle it now
Sometimes you've got to take your chance at the flood, even when everyone says you've got it all wrong. Sometimes you've just got to back yourself and ride that tide.Sometimes this is the worst advice you could possibly give yourself. You imagine you know better than everyone else, but you ...5 days ago - For Quad to be taken seriously, it must formalise and expand
The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now is the time to assess whether the group’s current structure is sufficient ...5 days ago
- Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also need to spend 5 percent on defence
There’s no shortage of measures that the United States’ major East Asian friends could spend an increased defence budget on. NATO allies of the US have agreed to allocate 5 percent of GDP to defence ...5 days ago
- Libertarian Stuff
Arise, libertarians above totalitariansOur guide is the mighty invisible handReject state controllers, collectors and patrollersOur choices are better than government plansSongwriter: Dominic Frisby.This week, Prime Minister in waiting, Chris Hipkins, ventured into the centre-right heartland of Newstalk ZB and told them what he really thought.No major surprises; it was what ...5 days ago - Bob Vylan Censored While Gaza Genocide Ignored
The recent blacklisting of British punk-rap group Bob Vylan, following their provocative chant of “death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury 2025, exposes a chilling double standard in Western governance.The swift and heavy-handed response, launching a criminal investigation, revoking the band’s visas, cancelling future concerts, and seeing them dropped by ...5 days ago
- Despite it all, China dominates Australian trade—again
China has reasserted its dominance over Australia’s export markets, taking a record of almost 1 billion tonnes of mineral resources and agricultural commodities last year, and displacing the trading partners that helped Australia out during ...5 days ago
- The five-domains update
Sea state Defence Minister Richard Marles visited the Maldives in early June and announced a present of one Guardian-class patrol boat and hydrographic equipment. They are expected to be delivered in 2026. Australia has an ...5 days ago
- An almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence
Australia's national broadcaster is called Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It's regularly attacked by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News & Australian broadsheet - as well as Atlas Network think tanks such as IPA - as "wasting taxpayers money" The last Liberal (conservative) leader Peter Dutton also labelled ABC (and the Guardian) as ...5 days ago - Take advantage of these tax credits before Congress kills them
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working to pass their version of the budget reconciliation bill before Congress goes on holiday for July 4. As it stands, the bill would terminate most clean energy tax credits long before their original ...5 days ago
- Act forces Willis backdown on policy costings unit
Seymour says there is no need for the unit - and he wouldn’t trust what the officials said anyway. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Thursday, July 3:Deputy PM David Seymour has forced Finance Minister Nicola Willis ...5 days ago - Reflecting on 25 years of UNSC Resolution 1325
The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda suffers from an ongoing burden: the need for less talk and more action. Invariably, several speakers raise this issue at the Security Council’s annual Open Debate ...5 days ago
- Gordon Campbell on National’s crackdown on shoplifters
Politicians do like being tough on crime. Flexing law and order muscle is a feature of the patriarchal Daddy State, and is beloved by the very same conservatives who deplore the workings of the Nanny State. But tough on which crimes – and even more to the point – tough ...6 days ago
- Bookshelf: the secret history of China’s most powerful company
How did a small Shenzhen-based manufacturer of telephone switches defy tough domestic and international competition to become a world leader in telecoms technology? And how did it manage to start producing its own 5G processors ...6 days ago
- Robert Howell – The Climate Catastrophe
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- You build prosperity from the ground up, not from the helipad down
FFS, did you see this? I didn’t think he could do worse this year than host Morning Report, but Lord, Paddy Gower is a trier.Stuffed if I’m linking to it. It’s just another contemplation-free, insight-starved Tall Poppy Syndrome is Stopping Us From Being Rich diatribe.Here’s the thing:Prosperity isn't created by ...6 days ago - Why the Coalition should worry less about scholarships and more about Studylink
Hello. My house burnt down on my birthday. Well not down, but it burnt. And I’m currently living in a motel. Forgive me for phoning this one in; a better article is coming. And probably also a poetry substack, whenever I finally get around to it. From: Stephanie Cullen <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, ...6 days ago - Managing the dark side of the critical minerals rush
Australia and its partners must move towards frameworks that manage, rather than merely lament, the negative side-effects of critical mineral extraction. As the world scrambles to meet the demands of a clean energy transition, it’s ...6 days ago
- Israel-Iran war has exposed Russia’s vulnerability
The war between Israel and Iran has brought only short-term gains for Russia. Looking to the longer term, we see much bigger negatives. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained that the war had resulted in a sharp ...6 days ago
- Democracy Under Siege: NZ Government Gags Youth MPs
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- Home Affairs should be the great enabler of national resilience
Amid worsening strategic surprise and security fragility, Australia’s national resilience responses are just as important as its defence capabilities. While the original strategic logic for the Department of Home Affairs—the idea of peace, order and ...6 days ago
- Letter to the editor on State housing and broken promises
..2 July 2025The editorKapi Mana News [email protected] ora,Your story in 'Kapi Mana News' on 1 July, headed "Porirua East social housing developments axed in review" revealed how this government is cutting back on social housing.76 proposed new homes in the Porirua region would have housed around 153 people. These are ...6 days ago - The translation crisis: why our best ideas rarely become national assets
When it comes to innovation, Australia has a strategy problem as much as a delivery problem. The first is about purpose. The second is about execution. I recently argued that Australia’s innovation system lacks the ...6 days ago
- Wednesday 2 July
The PSA says potential plans to privatise New Zealand’s meat inspection service could put food quality and safety at risk. Industrial action at Napier Port has concluded after one week, with a pay deal being reached in principle for about 185 workers. Academic staff and TEU members at the Western ...6 days ago
- Behold, another Quarterly Survey of Business Delusion
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Wednesday, July 2:The NZIER’s QSBO survey published yesterday showed businesses remain stubbornly confident about the wider economy and their own businesses, despite their own ‘experienced activity’ in the June quarter being much, much worse than they ...6 days ago - ASPI USA roundtable: How Australia and US can work with Prabowo’s Indonesia
On the Indo-Pacific geopolitics gameboard, Indonesia stands as a potentially pivotal piece—a country whose strategic choices could reshape regional dynamics for decades. Yet, as revealed during a recent panel discussion hosted by ASPI USA, Indonesia ...6 days ago
- Got Milk?
Hi,I got a lot of very intense feedback on social media this week about milk — and I want to talk about it.But first, some quick updates on some other Webworm things.1. The Telepathy TapesYou may recall my story about how the chart-topping podcast The Telepathy Tapes was nothing more ...6 days ago
- NZ First Introduces Bill to Protect New Zealanders’ Ability to Use Cash
New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill that would protect New Zealanders’ ability to use cash. The Bill will provide for the enduring use of cash as a private, accessible, and reliable method of payment. “People who rely on cash due to barriers to digital banking deserve ...7 hours ago - New study shows speed of Antarctic ice melt, Govt fans climate flames
As the Government pulls out of global climate commitments, a significant new report shows that sea ice around Antarctica is melting at unprecedented speed. ...1 day ago - Family Boost announcement does little to boost families
Today’s announcement on the Family Boost scheme is little more than tinkering around the edges while real issues in the ECE system are ignored, says the Green Party. ...1 day ago
- Serious Response to Serious Problems
As New Zealand has positively responded to the crack down on gang patches there has been a growing recognition of the influence of organized crime on our communities. New Zealand First continues to be focused on all aspects that undermine the safety and security in our neighbourhoods, businesses, and ...5 days ago
- NZ First Bill: Only Official New Zealand Flag to Fly on Government Buildings
New Zealand First has today introduced a member's bill which would make it law that government buildings can only display the official flag of New Zealand. “Government buildings are for all New Zealanders and should not be hijacked to force cultural, woke, or divisive political ideology down the throats of ...6 days ago
- Healthy Homes standards need more teeth
With mandatory Healthy Homes standards coming into effect for all tenancies tomorrow, the Green Party is calling for a new Rental Warrant of Fitness system to give the new standards true effect. ...1 week ago
- Green Party pays tribute to Takutai Tarsh Kemp
The Green Party has paid tribute to Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp who sadly passed away early this morning. ...2 weeks ago
- Government Sabotages Settlement: Te Pāti Māori Backs Te Whānau-Ā-Apanui
Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with Te Whānau-ā-Apanui after revelations the Government is looking to derail their almost completed Treaty settlement. Minister Goldsmith has stated that the Government will not budge on its position that the Crown is sovereign. They are seeking to remove the ‘sovereignty clause’ agreed to ...2 weeks ago
- Govt abandons Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
Christopher Luxon’s Government pulling out of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance is just the latest sign they care little for the climate crisis or cost of living it’ll exacerbate, says the Green Party. ...2 weeks ago
- Govt’s $200mill fossil fuel handout in breach of trade agreement
Legal advice commissioned by the Green Party shows the coalition Government’s $200 million “investment” in new gas fields is a clear breach of the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS). ...2 weeks ago
- Release: Minister should fess up on cuts
Simeon Brown needs to be honest about how much more money he expects Health New Zealand to cut from its budget to get back in the black. ...2 weeks ago - Greens call on Govt to condemn US for attack on Iran
The Green Party is calling on the Government to condemn the United States for its illegal bombing of Iran and inflaming tensions across the Middle East. ...2 weeks ago
- Luxon’s Complicity Puts Aotearoa at Risk: Te Pāti Māori Stands Against Global Military Aggressio...
Te Pāti Māori stands firmly against the rising tide of global military aggression. While the Luxon scrambles to appease Trump and Israel, we choose peace, sovereignty, and an independent foreign policy grounded in justice and truth. More than 56,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel over the past 20 months. ...2 weeks ago
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- Government unveils its first-ever national artificial intelligence strategy
New Zealand has now joined other countries in tackling the AI opportunity, and challenge. ...1 hour ago - Heard about The Salt Path by Raynor Winn? Here’s what to read instead
A journalist has uncovered some unsavoury truths about the ‘multimillion-copy bestselling’ author of The Salt Path. Here are five alternatives in the long walk genre, all by local writers. On Sunday July 6 The Observer published an investigation into author Raynor Winn, whose book The Salt Path is one of ...1 hour ago - Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid-19 response public hearing
Experts have told a Royal Commission the public reporting breaches was ineffective, as disabled community members describe being abused over masks. ...1 hour ago
- FSU Nominates InternetNZ Board Candidates And Proposes Constitution To Defend Online Speech
The internet must remain a free and open space for all New Zealanders, not a platform for ideological gatekeeping, says Jillaine Heather, Council Member of the Free Speech Union. ...2 hours ago - Are chemicals to blame for cancer in young people? Here’s what the evidence says
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Cancer is traditionally known as a disease affecting mostly older people. But some worrying trends show cancer rates in younger people ...2 hours ago - ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for July 8, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on July 8, 2025. Being kind to people – the new challenge for the public serviceSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Smith-Merry, Director, Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney When Labor was ...3 hours ago
- Being kind to people – the new challenge for the public service
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Smith-Merry, Director, Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney When Labor was re-elected in May, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his acceptance speech to describe the type of country he wanted to lead. He spoke of how the Australian ...3 hours ago
- It’s harder than you think to become a top sports official in football, soccer and the rugby codes
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kath O’Brien, Senior Lecturer – Faculty of Health (School Exercise & Nutrition Sciences), Queensland University of Technology Brendon Thorne/Getty Images Sport officials, regardless of which code they supervise, are appointed to be impartial figures. They have to quickly interpret infractions, ...3 hours ago
- Ten must-see films at the 2025 NZ International Film Festival
From Cannes heavy-hitters to charming local comedies, Thomas Giblin makes his picks for this year’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival. Rejoice, film fans of Aotearoa. Whānau Mārama, the New Zealand International Film Festival, has rolled around once again with its globe-trotting smorgasbord of cinematic curiosities and hotly-anticipated world ...4 hours ago
- Christchurch Mayor backs proposal for government-capped rates rises
Phil Mauger says councils have engaged in a lot of wasteful spending. ...4 hours ago
- First it was ‘protein goals’, now TikTok is on about ‘fibre goals’. How can you meet yours?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saman Khalesi, Senior Lecturer and Head of Course Nutrition, HealthWise Research Group Lead, Appleton Institute,, CQUniversity Australia Westend61/Getty Images “Protein goals” have long been a thing on TikTok and Instagram. But now social media users are also talking about “fibre goals”. ...4 hours ago
- Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll
RNZ Pacific The Bougainville election process begins today with the issuance of the writs yesterday. Nominations open Tuesday, July 8, and close on Thursday, July 10. Voting is scheduled for one week starting on September 2, allowing seven weeks of campaigning. Candidates will be vying for a total of 46 ...4 hours ago
- Watch live: Taxpayers Union, Māori data scientist among Regulatory Standards Bill submitters
MPs from the Finance and Expenditure committee hearing arguments in opposition and support of what has beendubbed by some the Treaty Principles Bill 2.0. ...5 hours ago
- Conservation land use applications processed faster with help from AI
Processing times have improved by 180 percent, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says. ...5 hours ago
- Unions, former MPs, lawyers speak at Regulatory Standards Bill hearings
The first day of hearings saw a wave of opposition, but the minister behind the bill is dismissing concerns. ...6 hours ago
- As a councillor I’ve always advocated for improved road safety – then I got hit by a car
Auckland councillor Julie Fairey reflects on the stress – both personal and communal – that preventable road accidents cause. Almost two weeks ago I was hit by a car while biking to work. As an advocate for road safety I can see the irony of becoming part of the statistics ...6 hours ago
- Government to loosen rules for selling homes in trusts
People selling a house are currently being treated like potential criminals, the Associate Justice Minister says. ...7 hours ago
- Local Businesswoman And Mum Of Three Launches Bid For Papanui Community Board
Feary brings a fresh, practical perspective to local politics, shaped by real-life experience managing a young family, running a business through challenging times, and working hands-on in the construction industry. ...7 hours ago
- NZSIS renews warning about risk in sister-city ties
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My son just got monstered by u.s. immigration…
He got thru ..but was taken to a room ..bank account .. transactions..messages..photos…all combed thru..
(Looked over by a framed photo of dump..)
So..if you are going there..make sure you sanitise…
brave man going to the US at this time.
He's largely gone to see his sister..for a month..then he is off to Mexico..and other countries..
He is half German ..and I did tell him it was like going to Germany in 1939..
They even phoned his sister/my daughter…to ask her who she is married to…read his messages..trawled thru his pictures..
Kinda chilling…how it is happening so fast.. America slipping into fascism…like it is an old/well-worn pair of slippers..
The Coalition cannot blame it all on Trump, so maybe they can shift some blame onto Ardern?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/564050/manufacturing-reversal-shows-economy-could-come-to-a-grinding-halt-economist
To complete the picture for Nicola Willis:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/electronic-card-transactions-may-2025/ [HT to Newsroom]
Have a nice weekend, Nicola.
The DEI Grammy.
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The Recording Academy has made a distinct change to its Country Album category — a change that is drawing attention online.
The 68th Grammy Awards will feature the renaming of the Best Country Album category, which will now be called Best Contemporary Country Album. The Best Traditional Country Album will be a new addition to the award show as well.
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A prominent music executive who asked to remain anonymous due to their involvement with the Recording Academy believes the changes are very clearly due to Beyoncé’s impact on the music industry.
“I would say that there’s a very clear through line, even if it may appear to be coincidental. When there was controversy about ‘Renaissance’ and “Break My Soul” being in the dance categories and ultimately winning, they immediately created a Best Dance Pop Recording category the very next year,” the executive explained.
“Now, the same thing has happened again. There are probably some country purists in power that aren’t happy with her winning Best Country Album — especially after she was snubbed completely from the CMAs — and suddenly the country album category is being divided into two categories,” they continued.
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/grammys-add-traditional-country-category-beyonce
When the bean counters run your engineering.
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But until today, the contrarians could always demand to know: if the Dreamliner is so unsafe, why hasn’t it ever crashed?
The late John Barnett, who died last March in an apparent suicide two days into a three-day deposition stemming from the insane practices he witnessed and tried vainly to stop as a quality manager at the Dreamliner’s final assembly plant in Charleston, South Carolina, had a ready answer for this question: Just wait a bit. Most planes aren’t designed to dive nosefirst into the ground like the 737 Max. It generally takes, he’d say with audible sadness, ten or twelve years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash. (Barnett personally drove everywhere in the orange truck in which he died.)
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A now-defunct Norwegian airline claimed in a 2020 lawsuit blaming Boeing for its demise that it had been forced to divert flights and cancel whole routes due to engine problems, and replace the engines on its Dreamliner fleet hundreds of times. In 2023 one of the airline’s former 787s was dismantled for scrap, a literally unheard-of fate for a 10-year-old plane with a nine-figure list price.
But there’s something else: two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India. Cynthia Kitchens, a former quality manager who worked at the Charleston plant between 2009 and 2016, has a binder full of notes, documents and photos from her frustrating years at Boeing, one page of which lists the numbers of the eleven planes delivered between early 2012 and late 2013 whose quality defects most kept her awake at night. Six of them went to Air India, whose purchases were bolstered by billions of dollars in Export-Import Bank loan guarantees. The plane that crashed was delivered in January 2014 from Boeing’s now-defunct assembly line in Everett, Washington, though its mid- and aft- fuselages were produced in Charleston.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/
Of course tRump’s autocratic bestie is in bed with with MS-13.
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Reporting Highlights
Investigation Impeded: Despite Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crime fighter reputation, his top aides blocked extraditions of MS-13 leaders to the U.S., officials say.
Money Laundering Inquiry: U.S. agents drew up a request to examine whether Bukele and senior officials had diverted USAID funds to help out MS-13 gang members.
Salvadoran Allies Threatened: Law enforcement officials had to flee El Salvador after facing harassment and threats from the country’s government.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bukele-trump-el-salvador-ms13-gang-vulcan-corruption-investigation