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“This sale, and the lack of information surrounding it, shows exactly why we need better regulations to hold council staff and it’s leadership more accountable,” Harvey said.”
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Govt Axes Specialist Māori Body Advising Pharmac Without Consulting Māori | Scoop News
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'This is another sad indictment of the priority the National-led Government places on improving the health of Māori,' said Fleur Fitzsimons, Assistant Secretary for Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association.
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Survivors Deserve More Than Empty Words | Scoop News
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An apology needs to be accompanied by redress, and a proactive commitment to never repeat the actions you are apologising for. All the Crown has given today is hollow words” said Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Oranga Tamariki.
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ACT Calls For An End To Taxpayer-funded Election Ads | Scoop News
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Ditching the broadcast allocation would save taxpayers around $4 million every three years. This would show respect for the priorities of households who would rather pay their own bills than those of political parties.
on Tue, 10PM
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On US Voter Suppression, Plus The Races To Watch | Scoop News
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US election results tend to start rolling in around 1pm on Wednesday. As our television relays images of long lines of people queuing to vote, keep this in mind: since 2012, America has closed 20% of its polling places.
on Nov 8
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Bike Racks To Be Temporarily Disabled On Metlink Buses | Scoop News
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In October, NZTA issued an alert reminding public transport authorities that bicycles fixed to bike racks on the front of buses should not obscure bus headlamps during the hours of darkness.
on Nov 7
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New Zealand Loyal Political Party Is Under New Management | Scoop News
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The AGM will allow its members, for the very first time, to democratically elect a Board to take the New Zealand Loyal Political Party through to the 2026 General Election.
on Nov 6
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NZTA board votes for second Terrace Tunnel as well as second Mt VIctoria Tunnel
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Startling news today from the NZTA. Its board has voted for a second Terrace Tunnel as well as a second Mt Victoria Tunnel. But there’s no longer any mention of the long tunnel that was being...
on Nov 6
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Over 2 Billion In Cities Will Be Exposed To 0.5ºC Rise By 2040 | Scoop News
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More than two billion people currently living in cities could be exposed to an additional temperature increase of at least 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2040, a new UN report published on Tuesday finds.
on Nov 5
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CAPHRA Warns Against Rushed Vaping Legislation In New Zealand | Scoop News
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'We urge New Zealand MPs to pause and reconsider,' Loucas added. 'Rushing this bill through Parliament before proper scrutiny risks undermining years of progress in reducing smoking rates.'
on Nov 4
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‘If You Don’t Have Hope, You Can’t Have A Strategy’ | Scoop News
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Ian Powell discusses how our health system got into the mess it presently finds itself in and how it might get out of it.
on Nov 4
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Greens Call For Bottom Trawling Ban And Call Out Minister For Lacklustre Response | Scoop News
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“We either ban bottom trawling or we allow our ocean ecosystems to be ripped apart and washed away,” says the Green Party Spokesperson for Oceans and Fisheries, Teanau Tuiono.
on Nov 1
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Luxon Needs To Address The Cow In The Room | Scoop News
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Agriculture is the biggest emitting sector in Aotearoa - accounting for more than half of our emissions. Luxon has done everything he can to make matters worse in these areas, selling out to big dairy at the expense of people and planet.
on Nov 1
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The programme of courses for the new platform have been created by the Zoo’s internationally renowned and passionate group of conservation educators, who also facilitate sessions at the Zoo and out in the community.
on Oct 31
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Govt Must Clean Up ‘Its Shit’ From Sunken HMNZS Manawanui | Scoop News
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Three weeks have passed since the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui, and our Government continues to carelessly let it spill diesel into the moana of Samoa. It is time this inaction is called out, and the Government is taken to task.
on Oct 28
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Lunches Contract Goes To Companies With Poor Track Record On Food Quality And Service | Scoop News
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British-based multinational Compass Group, the lead supplier for the new model, lost one third of their school contracts in the current programme due to poor quality in food and service.
on Oct 25
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On Dissing Wellington, And Porridge Radio | Scoop News
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National has never forgiven Wellington – or its public servants – for voting for Labour and the Greens. (Red-blooded Kiwis work in the private sector.) No surprise then to find a right wing central government being willing to kick the Capital when ...
on Oct 24
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New Members Appointed To The Waitangi Tribunal | Scoop News
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These appointments will ensure the tribunal continues to provide a forum to hear and report Māori Treaty claims in a timely manner. They will ultimately support the progress of the Treaty-based Crown-Māori relationship.
on Oct 24
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The clinical study, recently published in The Journal of Agricultural Chemistry, identified sarmentosin as the primary inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) enzymes in the human brain after consuming blackcurrant products.
on Oct 23
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On The Three Strikes Cycle Of Failure | Scoop News
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We all know the “tough on crime” approach is only a stop gap measure at best, and that a justice model based on incarceration doesn’t work. Our prisons are already overcrowded, under-staffed and more often than not, function as training centres ...
on Oct 23
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Workers Demonstrate Strength Of Union Power | Scoop News
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We are proud of our movement for uniting together and sending this Government a strong message that will not back down and let them get away with their anti-worker and anti-Te Tiriti agenda.
on Oct 23
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Communities Against the Fast-track says the response and concern to the Bill has been huge already. 27,000 submissions were made, 20,000 marched in Auckland against the Fast-track, and a hīkoi led by Ngāti Toa arrived at parliament in May to oppose ...
on Oct 18
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ASA Declares Hobson’s Pledge Advertising Misleading And Socially Irresponsible | Scoop News
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The two-page wraparound ad, published in The New Zealand Herald, suggested that nearly the entire coastline of Aotearoa is under threat of being awarded to Māori through customary marine titles, implying that this would lead to widespread restrictions ...
on Oct 17
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Three Innovative New Companies Join Sir Paul Callaghan 100 Report | Scoop News
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Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand’s innovation agency, established the report to honour the legacy of Sir Paul Callaghan (1947–2012), one of New Zealand’s most revered scientists and a champion of the commercialisation of science as a key pillar ...
on Oct 10
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On The Coalition’s Fast-tracked Speed Dates With Property Developers | Scoop News
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Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop admitted that not everyone will “like” his fast track wish-list, before adding: “We are a government that does not shy away from those tough decisions.'
on Oct 9
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Fast-track List Reveal Is A Dark Day For Democracy | Scoop News
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The Fast-track Approvals Bill is the most extreme attack on nature in decades. NZ already has the highest proportion of threatened species in the world, and we’re in the midst of a climate and biodiversity crisis. It is the time to work towards ...
on Oct 6
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Fast Track First 149 Projects – Reckless Extremism | Scoop News
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Watchdog is calling on the Labour Party, Greens and Te Pāti Māori to clearly reaffirm that consents issued under the Fast Track can be withdrawn when the Government changes.
on Oct 6
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Luxon Escalates War On Nature With Mining-heavy Fast Track List | Scoop News
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There are some worthy projects on the list but they are tainted by the process and the presence of Trans-Tasman Resources at the bottom of the barrel. The fast track is the wrong track and will be a poisoned chalice for those companies who risk it.
on Oct 6
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‘A Dark Day For Nature And Democracy’: Fast-track Destruction Laid Bare | Scoop News
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WWF-New Zealand’s CEO Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb says it is a disgrace the Government is ramming through projects already rejected by experts and the courts on environmental grounds – and in doing so is almost certainly condemning some of Aotearoa’s native ...
on Oct 6
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Trojan Horse Approach To Fast-track Projects Threatens Environment | Scoop News
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What we see in this list is a number of projects that will have long-lasting and potentially irreversible impacts on the environment. Talk of renewable energy and housing are nothing more than a smokescreen to the environmental vandalism this is ...
on Oct 6
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KASM Slams Govt Decision To Fast-track Seabed Mining | Scoop News
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“This is a long way from over: we will do everything we can to stop this monstrosity from going ahead, and we have tens of thousands of Kiwis behind us,” KASM Chairperson Cindy Baxter said.
on Oct 6
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International Condemnation Of NZ Charter Schools Law | Scoop News
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Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, told the Ministers that ‘your lack of support for the workers of the PPTA who provide so much to their students shows a lack of leadership on your part.
on Oct 5
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Dunedin Flood: Climate Crisis Spoils Climate Protest | Scoop News
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People in our community are worried about their property and possessions as the water rises, and for this we raise the alarm. This is what climate change looks like - more frequent and severe weather, storms, and flooding,” said spokesperson Annabel ...
on Oct 5
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Prime Minister Needs To Get His Numbers Right In Relation To Vaping | Scoop News
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The number appears to come from the Ministry of Health’s annual health survey, and is a count of the number of people that say they quit smoking over the last 3 years.
on Oct 5
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Te Whatu Ora Report Raises Important Questions For Ministers | Scoop News
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The report states that $2bn of ‘savings’ are now targeted in health, just in this fiscal year (p.57). That’s a huge potential cut and is clearly not possible from just efficiencies.
on Oct 5
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The price of Luxon not getting it
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It seems that MPs may be ten times more likely than the rest of us to be landlords, and own rental or investment properties. Earlier this year, Renters United calculated that nearly one third (28%...
on Oct 4
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Hearings For The Crown Minerals Amendment Bill | Scoop News
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The committee has agreed it will hold two full days of oral submissions: Friday, 4 October and Monday, 7 October. This will work out to be approximately 15 hours of hearings. Hearings will be held on Zoom only.
on Oct 3
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Costello Makes A Fool Of The PM | Scoop News
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Reporting by RNZ today shows that Casey Costello tried and failed to get regulations that would delay the ban on heated tobacco devices sales by two years. Cabinet agreed to defer the regulations by six months, and they came into force yesterday.
on Oct 2
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On The Dunedin Hospital Fiasco | Scoop News
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis was still insisting this morning that Dunedin’s promised new hospital project has gone “ off track” and that we all “need to be sensible.” So let's be sensible - the increase in costs has been the absolutely
on Oct 2
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A Day Of Student-Led Action For Climate Justice And Indigenous Sovereignty | Scoop News
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Rangatahi are calling for the Government to safeguard their future by allowing them a livable planet for generations to come. Furthermore, they are demanding the sovereignty of marginalised and indigenous communities both in Aotearoa, and across the globe.
on Sep 26
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On The Government’s Bizarre Hostility To A Capital Gains Tax | Scoop News
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Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in NZ has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Over the past three decades institutions and mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a globally unusual flaw in our tax ...
on Sep 26
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PSA Strongly Opposes Any Clawback On Flexible Work Arrangements | Scoop News
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The directive from Public Service Minister Nicola Willis to reduce numbers of people working from home is just a scapegoat for the real problem which is of the Government’s own making.
on Sep 23
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The report highlights five particular child health problems that need urgent attention in Aotearoa New Zealand: respiratory conditions, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, skin infections, dental disease and mental health concerns.
on Sep 23
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New Work-from-home Guidance For Public Service | Scoop News
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Many good employers have been taking active steps to ensure their working from home policies are fit for purpose. It’s time the Government did the same.
on Sep 23
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Upgrade Makes Tokomaru Water Supply Safer | Scoop News
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Council will continue to test the Tokomaru water supply monthly until the end of the year, when it will revert to the statutory six-month cycle.
on Sep 17
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VUW divests from Israeli investments
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After almost a year of consistent pressure from the student body, the Victoria University of Wellington Foundation announced its divestment from all Israeli government bonds and shares of companies...
on Sep 11
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FIRST Union General Secretary, Dennis Maga, says the Court of Appeal’s verdict is heartening and motivating for the drivers and unions against a backdrop of anti-worker reforms under the National Government.
on Sep 10
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Melling line threatened without new pedestrian bridge
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The Post reports that Hutt City mayor Campbell Barry is asking for an urgent meeting with Transport Minister Simeon Brown over the future of the Melling train line. Post reporter Nicholas Boyack w...
on Sep 8
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Gordon Campbell On The Plague Of The Seymourites | Scoop News
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David Seymour is like one of those American Televangelists. He is now building his own temple of bureaucracy...and it shall be known as the Ministry of Regulation and many regulations previously passed to protect the consumer, environment, and the
on Aug 26
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Rugby Player Sanctioned For Importing Banned Substance | Scoop News
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Commission CEO Rebecca Rolls emphasised that this case was a reminder that the Sports Anti-Doping Rules apply at all levels of sport and expressed concern about the health risks posed by this substance.
on Aug 23