Fast-track laws, parliamentary urgency, Treaty tension, media retreat: warning signs for NZ's 'brittle' democracy (www.rnz.co.nz)
I am saying this unironically....
Sir John Key to partner with Chow brothers in property development firm (www.rnz.co.nz)
Your tax dollars are going to John Key folks. This is how the privatisation of state housing is going.
National MP David MacLeod may face police probe over undeclared donations - law professor (www.rnz.co.nz)
New tech bill will allow consumers to share data (www.rnz.co.nz)
A bill designed to give consumers more control over their data will be introduced into Parliament tomorrow, the minister of commerce and consumer affairs says....
Another 26,000 'will be unemployed' before peak reached (www.rnz.co.nz)
Surely all these people losing decent paying jobs will have no impact on the economy right? Definitely not a recession right?
Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
Rebuke issued in stoush over volume of on-bus announcements for blind passengers (www.rnz.co.nz)
This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don’t use public transport, so I’ve never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?
A Northland island has a very unusual problem...too many kiwi (www.rnz.co.nz)
cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/10239601...
A Northland island has a very unusual problem...too many kiwi (www.rnz.co.nz)
The residents of an island in Northland are grappling with an unusual problem - they have too many kiwi....
Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities, including Mexico City (www.rnz.co.nz)
A searing heat wave has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink....
Transpower disconnects some North Island power assets due to solar storm (www.rnz.co.nz)
Job applications soar as public sector layoffs continue, data shows (www.rnz.co.nz)
More than 4000 people have already been laid off as a result of the austerity measures imposed by the NACTF government.
Woolworths tells 79,000 they won a prize, then rescinds it (www.rnz.co.nz)
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....
ACC proposes cutting more than 300 jobs (www.rnz.co.nz)
More austerity for the government. Lucky for all the people who lose their jobs the government is going to make them go to seminars before they do on the benefit.
Government to introduce compulsory work seminar for job-seeking beneficiaries (www.rnz.co.nz)
I am sure this will be super effective and will not cost any money at all.
Transpower warns of possible power shortages on Friday (www.rnz.co.nz)
The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households’ demand on Friday....
Cabinet mulls creation of mega spy agency as FIANZ seeks 'serious rethink' (www.rnz.co.nz)
A super security and intelligence agency recommended four years ago and said to be “not too far away” last August, is under “active consideration” by Cabinet....
Government considers removing election day voter enrolment (www.rnz.co.nz)
Add voter suppression to the list of disasters
MP's comments 'bang on' despite negative response from other parties - Te Pāti Māori (www.rnz.co.nz)
In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government “will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori”....
Plans for permanent cycleway in Wellington suburb on hold (www.rnz.co.nz)
Wellington City Council have put plans to build a permanent cycleway in Brooklyn on hold after losing over half of its funding. Waka Kotahi was expected to fund 51 percent through the Transport Choices fund, however Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirmed there would be no funding for the project in December....
Watch: Elderly woman knocked to the ground in unprovoked attack (www.rnz.co.nz)
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday....
MP Jamie Arbuckle to keep two jobs - and two salaries (www.rnz.co.nz)
Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he’s going to keep both salaries after all....
Fix & Fogg nut butter launched into space (www.rnz.co.nz)
One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before....
Florist says Julie Anne Genter exchange was 'massive imbalance of power' (www.rnz.co.nz)
She sounds absolutely unhinged, going into someone’s business just to pick a fight with them is straight up bullying behaviour.