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Dog attack victim's fight for survival using a child's toy (www.stuff.co.nz)

Follow-up to the news from last week about a dog attack in Christchurch that ended with Police shooting the dog....

We want your thoughts on keeping politically controversial posts in !politics

Based on feedback from this post, we're going to trial pushing for more politically controversial posts to go in https://lemmy.nz/c/politics instead of !newzealand....

I'm now a !newzealand mod too

Tēnā koutou !newzealand. I've been modding https://lemmy.nz/c/politics for the past week and I'm going to be helping out here now too....

Frustration mounting as high school teacher strikes roll on (www.1news.co.nz)

Not sure how many other parents there are here, but this has been ongoing for some months now with no end in sight. I actually wish there was more media coverage to raise awareness of the plight of our teachers....

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/6/2023

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All Whites game abandoned after alleged racial abuse (www.rnz.co.nz)

Teacher struck off after refusing to use student's pronouns (www.1news.co.nz)

"The arguments referencing the risk of homosexuality and abortion may well be welcome and normal within the context of [his] private life and views. However they are disgraceful when used in the present context. The balance of [the teacher's] arguments are borne from unrealistic hysteria and we need not go into them further."...

Stuff and NZHerald: Can we not?

/r/newzealand is often remembered as having negative vibes, and tons of complaining. I think the major contributor to those bad vibes are the clickbait / ragebait articles from Stuff and NZ Herald....

Three hospitalised after attacker enters series of Auckland restaurants (www.rnz.co.nz)

Aurora Australis over the Otago Peninsula on Friday night (peertube.nz)

Video by Ian Griffin of Tūhura Otago Museum

Spiderwebs on my morning walk (pixelfed.nz)

Another set of morning walk photos. Took these this morning....

I know they're pests and we're supposed to hate them, but it's hard not to love our resident hedgehog (peertube.nz)

And it sounds like a Geiger counter when it's sniffing things out

Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations (www.nzherald.co.nz)

'Random' group of Kiwis caught protesters who lit Parliament fires (www.1news.co.nz)

Aotearoa daily kōrero 19/6/2023

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Revolut Is Now in New Zealand (Sign up for Waitlist) (www.cheapies.nz)

I've been using Wise for a long time and loving it. Revolut seems to be available now in NZ as well, on the Cheapies post I see that people have signed up....

First words said was that only 1 day

In 1884, meridian time personnel met...

Migrant workers being exploited, Queenstown Citizens Advice Bureau says (www.rnz.co.nz)

So that's it r/newzealand?

So, I see r/NZ is back. That's it? What an anemic protest. I guess I'm honestly surprised more people don't care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this....