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When I started working with Matt McCarten, he told me the most important question in any negotiation, on any topic, is: “or you’ll do what?” It’s the answer to that question that determines if you’ve got any leverage; it determines if you’ll ever get what you want.
Having the right answer to “or you’ll do what?” is how McCarten’s Johnny-come-lately Unite union achieved the seemingly impossible, such as getting strip clubs and brothels to let their staff join a union. From A history of the Unite... Читать дальше...

A University of Canterbury (UC) PhD student will present world-leading research in lapse/microsleep detection at an international conference in Italy this month. This research using advanced signal processing and artificial intelligence has the potential ...

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The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is seeking stakeholder feedback on a new traceability tool for added supply chain integrity in over 60 countries.

The Auditor-General has announced she will look at the following issues around the Saudi farm deal: the amount of public money budgeted and spent on this Partnership, how it has been used, and the outcomes achieved with it; whether the expenditure on services was within the appropriations of Vote Foreign Affairs and Trade, as authorised […]

While Auckland remains waiting on the government to commit to its share of funding for the most transformative transport project since the Harbour Bridge – the City Rail Link – the NZTA have just announced that they’ve shortlisted three groups of companies to build the Puhoi to Warkworth motorway as Public Private Partnership.

Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. CHRIS BISHOP (National) to the Minister of Finance : How does the Governments fiscal strategy support the New Zealand economy? Questions to Ministers Economy—Fiscal Strategy 1. CHRIS BISHOP (National) to the Minister of Finance : How does the Government’s fiscal strategy support the New Zealand economy? Hon […]

Source: Samidoun Muhammad Allan, hunger-striking Palestinian lawyer held in administrative detention without charge or trial, has regained consciousness and is dedicated to continuing his hunger strike after 64 days, reported Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Doctors at Barzilai Hospital have ended sedation of Allan as well as the use of a ventilator, and […]

PRESS STATEMENT Hamas Hamas spokesman Husam Badran condemned the execution on Monday afternoon of Mohammed Abu Amsheh, a young Palestinian man who was shot dead in cold blood by Israeli soldiers at Za’atara checkpoint south of occupied Nablus, calling for all resistance factions to respond to this crime. In a press release, Badran demanded the […]

by Tariq Dana Source: Shabaka Overview As many as 81% of the Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory believe there is corruption in Palestinian Authority institutions according to a recent survey, perceptions reinforced by the recently launched annual report of the Palestinian Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), the Transparency International chapter in Palestine. […]

Hamas Vice Chair of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyah stated on Monday that Hamas will not accept a state on 2% of Palestine’s land, and that Hamas will never abandon the remaining territories of occupied Palestine. Talking during the closing ceremony of Jerusalemite elite’s camps, Haniya said: “I say to those who defame Hamas’s positions, […]

Press Release – Kaibosh Kaibosh Food Rescue, the official charity partner of Visa Wellington On a Plate, is to host the sold-out All Taste, No Waste event sponsored by Countdown on Sunday. All Taste, No Waste will be presented by renowned Wellington chef Shepherd Elliott from Ti Kouka Cafe. Chef Shepherd Elliott has created a […]

Press Release – ChildFund ChildFund New Zealand helps launch Papua New Guineas first free, nation-wide family and sexual violence hotline New Zealanders have had a hand in answering a long and loud call for help through the launch of a new family and sexual violence …New Zealand answers call for help ChildFund New Zealand helps […]

Article – ParliamentToday.co.nz When Parliament sat at 2pm there was a period of silence to mark the death of former National MP and Minister George Gair.When Parliament sat at 2pm there was a period of silence to mark the death of former National MP and Minister George Gair. Select committee reports were presented on the: […]

Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First MP Tracey Martin has accepted an invitation from the United Nations Development Programme to take part in a general induction programme for MPs in Tuvalu. Mrs Martin, the only representative from New Zealands Parliament asked to participate … Tracey Martin MP New Zealand First List […]

Press Release – Upstart Press Cory Jane will be doing a series of signing sessions in Wellington on Saturday to promote his best-selling book, Winging It (Upstart Press, $39.99 RRP). Winging It sums up the life and times of a player who may not have done everything by the book, but who sure knows how […]

JAYAPURA (Jakarta Globe/Pacific Media Watch): Indonesia’s patchy aviation safety record has with Sunday's passenger plane crash in Papua province with 54 people aboard, the third major plane crash in the past year in the country, the Jakarta Post reports.

NIWA scientists and Northland Regional Council staff are uncovering more of the mysteries of the North’s prized dune lakes using a canoe and some specialist hydro-acoustic surveying equipment.

Baboom, the music service first trailered by Kim Dotcom in 2011 but now no longer associated with the controversial German, launched overnight. Its investors and management are in New Zealand. And it's really not bad.
The design of both Baboom's web and mobile apps (by an in-house team in Portugal) is simple and effective, and while it shares some visual elements with Apple Music (tiling, the ellipsis contextual menu), it's not going to to mess with either your head or your existing library. Читать дальше...

I was recently on holiday in California. Here are some thoughts and images from the week I spent in Los Angeles, a car-dependent city that is, like Auckland, trying to become something different.