Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week we’re leading off with a public service announcement: regular walking is a great way to get fit and healthy. In Vox, Alasdair Wilkins writes about how he lost 100 pounds [45 kgs] in a year:
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The Herald reports: A Facebook page belonging to an Auckland man shows pictures of him posing with an Islamic State flag, holding an AK47-style rifle and speaking of his role in a holy war. … Mr SaifuAllah, 23, told the Herald that he “100 per cent” supported the views and actions of Islamic State. He […]
News from NZ Police The police dive squad is due to arrive in Wairoa this evening to search for two men believed trapped in a car that plunged into the Mohaka River around 2.40pm today. Four men, all from Wairoa, were in the car that left the road near the top of a hill not […]
News from Meridian Meridian has signed a contract with a turbine manufacturer for a new wind turbine on the Brooklyn hill. It will have greater generation capacity (around 3,900 megawatt hours a year – enough to power around 490 average homes). In order to prepare the Brooklyn site for the new turbine, the existing turbine […]
Behind the scenes how much of a struggle is it in Fiji for the organisations and government ministries in charge of depression issues to push for a reduction in the suicide statistics? Rupeni Vatubuli reports from Suva.
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Photo: First Union Wellington.Scoop Bunnings staff were on strike this morning, picketing outside the Porirua store. First Union said the action was in protest against proposed rostering changes, as well as changes to the pay system. Cops can't have much to do in Porirua. They got to Bunnings before us @FIRST_Union NZ police help big […]
The Greenlea Rescue Helicopter was called to three jobs today One MVA in Taupo and we transfered one female to Rotorua hospital. This was followed by a rescue of a French tourist who was hit by a rock on Mt Ngauruhoe. He was flown to Rotorua hospital ...
Today the Tauranga based Trustpower TECT Rescue helicopter was dispatched to a motocross event at Pongakawa where a 23 year old Tauranga man had crashed off his motocross bike whilst traveling at speed. He received shoulder and internal injuries as a result, ...
Labour’s ground-breaking new policy on reforming planning rules will make housing more affordable, Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says.
Compassion in healthcare dramatically improves clinical outcomes, says Dr Robin Youngson, a New Zealand specialist anaesthetist and internationally recognised advocate for compassion in healthcare.
“There is only one winner in warfare, and that is medicine,” Dr Rhys Thomas, a specialist anaesthetist and former Lieutenant Colonel in the British Forces, has told an anaesthetists conference being held in Wellington, November 5-7.
It's appalling that the environment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) does not explicitly cite climate change, the biggest threat to our global wellbeing, said the Green Party today.
The Crown has signed a deed of settlement with Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki at Umupuia Marae, Maraetai in Auckland, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Christopher Finlayson announced today.
Rashbrooke says wealthiest 1%, about 34,000 adults in NZ, have average wealth of $4.5 million each Wealthiest 10% of New Zealanders own half of all the assets, while half of the country has just 4% of the wealth. Says NZ is unusual in not taxing wealth. ...
Lisa Owen: It's a phenomenon of the digital age.. online-shaming. But what happens after the flurry of outraged tweets and posts sweeps through cyberspace? Award-winning writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson spent three years travelling the world to ...
7/11/15 - Brad Evans has increased his lead ahead of the final stage of the 2015 SBS Bank Tour of Southland.
The police dive squad is due to arrive in Wairoa this evening to search for two people believed trapped in a car that plunged into the Mohaka River around 2.40pm today.
Robertson backs away from Labour’s 2014 Variable Savings Rate policy to influence monetary policy, admitting it’s a “complicated policy” and he can’t commit to it. Says 45% of jobs in NZ may be gone in 10-15 years and praises a Denmark-style ...
Little says a Labour government won’t bring in a capital gains tax in its first term. “We won’t introduce it in our first term, and we won’t introduce any change that significant to the tax system, any material change to the tax system, ...
An alternate steampunk universe will open up in Thames on November 13-15 2015 with the inaugural Thames Steampunk Festival. What better way to jump start summer.
The Māori economy will be a big driver of work changes and must be in a strong position to reap the benefits of new opportunities, Labour’ Chair of the Future of Work Commission Grant Robertson says.
Many Kiwis dream of living near the water but at Gulf Harbour developers of Fairway Bay are taking this to the extreme. Living on top of the water, in a floating home.
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Burundi killing
Brussels, 6 November 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Hopes for the Paris Climate Summit in December to capture one of the three topline union demands have received a boost this week, with the UN’s International Labour Organisation formally adopting criteria for ...