Owhiro Bay: April 2020. Chris Loveday photo from RNZ Report from RNZ South Coast residents this week questioned officials, including the climate change minister, about the effects of climate change and pleaded for adaptation plans to be accelerated. Residents from four coastal suburbs met to ask for action, after data released in May showed the […]
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Ashley Campbell, the woman who started the campaign to ecologically restore the Ōtākaro Avon River red zone, is standing as a candidate for ECan. Within a day of the first red zone announcement in 2011, Campbell began the campaign that eventually ...
Ōrewa Surf Life Saving Club and near-neighbours Mairangi Bay SLSC dominated this year’s Surf Life Saving Northern Region Awards of Excellence, taking out 12 awards between them. Ōrewa picked up seven trophies at the Toyota Financial Services-sponsored ...
In the 26 years of the World Trade Organization, its neoliberal framework has raised people’s resistance for tilting towards the interests of the big corporations, few global economic elites, leading to destroyed livelihoods and the environment. ...
When will this nonsense on familial connection between Australia and the Pacific end? In 2018, Australia’s then Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew upon a term that his predecessors had not. On November 8 that year, he announced ...
The road has reopened following an earlier crash on SH41, Tokaanu. The driver of the ute has been located safe and well.
Police can now name the person who died following a crash in Rotorua on Thursday. He was 17-year-old Aidan Nicholson of Rotorua. Police extends its condolences to his friends and whānau. Enquiries into the crash are ongoing.
“The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) joins the global chorus condemnation of Rodrigo Duterte’s 11th hour effort to close down Rappler.com . This is another serious violation of civil and political rights. We ...
A combination of domestic and international factors is forcing New Zealand’s largest poultry supplier Tegel to raise its prices from July. The roughly 10% price rise is a result of ongoing cost pressures on the industry, including increases in labour, ...
Children in Paktika province, one of the areas hardest-hit by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan 10 days ago, are still terrified of returning to their homes where their loved ones were killed, Save the Children said. Tremors and aftershocks continue ...
Bella Paterson Whakatane High School at Waiotahi Contractors in Whakatane From testing water quality to operating an excavator to seeing the inner workings of a wind turbine, New Zealand’s female secondary students have had a taste of careers in the infrastructure ...
Green Party candidate for Wellington's Motukairangi-Eastern Ward Luana Scowcroft is launching her campaign at Hataitai Centre (the former Hataitai Bowling Club) at 7pm tonight, Saturday July 2nd. Luana says that council's short-term thinking, and ...
News from Finland: Finland’s Green Party (Vihreät De Gröna) has voted by a large majority at its party conference to adopt a pro-nuclear approach. The party manifesto now states that nuclear is “sustainable energy” and demands the reform of current energy legislation to streamline the approval process for small modular reactors (SMRs). Finland’s is the […]
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The High Court has declared regulations from 2009-2017 authorising the use of Cell Buster pepper spray in prison unlawful. It found that Ministers had insufficient information to be satisfied that Cell Buster was consistent with humane treatment, ...
The government has just announced the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the European Union. One Māori entity operating in the trade space, Ngā Toki Whakarururanga, is not celebrating. “We are aware that New Zealand negotiators genuinely sought ...
Police can confirm one person has died following the earlier two-vehicle serious crash on Ashhurst Road, Ashhurst. The road will remain closed while the Serious Crash Unit examines the scene. Enquiries will be made into the circumstances of the crash.
Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash at the intersection of Ashhurst and Hillcrest Roads, Ashhurst. Police were called about 6.55am. Initial indications are there have been serious injuries. The road is closed and diversions will be in ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London overnight, and together took a number of steps to strengthen the already close ties between our two countries, and promote our common interests in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. ...
Director Sir Robin Niblett, distinguished guests. What an honour it is to be back in London, and to be here at Chatham house. This visit represents much for me. The reopening of borders and resumption of travel after a difficult few years. The chance ...
I’ve been sent a copy of a very lengthy paper (101 pages long) that finds that pre 1840 Auckland was never referred to as Tāmaki Makaurau. They assert it was constructed in the 20th century from a proverb which originated in the 1860s I do not have the knowledge or skills to judge if the […]
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RNZ photo Report from RNZ Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the US Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion law marched to the American Embassy in Wellington last night. They held pro-choice placards outside the embassy in Thorndon. The Republican-dominated US court last week overturned the Roe v Wade ruling which protected a constitutional right to abortion. […]