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BUENOS AIRES/GENEVA (25 November 2022) – Argentina’s exemplary democratic and human rights achievements are in contrast to persistent – and mostly invisible – institutional violence resulting in deaths, a UN expert said today. “I urge ...

GENEVA (25 November 2022) – UN experts* today said the latest actions by Taliban de facto authorities targeting women and girls deepen existing flagrant violations of their human rights and freedoms that are already the most draconian globally and ...

26 November  Waitematā District Commander Superintendent Naila Hassan: One person has died and a number of others are injured following a crash on SH1, Warkworth, this evening. Emergency services were alerted to the crash about 6.30pm. ...

26 November  Hamilton City Council and its contractors are working to contain and repair a wastewater issue on Normandy Avenue in Melville. Following a week of heavy rain, a wastewater line collapsed on Wednesday morning which has resulted in ...

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash on SH1, Warkworth, involving multiple vehicles. Police were called about 6.30pm. Initial reports suggest there have been serious injuries. The road is closed and diversions are in place. Please ...

Police are making enquiries after a serious assault on Ward Street, Hamilton, this afternoon. Emergency services were called about 3.40pm after the incident, where a young person has allegedly been assaulted by a group of others. The victim sustained ...

In one of his final acts of service to Aotearoa, the late Dr Taa Toby Curtis issued a powerful reminder that the work to build an equitable society in Aotearoa New Zealand must continue. “It is, from my perspective, the colonial shackles of governance ...

“An attempt by the Greens and Labour to entrench ownership of three waters assets in the new Water Services Entities breaks dangerous constitutional ground, but will be repealed all the same,” says ACT Local Government Spokesperson Simon Court. ...

Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Glyn Lewers has extended sincere condolences to the family and friends of a visitor from Korea who tragically drowned in Lake Wānaka on Thursday evening. “On behalf of the local community I would like to pass our ...

What Labour and the Greens have done is massively concerning and repugnant. They are using a partisan majority to make future Parliaments unable to repeal part of the Three Waters Act. There is only one current use of super-majorities at the moment, and that is in the Electoral Act. There are six sections (one actually […]

The Daily Wire reports: Princeton University has formed a committee to determine the fate of an on-campus statue of influential Founding Father John Witherspoon, who also served as the sixth president of the school. No doubt he will be toppled in due course. Witherspoon was born in Scotland in 1723 before he moved to New Jersey in 1767 to take the job as […]

The Government has been caught sneaking a rarely-used legal provision into the proposed Three Waters legislation which will make it harder for Parliament to overturn, National Justice Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith and Local Government spokesperson Simon Watts ...

“Finance Minister Grant Robertson has shown he has no plan to reduce spending and takes no responsibility for the part he’s played in the cost of living crisis,” says ACT Leader and Finance spokesperson David Seymour. “The government’s out ...

“New Zealand’s Department of Conservation is the first conservation department in the world to introduce “locally captured wild ship rats” to protected areas in the name of pest control, what could possibly be next?” Asks ACT’s Conservation ...

One person has died after being struck by a vehicle on Auckland’s Southern Motorway last night. The incident was reported to Police at 11.15pm. Enquiries are under way to establish the exact circumstances, however initial information suggests the person ...

Report from RNZ Wellington police spent last night bar-hopping to remind hospitality staff how to help prevent sexual assault while people party at their venues. Police hit the pubs to educate staff as part of the capital’s Don’t Guess the Yes campaign, which has run since 2018. The campaign is targeted at young men and […]

Interesting findings from the latest survey of NZ economists on inflation. So there is a strong consensus that inflation is not under control, that a return to surpluses would help and that keeping inflation high will not stop unemployment increasing. No tag for this post.

As David pointed out: School principals around the country warn new literacy and numeracy standards could “provoke a crisis” and “undermine the credibility” of the NCEA assessment system. … During the pilot, principals spoke out about their concerns the tests would leave behind Māori and Pasifika students, worsening “institutional racism” in the education sector. Stuff facilitated […]