The foreshore and seabed debate is back in the public discourse - and so are the misconceptions that Māori want to block access to beaches, writes 1News reporter Te Aniwa Hurihanganui.
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Lack of policy to reduce livestock emissions and maintain electric vehicle uptake is putting New Zealand's climate targets at risk.
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Maritime workers say NZ's supply chain is 'exposed and vulnerable'. Now the Govt is committing $30m to coastal shipping – but, Jonathan Milne asks, is it throwing good money after bad?
Opinion: I can’t help but look at the system and think those are our babies, our Māori babies
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The Government is pushing ahead with bootcamps and repealing Section 7AA, but it’s not too late to take the off-ramp.
E-Tangata
“Behind the rhetoric about prosperity and clean energy, I hear the voice of a kuia from Hauraki who educated so many of us, including judges, about the vital tests for assessing the value of minerals.” — Catherine Delahunty.
This week New Zealand faced up to its shameful national history of abuse in state care. John Campbell asks a social services expert: how well does Oranga Tamariki protect vulnerable kids today?
E-Tangata
“Once you've seen the reality of considering ethnicity and the impact that can be made when we consider it, that's not something easily unlearned. You can try to ignore the evidence, but you can’t deny its existence.” — Dr Anthony Jordan, former Pharmac director.
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Rather than getting the country back on track, the coalition seems to be listening to short-term thinkers and climate deniers
Some hail the bootcamps launching Monday as a timely solution to youth crime but critics argue military-style detention is an ill fit for many teens and could lead to reoffending.
The Conversation
International research suggests many anti-gang policies actually increase crime, rather than reduce it. These local experts could help us do better – if New Zealand’s politicians would listen.
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From the University of Otago - Opinion: The final Abuse in Care report is a stark reminder that our health system, designed to heal and protect, can also be a place of profound harm.
The Standard
The Royal Commission's recently released report into abuse in care has highlighted how unsuccessful and how damaging boot camps can be at the time the Government is celebrating the opening of its latest attempted version of a boot camp.
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The National-led Government has already missed a key deadline in the election pledge to rapidly cut red tape for building wind and solar farms within a year. Marc Daalder reports.
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The health budget blowout is one of the first issues the Government has faced that has arisen entirely under its watch.
The National-ACT-NZ First coalition Government yesterday sacked the Health New Zealand board.
E-Tangata
“It is an act of extreme bad faith for one party to a treaty to try to change the terms of that treaty without seeking the agreement from the other parties.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.
The Minister for Building and Construction and an expert in architectural technology share their views on what potential changes to insulation requirements might mean for NZ homes.
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Removing freshwater restrictions to help farmers means flow-on effects for the aquaculture industry: a toss-up between two primary producers.
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Opinion: Seeds of the fourth Labour government’s catastrophic 1990 defeat were planted in its 1984 snap election success, argues Peter Dunne. It's still reaping the consequences.
The Conversation
Local government raises about 4% of New Zealand’s tax revenue. The equivalent in Denmark is about 36%. If the government believes in ‘localism’, it has to give councils more power to raise revenue.
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Analysis: The new climate plan will either cost the same as Labour's but achieve less, writes Marc Daalder, or cost more to achieve the same outcomes.
The Conversation
With 70 work-related deaths each year, the government’s review of health and safety rules is very timely. But simply reducing red tape won’t fix the deeper problems.
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Opinion: As industrialised social support structures are cut back and social problems deepen, we must deal with the causes and not just ease the symptoms, writes Rob Campbell
Financial mentoring experts have described the upcoming changes as a "recipe for disaster".
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In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, we look at the PM's foot-in-mouth over low-level business types, scrutinise Scrutiny Week and work out what species we should pay up to save
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