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Opinion: The children's ministry must change from an organisation that employs social workers to become a social work organisation, writes Ian Hyslop
Stuff
"The last thing that businesses need right now is the cost of funding to go up," says Hobson Wealth Partners investment adviser Brad Gordon.
RNZ
Why do we give $41 million each year to private law firms to conduct public prosecutions? Guyon Espiner investigates.
Stuff
OPINION: New Zealand has just written a new chapter in its history books - and it has taught us plenty, writes sociologist Paul Spoonley.
Newsroom
Anti-vaxxers have been around for as long as the modern vaccine, but as NZ's vaccine rollout works its way through the willing, hold-outs present a new problem for health officials.
The Spinoff
Last week the High Court upheld a new law affecting health care providers with 'conscientious objections' to abortion. Terry Bellamak, president of ALRANZ, breaks down the decision and explains what it means for people seeking abortion care in 2021. You may or may not have heard about a High Cour
Stuff
Despite criticism, Judge Peter Callinicos has not been willing to meet with the Heads of Bench to discuss his behaviour.
The Spinoff
When it comes to vaccination in the workplace, employers are finding themselves stuck between a Covid rock and a criminally liable hard place – and the government so far seems unwilling to help them escape. The Pike River disaster of 2010 changed everything for directors and managers in New Zeala
The Spinoff
Nothing has gone right with the government's proposal to centralise water infrastructure and a revolt by local leaders is growing, Justin Giovannetti writes in The Bulletin. The government’s three waters plan is facing a growing revolt from councils. The idea is simple enough: take the 67 council
Newsroom
By demanding everyone stop the clocks, Groundswell protesters make themselves increasingly irrelevant to the urgent political business of finding pathways pastoral farming in NZ.
Newsroom
#Breaking Oranga Tamariki is yet again under fire for its approach to state care, and significant change to its operating model is on the way.
Democracy Project
There was an air of moral superiority when Grant Robertson declared, in closing his Budget 2020 address, that Labour understood what it meant to have a “genuine partnership between Government and the people”. He was implying that his opponents did not. In Robertson’s mind, political debate is a b
thedailyblog.co.nz
By Martyn Bradbury - September 29, 2021 7 305
Pundit
The Government plans to expand ACC to cover some birth injuries. That’s good. But it’s doing it in a daft way.
The Spinoff
Now is the South Island's chance to embrace its destiny and become the hermit kingdom it was born to be, argues George Driver. The old world is gone, we are told. In the words of Covid-19 modeller Rodney Jones, for the last 18 months, we have “lived in echo of a prior world that doesn’t exist”.
Newsroom
"Much of what they are mourning relates to a sense of enormous loss of power and prestige." Professor Hugh Campbell takes a close look at the declining influence and privilege of farmers.
RNZ
Opinion - In the environment created by the Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that people know how to access official information and have the confidence and the tools to do that, Peter Boshier writes.
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The public were asked, 'What do you think the country should officially be called?"
NZ Herald
PhD students working on some of our most important studies are having to work second jobs.
Newsroom
More than half the inmates in New Zealand’s three women’s prisons are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, often due to physical and sexual abuse. It is well-known that untreated PTSD is linked to criminal offending, so why is this epidemic of mental trauma not being treated properly? Sharnahea Wilson investigates.
Stuff
Prices in five suburbs increased by more than 40 per cent in the year to August, Corelogic says.
The Spinoff
Last December, the government procurement rules were updated, requiring that a minimum of at least 5% of government procurement contracts (by volume) should be awarded to Māori businesses from 2021. This should be celebrated, writes Height founder Warner Cowin. When Māori and Pasifika people self
Newsroom
Businesses are struggling with what to do around Covid vaccinations in the workforce, with oft-conflicting legislation and little clarity from Government. Newsroom finds answers to companies' most gnarly questions
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