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Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 4:35am

Nz Police: Statement From Police Commissioner Richard Chambers

PSA: Public Service WFH Policies Dispute Heading To ERA

NZPF: Maths Support Funding A Mixed Bag, Say Principals

Lindsay Shelton: What I’ve been reading

Predator Free 2050: More than $164M in non-govt support for 18 major projects

Forest & Bird: National Parks Are Not Game Parks

Te Matatini Soc Inc.: Te Matatini 2027 will not go ahead as planned

Government: Resignation Of Deputy Police Commissioner

Gordon Campbell: On The Parental Panic Over Young Kids Online

Creating a policy group to investigate a R16 ban on social media provides the government with a perfectly designed soapbox. The findings don’t have to end up suggesting anything useful, let alone a practical course of action. Yet in the meantime, the issue enables the government to connect with anxious parents about a scary threat that’s supposedly consuming their kids, and turning their brains to mush. The fact that there is no conclusive research that proves the alleged harms are as widespread or as addictive as claimed appears to make no difference at all.

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NEW ZEALAND POLITICS

Climate Action Joint Committee - CAJC: First Climate Change Risk Assessment Report Released For Hawke’s Bay

This assessment is an important resource, bringing together the best available information and evidence to paint a picture of how the impacts of climate change will likely be experienced across the region, affecting Hawke’s Bay places and people.

NZCTU: Unions Barred From Budget 2025 Lock-Up

We object in the strongest possible terms to the Government’s decision to bar the NZCTU from the Budget 2025 lock-up. Workers will be significantly impacted by the decisions made by government at Budget 2025, and it is important that the NZCTU can accurately report on Budget decisions to ensure working people are properly briefed.

Local Water Done Well: Local Water Done Not So Well | Public Understanding And Confidence In Framework Severely Lacking – New Data

While the LWDW framework plays a key role in shaping how waste, storm and drinking water services are planned, built and paid for in New Zealand, more than half of respondents (55 per cent) said they had never heard of it, with one person stating, “I have absolutely no idea what it is about.”

New Zealand Police: Statement Regarding Jevon McSkimming

“The criminal investigation will continue and is not affected by the resignation. I have no further comment at this stage,” says Police Commissioner Richard Chambers.

Climate Liberation Aotearoa: Climate Activist Draw Attention To Outdated Regulations Of Heli Tourism In Aoraki National Park

Climate Liberation Aotearoa recently displayed several large banners around the Aoraki/Mt Cook area to protest for a new long-term sustainability plan for helicopters in Aoraki National Park.

The New Zealand Remembrance Army: Victoria Cross And Hardham Cup Come Together For First Time In Over 100-years

The two historic items have come together for the first time as part of the Petone Rugby Football Club’s (RFC), 140th anniversary (1885 -2025) celebrations.

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Growing NZ – Now And For The Long Term 12:01 PM | New Zealand Government
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ACT Backs End To Corrosive Public Sector DEI Appointments 10:34 AM | ACT New Zealand

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EDS: Oceans Symposium Highlights Need To Establish Independent Oceans Commission

An overarching theme of the day was the power of collaborative effort in achieving positive change. Overall, the key message was the need to act now, the need to act together, and the need to put the health of the oceans first.

Antarctic Heritage Trust: NZ-made ‘Cutting-Edge’ VR Experience Tours The UK

The VR experience uses a combination of LiDar and photogrammetry data to give the public access to the first expedition base on Antarctica’s Ross Island built in 1902 - making it over 122 years old.

Brian Gaynor Business Journalism Initiative: Brian Gaynor Initiative Business Journalism Funding Award Moves To Rolling Applications

The decision to change from a single, annual funding round was in response to feedback from journalists and editors.

Inland Revenue: Fifth Anniversary Of The SBC Loans - Time To Repay

More than 129,000 businesses were issued loans totalling $2.4 billion. The average amount approved was $17,000.

Te Runanga o Ngati Hinemanu: First Marae Based Fresh Water Testing Science Lab Grand Opening 16-17 May 2025

The lab will amalgamate the best of both mātauranga Māori and western scientific methodologies in order to protect wai Māori (freshwater) and build the capacity and capability of iwi freshwater practitioners, or “Kaitiaki Rangers”, of all ages.

Raise Communications: NZ Careers Expo Kicks Off National Tour Amid Record Unemployment

As Aotearoa grapples with record-high unemployment and high numbers of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET), the nationwide Careers Expo is providing a much-needed lifeline, connecting people with real pathways into study, training, and meaningful work.

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Binoy Kampmark: Commemorating Mummy - Reflections On Mother’s Day

The day itself denigrates the mother in false respect and guilts the family for ignorance to that fact. It sanctifies a family relation for reasons of commercial worth.

Gordon Campbell: On The New Pope, And The Israeli Attack On Peter Davis

The election of any Pope tends to be retro-fitted in ways that make the choice seem inevitable.

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: For The Love Of Sycamores

For a state of insight to ignite, there has to be a kind of agnosia -- a temporary loss of the ability to recognize the familiar as familiar. That allows a full opening of the mind and heart, which is what the brain truly evolved for.

Ian Powell: A Timely Call For A Social Contract In Health

Ian Powell discusses the relevance of a timely editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal advocating the reconstruction of a healthcare social contract.

Binoy Kampmark: Bratty Royal - Prince Harry And Bespoke Security Protection

This hereditary figure of aristocracy cannot help his instincts on entitlement. He was “born” into the role, and for that birthright, he demands a degree of security protection exceptional, whatever his personal decisions and choices about career, location and Royal duties.

Keith Rankin: Make Deficits Great Again - Maintaining A Pragmatic Balance

Just as the deficit countries are the world's 'spendthrifts', the surplus countries are the world's 'misers'. The global economy maintains a successful equilibrium so long as the willing spendthrifts balance out the insistent misers.

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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections On Mother’s Day 2:00 PM | Binoy Kampmark
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A Timely Call For A Social Contract In Health 11/05/25 | Ian Powell
White Smoke And Speculation: The Election Of Pope Leo XIV 11/05/25 | Binoy Kampmark
Make Deficits Great Again: Maintaining A Pragmatic Balance 09/05/25 | Keith Rankin

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UN News: UN Warns Copper Shortage Risks Slowing Global Energy And Technology Shift

A looming global copper shortage could stall the world’s transition to clean energy and digital technologies unless smarter trade and investment strategies are adopted, the UN’s trade and development body, UNCTAD, has warned.

Peace Action Wellington: Mahia - Now A US Nuclear Base?

“Mahia has become a de facto outpost of the US military where it can do what it wants, when it wants with very little real oversight and no concern for the implications of that for New Zealand independence as a nation.,” said Valerie Morse, member of Peace Action Wellington.

UN Special Procedures - Human Rights: Mali - UN Experts Say Mali Should Not Hinder Or Suspend The Activities Of Political Parties

“This decree suspending political activities must be immediately repealed. In addition, if passed into law, the 30 April bill will place Mali in contravention of its human rights obligations, notably on freedoms of association and expression,” the experts stressed.

ICHRP: Zero In - Killings Heighten In Northern And Southern Philippines Amidst 2025 Midterm Elections

The Philippine National Police Public Information Office reported a troubling total of 62 incidents from January 12 to April 28, 2025.

John Divinagracian, IMI: The World’s Greatest Long Hikes

For those willing to brave extended treks in nature, the world’s best long hikes offer challenges and amazing rewards.

Palestine Forum of New Zealand: A Message To Pope Leo XIV

Today, we call upon His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to continue this noble legacy — to be a steadfast advocate for peace, justice, and the dignity of the Palestinian people, including the Christian communities under siege in Gaza.

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LIFESTYLE

Volunteer Service Abroad: Register Your Interest For The Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) UniVol Graduate Programme

The UniVol programme places selected graduates into 10-month volunteer assignments with VSA partners across the Pacific and beyond, in a range of areas like education, youth development, conservation, and community engagement.

Massey University: New Research Highlights Gaps In Financial Education For Diverse Learners

Through surveys and interviews with 87 families, the study sought to understand the values, practices and expectations surrounding financial learning in the home.

Bunnings: Bunnings Rugby Assist Returns For 2025 To Support Your Club

An additional 10 clubs will be selected this year, each to receive $30,000 to make club improvements, adding to the 50 clubs who have already benefitted from the program since it launched in 2021.

Ruth Boyask, The Conversation: Kiwi Kids Once Led The World In Reading – This 1950s Primary School Syllabus Still Has Lessons For Today

Compared with today’s structured literacy and standardised testing, the 1953 reading syllabus was a remarkably non-prescriptive blueprint for both teachers and pupils.

818.: Kiwi Feature Film Pike River To Receive World Premiere At Sydney Film Festival

Pike River is the powerful true story of Anna Osborne (Melanie Lynskey) and Sonya Rockhouse (Robyn Malcolm), and their fight for justice alongside other Pike families following one of the worst mining disasters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history.

Hospice NZ: Hospices At Risk Of Disappearing

Wayne Naylor, Chief Executive, Hospice New Zealand, which represents New Zealand’s 32 hospices, says without fair and sustainable funding, hospices, and the critical services they provide, are at risk of disappearing.

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