Article – RNZ
A newly-released WorkSafe report into a bus crash that killed three people in 2016 showed investigators identified weaknesses in the bus firm’s maintenance systems. Read more »
Article – The Scoop Team
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was joined by Minister of Education Chris Hipkins to announce that 1563 of 1745 eligible schools had opted in next year for the Government’s voluntary scheme giving extra funding to schools which undertake not to ask for donations. … Read more »
Article – RNZ
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Peter O’Neill has lodged a criminal complaint against police minister Bryan Kramer. Read more »
Article – RNZ
As the Pacific grapples with a deadly measles outbreak originating in New Zealand, some of the region’s smallest states are seeing their health systems put under increasing strain before the disease even reaches their shores. Read more »
Article – RNZ
Vanuatu’s Minister of Home Affairs has ruled out intervening in the work permit case of the Daily Post newspaper’s media director, Dan McGarry. Read more »
Article – RNZ
An online petition has been launched calling for homosexuality to be decriminalised between consenting adults in the Cook Islands. Read more »
Column – Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the Greens learning to love a global destroyer of native forests, and on the stereotypes facing women at work First published on Werewolf Read more »
Column – Gordon Campbell
Having failed all year at being a credible alternative Prime Minister, National leader Simon Bridges has lowered his aspirational target this week to something more within his range. On radio yesterday, Bridges did his best to come across as Nationals … Read more »
Article – RNZ
The All Blacks final Rugby World Cup pool match against Italy has been called off due to Super Typhoon Hagibis, World Rugby has confirmed. Read more »
Article – RNZ
French Polynesian pro-independence politician, Moetai Brotherson, says it is only a matter of time before the French nuclear weapons test site at Moruroa collapses. Read more »
