Sorry means you don’t do it again - Newsroom
1 day ago — News. Sorry means you don’t do it again. Investigative journalist Aaron Smale, who helped expose the horrors of abuse in state care and ongoing legal torment, reflects on the Government apology to victims that will be delivered tomorrow. by Aaron Smale 11 mins ago10/11/2024. Campaigners spent years seeking an inquiry into abuse in state care.
Five key takeaways from new Climate Change Commission reports
Apr 8, 2024 — Newsroom has gathered the key takeaways from the three reports below. 1. Climate change is getting worse faster than expected and we should consider strengthening our 2050 targets. In its review of the 2050 target, the commission examined whether there has been significant change in any of nine areas since the goal was set in 2019.
Chipping away at the housing crisis - Newsroom
Jul 23, 2024 — Hickey thinks shared homeownership schemes are a good attempt to solve the housing problem, but more needs to be done. “The problem needs to be solved by changing the incentives for investing in homes, to get rid of the tax-free nature of capital gains on residential land and to use the government and council balance sheets to build the infrastructure and the houses to swamp the market with ...
Government hypes gas crisis ahead of restarting drilling - Newsroom
May 10, 2024 — Finally, just last year, the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found even keeping warming to 2C required keeping half of known gas reserves and a third of known oil reserves in the ground. “Significantly more reserves are expected to remain unburned if warming is limited to 1.5C,” the panel said.
The first empty chair - Newsroom
1 day ago — The first empty chair. A death in the family, by the artist who created 185 Empty White Chairs. by Pete Majendie 3 hours ago10/11/2024. At the third anniversary of Pete Majendie's work 185 Empty White Chairs, which honours the people who died in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I’ve been going to school for a couple of months, happy to walk ...
Business and finance news from New Zealand - Newsroom
Reserve Bank taking stock of private equity’s economic risk. Central banks are beginning to take notice of financial stability threats created by the rise of private equity. Start your day with a curation of our top stories in your inbox. Catch up on the latest news, analysis and informed opinion on NZ business and economy from Newsroom.
Govt chooses anecdotes over data to justify work from home stance
Sep 26, 2024 — Photo: Lynn Grieveson. Analysis: Monday’s work from home announcement for the public sector was a chance for the “data and evidence” Government to rely on data and evidence – but it didn’t. Instead, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis leaned on anecdotes to give their claim credence without specifying a ...
Buying the vaccine: How NZ almost turned down Pfizer
Dec 15, 2021 — Special report, part two: Officials advised against accepting an offer from Pfizer to supply enough vaccines to cover New Zealand’s entire population, in a briefing to ministers in February. The previously unreleased documents show Pfizer asked if New Zealand would be interested in purchasing eight million more doses of vaccine, at a stage when we had secured just 1.5 million in a previous ...
Govt's new climate funding plan for Pacific - Newsroom
Mar 12, 2023 — The Pacific’s annual climate financing needs had been estimated at roughly US$1 billion per year, or up to nine percent of the region’s GDP, with current levels of funding falling well short at just US$220 million a year. READ MORE: * No climate justice without migration justice * Hopes NZ will back Pacific drive for shipping ...
Enjoy the political silence while it lasts - newsroom.co.nz
Nov 20, 2023 — What to take from these examples. These examples are by no means an exhaustive list of trials and tribulations that take place in representative democracies (We haven’t even touched on the 541 days needed to form a government in Belgium in 2010-2011).