Aotearoa: What’s in a name? - Newsroom
Sep 19, 2020 · However, there are some traditional generic notions common through much of eastern Polynesia, such as the idea that islands were hauled up from the dark depths into the light, which is where the term Aotea, or dialectical equivalent, as light may have some relevance – perhaps not so much as a specific island name, but as a place that become light.
New Zealand's up-to-date daily Covid-19 case charts - Newsroom
Sep 26, 2022 · The Ministry of Health is now publicly reporting Covid-19 case numbers only once a week, it does still upload the raw data daily. Newsroom’s daily charts page automatically provides the latest Covid-19 data in a readable format
TVNZ – a last bastion of current affairs falls - newsroom.co.nz
Mar 8, 2024 · Updated to include statements from the Sunday and Fair Go teams. Comment: So radical is TVNZ’s proposed cutting of its award-winning – its only – current affairs show Sunday that sceptics wonder if the move is for real, or to force company executives to think again. Cancelling Sunday from May 12, with the loss of around 20 jobs, as well as ending the legendary consumer affairs watchdog ...
Jacinda Ardern's greatest achievement - newsroom.co.nz
Oct 5, 2020 · Helen Clark and Jim Bolger both suffered at the hands of coalition with Winston Peters and New Zealand First. Photo: RNZ/Elliott Childs. It all came a cropper, you may remember, over questions about donations from figures like …
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White supremacists still active in New Zealand - Newsroom
Aug 10, 2019 · A fresh New Zealand white supremacist group is recruiting members on internet forums like 4chan, Marc Daalder reports.
Mental health co-response model to be rolled out nationwide
The Government will commit to a nationwide rollout of the successful co-response model. The model, currently only in action across a handful of regions, sees police, ambulance staff and mental health experts all respond to an emergency call when it’s coded as a person in mental distress or threatening suicide.
Five years on remand: Justice system breaks its own record
Oct 5, 2022 · A backlog in the courts system due to Covid-19 as well as more complex cases coming to trial and general resourcing pressure has seen Corrections break its own record for the longest time a prisoner has been kept on remand.
Grim news for the planet, great news for Channel Infrastructure
Feb 26, 2023 · Channel Infrastructure makes much of its environmental record in its results presentation. Closing the refinery and becoming an import-only terminal has seen its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (those from its own operations and from the energy it uses in those operations) reduce by 98 percent, or over 1 million tonnes CO2 a year, the company says.
Peters offers reason for backing Labour in 2017 - Newsroom
Winston Peters has refloated claims then-National leader Bill English confided in him at the start of 2017’s coalition negotiations that he was about to be “rolled” as National leader – and that was one reason New Zealand First opted to put Jacinda Ardern’s Labour into power.