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In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to combat “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. Dr...
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Department of Conservation workers and scientists from the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have been searching for phreatoicids (pronced “free-at-o-ik-ids”)
and found that the survival of these tiny, blind isopods...
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The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city council goes ahead with a plan to increase tree planting and cycle lanes. The reason? The...
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Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced her resignation from parliament, effective as of the end of next month. According to the New Zealand Herald
The decision to leave had been “deeply painful” but she had become disillusioned after...
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Back in April, the results of the 2008 Quality of Life survey were released. They showed that Christchurch was New Zealand’s safest city, with less than 100 crimes per 100,000 people. They survey also showed that, despite those facts, 64.5 per...
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Thirty eight workers at an Open Country Dairy processing plant in Waharoa, Waikato walked off the job at 6pm on Wednesday night beginning an eight day long strike. Despite it being a large export industry, strikes in the dairy sector are rare. The...
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The new $4.9 million Mt Roskill fire station was opened in Auckland on Friday. Yet at the opening ceremony Prime Minister John Key was drowned out with shouts of “One, Two, Three, A Wage Rise Mr Key”, as 200 fire fighters protested...
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Photos of New Zealand soldiers posing with a 2000 pound bomb were released to the media last weekend. The soldiers had written “Dear Taleban, enjoy this” on the bomb as well as adorning it with a sticker advertising energy drink maker...
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New Zealand First held its annual general meeting last weekend and affirmed it will contest the 2011 election. The party missed out on parliamentary representation last year achieving 4% of the vote, short of the 5% required to gain seats without...
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Social development minister Paula Bennett made headlines in July when she released private information on two women who had criticised the governments welfare policies, opening up a furry of attacks on right-wing talkback radio and the blogosphere,...
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