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Stephen Hill
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Wow - hating on Elsevier makes mainstream news in New Zealand!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier
One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578897/universities-in-battle-of-the-century-with-journal-publisher-elsevier
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Lew
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It bears remembering that this woman, according to the IPCA report, sent at least 36 emails to media outlets, presumaby including NZME, as well as the PM, Police Minister, and police command in Dec 2023 & Jan 2024, and they did fuck-all about it too
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The woman in the Jevon McSkimming saga wasn't innocent here
So it turns out the woman with whom Jevon McSkimming had an affair, whose warnings police ignored and who police charged instead of investigating McSkimmin
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/opinion/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis-allan-the-woman-in-the-jevon-mcskimming-saga-wasnt-innocent-here/
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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Byron C Clark
about 6 hours ago
No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children
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How to solve New Zealand’s population problem – Michael Johnston - NZ Herald
OPINION: New Zealand's fertility rate has fallen to 1.6, well below replacement level.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how-to-solve-new-zealands-population-problem-michael-johnston/premium/6BYKMEC4QNCFFN2HV6U6733MP4/
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On NRT: Ratfucking our democracy -
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Ratfucking our democracy
One of the major themes of this regime has been its contempt for democracy and the parliamentary process. The statistics on this were laid b...
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/11/ratfucking-our-democracy.html
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Simon Donner
about 10 hours ago
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
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National's bill gutting clean vehicle standards is back from committee a month early. Another example of the systematic lying to parliament about report-back dates of this regime
selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/89adf773...
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Select Committee Reports
https://selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/89adf773-19e6-4455-50b7-08de2229b796?lang=en
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Sassy Little Hobbit
about 9 hours ago
It’s very clear that billionaires and other wealthy people are paying to commit crimes like killing people for sport and raping children. Here in NZ they pay to hide their crimes from public view. And according to the media, we are supposed to aspire to be these people. No thank you.
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Stephen Schwartz
about 10 hours ago
Nothing to see here (literally!). Just the US State Department secretly deleting 15 pages of declassified official documents published in 2021 in the Foreign Relations of the United States series about a 1983 NATO nuclear weapons exercise that unexpectedly increased the risk of a nuclear war.
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Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
https://wapo.st/4hUdZUA
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Sassy Little Hobbit
about 8 hours ago
Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.
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Rod Emmerson
about 8 hours ago
In today’s NZ Herald
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Project Gutenberg
about 17 hours ago
Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026 The New Classics Collective turned Fire!!, a 1926 Harlem magazine for young Black artists, into a play at Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre, featuring works by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston. via @
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#books
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National's talk of using overseas credits has driven the carbon price below $40, which means the only thing it incentivises any more is trees.
about 6 hours ago
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Graeme Edgeler
about 17 hours ago
We appointed multiple people to statutory positions in the Police and to statutory positions or senior positions in other agencies who were massively deficient in personal ethics. One person can fall through the cracks, but this was a large number of different people and a larger number of roles...
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Deborah Russell MP
about 22 hours ago
Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
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Christina Hood
about 20 hours ago
That means that if we'd followed the 2023 policy track, we could have avoided over $1 billion in offshore mitigation to meet New Zealand's 2030 Paris Agreement NDC (>20Mt at say ~$NZ50/t). /ends
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Christina Hood
about 20 hours ago
The projections from 2023 are shown here (green dashed line): a rapid reduction in emissions was projected, with the gap to the NDC only 58Mt... 26Mt better than now projected. 4/-
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Christina Hood
about 20 hours ago
As New Zealand Minister Hon. Simon Watts heads to
#COP30
, here's some remarkable new information from an Official Information Act response I received today. 1/-
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GreenLeft Network 🍉
about 23 hours ago
The Greens will repeal the Regulatory Standards Bill. But ACT won't give up. They will spend millions into fooling voters that free market capitalism is the only future left for New Zealand. However, you can help stop ACT from getting even more power. (1/2)
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You will all be shocked, shocked! to learn that, contra Andrew Hoggard, MPI has no plans to use flamethrowers against the invasive Portuguese millipede, and that Hoggard was simply making shit up in
#nzqt
last week
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Biosecurity-Flamethrowers-Response
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26252977-biosecurity-flamethrowers-response/
about 23 hours ago
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kyle
1 day ago
haven't seen anything about this in NZ, despite this being DIRECTLY relevant to NZ's security state and relationship with the US, particularly in relation to government/ministerial PR and rhetoric about closer US ties and transnational crime. This should be a red alert for NZ's current direction
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On NRT: DPMC's secret guide on how to be a minister -
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DPMC's secret guide on how to be a minister
One of the common criticisms governments make of oppositions is that they're inexperienced, and have no idea how to be ministers or run the ...
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/11/dpmcs-secret-guide-on-how-to-be-minister.html
about 23 hours ago
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Relaed by the Ombudsman! The complete, unredacted "Induction Handbook for New Ministers"
#OIA
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Induction Handbook for New Ministers - 2023 edition
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26252961-induction-handbook-for-new-ministers-2023-edition/
about 24 hours ago
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Paula Penfold
1 day ago
Further fallout in wake of damning IPCA McSkimming report
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McSkimming scandal fallout: Aviation boss ‘on leave’ following bombshell report
Former Police Deputy Commissioner Chris de Wattignar was criticised for his handling of concerns about his colleague. Now he’s on leave from another government agency.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360885131/mcskimming-scandal-fallout-aviation-boss-leave-following-bombshell-report
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henry cooke
1 day ago
NEW POLL: Labour has surged to 38% support following its CGT release, per a TM poll obtained by The Post. But it would still need TPM to govern. - Labour: 38% (+3) - National: 33% (+4) - Greens: 9% (-1) - NZ First: 8% (-4) - ACT: 7% (-1) - TPM: 2.4% (-1.2)
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Labour surges to 38% in new poll - but it still needs Te Pāti Māori
After announcing its capital gains tax plan the party has hit its highest poll number since 2022 - but not quite high enough to cut Te Pāti Māori out of the equation.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360885129/labour-surges-38-new-poll-still-needs-te-pati-maori
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Phil Garnock-Jones
1 day ago
New “prominent New Zealander” alert.
#nzpol
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There's a mention in the IPCA report of how McSkimming told them he'd declared his affair to the SIS when obtaining his security clearance, but the IPCA wasn't able to verify this. The SIS refused to tell them because its illegal
www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2...
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Intelligence and Security Act 2017 No 10 (as at 01 October 2025), Public Act 220 Use of information provided for security clearance assessment – New Zealand Legislation
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2017/0010/latest/DLM6921248.html
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Bernard Hickey
1 day ago
Now this is a protest that might change things if it a larger number of cities and states joined Chicago.
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Unlike previous police commissioners, he didn't attempt to pull rank and get out of it at least
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Police Commissioner Richard Chambers pulled over for speeding at 112km/h
Richard Chambers says he was "away with the fairies" when he was pulled over speeding last week.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578778/police-commissioner-richard-chambers-pulled-over-for-speeding-at-112km-h
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That time people thought an armed bank robbery near the University of Canterbury was just KAOS (!)
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19910727.2.6
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Mark
1 day ago
“It’s not corruption, it’s a ‘cultural integrity problem’ of not being able to manage conflicts of interest” was an actual real thing that was said in New Zealand media today.
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘
1 day ago
Carmal Sepaloni still hasn't got the memo about not asking the PM questions on Thirsdays when Luxon isn't attending Question Time. FFS! Stop giving Seymour opportunities to spout nonsense as the acting PM. FFS! It isn't rocket science.
#OneTermGovernment
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Question for old NZ SF fans: anyone go to KiwiCon or Confalgration in Auckland in 1990 who can tell me about the Star Trek game mentioned in this article/ Was it a larp/
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19900227.2.17
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In celebration of
@thepress.co.nz
extending its Papers past coverage to 1995: the time NZ police shot Jim Anderton in front of 5000 people:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19910604.2.6
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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi
1 day ago
Big Fresh. Billy T James. Big Snow. Aramoana. Ruthanasia. Oh, and Radiohead, and Servalan from Blake's Seven. Yes, it's the Nineties! You can now dive into The Press from 1990 to 1995 with Papers Past.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/1...
^DR
#Christchurch
#Ōtautahi
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134 years of The Press online: Papers Past now goes to 1995
Copies of The Press from 1861 to 1995 are now online at Papers Past. The years 1990 to 1995 are newly available.
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/134-years-of-the-press-online-papers-past-now-goes-to-1995/
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Emma Evans
2 days ago
And it was hours after 12 major airports banned private jets that the Democrats caved.
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Newsroom NZ
1 day ago
The public almost missed out on learning of the police hierarchy’s cover-up of its disgraced deputy commissioner’s behaviour – because until the 11th hour the Crown wanted a permanent suppression order of his identity. - Newsroom Pro - $
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The unholy comrade of a cover-up: name suppression
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/13/the-unholy-consort-of-a-cover-up-name-suppression/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762970385-3
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The Wellington Skellington (No Longer Spooky)
1 day ago
Unless things change between now and ~midday, it looks like the Regulatory Standards Bill will have its third reading this afternoon, starting at around 3.00, and then be passed into law in the coming days. Because it's a Thursday, the Prime Minister almost certainly won't be there for it.
#NPZOL
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Rod Emmerson
1 day ago
In today’s NZ Herald
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Allan Moyle
1 day ago
Is any Government agency doing any due diligence? or has the gutting of public service rendered it incapable of doing so? I don't care that there has been retroactive action to "fix" this. The contract needs to be cancelled.
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Grumpy
1 day ago
It's interesting that NZ Police can be so proactive and decisive about pursuing charges for digital harm and harassment of a senior male police officer, yet find pressing charges when the victim is a woman almost impossible...
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Andrew
1 day ago
Don’t worry, come January and the annual Corruption Perceptions Index release, we’ll have figures like the Commissioner and Ombudsman back to saying our declining score is still high and nobody’s complacent.
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NY Times Pitchbot
1 day ago
Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
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ECO NZ - Environment & Conservation Orgs
1 day ago
Only 5 days to makes submissions on Govt Fast Track legislation which will make the law even worse for the environment and community engagement. Make a submission
@greenpeace.org.nz
is one guide on the crucial issues in the Bill.
#FastTrack
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Finally, an NZ solar company trying to raise money through crowd equity. Now to read the documents and see if they're any good.
www.catalist.co.nz/businesses/9...
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Invest - Solar Hub NZ Limited Preference Shares
**Solar Hub NZ — Powering Aotearoa’s Energy Independence** **What We Do Today** Solar Hub NZ is one of New Zealand’s leading end-to-end solar providers, deliver
https://www.catalist.co.nz/businesses/9c6c2aab-7d24-4e79-b7fb-594ab30616af
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Abbie Jury 🌱
2 days ago
The admission that the police are deliberately siphoning off correspondence to the PM and the Minister of Police from members of the public to make sure it is never seen sure strikes at the heart of a democracy. Corruption at the top level. Heads must roll.
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Plur1bus has me sold from the first episode. Watch it. Join us.
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Good to see RNZ naming names here. Now fire and/or prosecute them (some have already resigned)
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Revealed: The key figures in the IPCA report which found serious misconduct at the highest levels
RNZ can now reveal the identities of some of the police officers in the IPCA report which found serious misconduct at the highest levels.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578678/revealed-the-key-figures-in-the-ipca-report-which-found-serious-misconduct-at-the-highest-levels
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Andrew
2 days ago
So I didn’t ask that question, and the Commissioner wasn’t there (surprise), but I did ask another question: ‘In the 24 hrs ministers have repeatedly referred to a few bad apples. Is it not time to recognise that the barrel holding these apples are part of the problem? How should the systemic…
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