This isn’t about left versus right. It’s about science versus pseudoscience. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Shameful. Unacceptable. Vote for people who will actually take action.

'Gee's O Trilogy was so important to me when I was 10. I met the guy in my late 30s and didn't tell him this of course. We are supposed to look back and regret such cowardly moments but I don't. There's an honour in not bothering people.' —Nick Ascroft. www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...

once again the media just likes to ignore the left leaning parties cos a well rounded story is beyond them

Anyone fancy living in Crofton Downs? Its handy to bus, train, supermarket and we reckon its quite nice. www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...

I'm excited about an event that I have been helping organising - a panel discussion of Maurice Gee's contribution to children's literature. It'll be a mixture of readings and people speaking about his work www.facebook.com/share/19o79R...

Calling New Zealand English teachers. As part of my PhD research, I'm conducting a survey on teacher perspectives on the topics of Shakespeare and of the inclusion of mātauranga Māori. Please complete this survey if you are an English teacher massey.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Te reo is not just for one part of our community, or one part of our education system. It's a taonga for all. Even if you thought it should only be for tangata whenua kids and not also tangata tiriti, this move makes no sense because most Māori kids attend schools that aren't kura kaupapa.

The takahē staff are deeply saddened at the sudden passing of our Essays Editor, Kelly Ana Morey, and send heartfelt condolences to her whānau, friends, and all those in the writing community who will feel this great loss.

A message from Dame Fiona to Erica Stanford newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a... wrapped up in a perfect #poem

Getting ready for the stagers at our house, positioning myself as one who exclusively reads local literary fiction @thwupbooks.bsky.social 😍

Driven to total silliness by a month of packing and posting 1500 books sold in the August sale, the THWUP team are shown here cowering together in a stairwell with various volumes of Selected Poems on their heads. Buy some Selected Poems! Half price! teherengawakapress.co.nz/collections/...

We love to see it.

David Hill on writing about Whina Cooper, te reo Māori and the vision and endurance of the eminent New Zealanders he has written about: www.thesapling.co.nz/interview-da...

If you're doing research in NZ about children's books, a friendly reminder that the Susan Price scholarship ($2500) closes end of Oct dnwfriends.nzl.org/index.php/ho...

GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol

And the winner of the National Schools Poetry Award is...Keiko Bruce, from One Tree Hill College, with her poem 'Guilt Tank'! Judge Ruby Solly says this prose poem feels like an entire film captured in a single, carefully laid-out paragraph of poetry. www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

'I’m hardly the first person to advocate for poetry as a properly public-facing art, but I do believe that it should be. One of the great things about writing poems... is that we get to respond in something like real time, to jump into the discourse.' thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-08-...

Non-alcoholic beer has taken off in the past few years. Where options were once scarce, brewers are taking up the challenge in droves. But how can you get the same flavour into beer without it? This is where a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from Te Herenga Waka comes in.

Raised amid politics and diplomacy, David Harland has dedicated his career to peacebuilding in the world’s toughest conflict zones. From Te Herenga Waka to leading global mediation, his work shows the power of courage and dialogue. This year, he is a Distinguished Alumni Award winner.

This image says it all - delegates failed to agree on an international treaty to stop plastic pollution, including in the ocean

I’ll say it again: I’m vocal on trans rights because 1) I’m a decent person, 2) I have a trans niece whose happiness has skyrocketed since coming out, and 3) all these arguments were used against gays and lesbians in the 80s. And Black people in the 60s. And Jewish people in the 40s…

$6 million is what NZ spent when we were Guest Of Honour at Frankfurt Bookfair. The kids writers asked for $350,000 for our GOH at Bologna. Denied. Then the minister had the gall to say up at our awards ceremony on Wednesday that we could even go international with some of our kids books. 😡

The children's literature community are normally a polite bunch, so heckling the Hon. Paul Goldsmith was out of character. Here's a blow-by-blow account of all the winners & vibes from last night's NZCYA awards: shorturl.at/jFR5s

This is so sad. My daughter learnt to read with the kupu Māori in these books - simple, easyto understand and such a tiny step considering how little reo there is in her education. Multilingual countries must be shocked by the paucity of our language diversity www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/569...

By popular demand, we present the junior fiction finalists for the #NZCYA awards interviewing each other on their books & writing lives www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-j... #BooksAlive @macdibble.bsky.social @exocomics.com @cravenjaney.bsky.social @rachaelking70.bsky.social @clairemabey.bsky.social

This is a shameful way to treat one of our treasured national languages. www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/12/f... #Deaf #NZSL #children #education

Our history is on life support. Don't pull the plug. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/10/o...

Nothing happier than a cat on a lap under a heat pump on a horrible wet day.

“What have we become?… How is this even vaguely consistent with any notion of ‘compassionate’ conservatism? […] When people with pneumonia are being left on our wintry streets, what am I supposed to say? What is anyone supposed to say?” @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

I was horrified, while working at the MoE last year that in March, one of the two lifts that announced the floors in te reo Māori, no longer did it; that we were instructed in April to stop using the term akonga. These small, deadly things is what just about sent me over the edge.

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

Arihia Latham takes the reo Māori finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults to kura, and shares what the kids think: www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-t...

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Shane Te Pou's Herald piece on national's voter suppression says "You’ve been able to enrol up to the day before election day since 1993". This is wrong. You've been able to do it since 1954. National is trying to turn the clock back over 70 years. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/facing-pr...

As a parent with one kid going into NCEA 1 next year, and another starting college next year… colour me confused. I feel for Onslow’s team who will be telling parents about NCEA tonight. My 14yo has done 2/3 of the pre-requisite exams, will do the other soon

'It is no coincidence that declining literacy rates have coincided with sustained under-investment, devaluing and neglect of school libraries in Aotearoa' This week is Aotearoa School Library Week, but many schools around the country lack access to libraries: shorturl.at/MnLth

Bishop canned 1500 new home builds. Potaka threw people out of emergency housing onto the street. Chhour slashed funding to community services. All of us are struggling, services are slashed to bare bones, families already overcrowded. What did these out-of-touch Ministers think would happen?!

this is fascinating, and possibly a symptom of new zealand’s broader low productivity economy: corporate leaders and intellectuals tend to hyperfocus on “leadership”, as if organisational performance is just a function of a sufficiently charismatic figurehead (1/2) www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Researchers critical of Colossal Biosciences’ "de-extinction" plans are being targeted by online articles and social posts (not here - on the other site) trying to discredit them www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

What a gut punch. #nzpol "A world class website documenting New Zealand's history could be allowed to wither and die with cuts confirmed at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage." www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

The finalists for the 2025 Pikihuia Awards celebrating first-time and emerging Māori writers in te reo Māori and English have been announced! Nice to see our 2024 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence Shelley Burne-Field popping up in two categories. mailchi.mp/mlt/newslett...

Age verification? Mum used to send me to the dairy to get milk tokens to leave in our milk bottles. They were diff colour for different orders.

This government must be one of the most anti-Māori in living history. Every week, there is a new policy/law change that deeply impacts our indigenous whānau and that it's being led by two men who identify as Māori is the vilest betrayal. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/24/e...