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It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
End of regional councils tipped in local government reforms
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
This is also misleading. The survey question was not whether the treaty should "feature" in news stories but whether it "applied" to journalism. Most respondents said the treaty was relevant to news stories "in which the treaty is referenced", not just news stories generally, as is stated here.
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is also misleading. The survey question was not whether the treaty should "feature" in news stories but whether it "applied" to journalism. Most respondents said the treaty was relevant to news stories "in which the treaty is referenced", not just news stories generally, as is stated here.
There is no reference to the claim a majority said their "political leaning directly informed their work". A majority said their "personal values and beliefs" influenced their work, but that's clearly different.
Even the date of the survey is wrong (2022, not 2023)
Even the date of the survey is wrong (2022, not 2023)
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There is no reference to the claim a majority said their "political leaning directly informed their work". A majority said their "personal values and beliefs" influenced their work, but that's clearly different.
Even the date of the survey is wrong (2022, not 2023)
Even the date of the survey is wrong (2022, not 2023)
Some of the information in this book excerpt is either distorted or flat out wrong.
According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...
According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Some of the information in this book excerpt is either distorted or flat out wrong.
According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...
According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...
Wouldn’t ‘one in, all in’ equally mean they all wear the jersey? Why do the jersey NIMBYS get the benefit of solidarity? www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360893...
‘One in, all in’: Breakers explain their decision not to wear pride insignia
Kiwi hoops club break their silence on their contentious decision not to embrace the NBL’s round promoting recognition for the LGBTQIA+ community
www.stuff.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Wouldn’t ‘one in, all in’ equally mean they all wear the jersey? Why do the jersey NIMBYS get the benefit of solidarity? www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360893...
This bloke just crashed into my house and keeps chanting ‘miss me yet? miss me yet’? He won’t leave
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This bloke just crashed into my house and keeps chanting ‘miss me yet? miss me yet’? He won’t leave
Story here: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Long neck, big journey: Kevin the giraffe sets off on road trip north
It’s not every day you get stuck behind a giraffe on the highway — Kevin’s heading north from Orana Wildlife Park, and this curious traveller might just poke his head out to say hello.
www.thepress.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Story here: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Couldn’t be more delighted to see this is how giraffes are transported
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Couldn’t be more delighted to see this is how giraffes are transported
Which makes it extra funny that Chris Lynch was moderating and responded to this by trying to protect someone who had paid him to make a video
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Which makes it extra funny that Chris Lynch was moderating and responded to this by trying to protect someone who had paid him to make a video
Perhaps it's appropriate - Brian Tamaki doesn't believe in free speech but he benefits greatly from it, so he is in some ways the ideal avatar of this issue, it would just be nice to see a tiny bit of push back.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Perhaps it's appropriate - Brian Tamaki doesn't believe in free speech but he benefits greatly from it, so he is in some ways the ideal avatar of this issue, it would just be nice to see a tiny bit of push back.
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
The campus of one private school in Christchurch is worth a quarter billion dollars - five times more than the city’s largest state school,which has been beset by problems with its buildings www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Two Christchurch schools own $400m in property
And one stands head and shoulders above all others with a property portfolio valued at $260m, making its campus one of the most valuable single properties in Christchurch.
www.thepress.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The campus of one private school in Christchurch is worth a quarter billion dollars - five times more than the city’s largest state school,which has been beset by problems with its buildings www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
It's a tough day for the many of us realising we are older than the mayor of New York.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's a tough day for the many of us realising we are older than the mayor of New York.
I don’t think RCR has much of an audience - and it’s a tedious interview that will convert no one - so I don’t think it matters. But it’s a window into the self-congratulatory rage baiting that has come to define VFF as it has lost issue salience.
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I don’t think RCR has much of an audience - and it’s a tedious interview that will convert no one - so I don’t think it matters. But it’s a window into the self-congratulatory rage baiting that has come to define VFF as it has lost issue salience.
In the midst of a measles outbreak Voices for Freedom has gleefully interviewed Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor behind the fraudulent study connecting the measles vaccine to autism.
November 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
In the midst of a measles outbreak Voices for Freedom has gleefully interviewed Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor behind the fraudulent study connecting the measles vaccine to autism.
Westpac New Zealand announces $1.2b profit www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Westpac profit rises by 13% to $1.2 billion
Westpac NZ’s CEO Catherine McGrath sees her pay package rise from A$1.79m last year, to A$3.5m this year, on the back of the bank’s substantial profit rise.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Westpac New Zealand announces $1.2b profit www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
The page on the March 15 terrorist attack boldly asks, what if the terrorist had a point? Great stuff.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The page on the March 15 terrorist attack boldly asks, what if the terrorist had a point? Great stuff.
The ACT party page is so rapturous that an economic contraction is cited as evidence of the party’s success. I don’t think ACT would want credit for that.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The ACT party page is so rapturous that an economic contraction is cited as evidence of the party’s success. I don’t think ACT would want credit for that.
This is how Grokipedia, the AI-generated Wikipedia without propaganda, describes New Zealand’s political parties.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is how Grokipedia, the AI-generated Wikipedia without propaganda, describes New Zealand’s political parties.
Real estate agent ‘Big Red’ Shefford is the new deputy mayor of the Selwyn District.
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Real estate agent ‘Big Red’ Shefford is the new deputy mayor of the Selwyn District.
Wellington continues its population slump - the city has fewer people now than it did in 2018, and had a net international migration loss of 1700 people in the last year. The Wellington region is likely to be overtaken by Waikato in the next couple of years.
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Wellington continues its population slump - the city has fewer people now than it did in 2018, and had a net international migration loss of 1700 people in the last year. The Wellington region is likely to be overtaken by Waikato in the next couple of years.
Population growth in the last year was the lowest since 2012 (outside of the Covid years). Mostly due to a sharp drop in net international migration, likely driven by people moving overseas www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
More Kiwis heading south as Canterbury keeps booming
While national population growth slowed sharply, Canterbury surged ahead on a southern tide.
www.thepress.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Population growth in the last year was the lowest since 2012 (outside of the Covid years). Mostly due to a sharp drop in net international migration, likely driven by people moving overseas www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
It's not a specifically RNZ problem, but they of all outlets should be trying to promote a more sophisticated news culture than this, in my (unsolicited) opinion.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It's not a specifically RNZ problem, but they of all outlets should be trying to promote a more sophisticated news culture than this, in my (unsolicited) opinion.
This happens in the opposite direction, too, so it's not even a left or right bias. It's just habit. And I rarely see it in overseas media: It just seems like a way to avoid seriously engaging with a substantive issue.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This happens in the opposite direction, too, so it's not even a left or right bias. It's just habit. And I rarely see it in overseas media: It just seems like a way to avoid seriously engaging with a substantive issue.
If I could change one thing about political reporting in New Zealand it would be the reflex to treat policy criticism from the political opposition as not only meaningful but the most important thing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I could change one thing about political reporting in New Zealand it would be the reflex to treat policy criticism from the political opposition as not only meaningful but the most important thing.