Tim Jago appealed against both his convictions and sentence for indecent assaults. The Court of Appeal has upheld both. He argued that he should have got home detention. I am glad he failed, as ...

Every Saturday afternoon at 2:00pm Lucy stands in front of Britomart station protesting the Saturday pro-Hamas rally. Yesterday I went to shake her hand and then stayed with her for over two hours.

I'm in a first aid course most of the day, so won't be able to summarise any significant results until later afternoon. Feel free to use this thread to comment on results as they become known. What I' ...

Waatea News has an interview with Professor Lisa Te Morenga of the Health Coalition Aotearoa. Around four minutes into the interview: Interviewer: You're not advocating for temperance here are you, to ...

My name is LaWhore Vagistan, my preferred pronouns are “she” or “aunty.” I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a ...

Two recent Media Council decisions have been called out by media, with one labelled “a serious error” with “potentially wide reaching consequences”, and the other “alarming” and “potentially dangerous ...

Celebration - tinged with anxiousness - has broken out in parts of Israel and Gaza after the announcement of a ceasefire deal between the warring parties. Israel has begun implementing the ceasefire ...

To run a survey that doesn't even include as an option having teams based on sex, makes it clear that this is not a consultation, but an exercise in propaganda. The survey is about community level ...

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Governments of the left like to claim they are transformational, when they're not. The Ardern Government achieved so little it was the opposite. They used wellbeing as a slogan, and did a couple of ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters told a UN leaders' breakfast in New York that the world needs to face the "elephant in the room" on global emissions. Addressing the room this morning, Peters said, "We ...

At Patreon, exclusive poll results on how much sea level rise NZers think has occurred in the last 30 years. 1 in 10 thought it was 75 cms or more! There are large differences by age, and by party ...