Aotearoa / New Zealand

Back in my day toys were recalled for metabolising into drugs! Asbestos is no fun.

Six out of ten of the young people had ADHD either diagnosed or suspected. Three of those diagnosed were unmedicated. Other learning difficulties among the cohort also included auditory processing challenges for example.

What could possibly go wrong?

Duelling opinion pieces have been published this morning about the standoff between police and Stuff, after the news website posted police audio from the night fugitive dad Tom Phillips was shot dead. In a rare move, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has explained the fears police had over the radio communications being heard by the public; in response the website’s editor in chief has shot back outlining his rationale. RNZ is publishing both pieces in full below.

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Oct 24.

A consumer advocate says testing has revealed some children’s toys being sold by online shopping giant Temu are unsafe.

When structural inefficiencies prevent successive governments from effectively maintaining public infrastructure: a star is born.

Fonterra’s farmer shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the sale of the brands like Mainland and Anchor to a French company.

This is pretty interesting! I like the bits where they show the 1950s aerial view vs the present ones to show how the river changed.

Glad they are finally doing it and this should hopefully get much needed funding for our healthcare system. Whats shocking to me is that even with all the controversial bits taken out its still unpopular. I swear nz has the most hardheaded people out there.

Immigration New Zealand says 1000 people each week submit photos that have been filtered or airbrushed.

Australia and New Zealand have issued support for the Pacific Islands Forum after China called in Pacific ambassadors to complain about their decision to include Taiwan at the summit last month.

Measles cases have been breaking out around Aotearoa in recent months, with Health NZ’s public health medicine specialist Dr Sharon Sime warning there may be undetected cases circulating not linked to overseas travel.

This is the best option for New Zealand to achieve 100% renewable energy.

“McDonald’s is back for round two in Wānaka after strong community opposition scuppered its first bid to build a restaurant in the lakeside hotspot.”

An estimated 100,000 nurses, teachers and public sector staff walked off the job in New Zealand on Thursday to call on the government to better fund and resource public services, in one of the country’s largest ever strikes.

This “news” story kinda annoys me. Its in my opinion irresponsible to write a story glorifying a guy with 0 fighting ability and thinks hes Neo disarming a guy with a knife and saving the day.

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The meth explains a lot about the decision making in this story.

Landscape astro photographer, Tom Rae, has won the Royal Museums Greenwich Skyscapes Astronomy Photographer of the Year for a second time.

The breeding season for toroa - the northern royal albatross - has been the most successful on record at the Otago colony, the Department of Conservation says.

Indoor air pollution from New Zealand’s 523,000 wood burners was estimated to account for 446 hospital admissions for heart and lung problems, and 101 early deaths annually, in a country with a population of just over 5 million people. Breathing fumes from gas cooking indoors created more than 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and more than 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year.

Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s prime minister for much of the 1990s, has died aged 90.

“Taxpayers’ Union chief executive Jordan Williams said the results were “alarming”.

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

What an absolute coot. The idea that raw materials would be shipped to Germany, a boat manufactured from them, and then the boat received on the Chatham islands and buried, all without this being recorded, is absurd.

I think the most likely outcome of this is traffic chaos as everyone decides they’d rather park on the road than pay central city parking rates in the middle of nowhere.

Our Qobuzissime award is traditionally reserved for an artist’s first or second album—a debut statement that brings something fresh to the musical landscape. However, every so often, an album comes along that warrants bending the rules. Te Whare Tīwekaweka, Marlon Williams’ fourth solo album, is one such rare exception. This record, his first sung entirely in te reo Māori, is a stunning departure from his established sound, offering an intimate and profound exploration of identity, language, and connection.

I actually cycled this route a few weeks ago, I can see why people are upset. There has been a large number of vehicles come through that have absolutely chewed up the ground, in places there are multiple pathways formed as one has become impassable.

Are you a winner or a loser after the government did this to you.

“Mr Liquorland” hasn’t seen people show up on bicycles?

Yeah, same here in SEA since May. It just rained heavily even though it should be the dry season.

A gap in production in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle allowed Chinese canned peaches to get a perch in the market - now they’re undercutting the local offering and are here to stay.

Commuters stranded for more than three hours on a Wellington train were forced to improvise when nature called - using “travel johns”, or disposable toilet bags, handed out by staff.

Austerity measures tend to do this.

I think this shows that the government owning a vessel with offshore towing capability would be a huge benefit, not only to Wellington, but the entirety of NZ.

This is something I've wondered about ever since the second disappearance, and that's how Tom was allowed to have full custody of his children after defying a custody order. The police treating this as a "private family matter" until he robbed a bank is also absolutely rotten.