Moving On: Flavell Leaves Māori Party TO Lead Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

The Māori Party congratulates Te Ururoa Flavell on his appointment as Kaiurungi - Chief Executive Officer of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and thanks him for his many years of service, support and aroha for the Māori Party, its kaupapa, and for communities across Aotearoa. More>>

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• Te Wananga o Aotearoa - Te Wānangao Aotearoa appoints Te Ururoa Flavell as new CEO

IPCA On 2016 Armed Offenders Response: 'Serious Failings' Put Officers At Risk

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that the tactical decision-making and control and command exercised by Police in response to shots fired near Kawerau on 9 March 2016 was highly flawed and placed Police officers at risk. More>>

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• NZ Police - Police response to IPCA report on Operation Pencarrow

Mental Health: National Offers Cross-Party Action

National is not prepared to let the Government park the mental health needs of Kiwis while it holds an inquiry, and has offered to work together to improve New Zealand’s mental health services both immediately and longer term, Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. More>>

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• Greens - Green Party welcomes National’s openness to cross-party talk
• NZ Association of Counsellors - Counsellors to play role in potential cross-party group

Extradited To Deportation: 'Justice Not Served' In Australia Muddle

A number of New Zealanders who have been extradited to Australia to face charges - only to be sent back here or put in immigration detention centres - is concerning, Justice Minister Andrew Little says. More>>

ASMS: Syphilis Deaths Highlight Need For Proper Resourcing

“The heart-wrenching news that babies have died from syphilis underscores yet again the importance of properly funding and resourcing essential health services... This should not be happening in a quality first-world public health care system like New Zealand’s.” More>>

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• Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - Health Minister at the crossroads - ACC medical advisors on strike today - More support needed for breastfeeding senior doctors
• Public Service Association - PSA supports striking ASMS members at ACC
• Joint Statement - NZNO & DHB Negotiations

'Don't Mess This Up': Youth Message On Zero Carbon Act

The young New Zealanders credited with driving momentum for a Zero Carbon Act have formally handed over their submission on the proposed law to MPs from the Labour, Green and National parties. More>>

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• Generation Zero - Generation Zero celebrates thousands of submissions to Bill
• RNZ - Carbon neutral goal reliant on electric cars - Govt
• Ora Taiao - Net zero emission targets should be legislated now
• LGNZ - Walking the same path on climate change adaptation strategy
• Environmental Defence Society - Ministers & National put their cases: EDS 2018 Conference
• NZ Energy and Environment Business Week - Study has implications for biodiversity/climate change policy
• Rail And Maritime Transport Union - Rail workers slam KiwiRail as “green-washing hypocrites”
• TIL Logistics - TIL Logistics Group Signatory to Climate Leaders Coalition

Geothermal: World-Leading Silica Extraction Project

Geo40, in cooperation with Contact Energy and the Ngati Tahu Tribal Lands Trust, is this month set to start commercially extracting silica from geothermal fluid as part of a world-leading sustainable energy partnership. More>>

Electrical Vehicles: New Database of Charging Stations

EVRoam, a real-time database of public charging infrastructure, provides one view of a safe, reliable and interoperable public charging network for electric vehicles in New Zealand. More>>

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• NZ Govt - Govt helping electric vehicle drivers to roam free
• Automobile Association - AA welcomes certainty for EV drivers with EVRoam launch
• ChargeNet - ChargeNet Help to Launch Game-Changing EV Software
• Image via Out-Link - EVRoam | NZ Transport Agency

FMA Mulls Legal Action: Customers Not Focus At Insurers

Most firms had processes in place to identify when a customer was being advised to replace life or health insurance... Generally, these processes seemed oriented towards reducing firms’ legal risk, rather than to identifying and mitigating risks for customers. More>>

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• Financial Services Council - FMA review sends important message to industry

Scoop 3.0: A Global Vision And Future Focus

Joseph Cederwall: This final piece in the series will outline exactly what Scoop plans to do about this crisis in the coming months, and how we think we, and you, can help. More>>

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• Joseph Cederwall - Ten reasons to have hope for a better Media in the future - Why The News Crisis Gives Us Hope
• Scoop Co-founder Alastair Thompson - The News Crisis & Once More Unto The Breach
• Scoop - Introducing Scoop Pro
• Emily Bell - The tech/editorial culture clash | Columbia Journalism Review
• Vanessa Baird - A better media is possible | New Internationalist

Scoop Turns 19: Once More Unto The Breach!

Alastair Thompson writes: While the fairer intellectual disciplines Science, the Arts and Academia continue to be generously funded by Government, philanthropists and billionaires alike, Journalism of the routine kind - which has for three centuries provided the information infrastructure upon which a pluralist democracy is based - is fast disappearing in a fog of fake news. So then, this is Scoop’s call to arms... More>>

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• Scoop Pro - Be a champion for open independent news & journalism in New Zealand.
• 10 June 1999 Alastair Thompson - !!!!!SCOOP IS BORN!!!!!

Lyndon Hood Satire: On Civility

Civility’s the prime virtue: it really can’t be beat / To fail to be pleasant is to court certain defeat. / I know that it requires restraint (they deal in hate, and fear) / But we shan’t get far – shall we? – if Civility’s not there! More>>

Gordon Campbell: On Family Separations, And Family Publicity

The images of family separations and children in cages along the US southwest border have been horrifying, and it came as no surprise that the rationale by US President Donald Trump’s for this policy has been so racist, and highly misleading. More>>

Binoy Kampmark: The Catholic Church In Resistance

Legislators troubled by the enduring force and fascination with the seal of the confessional have gotten busy, most notably in Australia. This was prompted, in no small part, by the findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. More>>

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• RNZ - Breaking confession seal may not help prevent abuse: bishops

Swing States: Gordon Campbell On Why The US Needs MMP

After the bizarre events this week in Helsinki, the world will be hoping and praying that the US midterm elections in November can put a restraining brake on the presidency of Donald Trump. This may happen, but there’s a highly undemocratic reason why such hopes may be frustrated. More>>

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• Earlier Gordon Campbell - Gordon Campbell on the White House romance with Russia
• Out-Link - NYT detail intelligence of Russian interference

Gordon Campbell: On The White House Romance With Russia

Tough on Europe over trade, at the G-7. Tough on Europe over defence, at NATO. And utterly smitten as usual by Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit. More>>

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• RNZ - Peters suspects Russia meddling in US election, awaits proof
• Binoy Kampmark - Helsinki Theatrics: Trump meets Putin
• US Senator John McCain - SASC Chairman John McCain On Trump-Putin Meeting
• The White House - Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Members of Congress - President Protecting Our Elections and Standing Up to Russia - Remarks by President Trump and President Niinistö of Finland
• US Department of Justice - Russian National Charged: Conspiracy to Act as Russian Agent - Grand Jury Indicts 12 Russian Intelligence Officers

Gordon Campbell: On This Week’s NATO Debacle

For someone routinely cast as a clown presiding over an administration in chaos, Donald Trump has been very consistent about his agenda, and remarkably successful in achieving it, in the short term at least. More>>

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• WTO - Russia initiates WTO dispute complaint against US duties
• David Swanson - Sweden’s Military Madness
• NZ Govt - Defence Minister in talks with top NATO officer

NZ Law Society: Rule Of Law Threatened In Nauru

“The recently enacted Administration of Justice Act 2018 is another clear sign of the deterioration of civil rights in Nauru,” the Law Society’s Rule of Law Committee convenor Austin Forbes QC says. More>>

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• RNZ - Nauru's ABC stance condemned by Pacific Freedom Forum

'Fixing' Family Separation: Executive Order Imprisons Families Indefinitely

Amnesty: President Trump signed an executive order today mandating for children to stay with their parents in detention while their asylum claims are processed. More>>

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• The White House - Executive Order: "Opportunity to Address Family Separation"
• NZ Govt - New Zealand welcomes US immigration policy change

Shakespeare's Brother: Pop-Up Globe's All-Male Cast 'Seems Bizarre'

The company announced its November shows, which include men-only performances of Richard III and The Taming of the Shrew, would highlight the abuse of power in a number of Shakespeare's plays. More>>

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• Pop-Up Globe - 'Heartfelt Apology': On the Auckland season announcement - Pop-up Globe Announces Most Controversial Season Yet - June Pop-up Globe Reveals Showstopper Sydney Location
• Out-Link - #notyourstoo: On the Pop-Up-Globe’s ‘Abuse of Power’ season | The Spinoff
• Out-Link - #MeToo-themed, but all-male? NZ Pop-up Globe's Shakespeare play draws backlash | Newshub
• Summer Shakespeare - Wellington Summer Shakespeare - Female-led Hamlet
• Ugly Shakespeare - Frailty, thy name is woman - All-female Taming of the Shrew

APRA Silver Scroll Awards: 2018 Top 20 Announced

Widely considered the most prestigious accolade in New Zealand music, the APRA Silver Scroll Award recognises outstanding achievement in the craft of songwriting, and the responsibility now falls to APRA’s almost 10,000 New Zealand members to choose the best song of 2018. More>>

Right Whale In The Wrong Place: Wellington Fireworks Postponed To Protect Whale

The Matariki Sky Show has been postponed till next weekend – Saturday 14 July primarily due to the presence of the southern right whale in Wellington Harbour. More>>

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• 12/7 Wellington City Council - If the whale’s gone, the fireworks are on
• The Wellington App - Photos: Right Whale, Or Weather, May Halt Saturday Fireworks
• Department of Conservation - Statement about the whale in Wellington Harbour and Matariki - Give the whale space
• NZ Police - Plea to Wellington whale watchers - be safe out there
• NIWA - Wellington’s whale may be a good sign, says NIWA
• Before Wellington City Council - Blazing Sky Show to light up Matariki
• Image March Greenpeace - Janet the 17m blue whale makes oil conference debut

11/11: Armistice Day Centenary Commemorations

A series of public events will be held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington, in addition to a series of activities designed to support communities across New Zealand to engage in the commemorations. More>>