Scoop takes you virtually to yesterday’s street party in Wellington’s Courtenay Place for the Australasian Premiere of ”Lord of The Rings – The Two Towers”. Photos by David McLellan.
The Prime Minister may have flashed his butcher’s knife and laid down Ministers
Lee and Simmonds for his life this week, but the wider context strongly suggests
that he, like other New Zealand Prime Ministers before him, still has some way to ...
Those at X, and its executive, Elon Musk, begged to differ, choosing to restrict
general access to the graphic details of the video in Australia alone. Those outside
Australia, and those with a virtual private network (VPN), would be able to access ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be
granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines,
roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming ...
Platforms such as Meta and X engage in their own forms of censorship and information
curation, their agenda algorithmically driven towards noise, shock and indignation.
All the time, they continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism.
Public service cuts are being enacted without the coalition government having a clue
(or visible concern) about what the impact will be. The prior promise to go through
this stuff “ line by line” has gone out the window.
It is time for NATO to re-examine its 75-year-old legacy, and be courageous enough
to change directions altogether - instead of opting for a state of non-peace, actually
seeking real peace.