Author: RNZ

New Zealanders visiting relatives in China are now trapped in Wuhan as the city goes into lockdown over the deadly coronavirus.

At least 17 people are dead and more than 500 infected in China alone, as the virus spreads from Wuhan to other provinces and countries.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/more-chance-of-getting-measles-in-auckland-than-coronavirus-in-shenzen.html
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Author: NewsTalkZB

We got a big hint today from the PM about how she’s planning to play this election campaign - and that is to play the old ‘fake news’ card.

It’s the old Donald Trump trick right? If you’re under attack from the media or the opponents, just tell the voters they can’t be trusted, none of it’s true.

Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/video/perspective-with-heather-du-plessis-allan-will-labour-copy-donald-trump-when-it-comes-to-fake-news/
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Author: Karl du Fresne

OPINION: There was a striking synchronicity in the timing of two of the new year's first political pronouncements.

On January 13, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced that parents would in future be required to give written consent for their children to attend religious instruction classes.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/118953618/climate-change-teaching-as-dogmatic-as-religious-indoctrination
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Author: Dan Satherley & Emma Stanford

A new Kiwi study has found no matter how efficiently New Zealand produces meat, cutting back is still the best way to fight climate change. 

University of Otago researchers looked into the food industry's impact on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Senior author Alex MacMillan says they found no evidence that we are being much more sustainable than anyone else.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2020/01/schools-climate-change-resource-right-about-meat-study.html
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Well sorry but yuck... I would rather starve... and I don't give a fuck just because a celebrity is a vegan I am not, will not can not... You can shove that crap down someone else's throat because I won't eat it.

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Author: Vita Molyneux

A new interactive map shows how high sea levels could rise by the year 2050 - and the results are damning.

Independent research group Climate Central published the map on Tuesday. It compares the data of predicted sea rise levels against known land elevations across the world.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/alarming-new-map-shows-the-devastation-rising-sea-levels-could-cause-in-new-zealand.html
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 I call a bit of BS on this... more scaremongering... local sea levels have not really changed and it would have to rise another metre or so if not more for it to do what they say... they were saying the same thing 30 years ago... the boy that cried wolf.

I am not denying climate change but I am very skeptical how much man has caused and no matter what we do climate will change... I was warmer during the 1930's... just sayin.

 

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Author: Rob Stock

"78 countries worldwide have run the story. The latest was Costa Rica."

Andrew Barnes' four-day working week experiment in late 2018 at the legal services company he leads has made him famous globally.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118957804/the-world-cant-get-enough-of-new-zealand-fourday-working-week-entrepeneur
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 What job can I get where I am only productive 2.5 hrs a day... currently my productiveness for the company I work for is on average around 6 hours a day ... I am hired to work for 8, the other 2 would be classed as maintenance or cleaning or other minor jobs but not classed as productive.

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Author: Chris Morris

The development of Dunedin’s waterfront could deliver a major economic boost for the city, creating hundreds of new jobs and boosting tourist spending by $38 million a year, economic assessments have found.

Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/harbour-development-would-return-millions-assessments-say
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The Philippines' Foreign Affairs Secretary has labelled New Zealand as "arguably the only consistently moral country in the international community", after meeting with National leader Simon Bridges. 

Teodoro Locsin Jr made international headlines in 2016 after tweeting, "I believe that the Drug Menace is so big it needs a FINAL SOLUTION like the Nazis adopted. That I believe. NO REHAB." He later apologised and removed the tweet, the BBC reported

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/philippines-foreign-affairs-secretary-calls-nz-only-consistently-moral-country
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