NZ Herald | 23 June 2016 INTERACTIVE: The numbers that will make you think twice about immigration. Explore the patterns behind recent migration trends and see migration data for every country since 1979. See interactive data presentation Asia is dominating permanent and long term migration to New Zealand — but many are arriving as students…
The NZ Climate Science Coalition | 24 April 2016 “The Royal Society of New Zealand has released a study claiming that, in the next hundred years, New Zealand sea level will surely rise by 0.3m and 1m is possible. It strongly recommends that we should be taking action now to deal with this. The Royal…
The Spinoff | 4 June 2016 The New Zealand Government has agreed to formally investigate why taxpayer funded weather data is currently being blocked for open use – and what data could be freed up in the future. It’s long overdue, writes Philip Duncan. I set up WeatherWatch.co.nz in 2005 when I worked for the…
Foreign Policy | 24 May 2016 Helen Clark, the U.N.’s development czar, has emerged as a front-runner in the race for U.N. secretary-general, inspiring international hopes that a powerful woman could lead the world’s preeminent diplomatic organization for the first time. Back home in New Zealand, where Clark served as prime minister from December 1999…
NZ Herald | 21 May 2016 The boom in iPads and other technologies used in the classroom makes little difference to children’s achievement in their primary years, a new study says. The study compared two classes of 8-year-old children – one with digital devices and the other tech-free. It found tests of literacy comprehension at…
NZ Herald | 12 May 2016 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2RqtAVqI8&w=640&h=360] Is there anyone out there? If you get the feeling we’re not alone you could well be right, if the latest list of reported UFO sightings is anything to go by. Over the past six years, 10 unexplained sightings have been recorded by authorities. There’s no close…
RNZ | 10 May 2016 ANALYSIS – If, as analysts say, moves in media boardrooms in Australia could eventually lead to a merger of New Zealand’s two biggest news publishers, what would it mean for us? The rumour mill began to turn yesterday when The Australian newspaper reported Sydney-based APN News & Media would announce…
NZ Herald | 10 May 2016 New claims that Portuguese and Spanish explorers discovered New Zealand a century before Abel Tasman sighted “a large land, uplifted high” have today been rubbished by a Kiwi historian. Dubai-based New Zealand historian Winston Cowie has claimed in a new book, added to a list of key sources on…
RNZ | 9 May 2016 EXCLUSIVE – Panama Papers NZ – New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of secretive shelf companies and obscure trusts being used by well-heeled South Americans to organise their private wealth, business affairs, and channel their funds around the world. The extent of this country’s involvement in…