Saturday, 28 June 2025

Chocka.NEWS News List - Page 22

MSD Pushes Ahead with Online Identity Check System Despite Privacy, Human Rights and Ethics Concerns

Radio New Zealand - 22 November 2022

thumbnail The government is banking on an online system for checking people’s identity despite persistent gaps around its implications for humans rights, ethics and Māori. Identity Check is being tested …

MSD Annual Report to Parliament Appears to be Full of Errors

Breaking Views Blog - 22 November 2022

thumbnail This is astounding news to me. Māori make up 17 percent of the population nationally but lower percentages in the South Island. For instance, at the last census only 9.4% of the Canterbury population …

Luxon Not Ruling Out NZ First as Coalition Partner

Radio New Zealand - 21 November 2022

thumbnail National Party leader Christopher Luxon is not ruling out working with New Zealand First, after Winston Peters said Labour could not be trusted. In a break with his usual approach, Peters has ruled …

World Cup Winning Black Ferns to be Celebrated in Parliament

Radio New Zealand - 21 November 2022

thumbnail An event to celebrate the Black Ferns Rugby World Cup win will be held at Parliament on Tuesday 13 December. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the event after today’s Cabinet meeting. It …

School and Learning Centre Lockdowns Lifted Following Reports of Gunshots Investigated

Stuff - 21 November 2022

thumbnail A school and at least one early learning centre in West Auckland were placed into “emergency lockdowns” on Monday morning following reports of gunshots nearby. Huapai District School and Oma Rapeti …

Lydia Ko Wins LPGA Player of the Year and Richest Prize in Women’s Golf

NZ Herald - 21 November 2022

thumbnail Lydia Ko never won more in one day than on Sunday in the CME Group Tour Championship, where she claimed the richest prize in women’s golf at US$2 million with a victory that allowed her to win LPGA …

Winston Peters Rules Out Working Labour

Stuff - 20 November 2022

thumbnail Winston Peters has ruled out working with the current Labour Party. Peters told the NZ Herald NZ First was “not going to go with the Labour Party, this present Labour Party crowd, because they can’t …

MIQ Moving to JNCTN, a Microsoft Hosted Online Digital ID System

Reclaim the Net - 18 November 2022

thumbnail The news of yet another example of the pandemic being used as what looks to the authorities like an excellent excuse to introduce some new form of digital IDs and advance the usage of such tools is …

Zelensky Invited to put on His Best Green T-Shirt and Address NZ Parliament

Radio New Zealand - 22 November 2022

thumbnail Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has been invited to address New Zealand’s Parliament. RNZ understands arrangements are being made for Zelensky to speak via video link to MPs. …

COVID Fearmongering Seems to be Ramping Up for the Holidays

Daily Telegraph NZ - 22 November 2022

The beating of the lockdown drums appears to be getting louder. Hopefully, we are wrong, and it is nothing more than summer waves beckoning us. But hope has not kept the advancing clouds at bay so …

Depsite Kiwis in Car and Emergency Hotels Refugees Begin Arriving in NZ as Part 10yr Deal to Resettle 150 Anually from Australia

Stuff - 21 November 2022

thumbnail The first refugees to come to New Zealand after spending years in offshore Australian detention camps have arrived. The group landed in Auckland on Tuesday afternoon, with the Government confirming …

PM Annouces Parliament to Consider Voting Age of 16

NZ Herald - 21 November 2022

Legislation will be drafted for Parliament to consider lowering the voting age to 16, PM Jacinda Ardern has announced. Responding to today’s Supreme Court’s decision, which declared the voting age …

Judition Activism at Supreme Court as Voting Age of 18 is Ruled Age Discrimination

Radio New Zealand - 21 November 2022

thumbnail After failing in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, the Make it 16 group took their case to the Supreme Court earlier this year. They argue that the voting laws are inconsistent with the Bill of …

3 Blokes Flipping an MX-5 for Movember

Stuff - 21 November 2022

thumbnail If you can’t grow a moustache for Movember, there are plenty of other ways to help out. It doesn’t even have to be during November. But this might be the first time we’ve seen someone selling a car …

Over 1000 People Have Stayed in Emergency Housing for Over a Year, Some Over Three Years

Newshub - 20 November 2022

Newshub can reveal the longest stay in emergency housing has now stretched over three years. It’s supposed to be a temporary solution, but new figures show more than 1000 people have now stayed …

Emergency Response at Auckland Airport for Engine Fire on Plane that Landed Safely

NZ Herald - 18 November 2022

thumbnail Fire and Emergency services responded to reports of an engine fire on a plane landing at Auckland Airport this afternoon. Captain David Morgan, Air New Zealand chief operational integrity and safety …

Good News! Your Car Wasn't Stolen if There was No Intent to Keep It

NZ Herald - 22 November 2022

thumbnail No car thefts have been recorded in Northland since June, due to an oddity in the law. This is because vehicles that are later recovered - which accounts for most that are taken - cannot be classified …

Hunt on for North Island Meteorite

Radio New Zealand - 21 November 2022

thumbnail An enormous fireball seen over the North Island during the weekend has astronomers scrambling to find the meteorite. Local meteor-tracking organisation Fireballs Aotearoa said the meteor was likely to …

Underwater Tongan Volcano Eruption Largest Ever Recorded

Radio New Zealand - 21 November 2022

thumbnail The eruption of an underwater Tongan volcano in January has been confirmed as the largest ever recorded. New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) led the …

Prison Population Down, Violent Crime Up

Scoop - 21 November 2022

thumbnail It should be no surprise that violent crime has increased when the prison population and rehabilitation services continue to decline, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simon O’Connor …

Green's Golriz Ghahraman Jumps on Supreme Court Ruling to Call for Lower/More Easily Bribed Voting Age

Scoop - 21 November 2022

The Green Party is calling on the Government to take immediate action to lower the voting age to 16. The Supreme Court today ruled that preventing 16 and 17-year-olds from voting is unjustified age …

Gisborne Man Viciously Attacked in Own Home by Group Demanding Alcohol

Newshub - 21 November 2022

thumbnail A man is in hospital after being attacked by a group of people in his own home on Saturday night, who demanded he give them alcohol. Gisborne Police are appealing for the public’s help after a group …

Govt Back Off its Planned Hate Speech Push Under the Human Rights Act Overall

Newshub - 19 November 2022

thumbnail After years of divisive policy debate, six proposals and thousands of submissions, the Government has finally released its new hate speech law proposal - making just one change to the Human Rights …

Two Thirds of Gang-led Drug Rehab 'Graduates' Admit Still Using Meth

Stuff - 18 November 2022

thumbnail controversial Mongrel Mob-run drug rehab programme has been running for more than year now still hasn’t had its effectiveness evaluated, which the Ministry of Justice says presents a “significant …