Aotearoa / New Zealand

How are you all enjoying your austerity regime?

Once again our current govt shows it's disdain for Maōri and te Tiriti.

Congratulations NZP you and your guns successfully escalated this situation to as bad as it could possibly get.

Apparently this happened three weeks ago and the news is just coming out now. Winston Peters as usual has no idea what is happening and is too busy licking Trump's boots to actually say or do anything.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/31693151

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/16990493

https://web.archive.org/web/20250708151808/https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials-2672869956

This sounds like something of an opportunity to me, if this is one of the worst places in the world for corrosion, perhaps the Chatham could be used to test building products to see how they perform?

Shargin Stephens was shot dead by a police officer in July 2016. Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod

Police tactics in the fatal shooting of Shargin Stephens showed a disregard for the right to life, according to a scathing coroner's report.

A probationary officer in "a heightened emotional state" pushed his way past experienced officers and got "unnecessarily and dangerously close" to Stephens, who was holding a slasher after smashing up a police car, and shot him twice with an M4 rifle.

Coroner Michael Robb ruled the death, in July 2016, was preventable and his 207-page report painted a picture of police chaos on the day, including a lack of leadership and a failure to de-escalate the situation.

The coroner said that, a decade on, it appeared police have learned little from the shooting, and the officers involved were defensive when questioned and still don't believe they did anything wrong. Police, though, say many of the changes recommended by Robb have already been implemented.

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I wonder how much it will be for push bikes...

Contact will match your donation to Women's Refuge: https://safenight.nz/products/gift-a-room

This recent RNZ podcast "The Detail" notes that half the people that work for Women's Refuge are volunteers. They are underfunded.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail/2025/the-hidden-epidemic-in-kiwi-homes-that-costs-the-country-billions

I enjoy taking walks and am pretty lucky that there a numerous parks nearby where I can take nice long stroll. All of them have trash bins at the parking lots which are convenient for poo bags, drink bottles, snack wrappers etc. The problem is that they are all full all the time because people use them to dump their personal garbage. I have even seen appliances and car seats and such sitting next to them. Of course the council empties them once a week but sure enough the next day they are full again.

Maybe I ought to be grateful because many people seem to just ignore the bins and throw their trash all over the park too.

I really wish they would put cameras or something to discourage this kind of thing.

/rant

A young girl was found in a suitcase in a bus luggage compartment this afternoon, and a woman has been charged with ill-treatment of a child.

Detective Inspector Simon Harrison said police were called at 12.50pm, after a passenger asked for access to the luggage compartment during a planned stop in Kaiwaka.

"The driver became concerned when he noticed the bag moving. When the driver opened the suitcase, they discovered the two-year-old girl." Harrison said the little girl was reported to be "very hot", but otherwise unharmed. She has been taken to hospital in a "minor" condition for an extensive medical assessment.

A 27-year-old woman was arrested and has been charged with ill-treatment/neglect of a child.

The quotes from the owner sound rather Sovereign Citizen to me, it seems we have a bit of that particular flavor of nuts here, unfortunately.

It sounds like a nightmare for the new owners.

Someone that I know mentioned that they haven't seen the 250g Peanut Block in the store for months now. They said it's nice to finally be free from their previous addiction to said blocks.

Anyone else notice these staples are missing from the shelves?

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Hey y'all, with the increasingly fucked up direction our govt and the world is going in I'm interested in joining in and showing my support and solidarity with groups standing against it. Does anyone know where to start? I've been apolitical left leaning for so long I have no idea where to start. Any help appreciated. (Tried to post direct to !wellington but couldn't).