Make it 1000%!
OPINION: The appendage swinging contest between the US and China continues, with China hitting back with a new rate of 125% on the US, up from the 84% announced earlier.
OPINION: Your canine crusader is astounded at the sheer cojones of webbased media company Newsroom and its wont to cadge funding off others.
Not content with the $2,189,301 it got in taxpayer monies from the much maligned and highly controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (interestingly this is 10 times the amount of funding – at $219,000 – that the publishers of NZ Farmers Weekly sucked out of the PIJF) Newsroom has its hand out again.
It is now asking its readers for $20,000 so it can fly its inanely boring and sanctimonious ‘columnist’ Rod Oram to Dubai to cover the annual world climate talkfest COP28.
This old mutt can think of million things better to do with $20k than paying for this bicycle riding, pompous Pom delivering his ‘the end of the world is nigh’ sermons from the mount from Dubai.
Recent rain has offered respite for some from the ongoing drought.
New Zealand's TBfree programme has made great progress in reducing the impact of the disease on livestock herds, but there’s still a long way to go, according to Beef+Lamb NZ.
With much of the North Island experiencing drought this summer and climate change projected to bring drier and hotter conditions, securing New Zealand’s freshwater resilience is vital, according to state-owned GNS Science.
OPINION: Otago farmer and NZ First MP Mark Patterson is humble about the role that he’s played in mandating government agencies to use wool wherever possible in new and refurbished buildings.
For Wonky Box co-founder Angus Simms, the decision to open the service to those in rural areas is a personal one.
The golden age of orcharding in West Auckland was recently celebrated at the launch of a book which tells the story of its rise, then retreat in the face of industry change and urban expansion.
OPINION: The appendage swinging contest between the US and China continues, with China hitting back with a new rate of…
OPINION: The irony of President Trump’s tariff obsession is that the worst damage may be done to his own people.