Новости за 04.06.2016

Welcome back to Sunday reading this long weekend.

We start this week with a borrowed slide explaining the way that the quality of your city’s Transit system controls the quality of your driving commute:

This explains what’s wrong with current expansion of SH16 and the completion of the Western Ring Route. The Transit part of this project is [...]

Tags: General Debate

RIP Muhammad Ali. He was and is The Greatest. The only other boxed who I think came close in terms of dominance was Mike Tyson at his peak. Tags: Muhammad Ali, RIP

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ Pacific Media Watch): The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) is most deeply disturbed by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that murdered journalists are “corrupt and biased”; he even went as far as to insinuate that it is just right to kill corrupt journalists.

News from NZ Police Police received numerous phone calls early this morning about the behaviour of youths congregating and driving cars in the Palmerston North area. At 1.20am, there was a serious crash between two vehicles on Railway Road. All Emergency Services responded including Fire and ambulance. Two of about 40 ‘boy racer’ type cars […]

Taranaki Police have begun a homicide investigation following the death of an Eltham man on Friday 3 June, 2016.

Headlines Few details given on what new government would look like but both insist they can offer voters a viable alternative to a National-led government

News from NZ Police The Westpac Stadium is this weekend hosting the Armageddon expo, a New Zealand owned commercial science fiction and comics convention. The event dubbed the ‘Wellington Geek Event’ sees many keen patrons dressing up in costumes which may include accessories such as weapons being carried and while they are fake, they look […]

Armageddon expo is a New Zealand owned commercial science fiction and comics convention held in New Zealand in various cities including Wellington.

As Australia welcomes back war dead from South East Asia, the New Zealand Government should hang its head in shame. “The Prime Minister is refusing to repatriate ‘the Malaysian 36’ who lie buried in graves dotted around Malaysia,” says Spokesperson ...

Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Member of Parliament for Northland 4 JUNE 2016 Northport ‘Au Naturel’ Alternative to Port of Auckland Northport is the only common sense alternative to Port of Auckland – and it’s an “au ...

Auckland mayoral candidate David Hay wrote to the Auckland Council CEO on 8 April to request that he consider prosecuting Victoria Crone for breaching the Election Signs Bylaw. In his email, Mr Hay referred to an article published in the NZ Herald ...

Relocating Auckland’s port is the best solution for meeting its growing demand for space while freeing up the city’s most valuable waterfront land for exciting residential and commercial opportunities as well as new public spaces, says Mayoral ...

Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion Dies after 32-year Battle with Parkinson’s Disease PHOENIX, AZ – “After a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer ...

James Shaw AGM speech – Change starts now Kia tau te rangimārie o te Rangi e tū nei o Papatūānuku e takoto nei o te Taiao e awhi nei ki runga i a tātou. Tīhei mauri ora! He mihi nui ki ngā mana whenua o tēnei takiwā, Ngāi Tahu, Tuahuriri, ...

Green Labour agreement makes change of Govt possible Green Party Co-leader James Shaw has told the Green Party AGM that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Labour Party signed this week increases the chances of changing the Government ...

I have accepted the invitation to speak to your conference out of a profound sense of responsibility.

The Herald reports: The first person in the country caught with graphic terrorist propaganda will be sentenced in an Auckland court this morning. Less than five months ago, Niroshan Nawarajan, 27, walked into Auckland’s US consulate wearing a black Isis T-shirt and asked if the building was “bomb proof”. He was arrested by police walking […]

Stuff reports: The SPCA and SAFE even struggled to get support from Labour at select committee with West Coast MP Damien O’Connor pointing out the injuries from rodeo were no different to those suffered on the rugby field. “My experience of the rodeo is that the calf ran off very happy and I ended up in […]

Stuff reports: Wellington might never solve its Basin Reserve traffic troubles, Finance Minister Bill English says – because it lacks a “progressive attitude”. He said the Government was spending plenty of money on big road projects north of Wellington, and would fund them in the capital too, if the city could agree on a plan. […]

From Jim Rose. They show Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I wonder what the overall sentiment in England is? My suspicion is that England will vote for Brexit but the other three countries will vote to remain, which will see remain win. Tags: EU