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Hi and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here is a collection of stories I found interesting over the week. Please add your links in the comments below.

UN Habitat III in Quito came to a close a couple weeks ago. Here Michael Kimmelman describes the [...]

Tags: General Debate

The Herald reports: Labour leader Andrew Little has proposed a tax on employers who rely on workers from overseas instead of training local workers saying it was a way to make sure businesses were “doing their bit”. The ‘training levy’ would be imposed on businesses in areas of skills shortages, such as chefs, construction, IT […]

Hamas Press Release The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Wednesday pledged to stay committed to the right of return and liberating all of Palestine. “Our right to the land of Palestine is sacred and cannot be erased by a void promise from one criminal to another,” Hamas said in a press statement on the 99th […]

Press Release – Philips Search and Rescue Trust The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter flew 12 missions in the last seven days. Sat 29 An afternoon mission to Levin for a woman in her 40s with a medical emergency. She was stabilised by St John paramedics before being airlifted to Wellington Hospital for specialist treatment. On […]

Stuff reports: Asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boat will never be allowed to enter the country under new laws, even if they are genuine refugees and seek to come as tourists decades later. Legislation to be introduced by Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will apply a lifetime ban to all adults detained at […]

The Financial Post reports: The Port of Hamilton seems like one sprawling, muddy construction site on a wet and windy day in late October. While a ship is loaded with grain at the Richardson International Ltd. terminal, trucks line up to have their loads of Ontario-grown wheat tested for quality. Next door, construction of a […]

Orion is working to fix the power outage which is affecting 1,604 customers in Lyttelton.

Green Party supports call for national Parihaka Day The Green Party is calling on the Government to establish a national Parihaka Day. The day would commemorate the extraordinary events of November 5 1881, when the Parihaka community practised passive ...

Following the resignation of Lucy Schwaner, the wife of the local National Party MP and Campaign Manager of the Vision & Voice (National Party front) Team, Jami-Lee Ross, from the Howick Local Board thus triggering a by-election the Botany Labour ...

Mt Roskill campaign officially launched National’s candidate for the Mt Roskill by-election Dr Parmjeet Parmar officially kicked off her campaign today at an event with Rt Hon John Key and over 100 supporters. Dr Parmar, currently a List MP based ...

Foreign Minister Murray McCully today welcomed the announcement that US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit new Zealand next week. “The upcoming visit by Secretary Kerry is a valuable opportunity to canvass the many positive developments in the ...

Police can now release the name of the woman who died in a fatal crash on Wednesday 2 November on SH5 at Te Pohue, between Napier and Taupo.

Hawke's Bay Police are seeking witnesses to a single vehicle crash on SH2 near the Te Hauke cemetery in Hastings last night

On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Andrew Little Youtube clips from the show are available here . Headlines: Leader Andrew Little has says the Labour Party is considering a proposal to levy businesses in industries with skills shortages, in order to train ...

On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Dakar Lanzino Youtube clips from the show are available here . Lisa Owen: Welcome back. Once again, Florida is shaping up to be a key battleground state in next week's American election. Part of what could help ...

On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Jackie Blue, Jan Logie, and Rachel Petero Youtube clips from the show are available here . Headlines: Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Jackie Blue has called on all political leaders to commit to a 50% quota ...

What stands out most about this year’s US presidential battle - the personalities? The scandals? The rollercoaster nature of the polls? The 57 presidential elections decided over 227 years have each had their own distinctive character. ANGELA REID begins a series this week on some of the drama.

The Press reported: French champagnes, $800 red wines, expensive cognac and 18-year-old whisky have all gone down the drain at the Christchurch Police Station. About $20,000 worth of confiscated booze was tipped out on Thursday, made up of 52 litres of spirits, 154 litres of wine and 137 litres of beer. Sergeant Jon Harris confiscated the 343 litres […]

538 reports: There’s been a potential breach of Hillary Clinton’s electoral firewall. And it’s come in New Hampshire, a state that we said a couple of weeks agocould be a good indicator of a Donald Trump comeback because of its large number of swing voters. Three new polls of New Hampshire released today showed a […]

Stuff reports: Green Party co-leaders Metiria Turei and James Shaw were invited onto the stage at the opening of Labour’s annual conference in Auckland in a symbolic sign of the closer cooperation between the two Left-leaning parties. Shaw was also invited to address the conference in a cameo speech on the first day of the three day conference. And Shaw was […]