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Author: Karl du Fresne

OPINION: There was a striking synchronicity in the timing of two of the new year's first political pronouncements.

On January 13, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced that parents would in future be required to give written consent for their children to attend religious instruction classes.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/118953618/climate-change-teaching-as-dogmatic-as-religious-indoctrination
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Author: Dan Satherley & Emma Stanford

A new Kiwi study has found no matter how efficiently New Zealand produces meat, cutting back is still the best way to fight climate change. 

University of Otago researchers looked into the food industry's impact on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Senior author Alex MacMillan says they found no evidence that we are being much more sustainable than anyone else.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2020/01/schools-climate-change-resource-right-about-meat-study.html
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Well sorry but yuck... I would rather starve... and I don't give a fuck just because a celebrity is a vegan I am not, will not can not... You can shove that crap down someone else's throat because I won't eat it.

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Author: Vita Molyneux

A new interactive map shows how high sea levels could rise by the year 2050 - and the results are damning.

Independent research group Climate Central published the map on Tuesday. It compares the data of predicted sea rise levels against known land elevations across the world.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/alarming-new-map-shows-the-devastation-rising-sea-levels-could-cause-in-new-zealand.html
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 I call a bit of BS on this... more scaremongering... local sea levels have not really changed and it would have to rise another metre or so if not more for it to do what they say... they were saying the same thing 30 years ago... the boy that cried wolf.

I am not denying climate change but I am very skeptical how much man has caused and no matter what we do climate will change... I was warmer during the 1930's... just sayin.

 

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Author: Rob Stock

"78 countries worldwide have run the story. The latest was Costa Rica."

Andrew Barnes' four-day working week experiment in late 2018 at the legal services company he leads has made him famous globally.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118957804/the-world-cant-get-enough-of-new-zealand-fourday-working-week-entrepeneur
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 What job can I get where I am only productive 2.5 hrs a day... currently my productiveness for the company I work for is on average around 6 hours a day ... I am hired to work for 8, the other 2 would be classed as maintenance or cleaning or other minor jobs but not classed as productive.

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Author: Chris Morris

The development of Dunedin’s waterfront could deliver a major economic boost for the city, creating hundreds of new jobs and boosting tourist spending by $38 million a year, economic assessments have found.

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Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/harbour-development-would-return-millions-assessments-say
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The Philippines' Foreign Affairs Secretary has labelled New Zealand as "arguably the only consistently moral country in the international community", after meeting with National leader Simon Bridges. 

Teodoro Locsin Jr made international headlines in 2016 after tweeting, "I believe that the Drug Menace is so big it needs a FINAL SOLUTION like the Nazis adopted. That I believe. NO REHAB." He later apologised and removed the tweet, the BBC reported. 

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/philippines-foreign-affairs-secretary-calls-nz-only-consistently-moral-country
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Category: Defence
Author: Florence Kerr and Thomas Manch

A soldier charged with sharing military information that threatened New Zealand's security was leading a growing white nationalist movement.

The 27-year-old soldier, who has name suppression, was arrested in December at Linton Military Camp in circumstances that were shrouded in secrecy.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118952222/soldier-alleged-to-have-traded-military-information-was-leader-of-white-nationalist-group
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Author: RocketLAB
Rocket Lab's 11th Electron flight - Birds of a Feather - will launch a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The launch window is scheduled to open on 31 January NZDT and the mission will lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1.
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Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/missions/next-mission/
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  1. Chinese coronavirus spreads to US, potentially also Australia
  2. New Zealand is one of UK’s most important partners.
  3. New Zealand Secretary of Defense visits US and Canada
  4. Defence Force faces spending cuts to focus on 'wellbeing' of Kiwis

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