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Court grapples with Newsroom's banned story
WEBOct 20, 2023 · Legal. Court grapples with Newsroom's banned story. Crown lawyers endure strong questioning from a panel of judges as Newsroom goes to court to overturn a ban on a video investigation into Oranga Tamariki. Tim Murphy reports. by Tim Murphy 20/10/202317/11/2023. Children were taken from their 'forever home' …
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WEBIndependence. Newsroom is fiercely independent. Founded by journalists and run by journalists. Our ownership structure is simple, without complexity or agenda. When we are reporting on controversial issues, we look for balance and a variety of voices. Our columnists and opinion writers are from across the political spectrum.
Charting New Zealand's vaccine rollout - Newsroom
WEBDec 1, 2021 · Newsroom presents a weekly dashboard of everything you need to know about our country’s vaccine rollout. The key numbers. Cabinet has only authorised one Covid-19 vaccine for use in New Zealand - the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Two other vaccines, the Janssen and AstraZeneca/Oxford University jabs, have been approved by the medicines regulator ...
Lockdowns scrapped, but seven-day isolation to stay - Newsroom
WEBOct 17, 2022 · Analysis: Seven-day isolation periods, free rapid tests, financial support for isolating people who cannot work from home and masks in healthcare settings will all remain requirements after the epidemic notice expires on Thursday, Chris Hipkins has announced. Newsroom first reported that no changes would be made to settings on Tuesday morning. These are the final handful of Covid-19 measures ...
Bloomfield sees some restrictions for three to five years - Newsroom
WEBMay 27, 2021 · In a wide-ranging interview and the first in a two-part series with Newsroom about the future of the pandemic and preparing for the next global health threat, Ashley Bloomfield warns a level of baseline measures must continue around gatherings, scanning, contact tracing and isolation and testing, to help reduce the …
Bloomfield on testing problems: 'Things took off quickly'
WEBMar 2, 2022 · “We did see – and I don’t know if any of us had a false sense of security – but the case numbers were at what looked like quite manageable levels, we hadn’t even got above the peak of the Delta outbreak, but when things took …
A Newsroom is born
WEBNov 20, 2021 · Media. A Newsroom is born. The Newsroom you are reading turns five-years-old next March. But Newsroom.co.nz actually turns 25 today, the day the url was registered and it began as a pioneer in internet news distribution in NZ. The founder of founders, Peter Fowler, explains. by Peter Fowler 20/11/202129/01/2024.
A wake-up call for Aotearoa as global instability grows
WEBDec 15, 2021 · The implication, of course, is that China may look to establish a base somewhere in the South Pacific in the coming years. This relates directly to the second major global issue: the outbreak of Great Power competition. Edit Sign between the US (including its allies and partners) and China in the Indo-Pacific. The recent announcement of Aukus – a new trilateral security pact between ...
What's behind NZ's slow vaccine rollout?
WEBAug 4, 2021 · COMMENT: It’s been difficult to get criticism of the Government’s vaccine rollout to stick. While the Opposition and other critics of the rollout have scored a couple of hits on the Government, they looked across the ditch with some level of envy in July as Scott Morrison apologised for the slow pace of Australia’s programme.