PoliticalCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand🇺🇸United States🇿🇦South Africa5d agoThe strange saga of New Zealand’s most controversial local news startup. In April, RNZ confirmed something that Central Otago local news startup Crux Media had been reporting for months . E.Coli levels in the Shotover River, near Queens town’s wastewater treatment plant, were four times higher than the safe swimmable levels.6.1/10·The Spinoff·Queens, New YorkPrimary Source ↗Details →
PoliticalUpdate🇳🇿New Zealand4d agoOf course the board is appointed ‘with purpose’, the deputy PM says in response. Recent commentary by David Seymour taking aim at RNZ hosts, management and governors crossed a line, says Jane Wrightson, a member of the RNZ board since 2021. His statements, she told the Spinoff, were “distasteful and unnecessary”, and she had taken personal offence.5.3/10·The SpinoffPrimary Source ↗Details →