What will #Aotearoa actually gain from this immigration reset that couldn’t have been achieved a lot faster by simply tweaking the old rules and system? Read Dileepa Fonseka's analysis here: bit.ly/3LayeeK

It's been a great year and half of learning, thankyou Stuff and all my wonderful colleagues!

A four seasons inspired meal, kale, radish and purple rice drizzled with miso and white venigar Tom Murdock

Pacific island horticulture workers are living in crowded, damp, freezing rooms and keep getting sick. But if they don’t work, they don’t get paid. One told me on Friday “we just want to go home.” Story here: stuff.co.nz/business/12949…

Two young women with similar complex disabilities. One has 24/7 care under ACC, the other has trained herself not to use the toilet when she is home alone. i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/1281…

FMHS Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow Dr Renee Liang is calling for greater funding and research into the health needs of Asian Kiwis, who have the lowest cervical and breast cancer screening rates of any ethnic population in Aotearoa. bit.ly/3A501es

Questions on absence of Asian New Zealanders in Te Whatu Ora Health's leadership rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

A huge congratulations to Chris Tse, who has just been named as the new New Zealand Poet Laureate!

Auckland rail disruption: More questions than answers in 2023 shutdowns @StuffAuckland stuff.co.nz/opinion/130074…

um so sorry for this extremely on brand tweet, but can we normalise drinking tea at the venue/ the club in Aotearoa? 🥺

So it seems the migrant exploitation visa doesn't apply to exploited migrants.... This is what happened to one set of migrants who decided to blow the whistle on migrant exploitation in 2018 to me & Steve Kilgallon. Excellently told by Steve in Stuff stuff.co.nz/national/crime…

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Leaked emails reveal Auckland mayor Wayne Brown trying to gag councillors amid flood response @StuffAuckland stuff.co.nz/national/polit…

Well it has launched. A new project to cover the stories of the growing Asian community, starting with a Chinese section in simplified script and IndoNZ for Indian New Zealanders. Out in the wild now...rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Finally some media news to get excited about!!! Congrats to BusinessDesk_NZ on this winner of an appointment🔥 More on Victoria Young taking over from the legendary @pjsmellie as the new Editor of BD below ⤵️

Went along to the Voyager Media Awards having been a judge, and ended up the surprised recipient of one of 3 Outstanding Achievement awards. Luckily made it back in time from a loo and gossip outing during a break. Just. Thanks all.

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New ministry paying staff average salary of $150k despite public sector job cuts rnz.co.nz/news/political…

We still get complaints about use of te reo Māori on TV/radio. It’s no breach of standards to use a national language & we no longer consider such complaints. Kua mutu i te BSA te tirotiro amuamu mō te reo Māori. See our 2021 statement in Māori & English: bit.ly/3z2HfXd

As always I recommend reading the article and supporting our beautiful dying media industry but this gives me a chance to once again bring up John Campbell's response to a question about objectivity from a few years ago