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One of the greatest threads you will ever read. What a wild ride

“The most I worked was 40 to 50 hours in a school week. I work to support my family with bills and groceries.” - These are the stories NZ's record low-attendance rates don't tell. Multiple brave & resilient students shared their stories with us Q+A 1news.co.nz/2023/06/18/hig…

Man of faith, proud & loving Dad & husband, student leader, son of the Pacific & the South, total crack up when most needed, proudly political, seeker of justice, hard on issues but kind on people. So much of the best in one person - Arohanui Fa’anana Efeso Collins.

A simple way to honour Efeso Collins today would be to read his maiden speech. He gave it last week. As he says in it, E le tu fa'amauga se tagata. Vale Fa’anānā Efeso Collins parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-…

Just last week, Fa’anānā Efeso Collins said he wanted to inspire "the square pegs, the misfits, the forgotten, the unloved, the invisible-it's the dreamers who want more, expect more, are impatient for change, and have this uncanny ability to stretch us further." He did that.

So gutted for all my old colleagues - such a talented, caring, fun bunch of humans. Another terrible blow for NZ journalism

More than TVNZ 60 roles to go with 6pm news & current affairs threatened. Increasingly hard for free to air public broadcasters to survive commercially. Time to bite bullet & accept that as with BBC & Oz ABC, public broadcasting needs 2 be publicly funded? nzherald.co.nz/business/tvnz-…

New Zealand needs to take a long, hard look at what media landscape it wants for itself. The scrapping of key pillars in news and current affairs, like Newshub, like Sunday, is simply not a sustainable strategy. Devastating.

Many viewers might be taken aback by old favourite Fair Go being cancelled in TVNZ's cuts but ... the end of the last, best TV current affairs show Sunday is probably the most worrying - there are one-off digital video stories and docos but not with that regular reach and power.

Disgraceful that the premier #NZ Sunday night current affairs show is being canned by TVNZ along with the long running Fair Go consumer affairs programmme. Is this like serving up the Washington Monument for sacrifice hoping for rescue? How about management costs? Large building?

With Circuit gone and Sunday going, is that really it for long-form broadcast journalism?

What an absolute disaster for journalism. Unbelievable.

A healthy democracy relies on a healthy “fourth estate”. Today’s cuts at TVNZ hot in the heels of Newshub’s imminent demise are another hammer blow. It’s time for the government to show real leadership. Kiwi citizens need and deserve better than this.

Stuff Circuit - gone. Newshub - gone. Sunday - gone?! No way! It’s not ‘just about jobs.’ It’s about accountability, transparency, giving a voice to the diverse & voiceless. All who shout the loudest about ‘democracy’ - do something. This cannot happen.

Imagine being the person who was like, you know where we could save money? Disabled children’s swimming lessons nzherald.co.nz/nz/disability-…

Channelling all thoughts and prayers and, frankly, anger to friends and everyone at Sunday FairGoNZ Re: News and Newshub today. How is it the right response to this crisis to cut the very things we need the most, just because it's easier?nzherald.co.nz/business/tvnz-…

Sunday What a terrible decision. Local stories and Kiwi content are TVNZ's key points of difference, without it's just another streamer. Having a high profile show investigating and telling the tough tales that everyday New Zealanders come up against is critical.

My last email from Michael Mosley - when I worked on BBC Breakfast TV - starts: 'Hi Sarah, Not sure if you remember me, we have chatted a few times...' How could anyone forget him? Such a humble, kind man whose work changed so many lives. What a loss.

Never even liked tennis anyway.