#rnz — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rnz, aggregated by home.social.
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I made the mistake of listening to #RNZ Midday Report today.
The first story was David Seymour saying he was determined to end the allocation of spaces at #NZ Medical Schools for Māori and Polynesian medical students as these, according to Seymour, were giving an advantage to students due to their race. He managed to get a study done into the practice of increasing the number of Māori and Polynesian doctors to serve their communities under the coalition agreement but didn’t agree with its findings which support the practice.
He disagreed that a similar approach to offering places at medical school for rural students was the same thing as apparently it is not based on ethnicity.
The next story was David Seymour supporting MDMA treatment for victims of PTSD. I have no idea what the story after that was as I had switched off my radio by then. #NZPol
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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Another grilling for Quilae Wong and the Opportunity, this time from Mihingarangi Forbes;
A good interview for those who question whether Opportunity can really be described as "progressive".
#MihingarangiForbes #Mata #RNZ #podcasts #Opportunity #NZElection2026 #NZPolitics
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"There are recurring themes, the most dominant of these is probably reining in the overuse of Parliamentary Urgency, including skipping or curtailing the Select Committees process.
Ideas to curb urgency include automatic expiry dates for laws passed without full process, governments needing to convince the Speaker that urgency is necessary, and select committees undertaking post-hoc reviews of laws that bypass them."
#PhilSmith, 2025
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"China has the largest navy in the world."
#JudithCollins, Minister of Defence 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=bff71632-e2e7-4fb6-9482-9155d53aeb5e
You'd hope a defence minister would know, but that's news to me. When did China's navy outstrip the size of the US Navy?
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#JonathanAyling gives a fairly nuanced perspective on the free speech implications of calls to censure Prof Joanna Kidman, for her comments about the NatACTs' dopey Boot Camps.
In a nutshell, he says that as an academic her employer should be tireless in its defence of her freedom of expression. But in her role as a ministerial advisor, a non-partisan approach to public comment is called for;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018929074/free-speech-advocate-on-professors-social-media-posts(1/4)
#podcasts #RNZ #MorningReport #FreeSpeechUnion #FreedomOfExpression
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It's so frustrating listening to RNZ's tech commentator Peter Griffin talking about decentralized social media. At least the fediverse got a mention in this one. But he didn't get the key point across to the host, that you only need one account to talk to people on sites using the same protocol. When he described Mastodon it sounded like he was saying you need an account on each server. Also "the" NZ server...
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CW: fediverse media coverage
I searched the RNZ 'all programs' podcast feed today for coverage of the fediverse. I found this interview with Peter Griffin and Mastodon from 10 days ago (which already feels like a year ago ;)