#rnz — Public Fediverse posts

While I love that #National's ideological bias has crashed headfirst into reality, let's not forget that even the targets they've hit are bullshit:
Less people in emergency housing ≠ people housed, meeting climate targets ≠ doing enough about '#ClimateChange', less people taking up elective surgery ≠ a well run #HealthSystem

Jobseeker #s climbing, almost 80,000 over target | #RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1298748/pm-christopher-luxon-s-targets-jobseeker-numbers-climbing-almost-80-000-over-target
#nzpol

Radio New Zealand Features the November DXpedition to Fakaofo

https://swling.com/blog/2026/08/radio-new-zealand-features-the-november-dxpedition-to-fakaofo/

#DXpedition #Fakaofo #RNZ

This evening Radio NZ rebroadcast a 2016 interview between host Jessie Mulligan and sound archivist Sarah Johnston, about the only recording we have of what the extinct huia bird sounds like.

We lost the huia in the early 1900s, before recording equipment was available, but what we do have is a recording from the late 1940s of Hēnare Hāmana mimicking the calls of the male and female huia. Some North Island Māori were expert at making huia calls, used to lure the birds in to catch them (in part for their valued feathers). Hēnare had been part of a (failed) expedition into the Ruahine Ranges around 1900 to try and catch huia to bring them into captivity to try and prevent their extinction.

While RNZ doesn't have the interview on its website "due to copyright restrictions", the original recording by Hēnare Hāmana is available below on the website of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

It's sad but worth a listen. We came so close to still having these remarkable birds around.

https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stories/stories/sound/te-karanga-a-te-huia-the-call-of-the-huia/

#RNZ #huia #birds #BirdSong #extinction #nz

Tararua district caught between anniversary days

This is why in today's modern world we should do away with anniversary days and merge them into one day celebrated over all Aotearoa --- Let us call it Aotearoa day. What date would you put it on? I was thinking 27 December or May 1st.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/584433/tararua-district-caught-between-anniversary-days

#RNZ #NZ #PublicHolidays

Mögt Ihr Sagen und Geschichten?

Dann ist folgender Podcast über den Odenwald evtl. etwas für Euch:

Podcast: Sagenhafter Odenwald

#Sagen #Geschichten #Odenwald #Baden-Württemberg #Mythologie #RNZ #2025-08-17 @badenwuerttemberg

Strumpfhose härten

Manchmal findet man in der Regionalzeitung recht interessante Tipps. Ich kann mit dieser Fotostrecke wie man Strompfhosen härtet um sie vor Laufmaschen zu schützen zwar nichts anfangen, aber immer wieder schön solche Schmankerln zu finden. 😀

#Regionalzeitung #Strumpfhose #Laufmaschen #härten #Tippsandtricks #RNZ #2025-05-21

"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?

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #China #navy

Maybe we need a long term decision-making process for #infrastructure spending that isn't hostage to the shifting political winds?

What if any capital spending projected to span multiple governments needed a supermajority in Parliament? Or to pass a referendum at an election? Either way, politicians would be forced to take a nonpartisan, long term approach to planning, building and maintaining infrastructure.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=84797662-137a-49de-a8c6-42e15eb957b6

#podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #NZPolitics #PublicSpending

Hintergrund | RNZ: "Tax me now" - Heidelberger Millionär Peter Reese will endlich "mehr Steuern zahlen"