The only programme which can help people get fair treatment, & sometimes the final chance of being recompensed, & which has been used to get businesses to do the right thing by their customers is to be axed, despite being NZ's longest running programme.

And the only current affairs programme now running here, Sunday is also for the chop. It had been known to sometimes criticise politicians...


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5111...estructure



"During a 2021 interview with RNZ's Afternoons programme, original host and creator Brian Edwards said he was inspired by a BBC programme called That's Life.
"One particular segment was on consumers and I think that was the germ of the idea, that we could do a programme in New Zealand where we could look at protecting people right there in their normal daily lives from rip offs and scams by various people and it it just soared from the beginning. I mean, it was tremendous," Edwards said.
Well-known presenter Kevin Milne hosted the show for almost three decades, from 1983 to 2010.
"It was beautifully set up, really, and it didn't require any change as much and still hasn't, you know, 44 years later," he told Afternoons during the same interview.
"I remember that there was a good deal of cynicism in the early days from the newsroom journalists who thought that the because there was an element of entertainment on the show that you couldn't call it real journalism, which was nonsense because it ended up leading the way in terms of investigative journalism."
The show broke new ground, Milne said.
"It's hard to believe now that back then, at the time when Brian set up those programmes, most broadcasters never named names. I can remember now hearing news stories which could say a well-known department store in Lambton Quay appeared in court this morning. No mention [of name], and when Fair Go started up, it was decided it would name names."
Edwards said that was an "absolutely critical" aspect of the show."






https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/08/staff...y-fair-go/

"Up to 68 roles are on the line as part of wider cuts at TVNZ.
Half of the job losses were believed to be in the newsroom. Job losses were also being proposed with TVNZ's youth news service Re: and news video content producers.
Daily news bulletins, aside from 1News at Six, would be shelved under the plan.
TVNZ chief executive Jodi O'Donnell said the proposal to cut the programmes came from a need for the commercially-funded company to remain sustainable.
She told 1News she understood staff at the organisation were "angry". O'Donnell also addressed ongoing leaks to other media about the broadcaster's proposals.
TVNZ executive editor Phil O'Sullivan told 1News the shows being proposed for cancellation have been a "really important part of the fabric of New Zealand".
Fair Go executive producer Nicola Russell said her team was "devastated to learn today of the plan to axe the show".

Sounds like they had a hazmat team there on site, possible meth lab?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/35020618...t-building

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/statu...anguage%2F

For two  night over xmas, Luxon stayed in Premier house.


https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...5e3a&ei=12

Newshub's Jenna Lynch says the Prime Minister is facing a "massive perception problem" after it emerged he stayed two nights in Premier House over Christmas. 
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been very vocal about the fact he can't live in Premier House because it needs tens of millions of dollars of repairs. 
Heritage NZ has backed up the Prime Minister's claims saying the building is in a dishevelled state partly as a result of the multiple purposes it serves. 
But on Thursday morning Stuff revealed Luxon spent two nights at Premier House over Christmas last year. It was previously reported that he hosted his extended family for festive celebrations. 


This has led to questions about whether Premier House is really unlivable. 

The last Prime Minister to live there full time was Dame Jacinda Ardern and she brought up her baby daughter Neve there. 
Newshub Political Editor Jenna Lynch joined AM on Thursday morning and told the show Luxon's reasoning behind not living there doesn't add up. 

"The Prime Minister has been telling us that he doesn't want to live in this place because it is uninhabitable, because it is under construction, because it needs significant repair. However, it seems it was good enough to host his family Christmas there," Lynch told AM co-host Lloyd Burr. 


Luxon has also faced scrutiny for originally deciding to claim a $52,000-a-year allowance to live in his own mortgage-free apartment. 
Last Friday, he fiercely defended it, saying he was entitled to it as an MP who didn't usually live in Wellington. But the public backlash was so swift and strong that he climbed down within a couple of hours, acknowledging it was "becoming a distraction". 

Lynch told AM this whole saga has left the Prime Minister with a lot of questions to answer. 

"Christopher Luxon has a massive perception problem around this thing," she said. "

"If it's good enough for Jacinda Ardern and her toddler to live in, it was good enough for John Key to live in, it is not good enough for Christopher Luxon to live in and the question is why?" 
Newshub has previously asked to film inside Premier House to see how a proposed renovation budgeted at tens of millions of dollars was justified. 
But the Prime Minister refused to allow cameras inside, citing security concerns. "

Considering that rather a lot of them are about to lose their jobs I think they can be excused for being concerned.  I'm not keen on people being kicked when they're down, & while I agreed with his end of life bill, its becoming extremely difficult to find anything admirable about David Seymour these days


https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3502039...ournalists


"ACT leader David Seymour said journalists have been ÔÇÿcelebrating and dancing at every slipÔÇÖ a politician makes.

• He made the comments when asked about hundreds of people set to lose jobs at TVNZ and TV3.
  
• He told┬áStuff┬áthere had been ÔÇ£enormous self pityÔÇØ from the media sector.
  

Telephone problems
In my infinite wisdom, I decided to replace my Slingshot Modem and Netcomm Cloud Mesh with new ones bought through TradeMe (both brand new) I hate paying for something I could own. I had them both installed by a local technician from a computer shop. Every thing went fine for several days. Then yesterday evening the phone stopped working, giving off a sad disconnected tone. The modem is the same model as previously used. A Netcomm NF18 mesh and a Cloudmesh NS-01 being the Mesh. The old settings were transferred from the old modem to the new via a USB, with a few password changes. I rang Slingshot and was told that because it was not a Slingshot modem they could not access it to see what the problem might be. I was told the best they could do was make an alteration inside the connection box to route it differently to make it work. Is this correct and does it take several days to do this. My wife thinks I'm mad to wish to save $12 per month.

Royally screwed. The computer company said that if nothing had been altered by me, then they can't help. So I am stuck with a phone that does not work until someone at Slingshot, throws a switch. Is this true ?

Proof labour lied.

As you have said Lilith7:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-ri...ckle-down/

France has become the world's first country to guarantee the right to abortion to all women. Macron is of course hoping that women will now vote for his right wing party; its to be hoped that most will have more sense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68471568

"France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution.
Parliamentarians voted to revise the country's 1958 constitution to enshrine women's "guaranteed freedom" to abort.

The overwhelming 780-72 vote saw a standing ovation in the parliament in Versailles when the result was announced.
President Emmanuel Macron described the move as "French pride" that had sent a "universal message".
However anti-abortion groups have strongly criticised the change, as has the Vatican.

Abortion has been legal in France since 1975, but polls show around 85% of the public supported amending the constitution to protect the right to end a pregnancy.

And while several other countries include reproductive rights in their constitutions - France is the first to explicitly state that an abortion will be guaranteed.

It becomes the 25th amendment to modern France's founding document, and the first since 2008.

Following the vote, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was lit up in celebration, with the message: "My Body My Choice".
Before the vote, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told parliament that the right to abortion remained "in danger" and "at the mercy of decision makers".
"We're sending a message to all women: your body belongs to you and no one can decide for you," he added.

The move to enshrine abortion in the French constitution has been welcomed by many.
"This right (to abortion) has retreated in the United States. And so nothing authorised us to think that France was exempt from this risk," said Laura Slimani, from the Fondation des Femmes rights group".

But apparently Trump was the bad guy for preventing this.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ility.html

https://twitter.com/_BlakeHabyan/status/...0478464084