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rel="bookmark">The Covid mystery deepens … or so we are told</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Accuracy is important for the BBC. Hence the straplines in <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cwz44pwvj4rt/wuhan">its reporting</a> yesterday on the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China:</p> <p><em>“</em><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59100114"><em>Covid origins may never be known – US intelligence</em></a><em>”</em></p> <p><em>“But US agencies say the virus, first identified in China, was not developed as a biological weapon.”</em></p> <p><em>“The office that oversees US spy agencies could not establish how the coronavirus pandemic began.”</em></p> <p>But the Financial Times thought the same material merited <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5e20cb73-78aa-4f7d-a5e1-c548261af8c8">a different angle</a>:</p> <p> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/the-covid-mystery-deepens-or-so-we-are-told/#more-12850" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“The Covid mystery deepens … or so we are told”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/xtrdnry/" title="Posts by xtrdnry" rel="author">xtrdnry</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/china/" rel="category tag">China</a>, <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/health/" rel="category tag">Health</a>, <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/science/" rel="category tag">Science</a>, <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/the-united-states/" rel="category tag">The United States</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/the-covid-mystery-deepens-or-so-we-are-told/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/the-covid-mystery-deepens-or-so-we-are-told/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-30T23:47:56+13:00">October 30, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">2 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12832" class="post-12832 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-culture category-europe category-government"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/history-with-many-zeros/" rel="bookmark">History with many zeros</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In some places they measure the past in millennia. In Athens, history emerges every time you dig a hole.</p> <p>This year Greece marks the 2,500<sup>th </sup>anniversary of the battle of Plataea.  <a href="https://www.namuseum.gr/en/temporary_exhibition/glorious-victories-between-myth-and-history/">Less celebrated</a> than the engagements a year earlier at Thermopylae and Salamis but more decisive in its outcome, it marks the end of the Persian attempt at dominance and the beginning of fifty immortal years for Athens, before the death of Pericles and the hubris of the Peloponnesian war.  </p> <p>The <a href="https://www.atticinscriptions.com/inscription/SEG/5144-ll-1-2">funerary dedication</a> to the Persian wars endures in marble fragments in the agora:</p> <p> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/history-with-many-zeros/#more-12832" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“History with many zeros”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/xtrdnry/" title="Posts by xtrdnry" rel="author">xtrdnry</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/culture/" rel="category tag">Culture</a>, <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/europe/" rel="category tag">Europe</a>, <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/government/" rel="category tag">Government</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/history-with-many-zeros/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/history-with-many-zeros/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-10-30T00:53:47+13:00">October 30, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-11-02T13:34:09+13:00">November 2, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">2 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12819" class="post-12819 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/what-must-be-embedded-to-modernise-our-research-and-science-system-the-treaty-of-course-and-dont-forget-matauranga-maori/" rel="bookmark">What must be embedded to modernise our research and science system? The treaty, of course (and don’t forget mātauranga Māori)</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h3>Latest from the Beehive</h3> <p>What had become a surge of ministerial announcements this time yesterday had turned into a tsunami at time of writing (around noon today). Frankly, we can’t keep up.</p> <p>We ended yesterday’s roundup of Beehive announcements with a statement on the PM’s virtual attendance at the East Asia Summit. Since then, ministers have posted 16 new statements. Several were Covid-related.</p> <p>This was a good time for a smart press secretary to unload news of dubious government spending, hoping it will be buried by the other stuff, including Grant Robertson’s latest boast about how well the government’s finances are being managed.</p> <p>Sure, core Crown expenses at $31 billion were $3.2 billion above forecast in the three months to the end of September – but, hey, that was all to do with Covid and the payment of wage subsidies and COVID-19 resurgence support payments.</p> <p>But how well is spending being keep under control?</p> <p>We wonder about this after Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti got to announce the news we were all bursting to hear – that Fifty Kiwi Kidsongs have been launched through the Ministry of Education’s <a href="https://artsonline.tki.org.nz/">Arts Online</a> website. The project is a collaboration with Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa (MENZA). <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/what-must-be-embedded-to-modernise-our-research-and-science-system-the-treaty-of-course-and-dont-forget-matauranga-maori/#more-12819" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“What must be embedded to modernise our research and science system? The treaty, of course (and don’t forget mātauranga Māori)”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/agsciencenz/" title="Posts by Bob Edlin" rel="author">Bob Edlin</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/what-must-be-embedded-to-modernise-our-research-and-science-system-the-treaty-of-course-and-dont-forget-matauranga-maori/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/what-must-be-embedded-to-modernise-our-research-and-science-system-the-treaty-of-course-and-dont-forget-matauranga-maori/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-29T13:14:00+13:00">October 29, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">6 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12809" class="post-12809 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-environment"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/nz-has-yet-to-announce-climate-warming-pledge-for-glasgow-summit-but-rbnz-is-developing-guidance-for-our-finance-sector/" rel="bookmark">NZ has yet to announce climate-warming pledge for Glasgow summit but RBNZ is developing guidance for our finance sector</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The clock is ticking on global warming, the <em>Dominion-Post</em> warned this week ahead of the Climate Change Summit in Glasgow. </p> <p>The opening paragraph of the report was ominous: </p> <p style="padding-left:40px;"><em>“Even after countries — excluding NZ — unveiled ambitious new pledges to cut emissions, it’s still not enough to achieve the global of 1.5 degrees Celsius of climate warming, a new report found.”</em></p> <p>The article points out that NZ has been notably absent from the burst of announcements that have been made, but suggests we may make our declaration in Glasgow.</p> <p>It argues that, as a small economy, NZ’s n<span style="font-size:revert;color:initial;">ationally determined contributions (NDCs) </span>will not sway the dial much.</p> <p>But Green co-leader James Shaw, who is representing NZ at the conference, may find anything he says is not greeted with applause. NZ, like Australia, is regarded as a laggard on climate change. <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/nz-has-yet-to-announce-climate-warming-pledge-for-glasgow-summit-but-rbnz-is-developing-guidance-for-our-finance-sector/#more-12809" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“NZ has yet to announce climate-warming pledge for Glasgow summit but RBNZ is developing guidance for our finance sector”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/tutere44/" title="Posts by tutere44" rel="author">tutere44</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/environment/" rel="category tag">Environment</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/nz-has-yet-to-announce-climate-warming-pledge-for-glasgow-summit-but-rbnz-is-developing-guidance-for-our-finance-sector/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/nz-has-yet-to-announce-climate-warming-pledge-for-glasgow-summit-but-rbnz-is-developing-guidance-for-our-finance-sector/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-28T14:06:25+13:00">October 28, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">3 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12799" class="post-12799 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-government"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/much-ado-about-water-a-bill-to-shake-up-the-health-system-and-an-investment-in-pot-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/" rel="bookmark">Much ado about water, a bill to shake up the health system and an investment in pot (strictly for medicinal purposes)</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p></p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="12803" data-permalink="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/loot/" data-orig-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg" data-orig-size="1134,894" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="loot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=1024" width="1024" height="807" class="wp-image-12803" src="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=1024" alt="" srcset="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=150 150w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=300 300w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg?w=768 768w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/loot.jpg 1134w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> <p> </p> <p>The PM was strutting the international stage (virtually), the Minister of Agriculture turned to pot, the Minister for Emergency Management was limbering up for a shake-up, and the Minister for the Environment was appointing people to speak for a river that (under our laws) is deemed to be a living entity. </p> <p>The Minister for Local Government – awash with confidence in her infallibility, it seems – declared her intent to force the Three Waters reforms on local authorities that have raised a raft of reasonable objections. The local authorities had better believe her. She has demonstrated in the past her flair for flushing aside the niceties of good legislative procedure.</p> <p>To counter any impression the government won’t listen to its citizens, on the other hand, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark announced public feedback is being sought on the regulatory safeguards required to ensure consumers and communities receive three waters services that meet their needs.</p> <p style="padding-left:40px;"><em>“The future three waters system needs to promote consumer interests and ensure infrastructure is delivered in a way that is efficient, affordable and resilient. To achieve this, the Government is considering whether economic and consumer protection regulation is needed, and how any new laws could be designed,” David Clark said</em></p> <p>Yep. It was a busy day in the Beehive. <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/much-ado-about-water-a-bill-to-shake-up-the-health-system-and-an-investment-in-pot-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/#more-12799" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“Much ado about water, a bill to shake up the health system and an investment in pot (strictly for medicinal purposes)”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/agsciencenz/" title="Posts by Bob Edlin" rel="author">Bob Edlin</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/government/" rel="category tag">Government</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/much-ado-about-water-a-bill-to-shake-up-the-health-system-and-an-investment-in-pot-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/much-ado-about-water-a-bill-to-shake-up-the-health-system-and-an-investment-in-pot-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-28T12:22:18+13:00">October 28, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">6 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12795" class="post-12795 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-foreign-affairs"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/australia-aims-to-stymie-china-with-us1-6bn-telecoms-purchase-in-the-pacific/" rel="bookmark">Australia aims to stymie China with $US1.6bn telecoms purchase in the Pacific</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Australia is to buy the mobile phone networks of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu from Digicel Group based in Jamaica. Telstra Corp, the country’s biggest telecom operator, will pay $US1.6 billion for the deal backed by $US1.3 billion from the Government’s export finance agency.</p> <p>Commentators describe this as a significant strategic move to block another potential buyer – China. Three years ago, Canberra announced it would build an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-way-huawei-australia-looks-to-cut-chinas-line-into-south-pacific-1524214738?mod=article_inline">undersea high-speed internet cable to the Solomon Islands</a>, shutting out China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from the project. Australia had earlier banned Huawei from involvement in its own 5G mobile network.</p> <p>The purchase sits alongside underwater cables Australia has with its Pacific partners.</p> <p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> quotes John Lee, a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, saying,</p> <p style="padding-left:40px;"><em>“It’s ensuring that a potential adversarial power doesn’t own infrastructure which would impact on not just Australia’s communications capabilities, but also its military capabilities. Underwater warfare is increasingly important and these cables are directly relevant to that.”</em> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/australia-aims-to-stymie-china-with-us1-6bn-telecoms-purchase-in-the-pacific/#more-12795" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“Australia aims to stymie China with $US1.6bn telecoms purchase in the Pacific”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/poonzteam5443/" title="Posts by poonzteam5443" rel="author">poonzteam5443</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/foreign-affairs/" rel="category tag">Foreign affairs</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/australia-aims-to-stymie-china-with-us1-6bn-telecoms-purchase-in-the-pacific/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/australia-aims-to-stymie-china-with-us1-6bn-telecoms-purchase-in-the-pacific/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-28T09:34:25+13:00">October 28, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">2 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12785" class="post-12785 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-local-government"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/opposition-to-three-waters-reforms-doesnt-wash-with-mahuta-council-and-the-public-should-just-pipe-down/" rel="bookmark">Opposition to Three Waters reforms doesn’t wash with Mahuta: councils and the public should just pipe down</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="12787" data-permalink="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/somme-copy11848/" data-orig-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg" data-orig-size="1134,893" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="somme-copy11848" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=1024" width="1024" height="806" src="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-12787" srcset="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=150 150w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=300 300w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg?w=768 768w, https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/somme-copy11848.jpg 1134w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> <p>National MP Nicola Willis – we trust – learned a wee bit more about the Government’s Three Waters reforms this morning than she learned from Finance Minister Grant Robertson<a href="https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20211026_20211026_12"> at Question Time in Parliament yesterday.</a></p> <p>Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta today confirmed her determination – and the Government’s – to over-ride widespread public disquiet and local authority objections. She will press ahead in establishing four publicly owned water entities to take over and look after our drinking, waste and storm water infrastructure.</p> <p style="padding-left:40px;"><em>“These reforms have been long signalled. In our manifesto we committed to tackling big issues that others have long neglected in order to future-proof New Zealand. We are taking action to ensure safe, clean water for all communities in New Zealand for generations to come, protecting households from ballooning costs, and better preparing for the compounding impacts of climate change,” Nanaia Mahuta said.</em></p> <p>Here’s hoping the water that flows from the taps in the restructured system is more palatable than the answer we got <a href="https://www.labour.ie/manifesto/">when we visited the Labour Party website</a> for whatever it had to say about water reform in its 2020 manifesto.</p> <p>We typed “water” into a search function box only to be advised: <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/opposition-to-three-waters-reforms-doesnt-wash-with-mahuta-council-and-the-public-should-just-pipe-down/#more-12785" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“Opposition to Three Waters reforms doesn’t wash with Mahuta: councils and the public should just pipe down”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/agsciencenz/" title="Posts by Bob Edlin" rel="author">Bob Edlin</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/local-government/" rel="category tag">Local government</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/opposition-to-three-waters-reforms-doesnt-wash-with-mahuta-council-and-the-public-should-just-pipe-down/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/opposition-to-three-waters-reforms-doesnt-wash-with-mahuta-council-and-the-public-should-just-pipe-down/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-10-27T14:38:33+13:00">October 27, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2021-10-27T14:39:55+13:00">October 27, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">5 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12779" class="post-12779 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-government"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/paul-hunt-brings-the-govt-to-heel-on-mandatory-vaccinations-dont-forget-the-treaty-and-our-human-rights-he-urges/" rel="bookmark">Paul Hunt brings the govt to heel on mandatory vaccinations – don’t forget the Treaty and our human rights, he urges</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <h3><strong>Latest from the Beehive</strong></h3> <p>Business responses to the Government’s announcement on vaccination requirements for workers were supportive. The Human Rights Commission response was more tentative.</p> <p>It welcomed the announcement but said human rights and Treaty of Waitangi considerations must be examined.</p> <p>Back in 1840 the examination of those treaty considerations would not have taken long. The treaty’s three articles can be read in a matter of minutes and none of those articles mentions vaccines.</p> <p>Nowadays the examination can be expected to take much longer, keeping a small army of academics, lawyers, social scientists and what-have-you engaged in earnest deliberations on the need to recognise concepts such as “partnership” and “treaty principles” that politicians and the courts have introduced in recent years.</p> <p>The government’s announcement essentially was that: <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/paul-hunt-brings-the-govt-to-heel-on-mandatory-vaccinations-dont-forget-the-treaty-and-our-human-rights-he-urges/#more-12779" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“Paul Hunt brings the govt to heel on mandatory vaccinations – don’t forget the Treaty and our human rights, he urges”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/agsciencenz/" title="Posts by Bob Edlin" rel="author">Bob Edlin</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/government/" rel="category tag">Government</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/paul-hunt-brings-the-govt-to-heel-on-mandatory-vaccinations-dont-forget-the-treaty-and-our-human-rights-he-urges/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/paul-hunt-brings-the-govt-to-heel-on-mandatory-vaccinations-dont-forget-the-treaty-and-our-human-rights-he-urges/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-27T12:05:08+13:00">October 27, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">4 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12772" class="post-12772 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-agriculture"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/a-fillip-for-farmers-from-fonterras-milk-payment-forecast/" rel="bookmark">A fillip for farmers from Fonterra’s milk-payment forecast</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In a timely boost to the rural regions, Fonterra has raised its forecast milk payment to farmers for this season to match its previous record high of 8.45kg/MS, as demand for dairy holds up while supply tightens.</p> <p>The giant co-operative lifted and narrowed its forecast farmgate milk price range for the 2021/22 season to between $7.90 and $8.90kg/MS <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125239805/fonterra-announces-record-opening-milk-price-for-next-season-on-strong-demand">from the initial $7.25 to $8.75 kgMS</a>.</p> <p>The midpoint of the range on which farmers are paid increased to $8.40 kg/MS, from $8 last season. That would match the previous record, paid in the 2013/14 season, and would result in almost $13bn flowing into regional New Zealand.</p> <p>The country is heading into its peak milk production period in late spring and <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/126589884/fonterra-could-pay-farmers-a-record-milk-price-this-season-westpac-says">output so far is below last season</a>, constrained by poor weather and limits on expansion. Milk production is also soft elsewhere, because of poor weather and high feed costs. <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/a-fillip-for-farmers-from-fonterras-milk-payment-forecast/#more-12772" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“A fillip for farmers from Fonterra’s milk-payment forecast”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/tutere44/" title="Posts by tutere44" rel="author">tutere44</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/agriculture/" rel="category tag">Agriculture</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/a-fillip-for-farmers-from-fonterras-milk-payment-forecast/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> <span class="published-on"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/a-fillip-for-farmers-from-fonterras-milk-payment-forecast/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-26T15:45:31+13:00">October 26, 2021</time></a> </span> <span class="word-count">2 Minutes</span> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-12762" class="post-12762 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-government"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/an-abc-of-science-from-megan-woods-but-you-might-need-a-translation-portends-reform-of-the-sector-to-lift-diversity/" rel="bookmark">An ABC of science from Megan Woods (but you might need a translation) portends reform of the sector to lift diversity</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p></p> <h3>Latest from the Beehive</h3> <p>A speech from Phil Twyford, speaking as Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth, can be found on the Beehive website today – for those of who relish that sort of thing.</p> <p>He reminded his Asia Forum audience he has specific responsibility for our trading relationships with Southeast Asia and the Pacific and he addressed them on “the work being done to support economic resilience in the Indo-Pacific” for New Zealand and our partners in the region. </p> <p> But <em>Point of Orde</em>r was drawn to two science-related announcements, one by Megan Woods, our Minister of Research, Science and Innovation, the other by her associate minister, Ayesha Verrall.</p> <p>Neither was intended (apparently) to be easily digested by the general public. </p> <p>Woods’ announcement was that the latest research, science and innovation system report card is now available, and outlines how the system is performing.</p> <p>Alas, she couldn’t resist using <del>anagrams</del> acronyms with which she presumably is familiar – but (we suspect) her audience might stumble. <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/an-abc-of-science-from-megan-woods-but-you-might-need-a-translation-portends-reform-of-the-sector-to-lift-diversity/#more-12762" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“An ABC of science from Megan Woods (but you might need a translation) portends reform of the sector to lift diversity”</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="byline"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/author/agsciencenz/" title="Posts by Bob Edlin" rel="author">Bob Edlin</a> </span> <span class="cat-links"> <a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/category/government/" rel="category tag">Government</a> </span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/an-abc-of-science-from-megan-woods-but-you-might-need-a-translation-portends-reform-of-the-sector-to-lift-diversity/#comments">3 Comments</a></span> 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