Nearly three years after Baby Ru died from injuries Police said were not accidental, the case closes in on a sad milestone: three adults remain persons of interest, but still no one has been charged.
Reports of possible VPN restrictions show how quickly an under-16 social media ban can become a wider fight over digital ID, privacy and state control of the internet.
When the media treat speeding tickets and political associations as accountability stories, why are missing records before a major child vaccination decision largely ignored?
The Ministry of Health has provided a detailed list of ministers and officials who it says attended a key Vaccine Ministers meeting. But it also says the meeting was not minuted and no notes exist. Another agency denies that the meeting even happened.
Official records show wording about longer Pfizer dose intervals potentially reducing myocarditis risk was removed from public communications. They do not identify who requested it or why, leaving open the question of whether science or politics guided government decision-making around vaccine safety.
Stuff reported my conclusion, but not the reasoning behind it.
Digital driver licences, NZ Verify, Govt.nz, and online age verification are starting to form part of the same digital verification ecosystem.
OIA papers show the government treated digital driver licences as a major priority despite limited evidence New Zealanders were demanding them.
New OIA material says NIWA did no historic storm research on Hawke’s Bay as Cyclone Gabrielle approached, raising fresh questions about missed warnings, flawed risk assessment, and what ministers were told afterwards.
