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Black Power member Denis OReilly talks about what went wrong with the CART meth programme. A $1m scheme to get gangsters off meth collapsed amid internal dissent over treatment methods, staff turnover and concerns that few people were being helped. Tony Wall reports. In February 2018, Florence Leota​, a senior advisor in the Ministry of Healths addictions treatment team, emailed her boss, group manager for addiction Richard Taylor, over concerns about a programme to get predominantly Black P...

Audrey Young: US President Joe Biden an inspiration for political has-beens 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read OPINION: Sleepy Joe Biden, as Donald Trump malignly called him, is a wake-up call to apparent has-beens in politics everywhere. And its a lesson to those of us who are quick to write off politicians as failures. Successful leaders are sometimes made from unlikely circumstances. Bidens career looked to be over six years ago when he had nearly finished his term as ...

Taxpayers $500k for meth treatment goes up in smoke Newsroom 22/01/2021 © Provided by Newsroom A government contract for a P rehab programme was canned after half a million dollars of taxpayer money was given out. Aaron Smale investigates. The Ministry of Health spent over half a million dollars on a P Rehab contract before pulling the pin because there were no results or progress reports. The programme ended up being run by a community trust set up to help the marginalised, including gangs...

Colin James: Beyond Jacinda, a generation hungry for change 25 minutes to read By: Colin James Will the "transformation" promised by Jacinda Ardern in her first term as PM be delivered or will a new generation force change as the boomers once did? An essay by Colin James. To talk about what lies "beyond Jacinda" is not to say the Prime Minister is transitory. Jacinda Ardern has demonstrated the requisite skills and resilience to see through this second term and, if she wants,...

Rodney Hide suggested in the Herald this morning that if James Shaw was leader of the Greens there would be a greater chance they could go into coalition with National.  James Shaw does not think so. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:44 am, February 15th, 2015 - 69 comments The John Key led National Government is showing signs of third termitis.  Symptoms are...

Jinyue Yang who is acting as advocate for convicted meth smuggler Guowei Deng. He was convicted in New Zealand’s biggest-ever meth trial. But after 13 years in prison, exhaustive attempts at clearing his name and a return to China, Guowei Deng says he lives to prove his innocence. Steve Kilgallon and Lucy Xia report. For Guowei Deng, jail was a particularly solitary experience. For years, he believes he was the only Chinese inmate at Paremoremo, the high-security prison near Auckland. The on...

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement with Meridian Energy that will enable the Tiwai Point smelter to continue producing some of the lowest carbon aluminium in the world," Rio Tinto Aluminium chief executive Alf Barrios said. The facility at the Tiwai Peninsula, across the harbour from Bluff in Southland, is New Zealands only aluminium smelter. Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect Government subsidies over the years, including a $30 million bailout un...

Tiwai Point smelter to stay open as Meridian Energy reaches deal with Rio Tinto Newshub 13/01/2021 Mark Quinlivan © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty Watch: Meridian Energy reached an agreement to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open. Meridian Energy has reached a four-year agreement to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open, with multinational mining giant Rio Tinto saying the operation will be "economically viable and competitive". Rio Tinto released a statement ...

Letters: Restrict growth, beach pollution, Americas Cup vessels and Whangamatā teenagers 11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf NZ Herald Stable population It is time to re-think the notion that we can improve our well being as a nation by aggressively growing our ...

Summer reads: A pandemic and an election 4 minutes to read NZ Herald The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Today we take a look at some of the best politics stories from the past 12 months. The secrets of PMs Covid-19 response There is a large whiteboard in Prime Minister Jacinda Arderns office, almost completely covered with tiny numbers in rows. It was visible in the background for a Zoom interview by the Herald with the PM until a...