Chris Lynch: Questions loom over Christchurch Call’s future as new foundation launches

The New Zealand Government may have replaced the Christchurch Call with the creation of a foundation, but questions remain about its relevancy.

In May, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced the new non-governmental organisation, designed “to coordinate the Christchurch Call’s work to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.”

David Farrar: Sensible compromise on Christchurch Call

Stuff reports:

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and French President Emmanuel Macron have announced a new non-governmental organisation, the Christchurch Call Foundation, to coordinate the Christchurch Call’s work to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

Cam Slater: Not Reading the Room, Christopher

Christopher Luxon is really bad at reading the room, and so it is with his announcement regarding the changes to the Christchurch Call: Jacinda Ardern’s vanity project that seeks to censor and tightly control social media.

Mike's Minute: I've found some more cost savings for the Government

Do you want some savings?

I have found a couple of hundred million for you then.

A report out has looked at who gets the Winter Energy Payment. It's a shedload of money that is yet again going to be doled out this month for the colder period, so oldies don’t freeze to death.

Simon O'Connor: Priorities?

$200k government jobs for some, while those on our frontline - such as police and nurses - struggle for pay rises.

The Reserve Bank has recently been advertising for a Principal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Adviser. As the title suggests, it is a full-on embrace of left-wing ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) philosophies and of course, a strong dose of the Treaty of Waitangi. How precisely this enhances the work of a bank is unclear, other than perhaps they are planning to disestablish this colonial service and distribute all funds equitably (I say this, tongue in cheek!). How much this will be paid is not clear, but I would suggest at least six figures and likely starting with a two.