How Radio NZ gets their “news”
Radio NZ and John Campbell ran a story on Friday about school pools:
An Auckland school says it has to dip into its capital funding to maintain its school pool.
The Ministry of Education said about 60 percent of New Zealand schools had pools.
Ministry associate deputy secretary for early learning and student achievement Pauline Cleaver said those 1300 schools got extra funding as part of their annual property maintenance grant. Schools could use their capital funding to maintain their pools.
Glen Innes School principal Jono Hendricks said the extra money was nowhere near the $8000 to $10,000 annual costs.
His decile one school had not received any pool-specific funding since 2015. It was struggling to keep the facility open. Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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