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Return to Gore: If little Lachie didn’t drown, how did he die?

Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem.

Return to Gore: If little Lachie didn’t drown, how did he die?

Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem.

Return to Gore: If little Lachie didn’t drown, how did he die?

Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem.

Coming soon: Newsroom returns to Gore with new information that about the "drowning" of little Southland boy. 🎥 Watch in full now: https://bit.ly/LachieJonesColdCase

Trailer: Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem. Available Monday 6th March only on http://newsroom.co.nz

Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem. Available Monday 6th March only on http://newsroom.co.nz

New Zealand climate action is not meeting what is required - New report from CAP at COP27

On Thursday a barrage of carbon bombshells landed on Resilience Day. The first was from Climate Action Tracker, the authoritative group of science organisations that lives up to its name. They publish a Global Update report that gives a short paragraph on how each country is doing to live up to its climate obligations (alongside other in depth analysis.) This years review of New Zealand echos many of the same criticisms of previous years, highlighting our reliance on overseas offsets and our methane exemptions for the agriculture, livestock and waste. Rod Oram breaks down how New Zealand is failing, and what needs to change if we are going to meet our obligations. Read Rod Oram's full breakdown of Resilience Day at COP27: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/rod-oram-fossil-fuels-hijack-climate-summits-upbeat-resilience-theme

New UN report at COP27 outlines how major companies greenwash their emissions

"We must have zero tolerance for net-zero greenwashing. Using bogus ‘net-zero’ pledges to cover up massive fossil fuel expansion is reprehensible. It is rank deception. This toxic cover-up could push our world over the climate cliff." - New Zealand's Rod Carr, chair of the Climate Change Commission A new UN report lays out what companies, cities and provinces need to do to make genuine net zero claims. While there was a lot of good intention in this space, only a third of the largest listed companies have net zero commitments and half of those don't even have a plan to achieve them. Very few companies or local governments had pledges that met all of the requirements produced by the expert panel. Read the full story here: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/greenwashi...

New Zealand announces $20m for loss and damages from climate change | #cop27

New Zealand is now one of just a handful of countries offering climate reparations for the economic damage caused by global warming as the issue takes global prominence at #COP27 Read Marc Daalder's full analysis here: https://bit.ly/COP27day3

Feeling short on talking points ahead of your weekend? Newsroom's journalists share three stories that stood out this week.

“They were saying that hundreds of children possibly been abused. They were saying that this was the biggest thing ever in New Zealand." Watch now 🎞 Part two: Peter Ellis, the creche case & me: bit.ly/PeterEliisTheCrecheCaseandMePart2

In never-before-seen footage and interviews, Newsroom's new series takes you inside New Zealand’s most controversial child sex abuse case, when a kind of madness gripped Christchurch, resulting in a miscarriage of justice that would take 30 years to put right. 🎞 Watch part one now: bit.ly/PeterEliisTheCrecheCaseandMe

👀 Melanie Reid's latest exclusive interview - coming soon to newsroom.co.nz.

▶️ Ahead of an appeal of Peter Ellis's conviction, Melanie Reid revisits the infamous Creche Case with the mother of a key witness who recanted their allegations. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/3Mt1YnI

▶️ Melanie Reid revisits the Creche Case with the mother of the child who recanted her evidence against Ellis. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/3Mt1YnI

An investigation by the chief Ombudsman into a 'reverse uplift' at the centre of a 2020 Newsroom investigation has sparked a further review into all cases where children were removed from homes under that practice. Melanie Reid looks at what this means for families broken up by 7AA law change. Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/3uWgRcY

The new Ports of Auckland chair Jan Dawson says moving the port from downtown Auckland would be both logistically and environmentally problematic - and a decision that lies with Auckland Council. See highlights of her wide-ranging interview with Newsroom Pro editor Jonathan interview here: https://bit.ly/3FT9vKI