Anna Harcourt

Mar 16, 2024 | renews.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

Content warning: this story mentions physical, mental and sexual abuseAround a children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in care in New Zealand from 1950 to 2019. These are just two stories among the hundreds of thousands. There’s one memory Ihorangi Reweti-Peters (Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu) can’t get out of his head: trying to jump out of his school window when a social worker and police officer came to take him into care for the first time. He was 10 years old.

Mar 16, 2024 | 1news.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

Jan 29, 2024 | renews.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) will ban so-called “forever chemicals” in cosmetic products from the end of 2026. The chemicals are called PFAS, which stands for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and the term covers a group made up of thousands of synthetic chemicals that have a bond between carbon and fluorine. Studies have shown PFAS may be present in over half of all cosmetics.

Jan 8, 2024 | 1news.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

There are more important things going on in the world but this summer, Re: News Head of Content Anna Harcourt needs to share her opinion that jandals are the worst shoe. Here is just a small list of what makes jandals terrible:Blisters on the side of your foot and between your toes. And then the blister fills with sand and salt water and street dirt. They’re very easy to trip over while trying to walk or run during beach games.

Nov 16, 2023 | 1news.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

A new Talbot Mills poll shows 60% of New Zealanders agree the government should call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Only 12% disagreed that there should be a ceasefire. The remainder were either neutral or unsure. The poll was conducted by Talbot Mills, a research company often used in election polling. It was paid for by a group of Palestinian-New Zealand community members who crowdfunded to commission it.