ERMA New Zealand news and events are now posted on the website as an RSS feed. RSS is file format for delivering summaries of regularly changing web content, such as website updates or media releases.
or 
to indicate a link to an RSS feed. Some will just have a text link
that says 'Syndicate'. The terms RSS, RDF, XML Feed may also sometimes
used.You can read RSS feeds using personal news reading software or through web based aggregators. A news reader, also known as an aggregator, is a program or a web site that automatically checks your list of feeds and lets you know what's new.
As an analogy, the aggregator acts like a customizable newspaper. You can pull a variety of content (RSS feeds) from a growing number of sources into one place, to be read however you choose. Sources include news media outlets (BBC, Reuters, New Zealand Herald and Stuff) in addition to non-news content providers.
An RSS 'feed' is a wrapper for pieces of regularly and sequentially-updated content, be they news articles, weblog posts, a series of photographs, and more. XML is the base technology it is built on.
Popular news readers at the moment are FeedDemon and SharpReader for Windows, NetNewsWire for Mac OS X, and Bloglines and Google Reader which are a platform-neutral, web-based news readers.
More technical information about the New Zealand Government RSS standard is available on the eGovernment website