June 29, 2021

NZX earns praise over creation of separate regulatory body

New Zealand Blog News Service Jun 29, 2021

Steps the stock exchange has taken to mitigate conflicts of interest and improve market surveillance have been commended.

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Arborgen, AMP in potential mergers, acquisitions

New Zealand Blog News Service Jun 29, 2021

Two new potential deals have emerged today – the small tree genetics company Arborgen, and the New Zealand…

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Data reveals NZ and Australian investors’ different priorities

New Zealand Blog News Service Jun 29, 2021

Australian retail investors have different priorities to New Zealanders when it comes to investing online, according to Sharesies…

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Businesses wary of policing mandatory QR scanning

New Zealand Blog News Service Jun 29, 2021

With the government considering compulsory QR code checkins, businesses seem sceptical about how it would be policed, saying…

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MotorCo Have Some Advice On Buying a Used Car

New Zealand Blog News Service Jun 29, 2021

BUSINESS If you are in the market for buying a used car, MotorCo have some advice for you,…

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
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Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
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Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
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Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
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NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
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Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
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Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
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National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
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Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
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Graft from cadaver caused rare condition March 27, 2026
A magnetic resonance image (MRI) shows the brain of a Dunedin Hospital patient who was recently diagnosed with iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (iCAA). PHOTO: SUPPLIED A patient given a dural graft from a cadaver at Dunedin Hospital as a child in the 1980s has recently been diagnosed as having iatrogenic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (iCAA).
John Lewis
Arsonist sought jail as motive for fires March 27, 2026
Dunedin Central Police Station. Photo: ODT files A serial firebug who set fire to Dunedin’s biggest police station said he did it to get back to jail.
Carys Trotter
Four nursing friends back together March 27, 2026
Retired nurses (from left) Anne Brown, Ruth Rivett-Cuthbert, Grace Milburn and Ngaire Lawrence celebrate being together for the first time in decades since graduating in 1963. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON Sixty-six years after they first met in Dunedin, four retired nurses finally had the opportunity to hang out together one more time.
Laine Priestley
Wastebusters supplies island with expertise on managing rubbish March 27, 2026
Reset director Garth Falconer (centre) presents his agency’s Waste Minimisation Plan, developed with Wanaka Wastebusters, to Aitutaki’s National Environment Service team. PHOTO: SUPPLIED If you have some rubbish in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? Wastebusters.
Ruairi O'Shea
Four companies in liquidation March 27, 2026
Photo: Getty Images Christchurch building consultancy company Three60degrees has gone into liquidation owing creditors and staff $570,000.
Dunedin business makes ‘now or never’ Melbourne move March 27, 2026
Jon Thom has opened an office of Dunedin-founded merchandise business Print Room in Melbourne. PHOTO: SUPPLIED It's a big year for Print Room.
Sally Rae
Bridge opened despite weekend theft, damage March 27, 2026
Contractors finish off the replacement Kakanui bridge which was opened earlier this week. PHOTO: NIC DUFF Despite a last-minute delay caused by ‘‘unthinking idiots’’, the new Kakanui Bridge opened this week.
Nic Duff
Assurances NZ unlikely to run short March 27, 2026
Not many hours go by these days without some sort of announcement on petrol and fuel stocks or alarm about the rising cost for Kiwis at the pump.
Cartoonist’s view — Yeo March 27, 2026
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
In living memory March 27, 2026
A crowd of about 2000 farmers and rural businessmen gathered at the South Otago A&P Society grounds inn Balclutha in March 1986 to show community unity in protesting government policies.

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June 29, 2021

NZX earns praise over creation of separate regulatory body

Arborgen, AMP in potential mergers, acquisitions

Data reveals NZ and Australian investors’ different priorities

Businesses wary of policing mandatory QR scanning

MotorCo Have Some Advice On Buying a Used Car

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