April 18, 2025

NZ’s infrastructure crisis: Unlocking Crown assets for renewal – Roger Partridge

New Zealand Blog News Service Apr 18, 2025

OPINION: New Zealand faces a $210 billion infrastructure deficit with ageing systems.http://dlvr.it/TKFRgF

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. […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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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ODT quiz: December 21 December 20, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Sunday, December 21.
Festival to mark 50th anniversary December 20, 2025
Folk musician Jennifer Reid, of the United Kingdom. Photos: supplied Legendary Dunedin outdoor music festival, the Whare Flat Folk Festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary over the festive season, with four days of music, sun, camping and workshops.
Red Frogs ready to patrol party hotspots December 20, 2025
Helping young people have fun and stay safe at New Year parties are Red Frogs Dunedin co-ordinators Lewis and Liv Perry. PHOTO: SAM HENDERSON Friendly faces are once again getting ready to patrol party hotspots to protect revellers.
Sam Henderson
Plate cements friendship December 20, 2025
Jenny Dobson (left) hands over the Stay Inn friendship plate to her long-standing friend Rosemary Brook. PHOTO: SAM HENDERSON A ceramic traveller carrying a message of global connection has sealed a 45-year friendship in Dunedin after a 20,000km journey.
Sam Henderson
Retirement trending as five teachers leave December 20, 2025
Outgoing Waitaki Girls’ High School teachers (from left) Sandy Woock, Anne Bain, Pam Ambler, Helen Beckinsale and Jill Hinds all retired at the end of the school year. PHOTO: NIC DUFF A group of teachers with more than 130 years of combined experience walked out of Waitaki Girls’ High School for the final time last […]
Nic Duff
Waitaki District Council ends ‘tough’ year with $2.67m loss December 20, 2025
The Waitaki District Council headquarters in Oamaru's Thames St. PHOTO: ALLIED MEDIA FILES It has been a "tough year" financially for Waitaki District Council, finishing the 2025 with an unexpected $2.67million loss.
Andrew Ashton
Forces to combine for monthly get together December 20, 2025
Oamaru. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Members of the Oamaru Coastal Defence Group, also known as the Southern Gunners, along with RSA members and veterans will gather at the Phoenix Bar, formally The Galleon this Sunday at 2pm.
Jules Chin
Hail to the retiring beloved bus driver December 20, 2025
Darrell Poole outside Pearsons Coachlines in Oamaru. PHOTO: JULES CHIN Darrell Poole has stepped off the bus.
Jules Chin
Hopefuls get taste of rural work day December 20, 2025
Cameron Higgins and Haarlem van Delden mucking in on the farm. PHOTO: SUPPLIED More potential employers are urged to come foray after the success of a recent Mayors Taskforce for Jobs work-experience day.
‘Learning curve’ for new supermarket owners December 20, 2025
The new owners and operators of New World Wānaka, Christiena and Paul Joyce. PHOTO: EVIE SINCLAIR A family with over a decade of supermarket experience have started their newest adventure at Wānaka New World.
Evie Sinclair

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