May 2025

Employment law changes are a setback for NZ workers – Sasha Borissenko

New Zealand Blog News Service May 17, 2025

OPINION: The Government is waging war on employment rights.http://dlvr.it/TKqsV2

Pay equity ‘underhand move’ erodes democracy in NZ – Dellwyn Stuart

New Zealand Blog News Service May 16, 2025

The Government used urgency to change pay equity rules last week.http://dlvr.it/TKq2sy

On the Up: NZ e-learning firm Chameleon signs TikTok, ANZ, NRL

New Zealand Blog News Service May 15, 2025

Founder realises he has a blind spot – then corrects it.http://dlvr.it/TKntNz

Fishing company Sanford doubles half year profit to $34m

New Zealand Blog News Service May 14, 2025

The result comes off the back of good returns for Sanford’s salmon farming operation.http://dlvr.it/TKmk17

Why the Waitangi Tribunal ‘should be disestablished’ – Richard Prebble

New Zealand Blog News Service May 13, 2025

OPINION: Parliament needs to return to original purpose of Crown honouring promises.http://dlvr.it/TKlXJX

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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell

Lio-Willie back to bolster Otago August 14, 2025
Christian Lio-Willie is set to start against Wellington on Sunday. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN All Black Christian Lio-Willie returns from a week off and will pack down at the back of the scrum for Otago’s game against Wellington in the capital on Sunday.
Adrian Seconi
Disgraced Gore accountant's documents safe cracked after 30 years August 13, 2025
Rob ‘‘Caveman’’ McKenzie standing next to the now open safe of O’Connell and Co, which was left unopened for 30 years after the accountant was found to be cooking the books. Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg A safe unopened for three decades has been cracked open and hundreds of documents have been found inside — raising questions over […]
Gerrit Doppenberg
Sausages sold at Canterbury stores recalled after injury reported August 13, 2025
PNP Farms Butchery Angus beef sausages. Photo: Supplied / MPI A batch of sausages sold at two South Island branches of a butchery has been recalled because they may contain glass.
Sausages sold at South Island stores recalled after injury reported August 13, 2025
PNP Farms Butchery Angus beef sausages. Photo: Supplied / MPI A batch of sausages sold at two South Island branches of a butchery has been recalled because they may contain glass.
Nurses set to strike again in September August 13, 2025
Nurses on strike on Auckland's North Shore last month. Photo: RNZ Nurses are set to strike again across New Zealand - this time for two days.
Air travel chaos as typhoon slams Taiwan August 13, 2025
'Big shake' rocks lower North Island August 13, 2025
The lower east coast of the North Island has been rocked by a magnitude 4.8 earthquake this evening.
Teachers' decision to strike 'a political stunt' August 13, 2025
Public Service Minister Judith Collins (L) and Education Minister Erica Stanford speaking to media today. Photo: Screengrab/RNZ Public Service Minister Judith Collins has labelled a strike called by secondary school teachers a "political stunt".
From living in his car to job driving a truck August 13, 2025
Anthony "Tama" Poata with his daughter Te Atawhai, 1, at their home in Gore. PHOTO: ELLA SCOTT-FLEMING A man who struggled to keep a roof over his head in the North Island, and for a few weeks lived in Dolamore Park, has turned a corner with a new job with Alliance Group.
Ella Scott-Fleming
Mental health patient told to move to Dunedin after programme shuts down August 13, 2025

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May 2025

Employment law changes are a setback for NZ workers – Sasha Borissenko

Pay equity ‘underhand move’ erodes democracy in NZ – Dellwyn Stuart

On the Up: NZ e-learning firm Chameleon signs TikTok, ANZ, NRL

Fishing company Sanford doubles half year profit to $34m

Why the Waitangi Tribunal ‘should be disestablished’ – Richard Prebble

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