October 19, 2025

Media Insider: Advertising industry shake-up – independent agency Bastion Shine poaches six key staff from VML

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 19, 2025

The move targets one of NZ’s best creative agencies ahead of several Government tenders.http://dlvr.it/TNmPzN

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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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ODT quiz: December 5 December 4, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Friday, December 5.
Wastewater options put at $44m to $203m December 4, 2025
Queenstown Lakes District Mayor John Glover. PHOTO: ODT FILES The most expensive option for disposing of wastewater from Queenstown’s troubled Shotover treatment plant could cost more than $200 million, councillors have been told.
Guy Williams
Doctorate ‘great honour’: Ellison December 4, 2025
Ōtākou kaumātua Edward Ellison. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN For a self-professed "humble old Otago Peninsula sheep farmer", being awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago is "quite extraordinary".
John Lewis
Christmas croquet with wonderland vibes December 4, 2025
PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH While there was a pink flamingo that could have been used as a croquet mallet, there were no curled-up hedgehogs to be used as balls during the Alice in Wonderland-themed croquet match at the Tainui Croquet Club yesterday.
Cafe to go in historic building December 4, 2025
An artist's impression of a proposed new cafe in a historic building on the corner of George and St Andrew Sts. IMAGE: SUPPLIED A historic building on the corner of Dunedin’s main drag could soon be transformed into a new cafe.
Tim Scott
Heavy track may aid Ladies Man’s cause December 4, 2025
Ladies Man will return to Trentham to defend his title in the TAB Mufhasa Classic tomorrow. PHOTO: PETER RUBERY/RACE IMAGES PALMERSTON NORTH Allan Sharrock is balancing stronger opposition against the prospect of a rain-affected track as he weighs up Ladies Man’s chances of going back-to-back in the TAB Mufhasa Classic tomorrow.
Your garden December 4, 2025
Tomatoes in the greenhouse. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES What to do in your garden this week.
Omission from process irks farmer December 4, 2025
A farmer who works on her husband’s family property — second-closest to the proposed Slopedown wind farm — is questioning why she has been left off the consultation list while others much further away have been included.
Gone but not forgotten December 4, 2025
The ongoing police conduct scandal claimed its biggest and least surprising victim on Tuesday with the resignation of former commissioner Andrew Coster from his role as chief executive of the Social Investment Agency.
Cartoonist’s view — Yeo December 4, 2025
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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October 19, 2025

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