November 5, 2025

$20b milestone: Kiwi tech firms enjoy another boom year, but local jobs fall sharply – Tin200 report

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PLUS: Debate continues over how we define our tech sector.http://dlvr.it/TP5VhD

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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Arrowtown link to cricket's infamous underarm November 6, 2025
Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls an underarm ball to Brian McKechnie as keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar watch. Photo: File image Former New Zealand international cricket and rugby player Brian McKechnie will be reunited with the kit he wore during the infamous 1981 underarm incident against Australia.
World champions: Linwood hip hop crew's 'roller-coaster ride' to the top November 6, 2025
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'Potentially months' to clear Otago waterways after October storm November 6, 2025
An ORC contractor removes trees from Lovells Stream, northwest of Balclutha, following the wild winds on October 23. Photo Garry LaHood/ORC Clearing fallen trees from waterways across Otago could potentially take months after damaging storms hammered the South late last month.
Labour pledges free cervical screening for all November 6, 2025
Labour health spokesperson Dr Ayesha Verrall. Photo: RNZ Labour is promising to make cervical screening free for everyone, if elected next year, through its previously-announced Medicard scheme.
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Silver Ferns stoush: Inside an uneasy truce November 6, 2025
After 51 bruising days, Dame Noeline Taurua was reinstated as Silver Ferns coach and the sport appeared to move on. Yet the uneasy truce that brought her back is already under strain, with fresh legal exchanges and lingering mistrust hinting that the deeper issues inside New Zealand netball are far from resolved. Dana Johannsen reports.
Charity golf tournament's link to infamous underarm incident November 5, 2025
Dunedin pensioner who blacked out aided by Good Samaritan November 5, 2025
The crash happened in Kenmure Rd. Photo: Google Maps An injured pensioner was whisked away from his crashed car by a vigilant member of the public before an ambulance arrived.
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Southland state of emergency to end on Friday November 5, 2025
Trees bore the brunt of the wild winds including at Queens Park in Invercargill. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A state of emergency in Southland imposed after wild winds caused widespread damage is to end at 9.30am on Friday.

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