November 21, 2025

Log prices stay flat as weak China demand and ETS reforms hit confidence – Marcus Musson

New Zealand Blog News Service Nov 21, 2025

OPINION: NZU values plunged 20% after the Government signalled ETS reform.http://dlvr.it/TPPCyh

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 […]
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

New parking fees at tourist hotspots November 21, 2025
Parking at Aoraki/Mount Cook will cost $5 an hour from December, along with two other tourist destinations. Photo: SUPPLIED / DOC By Nic Durger of RNZ Explainer - Rolling up to some of New Zealand's most popular tourist attractions will soon become a little more expensive, as parking fees begin at some of Aotearoa's hot spots […]
Stokes leads fightback after Starc's record haul November 21, 2025
Australia trailed England by 49 runs on 123-9 at the end of an extraordinary opening day of the Ashes series in Perth, where bowlers had very much the upper hand and a remarkable 19 wickets fell.
Crash on Kaiapoi highway November 21, 2025
Emergency services attended a crash that blocked the southbound lane of a Canterbury highway for a time this morning.
ODT quiz: November 22 November 21, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Saturday, November 22.
Two beds, one bath, 2 million November 21, 2025
1 Suburb St, Queenstown, goes to auction today. PHOTO: SUPPLIED After almost 70 years in one family’s ownership, a central Queenstown lakefront property, ripe for an architectural masterpiece to be built on it, is up for auction — on-site — at noon today.
Philip Chandler
Panels bringing visits to Mary MacKillop Cottage alive November 21, 2025
Queenstown & District Historical Society member Denise Heckler cuts the ribbon to the refurbished Mary MacKillop Cottage in the grounds of St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Arrowtown as St Joseph’s parish priest Father Cipriano Fernandes looks on. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Visitors to one of Arrowtown’s special buildings are now receiving a more memorable experience.
Guy Williams
Empathy not on van Velden’s agenda November 21, 2025
If you are wanting understanding and some relatively swift and reasonable justice, the Beehive has possibly never been the first place you’d start looking.
Cartoonist’s view — Yeo November 21, 2025
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
Queen Mother dies November 21, 2025
The trout is always right and will decide how you should be fishing November 21, 2025
Most rivers and streams are down to summer level now.

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Log prices stay flat as weak China demand and ETS reforms hit confidence – Marcus Musson

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