November 22, 2025

Labubu futures and AI frenzy show capitalism’s weird new frontiers – Liam Dann

New Zealand Blog News Service Nov 22, 2025

OPINION: Nvidia’s latest result had market-watchers holding their breath.http://dlvr.it/TPQ11y

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

All Blacks wallop Wales to end year on high November 22, 2025
Winger Tom Rogers became the first Welshman to score a hat-trick of tries against the All Blacks, but his heroics were in vain as the visitors eased to a 52-26 victory.
ODT quiz: November 23 November 22, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Sunday, November 23.
Accent on local foods November 22, 2025
Alison Lambert. Photo: Simon Lambert Our Food Network Ōtepoti Dunedin is encouraging local people to make use of fresh, local produce in their Christmas preparations in its final event for the year.
Added support for reviving Mornington cable car November 22, 2025
Sharing a passion for rail history are Dunedin Heritage Light Rail Trust chairwoman Gina Browne (left) and Federation of Rail Organisations of New Zealand (Fronz) president Jeff Tollan, of Wellington. Photo: Sam Henderson Heritage dreamers hope vintage carriages could one day serve both sightseers and commuters.
Sam Henderson
Auction to aid children's creativity November 22, 2025
Showing their ceramic creations are (from left) Niko Dzikiewicz, 10, Annabel Slade, 10 and Griffin Holmes, 9. PHOTOS: SAM HENDERSON A range of beautiful pieces will help spark imagination in children.
Sam Henderson
Rare find ‘so exciting’ November 22, 2025
A rare pink grasshopper has been spotted in the Mackenzie Basin. PHOTO: DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Department of Conservation ranger Jen Schori says she could not believe her eyes as colleagues called her over during an annual grasshopper survey near Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Basin.
‘Red carpet experience’ November 22, 2025
The Silverscreen Soiree cast rehearse at the Weston Community Church. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Musical Theatre Oamaru (MTO) is bringing back old Hollywood glamour for its concert-style show Silverscreen Soiree — Songs from the Stage and Screen at the Scottish Hall next month.
Jules Chin
New species named after late professor November 22, 2025
Researcher Dr Seabourne Rust holds an artistic reconstruction of the newly described Eocene billfish Zealandorhynchus fordycei — a new species named after the late University of Otago geology professor Ewan Fordyce. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Ewan Fordyce’s legacy continues to grow.
Nic Duff
Entries due in for second pop-up show November 22, 2025
The second place-getter in the Puketapu Radio Pop Up art exhibition last year, Kristen Breet, then 12, with her painting (left) The Museum Across the Road, inspired by a painting in the Waihemo museum. Waikouaiti artists Reywa Brown and Graeme Rice placed first and third respectively. PHOTO: ZENOBIA SOUTHCOMBE The Puketapu Radio Pop Up show […]
Jules Chin
New chief executive named November 22, 2025
Bruce Muldrew. PHOTO: ALLIED MEDIA FILES Whitestone Contracting has named Bruce Muldrew as its new chief executive.

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