December 11, 2025

Media Insider: Air NZ sends flight safety video into holding pattern; RNZ faces shake-up at highest level; NBR v IRD stand-off heats up; The spicy battle for KFC account

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 11, 2025

IRD v NBR subscription stand-off heats up; KFC creative pitch: A spicy advertising battle.http://dlvr.it/TPmKwB

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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Officer shot in Bondi attack loses vision in one eye December 17, 2025
Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert was shot twice during the Bondi Beach attack. Photo: NSW Police A young police officer shot in the head during the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach has been promised he will have a job to return to, despite a severe eye injury.
Man carrying samurai sword in Auckland's Queen St arrested December 17, 2025
A man has been arrested in central Auckland for carrying a samurai sword, which some members of the public mistook for a gun.
Man tried to solicit sexual favours from teenagers, court hears December 17, 2025
Dunedin man accused of torching Southland home named in court December 17, 2025
The house on fire in Waikaia in February last year. Photos: NZ Police The identity of a man accused of a Waikaia arson can now be revealed.
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Christchurch man 'tried to solicit sexual favours from teen girls' December 17, 2025
Queenstown measles case has links across South December 17, 2025
A new measles case in Queenstown connected to more than 20 exposure events in the South is concerning health authorities.
'Million-dollar question': How's the weather looking for Christmas? December 17, 2025
Summer in Eastbourne, Wellington. Photo: RNZ Christmas Day celebrations may need to be inside for the parts of the country, as a forecaster says it may not come with the settled weather many of us are hoping for.
300 hours of work gone: Vandals destroy town's craft Christmas tree December 17, 2025
The handmade sustainable Christmas tree in central Featherston after it was destroyed. Photo: Supplied Vandals have destroyed a prominent Christmas tree in a Wairarapa town, casting a cloud over what should have been a time of celebration.
Disgraced former top cop Jevon McSkimming avoids jail over objectionable material December 17, 2025
One hurt as car and tractor collide in Oamaru December 17, 2025
Photo: Andrew Ashton One person was hurt when a car tangled with a tractor in Oamaru this afternoon.
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