December 13, 2025

Surviving in ‘25: Was the year really as bad as it felt? – Liam Dann

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 13, 2025

OPINION: It ain’t over yet… Liam Dann tempts fate with his year in review.http://dlvr.it/TPpCP1

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

ODT quiz: December 14 December 13, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Sunday, December 14.
St Bathans: an artist’s muse December 13, 2025
Otago Peninsula artist Pauline Bellamy is celebrating 50 years of connection to St Bathans with an exhibition of her paintings depicting the township and its surrounding landscape this month. Photo: Brenda Harwood Buying a historic property in Central Otago gold mining township St Bathans in 1972 has led to a life-long artistic love affair for […]
Gift of $10,000 delights Dunedin charity December 13, 2025
Dunedin Bedding Bank administrator Alysha Gibbs (left) and founder Janine Walker (with her dog, Striker). Photo: Sam Henderson A woman moved by grief and a newspaper story has turned chilly memories into warmth and wheels for others.
Sam Henderson
Visionary Dunedin architect inspired by love of exhibitions December 13, 2025
Exhibition Company chairman John Sutherland Ross and architect Edmund Anscombe sit in the front seat of the scenic railway for its first run on the opening day of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition on November 17, 1925. Photo: Otago Witness Often when we think of architecture we picture great minds conceiving buildings […]
Sam Henderson
Funding to help trust’s work December 13, 2025
People take part in a recent Project Fetu training workshop at Oamaru Pacific Island Trust. The government-funded training pilot was launched in the hopes of blazing a pathway for the rest of New Zealand in providing a safety net for Pacific and rural workers, whose employment may be at risk. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The Oamaru Pacific […]
Jules Chin
Dancers wow with moves December 13, 2025
The Victoria Cooper Academy of Dance performers leaped and waltzed across the stage last Sunday in two sold-out sessions of The Nutcracker at the Waitaki Boys’ High School auditorium.
Jules Chin
Children give thanks to lunch team December 13, 2025
Te Pākihi o Maru principal Stacey Honeywill and pupil Osai Tukumoeatu, 11, presented The Kitchen owners Brony and Steve Pozzobon with thank-you cards and flowers at a special assembly at the school this week. PHOTO: NIC DUFF Te Pākihi o Maru showed its appreciation to the school’s lunch provider this week.
Nic Duff
Warning to avoid grebe nests December 13, 2025
A crested grebe nesting with chicks. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED Campers and boaties around Lake Benmore are being asked to look out for the crested grebes (pūteketeke) this summer, after reports from the public that nests were being disturbed at the Ohau C campground.
Nativity scenes bring in visitors, enthusiasts December 13, 2025
A knitted display, a hand-made advent calendar and a three-dimensional lithograph were all part of St Luke’s Christmas nativity display last week.
Jules Chin
Author’s love of war history leads to novels December 13, 2025
Wānaka author Kate O’Connell is looking forward to the release of her first book, The Warsaw Messenger, this month. PHOTO: EVIE SINCLAIR A Wānaka author is set to release the first of a three-part book series after four years of crafting.
Evie Sinclair

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