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’30 seconds faster I’d have made it’ – photos from front of harbour bridge queue

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 2, 2020

Dianne Weissenborn was seconds away from getting on to the Auckland Harbour Bridge when she noticed the traffic…

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‘Disgusting’: Sparks fly at Young Voters’ Debate

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 2, 2020

By RNZ Housing and climate change caused the most heated exchanges at TVNZ’s Young Voters’ Debate yesterday, an…

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Election 2020: What’s the plan for welfare and child poverty?

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 2, 2020

The carrot, the stick, or throw it all out and start again? Those are roughly the options on…

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Meadowbank home sells for $3.3m – $1.05m above CV

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 2, 2020

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Father jailed for life for murdering 2-year-old daughter in river

New Zealand Blog News Service Oct 2, 2020

A man who killed his daughter in a Bay of Plenty river has been jailed for life. Tewi…

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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Firefighters at scene of blaze at in Auckland Mitre 10 July 26, 2025
Photo: Googlemaps Firefighters are responding to a fire at a Mitre 10 hardware store in the Auckland suburb of Westgate.
Firefighters at scene of blaze at Auckland's Westgate Mitre 10 July 26, 2025
Photo: Googlemaps Firefighters are responding to a fire at a Mitre 10 hardware store in the Auckland suburb of Westgate.
Lawyer censured for slapping colleague's bottom July 26, 2025
A New Zealand Law Society standards committee said the unnamed lawyer's behaviour risked perpetuating a workplace culture that the "profession is at pains to transform in relation to interactions between colleagues". Photo: Getty Images A lawyer who slapped a junior male colleague on the bottom and touched a female colleague’s lower back during a social […]
Bottom-slapping, back-touching lawyer censured July 26, 2025
A New Zealand Law Society standards committee said the unnamed lawyer's behaviour risked perpetuating a workplace culture that the "profession is at pains to transform in relation to interactions between colleagues". Photo: Getty Images A lawyer who slapped a junior male colleague on the bottom and touched a female colleague’s lower back during a social […]
Thai-Cambodian fighting now in third day despite ceasefire calls July 26, 2025
A Thai military convoy drives amid the escalation of the Thailand-Cambodia dispute in Surin Province, Thailand on July 25, 2025. Photo: Getty Images Fighting on the Thai-Cambodian border extended into a third day and new flashpoints emerged on Saturday as both sides sought diplomatic support, saying they had acted in self-defence and calling on the […]
Peeni Henare says government playing 'silly games' July 26, 2025
Tāmaki Makaurau candidate Peeni Henare campaigning at Ōtara Market. Photo: RNZ/Jessica Hopkins By Jessica Hopkins of RNZ The Labour party says Aucklanders are tired of the government's "silly games".
'Silly games': Peeni Henare on passport design changes July 26, 2025
Tāmaki Makaurau candidate Peeni Henare campaigning at Ōtara Market. Photo: RNZ/Jessica Hopkins By Jessica Hopkins of RNZ The Labour party says Aucklanders are tired of the government's "silly games".
Westenra 'heartbroken' over friends' deaths in LA homicide July 26, 2025
Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra singing with Thomas Deluca. Photo: Instagram/Hayley Westenra Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra says she’s "completely heartbroken" after learning of the double homicide of her long-time friends American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca.
Kiwi singer 'heartbroken' over friends' deaths in LA homicide July 26, 2025
Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra singing with Thomas Deluca. Photo: Instagram/Hayley Westenra Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra says she’s "completely heartbroken" after learning of the double homicide of her long-time friends American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca.
Hong Kong issues arrest warrants for 19 overseas activists July 26, 2025
File photo: Getty Images Hong Kong's national security police announced arrest warrants for 19 activists based overseas, accusing them of subversion under a stringent national security law, marking the largest such tally yet.

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