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Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date March 1, 2025

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 […]
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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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Pope stable, no longer using mechanical ventilator March 2, 2025
Pope Francis. Photo: Reuters Pope Francis remained stable through the day and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, the Vatican said.
Queensland, NSW brace as cyclone bears down March 2, 2025
Residents in two Australian states in the firing line of a cyclone have been told to have tinned food ready and prepare their properties before it makes landfall in coming days.
World record number of Hiluxes descend on South Island paddock March 2, 2025
Toyota Hiluxes abound at the GWD Toyota Hilux world record attempt in Kingston yesterday. PHOTO: DAN FROST More than 1400 of New Zealand’s most beloved farm utes assembled in a paddock just outside Kingston in Otago yesterday, easily smashing a world record held for 15 years by South Africa.
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$300k mission to restore historic yacht March 2, 2025
The classic yacht Tawhiri arriving back in Nelson after finishing the 1951 Wellington to Lyttelton race. Photo: Nelson Yacht Club By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist A yacht which carried its crew to victory in a fatal New Zealand yacht race 74 years ago is being salvaged from near decay by the son of […]
$300k mission to restore historic yacht involved in tragic race March 2, 2025
The classic yacht Tawhiri arriving back in Nelson after finishing the 1951 Wellington to Lyttelton race. Photo: Nelson Yacht Club By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist A yacht which carried its crew to victory in a fatal New Zealand yacht race 74 years ago is being salvaged from near decay by the son of […]
'Coalition of willing' to draw up deal for Trump March 2, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron hold a meeting during a summit at Lancaster House in London. Photo: Getty Images British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said European leaders had agreed to draw up a Ukraine peace plan to take to the United States, a vital step for Washington […]
In Pictures: Southland A&P Show March 2, 2025
A selection of shots from the Southland A&P Show at the weekend. All photos courtesy of Dave Loudon Photography.
Healthcare workers fear cuts damaging services March 2, 2025
By Keiller MacDuff of RNZ Four out of five health workers reported cuts and restructuring had damaged the services they deliver, which the PSA said refutes the government's claims the cuts won't affect the front-line.
New NCEA tests failing students in low income schools: principals March 2, 2025
By John Gerritsen of RNZ Principals from schools in the country's poorest communities have united to call for an end to new NCEA reading, writing and maths tests.
SA semi-final awaits after NZ lose to India March 2, 2025