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Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date March 9, 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 […]
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 […]
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Mother fighting for her life after being trapped for 36 hours in car crash March 10, 2025
Hope Hoyland. Photo: Givealittle A South Island mum of two is in a coma and fighting for her life after reportedly spending 36 hours trapped in a car after a crash.
Attracting business conferences among uses of visitor levy March 10, 2025
Louise Upston. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver The government is putting $3 million from the international visitor levy into attracting more business conferences to the country.
Spike in legionnaires' disease linked to dirty spa pools March 10, 2025
There has been a spike in a potentially deadly disease linked to dirty spa pools. File photo: Getty Images There has been a spike in a potentially deadly disease linked to dirty spa pools in New Zealand.
Rise in Fonterra's forecasted earnings March 10, 2025
Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell. Photo: Gregor Richardson / File Dairy giant Fonterra has increased its forecasted earnings range by up to 25% to 55-75 cents per share for the 2024-25 season.
Tim Cronshaw
Dunedin Arts Festival - Commentary of Dreaming March 10, 2025
A one-night-only event that promises a uniquely Dunedin experience.
Dunedin Arts Festival - Animal March 10, 2025
Mother trapped after crash for 36 hours 'fighting for her life' March 10, 2025
Hope Hoyland. Photo: Givealittle A mother of two is in a coma and fighting for her life after reportedly spending 36 hours trapped in a car after a crash.
Canterbury piano prodigy heading to Carnegie Hall March 10, 2025
Edison Li has been invited to play on stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Tchaikovsky, Judy Garland and The Beatles are just a few of the famous names to play at New York’s Carnegie Hall - and now Prebbleton School pupil Edison Li is set to join the list.
Kees Chalmers
How the Hawke's Bay meatball made it to Chch March 10, 2025
By Maggie Tweedie of RNZ Those unfamiliar with Hawke's Bay's humble meatball imagine Italian mince with red sauce. The actual description isn't that mouth-watering, but the crumbed golden sphere filled with whipped, fatty meat offers an unexpected yet comforting morning tea delight.
Syria scrambles to contain worst violence in years March 10, 2025
Syria's interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa during a televised address in Damascus, Syria, following the deadly rise in violence. Photo: Syrian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS TV Syria's leader has vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone […]