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Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date March 11, 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 […]
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 […]
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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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Putting ‘all these passions’ to work March 12, 2025
Heather Massie with the children of Mlamula Primary School in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa after sharing the inspirations of Hedy Lamarr. Photo: supplied As an "artist with a scientist’s heart" it is no surprise Heather Massie clicked with the story of Hollywood screen siren and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
Art seen: March 3 March 12, 2025
Halo II, by Kate Williamson. "Wild Gaia — The Halo of Life", Kate Williamson (Moray Gallery) "Wild Gaia — The Halo of Life" celebrates the land, air, and water of the South in a series of large-scale impressions.
Mozart in context — and not March 12, 2025
Robert Wiremu. Photo: supplied Singer, composer and teacher Robert Wiremu believes the southern performances of his piece Reimagining Mozart will be "magical".
Carnage as car collides with cattle March 12, 2025
A crash between two cars and multiple cattle beasts has brought traffic on State Highway 1 north of Dunedin to one lane as emergency services work to clean up the carnage.
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Search for surfer mauled by shark suspended March 12, 2025
Wharton Beach, near Esperance in Western Australia. File photo: Getty Images The search for a surfer fatally mauled by a shark at a remote beach has been suspended.
Former Georgia president jailed for nine more years March 12, 2025
Mikheil Saakashvili. Photo: Getty Images Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been sentenced to nine more years in prison after being found guilty of embezzlement, the Interpress news agency reported.
World-first discharge for artificial heart patient March 12, 2025
Doctor Daniel Timms, the founder of BiVACOR, holds up a spinning disk component as he speaks during a press conference announcing the first, in-human use of a total artificial heart without valves last year. Photo: Getty Images Almost two decades after his father died from heart failure, Daniel Timms has helped to transform treatment for […]
Teacher who groomed students named March 12, 2025
Whanganui High School. Photo: Google Maps / Supplied A Whanganui High School teacher who groomed two students can now be named as Jason Shepherd.
Rising temperatures impact global water cycle March 12, 2025
Jakarta is one of the most impacted cities by the global water cycle trends. Photo: Getty Images The weather in some of the world's most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed […]
Proposed HNZ cuts will hurt patients: report March 12, 2025
Nearly 98% of health IT experts and healthworkers say proposed cuts to Health NZ's digital services budget will hurt patients, according to a new survey.