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Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date January 16, 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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Ben Uffindell

Delving deep into Dylan January 18, 2025
Elle Fanning, as Sylvie Russo, and Timothee Chalamet, as Bob Dylan, take a motorcycle ride to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, a fictitious scene in A Complete Unknown. Photo: TNS As Chalamet plays Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, the man himself, at 83, is finding new ways to remain relevant, writes Matt Thorne.
Decision on Waikato med school taking too long - union January 18, 2025
The University of Waikato. Photo: Supplied By Natalie Akoorie of RNZ
Good vibes in Waitati January 18, 2025
Soul Kitchen light up the Waitati Music Festival stage in 2022. Photo: Martyn Buyck If the skies have been stubbornly grey this summer, fear not — there’s a vibrant beacon of fun on the horizon.
Jeremy Quinn
Kiwi the first woman to be groundskeeper at Lord's January 18, 2025
After heading to the UK on her OE without much of a plan Kiwi Meg Lay has ended up as a grounds-person at Lord's Cricket Ground making her the first woman to work in the role in the ground's 200 year history Photo: Supplied/Meg Lay Like many young people heading away on an overseas experience, […]
Kiwi the first woman to be groundskeeper at Lord's January 18, 2025
After heading to the UK on her OE without much of a plan Kiwi Meg Lay has ended up as a grounds-person at Lord's Cricket Ground making her the first woman to work in the role in the ground's 200 year history Photo: Supplied/Meg Lay Like many young people heading away on an overseas experience, […]
Peta hopeful of convictions in sheep abuse probe January 17, 2025
Peta says videos captured on New Zealand farms expose the cruelty involved in sheep shearing. Photo: Supplied / PETA Asia Animal rights organisation Peta hopes an official investigation into alleged animal abuse on sheep farms will result in criminal convictions.
'Help me': Doc ranger describes agonising search for tramper January 17, 2025
Ranger Ricki Mitchell moving carefully through the fog during the rescue on Wednesday morning. Photo: Supplied / Department of Conservation By Samantha Gee of RNZ
Large fire at former Centrepoint commune January 17, 2025
14 Mills Lane in Albany went on sale in 2023 and is the site of the infamous commune, Centrepoint. Fifteen fire crews from across Auckland were at a large fire at the site of the former Centrepoint commune in Albany overnight.
Did Tuesday’s smokeshow in Queenstown bother you? January 17, 2025
The Otago Regional Council is yet to get analysed data of the air quality in Queenstown on Tuesday afternoon when two burnoffs south of resort blanketed the Basin in smoke.
Gaza ceasefire approved, to begin Sunday January 17, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (6-L), heading a security cabinet meeting to vote on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal in this handout released by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO). Photo: Supplied Israel's cabinet has approved a deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas for a ceasefire and release of hostages in the Gaza […]