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Post date January 15, 2025

This cool, crunchy Sichuan salad, drenched in garlicky dressing and fiery chillies, is now a global favourite. The secret? Make sure you bruise the cucumbers, rather than actually smash them Though I suspect many of us first find ourselves drawn to this Chinese “cold plate” by the faintly surreal overtones of vegetable-based violence suggested by […]
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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
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
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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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Israel prepares for return of bodies February 20, 2025
Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take precautions around the cemetery in the Bani Suheila community before the bodies of the Bibas family (three members) and Oded Lifshitz are handed over to Red Cross teams to be returned to Israel. Photo: Getty Images Israel has braced for the return of the […]
First pharoah tomb discovered in over a century February 20, 2025
A joint Egyptian-British mission has identified an ancient tomb near Luxor as that of King Thutmose II.
Collins challenged over ministers' 'misogynistic comments' February 20, 2025
Judith Collins. Photo: Getty Images By Lillian Hanly of RNZ Labour's spokesperson for women Jan Tinetti is criticising what she calls "misogynistic comments" made by senior male members of the coalition, including a statement by Police Minister Mark Mitchell who said he didn't know "if a gang member wants to deal with a perimenopausal woman".
Twin cyclones loom off flood-hit regions February 20, 2025
Satellite view of Tropical Cyclone Zelia over Western Australia. Photo: Getty Images Two tropical cyclones may form off northern Australia, potentially dumping more rain on a region still reeling from flooding.
School lunches continue to draw criticism February 20, 2025
One of the new school lunches from earlier this month. Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi Schools are continuing to report a bad taste from the government's revamped school lunch programme - and that's if the meals turn up at all - while one principal has described them as a "gelatinous mess".
Mbappe hat-trick sinks City February 20, 2025
Kylian Mbappe celebrates his third goal alongside Jude Bellingham during Real Madrid's win over Manchester City. Photo: Getty Images Real Madrid easily beat Manchester City 3-1 with a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick this morning in their Champions League playoff second leg at a raucous Santiago Bernabeu stadium, earning them a 6-3 aggregate victory and a place […]
Students cop a beating from 64-year-old February 20, 2025
Dunedin's campus cop wiped the floor with first years in his annual push up contest - at the grand old age of 64.
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Emergency response believed to be for sudden death February 20, 2025
An unmarked police car at the property. Photo: RNZ/Delphine Herbert Emergency services have rushed to an "incident" in Christchurch, which is understood to be a sudden death.
Christchurch incident believed to be sudden death February 20, 2025
An unmarked police car at the property. Photo: RNZ/Delphine Herbert Emergency services have rushed to an "incident" in Christchurch, which is understood to be a sudden death.
Teen facing deportation granted residency February 20, 2025
Daman Kumar with sister Radhika. Photo: Supplied via RNZ By Giles Dexter of RNZ Eighteen-year-old Daman Kumar will be able to stay in New Zealand, following an intervention from the associate immigration minister.

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