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NZ news update: Māori businesses confident, but continue to face barriers – report

New Zealand Blog News Service Mar 7, 2022

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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. […]
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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Christchurch cop's trial abandoned over legal issue September 16, 2025
Brearna Kelsi Sloss in a police bike theft prevention video from 2021. Photo: NZ Police / Supplied The trial of a former Christchurch police officer accused of stealing money has been abandoned.
Lightning strike knocks out power to Queenstown properties September 16, 2025
Six addresses are out of power after a property got struck by lightning in Queenstown.
Mark John
Critically injured patient flown to Chch Hospital after car, motorcycle collide September 16, 2025
Emergency services at the scene of the crash in Oamaru. Photo: Andrew Ashton Two people were injured in Oamaru, one critically, when a car and motorcycle collided on Tuesday afternoon.
John Lewis
Christchurch police officer's trial abandoned due to legal issue September 16, 2025
Brearna Kelsi Sloss in a police bike theft prevention video from 2021. Photo: NZ Police / Supplied The trial of a former Christchurch police officer accused of stealing money has been abandoned.
Teen excluded from school, no others will take him September 16, 2025
'It's not easy being Robert Redford': Movie legend dies aged 89 September 16, 2025
Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, has died at the age of 89, his publicist says.
Ex-All White to be sentenced over match-fixing September 16, 2025
Clayton Lewis playing for Macarthur last year. Photo: Getty Images By Dana Johannsen of RNZ Sport Former All White Clayton Lewis will be sentenced in a Sydney court today for his role in one of Australia's biggest sports corruption scandals.
A Closer Look at LET Mining in Cryptocurrency September 16, 2025
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Koru Games: Thousands of young athletes descend on Selwyn September 16, 2025
Struggle to get help after brain injuries September 16, 2025
By Ruth Hill of RNZ The father of a man assaulted with a steel bar as a teenager, and later hit by a truck, has been battling ACC for 10 years for recognition those traumatic brain injuries triggered his debilitating mental illness.

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