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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 […]
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 […]
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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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Polls close on election day as Australians await winner May 3, 2025
There can be only one winner: counting has begun on who will form Australia's next government. Photos: Getty Images Polls have closed across eastern states and the count has begun to determine the make up of Australia's next federal parliament.
The Suicide Squad, but with heart May 3, 2025
THUNDERBOLTS Director: Jake Schreier Cast: Chris Bauer, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wendell Pierce, Florence Pugh, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell, Sebastian Stan, Geraldine Viswanathan Rating (M): ★★★★ Why do "women" love Florence Pugh?
All that glisters is not always Gold May 3, 2025
Autumn sunset at the Gold Coast. Photo: Getty Images After you’ve seen a hundred rainbows you start to think maybe you’ve found your pot of gold.
Prince of prints May 3, 2025
Tom Chadwick, Wayside laundry, 1935, wood engraving on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1953 by Sir Rex Nan Kivell of the Redfern Gallery, London. A printmaking movement in the early part of last century was about moving the medium forward, Lauren Gutsell writes.
Raising AI May 3, 2025
Illustration: Austin Milne Your fears about artificial intelligence (AI) might be well-founded, Assoc Prof David Rozado says.
Bruce Munro
Dunedin premier rugby round six wrap-up May 3, 2025
Southern dominated Green Island in all facets to record a comfortable 36-5 win at Miller Park this afternoon.
Adrian Seconi
Big wins and some surprises in Dunedin premier rugby May 3, 2025
Southern dominated Green Island in all facets to record a comfortable 36-5 win at Miller Park this afternoon.
Adrian Seconi
Veils across the light May 3, 2025
Photo: Ian Griffin The move to Middlemarch has been great for skywatching.
DNA of Roman legion will fascinate May 3, 2025
The Simmering death pit, revealing a massacre 2000 years ago. Photo: A. Slonek/Novetus In the summer of 1959, I found myself excavating at the Roman city of Verulamium, southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
Antarctica’s sole native insect May 3, 2025
Belgica antarctica, Antarctica’s only endemic insect and a harmless true fly; female left, male right. Antarctica’s climate is so extreme, a small black wingless true fly is its only native insect.