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New Zealand’s high school robotics title holders scramble for world championships funding after previous backers withdraw

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 8, 2025

The previous backers have pulled out.
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Trump’s Liberation Day move depresses NZ wholesale interest rates, Kiwi dollar

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 7, 2025

NZ wholesale interest rates have fallen after the US introduced higher tariff charges.
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Why family trusts are no longer as attractive as they used to be – Sasha Borissenko

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 6, 2025

OPINION: Last week the trustee tax rate increased from 33% to 39%.
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Auckland Zoo in legal clash over accessible bathroom design

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 5, 2025

Construction of accessible bathroom at Auckland Zoo triggers year-long standoff.
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Takeovers Panel probes Jim Grenon’s NZME share purchases

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 4, 2025

The Auckland businessman is wanting an overhaul of NZME’s board.
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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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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

Council cans central city rainbow crossings April 24, 2025
An indicative rainbow crossing design for the intersection of Bath St and George St in Dunedin has been shelved. A revised version may yet appear nearby. Image: Supplied Rainbow crossings will not be part of a revised design for Bath St, in central Dunedin, as the city council looks to keep an upgrade within budget.
Grant Miller
Crews contain major blaze at Auckland recycling plant April 24, 2025
Photo: RNZ Fire officials say smoke from a large recycling plant fire in Auckland's North Shore overnight has lessened.
ODT Odds On: 24 April 2025 April 24, 2025
Luke Chapman
Southerners brave cold for Anzac Day services April 24, 2025
Crowds have braved chilly conditions to turn out for Anzac Day services in the South this morning.
Last-minute call for people to share Covid experiences April 24, 2025
Covid-19 Inquiry chair Grant Illingworth KC . Photo: RNZ The chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry has put out a last-minute call for people to share their experiences during the global pandemic.
Last-minute call for people to share pandemic experiences April 24, 2025
Covid-19 Inquiry chair Grant Illingworth KC . Photo: RNZ The chair of the Covid-19 Inquiry has put out a last-minute call for people to share their experiences during the global pandemic.
ODT quiz: April 25 April 24, 2025
Cartoonist’s view — Yeo April 24, 2025
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
100 years ago from our archives April 24, 2025
This is a pictorial column as there was no Otago Daily Times on Anzac Day 1925.
After 40 years, Miner’s Band play last hurrah April 24, 2025
The Arrow Miners Band (from left) Joe Guise, Lyn Jefcoate, Peter Doyle, Barbara Kerr, Cheryl Collie and Colin Macnicol delivered their final performance at the Super Seniors High Tea, part of the Arrowtown Autumn Festival.PHOTO: TRACEY ROXBURGH The Arrow Miners Band have officially disbanded.
Tracey Roxburgh