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Westpac NZ Increases Cyclone Gabrielle And Flooding Support To $4 Million
Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:39:20 +1300 | Westpac New Zealand
Westpac NZ has increased its financial support to customers and communities affected by Cyclone Gabrielle and earlier flooding to more than $4 million. Westpac NZ chief executive Catherine McGrath says the scale of the destruction in the Hawke’s Bay, ...More >>
ET, You Bore Me: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena And The Pentagon
Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:09:03 +1200 | Binoy Kampmark
Those of you drawing sustenance and stimulation from the traditional acronym UFO best brace yourselves. The less exciting and dull term accepted by the defence clerks – unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – is renewing its march into the extra-terrestrial ...More >>
Salesman Of ‘good Oil’ Had Plenty Of Bottle
Tue, 11 May 2021 15:08:33 +1200 | Heritage New Zealand
An artefact from the Kerikeri Mission Station collection which harks back to an earlier, more deregulated era of medical healthcare will soon be going on display. Frank Weston – the picture of health and vitality – photographed sometime during ...More >>
New Zealand Urgently Needs To Do More To Protect The Lives Of Our Youngest Children
Fri, 5 Jun 2020 07:40:49 +1200 | Save The Children
Save the Children is deeply concerned by the recent spate of child deaths in New Zealand.Three very young children two years of age and under have died in less than two months, the most recent a two-year-old in Palmerston North in unexplained circumstances. ...More >>
RSF Calls On Trump To End Attacks On Journalists
Thu, 9 Apr 2020 07:37:04 +1200 | Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on President Donald Trump to end the vicious attacks on reporters covering the White House’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. RSF also encourages news organizations to assess their live coverage of the COVID-19 ...More >>
Facebook Group Showcases Sadistic Torture Of Mice And Rats During Covid-19 Pandemic
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:51:04 +1200 | Lynley Tulloch
Hunting in New Zealand has been banned since we went into lockdown at 11.59pm Wednesday March 25, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This triggered the start-up of a Facebook page and group called ‘the great NZ lock up mouse hunt’ on the same day. The ...More >>
Polly knows probability: this parrot can predict the chances of something happening
Wed, 4 Mar 2020 10:40:31 +1300 | The Conversation
Kea were able to correctly guess the most probable scenarios, by evaluating various physical and social cues. Previously, only great apes and humans were known to be able to understand probability.More >>
Former Pukekohe Woman Helps Santa In Guam
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:49:38 +1300 | New Zealand Defence Force
Former Pukekohe woman Nat Farrell jumped at the chance to step out of her comfort zone and take on a new role to help the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) recent Operation Christmas Drop in Guam.More >>
NZ launches world-first recycling initiative for vapes
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:45:43 +1300 | Alt New Zealand
New Zealand now has the world’s only free nicotine vaping products recycling programme. A new world-first partnership between leading vape company Vapo and Alt New Zealand, and innovative recycling giant TerraCycle, means that Vapo and Alt brands of e-cigarette ...More >>
Glass bits found in strawberry punnet from supermarket
Tue, 3 Dec 2019 17:15:38 +1300 | RNZ
A man is warning people to check their strawberries after his friend was taken to hospital when she had eaten some with glass in them. More >>
Spark teams up with Scholastic for Santaline adventure
Mon, 2 Dec 2019 14:36:47 +1300 | Spark
Fasten your sleigh-belts because Spark has teamed up with Scholastic this Christmas, to take Kiwi kids on an interactive adventure with Jelly the Elf. More >>
Bridges condemns climate protest vandalism at his office
Mon, 2 Dec 2019 11:49:56 +1300 | RNZ
The National Party leader, Simon Bridges, is criticising protesters for vandalising his Tauranga electorate office. More >>
Kelvin Davis: 2019 Labour Party Conference
Mon, 2 Dec 2019 09:58:22 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
Everyone has a story. And right now, our party, our government is writing its own story. A story that will last the ages. A story that starts something like this More >>
Legal vortex grows around moves to arrest former PNG PM
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:37:29 +1300 | RNZ
Papua New Guinea's former prime minister Peter O'Neill has lodged a criminal complaint against police minister Bryan Kramer. More >>
Auckland named a world leader in urban mobility
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:22:30 +1300 | Auckland Transport
Out of 31 international cities, Auckland has ranked second on the City Mobility Index - according to Kantar's Mobility Futures study . More >>
Dead rats washed up on beaches sent for toxicology testing
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:41:31 +1300 | RNZ
The theory that it was 1080 that killed about 600 rats, an octopus, a calf and other animals that washed up on a West Coast beach is highly unlikely, a Department of Conservation (DOC) regional manager says.More >>
Sustainable New Zealand party: Other parties unruffled
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:03:49 +1300 | RNZ
The new political party Sustainable New Zealand thinks they have what it takes to be the next minor party in Parliament, with a simple approach to politics. More >>
Random chance finalises new Whakatane councillor
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:51:32 +1300 | RNZ
A name drawn from a hat has determined who will represent the southern-most communities of the Whakatane district over the next three years. More >>
Young tractor driver tasered after pursuit
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:55:18 +1300 | Independent Police Conduct Authority
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that an officer's use of a Taser on a young person who had stolen a small tractor and led Police in a pursuit, was an unreasonable and excessive use of force.More >>
The 2019 election results three years on
Thu, 3 Oct 2019 14:42:39 +1300 | Norbert Hausberg
Jenny Condie won her Ward and became Deputy Mayor. Against all odds Norbert Hausberg won the Mayoralty. Conor Hill sneaked into his ward by three votes ahead of his contenders. Steph Edlin and Teri O’Neill got in the Motukairangi/ Eastern Ward. Humphrey Hanley ...More >>