Wattie’s frozen food shutdown reflects rising costs and shrinking manufacturing margins
The manufacturing environment in New Zealand has become “increasingly difficult” in recent years.
Centrist
Air NZ debate exposes coalition split as fuel volatility hits airline outlook
“It’s a critical utility for a country called New Zealand. It’s our face abroad.”
NZ First calls for new inquiry into COVID vaccine injuries
“The lessons we should have learned have in many ways been covered up or not even investigated.”
Court ruling exposes unlawful expulsion inside Te Pāti Māori
“Perhaps most fundamentally, the relevant tikanga principles … were not applied in any way.”
Trump’s NZ ambassador pick targets defence and minerals
“In advancing the President’s agenda, we have few better partners than New Zealand.”
NZ enters ninth COVID wave as hospitalisations rise
50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths involving COVID in the past week.
Oil price shock rattles NZ economy
“A pretty substantial shock that is negative for activity and growth.”
Free Speech Union criticises Medical Council draft statements
"...requiring doctors to endorse contested political theories about colonisation, privilege, and systemic power as a condition of keeping their practising certificate.”
Medicinal cannabis exports surge as Seymour eyes growth
“New Zealand could become, just as we are with wine, a high-value powerhouse.”
COVID inquiry backs core response but finds lockdowns, mandates and spending went too far
Technical advisers had warned that two-dose mandates for 12 to 17-year-olds carried an increased myocarditis risk and suggested a single-dose approach might be safer.
Poll tightens, but Luxon vows to stay as National dips
"...the election race is as close as it can be.”
Iran war begins to ripple through New Zealand
In some parts of the country, motorists are already paying more than $3 a litre for 95 petrol.
Crime falls, but TVNZ leads with gangs — then scrambles to fix the story
“Pretty unbalanced reporting."
Paddy Gower’s Vaxathon regret comes years too late
"My journalistic ethics and some of the basic rules went out the window."