Sir Bob Jones No Punches Pulled Wellington District Court Judge Peter Hobbs has fined KiwiRail $432,500 for passenger life-threatening negligence. As KiwiRail is a government-owned company, this financial punishment is pointless. He has effectively taken this money from one government agency (KiwiRail) and given it to another (the Treasury)
A review into the devastating June flood in Wairoa has criticised the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for its lack of a clear plan to manage the river mouth.
In New Zealand, we are left placing a great importance on incorporating this part of Māori culture into our lives, which sees that you can be judged on the tribe you come from, your ancestors and even the mountain you grow up near.
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The letter concluded by urging the government to show leadership in ensuring guidelines reflect both fairness and safety for all athletes, saying, “We owe our next generation of female athletes a fair, safe future in sport.”
As predicted Darleen Tana is slowly dismantling the previous impervious aura of The Greens
Born in Australia, Malcolm moved to New Zealand as a child and attended Wellington College where his classmates nicknamed him “Aussie”. The name stuck with him his whole life.
Brooke van Velden is planning to withhold the report from phase one of the RCI, possibly until 2026. Why?
I have had enough of the nice and the useless. Bring on the gunslinger.
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This isn’t much consolation to those losing their jobs today but let’s hope that the unavoidable correction to Labour’s six years of over-cooking the economy with borrowed money doesn’t come with too much more pain.
The Government has decided to enter the so-called AI space, but bizarrely chose the name of an existing organisation.
As there are simple ways to settle the important questions of excess deaths, the extent and cause of the problem, why are the statistics being withheld?
