Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 1st, 2024 - 45 commentsCategories: Daily review - Tags:Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …Share this: FacebookLinkedInRedditPinterestMastodonTwitterPrintEmail

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:13 am, February 1st, 2024 - 46 commentsCategories: chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, israel, james shaw, national, Palestine - Tags:Yesterday in Parliament Christopher Luxon showed that he is struggling on the job. Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: I’m not sure the point of the question that the member is trying to ask or get to. Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Personally not aware, but if he’d like to direct a specific question to the relevant Minister, I’m sure we could help. Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: The court did not make any findings that Israel has actually engaged in genocidal conduct. Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Yes.

National’s coalition agreement with New Zealand First committed to “moderate increases to the minimum wage every year” while the Act Party campaigned on freezing the minimum wage. Cabinet's decision to increase the minimum wage less than inflation effectively lowers the base rate in inflation adjusted terms. “I believe such a rate is appropriate given the current economic conditions and the historically large increases to the minimum wage (relative to inflation) that have distorted relativities”. In a 2023 review of the minimum wage, which informed the Cabinet decision, MBIE said the wage “would likely” need to be at $23.60 or higher to “approximately maintain the current real-value of the minimum wage”. Van Velden said a new minimum wage would be set every year but “not necessarily at the rate of inflation”.

Content, PR and entertainment company New Romans has announced experienced PR professional Frederika Walls as the Head of its New Zealand business. Walls joins from Latitude Financial Services where she has worked for the last seven years as Head of Communications. Managing Partner New Romans Anthony Spargo said Walls is the perfect person to be leading the businesses NZ operations. “Freddie is an outstanding PR and comms practitioner with global experience and vast knowledge and understanding of the NZ market. “I am thrilled to be on this journey with the New Romans’ team.

Non-performing housing loans topped the $1.5 billion mark at the end of 2023 and rose by some 78.5% ($667 million) during the year. That's the 'headline' news if you like, but to give it some perspective, the latest non-performing loan figure represents 0.43% of total housing loans ($349.687 billion). To fill in some detail, the total 'system' non-performing loans as at December 2023 were $3.552 billion, which makes up 0.64% of the total loans of $556.605 billion. As at December 2022 the system wide non-performing loans had stood at $2.143 billion. The percent of non-performing commercial property loans has risen from 0.2% to 09% in that period, with total commercial property loans standing at $42.751 billion.

Everything you need to know about the new nationwide recycling rules. From today, new recycling measures are in place. Recycling is now nationally standardised: the rules about what you can and can’t recycle are exactly the same around the country, with only a few exceptions. Under the new...

Follow the podcast onThe Government has decided against scrapping a new regime aimed at preventing banks, insurers and non-bank deposit takers from mistreating customers. This Code of Conduct was established following a 2018 Royal Commission exposing questionable behaviour by Australian banks. NZ Herald Wellington business editor Jenee Tibshraeny explains why institutions were surprised by this 'inevitable' announcement. LISTEN ABOVE

While it was initially unknown how many victims were involved in the crash, Snr Sgt Andrew Russ confirmed on Wednesday night the death toll remained at two. "The disaster victim identification unit finished their assessment late this afternoon and found the drivers were the only people in the vehicles," he said. Russ earlier told Newshub the northbound vehicle crossed the centre line and collided head-on with the southbound car. The northbound car then caught fire and was "fully engulfed" by the time emergency services arrived at the scene, he said. "These are the ones you never forget, they're horrible ones for all emergency services," Russ said of the crash.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Jessica Ah Koy told the jury about the Crown case. He put her on the bed, started strangling her and indecently touched her, Ah Koy alleged. He locked the door and forced the young girl to give him oral sex, the Crown said this happened a number of times. The young girl was 10 when she was raped for the first time, Ah Koy said. Ah Koy told the jury they would hear evidence from the complainant herself and her sisters, who she later told about the offending.

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According to the Registrar-General, names that are also official titles or ranks, or names that sound like one, are most likely to be blocked from use, Stuff.co.nz reported. ‘Prince’ was the name the country’s Department of Internal Affairs declined the most last year, with five rejections. Parents tried to spell it other ways, such as ‘Prynce’ or ‘Pryncè’, but they too were nay-sayed. King was, as usual near the top of the list, as well as other title-related names such as Bishop, King, Major, Royal, Messiah, Princess, Royale, and Sovereign. Australia has similar rules around naming babies, with official titles and ranks also banned here.

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day. All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section. EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.

Ten fire appliances and support vehicles as well as three helicopters were called to the fire. Ten fire appliances and support vehicles as well as three helicopters were called to the fire. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) crews have contained a grass blaze that grew to 25 hectares near the small Marlborough town of Seddon, which threatened Yealands Estate Winery. Ten fire appliances and support vehicles as well as three helicopters from the Marlborough region were called to the fire. Marlborough emergency management, fire, police and the rapid response team who attended the scene, are dampening down any remaining hotspots.

The Spinoff’s War for Wellington is exploring the creation of the Wellington’s new District Plan, the rulebook for housing in the capital. How will it all work? Welcome to the battlefront. This is the War for Wellington, the fight that will determine what kind of city we want to be.

A strike by South Port workers, due to start today, has been called off following last-minute negotiations. Maritime Union national secretary Craig Harrison left yesterday afternoon’s meeting with port management delighted with what had been achieved. ‘‘I believe South Port heard us today. They moved from where they were sitting prior to going into mediation,’’ he said. South Port chief executive Nigel Gear said the company and union had positive discussions and the settlement was a good outcome for all parties concerned.