A likely record Green Party caucus is ramping up for an energetic term in Opposition, with the leaders indicating “community-led resistance” - particularly around climate change and Te Tiriti o Waitangi issues - could be on the cards, although both of their futures are still uncertain. James Shaw and Marama Davidson were joined by 13 other Green Party members in Wellington today. Speaking in front of Parliament, neither Shaw or Davidson were able to confirm if they would stick out the full term as co-leaders. “Still decisions to be made,” said Davidson, who entered Parliament in 2015 and became female co-leader in 2018. Labour’s Willie Jackson has spoken about working with the Greens and Te Pāti Māori to fight back.

New Zealand Kiwis coach Michael Maguire has declared that international rugby league needs a complete overhaul in regards to its eligibility rules. “When you're talking to players, they've got choices and they're the rules at the moment,” Maguire said via Stuff.co.nz. “But it would be nice to be able to say this is the path you're going down, especially for the Kiwis. There are a number of players that have so many options, they can play for the Kiwis, Samoa, Tonga and there's obviously the Origin arena. “It would be nice to have it levelled out then players understand where they're going and we can build off that.

Melbourne-based fashion retailer Nobody Denim has recently faced closure, adding to the challenges in Australia’s retail sector. The company, which supplied its products to major operators like The Iconic and David Jones across Australia and New Zealand, succumbed to financial pressures and went into voluntary liquidation. On 10th October, Shane Deane and Nicholas Giasoumi from insolvency firm Dye and Co were appointed as liquidators, marking the company’s formal step into the process of liquidation. Nobody Denim’s financial woes have translated into a substantial debt of US $ 3.6 million, with a significant portion, US $ 2.64 million, owed to its manufacturer, Denim 108, as per reports. Queensland-based Outland Denim has acquired Nobody Denim and retained five employees, ensuring the continuation of the business under new ownership.

This is why The Great New Zealand Sausage Competition (GNZSC) is so highly anticipated every year. For 26 years, the GNZSC has revealed the finest and tastiest sausages New Zealand has to offer. Well, ladies, gentlemen and saussie enthusiasts across the country, the results are in and the best sausage in the land hails from the shores of Silverdale. Sausage makers are encouraged to push the boundaries of flavour and innovation and think outside the confines of the sausage casing to determine the best traditional sausage, best gourmet sausage and, perhaps most importantly, the best sausage in all of New Zealand, which most Kiwis have likely pondered at least once when browsing the meat section at their local grocer. “It can be quite tricky creating a single meat sausage, but this was an incredibly well-made sausage with a good balance of meat and fat,” said Paterson.

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In keeping with its tradition of supporting events in Christchurch, New Zealand Media and Entertainment has revealed a number of collaborations with entertainment, sports, and musical events in the city. Partnering with Addington Raceway and Riccarton Park as its exclusive radio, print and digital media partner in 2022, NZME has reaffirmed its commitment to these race day events for another year. In the sporting world, NZME has also announced a new two-year exclusive media partnership with World Netball and the Fast5 Netball World Series, with the 2023 event taking place in Christchurch in November. In addition, NZME has been once again appointed exclusive media partner of Electric Avenue, a music festival held in Hagley Park on February 24, 2024. Michael Boggs, NZME CEO says NZME is proud to be the preferred media partner for a number of prominent events in the Garden City.

The Labour Party have announced Chris Hipkins will remain as leader after a long caucus meeting at Parliament this afternoon. Robert Kitchin/Stuff Chris Hipkins will remain Labour leader.

For the cost of 5 million sausages, bunting, bands and bubbles, we could get a lot more people to the polls in 2026. There’s nothing like a trip to the polling booth to make you feel as if you’re part of something. Or several things: a community, a town, a

Stuff Group has launched a new strategic creative and editorial studio called Harakeke, bringing together data and insights, content creatives, marketers, strategists and storytellers to help brands get noticed. The new studio, which sits within Stuff’s Brand Connections team, enables brands to leverage Stuff’s extensive audience reach and scale in creative new ways, using the team of creative and media experts within Stuff Group. Brand Connections Managing Director Matt Headland says Harakeke will work with agency and client partners to deliver brand storytelling that integrates across Stuff’s valuable digital, print, event, audio, community and magazine audiences. “Stuff already has Aotearoa’s largest and most engaged print and digital news audiences – now we can offer a deeper, richer creative experience for our partners and their customers,” he says. “Weaving brands into the stuff people care about, using real-time interactions with our audiences to inform our work, is at the heart of what Harakeke offers,” she says.

The summer’s hottest fashion, music and sport event – Lexus Urban Polo – is back for 2024 with brand new media partners: Stuff and MediaWorks. From fashion to DJs, Champagne, engaging activations and divot stomping, Lexus Urban Polo is being taken to the next level. Lexus Urban Polo managing director Simon Wilson is delighted to welcome Stuff and MediaWorks as new event partners. Stuff and MediaWorks will ensure the event engages as many Kiwis as possible, with Stuff’s leading digital, print, magazine and audio products reaching 3.4m Kiwis–, and MediaWorks radio brands reaching 2.4- million listeners weekly. In addition to Lexus as the naming sponsor, the event is supported by Veuve Clicquot, Two Rivers, Peroni, Hugo Boss, and more.

The mother of a young Israeli woman held by Hamas has appealed for her release, calling the seizure of around 200 hostages by the Palestinian militant group “a crime against humanity”. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Keren, mother of Mia Schem, appeals for her daughter’s release.

PoliticsHipkins remains Labour leader, Little quits politicsChris Hipkins is still the leader of the Labour Party, though a leadership vote will be scheduled after the final election results come in, in line with party rulesAfter two caucus meetings on Tuesday, which collectively spanned three hours, Chris Hipkins remains the leader of the Labour Party. During that gathering, longtime MP and former leader Andrew Little announced his resignation from politics. In accordance with Labour Party rules, a leadership vote will be held within three months of the election loss. "The leader is the leader until they're not, and I'm certainly still the leader of the Labour Party," Hipkins said. "I'm still committed to supporting the Labour Party in opposition and I've still got a bit of fight left in me."

A large-scale project to grow and distribute fresh fruit and vegetables for free to those who need them is underway in the Waikato. He Tipu Ltd is transforming a 22-ha site that was home to the Taupō Native Plant Nursery up until it closed in 2018. It has a dream of supplying fresh fruit and vegetables to the community for free and building up a seed bank of edible and medicinal native plant species. It has also just planted 160,000 native plants that would be used for riparian planting and native regeneration projects and has a labor force available for planting projects, largely made up of people who have previously been out of work. He Tipu general manager Blandina Diamond said a forest garden would eventually be planted full of edible native species and medicinal plants, along with greenhouses of berries and hydroponic crops like watercress, leafy greens, and herbs.

All Blacks skipper Sam Cane backed that paradigm, simply saying: "Defence won us the Test match. "We've got a defence system there that Scott McLeod has built -– we built it basically for Ireland. But you haven't been to a World Cup if you haven’t had a game like that. Defence coach McLeod said that "harsh lessons" from last year's historic home series loss to Ireland had led to a re-build of the All Black's defensive fundamentals. We knew we didn't have to be the best in the world, we just had to be the best on the day."

Photo: NZ HeraldRadio New Zealand has released a full transcript of a speech former Cabinet minister Kiri Allan gave at a leaving function for her then partner Māni Dunlop, after a decision from the Ombudsman. Earlier this year Allan said she told RNZ she was happy for it to release the full transcript of a recording from her speech. The speechAfter opening in te reo, Allan said she came from a “group of bandied rebels”. Allan told attendees she had heard others say, “Māni Dunlop, she puts this lovely Māori lens on things and she uses her reo, it’s just beautiful. Therefore, with the exception of the names of third parties referred to in the speech, RNZ was not entitled to withhold a transcript, given Ms Allan and Ms Dunlop supported the release.”