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Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Today on The Front Page, World Vision New Zealand’s Head of Advocacy and Justice, Rebekah Armstrong discusses the extent of the crisis after a year of fighting. Aid organisations have consistently warned of the humanitarian crisis on the ground – and are pleading with the world for help. Since then, at least 40,000 people have died, many more injured, 1.9 million displaced, and countless buildings and homes destroyed. One year since October 7 attacks: What can be done to end Gaza's humanitarian crisis?
However, Kāinga Ora now says it will close the ground-floor community room after 4pm to stop residents drinking alcohol in it. There have been recent noise complaints in the evening, and activities in the room should not "negatively impact" others, it said. He said as a landlord, Kāinga Ora has a responsibility to protect the quiet enjoyment of all its tenants. She said a Kāinga Ora employee put up an alcohol ban notice on the day the group was holding its last Friday drinks before Christmas. "They keep saying they're 'bringing communities together' and now they're trying to stop us from using that room," Howard said.
Songwriting force behind Lucid 3 and more recently core member of Sir Dave Dobbyn’s live band, Victoria Girling-Butcher aka VGB steps back into the spotlight for a special headline event at Tāmaki Makaurau's Whammy Bar. The show at Auckland’s Whammy Bar on Sept 19 will be a celebration of material from her three Lucid3 albums and critically acclaimed solo project. Following her return to NZ after a few years of teaching music in Paris, she reunited with Sir Dave Dobbyn’s live band in 2018 as rhythm-guitarist. Emerging indie singer-songwriter Cloudy opens the show and is poised to captivate listeners with her unique blend of 90s indie-rock and contemporary dream-pop. Cloudy is supported by Emily Mackie (Mini Simmons) on keys and guitarist Chris McCollum (Zephyr Love, Makeshift Parachutes).
A full front-page ad on the Wednesday, August 7 edition of the New Zealand Herald. Photo / suppliedTe Pāti Māori says it will no longer engage with the New Zealand Herald after it ran a “disgusting attack on tangata whenua” on its front page. Te Pāti Māori said it would also write a formal complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority. “The New Zealand Herald have allowed themselves to be bought off by a well-resourced anti-Māori collective. “Te Pāti Māori cannot engage with a platform that enables harm to our people and the spread of misinformation.
Yesterday a Christchurch schoolboy told a Youth Court judge he “does not deny” sexual offending against three teenage girls. He was later charged and went on trial in the Youth Court this week. - A person does not consent to sexual activity just because they do not protest or physically resist the activity. Being impaired- A person does not consent to sexual activity if it happens while they are asleep or unconscious. - A person does not consent to sexual activity if it happens while they are so drunk or drugged that they cannot consent or refuse.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel RillstoneTe Pāti Māori has announced a boycott of the New Zealand Herald after the newspaper ran a front-page advert for Don Brash-led lobby group Hobson's Pledge. The party is demanding an apology and review of standards and says it will complain to the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Te Pāti Māori and others have warned the move threatens to reignite the contentious foreshore and seabed debate and the marches that came with it. "The New Zealand Herald have allowed themselves to be bought off by a well-resourced anti-Māori collective. The Advertising Standards Authority handles complaints about advertising.
Press Release – Te Pati MaoriTe Pti Mori cannot engage with a platform that enables harm on our people and the spread of misinformation. Te Pāti Māori will no longer engage with the New Zealand Herald after their disgusting attack on tangata whenua on the front-page of their 7 August tabloid. “The New Zealand Herald have allowed themselves to be bought off by a well-resourced anti-Māori collective. “Te Pāti Māori cannot engage with a platform that enables harm on our people and the spread of misinformation. Te Pāti Māori will also write a formal complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
A medium flat white from French83 in Federal St, Auckland, cost $6, a regular trim flat white from Bleached in New Plymouth $4.40 and an Americano from Moore Wilson in Wellington $4.80. An oat milk flat white at the Long Beach coffee cart in Northland cost $7. Photo: UnsplashInternationally, coffee bean prices have made news because they have been increasing rapidly amid forecasts of frost in Brazil that could damage the country's coffee crops. "The cost of goods for coffee at this moment in time and contracting forward for me in my organisation is the highest it's been, ever. He said the cost of coffee from Brazil, which was the majority of supply, was double what it was two or three years ago.
Both are lower than last week and -10% lower than the same week a year ago. The Australian 10 year bond yield starts today at just on 4.14% and down -2 bps. The Kiwi dollar starts today little-changed from this time yesterday at just over 60 USc. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at 68.7 and down -20 bps. The bitcoin price starts today at US$59,562 and up +6.5% from where we left it yesterday.
The 35 councils with Māori wards or constituencies can either put the decision to a poll or disband their Māori wards, and have until September 6 to decide what they’ll do. Liam Rātana explains. The Kaipara District Council has ignited nationwide controversy by becoming the first to scrap its Māori ...
Another low-priced hatchback has been dropped from the New Zealand market with the Mitsubishi Mirage now discontinued. A Mitsubishi New Zealand representative confirmed to Stuff that the model has been removed from the local line-up and follows recent news the model would also be axed in the US. Sales of the Mirage ended in Australia last year after three decades of the model. Mitsubishi says the last Mirage models brought into New Zealand were sold in July, with a small remainder of pre-registered versions still listed for sale online, Stuff reports. The Mirage had the title of New Zealand’s cheapest new car with a price tag of $21,990.
Photo: Tim CollinsAnalysis: Sir John Key has a powerful presence at National's annual conference, the government's latest maths initiative runs into controversy over student assessment, Health NZ's new supremo warns it could go broke and Shane Jones shakes up the energy market. National Party members felt the strong presence of former Prime minister Sir John Key at their annual conference in Auckland at the weekend. Stuff's Thomas Manch said the legacy of the Key era - nine years of electoral success - literally lingered in the room. Key spoke to RNZ at the conference and was generous with his comments about Luxon. Although the statistics were undeniably awful, the primary teachers union NZEI said there was concern about the rapid pace of change in the maths curriculum and the short time for training teachers.
“When these allegations came to light, TVNZ proactively removed one episode from season 1 of The Casketeers on TVNZ+,” a TVNZ spokeswoman told Media Insider. RNZ Morning Report hosts Corin Dann and Ingrid Hipkiss. The NZ Herald initially sought, under the Official Information Act, specific ratings for several individual RNZ shows – beyond topline results – last December. RNZ finally released to the NZ Herald a breakdown of its ratings on Tuesday this week. He has held executive and senior editorial roles at NZME including Managing Editor, NZ Herald Editor and Herald on Sunday Editor and has a small shareholding in NZME.
Surprised the NZ Herald would allow a white supremacy astro turf organisation buy a wrap around advert to invoke a race war? You shouldn’t be. Never, never, never forget that the NZ Herald’s very first editorial was calling on white New Zealanders to go to war with Māori. It has always been a right hate rag propped up by Real Estate Advertising, it will always be a right wing hate rag propped up by Real Estate Advertising.
