University of Otago health sciences student Levi Stout is New Zealand’s top-ranked disc golfer. Mr Stout said he started playing disc golf when he was 10, when he and his brother discovered the disc golf baskets in Te Anau while they were on holiday. "We just bought some cheap plastic Frisbees and started playing," he said. He is a two-time South Island champion and the present South Island champion, as well as a three-time New Zealand Disc Golf (NZDG) tour winner. "Disc golf is definitely not a guarantee.

Kiwis Bring Home Gold And Bronze From Paris Olympics Day 13 sees Dame Lisa Carrington lead women's kayak team to gold as sailors shine with bronze medalThe Paris Olympics 2024 is heating up as Kiwi athletes shine on day 13 of competition. New Zealand's women’s kayak team, led by the legendary Dame Lisa Carrington, triumphed spectacularly, clinching the gold medal in the women's K4 500m final, solidifying Carrington's status as one of New Zealand's most celebrated Olympians with her sixth gold medal. On the cycling front, New Zealand's team was also buzzing with anticipation. The star golfer is gunning for her Olympic dream, seeking to complete her medal set after winning silver and bronze at the previous two Olympics. The spirit of the Olympics shines through them as they not only compete but uplift one another, showcasing true sportsmanship.

The front page ad on the Wednesday, August 7 edition of the New Zealand Herald. Image / pressreader.comNew Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME), the company which owns the New Zealand Herald, is facing intense backlash for running a full front page advertisement from right-wing lobby group Hobson’s Pledge. The ad, on the front page of the Wednesday, August 7 edition of the Herald, calls for the restoration of “the foreshore and seabed to public ownership”. The front page ad on the Wednesday, August 7 edition of the New Zealand Herald. ‘I’m actually a Herald subscriber - well I was until yesterday’Award-winning author Shilo Kino, who herself once worked as a journalist at the New Zealand Herald, said she wasn’t surprised by wraparound advertisement.

Kawea Te Rongo Condemns NZ Herald’s Promotion Of Hobson’s Pledge Ad, Calls For Review Of Advertising Standards PoliciesKawea Te Rongo, the Māori Journalists Association, expresses profound shock and dismay at the New Zealand Herald’s recent decision to feature a front-page advertisement from Hobson’s Pledge. Kawea Te Rongo has also reached out to Māori staff at the New Zealand Herald to offer support and to ensure they are receiving the assistance they need. “We are concerned about the impact this decision may have on Māori staff and also non-Māori staff alike within the Herald. The association urges NZME to review their advertising standards policies and processes, and commit to a more responsible approach in their publication practices. Kawea Te Rongo also urges NZME to formally apologise to their Māori staff members, contributors, advertisers and audience.

Drones, doping allegations, dirty water and much, much more. Here are some of the biggest scandals rocking the Olympics this year. While this isn’t exactly an Olympic scandal, as it technically didn’t happen at the Olympics, the allegations have left the sport under a black cloud. Guram Tushishvili of Georgia was disqualified from the 2024 Olympics and bronze medal contention after his behaviour in the men’s +100kg judo quarter-final. And the gold medal for sorest loser goes to… (Photo: Dan Mullan/Getty Images)Soccer snoopingFor years Canada has been fraudulently coasting by on their international “nice guy” reputation.

PHOTO: GETTY IMAGESSouthland's share of affordable rental housing has fallen significantly in the past five years, having the biggest decline in all regional areas across the country. The Child Poverty Action Group has released a report indicating the share of affordable rentals had significantly decreased in most of the regions, with Southland falling by 26%, the highest of all regions surveyed. Researcher Greg Waite found there were prominent declines in affordable rentals for low-income working families in 12 out of 16 regions between 2018 and 2023. "New Zealand’s private rental market consistently rates as one of the most unaffordable in the OECD. A Trade Me report indicated 70% of people competing for Invercargill rental properties were aged under 40.

Alex Casey talks to Bookworm’s Ant Timpson and Emma Slade about breathing new life into a decades-old Canterbury urban legend. Legend tells of a farmer who was driving home across the Canterbury plains at dusk. In the distance, right in the middle of the road, was a huge, jet black ...

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:55 am, August 8th, 2024 - 31 commentsCategories: polycrisis, uk politics - Tags: anti-fascism, england, fascism, hopeThis is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time. New Zealand isn’t magically immune from fascismFascism is rising in a number of places in the world and we’re not paying enough attention. I’m not saying the right are fascists (liberals and leftists really need to stop saying they are because it renders the term politically impotent). The polycrisisAll of this sits within the polycrisis, and the polycrisis sits within the climate/ecology crises. The good news about the polycrisis is that the system change approaches are very good at operating across the various crises.

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Wednesday’s labour market data showed the New Zealand economy was still adding jobs in June, though not as quickly as the working-age population had grown. Roughly one-third of the public sector job cuts were from leaving roles unfilled, according to Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Despite these headlines, the labour force participation and employment rates remain more or less unchanged from two years ago at 71.7% and 68.4%, respectively. This is unusual in a weak job market, which often discourages people from seeking employment. If anything, the labour market was slightly stronger than the Reserve Bank expected at its May Monetary Policy Statement when it said it would hold rates steady for a year.

Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand with news of a day of mostly restrained gains in economic metrics. The Australian 10 year bond yield starts today at just on 4.16% and up another +14 bps as the RBA review sinks in. The Kiwi dollar starts today up almost +½c from this time yesterday at just on 60.1 USc. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at 68.9 and up +70 bps. The bitcoin price starts today at US$55,912 and down -1.4% from where we left it yesterday.

Would-be bike thieves might have to stick to walking after the launch of a new scheme in Dunedin aimed at preventing bicycles being stolen. The Dunedin City Council and police have teamed up to stop bike thefts through the use of the United States bike recovery service 529 Garage that came to New Zealand two years ago. To use the service, bike owners register with an app, and enter their bike’s serial number, identifying features and photos. Cr Steve Walker said 529 Garage would bring an extra sense of security to those who enjoyed biking around the city. Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said 529 Garage would would help deter bike thieves, but doing all you could to secure your bike was still important.

75 workers at OJI Fibre Solution’s Penrose Pulp Mill in Auckland learnt this morning that the mill is likely to close by mid-December. Union representatives are calling on the Government to urgently step in and save the mill by reducing wholesale energy costs in any way possible. “This has come like a bolt out of the blue for workers and was completely unexpected,” said Justin Wallace, organiser for FIRST Union, which represents production workers on site. “They are gutted that the company has now told them that, pending consultation, the site will close,” said Mr Gallagher. “The workers and unions will spend the next month working on a proposal to challenge the intention to close,” said Justin Wallace.

But in the first instance, there may be options for bringing external capital into Kiwibank, which don't involve any sale whatsoever of the Crown's assets,” Willis said. One of these options may be to sell Kiwibank to a Crown investment entity such as the NZ Super Fund, which offered to buy the bank in 2021. The bid was conditional on NZ Super Fund being allowed to bring in private sector capital and possibly sell the asset in the future — terms which the Labour Government did not accept. Willis said she hadn’t spoken with ACC or the Super Fund about the possibility of reversing that transaction but had talked with some KiwiSaver fund managers “in passing”. Even with an extra billion dollars, Kiwibank would still be less than half the size of the next largest.

Police were called after the unexplained death of a person at a Christchurch house on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to the Linwood Ave address shortly before 11am. “At this time, the death is being treated as unexplained." A man at the property yesterday told Stuff he was informed of the death by police. He told Stuff he believes the man who died was in his 50s and lived in a flat on the property.