[ad_1] Cameron Spencer / Getty Images The All Blacks may have to play the entire Rugby Championship in Australia this year. Sanzaar is expected to announce at 3pm on Friday that the Rugby Championship will be held in Australia. None of the contending countries’ respective rugby governing bodies have yet …
Read More »Election 2020: political leaders present their arguments to businessmen in the leaders’ speech
[ad_1] New Zealand’s political leaders are making their case to business people in the traditional BusinessNZ Leaders’ Address leading up to this morning’s election. Each party leader currently in Parliament has been allocated a speaking space to present their ideas and plans to the audience. The event format is different …
Read More »Former Canterbury rebuilding agency employees lose name suppression in case of fraud
[ad_1] Stuff Simon Carl Nikoloff, left, and Gerard Anthony Gallagher leave court after an earlier appearance. Two former Canterbury reconstruction agency employees facing corruption charges have been named after a suppression order expired months after they were indicted. Simon Carl Nikoloff and Gerard Anthony Gallagher appeared in Christchurch Superior Court …
Read More »Driver who killed pedestrian ‘too drunk’ to remember hitting her
[ad_1] BENN BATHGATE / STUFF / Waikato Times Xianju Pan, photographed at an earlier hearing, was sentenced to 11 months of house arrest after drunk driving killed a 71-year-old man. An acupuncture business owner who ran over and killed a 71-year-old woman told police that he did not even remember …
Read More »Living with less: the family shows that households can survive a large drop in income
[ad_1] Roughly 185,000 workers expect to lose their jobs in the coming months, and another 475,000 think there is a “medium” probability that they will suffer the same fate. The scale of worker pessimism and the threat to household finances, revealed in a Stats NZ statement this week, shocks Mark …
Read More »The education sector faces a widespread loss of jobs
[ad_1] The loss of millions of dollars in foreign student fees means that hundreds of jobs are at risk in the country’s schools, universities and polytechnics. There are only about 50,000 foreign students in the country, less than half the normal number, and school principals and university leaders have told …
Read More »Trump’s contradiction on Covid-19: he just wanted to be an ‘cheerleader’ for the nation
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump spoke privately about the “deadly” coronavirus last February, even as he declared to the United States that it was no worse than the flu and insisted it was under control, according to a new book by the journalist. Bob Woodward. Trump said Wednesday that he …
Read More »Patient Safety at Risk After Canterbury Board of Health Cuts, Outgoing Head of Nursing Says
[ad_1] One of its architects has questioned the feasibility of a plan to cut $ 56.9 million from Canterbury’s healthcare system, who has admitted that it will put patient safety at risk. Mary Gordon, Canterbury’s outgoing director of health nursing, told Nursing Magazine Nursing Nursing New Zealand the plan, which …
Read More »Education sector with liquidity problems facing a widespread loss of jobs
[ad_1] This story was originally posted on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. The loss of millions of dollars in foreign student fees means that hundreds of jobs are at risk in the country’s schools, universities and polytechnics. There are only about 50,000 foreign students in the country, less …
Read More »Racism Row professor distances job loss from claims of racism
[ad_1] CHRISTEL YARDLEY / Things The outrage that the high-profile Maori faculty contract will not be renewed at the University of Waikato was misdirected One of the six Maori academics who wrote a letter alleging racism at the University of Waikato has told his supporters not to include “malicious intent” …
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