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[ad_1] Gibson said that while there were no recent estimates of the value of the country’s freshwater sport fishing industry, he believed it was worth “more than a billion dollars” a year. “New Zealand is known internationally as [being] among the top two or three destinations in the world for …

[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Labor’s fiscal policy is not really about paying the cost of Covid-19. At the end of Thursday, just over a day after the policy was announced, the government will head to the market to borrow another $ 950 million, well above the $ 550 million that Labor plans …

[ad_1] The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is distancing itself from the controversy over Mulanlinks with communist organizations in China. The NZFC said Stuff the taxpayer funded grant that Mulan received only extended to expenses in New Zealand. The grant pays for 20 percent of New Zealand’s production budget up …

[ad_1] Police tapped cell phones belonging to members and associates of the Comancheros gang, listening in on live calls nearly a year before robbing bicycles in a major raid. The national president of the Comancheros, Pasilika Naufahu, is among those facing charges in the Auckland High Court. Photo: RNZ / …

[ad_1] By RugbyPass The future of rugby in Japan for Isaac Ross, a former All Blacks blocker, is seen further, as a result of an obscure Superior League rule that has cast doubt on the validity of his status as a Japanese citizen. Despite holding a Japanese passport since 2017, …

[ad_1] John Bonning’s mother-in-law was in such agony that even the sheets became an unbearable weight on her body. A recent patient, a former colleague, now skeletal after losing 40 kilograms to cancer, and too wasted to get back up after a fall. Waikato Hospital’s main ER doctor has suffered …

[ad_1] One of the nation’s leading academics says he is considering leaving the University of Waikato because of what he calls “systemic and casual racism” underway. Maori astronomer Dr. Rangi Matamua, who this year received the Prime Minister’s Award for Scientific Communications and has been a leading advocate for making …

[ad_1] New Zealand’s prime minister has launched her election tour of the country from her parents’ home in rural Waikato, so her “people” can care for children. The rescheduled general elections, which now take place on October 17, are different from what the country has seen before, with party leaders …

[ad_1] OPINION: The Australians are surely not going to snatch the Rugby Championship below New Zealand’s peak. Sit. Honesty time. Could occur. If Australia convinces Sanzaar, who is organizing a stakeholder telephone liaison Thursday night to discuss this, that the four-nation tournament should be played for six weeks in Tasmania …

[ad_1] National promises to create a single Crown-owned bank to streamline and finance infrastructure projects if elected to government. The Crown Financial Institution would combine several entities into a single agency called the National Infrastructure Bank, which would advise and finance local and central government projects. It would act as …