[ad_1] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has poured cold water on the All Blacks’ hopes of avoiding Christmas in quarantine after the Rugby Championship, saying the team would be “uncomfortable” if given special treatment. The All Blacks will be required to be quarantined for 14 days when they return …
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[ad_1] Danica MacLean / Leader of Whangarei Northland DHB has been found to be in violation of the patients’ rights code for failure to care for a man with bladder cancer. (File Photo: It is unclear if the hospital in the report is Whangārei Hospital.) A man was left waiting …
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[ad_1] COMMENTARY: In the mid-1990s, New Zealanders adopted electoral rules that the country hoped would end the tyranny of what Lord Hailsham once called the “elected dictatorship” of one-party majority government. And yet, a quarter century later, we are looking down the barrel of it. In the New Zealand Parliament, …
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[ad_1] He’s known for his safe hands on a rugby pitch, but Beauden Barrett reportedly had to be very careful with his wife last week by revealing that All Black was the one who gave birth to their newborn daughter. Beauden and Hannah Barrett. Source: Instagram / Beauden Barrett Barrett …
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[ad_1] OPINION: Like 2002 and 2011, this year will be one of the most memorable for the Warriors. Not because they made it to the Grand Final, but because of everything the team went through to maintain the NRL competition this season. They got off to a terrible start, with …
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[ad_1] Braden Fastier / Stuff A rescue helicopter at the scene of a multi-car crash on the Blenheim side of the Whangamoa Saddle. Police are asking anyone who witnessed the fatal accident on State Highway 6 near Whangamoa on Sunday to submit information. One person died in the accident and …
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[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission An embryologist who was unable to accept a job in New Zealand due to the border closure says it is unethical for authorities to withhold immigration fees that she and others have paid. No work has been done …
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[ad_1] Tūroa will be closed to skiers and guests tomorrow so that staff can attend the funeral of respected and veteran staff member Ben Goddard. Goddard, a longtime district councilor who had been working for Ruapehu Alpine Lifts in his shop repairing and maintaining elevators and vehicles, for more than …
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[ad_1] Nats official who supposedly calls himself ‘Merv’ still in leadership This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission A senior National Party official accused of calling a talkback radio station to derail a candidate, still maintains a leadership role within the party. Roger Bridge resigned as …
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[ad_1] The TVNZ poll comes one night after Newshub’s latest Reid research poll, which had Labor at 50.1 percent, Nationals at 29.6, Greens at 6.5 percent and ACT at 6.3 percent. Jacinda Ardern is at 54 percent as the preferred prime minister, unchanged from the previous poll. Judith Collins is …
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