[ad_1] Labor is still way ahead in the latest TVNZ-Colmar Brunton poll, which shows the party won 47 percent, one point less than in last week’s poll, giving it 59 seats. Nacional has managed to climb to 33 percent, 2 points more than in last week’s survey, and giving party …
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[ad_1] Dreamworld’s parent company, Ardent Leisure, has been fined $ 3.6 million for the 2016 Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy that claimed four lives, including a New Zealander. Southport Magistrate Pam Dowse said the company failed in its primary safety duty to the public. New Zealander Cindy Low died, along …
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[ad_1] A man has been taken into police custody after allegedly escaping from a managed isolation facility in Auckland by climbing out of a fourth floor window and down a makeshift rope of sheets. The chief of managed isolation and quarantine, Air Commodore Darryn Webb, said around 8:20 a.m. On …
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[ad_1] This week’s weather bomb is a bright start to the school holidays for kiwi skiers, southern skifield operators say. So much snow fell in Queenstown that a man left his home, hopped on his snowboard and headed into town on Monday.
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[ad_1] Foreign Minister Winston Peters says a transtasman travel bubble could “open next week” if Australia can guarantee that “they will send security to our country, not danger.” But that could happen soon, Peters said. The Australian government is considering a plan that would initially allow some New Zealanders to …
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[ad_1] National leader Judith Collins has questioned whether the Kiwis are ready for a trans-Tasman bubble, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the timing of the border opening is up to Australia. Australian Trade and Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham has been talking about the possibility of traveling to Tasmania without …
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[ad_1] It’s not often that you can get on your skis right outside your front door, at least not for the Queenstown woman Natalie Urbani, who, thanks to an expected snow deposit near sea level, was able to ski in the golf and the fairways of your neighborhood this morning. …
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[ad_1] OPINION: You know things go wrong for a match when people start to wonder if that match is already on its death spiral. And that’s the conversation around National now. This has been fueled by last night’s Newshub-Reid research poll, which puts it at 29.6 percent. It’s not too …
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[ad_1] Motorcyclists and high-sided vehicle drivers are urged to avoid using the Auckland Harbor Bridge as high winds continue through Tuesday. It comes after the Waka Kotahi NZ Transportation Agency said the lanes on the bridge could close on short notice due to the wind. On Monday morning, he said …
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[ad_1] A Napier man was sent to pretrial detention after admitting charges related to the alleged sale of approximately 367 grams of methamphetamine, traced by messages on his cell phones. Appearing in Napier District Court on Friday, two days before his 44th birthday, William David Taylor pleaded guilty to the …
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