[ad_1] Papatoetoe High School principal Vaughan Couillault says he has had a “frank” discussion with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about blaming Covid-infected families for spreading the virus. Couillault, whose school has been at the center of the latest Covid outbreak that has infected 15 people so far, received a call …
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[ad_1] Australian Attorney General Christian Porter during a press conference. Photo / Getty Images Australia’s chief attorney general, Christian Porter, revealed that he is the man at the center of a historic rape allegation involving a 16-year-old girl in Sydney in 1988, an accusation he emphatically denies. After seven days …
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[ad_1] AUSTRALIA OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY The forecast track of Tropical Cyclone Niran, from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The time displayed is AEST. A Category 2 tropical cyclone is expected to strengthen off the north coast of Queensland on Thursday morning and head southeast, but models do not show it …
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[ad_1] Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins criticized decisions made by Destiny Church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki as Auckland prepared to return to alert level 3 lockdown. The couple left for Rotorua on Saturday and arrived around midnight, just six hours before the country moved to level 3, Radio NZ …
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[ad_1] More than 50,000 vehicles have been stopped at Auckland’s border checkpoints since the city was again blocked due to the latest community outbreak. More than 800 of the stopped motorists were turned away, most of them on the southern border of the region. Checkpoints were established starting at 6 …
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[ad_1] The cost of Wellington’s $ 6.4 billion transportation program is projected to rise, while an independent chair will be appointed to help get the beleaguered project back on track. Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) revealed the changes to its 20-year-old program on Wednesday, after a damning report was released …
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[ad_1] New Zealand Police / Supplied Sean Broderick, 53, swam about 200 meters from Greenhithe to Paremoremo to evade Auckland police. Police say a wanted man eluded Auckland officials by swimming about 200 meters from Greenhithe to Paremoremo. The “dangerous” man Sean Broderick, who has active warrants for his arrest, …
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[ad_1] Christel Yardley / Stuff Strong demand for dairy products from China and Asia has outstripped supply, causing prices to skyrocket, according to Nathan Penny, an agricultural economist at Westpac. Waikato farmer Ben Moore had to wipe the sleep from his eyes when he woke up to read the figures …
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[ad_1] MALLEFET, STEVENS AND DUCHATELET Daylight view (top) and luminescent kite shark pattern A species of glow-in-the-dark shark found during a study on the Chatham Rise in New Zealand waters is the largest known luminous vertebrate. The kite shark, which can grow up to 180 cm, was one of three …
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[ad_1] OPINION: Here’s a sweet piece of palace trivia to start the week: the royal family receives hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail each year. In this day and age, there is something quite moving: a veritable army that spans the world still goes to the real trouble of …
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