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Girl missing after Northland swim
Source: Thinkstock A 15-year-old girl has gone missing from Matauri Bay, 30kms north of Kerikeri. Police say she was last seen going for a swim and was reported missing at 1.20pm. Two Search and Rescue boats are in the water and there are people helping to search for her at the ...
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Greens announce counter-bid to prevent oil exploration
Rash of oil and mineral protests nationwide The Green Party is calling on New Zealanders to join them in a counter-bid to prevent deep-sea oil exploration off the coast. The party launched its anti-drilling campaign 'Kiwi Bid' this afternoon at Piha. It aims to gather support to submit its own bid for the areas the Government has opened up for oil exploration in order to protect them, ...
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Planning laws stacked against first home buyers - English
Current planning laws are "explicitly designed to drive up housing values", Finance Minister Bill English said on Q+A this morning. "They’re explicitly designed to ensure that house prices go up so that they can afford the intensification and the very high-value, high-cost urban design that goes with that." Mr English said legislation announced last week to ...
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Clear message sent to property developers
Property developers who "sit and wait" for land values to increase have been sent a clear signal that the Government will act to bring more housing into the market, Finance Minister Bill English says. The Government last week announced new measures to increase the supply of housing, including the ability to take control of planning and consents for new houses if councils were too slow in freeing ...
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Lifestyle block-living still the Kiwi dream
Figures released by the Real Estate Institute show lifestyle block-living is still the New Zealand dream. 16 per cent more lifestyle blocks were sold during the year ended in March, compared with the previous year. Auckland had the largest increase, with about 150 more sales recorded during this time. A spokesman from the institute Brian Peacocke says the lifestyle market ...
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Federated Farmers drought feed operation ends
video Federated Farmers' feed operation has come to an end, with its last shipment of feed delivered to drought-affected North Island farmers this week. Around 100,000 bales of rye-grass and barley straw have been delivered from the South Island to the Port of Tauranga over the past six weeks for delivery to farmers in the area. The final shipment arrived on Wednesday and will be ...
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Greens launch Kiwi Bid
The Green Party has launched the Kiwi Bid in an effort to provide the government with a clear choice over deep sea oil drilling. Photo / Supplied The Green Party has launched a campaign it hopes will stop deep-sea drilling in New Zealand waters. As the Government begins the tender process for new permits to drill off the west coast of the North Island and east coast of the South ...
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Stars get behind Kiwi Bid
Olympic rower Rob Hamill and young champion surfer Mischa Davis have thrown their support behind a new campaign to protect what they say is a major threat to New Zealand beaches. The duo joined forces today for the launch of the Green Party's bid to stop deep-sea drilling in New Zealand waters. Mr Hamill, also a former Green Party candidate, said the Government could not be trusted to ensure ...
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Inequality up under National
Bill English can try to rewrite history all he likes, but the truth is that inequality is getting worse under National and Thursday's Budget does nothing to fix that, says David Parker, Labour's Finance spokesperson."Both income and asset inequality have worsened under the current government, and will continue do so."On Q&A this morning, Bill English desperately ...
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Greens suggest 15 surcharge on foreign house buyers
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says the country needs to look at how overseas demand is affecting the New Zealand housing market. "What Hong Kong did is they put a 15 percent surcharge effectively on non-residents buying property ," he told TVNZ’s Q+A programme this morning, "to try to basically turn down the tap a little bit to take some of the heat out of ...
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US student accidentally killed by police
A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder, Dalton Smith, pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old Hofstra University student in a ...
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Protesters gather for anti-oil drilling campaign launch
Rash of oil and mineral protests nationwide Around 150 people are expected to head out to Auckland's Piha beach this afternoon to protest deep sea oil drilling of New Zealand's coasts. The protest is the official launch the Green Party's anti-deep sea oil drilling campaign, which it says will be the centrepiece of its lead up to the election. The campaign, called Kiwi Bid to ...
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Late New Zealand rally rocks England
England suffered a late batting collapse against New Zealand on day three of the first Test at Lord's on Saturday.The hosts appeared to be in complete control as Joe Root and Jonathan Trott forged a fruitful partnership to move England to 2-159.But they lost four wickets for just 12 runs to leave the match evenly poised with two days still remaining, the home side leading by 205 runs with ...
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Green Party launches the Kiwi Bid to protect our beaches
Today in Piha the Green Party launched a major campaign to stop the Government's planned expansion of risky deep sea drilling, including offering New Zealanders the opportunity to join a counter bid to protect our oceans and beaches. On May 24th the Government begins the non-financial tender process with oil companies for new permits to conduct deep sea drilling in New Zealand waters ...
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High hopes for Meridian sale
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English. Photo / Greg Bowker The Finance Minister has high hopes New Zealanders will buy into the partial float of Meridian Energy. Bill English has confirmed it is the next asset in line for a sell-down, but he says even after the float, 85 per cent of the company should remain in New Zealand hands. The figure includes the minimum of 51 per cent of ...
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Latest WINZ privacy breach preventable says Labour
Jacinda Ardern. Photo / File Labour says Government inaction over privacy breaches could lie behind the mistaken release from Work and Income. Details of 34 beneficiaries, who are about to be cut off from the system, have been mistakenly emailed to another claimant. Labour's social development spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern says a full investigation of WINZ processes should have ...
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Two hospitalised after rally crash
A 43-year-old man and 42-year-old woman from Motueka have been hospitalised after their rally car lost control this morning between Riwaka and Sandy Bay. Ambulance, Fire and organisers assited the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter onboard Intensive Care paramedic to stabilise the patients. The man and woman reportedly have neck and chest injuries. Immediately after ...
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Precious penguins needing better protection
An environmental group says the precious small colony of yellow-eyed penguins in the Otago Peninsula urgently needs better protection. The concern follows the release of BirdLife International's review, which has found set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds every year. Forest and Bird says the current four kilometre-wide set net ban around the peninsula's coast needs to be 150 ...
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Man shot point-blank in NYC hate crime
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, in a neighbourhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. New York's police commissioner called the killing a hate crime. Before opening fire, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want ...
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Concern for missing Pukekohe woman
Police are worried about the whereabouts of a woman from Pukekohe, in rural south Auckland, who has gone missing almost 100 kilometres from home. Ngaire Gibbons was spotted in Puhoi, on the northern edge of the region, yesterday afternoon, and police believe she thumbed a lift there. She is 63, Maori, and about five feet three inches tall (one metre 60 centimetres) with a plump build and grey ...
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Anderson tears through New Zealand
James Anderson completed a five-wicket haul as England dominated the morning of day three of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.Resuming on 4-154, the visitors added just 53 runs to their overnight total as they were bowled out for 207.The breakthrough came almost immediately for the hosts, as in just the second bowl of the day Brendon McCullum edged a Stuart Broad delivery to ...
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Wider set net ban needed to save yellow-eyed penguins
Forest & Bird is calling for an immediate extension to a ban on commercial and recreational set-netting around Otago Peninsula, following the release of a major new international review that has found that set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds around the world every year. The results of the review, undertaken by conservation group BirdLife International, have been published in the ...
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Lotto Brings Smiles to Three Players
There'll be smiles all round this weekend for three Lotto players in Howick, Manurewa and Lower Hutt after each winning a $333,333 share of Lotto First Division.The winning tickets were sold at Sunny Dairy Superette in Howick, Countdown Manurewa in Manurewa and New World Stokes Valley in Lower Hutt.Powerball was not struck this evening and has jackpotted to $7 million.Strike Four was ...
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Final Tauranga drought feed shipments unpacked
Federated Farmers Grain & Seed has completed its final drought feed shipment into the Port of Tauranga, with containers being unpacked last Thursday for delivery in coming days. In all, some 100,000 small bale equivalents have been delivered via the Port of Tauranga."The entire drought feed operation has become the 'Farmy Army Navy', given the mix of farmers and ...
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National to increase NZ’s debt by $61 billion over 5 years
Budget numbers reveal our national level of indebtedness will skyrocket by $61 billion over five years, which is an economic ticking time-bomb, says the Green Party. "New Zealand's national debt will skyrocket by $61 billion over the five years from 2012 to 2017 according to figures in National's own budget," said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman."John Key ...
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New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
New Zealand is regional power in the Pacific and this is reflected in our ongoing involvement in the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, which is the mechanism by which the region manages one of its greatest natural resources.
New Zealand has long been a regional power in the South Pacific, and in this capacity the country has lead a number of major initiatives undertaken alone or in conjunction with other Pacific Island nations, the most important of these have been policies aimed at environmental protection and sustainability, as well as monitoring and rehabilitation of important environmental resources, such as the Pacific fisheries. Read more
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