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3 years

I’m with Arnold @Schwarzenegger - just, so good.

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Jonah's Wesley College athletics champs results 1989 #RIPJonahLomu

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1 year

National Party Three Waters sign meets failed stormwater system, Kumeu, Jan 27.

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3 years

Vaccination Centre in Morrin Rd in east Auckland is going to pull an all nighter this Friday 8 am until Saturday 6.30 am, with DJs and live musicians and an unending sausage sizzle for shift workers and night owls

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2 years

That full, no holds barred Michael Wood quote from earlier today in the House:

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Classic Grant Robertson towards the end of his valedictory: "I endorse Chippy's view that you cannot bark at every car, but it can be tough if there's a convoy of stupidity passing by."

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3 years

Grateful for an AT bus driver just now who let a woman passenger at Mission Bay on the bus in a hurry without a hopcard swipe or cash as a guy stalked her, eventually banging on the bus window, and then let her off well away down the waterfront.

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1 year

Pretty raw in the House just now with Grant Robertson angrily dismissing David Seymour for having said Jacinda Ardern was too dumb to be PM. "That's the kind of man you are Mr Seymour, and I don't want to give you any more air time."

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2 years

A bit of designer motif cloud over Rangitoto just now

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3 years

Mongrel Mob's presenting a session with invited medical experts to talk vaccines

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Vaccine expert Helen Petousis-Harris on the religious ground for striking down the police-defence vax mandate: "I would expect anyone genuine in their concern does not avail themselves of other medicines such as paracetamol as they too have been developed using fetal cell lines."

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6 years

PM Jacinda Ardern, asked if Taika Waititi is right saying NZ is ‘as racist as f..k’ has a great sidestep: ‘Every country has racism .....I don’t know where f..k sits on the spectrum.’ @TheAMShowNZ

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2 years

It's Stuff's home ground, but hell their live coverage of the protest and bravery of staff out in the crowds near Parliament is remarkable. One cameraman just seemed to be shoved by a guy saying 'this wouldn't have happened if you guys had told the truth'

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2 years

Would we ever have 700 people in hospital with the flu at any one time?

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4 years

Foodstuffs (Pak n Save and New World) is giving uniformed emergency and medical staff priority at its checkouts and in getting past external queues to get into the supermarket. Bravo.

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3 years

Remarkable example of Samoan ifoga - ritual apology - from PM Jacinda Ardern and Govt - covering her in fine mat in Auckland Town Hall before Pasifika community as symbol of asking for forgiveness for the Dawn Raids

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3 years

The Royal NZ College of GPs has issued a statement trying to refine down pro vaccination facts to seven key points. "If there is only one thing you read about Covid-19 today, make it this," says medical director Dr Bryan Betty:

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3 years

An exhausted baby. Whangamata. (Pic Andy Warneford, FB)

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9 months

Chloe Swarbrick chastising some media for their coverage of law and order:

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4 years

Simon Bridges: "Today in this House we all agree. There is no National or Labour, Green or Act. We are all just New Zealanders."

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4 years

PM uses ‘Rose’ a cleaner from Otahuhu police station as a prop at today’s press conference - saluting her heroic 13 hour days. Rose, while grateful, tells @NewshubNZ it’d be good if the PM sorted the Living Wage for her and cleaner colleagues.

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5 years

Great @nzherald headline: "NZ lose by zero runs"

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2 months

Deputy PM Winston Peters takes a mobile phone call during Question Time in the House. Labour leader Chris Hipkins asks the Speaker if the rules have changed or the tobacco lobby should wait until QT is over before phoning Peters with feedback. Speaker says no phone calls.

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2 years

Spare a thought for the cops, having to face all of that at close quarters.

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4 years

Gasps as Labour’s Chris Hipkins tells Parliament the case for releasing two women on compassionate leave from quarantine in Auckland to Wellington had been advocated by National Hutt Valley MP Chris Bishop.

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4 years

Judith Collins keeps emphasising she "came in only a few weeks ago" but it was 13 weeks. Jacinda Ardern had only 8 weeks in 2017.

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6 years

A truly remarkable sight at Auckland Museum marking 100 years since the Great War....

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11 months

National’s really got to have a think about the vibe it’s giving off with who’s in the lineups nodding around Chris Luxon.

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3 years

And here they are - minus PM Shipley who couldn’t make it...

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7 months

All New Zealand households could be "up to" $24 million better off this Saturday *if they buy a ticket with sufficient correct numbers in Lotto

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3 years

Now *this* is cool. Air NZ is turning a Boeing 787 Dreamliner into a "Jabaseat" vaccination centre - with 'flights' in its hangar at Auckland Airport on Super Shot Saturday. Jab in Business Premier, moving to snack in Economy. Book at BookMyVaccine and choose Air NZ Jabaseat.

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6 months

First year 'fees free' at unis/techs will go. NZF-Nat agreement will replace it with a 'final year fees-free' - presumably to incentivise students to finish..

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10 months

Willie Jackson in the urgent debate on Kiri Allan's resignation: "I take this very personally. My uncle, Moana Jackson, talked to me about Kiritapu six years ago. He said to me I have this woman who's a great great talent and you better look after her."

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3 months

Asked on @NZMorningReport about the cost of pursuing the Treaty principles bill when savings are needed, PM Luxon agrees, starting talking about Labour's big spending years. Ingrid Hipkiss interrupts: "Yes, we have heard. We're not cutting and pasting again for this interview."

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2 years

A Buenos Aires handshake for Coles from Matera

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8 months

Strong from Hipkins on the Luxon claim that Labour’s spending an extra $1b a week: Hipkins: - is $150m for superannuitants ‘wasteful spending?’ - is $200m for health ‘wasteful spending?’ - is $100m more for education a week ‘wasteful spending?’

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New Green MP Teanau Tuiono in his maiden speech: "People often ask me if I'm half Māori or half Moana but I'm not half anything, No one is half anything. If anything, I'm double. If I was a beer I'd be double brown."

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6 years

Free speech doesn’t mean compulsory news coverage. Just saying.

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10 years

Tina Fey replies to an online commenter.... http://t.co/mqxZG5w9hN

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4 years

The cost of jailing the Chch terrorist is about 36 cents a year for each New Zealander. If the $1.8m annual cost is viewed as onerous, we could work to keep 14 cheaper, standard inmates out of prison for each year of his incarceration.

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3 years

Party politics aside, Jacinda Ardern must feel reinforced to have Grant Robertson off the bench for the 1pm Covid press conference. He’s across the brief, agile and able to carry the thing to almost the same level as her. Like Barrett coming off the bench for Mo’unga.

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4 years

Collins saying again she’s the daughter of Matamata dairy farmers - the country’s first state house on a private dairy farm?

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1 month

Auckland Transport trolling Russell Coutts

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4 years

Good bloody job. A rare, raw and real post-conflab statement.

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‘Do not deport your people and your problems’: Jacinda Ardern has unleashed on Scott Morrison in a live media conference #auspol

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3 years

Captain on delayed Air NZ flight sitting at Gisborne: ‘Sorry for the delay. We’re having a few computer problems and we’ve been talking to the engineers in Auckland and they’ve given us a few ideas - so I’m going to have to turn the power off on the aircraft for a moment’

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Tim Murphy

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2 years

Loving how excited Wellington is about a new road. Saving - wait for it - 7 to 15 minutes driving time.

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4 years

Mike Hosking ticked off by the Broadcasting Standards Authority for misleading use of Italy Covid-19 death statistics in a Mike's Minute - BSA highlights "the importance of data literacy, particularly in a news and current affairs context." 🔥

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4 years

Astonishingly good photo from the Australian bushfires - lone kookaburra looking over the devastation. Posted on FB by News Ltd; photo Adam Stevenson.

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2 years

Remarkable how the ram raids on super luxury CBD shops spark such embarrassment, outcry and police/political promises when months of suburban dairy/liquor store ram raids didn't move the dial.

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2 years

"When people talk to me about 'freedom', I say to them: If your freedom ends and begins with your individuality, then you are being coerced and guided into more extreme right wing elements. And we've seen that outside." - Green MP Teanau Tuiono in the House today.

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2 years

Is there anything left for David Seymour and Chris Luxon/Bishop to call for?

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8 months

Overall verdict: Hipkins by a reasonable margin.

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4 years

Post debate experts 18 years on... (2002 pic from Wallace Chapman)

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1 year

The usually placid Ohinemuri River in the Karangahake Gorge between Waihi and Paeroa just now.

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2 years

Interesting that Sam Uffindell/Chris Luxon/Sylvia Wood all used the phrase that the flat incident and behaviour didn't occur 'as reported by the media'. Not that it didn't occur.

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2 years

Out-of-body experience on 1 News tonightx 6 pm news reporting on what TVNZ management - and their own head of news and current affairs - WON’T tell them about the departure of Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria. Virtuous but fruitless report, indicating big internal tensions.

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3 years

Oldie but a goodie...

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4 years

Is there anything more unimaginative in opposition policy-making than 'work for the dole' 'get the gangs' or 'hard labour for prisoners'?

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4 years

A reader writes....

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2 years

National MP David Bennett saying 'the Gods have looked after New Zealand' during the pandemic 'it's nothing to do with the Prime Minister'...

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7 months

Historically off-form, fact-challenged performance just now by Winston Peters on Q&A. Jack Tame stayed calm and persistent in the face of vacuousness and abuse. Even a threat to come after TVNZ if in govt. Peters used to be capable of being better than that.

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10 months

Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori, says Kiri Allan is the latest to suffer from the misogyny and racism of NZ's Parliament established by colonist white men. "The rules and traditions of this place perpetuate an unsafe culture. This place is cold and devoid of spirit."

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6 years

Rod Emmerson today in the ⁦ @nzherald ⁩

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2 years

Group trying to injunct the kids’vaccine rollout lose in the High Court - it said: no one’s forced to take it, schools aren’t requiring it, the group’s substantive case is ‘weak’and the decision to introduce the 5-12 vax was ‘informed and reasonable’. Is that now 4 and zero?

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2 years

A media aside: In many of the news reports since the Uffindell bullying story broke, the (only?) source for much of what's being reported - - has been entirely left out. Initial reports on 1News, Newshub, Morning Report all somehow lacking attribution.

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2 months

PM, asked how much trainee cops get, eventually estimates $90k.Stuff says the number is around $50k. Luxon accuses Stuff of being tabloid.

‘It incites rage’ - Police verdict on Luxon interview

ANALYSIS: Soon after our interview with the Prime Minister for the Tova podcast, the messages started coming in from Police and from their partners.

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5 years

Australian teenager Summer Joyan was moved to write, for the country's national broadcaster the ABC, a letter addressed to Jacinda Ardern. She has asked Newsroom to publish it for New Zealand audiences.

An open letter to Jacinda Ardern

An Australian teenager contacted the country's national broadcaster with a letter addressed to Jacinda Ardern. She also contacted Newsroom.

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4 years

Next up: a dob-in line for people noticing apostrophe crime's by businesse's and signwriter's. 0800plural

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4 years

David Wong-Tung, the businessman, blanches at being linked by media to his wife, but in his loud complaint to Newsroom about the Mikonui mine landscape story below, he sent us criticism forwarded to him from her parliamentary and gmail addresses.

Rehabilitated conservation land mine a ‘moonscape’

A mine on conservation land on the West Coast conditionally signed-off as rehabilitated has been described as a desolate wasteland.

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4 years

Singapore (2.6m voters) calls and holds elections within a fortnight. The July poll was at the height of Covid. No campaign rallies. Voters given recommended voting hours (elderly first in morning) - mobile voting centres set up. Voting mandatory and highest turnout since 97

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BSA sanctions Newstalk ZB and ex-host Kate Hawkesby for suggesting Māori and PI were being put to top of list for surgery due to ethnicity. "The broadcaster chose to frame an important news story in a misleading and inflammatory manner .. [with] potential to cause serious harm."

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7 months

What's got Chris Bishop so combustible over the past couple of days? Has NZ First hit 7 or 8 in National's internal polling, or National dropped back to the mid 30s?

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3 years

Min of Health announce: (by 5.30) - 37,011 first doses - 87,106 second doses - 10,359 first doses for Maori - 10,427 second doses for Maori Total 124.1k beats per capita records in Aust, UK, US and Canada

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2 years

I mean, really, who could either ‘love’ or ‘loathe’ a public servant professionally doing their job?

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2 years

Today's political discourse: Opposition: "We demand that it be daylight once the sun rises..." Government: We confirm it is likely to be daylight once the sun rises."

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4 years

RNZ National surges 50,000 to 654,200 in weekly audience in latest GfK ratings survey to March 29 - bigger than the number one commercial station The Breeze on 583k, More FM 581k, The Edge 578k and Newstalk ZB on 536k

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1 year

NZ Muslim Association opening five Auckland mosques as emergency shelters for flood affected residents "Please bring along your sleeping bag and blanket. Separate areas will be dedicated for men and women."

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7 years

This...

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10 months

Mayor Wayne Brown tells 1 News he's heard the shooter could be dead. "Very scary, very bad," he says, and 'couldn't be at a worse time with the eyes of the world on us for the World soccer thing.'

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5 years

Well done ⁦ @PatrickCrewdson ⁩ and Stuff - no longer allowing comments on these topics: a list of truly endless trolling and tribulation

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4 years

Four months to go tomorrow until the election. Jacinda needs to focus hard if she wants to get to 100 percent.

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6 years

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1 year

The four living Labour Prime Ministers. Love these historic pictures. (From Willie Jackson’s Facebook post)

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2 years

What was that Stephen Perofeta 90 second cameo all about? What an insult to a debutant….

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4 years

PM's eight word response to Judith Collins downplaying the National Party budget misread: "I certainly don't regard $4 billion as inconsequential."

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4 years

More idle questions from lockdown: - Will we miss aspects of this lockdown when it’s gone? The quiet, the stillness, the time, clean air, the stars, roads for the people, family groups on cycles and scooters and couples sharing walks, no ironing, shaving, commutes?

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3 years

At the Labour Party’s stand at Field Days… health and mental health, again

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3 years

Imagine the devastation for those Special Tactics Group and surveillance cops at doing their level best to watch this guy for so long but not having been able to be close enough to stop the initial attacks.

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Chris Hipkins just emailed from isolation after TVNZ’s poll tonight had Labour marooned on 26%: “Kiwis love to back an underdog, and they love a comeback even more.”

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3 years

The United States right now

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Many viewers might be taken aback by old favourite Fair Go being cancelled in TVNZ's cuts but ... the end of the last, best TV current affairs show Sunday is probably the most worrying - there are one-off digital video stories and docos but not with that regular reach and power.

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6 months

1News lead story says Contact has been forced to pay back overcharging to card-paying customers. But surely this graphic - which would show an average customer would get 25c back each - can’t be correct in making it the biggest story of the day?

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4 years

Someone in governmental circles is plainly leaking against James Shaw over the $11.7m Green School grant - including details revealed on Newshub of internal Govt documents - who could it be? Who could hope to end up more relevant if the Greens fail to meet the threshold?

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1 year

Greens leader James Shaw refusing to leave hard questions about the Newtown fire tragedy for another day, grilling Internal Affairs Minister Barbara Edmonds on building code deficiencies, fire service staffing and equipment shortages and the support for vulnerable residents.

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4 years

What ‘small businesses’ did Collins ever run? A law practice?

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Labour MP Willow Jean Prime tells Parliament her anger at Govt abolishing the Māori Health Authority is matched by sadness that one of her relatives, Dr Shane Reti, is leading the bill. "Think carefully because the future of our children and grandchildren are in your hands."

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Labour health spokesperson Dr Ayesha Verrall notes the wording in the repeal of smokefree law also changes rules on the advertising, marketing and promotion of tobacco from having the law ‘restrict’ to ‘regulate and control’ . No answer yet from Assoc Minister on why

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4 years

John Campbell asks Collins if she owns a second home. ‘Yes’ - but then checks herself: ‘Well no my Trust does!’

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1 year

Today FM PULLED OFF AIR. as Duncan and Tova explain the station and staff are being cut. “We’ve been told to play music” “This is it, folks!”

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3 years

Court of Appeal rejects Colin Craig’s appeals to High Court finding that he sexually harassed his former staffer Rachel McGregor - and that he had a defence for defaming her. Orders him to pay costs to her

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