The Black Ferns have thanked fans for their overwhelming support during this year's triumphant Rugby World Cup campaign on home soil at a function in downtown Auckland this afternoon. "I think it's safe to say that New Zealand has put women's rugby on the map." The Black Ferns celebrate their RWC win with fans in Auckland. The Black Ferns meet with fans in Auckland. ADVERTISEMENT"We can't thank New Zealand enough for getting behind this team, we just love that everyone has fallen in love with the Black Ferns," the halfback said.

Saturday night’s heart-stopping 34-31 Women’s Rugby World Cup victory by the New Zealand Black Ferns over England was more than a great game, it was a milestone in women’s sport in general. So while the win offers an important opportunity to reflect on how far the women’s game has come, the challenge now is to apply those lessons and ensure the game and women’s sport overall continue to grow. As player and advocate for the women’s game Alice Soper put it recently:It’s not just old-fashioned racism and sexism. The Black Ferns were even credited with uniting the country after some difficult and divisive years. With funding, media coverage and investment, the future of women’s sport can be very bright indeed.

In the week ahead, the most important American economic releases include retail sales, producer prices, and housing data. Also, we will get more German economic sentiment data, Q3 GDP growth rates from Japan, and industrial production, retail sales, and fixed investment data from China. The current economic conditions index sank sharply and the expectations gauge tumbled too. In Europe, a fall in Germany's industrial production, and a retreat in the UK's overall economic activity is generating rising talk of a winter economic recession there. The easiest place to stay up with event risk today is by following our Economic Calendar here ».

Meanwhile we have 25,000 on the state house waiting list, up from just over 5,000 when Labour came to power in 2017. In addition to the $131million in land sold so far, hundreds of millions more is in the pipeline. I have previously described Labour’s sale of former state house land as the largest privatisation of state assets since the 1990s. The state house waiting list has been growing at twice the rate the net number of state houses is increasing. An average increase of just over 1200 per year for the 25,000 on the state house waiting list.

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The Black Ferns are world champions and there’s so much to celebrate. The haka (and England’s response)The Black Ferns know how to get the stadium going with their haka. It was the precision at those set pieces which made the final moments of the game so terrifying, and the Black Ferns impassioned defence all the more impressive. She clearly knows how to play rugby. Black Ferns secured the headline slotThe whole thing reminded me of another all-timer event that happened in our fair city just a week or so ago.

Ruby Tui gifts a young fan her Rugby World Cup medal. Photo: Supplied via NZ HeraldBlack Ferns star Ruby Tui was left celebrating her World Cup win without a medal - after gifting it to a young fan who has recently recovered from leukaemia. Lucia had reportedly followed the Black Ferns throughout the World Cup and told Tui her dream was to become a Black Fern. “Speaking to the young fan, Lucia, Tui asked what her dream was, “to become a Black Fern” was her answer. Ruby Tui celebrates after the final whistle in the World Cup final at Eden Park.

A sell-out Eden Park crowd left on a high following the Black Ferns' World Cup win on Saturday night. Video / Jed Bradley / Claire TrevettThe Black Ferns built a three-point lead in the World Cup final by taking a series of bold but calculated risks. ”We took a risk on that last lineout,” Smith said later, the World Cup gleaming in front of him. Asked what was going through his mind with the World Cup on the line, Middleton smiled. ”Sometimes things are written in the stars, and I think it has been for the Black Ferns at this tournament.”Theresa Fitzpatrick and Chelsea Bremner celebrate winning the final.

Kendra Cocksedge holds the Cup as the Black Ferns celebrate their World Cup win over England. Having been thumped by England and France last year, the Ferns turned the tables by conquering both their northern rivals at home at the World Cup. I’ve just had the fairy tale ending of winning a World Cup – that’s more than I could have asked,” she told Spark Sport. But we hope that we’ve made our country proud and we hope that we’ve inspired the next generation of Black Ferns stars or All Blacks stars here in Aotearoa. “We’ve sacrificed so much, to get one chance in a lifetime – to win a World Cup at home.

A sell-out Eden Park crowd left on a high following the Black Ferns' World Cup win on Saturday night. Video / Jed Bradley / Claire TrevettHow the UK media reacted to the Black Ferns stunning 34-31 win over England in the Rugby World Cup final. For the Black Ferns to put in a performance like that on home soil in front of a record breaking crowd at a Rugby World, phenomenal. It hurts to lose a World Cup final and especially in that manner but I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve done as a team. From where they were a matter of months ago, the Black Ferns had no right to emerge in the manner they did.

Thibault (Tibo) Peniarbelle is the executive chef at Origine and Judika Ramcharand is Origine's restaurant manager. Born and raised in Montreal, Judika met Tibo, who is from Toulouse, in Auckland and the couple have a 4-year-old daughter, Celeste. Tibo says…I came to New Zealand in 2011 for the Rugby World Cup and worked in a French restaurant called Ile de France in Newmarket. She can cook really, really well. When Tibo asked for my coffee order he turned around and had this big smile on his face.

Ruby Tui leads crowd in rendition of Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi. Video / Spark SportBlack Ferns star Ruby Tui created yet another magic off-field moment in the wake of New Zealand’s stunning 34-31 World Cup final win over England. The Ferns winger began her post-match interview running high on emotion, thanking the packed Eden Park crowd for their support and beaming with pride. The Eden Park crowd responded in full voice. Ruby Tui is a Rugby World Cup champion.

It was a tightly fought game with the Black Ferns ultimately winning 34-31. Video / Spark SportWinston Aldworth rates all the players in the Black Ferns’ brilliant 34-31 victory over England in the World Cup final. Amy Rule scores for the Black Ferns at the end of the first half. 12: Holly Aitchison — 5/10Worked hard defensively to cut space for Black Ferns before attacks could go wide. 7: Marlie Packer — 8/10Cup winner in 2014 was not the tallest of the timber in the England pack, but possibly the staunchest.

Ayesha Leti-I'iga of the Black Ferns celebrates scoring her second - and World Cup winning - try in tonight's thrilling final at Eden Park in Auckland. Photos: Getty ImagesEngland 31With thousands of poi in the air and a mass of bodies on the ground, the Black Ferns tonight earned their sixth - and greatest - World Cup title. With the hooter having sounded and camped in the corner looking for their fifth maul try, England couldn’t corral the lineout and the Black Ferns emerged triumphant. That cut England’s edge to seven and what must have been a straightforward halftime message was put into practice immediately after the break as the Black Ferns found their first lead. Amy Rule scores for the Black Ferns on the stroke of halftime.

The grand transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a green one is underway. It will involve a fundamental shift in the way we generate and use energy for various purposes. Instead of drilling and mining for fossil fuels, we’ll need to mineThis is a re-post from the CCL Blog ...