Latest Auckland bus attack leaves driver in hospital with fractured ribs and eye damage
A bus driver suffered facial injuries after he was attacked by a passenger following racial abuse in September on the Number 18 bus in Avondale. In September, Auckland bus driver Rajnish Trehan was attacked in a racially charged tirade after an unruly passenger refused to pay. Two months ago, Mayor Wayne Brown urged Auckland Transport to “get on with the rollout” of perspex screens to protect bus drivers. The Government is increasing police patrols on public transport and may make offences against public transport users an aggravated factor at sentencing, but Police Minster Mark Mitchell said there are “deep intergenerational problems” at play. Police would like to hear from anyone who might have witnessed the attack on the bus driver at St Lukes and has information to share.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 13, 2024 21:15 UTC
Revenue Minister: ‘There’s no money’
The Government has revealed its tax work programme which will aim to support economic growth and make the system more efficient, but without changing overall revenue. Revenue Minister Simon Watts said Inland Revenue would publish a long list of possible tax law updates—called ‘remedials’—next month but would need them to be fiscally neutral. Watts said the work programme would focus on six outcomes: economic growth, integrity, modernisation, international connectivity, social policy delivery, and all-of-Government coordination. It will consider making the NZ Super Fund tax exempt. An earlier verison of this story said Super Fund contributions came from the operating allowance, when it actually comes from the capital allowance.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 13, 2024 20:56 UTC
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What process does a bill go through to become law? In light of the Treaty Principles Bill passing its first reading, 1News takes a look at the process a bill goes through to become law.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 13, 2024 20:16 UTC
Mega-project boss abruptly replaced in Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh in 2021. Photo / Iman Al-Dabbagh, The New York TimesNeom is the centrepiece of a vast economic transformation programme that Prince Mohammed launched in 2016 to help diversify the economy and wean the kingdom off its dependence on oil revenues. It is located in the desert near the Red Sea coast and close to Jordan and Egypt. Tourist resorts in the Red Sea and Neom’s Sindalah island have recently opened, while other schemes remain under construction. Often described as the word’s largest construction project, Neom has struggled to meet ambitious expectations and seen several leadership changes in recent years.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 13, 2024 19:53 UTC
Scott Robertson’s All Blacks success doesn’t justify NZR’s coach selection process
But it’s important, for two reasons, that NZR do not use confirmation bias to convince themselves they were right to break with convention last year. All that can be concluded is that the All Blacks have a good coach in Robertson and would have had a good coach in Foster had they retained him. Ian Foster came within a missed goal-kick of winning the Rugby World Cup, writes Gregor Paul. They reacted to political pressures and personal agendas inside their executive and governance regimes, and made decisions that were reactionary and not considered. All Blacks v France, Sunday 9.10am - live commentary on Newstalk ZB, Gold Sport and iHeartRadio.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 13, 2024 16:11 UTC
Dirt bike damage upsets residents
Local residents are dismayed by damage to the Pūrākaunui salt marsh, which occurred in the last week of October. PHOTO: SUPPLIEDPūrākaunui residents are "gutted" after a section of ecologically valuable salt marshes was torn up by dirtbikes recently. West Harbour Community Board member and Pūrākaunui resident Duncan Eddy said the damage occurred in the last week of October. The Pūrākaunui salt marshes had been "badly carved up" and many local residents were "gutted", he said. "People need to realise that the Pūrākaunui salt marsh is an important ecological area, not a place for hooning on dirt bikes."
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 13, 2024 15:37 UTC
NZ's best basketballer is back in action
New Zealand's best basketballer is taking the court again after an extended injury break. Steven Adams has swapped franchises and has a new home for the 2024-25 NBA basketball season. "There's a lot of great Kiwi sportsmen and women going around the world these days and doing incredible things. "I think the thing as well, is he's just managed to stay himself, and he's such a New Zealander," Summerville says. "Obviously he's seven feet tall and immensely talented and stuff but he's just a New Zealander and he's made it all happen.
Source:Stuff
November 08, 2024 20:54 UTC
Disquiet grows over hospital build
McKay major projects manager Rhys Farrand said he "prefers not to talk about this [the hospital build] right now . However, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand (HNZ), the government department responsible for the inpatient build, confirmed McKay as "a preferred subcontractor". The Dunedin inpatient build’s costs "could approach $3b" and a cheaper option was sought — a hospital refurbishment or a smaller build. On May 30, the new National-led government had received a review of the inpatient build from health infrastructure guru Robert Rust. In 2020, a Treasury review of the Dunedin hospital build warned it would be "paramount that sufficient commercial expertise exists both within the MoH procurement team and across industry" to complete the build.
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 08, 2024 19:08 UTC
Disc golf enjoying a surge in popularity in the South
Maree Cummings tees off at the Brockville Disc Golf course. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSONDisc golf is taking flight in Dunedin as the sport enjoys a post-pandemic boom. Also known as frisbee golf, disc golf is a flying disc sport in which players aim to get a disc in a basket, or hole, in as few throws a possible. Dunedin Disc Golf chairman Errol Nye said the club had been around for about 10 years but had significant growth recently. Seasonal leagues and school competitions were fixtures of Dunedin’s two disc golf courses at Brockville and Chingford Parks.
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 08, 2024 17:49 UTC
Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100
In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. “He fell like a sack of wheat,” said Ms. Riffaud, who died Nov. 6 at her home in Paris at 100. The uprising left hundreds of Resistance fighters and others dead but managed to drive Nazi forces back to garrisons around the city. Ms. Riffaud was known as Rainer, reflecting her admiration for Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet born to a German-speaking family in Prague and who died in 1926. Ms. Riffaud had a five-decade relationship with the North Vietnamese poet and composer and Ho Chi Minh political ally Nguyen Dinh Thi, but they did not marry.
Source:Stuff
November 08, 2024 16:37 UTC
Popular south Auckland playgrounds hit by vandalism, graffiti
Photo: LDR / Mary AfemataA multi-million dollar south Auckland playground is among more than a dozen play areas hit by repeated vandalism and graffiti in recent months. Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board chairperson Apulu Reece Autagavaia said he was saddened to see recent vandalism deface the board's efforts to beautify community spaces and showcase artists. "Before, families told us they had to travel to other parts of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to enjoy good quality playgrounds. Manukau Ward councillor Alf Filipaina is urging those behind the vandalism and graffiti to stop and for the community to care for playgrounds and report incidents. To report damage or vandalism to a playground or park, call 09 301 0101 or use the report a problem tool.
Source:Stuff
November 08, 2024 12:21 UTC
Daily review 08/11/2024
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, November 8th, 2024 - 4 commentsCategories: Daily review - Tags:Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …Share this: FacebookLinkedInRedditPinterestMastodonTwitterPrintEmail
Source:Stuff
November 08, 2024 11:27 UTC
China, already grappling with a weak economy, braces for Trump’s return
Some people on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of X, proposed that Musk could be the next U.S. ambassador to China. Advertisement“China has been preparing for a long time,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, but another trade war would be hugely damaging. “Given China’s very difficult internal economic situation right now, a renewed trade war or more comprehensive efforts to decouple would pose a much more severe threat to China’s economic competitiveness,” Zhao said. AdvertisementAn insufficient stimulus package, coming on the heels of Trump’s reelection, will constitute “a very bad day” for China, she said. “China could hope to undermine American efforts to isolate China through a broader Western coalition,” he said.
Source:Stuff
November 08, 2024 09:02 UTC
Weekly Roundup 7-November-2024
Happy Friday, there’s been some significant world events this week but welcome to another round-up of interesting stories about what’s happening in Auckland and other cities. The Week on Greater AucklandThe Longest CommuteAs apart of The Spinoff’s Travel Week, Joel MacManus attempts to travel from the bottom to the top of New Zealand without using a car or plane. When New Zealanders go on their international OE, they almost always choose to get around by train or bus tours. St Patrick’s SquareA few years ago there was a real issue with people illegally parking on St Patrick’s Square in the city. Select vehicles accessing or parking in front of the Cathedral of St Patrick and St Joseph for weddings or funerals.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 08, 2024 07:03 UTC