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Stuff reports: Bad news first-home buyers, it’s probably the worst time to buy a house since 1957. How can this be? Labour promised in 2017 they would build 100,000 affordable houses for first time home buyers. “Given the increase in house prices during 2020 and 2021 and the lift in mortgage rates since the middle […]

Matthew Hooton writes: For five months, Hipkins has allowed the public to believe that Bellis had twice been offered government assistance to return home from Afghanistan but had turned it down – implying she was some kind of drama queen making a political point, rather than a mum-to-be wanting to give birth in her hometown […]

Wellington.Scoop Friends and colleagues of Luit Bieringa will be gathering in Wellington on Monday afternoon to farewell the gallery director, art historian, filmmaker and educator who died on Tuesday. After eight years in the 1970s as director of the Manawatu Art Gallery, Luit Bieringa became director of the National Art Gallery in Wellington, which he […]

Report from RNZ The Prime Minister today spoke of New Zealand’s ‘first authentically Māori public holiday.’ She said Te Rā Aro ki a Matariki is also a step forward towards understanding what makes us unique as a country. Jacinda Ardern joined hundreds of others at a traditional hautapu ceremony outside Te Papa in Wellington early […]

News from WCC The Wellington City Council invites you to Matariki ki Pōneke, to celebrate the Māori New Year. Enjoy a stunning free whānau experience, with a fabulous Matariki Fireworks display on the waterfront at 7.15. Matariki is a time for remembering the past, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. Matariki ki Pōneke […]

Wellington.Scoop Both northbound lanes of SH2 between Ngauranga and Petone were closed for more than four hours this morning after a car crashed into a power pole. NZTA reported that the crash occurred at 4.30am. It was not till 9.15am that one northbound lane was reopened. The DomPost reports that three people were injured in […]

Robert MacCulloch writes: Former RBNZ Assistant Governor & Chief Economist, John McDermott, who was at the IMF, Yale-trained, Director of Motu & winner of the NZIER Economist Award, has slammed the RBNZ’s monetary policy, blaming it for the inflation mess we’re in. We already knew as much, but to have it confirmed by John is […]

News from Wellington Water Wellington Water is advising residents that there may be more frequent discharges of partially treated, diluted wastewater into Cook Strait from the Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant this winter due to one of the plant’s three clarifiers needing repair. A bearing in the drive assembly for this clarifier has failed and […]

Wellington.Scoop The annual report of the Civic Trust says that the Wellington City Council’s drive to dismantle the Civic Centre precinct seems relentless and disruptive. Civic Trust chair Helene Ritchie told this week’s 41st annual meeting in her annual report: “With the heritage status lifted, the Civic Centre will become a ‘precinct’ in name only, […]

Landing Press is calling for poems on the theme of ‘generations’ for its next anthology. ‘Generations’ is a big idea,” says Adrienne Jansen, Landing Press publisher. “We want poems about grandparents, parents, grandchildren, changes in ...