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NZQA Halts Enrolments For MIT Course After Marking Issues
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 9:52 am | RNZ
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority has stopped enrolments in a Manukau Institute of Technology course after discovering students were being marked too leniently. The MIT course had about 150-200 students last year and fewer than 60 were being ... More >>
'Tinder For Tourism' Platform Expanding To Help Build Workforce
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 9:47 am | RNZ
It's been described as 'Tinder for tourism' - and Go with Tourism is already reporting hundreds of successful matches less than a year since its soft launch. The tourism industry estimates it will need another 40,000 workers by 2025. Photo: 123RF Go with ... More >>
Coronavirus: Quarantine At Whangaparāoa Military Base Ends For First Group Of Evacuees
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 9:44 am | RNZ
More than 150 people quarantined at an Auckland naval base will leave today, two weeks after being evacuated from the coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan in central China. Fifty-nine foreigners, mainly from the Pacific Islands, will leave the Whangaparāoa ... More >>
'We Need To Apply Natural Justice' - PM On NZ First Foundation Investigation
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 9:36 am | RNZ
The Prime Minister will take no action against Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, after confirmation of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation. Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller As the SFO prepares to prosecute four people over ... More >>
Schools In Samoa Closed As Storms Hit Much Of South Pacific
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 9:34 am | RNZ
Strong winds and swells as high as four metres are striking the low-lying coutries of Tokelau and Tuvalu, while schools in Samoa and American Samoa have been ordered closed amid heavy rain. Heavy rain in American Samoa on Monday. Photo: RNZ Pacific ... More >>
National Donations SFO Charge Details A Surprise - Bridges
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 12:59 pm | RNZ
National Party leader Simon Bridges says it came as a surprise to him that a Serious Fraud Office prosecution relates to two $100,000 donations to the party. Photo: RNZ /Dom Thomas Court documents obtained by RNZ show charges have been laid against four ... More >>
House Price Increases Break New Yearly Records, Regions Most Affected
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 11:24 am | RNZ
Housing markets across New Zealand have had their busiest January in four years, pushing REINZ's house price index to a record high. Invercargill. Photo: Invercargill City Council The Real Estate Institute's house price index - which measures the changing ... More >>
Immigration Deadlock: 'Endless Waiting Has Destroyed All My Dreams'
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 11:17 am | RNZ
The government is locked in talks about an overhaul of the residence programme to prioritise highly skilled immigrants. Photo: RNZ /Dom Thomas Coalition ministers are grappling with the shape the new residence programme will take, after the last ... More >>
Finance Minister Questions National's Tax Policy
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 11:12 am | RNZ
The Finance Minister is challenging the opposition leader to say which services a National government would scrap, in order to deliver tax cuts. National leader Simon Bridges and Finance Minister Grant Robertson. Photo: RNZ Simon Bridges has ... More >>
Not One, But Two $100k Donations To National In Court
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 10:59 am | RNZ
By Tim Murphy of Newsroom . The Serious Fraud Office prosecution of four people over donations to the National Party involves not one but two $100,000 donations - in June 2017 and June 2018. The Auckland District Court. Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly ... More >>
Kāinga Ora Rejects Council Criticism
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 10:53 am | RNZ
Housing development agency Kāinga Ora has rejected council criticism that it left them in the dark and poached staff off them. Photo: RNZ / Kim Baker Wilson The agency is in line to get extraordinary powers under the Urban Development Bill before Parliament ... More >>
Handshake Deal To Clean Up Dross After Mataura Floods Goes Sour
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 10:49 am | RNZ
The producer of more than 20,000 tonnes of hazardous waste stored around Southland have today issued a statement on the dross, but continues to refuse interviews or discuss a soured handshake deal. The flooded Mataura River rips past the former Mataura ... More >>
Regional Tourism Bodies Welcome Government Tourism Package In Response To Coronavirus
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 10:45 am | RNZ
Tourism operators are keen to find out how an $11 million government package to help them respond to the coronavirus outbreak will be spent. The cable car above Rotorua. Photo: 123RF Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the government ... More >>
Broadcasting Merger: Cost Is The Great Unknown For RNZ Boss
Monday, 17 February 2020, 1:05 pm | RNZ
Both RNZ and TVNZ's chief executives see merit in a proposed merger of the two public broadcasters, but RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson warns a culture change would be needed. The TVNZ boss says creating a new public broadcaster from TVNZ and RNZ ... More >>
Seventy New Cases Of Coronavirus On Cruise Ship Carrying New Zealanders
Monday, 17 February 2020, 1:00 pm | RNZ
Seventy new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed on the Diamond Princess cruise ship carrying New Zealanders, which is quarantined in Japanese waters. Photo: AFP The new cases bring the total number to 355 cases, Japanese health minister Katsunobu ... More >>
How Coronavirus Could Cost Our Universities And Polytechs $100M
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:48 am | RNZ
Thousands of students aren't sure if they will make it to class on time because of travel restrictions in response to the coronavirus, and universities and polytechnics stand to lose more than $100 million if the restrictions continue, a sector spokesman ... More >>
Coronavirus Impact: Australia Willing To Evacuate NZ Cruise Ship Passengers - Ardern
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:44 am | RNZ
Australia would fly out New Zealand citizens on board a cruise ship in Japan if it mounted an evacuation, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. The Diamond Princess has been at Yokohama port since 3 February. Photo: AFP / Yomiuri Eleven New Zealanders ... More >>
Wellington Water Infrastructure 'in Crisis', Councillor Says
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:38 am | RNZ
A Wellington councillor says the city's water infrastructure is in crisis and needs a fundamental overhaul. Island Bay beach. Photo: RNZ / Alex Ashton Hundreds of Island Bay residents have repeatedly gone without water for long periods in recent days ... More >>
PM Jacinda Ardern Washes Hands Of NZ First Foundation Photos Saga
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:36 am | RNZ
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand First Foundation - which faces investigation from the SFO - has nothing to do with her or Winston Peters' role in her Cabinet. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas Ardern has said ... More >>
'Beyond The Pale': Councils Respond To Kāinga Ora Powers
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:32 am | RNZ
Councils across the country are worried they're going to be shut out of having any say over major state housing developments in their cities. Councils are concerned housing agency Kāinga Ora may run roughshod over their plans for developments in ... More >>
