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Ex-top cop Andrew Coster says ministers went too far in alleging there may have been police corruption involved in the Jevon McSkimming case, defending his own actions as honest mistakes in an exclusive Q+A interview.READ MORE: Exclusive — Coster says he told Hipkins and Mitchell about McSkimmingSpeaking out for the first time since the release of a damning report, Coster told Q+A he couldn’t understand why commentary suggesting he and his colleagues were taking part in corruption had been made, when the IPCA’s inquiry did not use those words.Watch the full interview at 9am on Q+A with Jack Tame on…
Former police commissioner Andrew Coster has made explosive claims that senior figures knew more about the Jevon McSkimming case than they have previously said.Coster spoke to Q+A’s Jack Tame in his first interview since the release of a damning IPCA report and his subsequent resignation from his government role this week. He accused former PM and ex-police minister Chris Hipkins and current police minister Mark Mitchell of both having knowledge of aspects of the case before it became public.The former police boss said he told Hipkins in 2022 and Mitchell in 2024 about the case surrounding McSkimming, the disgraced former…
A recent study suggests our nurses are trained to view elderly patients in a narrow, impersonalised way. Senior nursing lecturer Samantha Heath reports.Life expectancy in New Zealand has increased dramatically over the past five decades. In 1970, men lived on average to 68. Today, it’s over 80.These gains reflect major advances in public health and medical technology. But living longer can mean more years with multiple chronic conditions and disabilities, because age is a significant risk factor for most disease.This demographic shift will reshape healthcare. Future health professionals will need to be aware of the increasingly complex social, technological and…
Lucy Griggs, a 24-year-old social media manager from Wellington, spoke to 1News’ Polly Wenlock about her experience after moving overseas.Griggs is one of many thousands making the move to Australia – Stats NZ data released this month showed a net migration loss of 46,400 Kiwis in the September 2025 year. That was the result of a record departure of 72,700 Kiwis – primarily across the Tasman. ‘Why did I move? Why wouldn’t I move?’Griggs moved to Brisbane in March and has no regrets, citing opportunities, a positive culture, and reasonable pay as key factors in an easier life on the…
The Green Party is criticising the $8 million cost to set up the Government’s traffic-light system for beneficiaries, which includes new non-financial sanctions, calling it “smoke and mirrors”.The Greens have drawn attention to the number, after Ministry of Social Development (MSD) bosses revealed, during Scrutiny Week, that just 12 people had received non-financial sanctions in the six months they’ve been available.Nearly 13,000 sanctions were issued in total in the September quarter this year.Green social development spokesperson Ricardo Menendez March said Minister Louise Upston had been “wasting everyone’s time” and money to create more layers of bureaucracy and “effectively unworkable” new…
Te Pāti Māori will gather for its long-awaited Annual General Meeting in Rotorua today, after months of turmoil that led to the expulsion of two of their six MPs.Mariameno Kapa-Kingi will now attend the full AGM following a high court ruling reinstating her to the party, while Tākuta Ferris remains expelled and won’t be in attendance.Ferris told RNZ he wasn’t surprised Kapa-Kingi was reinstated, and it was just “the next step in unfolding this big fat mess”.He said the AGM agenda was “sterile”, suggesting it would be shut down following the updates provided.In a letter, the former leaders said the…
A 3m macrocarpa picnic table at a Department of Conservation campground in Wairarapa was installed for just two days before most of it was sawn off and stolen.The table, put in at Bucks Road Campsite west of Greytown on Tuesday, was found on Thursday with around 2.4m missing – an amount of dressed wood worth an estimated $4000.Department of Conservation principal ranger Briggs Pilkington said the theft was “hugely disappointing” and “disheartening” for staff and volunteers who worked on the table.”We’ve been working with the community to improve the facilities at this site, and a significant funding donation has been…
With the climate agenda taking a back seat after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine hit the economy and changed priorities, the European Greens arrived in Lisbon with a message, presented at an event attended by several personalities: they declared the European People’s Party of Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber to be enemy number one. Faced with the dilemma of continuing to ally with the centre-right group, even if it means making concessions whenever it allies with far-right groups, or distancing themselves, the Greens chose the first option. At the start of the second day of…
Christmas has come early for an Auckland man who’s been reunited with his cat who went missing 14 years ago.Paul Myburgh’s family adopted Mo from the SPCA in 2010. The ginger tabby quickly charmed just about anyone he met, according to Myburgh.”He was an incredibly friendly cat. Very charismatic, loved human beings, would always walk up to the bus stop when he knew we were coming home.”Mo had a tendency to follow anyone who showed him attention or gave him treats. Myburgh said that friendliness toward strangers could have led to his disappearance.”Normally he’d come home but then, one day…
A 16-year-old has been arrested after allegedly attempting to steal more than $20,000 worth of clothing from an Auckland store overnight.Police received reports of several alarms going off at JD Sports in Albany at around 2.54am on Friday.Senior Sergeant CJ Miles said police attended the job immediately and found the glass shop front smashed and the roller door pulled up.”Officers also located a stolen vehicle parked in front of the store, full of stolen merchandise. A person, in the process of loading further stolen goods into the car, exited the store and was taken into custody immediately.”More than $20,000 worth…