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The world’s media is lining up to interview Dame Jacinda Ardern about her memoir, A Different Kind of Power – CBS, BBC, even Oprah. But as the former prime minister sits down to talk to Seven Sharp, she insists the impression she makes on Kiwis matters most. “I’m sweating just as much as I did with Oprah,” she tells Hilary Barry in a conversation that traverses fertility, public hostility and the cancer scare that sparked her decision to resign.”The question for me was, could I keep going and do the job well?” – Watch this story on TVNZ+ In the…
A world-first study, led by the University of Canterbury, could help reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance, considered one of the greatest health threats facing humanity.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when pathogens like bacteria and fungi evolve to withstand antibiotics.The project, which is currently a grant proposal, is being led by Professor Jack Heinemann of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, University of Canterbury’s School of Biological Sciences.He said the research will map reservoirs of AMR across New Zealand to pinpoint areas of resistance, making it the first country in the world to know where its hot spots are located.It’s hoped the…
Dayna Pomare-Pai (Ngāpuhi) is an award-winning stuntwoman to the stars, but it’s what she does on the ground that’s shaping the future of the industry in Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Rauhiringa Brown caught up with Pomare-Pai on her stomping grounds in the Hunua Ranges for TVNZ’s Marae.Watch part one of this two-part report on TVNZ+ now.When she’s not on a film set, you can find Pomare-Pai at home on Sky High Ranch, training grounds to the next generation of stunt performers.“Everyone who comes here says it feels like therapy,” she said.On this visit, the kind of therapy students are going…
This winter could bring a bit of everything on to our table. It will be like grabbing the extra big plate at the smorgasbord to get a sample of everything from the buffet. The season’s weather will feature lots of variety – from the risk of heavy extreme rainfall to Antarctic cold and some fine settled days in between. This variety will be the key feature because there’s no set driving force to the weather over the next few months. Instead, we will have lots of factors jostling for space on our weather maps each week. Watch Daniel Corbett’s winter…
The quality of air inside school classrooms is so poor that winter bugs quickly spread from children to their families and communities, contributing to cases of Covid-19, asthma and other illnesses at hospital emergency departments, an epidemiologist with a background in paediatrics says.Teachers are also being struck down, according to Dr Amanda Kvalsvig, who told RNZ’s Saturday Morning more cases of long Covid are cropping up, rendering them unable to work.It comes as health authorities brace for what is thought to be a new, more infectious subvariant of Covid following a surge in detections.Kvalsvig is a member of advocacy group…
Julia Gorinski reckons some of the skills she learned on the rugby field may come in handy in her new role in the banking field. Ms Gorinski, 30, is a household name in Otago rugby, as the former Otago Spirit captain, Matatū Super Rugby Aupiki player and Varsity veteran. Having hung up her representative boots last year after playing her 65th cap for the Otago Spirit in the Farah Palmer Cup championship final, she moved straight into the Varsity coaching role this season. A few weeks ago, she became Westpac’s Otago-Southland agribusiness manager, a role which included overseeing other managers…
New Zealanders may be leaving money on the table by keeping their cash in transaction accounts.David Cunningham, chief executive of mortgage broking firm Squirrel, said there was significantly more money in transaction accounts now than before Covid.Most banks do not pay interest on transaction accounts.Cunningham said transaction account balances had peaked at $53 billion when interest rates were close to zero, and people could see little reason to change.It had fallen to a recent low of $37b but had now lifted again to $39b.”Almost all of this earns 0% [interest].”If that money were shifted into an account paying 3%, it…
A police officer who had a firework blasted at his head amid boy racer mayhem in Levin this weekend has described the scenes as “chaotic”.Police Commissioner Richard Chambers and Police Minister Mark Mitchell both arrived in Horowhenua last night to check in with frontline officers.“The behaviour that we’ve seen this weekend in Levin and Palmerston North is the behaviour that you’d expect from menaces and morons,” Chambers said.Ten people were arrested, and Chambers suspects there will be more soon. Five bystanders were injured, including one young woman who had both of her legs run over.Two police officers were also injured,…
Southland power supplier, PowerNet says nearly 400 homes in the region are still without power.The electricity network company on Saturday said three of its networks had been badly disrupted by stormy weather overnight and warned affected customers to prepare for extended blackouts to last for days.They were OtagoNet, Electricity Invercargill and The Power Company, which services Southland.At that time, PowerNet said some customers could remain without power into Monday and people who were medically dependent on electricity should plan accordingly.By 8.45pm Saturday, 1600 properties were still without power, reduced from about 8000 customers earlier in the weekend.A PowerNet spokesperson said…
A woman has died in hospital following a crash in Port Waikato on Friday night, bringing the preliminary King’s Birthday road toll to four.Emergency services were called to Tuakau Bridge-Port Waikato Rd at around 6.10pm on May 30 to reports of a single vehicle rolling.Three people were taken to hospital, two by ambulance who were moderately and seriously injured and one by helicopter who was critically injured.The critically injured woman died in hospital yesterday, police said. The serious crash unit attended and the circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.King’s Birthday road toll stands at fourThe death brings the preliminary…