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The 2026 Oscars are days away, meaning there’s limited time to cram the nominated films before you find out who has won.
For most nominees it’s not too late, with many available on streaming services, to rent or still showing on the big screen.
The only question is: where can you watch what?
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With youth unemployment three times higher than the overall unemployment rate, university graduates are struggling to find entry level work. 123RF
Dubbed ‘the job wars’ by one TikTok user, graduates are struggling to secure entry-level work thanks to a tough labour market.
Figures released by Stats NZ in February showed that the unemployment rate for 15 to 24-year-olds was at 16.5 percent, three times higher than the overall unemployment rate.
On Saturday’sThe Detail, we look at the grim realities of the job market for graduates.
Justin Tuburan recently graduated from AUT with a bachelor of communications and is still struggling to find work in his field.
He’s been living off his casual job as a security guard and says the lack of direction is taking its toll.
“I don’t know really what I am doing with my life. I don’t have this full-time job that I can see career progression and the next 40 years of what I’ll be doing.”
Tuburan said that his current casual position wasn’t meant to form his main income.
“[During university] I was also getting student loan and living costs. That’s $300 a week that I was using to pay rent or pay for public transport… trying to get that money from a job that I used during uni that was only meant to supplement my living cost and now it’s my main source of income. It’s kinda rough trying to find the hours to pay for everything.
“I’m definitely asking my parents for money every once and a while.”
Happier times could be on the horizon though, said Seek’s senior economist, Dr Blair Chapman – but graduates may need to hold out a bit longer.
“It’s good news, the labour market is picking up, job ad growth is picking up. But it can take time for that to flow to graduates,” he said.
Chapman may be getting that vibe at his work, but figures out this week show the number of people receiving Jobseeker support has risen by 5700 to 223,500 since September.
Some reports suggest that AI is cutting graduate and entry-level positions, but Chapman said whether that’s true is still unclear.
“We have seen a dramatic increase in the demand for AI-related skills but it’s not obvious that is eating into the number of those jobs.”
Professor Catherine Moran, the deputy vice-chancellor and academic at the University of Canterbury, said one sector that wants students to be up-skilled in AI is law.
Their law school completed a survey with law practices across the country and asked if students needed to have skills in AI – 92 percent of them said ‘yes’.
But is going to university to learn these skills still worth it?
Moran said getting a degree is more than just learning information.
“There can be a sense that university is all about just book learning as compared to skills learning… It’s through a degree you get deeper and deeper understanding of content.
“You’re more challenged where you’re starting to bring a whole bunch of different ideas together.”
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A number of people have shared their struggles of being among the “invisible unemployed”. RNZ
“We are stuck,” an out-of work stroke survivor says.
On Friday RNZ reported on the “invisible unemployed”: people who have too much to qualify for a benefit, but not enough to make ends meet. The story prompted a number of people to share their struggles.
Here are some of them.
“I read your article today and cried,” said Andrew.
“Finally someone has seen us.”
Andrew was formerly the head of music at a private school. He had two strokes in November 2021 at the age of 47, leaving him unable to work.
He could not get WINZ (Work and Income) help due to his husband’s $77,000 income.
“My husband’s pay has to cover our mortgage, rates, insurance, utilities, and food. We often can’t make it through the fortnight and have to resort to canned soup and bread. There’s nothing left for rehabilitation or psychological support or emergencies. We are both exhausted.”
He recently started relief teaching one day a week, but the physical and cognitive energy it required wiped him out for days afterwards, he said.
“Working in a school is not good for my health, but I feel I have to, it’s all I can do. I have applied for hundreds of part-time jobs, but no one wants a 50-year-old ex-music teacher.”
He believed the current system only worked back in the 1970s and 80s, when one income could support a household. That was not the case in 2026, he said.
“We are stuck. Unseen, unheard, not cared about, and completely alone.”
Casey could not work as she was an at-home carer for her two children, who had disabilities.
She wanted to apply for the supported living payment, because she was carrying out the equivalent of full-time work.
But her husband made $90,000 – too much for her to qualify, despite it having to stretch to support their family of six.
They tried to feed the family on up to $60 a week, and did not qualify for food grants.
Casey had started a Givealittle page to fundraise for her daughter’s wheelchair and accessibility modifications to their home.
“It’s been extremely difficult.”
A person who did not want to be named said they left an abusive relationship with their teenage son, but they still owned a house with their former partner.
That put them over the Work and Income cash asset limit, so they could not get a benefit.
“If it wasn’t for the $172 a week from Working For Families, we would not be eating,” they said.
They earned $45,000 annually, paid $550 each week in rent, “and try as I might I haven’t got a flatmate yet”.
Their ex-partner gave them $50 a week, but that did not cover their son’s food and clothing, they said.
“My ex is eligible to get a benefit because he lives in the house we own that he refused to leave.
“It just seems ridiculous the abuser can get a benefit when the person who has to leave with children to support gets nothing and I have worked pretty much all my life.”
Social Development Minister Louise Upston said benefit thresholds were a long-standing feature of the welfare system.
She was not looking at raising them, focusing instead on getting people off the benefit and into work.
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The Green Party is warning that New Zealand is facing a “perfect storm” of transport disruption after the latest ferry breakdowns and cancellations left travellers stranded and freight operators scrambling to move goods between the North and South Islands.
The Interislander’s Kaiārahi has been out of service since Tuesday night because of a technical fault. An Interislander staff member has gone overseas to collect crucial components to fix the stricken ferry.
Meanwhile, a technical fault meant that Bluebridge’s Connemara ferry was also cancelled on Thursday and Friday. Its Picton-Wellington service was scheduled to return to service early on Saturday morning.
“All customers affected by this cancellation have been automatically transferred to an alternative sailing and will receive an updated e-ticket with revised sailing and check-in time,” Bluebridge said on its website.
“If your re-scheduled sailing time doesn’t suit your needs, standby lists will be operating from each direction for affected passengers across subsequent sailings.”
Greens transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said that the Interislander fleet had effectively dropped from six ships to four in recent days.
She said the situation highlighted the risks created by the government’s decision to cancel a previous contract for two new Interislander ferries that had already been ordered.
On Thursday, Genter raised the issue during Parliamentary question time, when she asked acting Prime Minister David Seymour if he accepted that his government’s decision to cancel the new ferries would likely continue to cause disruptions to passengers and freight.
“On behalf of the Prime Minister, no, I don’t accept that, because there have been long-documented problems with the existing ferries,” Seymour replied.
“That does not mean that the unaffordable and unviable solution that the previous government put in place was the best answer for New Zealand. Yes, the ferries break down from time to time. Now, I’ve heard about politicians that bark at every car, but I’ve never heard of one that barks at every ferry,” he said.
Genter said the decision to cancel the contract was “irresponsible” and accused the government of creating a transport crisis across the Cook Strait by leaving New Zealand relying on an ageing fleet that was increasingly breaking down.
“We’re seeing massive disruptions to supply chains and also passengers’ ability to get between the North and South Island because yet another Interislander ferry has had to be taken offline,” she said.
Genter warned that ageing ferries, rising oil prices and more severe weather were combining to create mounting pressure on the Cook Strait crossing.
“It’s a perfect storm,” she said.
“We have potentially an extended period of high and fluctuating oil prices affecting airlines, more severe weather affecting both airlines and ferries, and ageing ferries being taken offline for unplanned maintenance when there should already have been replacement ships here this year.”
She said the government’s decision to cancel the ferries previously ordered by KiwiRail meant replacements would not arrive until at least 2029.
“That’s going to mean huge cost and disruption to freight and passenger movements between our two islands until we can get replacement ferries.”
Genter accused the coalition government of refusing to acknowledge the scale of the problem.
“The government is clearly unwilling to admit that it made a mistake,” she said.
“They cancelled the ferries that were on order and the wharf upgrades that were underway. Now they need to come up with some sort of interim solution.”
British tourist Stephen Edwards, who is travelling around New Zealand with his wife, described chaotic scenes at the Picton ferry terminal on Thursday after multiple cancellations.
Edwards said he first received an email saying his Interislander sailing had been cancelled. He then booked a replacement with Bluebridge, which was also delayed and later cancelled.
“We were on our feet for three hours trying to rebook,” he said.
“You’ve never seen chaos like it.”
He said queues formed across the terminal as hundreds of passengers attempted to rebook sailings while vehicles blocked lanes waiting to board.
Eventually the couple were forced to book a hotel and return on Friday before securing a new ferry.
“We were utterly exhausted,” Edwards said.
The couple’s friend Dave Rees, who helped drive the tourists to the terminal, said the disruption created confusion and long waits for passengers seeking information.
“It was just very crowded, people coming in all the time,” he said.
“Information was scant and had to be sought rather than given.”
Rees said the issues left a poor impression for visitors.
“It gives the impression of a very disorganised place and a place that’s kind of operating on a shoestring,” he said.
He compared the ferry route to a critical transport link.
“The Cook Strait is like a bridge between the two parts of a motorway and the bridge is forever closing.”
Contract electrician Michael Casey, who regularly travels between the North and South islands for work, said ferry reliability was becoming a serious issue for contractors and freight.
“If I can’t travel, I can’t work,” he said.
Casey, who is based in Nelson but often works in the North Island, said cancellations could make it impossible to get to jobs with the tools he needed.
“You need your vehicle. I take my tools up. If I tried to take them on a plane it would be bags and bags and it’s just not economic.”
He said sailings were often booked out days in advance, making disruptions even harder to manage.
“When one ferry goes down that’s 25 percent of the market gone.”
The Minister for Rail, Winston Peters said the government’s record was cleaning up the ‘Cook Strait iReX mess”, while the legacy of the Greens could be seen at Moa Point.
“The previous government turned a simple ferry and port project into a $4 billion blow out, which we turned around and saved the taxpayers $2.3 billion without compromising on what New Zealanders expect,” he said.
“Two state-of-the-art ferries will arrive in 2029 to serve road, rail and passengers, while marine infrastructure in Picton and Wellington will be rebuilt without the expensive frippery introduced by the last government.”
Peters said the previous project had “Taj Mahal level” passenger buildings and sought to completely rebuild perfectly good road and rail marshalling yards to the tune of billions in total, all at the taxpayer’s expense.
“This week, the Interislander demonstrated an abundance of caution by taking the Kaiarahi out of service, as New Zealanders expect, and a replacement part arrives on Friday ahead of services resuming on Sunday,” he said.
“We have a firm expectation for high Interislander reliability, which has been near 100 percent over the past year, thanks to a significant lift in asset maintenance and management.”
The Minister said Interislander lifted its spare parts inventory following government expectations to improve reliability, and they were now responding to its query as to whether any additional parts could be added to the inventory to speed up the repair programmes.
“In the end, our focus is on freighters and families and Interislander has assured us it is prioritising freight bookings, put on eight additional Kaitaki sailings, and has offered refunds to any passengers with vehicles booked to ‘make way for freight’ which may suit some customers.”
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Ali Leiataua of the Warriors heads for the line in the round two match against the Raiders at Go Media Stadium. Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz
Second-rower Leka Halasima and winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak scored a try double each, as NZ Warriors overpowered Canberra Raiders 40-6 at Auckland’s Go Media Stadium.
The contest was locked at 6-6 at halftime, but the home side piled on 34 unanswered points to draw away in the second half.
Halasima was a late replacement into the starting line-up, after veteran Kurt Capewell strained a calf in warm-ups, but delivered the 80-minute performance predicted by coach Andrew Webster a week earlier.
The Raiders scored first through fullback Kaeao Weekes, but Watene-Zelezniak responded and halfback Tanah Boyd slotted a penalty for the halftime scoreline.
Centre Ali Leiataua had provided the final pass for his winger’s try and had one of his own after the break, when he intercepted a pass in midfield and scampered away to spark the onslaught.
Canberra beat the Warriors twice last season, en route to the minor premiership, but had no answer in the rain at Mt Smart.
Veteran wing Roger Tuivasa-Sheck couldn’t score a try in his 150th outing for the Warriors, but had the distinction of slotting the final conversion of Watene-Zelezniak’s second try.
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Ali Leiataua of the Warriors heads for the line in the round two match against the Raiders at Go Media Stadium. Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz
Second-rower Leka Halasima and winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak scored a try double each, as NZ Warriors overpowered Canberra Raiders 38-6 at Auckland’s Go Media Stadium.
The contest was locked at 6-6 at halftime, but the home side piled on 32 unanswered points to draw away in the second half.
Halasima was a late replacement into the starting line-up, after veteran Kurt Capewell strained a calf in warm-ups, but delivered the 80-minute performance predicted by coach Andrew Webster a week earlier.
The Raiders scored first through fullback Kaeao Weekes, but Watene-Zelezniak responded and halfback Tanah Boyd slotted a penalty for the halftime scoreline.
Centre Ali Leiataua had provided the final pass for his winger’s try and had one of his own after the break, when he intercepted a pass in midfield and scampered away to spark the onslaught.
Canberra beat the Warriors twice last season, en route to the minor premiership, but had no answer in the rain at Mt Smart.
Veteran wing Roger Tuivasa-Sheck couldn’t score a try in his 150th outing for the Warriors, but had the distinction of slotting the final conversion of Watene-Zelezniak’s second try.
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Hurricanes half back Cam Roigard kicks ahead during the Super Rugby Pacific game against the Western Force. Kerry Marshall / www.photosport.nz
After an error-ridden first 40, a disjointed looking Hurricanes side went to the sheds trailing the Force 8-5 at McLean Park.
Cue the cavalry.
Bolstered by their bench, the Hurricanes went on a rampage, notching 26 unanswered points to secure a 31-23 win which shoots them to the top of the Super Rugby Pacific table.
It was the Force who struck first through the boot of Ben Donaldon and then electric winger Darby Lancaster, standing up his opposite Bailyn Sullivan for the first try.
Cam Roigard got the Canes on the board, sniping from the base of the ruck, but it was not enough as they would trail the Force 8-5 at the break.
A Donaldson penalty opened things up in the second with another penalty before the floodgates opened, reinforcements arriving from the bench to immediate affect.
Brad Shields kicked off the scoring spree from short range, the Hurricanes going back to back courtesy of a quick tap by Roigard which sent Devan Flanders away.
Callum Harkin stretched the lead, running a superb line to cross the chalk before Warner Dearns soared into the sky to charge down a Donaldson kick, regather, and streak away.
The Force pulled a couple back through Lancaster and Jetaya Faifua, but the deficit was too great, the Hurricanes closing out their third win of the season.
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The child was taken to the hospital in a serious condition Supplied / St John
A child has been seriously injured after being hit by a car in Invercargill.
Police said emergency services were called to the McDonald’s on Dee Street at 7 pm.
The child was taken to the hospital in a serious condition, a spokesperson said.
“Police have spoken to the driver of the vehicle, and enquiries are ongoing into exactly what happened,” a police spokesperson said.
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A person has been hit by a truck on Titi Road. Google Maps
A pedestrian has died after being hit by a truck in Mauku, west of Pukekohe.
Police say he died at the scene.
The crash happened at 3.22pm on Titi Road.
The Serious Crash Unit and Commercial Vehicle Safety Team attended.
An investigation is now underway to establish what occurred, police say.
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The war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up fuel prices. RNZ / Dan Cook
An energy sustainability expert thinks driving more efficiently could help the country get ahead of any future petrol shortages.
The war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up fuel prices and caused concern about disruption to supply internationally.
Emeritus Professor in Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Energy at Massey University, Ralph Sims, says there are ways to reduce fuel consumption before extreme measures like returning to the car-free and fuel rationing days of the 1970s and 1980s are considered.
“We’ve got to anticipate that we need to take some actions now, ready for when we’ve got extreme situations, which might be in five or six weeks’ time.
“But people love their cars, and like driving them, and so enforcement is not the easiest of options I think the government has got.
“If this war continues and the oil price goes up and there’s a much higher cost when you fill your car up, then there will be an incentive there, not needing enforcement, for people to look at ways of saving on fuel.”
Sim suggested the government do a national education campaign on fuel-saving tips like avoiding heavy braking, checking tyre pressure, and taking things that add weight, like a roof rack, off their vehicle when they are not needed.
“Most people don’t understand how to drive a car efficiently. I see people accelerate to a red light and then brake heavily, and if you’re running on low tyre pressures, it consumes much more fuel.”
He said limiting how often people could use their cars or how much they could fill up at the pump would be difficult to enforce.
“Car-less days, for example, many people found ways to get around it by having a second car.
“We can learn from what we did before. Did it work? How successful was it? Are there other ways to do it nowadays that are better?”
He said nowadays we also have more transport options available.
“The world has changed a bit now in that we do have electric buses in various cities, and we’ve got electric cars, and electric scooters, and public transport is much better than it used to be.
“To encourage people to get out of their petrol or diesel cars and utilise public transport is one way to conserve fuel. But getting people out of their cars is very difficult.
“Unless you’ve got some extreme situation, then education is the only way to try and change public behaviour.”
Richard Bosselman, the editor of the website Motoring NZ, said electric vehicle (EV) sales had been dismal in recent years.
But he speculated that if people were paying more at the pump, that might change.
“We have to make some hard and fast decisions about what kind of transport we need in this country and how we do it. I think electric is something that we need to jump back onto again and promote.
“Maybe this war will be a wake-up call, and maybe New Zealanders will think more about their car choices going forward.”
He said bringing back the Clean Car Discount, which provided rebates for low and zero-emission vehicles, to encourage people to buy EVs might help the country curb fuel use if the war continues.
He said it could also be an opportunity to develop the country’s hydrogen technologies.
“We’re at the end of the world. We’re at the end of a very long supply chain, so everything that comes to us is going to become more expensive. But we are a very self-sufficient nation. We create a lot of electricity and we can create more.
“We have opportunities to create hydrogen, and there’s a whole hydrogen infrastructure that sits there that could work for transport.
“I think this is a good time for Kiwis to take stock, be creative, and try and be optimistic about the future and look for solutions rather than be worried about the ultimate doom and gloom scenario, no matter how dark it all looks just at the moment.”
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New Zealand’s first full rubber road has been laid in Glentunnel, in the Selwyn district. RNZ / Tim Brown
New Zealand’s first full rubber road has been laid in Glentunnel, in the Selwyn district.
The local council is trialling three rubber surfaces on Glentunnel Domain Road with the possibility of rubber-based roads being used in other parts of the district.
One part of the road uses rubber chips, another uses rubber in the bitumen, and a third combines the two.
Selwyn District Council transportation delivery manager Steve Guy said the rubber came from recycled tyres – a lot of them.
“So this trial is … saving 29 tonnes of waste tyres – so tyres that would normally get sent from here up to the North Island, shredded and sent abroad. So that 29 tonnes of tyres if that had got incinerated, for instance, would equate to between 20 to 30 tonnes of carbon emissions. So we’ve saved that,” he said.
Selwyn District Council transportation delivery manager Steve Guy. RNZ / Tim Brown
“And ultimately there’s about 1797 mostly truck tyres that have gone into this trial, into this road.”
Cars, trucks, bikes and other road users would put the surfaces to the test over winter.
The rubber-based surface was longer lasting and cheaper over its lifetime despite a higher upfront cost, Guy said.
The product was produced by Treadlite.
Operations and engineering manager Richard Upperton said the company was in a position to rapidly increase production if demand increased.
“We could do hundreds of kilometres now, it’s just a case of how fast can the industry take it up and I’m confident we can keep up,” he said.
Treadlite operations and engineering manager Richard Upperton. RNZ / Tim Brown
Cost would probably prevent the product from ever becoming the standard surface on state highways, but it had applications due to it producing a quieter road surface, Upperton said.
But Selwyn Mayor Lydia Gliddon said there were financial reasons to be excited about rubber roads.
“If we can take this trial and this can be implemented across the country, there’s savings for everyone,” she said.
“This is a circular economy as well. So we’re not having to export tyres off anywhere else, we can make use of the product we have and we can import less bitumen.”
Gliddon said the project reflected Selwyn’s commitment to smart, innovative thinking.
“Selwyn is always looking for fresh ideas that improve value for money and stronger results for our communities. We are determined to not just be building more infrastructure but building better, smarter infrastructure,” she said.
More than six million tyres reached end of life in New Zealand each year while around 180,000 tonnes of bitumen – almost all imported – was used on roads annually.
The council would look to trial the surfaces in other locations and on wider stretches of road if Glentunnel Domain Road was a success.
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Follow all the NRL action, as NZ Warriors take on Canberra Raiders at Go Media Stadium in Auckland.
The Warriors will be looking to secure their second win of the 2026 season, after beating Sydney Roosters 42-18 in round one in front of a home crowd last Friday.
Kickoff is at 8pm.
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Wastewater testing is showing an increase in Covid cases, and hospitalisations are on the rise as New Zealand enters it’s ninth Covid wave.
National Clinical Director of the Public Health Service Dr Susan Jack told Checkpoint many people aren’t testing for Covid, and the best way to track numbers is through wastewater.
“It is a good reflection. These days we know that testing is not so available, so wastewater testing is a really good indication of if we have got a surge in cases.
“There has also been an increase in hospitalisations, correlating with what we are seeing in the wastewater.
“It does look like we are going into a wave. Maybe more a ripple than a wave compared to previous years.”
Dr Jack said many people can’t afford rapid antigen tests (RATs), and there is a reduced amount of people who are able to test. But Dr Jack said the wastewater testing does provide accurate information.
“It is good if you can afford it, please keep some RATs at home and test. But if not, we have the wastewater testing to fall back on.”
While wastewater testing provides an accurate account of Covid cases in the community, Dr Jack said one issue is that individuals do not know if they have Covid, and so the advice is to stay home if you have a runny nose, cough, or any sort of respiratory symptoms.
“If you do need to go out then we ask people to wear a mask.”
While Covid cases are on the rise, so to are vaccination numbers.
Dr Jack said last week around 20,000 Covid vaccinations were administered.
“Vaccinations have increased since this latest burst of media focus on Covid, and we are really encouraging people as we head into winter, if you are due for your Covid vaccination please get it at the same time as you get your Flu vaccination, and that will be widely available from the first of April.”
Dr Jack said over time immunity does wane, and the best way to counter this is by keeping up with Covid boosters.
While there is not one dominant strain of Covid at the moment, Dr Jack said that older vaccines will still provide some immunity against newer Covid strains.
“They have tweaked the vaccine variant and we have got a new one that has just been released. But the older one still provides good protection against what we have got circulating.”
Dr Jack also said it was a good idea to call your pharmacy ahead of getting your vaccine to ensure they have stock, but that the vaccine is widely available.
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Christ Church Cathedral Dean Ben Truman inside the cathedral. RNZ/Rachel Graham
The Christ Church Cathedral Dean is delighted by the Christchurch mayor’s suggestion that the city council should contribute millions of dollars more to the earthquake-damaged building’s restoration.
Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Ltd, which is managing the rebuild, mothballed the project in 2024 because of a $85 million funding shortfall.
The cost to rebuild the earthquake-damaged building had blown out to $248 million, before being revised down to $219m in 2024, leaving a shortfall of about $85m.
The group leading the rebuild, Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Ltd, currently plans to do the reinstatement work in stages to reduce the initial costs.
Christchurch City Council is about to start work on plans to upgrade Cathedral Square, with the council seeking expressions of interest.
On Thursday mayor Phil Mauger told Newstalk ZB that he felt the $28.5 million budgeted for the Cathedral Square project was too much money and around half could go towards restoring the Anglican cathedral because, “we’ve got to get our centre back”.
Mauger was unavailable for interview on Friday.
Cathedral Dean Ben Truman said the mayor’s suggestion was pragmatic.
“I think what Phil’s comment shows is we can’t have a fully functional square until we have a fully functional cathedral. This really has to be the priority to open up the square and bring people back into the centre of the city,” he said.
Christchurch was undergoing a renaissance but the square was lagging behind, Truman said.
“We have Turanga, we have Te Pae, the new court theatre, but the square still doesn’t feel fully alive. We want to be part of getting that solution to get that back up and running.” he said.
The cathedral is holding another series of building tours from 13-15 March. RNZ/Rachel Graham
Truman said developers were halfway through the process of reopening the cathedral, with $24m from private donors and a promise of $20m from the Anglican church, leaving a shortfall of $40 to 45 million.
“Every little bit helps and the council has been a wonderful partner to us in the past and we look forward to working with them in the future,” he said.
In a statement, a council spokesperson said Mauger was keen to hear from the public about the city’s iconic buildings, including the cathedral, as part of the council’s draft annual plan.
The cathedral is holding another series of building tours from 13-15 March.
Around 12,000 people have taken part in the tours, which have been running for the past couple of years.
Truman said the free tours were fully booked, with 900 people in hi-vis and hard hats expected through the cathedral.
Visitors would see the recreated stained glass rose window and hear bird song designed to reflect the environment when work started on the cathedral in 1864.
Truman said the tours’ popularity demonstrated how important the building was to the people of Christchurch.
“People love this building, it’s part of our history, part of our story, part of our identity and part of our hope for the future of Christchurch,” he said.
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The Hurricanes return home from a demolition job of the Waratahs to take on the Western Force in Napier.
Meanwhile, the Force’s New Zealand tour resumes after a high-scoring defeat to the Highlanders last week.
Kickoff is at 7.05pm.
Hurricanes:
1. Pouri Rakete-Stones. 2. Jacob Devery. 3. Pasilio Tosi. 4. Caleb Delany. 5. Isaia Walker-Leawere. 6. Brad Shields. 7. Du’Plessis Kirifi (cc). 8. Devan Flanders. 9. Cam Roigard. 10. Callum Harkin. 11. Fehi Fineanganofo. 12. Jordie Barrett (cc). 13.Jone Rova. 14. Bailyn Sullivan. 15. Josh Moorby.
Bench: 16. Asafo Aumua. 17. Xavier Numia. 18. Tyrel Lomax. 19. Warner Dearns. 20. Brayden Iose. 21. Jordi Viljoen. 22. Ruben Love. 23. Riley Higgins.
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Professor Judith Trotman and Health Minister Simeon Brown. Supplied
The Health Minister has agreed to meet with a group of blood cancer specialists who wrote an open letter expressing their alarm at Kiwi patients dying unnecessarily because Aotearoa is lagging behind with treatments.
The dozens of doctors, nurses and clinician researchers say New Zealand blood cancer patients are being deprived of modern, funded treatments that are available globally, including the myeloma drug Daratumumab.
They’ve laid out a three-point plan, including an immediate increase in funding for the drug-buying agency for Pharmac,
The letter was largely prompted by the case of Greymouth myeloma patient and former shearer Tawhai Reti, who’s had to leave his four young children with a relative and go to Australia with his wife Lani to get a life-extending drug that is not funded here.
Professor Judith Trotman, the Chair of the Australasian Leukaemia Lymphoma Research Group and an expat Kiwi-Australian haematologist in Sydney, who is treating Tawhai Reti, coordinated the letter.
She told Checkpoint that she and the dozens of doctors who signed the letter felt compelled due to the distress their New Zealand peers were experiencing.
“New Zealand is not funding drugs with a cascading effect on patients’ lives, on doctors’ morale, and drug development. Patients are being lost to their disease, and doctors lost to overseas,” she said.
“We really felt compelled to do something on behalf of but in lockstep with the cancer community.”
Trotman said blood doctors in New Zealand feel that they simply don’t have the tools of their trade and are seeing their patients dying earlier.
“They are not only dying earlier, they are not living well,” she added.
Blood cancer patients in New Zealand were constantly in hospital with recurrent infections. While patients with myeloma, in particular, are repeatedly breaking their bones, Trotman said.
A three-point plan put to the government calls for more funding for medicines that are considered ‘standard of care’ overseas, pointing out that only 0.4 percent of New Zealand’s GDP is spent on medicines, compared to the OECD median of 1.4 percent.
Trotman said New Zealand need to establish a funding trajectory for Pharmac to deliver these standards of care blood cancer medicines to levels comparable with OECD nations.
“When you are only spending one-third the equivalent of GDP of the OECD average, that’s a huge gap to fill. It will take some time, but it’s going to take far too many lives if it takes too long,” she said.
“Blood cancer patients are exquisitely sensitive to Pharmac funding. They can not be prevented with public health measures by the cancer control agency [and] they cannot be removed by the surgeons. They can only be treated with these life-saving, life-changing new therapies that only Pharmac can provide.”
Trotman said Health Minister Simeon Brown has offered to convene a round table with the local blood cancer community, both clinicians and consumer groups.
She said he acknowledged the problem and thanked the hardworking clinicians.
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The Department of Conservation (DOC) has u-turned on its closure of the track to the country’s deepest natural sinkhole.
Harwoods Hole, which is a nearly 180-metre deep vertical shaft, is part of a cave system in the Abel Tasman National Park.
It’s estimated that up to 4000 people use the track each year.
The Department of Conservation closed the track to the site last month, citing safety risks. It warned that the area around Harwoods Hole has unstable rock and significant fall hazards, where slipping could be fatal.
It caused public backlash, with a collective of recreational groups claiming shutting the track was illegal and threatened legal action if DOC did not take down any material saying the track was shut.
DOC has since said it will no longer be providing a marked track to Harwoods Hole or promoting it as a managed visitor site.
DOC Golden Bay operations manager Ross Trotter said on Friday the department has updated wording on its website and will be updating the temporary signage to reflect this.
“We’ve taken these steps because the experience being offered at this site, including the hazards, and the type of visitor it was appealing to, did not match,” Trotter said.
He said people can still access the area at their own risk. However, DOC will not be actively managing visitor access or mitigating natural hazards at the site.
“Heavy promotion on social media and by third parties has set unrealistic expectations and implies viewing of Harwoods Hole from the track is possible, but it’s not. It’s not possible to look down Harwoods Hole from the top of the hole, as it flares out at the top entrance, or from anywhere on the track,” Trotter said.
“We appreciate that some people feel strongly about this place, but our first responsibility is ensuring visitors understand and can safely manage the risks involved.”
Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand president Megan Dimozantos said she received an email from DOC on Friday afternoon to confirm that the track is not closed, but that it will no longer be maintained.
“It’s all about words,” she told Checkpoint. “The use of the word closed has a different legal implication to the use of the words no longer maintained.”
Dimozantos said Section 13 of the Conservation Act only allows for closures of public conservation land where there is an emergency or inherent public risk.
“Obviously, this didn’t meet that very high threshold and we appreciate DOC taking measures to rectify the communication of the situation.”
Dimozantos believes there was an element of safety overreach.
“DOC’s role is not to wrap our public in cotton wool. It is to inform the public of what the risks might be at a particular site and allow the public to make their own decisions about whether they’d like to proceed or not.”
Dimozantos said the case has highlighted a number of other sites where similar “inappropriate” closures are in place.
The group is currently collating that information from the public and will address that with DOC as a separate matter.
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Stressed out students are struggling to pay rent, buy food and take the bus to class because their student loan applications are still not processed, weeks after courses began.
But the Ministry of Social Development, which runs StudyLink, said nearly all the applications made before its cut off date have been approved – and it’s tracking better than last year.
An Otago University student, who didn’t want to be named, applied for her student loan before December 16, which StudyLink’s website said was a very important date: “It’s a date students just can’t miss, it allows us to manage the volume of applications and help them get organised for the start of their study year.”
But she has still not received her loan payments.
“My savings are not gonna last that long, it’s really tough,” she said.
“I’m flatting this year, which means I need to obviously constantly make payments for … rent, and power … not having a steady income from allowance or loan, it’s just been really tough.”
Her mum Louise said her daughter had been without income for about three weeks, since the Jobseeker hardship grant she got over summer stopped.
“She’s very, very stressed,” she said.
“Currently we are supporting her financially, which again is quite stressful on us as well.”
Her daughter’s application had been in “final processing” for three weeks, she said.
“From what I believe or understand, everything has been done at our end and everything has been done at their end, they’ve got all the information they need.
“So what is this hold up?”
She was one of many parents and students in a social media group sharing their frustration about the delays and problems getting through to Studylink on the phone.
Amelia Bethell, who’s studying at the University of Auckland, applied on 14 January – later than the date Studylink was pushing for – because she had heard applications had quietened down by then, and it might get processed faster.
She had heard nothing since.
“After two months of calling, I finally got through to them on Wednesday and pretty much they said, ‘oh, it looks like your documents just haven’t been sent off, they’re sitting here, they’ve been sitting here since you sent them’.
“And they said they would put them through to process them.”
Studylink then asked her to resend some documents, she said.
Bethell felt lucky to have a scholarship that pays for her student accommodation, and a fees-free course, but she was struggling with day to day living costs.
“If I miss getting … a packed lunch from my halls, then I don’t eat all day because I can’t afford to just go and get food,” she said.
“My parents have been trying to send me just little bits that they can so I can catch the bus to go to my classes and to get home.”
But that was not easy for them, she said.
“My family’s a low-income family and it’s taking the money away from them, helping support my sister and my brother that live with them.”
Other students in her hall were worried about being kicked out of university because they could not pay their fees, Bethell said.
The Ministry’s centralised services general manager, Paula Ratahi O’Neill, said students who applied by 16 December should “overwhelmingly” have had their applications wrapped up.
“A total of 87.5% of these applications have now been finalised. Completion peaks at between 88% and 90% each year because some students may submit an application but not complete it,” she said.
It was still working on about a third of applications made after 16 December.
On both counts, that was a better track record than last year, Ratahi O’Neill said.
“Processing of all applications is ahead of last year, with more completed, despite receiving more applications than last year. Around 11,000 more students have applied for student support compared to last year.”
Ratahi O’Neill said StudyLink’s still receiving thousands of applications each week, and staff have been working overtime since October to support more students.
She confirmed students would be backpaid, and said anyone who’s struggling students should contact them.
Victoria University Students’ Association president Aidan Donoghue said up to fifteen students had been in touch this academic year struggling with Studylink delays meaning they can’t pay their fees.
“We’ve been advocating within the university, pleading the case … and the university’s very receptive, and they’re very understanding of it not being within the students’ control, and have set up some more links to have representatives from Studylink be at campus, particularly during O-week, to get things sorted in person.”
Other student associations had also seen an increase in students reporting StudyLink application delays.
They acknowledged there were a number of factors at play, including application dates, and waiting for universities to verify students’ studies and grades.
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John Reid in 2015 in his study surrounded by memorabilia from his cricketing career. Supplied / Lisa Thompson
This week’s one of despair for New Zealand cricket lovers, after the Black Caps were outclassed in the T20 World Cup final.
But, today is a special anniversary in cricket history – it’s 70 years since New Zealand won its first test match, after 26 years of trying.
The victory over the West Indies at Auckland’s Eden Park came in the 45th attempt, going back to January 1930. They’d suffered 22 losses and drawn 22.
As the victorious cricketers walked off Eden Park many in the crowd jumped the fence and swarmed their heroes.
Among the fans sprinting to the middle was 11-year-old Anand Satyanand.
The future governor-general of New Zealand, now Sir Anand, rushed to see history unfold as it seemed the game was heading for a tight finish.
“I went from Richmond Road School with a small group of friends,” he said.
“We were a cricket-mad school, as I recollect, and from Richmond Road one caught the bus to the reservoir on the corner of Ponsonby and Great North Road and then walked along and across the gully to Eden Park.”
The Right Hon. Sir Anand Satyanand, former Governor General of New Zealand. RNZ
Once there he was among those snapped by press photographers capturing the euphoric scenes.
“I was sitting on the terraces with my friend Ken Pratt… and clearly in a moment of excitement we jumped the fence and walked across the ground, hence that photograph that appeared in the New Zealand Herald of the two teams coming off the field, surrounded by a group of cricketing followers.”
A copy of that now hangs in Sir Anand’s laundry. In the picture he’s carrying his school satchel over his shoulder.
It was a low-scoring match – both teams scored at less than 2 runs an over – and the West Indies on the final day needed 268 runs to win the series four-nil.
But the New Zealanders, especially medium fast bowlers Harry Cave and Don Beard, took advantage of the tricky conditions and bowled them out for 77.
The New Zealand line-up even included former West Indies player Sammy Guillen, but was missing the great batsman of the era, Bert Sutcliffe, who played 42 tests but was never once on a winning side.
Expectations heading into the game were low. The West Indies had thrashed New Zealand in the three preceding tests and it was only a year since New Zealand was humiliated – bowled out for 26 by England, still a world-record low score.
It was quite the turnaround. At the after-match presentations captain John Reid was hailed as a hero, as the crowd gave him more than one round of three cheers.
He later said it was the best day of his cricket career – the non-drinker even tasting champagne during the celebrations.
“For once it wasn’t us who bowled that one loose ball each over, or who dropped the vital catch,” he told journalist Joseph Romanos in their 2000 book, John Reid – A Cricketing Life.
Former New Zealand cricketer John F Reid. PHOTOSPORT
Bill Frith, who was then 10, remembers watching as much of the match as he could, rushing there on the final day from Mt Roskill Intermediate.
In those days you’d get into the last session for free.
“I remember being on the terraces, which were grass at that time. It was quite a good-looking ground at that time, and I can remember the jubilation at the end, with the players pulling the stumps out and souveniring them and and that sort of thing.”
Still years until daylight saving arrived, the players were battling the gloom, but New Zealand had conditions in its favour.
“In those days you could go out and inspect the pitch. And the pitch there, around where the ball pitched, was sort of like corrugated iron,” Frith said.
“I’d be interested to know what it was like on the day we bowled the West Indies out.”
The Press newspaper described the bedlum: “It was a memorable scene at the end. The ground, all green and gold, was besieged by the crowd of 7000 that watched the final act…
“The crowd, savouring to the full the flavour of the occasion, had not fully dispersed when the teams left the ground an hour later.”
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack even reported local offices closing early to let workers head to the ground as victory drew near.
Frith and Sir Anand both thought the win might herald a period of success, but it wasn’t to be, and New Zealand struggled at cricket until the 1970s, not winning another test until the 1961-2 summer.
Since then the team has risen to be one of the best in the world – a long innings the pair have enjoyed watching.
Both men fondly remember watching cricket history take place.
“I follow cricket today, but not with the day-to-day enthusiasm of when I was 10 and 12,” Frith said.
“I used to go down to Eden Park and watch all the club games. I used to go and watch the Black Caps practice, and they’d sometimes bowl to me.
“I was the archetypal cricket tragic at that time.”
Sir Anand was similar, although he said his playing ability never matched his enthusiasm.
“I think it was a vital turn of the road for New Zealand cricket to to be able to foot it against a major cricket playing nation and to win,” he said.
“New Zealand had been treated as a rather secondary sort of member of the world cricket fraternity.
“England and Australia only played us on an irregular basis, but the victory against the West Indies was a pointer to the the modern game, where New Zealand is a contender that is treated very seriously.”
SCORES: New Zealand 255 (John Reid 84, Tom Dewdney 5-21) and 157-9 declared (Denis Atkinson 7-53) beat West Indies 145 (Hammond Furlonge 64, Tony MacGibbon 4-44, Harry Cave 4-22) and 77 (Cave 4-21, Don Beard 3-22).
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A photo illustration of a Brent crude oil price chart displayed on a screen. (File photo) AFP / Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto
War in the Middle East might have developed beyond US President Donald Trump’s ability to end it at whim, but has it yet reached a worst-case scenario?
Bloomberg reported on Friday that “international and US efforts to mollify oil markets continued to fail in the face of the long-feared worst-case scenario”.
Iran had pledged to keep the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut.
New Zealand commentators said the situation was deteriorating with each day that passed – but could it yet be called a worst-case scenario?
Mike Jones, chief economist at BNZ, said there were still a wide range of scenarios at play.
“I think what we’ve seen over the past few days is markets adjust expectations around the length and impact of this conflict. Oil prices have continued to grind higher since Tuesday’s brief reprieve, and global bond yields are rising as a bigger inflation shock is factored in. That’s not a growth-friendly mix, although the magnitude of any impact is still highly uncertain.
“I think what is clear is that every day the Strait is closed the risk to the global and domestic economies rises. And even when shipping does resume, it looks as if it will take some time for energy trade to recover. That means we could see some sort of risk premium built into oil prices for a longer period.”
Kelly Eckhold, chief economist at Westpac, said it was a “very serious situation” that was unprecedented outside the 1970s oil embargo period.
“Our analysis last week showed that the economic impacts would scale up significantly the longer the straits are closed. There will be an accumulating shortage of crude oil in Asian jurisdictions which is where we source our refined products. And the reality is you can’t refine and export what you can’t access.
“Right now, the impacts are modest. We have fuel inventories on hand and new supplies seem to be arriving as usual. Business has likely not needed to do much more than prepare contingency plans. Consumers are noticing an uncomfortable rise in fuel prices that hasn’t extended beyond the experience of the last few years. However, that will change as the closure period grows. Crude oil and refined product will become scarcer and more expensive and cause increasing economic losses.”
Westpac chief economist Kelly Eckhold. (File photo) Newshub
At Otago University, Murat Ungor said he did not think the situation was yet a “worst-case scenario” – because things could still get “considerably worse”.
“What is likely happening is anchoring to recent experience: oil has traded in the US$70-95 range since August 2022, so breaking US$100 feels dramatic relative to that baseline. To put this in historical context, we have seen far more extreme oil price environments. During the 2008 financial crisis, Brent crude reached US$147/barrel.
“Or, following the 2019 Abqaiq attack on Saudi facilities, markets briefly priced in severe supply disruption scenarios.
“A genuine worst-case oil scenario would involve several interrelated factors not yet observed.
“First, a large-scale physical supply disruption. Second, prices rising to US$150 to US$200 per barrel and remaining there some weeks or even a few months. Third, cascading macroeconomic effects: global recession, stagflation, and supply-chain paralysis as transport costs make moving goods uneconomical. Finally, severe demand destruction, with airlines grounding fleets, industrial production halting, and possible fuel rationing in major economies – surely, this is a part of the worst-case scenario.”
He said the current prices did not reflect worst-case outcomes.
“I think we are in a regime of significantly elevated risk rather than a worst-case realisation. That captures the seriousness without overstating where we currently stand.”
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