Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher A week before Grant Robertson unveiled his hefty election-year Budget, dozens of wealthy Kiwis made a plea for the Government to tax them more. Given the timing, some pundits questioned their motives. I...
Inflation, or “Robflation” as I call it, is quietly eroding New Zealand’s wealth. With a 32-year high inflation rate, our money’s value has shrunk by 7 percent in just one year. The 2023 “no-frills” Budget, which pledged to confront the...
Labour adopting long-standing Green Party policies is a win for Aotearoa. Most policies date back 10-plus years ago, such as warmer Kiwi homes which was campaigned on by Jeanette Fitzsimons in 2009. Despite this Green win, the need for a wealth tax...
There is worldwide inflation and our NZ Government is doing better than most. Don’t ever blame the poor for inflation while CEOs collect millions of dollars and people use the housing market to make millions of dollars. Govt spending has been...
Movie Guide DOME CINEMA ■ Driving Madeleine Madeleine, 92, calls a taxi to take her to a retirement home. A disillusioned driver with a tender heart agrees to drive the streets of Paris, past the places that affected Madeleine’s life. ■ Whin...
THIS WEEK ■ ‘G n I’ Live at the RSA Club Friday May 26. Come and be enertained as Guy Batker and Fiona Cameron sing popular. Free entry, 7pm. ■ Not The Church . . . but damn close at ‘Shave To Cure Breast Cancer’ Fundraiser The Tav, Ruru...
Local artist Jody Tupara’s latest oil painting Ngā haututu o te kāuta was one of the standout artworks in Aotearoa’s annual portraiture awards held in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia in Wellington yesterday. She was one of the three finalists from...
Reggae powerhouse Chad “The Boogieman” Chambers’ long-awaited debut album Nāti Shores carries the heart of soul music and leaves you wanting more. Chambers (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Te Aotāwirirangi me Ruataupare) is set to release Nāti...
Aspiring Thespians who are looking to show their acting chops can now audition for Evolution Theatre’s Shakespearean romantic comedy The Taming of the Shrew. The play which is believed to have been written in the late 1590s narrates the story of...
Upcoming Wellington artist Rei’s latest single All We Got is tuned as a drum and bass cum kapa haka and pop mash that will send music lovers straight back to the vibe of their favourite festival. Following up on this summer’s DnB te reo hit Te...
Rhythm and Vines organisers want to know what the public think about the local music extravaganza with a short survey. Organisers of the three-day music festival said they wanted to hear from festivalgoers as R&V — one of the country’s...
Not one but two renowned international music festivals have invited local band Brazilbeat Sound System to perform at their venues in America this June. Now in it’s 26th year, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is a three-day camping and music...
Gisborne Hiabs were called in yesterday morning to clean up and recover the trailer of a truck and trailer unit carrying wood chip that came to grief in the railway station yards on Tuesday night. A witness said the trailer tipped and spilled its...
Tolaga Bay’s George Sheild and Wairoa’s David Scragg were joined on the leaderboards at the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships yesterday by Matawai’s Samantha Shaw. Shaw and her dog Rouge made the top seven in event three...
Kaleb Jacobs is probably not your ideal poster boy for what to do after you’ve dislocated your shoulder. Playing striker for Coates Associates Wainui Demons against Gisborne Thistle Youth last Saturday, Jacobs hit a shot towards goal and fell...
First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Central Tahi v Central Rua; 3, Kaiti Horouta v Awapuni Green; 4, Mangapapa Storm v Te Hapara Kea; 5, Mangapapa Mist v Mangatuna; 6, Mangapapa Floods v Wainui Mussels; 7, Bayleys Ngatapa Kiwis v Wainui Kin...
The loss of his trusty 5-wood proved an ace blessing in disguise for long-time Te Puia Hot Springs member Peter Harrison on Sunday. Harrison sank his tee shot on the 148-metre par-3 ninth hole at the Springs — the third hole-in-one of his career...
POVERTY BAY He tempted fate last year. Not this time. Simon Jeune chose not to repeat his 2022 action of touching the giant Enterprise Motor Warehouse open foursomes trophy before teeing off on Saturday. Eighteen holes later he and Glenn Morley had...
Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette is one of three women in a six-strong New Zealand team to the ISA World Surfing Games at Surf City, El Salvador. The Games begin with the opening ceremony and the Pouring of the Sands on Tuesday next week. Vette became...
Gisborne Boardriders Club held its third and final Junior Series event in solid 1-to-1.5-metre Northern Makorori waves at the weekend. Rising star Asia Braithwaite was again in the spotlight, with victory in the girls’ under-18 division, while Max...
A jury deliberated for three hours yesterday before finding Mongrel Mob couple George Hallet Walker and Grace Mercedies guilty of murdering Gisborne woman Maraea Smith. Ms Smith, 36, was shot dead on Titoki Street about 9.55pm on March 25, last...
Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurses yesterday celebrated victory in court but remain adamantly committed to alleviating safety and staffing concerns. Nurses from as far away as Ruatoria joined a rally outside the hospital yesterday to support Ward 5...
Consent has been lodged for the Waikare Gorge realignment project to bypass six kilometres of the existing State Highway 2, including the slip- and rockfall-prone Waikare Gorge between Wairoa and Napier. The realignment project will include 3.9km of...
The Tairāwhiti Emergency Management Roadshow starts in Tokomaru Bay on Sunday with stop one of its five-weekend tour. The roadshow brings together emergency services in Tairāwhiti to train in partnership with community Civil Defence volunteers...
Alzheimers NZ’s Gisborne services face permanent closure due to government funding restrictions, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re clinging to the lifeboats,” Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said. “We may have to close down...
The Labour Party Maori Caucus ministers were in Gisborne yesterday to spread the word on the Budget 2023 funding announcements for Maori. The total Māori package this year is just over $825 million. Funding announced included $23m for extending Te...
Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...
The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...
Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...
Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...
Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...
The Motu Trails Charitable Trust will receive $90,000 from Trust Tairāwhiti over three years to boost their marketing and promotions to attract more visitors to the region. That was one of 11 applications approved in the trust’s latest funding...
The other new team in Premier Grade netball, Ngatapa, face a tough task tonight when they front up to in-form YMP in the YMCA. Turanga FM YMP racked up over 80 goals against newly promoted YMP (2) in the Pak’nSave competition at the weekend. YMP...
Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: NHEW Tein...