Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been welcomed by the New Zealand parliament as he kicks off a quick visit for defence and economics talks with counterpart Chris Hipkins. Mr Albanese touched down in Wellington on Wednesday morning to for his third meeting with Mr Hipkins since he succeeded Jacinda ArdernContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has condemned North Korea’s firing of a missile as leaders gather for the NATO summit in Lithuania, where the war in Ukraine and its affect on global security is the focus. Mr Albanese and the leaders Chris Hipkins of New Zealand, Fumio Kishida of Japan and Yoon SukContinue Reading
The New Zealand government has forked out $5 million in a last-minute bid to save the country’s North Island ski season after a major skiing operator collapsed. The 11th hour loan of NZ$5 million (A$4.6 million), confirmed just days ahead of the season opening on July 1, was announced toContinue Reading
New Zealand’s agriculture-driven economy has fallen into recession, according to official data released Thursday, with a damaging cyclone fuelling a widespread downturn just months before national elections. Stats NZ signalled the economy had contracted 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, after a fall of 0.7 per cent at theContinue Reading
An American zoo has issued a grovelling apology after admitting it made a “huge mistake” that angered an entire country. In recent days, footage of Miami Zoo’s paid encounters with Paora the kiwi went viral, showing the bird being handled and passed around for selfies in broad daylight and underContinue Reading
A number of people are missing and at least six people have been confirmed dead after a devastating fire tore through a New Zealand hostel. Swarms of emergency services crews rushed to the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel on Adelaide Rd in the capital city of Wellington just before 12.30am localContinue Reading
A Tasmanian building company has gone into liquidation, leaving multimillion-dollar projects in the lurch. It is the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of building firms collapsing as the industry faces the rising cost of labour and construction materials. A liquidator was appointed to Multi-Res Builders Pty Ltd on MayContinue Reading
The children of certain New Zealanders will automatically acquire Australian citizenship if they are born here as part of sweeping changes to bring in line the rights of expats of the two countries. Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that any child born in Australia from July 1 2022 to aContinue Reading
Sandy Boyce has been living in Australia for 15 years, and for almost ten of those has been fighting to become an Australian citizen. The New Zealander made the move across the Tasman Sea in 2008 to join her husband, and – despite planning early on to only stay hereContinue Reading
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared that women do not have penises amid an ongoing debate over transgender issues. Mr Sunak was speaking with the ConservativeHome website on Thursday when he was asked to weigh in on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s recent statement that “99.9 per cent of womenContinue Reading