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• Source:  Future changes and historic payroll mistakes are among the targets of more than $2 billion in new education spending in todays government Budget. The biggest areas of new spending also included new school property and catch-up funding for polytechnic courses. Source: istock.com By John Gerritsen of rnz.co.nz The four-year total included $1.7b on school and early childhoo...

There were other also factors like physical activity and carbohydrate content of a diet that counted.

• Source:  An elderly man has been sentenced to four and a half months home detention for the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact. File picture. Source: istock.com Matamata man Roy Morton, 82, pleaded guilty in the High Court at Hamilton. He attempted to kill his wife and himself on two occasions after she suffered a debilitating stroke in October last year. He claimed t...

Close Ad China’s Communist Party opens social media as new front in long war to shape global public opinion • Source:  Associated Press China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. Chinas rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retwee...

• Source:  The amount of money the Ministry of Social Development has paid out to help people on benefits or low incomes with car repairs has tripled in the last six years. A car being repaired. Source: istock.com By Sarah Robson - rnz.co.nz Official figures, obtained by National, show that in the year to March, MSD spent $33.6 million helping people pay for car repairs with almos...

• Source:  AAP Qantas has delayed its planned resumption of international flights until late December after Australias federal budget revised forecasts for overseas travel. Qantas airlines Boeing 787-9. Source: istock.com The airline was due to restart services at the end of October but today pushed back the date. Australias Treasury...

The countrys treasurer says the tragic scenes in India are a reminder of the threat Covid-19 still poses.

• Source:  Five wealthy foreigners moved to New Zealand while the countrys borders were closed, and were then granted residency to invest a combined $36 million. The International Arrivals terminal at Auckland Airport. Source: istock.com By Amy Williams for rnz.co.nz Immigration New Zealand (INZ) figures released to RNZ show the people were given border exemptions to enter the cou...

• Source:  Ashburton District Council has unanimously backed a move to ditch the districts derided slogan. The Ashburton River/Hakatere in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, flowing across Mid Canterbury from the Southern Alps to the Pacific Ocean. Source: istock.com The majority of councillors are supporting a move to formalise a possible change in chambers with a few wanting t...

• Source:  AAP A breeder convicted of a string of animal abuse offences, including operating squalid puppy farms in South Australia, could be extradited from New Zealand. A dog awaits adoption from an animal shelter. Source: istock.com RSPCA Australia is investigating the possible extradition of the woman, after a magistrate found her...