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A High Court ruling last year found police couldn't stop the Transport Ministry fraudster accessing her KiwiSaver funds, despite still owing thousands to the Crown.

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At a ceremony in Auckland on Friday night, Stuffs journalists and titles won 19 of the 66 categories – including a golden run for The Press newspaper – and came runner-up in nine more. Crowning Mau the Reporter of the Year, the judges described her stories about sexual harassment as "fearless, determined pursuits that deserve the highest commendation". LAWRENCE SMITH Alison Maus MeToo stories earned her the Reporter of the Year gong. Parahi was named Editorial Leader of the Year, and ...

Paula Penfold reporting in Afghanistan with Stuff Circuit in 2019. OPINION: In a 2005 speech, four years after New Zealand first deployed to Afghanistan, then-Defence Minister Phil Goff defended the continuing mission by saying the reason for committing troops was not simply because the Taliban regime was involved in appalling human rights abuses – girls banned from attending school, women prohibited from the paid workforce, weekly executions at the Kabul football stadium, were a few of the e...

Stuffs Thoma Manch taking part in an online press briefing on Xinjiang organsied by the PRC embassy last week. Photo: Robert Kitchin of Stuff (used by permission) Are you confident you are on the right side of history?” Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien asked foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta on the Newshub Nation show the weekend before last.  But the minister was not about to commit to following suit on national television.  “Im willing to get information about what we could do. ...

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Similar motions in the parliaments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands have condemned the abuse as “genocide”, but the statements were not supported by each parliament’s government. A comparable effort in Australia’s federal parliament failed. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, was not in this House for Wednesday’s debate, told reporters she was pleased a motion gained the support of Parliament. “Im pleased that unlike many other countries, where theyve been abstention...

NZ slams China for ‘severe human rights abuses’ against Uighurs We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Thomas Manch Save Normal text size Advertisement Wellington: The New Zealand Parliament has unanimously declared that “severe human rights abuses” are occurring against the Uighur people in Xinjiang, China. A parliamentary motion about China’s actions in Xinjiang was agreed to by all MPs after a debate in the House o...

Anna Fifield05:00, May 01 2021 Kevin Stent/Stuff Signs for cancelled buses during the recent bus drivers’ strike. If you thought Wellingtons transport woes couldnt get any worse, our reporting this week might have caused you to think again. Over the past few months, weve reported on the delays and cost blow-outs on the Transmission Gully project, the shocking lack of progress on Lets Get Wellington Moving and the latest instalment in our bustrastrophe, with unions and an Australian private e...

But Mahuta also asserted New Zealands independent foreign policy approach, by expressing concern about Chinas influence in the Pacific, its treatment of minority groups, and outlining plans to expand reliance beyond China on trade.  "Today we acknowledge the interests we share. Equally, we have become more alert to the values that differentiate us. Let me liken this perspective to the Dragon and the Taniwha," Mahuta said in her speech.  "I see the Taniwha and the Dragon as symbols of the stre...