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Peter Wilson* Analysis - The year 2020 was the most challenging year any New Zealand government has faced. It was the year of Covid, the year of economic recession and the beginning of recovery. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern not only led the country through it, she won an unprecedented election victory at the end of it. When Ardern held her last post-Cabinet press conference of 2020 she recalled that when she held the first one she had spoken about the New Zealanders in China's Hubei Province where a new and deadly virus was reported to ...

1.       Covid-19 lockdown announcements and the 1pm briefings Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Dr Ashley Bloomfield Source: Getty On March 23, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the country we were "facing the potential for devastating impacts" as the Covid-19 pandemic swarmed the world. We had just 48 hours before the country was plunged into a strict lockdown for weeks. It was just the start of the tense 1pm briefings, where the country sat on the edge of its couches for the daily Covid-19 numbers. By the end, New Zealand had seemed t...

Homes in the Gibbston Valley resort were selling for between $1.35m and $4.5m plus GST. Real Estate Institute of New Zealand chief executive Bindi Norwell said the market was very buoyant. Queenstown Lakes District had seen significant growth, despite how exposed to tourism it was. Median house prices in the region grew 14.2 per cent year-on-year in November from $950,000 to $1.085m, she said. There had also been an increase in the volume of property sold, around 3 per cent year-on-year. supplied Bindi Norwell, chief executive of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, says median house...

Claire Trevett: The lol-lights and comedy awards of 2020 23 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read OPINION: The hunt for the laughs in 2020 was particularly challenging. In politics, not much good happened to anyone other than Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Her re-election with a full majority in Parliament was the reward for having to contend with all the crap (there is no other word for it, sorry) 2020 unloaded on her desk. Even the PM admitted she would have been happy to trade in a few seats for a less fraught year. The election result emerges. Cartoon / Rod Emmerson But ...

"The man who sat next to him didn't even bat an eye." Photo credit: Boing Boing The World Health Organization names the virus COVID-19 - short for coronavirus disease 2019 - on February 11. By then over 43,000 people had been infected worldwide, and more than 1000 dead from the illness. Residents in low-lying areas of Gore, Wyndham, and Mataura in Southland had to be evacuated as flooding ravaged the area. Gore pictured from above. Photo credit: Facebook / Hamish Walker US President Donald Trump's impeachment drew demonstrations across the...