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He witnessed his co-host Allison Langdon injure herself while filming a segment for Today back in February, and Karl Stefanovic risked a similar fate on Friday.
Lorna Thornber17:12, Jun 05 2021 Brook Sabin Quirky sculptures, monster trucks, and supersized pizzas - here are our favourite offbeat Queenstown experiences. With the Queen to thank for this long weekend, we thought we’d take a look at the New Zealand towns named after Elizabeth II and her whānau. Given the huge number of places named after British military types, I was surprised to find there aren’t many. Queenstown, Kingston and Alexandra are the only three settlements in Aotearoa said to be named after royals, perhaps as a result of the anti-royalist attitudes of the long-defunct N...
Shaun Kelly, owner-operator of the Absoloot Backpackers in Queenstown, says his hostel is operating at 25% occupancy and that he does not expect the outlook to improve for the rest of the year. “In terms of the business environment, to be honest, it’s awful … Any evidence to say that we’re doing OK is wrong.” Many communities more than a few hours’ drive from major centres – such as the West Coast glacier towns Franz Josef and Fox, Te Anau and Lake Wānaka – are suffering the same pressures. They have been left out of New Zealand’s Covid-19 success story, Kelly says. “It w...