Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris has rejected calls to apologise for two social media posts that his own party labelled “racist,” insisting he stands by his remarks.
A review into Whānau Ora’s $155m taxpayer-funded programme, overseen by Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere, found no direct misuse of funds but raised fresh questions over what counts as public money.
Acting Prime Minister David Seymour says Labour and the Greens blocked his bid for Parliament to honour Charlie Kirk, the American political commentator, who was assassinated this week.
Seymour said Kirk’s death was “the bitter and tragic irony that a person promoting free speech over political violence was subject to political violence,” arguing that it resonated with many New Zealanders.
Emails released by the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee show Dr Anthony Fauci instructed colleagues to delete official correspondence at the height of the COVID pandemic.
Fauci is the former chief medical adviser to the White House and former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A new OECD report has found that Finnish teenagers leaving high school have better literacy skills than many university graduates in other countries, including New Zealand.
