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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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Kids play made too safe - expert
A misguided health and safety culture is threatening to render children's play meaningless, early childhood providers are to be warned. The United Kingdom-based founder of Outdoor Play and Learning (Opal), Michael Follett, says a "policy of fear" has reshaped play to the extent that children are losing out on vital learning. "You are taking away their ability to learn through ...
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Hundreds of kids in CYF abuse review
Child Youth and Family is reviewing the cases of more than 200 children thought to have been subjected to continued abuse and neglect despite repeated warnings to social workers. Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills said the children had been referred to CYF more than 20 times each and the notifications could include everything from serious violence to children repeatedly turning up to ...
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Treated sewage could cover city land
Treated sewage waste could be dumped on land 20m from property boundaries under the draft Auckland Council Unitary Plan. Sections of the plan that have escaped public notice reveal that waste called biosolids which meets accepted standards could be dumped on or in land as a permitted activity. This means resource consent would not be needed and dumping could occur as of right, ...
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Bach and back street among top awards
A firm of Auckland architects behind a building restoration which revitalised part of Queen St scooped the country's premier architectural award last night. Fearon Hay, headed by Tim Hay and Jeff Fearon, won the NZ Institute of Architect's architecture medal for the Imperial Buildings near the foot of Queen St, a project the judges said had enlivened the wider area with through-site ...
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Westie takes a bite of Big Apple
When New Zealand chef Matt Lambert opens his first restaurant in New York City next week, he will be giving diners a little taste of Henderson Creek. The 32-year-old says his restaurant, The Musket Room, will be a New Zealand restaurant and some of the dishes will be based on memories of his years back home. "I've a couple of dishes based on the fact that I used to go fishing for ...
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Students bear the brunt of Auckland public transport fare rises
Auckland transport agency has been accused of targeting students with public transport fare rises that will also affect thousands of Hop and multi-trip ticket buyers. Auckland Transport - which waited until late yesterday to announce changes approved by its board two months ago - will lift cash fares for tertiary students by between 7c and 40c a trip on June 3. Adults who use Hop ...
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$9m fraud Family in dock
A Remuera businesswoman allegedly headed a $9.2 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved her siblings, friends and 11 Auckland properties. Eli Devoy, 44, - also known as Ellie Stone and Eli Ghorbani - was charged by the Serious Fraud Office yesterday with six other members of the Auckland Iranian community. According to the SFO, the defendants are all friends and family of Devoy. Three are ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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UFC Kiwis on UFC undercard in Las Vegas showdown
Mixed martial arts already has a cult following in New Zealand and it could blast to the front of people's minds this weekend. Kiwis Mark Hunt and James Te Huna are both on the UFC 160 card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and tomorrow afternoon's (NZT) show shapes as a blockbuster. Heavyweight Hunt is in the co-main event against Brazilian Junior dos Santos, with the ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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Asteroid to pass by close enough for detailed scan
Another giant space rock is set to sail by the Earth just a few months after our last close encounter - but an expert says asteroid armageddon isn't something we need to worry about any time soon. What are termed Near Earth Objects, or NEOs, occasionally pass us by at relatively close but safe distances as they make their way through the Earth's neighbourhood. The most recent, ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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Court rules legal aid system illegal
The new leaner legal aid system is unlawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled. But the system will continue unchanged for now while officials prepare advice for Justice Minister Judith Collins. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) launched court proceedings after the Government's cost-saving shake-up of the legal aid system, which resulted in legal aid lawyers getting a 10 per cent pay ...
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Towering row over control of high-rise haven
It was built as the pinnacle of luxury and outstanding architectural design but is now at the centre of bitter battles, as residents lurch from one scrap to the next. The fight within the walls of the Metropolis, Auckland CBD's 40-level apartment tower, has drawn in some of the city's wealthiest people, who have hired lawyers to slug it out against one another. In the last week, ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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Spooks sift through digital footprints
The GCSB doesn't talk about how it spies on people. If it did, Kiwis would find themselves grappling with some uncomfortable truths. "You wouldn't be able to convince a nation of people to carry around a tracking device - but they will carry mobile phones," says Paul Brislen, chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand. Each phone emits a signal ...
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SkyCity bets on Queenstown
While SkyCity this month got the nod for its controversial $402 million Auckland convention centre, a Queenstown expansion proceeds almost entirely outside the spotlight. In the southern town, the company has been picked to operate a new convention centre, which is yet to be built. But SkyCity also wants new luxury hotel accommodation to draw multimillionaire Asian high rollers on a ...
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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