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Guests at Emma Conyngham’s mid-winter Christmas party in June demonstrate how the reusable cracker works. Video / Supplied
The PM and Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi on the decision to allow Pacific seasonal workers into the country.
02-08-2021 Wine judge Jen Parr shares her expertise on how to taste a wine and know if it is any good. Video / NZ Herald
Seasonal workers from Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu will be able to enter New Zealand from next month. This would be one way, entering New Zealand only, and they would not need to go through managed isolation.
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Loader rampage as the driver takes it to boy racers near Huntly at the weekend. Video / Supplied
Wahine Māori uses pageant to build self-confidence. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
NZ Herald Focus Sport's Cheree Kinnear wraps the Tokyo Olympics news as Dame Valerie Adams while bronze and Lisa Carrington looks set for a golden blitz. Video / NZ Herald / Sky Sport
Lisa Carrington went from her small World Champion profile in New Zealand to a household name after winning gold in the K1 200m at the London Olympics, now the challenge is set for Tokyo. Video / Greg Bowker
When Algerian fugitive Ahmed Zaoui arrives in New Zealand on a false passport just before Christmas 2002 and asks for asylum, it sparks a five-year security scandal.
Deborah Manning decides that if the SIS won’t reveal their evidence, then she will find it independently by travelling to Europe.
Watch: PM Jacinda Ardern delivers a formal apology to address the injustices of Pacific peoples during the 1970s dawn raids.
1 August 2021 A building on Fanshawe Street is in flames with black smoke billowing from the site. Video / Adam Pearse / Supplied
NZ Herald Focus Sport's Cheree Kinnear wraps all the news from day ten as Black Ferns Sevens claim Olympic glory and Dylan Schmidt makes history. Video / NZ Herald / Sky Sport
NZ Herald Focus Sport's Cheree Kinnear wraps all the action from a historic day for New Zealand sport and we check out three Olympic flatmate's Cambridge crib. Video / NZ Herald / Sky Sport
Civilians who worked with NZDF, plead with Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to help them escape the Taliban. Video / Supplied
Fresh Bite restaurant is the only restaurant in NZ serving seafood and rice congee the way they make it in Guangzhou. Video / Dean Purcell
Olympic crib: Cyclists Regan Gough and Jordan Kerby plus canoe sprint paddler Max Brown reveal to Focus Sport’s Cheree Kinnear what’s its like living in a house full of athletes. Video / Jed Bradley
An army of supporters swings into action as Ahmed Zaoui gets bail and is given sanctuary with a houseful of Catholic priests in central Auckland.
Ahmed Zaoui wins the right to stay in New Zealand as a refugee but the Government seems determined to get rid of him.
Zaoui is finally free to enjoy life in New Zealand and be reunited with his wife and children. Then he gets a mysterious offer to return to Algeria.
As the SIS case against him crumbles, Ahmed Zaoui finally wins his freedom.
Deborah Manning’s secret witness flies into New Zealand and Ahmed Zaoui comes face to face with the man who destroyed his life.
Deborah Manning comes up with a brainwave while doing the ironing - she will ask Catholic priests to give sanctuary to Ahmed Zaoui so he can get bail.
In a post-9/11 world, Ahmed Zaoui’s arrival immediately thrusts New Zealand into the US-led War on Terror, and he is locked up in solitary confinement.
Lorde eats spicy wings on Hot Ones. Video / First We Feast
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Health Minister Andrew Little talks nurses rejection of the latest pay and conditions offer. Video / Mark Mitchell
Lawyer, maunga chief Paul Majurey: 'Ultimately it all comes back to whanaungatanga'. Video / Dean Purcell
Researcher helping descendants of Māori adoptees reconnect with their birth whanau. Video / Te ao Māori
Dr Ayesha Verrall stand up at the mass vaccination centre. Video / Michael Craig