Chance Voight group investors face a 'substantial shortfall' according to liquidators report In December 2025, the Financial Markets Authority sought the liquidation of Rangiora-based Chance Voight Investment Corporation Limited (CVICL), and five of its main subsidiaries.

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What? Trying to avoid jail?

The power of a dog’s nose is so extraordinary it can detect even the faintest trace: just a few molecules in the air.

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Seymour is avoiding talk about his polling.

Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last? | Greg Jericho We are less than a month out from the budget and Labor’s mooted adjustments to tax concessions for property investors have barely registered

My column: "Capital gains tax changes are on the table, and yet Armageddon has not arrived. Has the tide on housing turned at last?"

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Giant health insurance companies, like UnitedHealth, are under investigation for corporate fraud through their Medicare Advantage plans.

We cannot give these companies one more taxpayer dollar, let alone the $13 billion HHS Secretary Kennedy just approved.

'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
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The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica.

This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.

Half of the votes National has lost since the election have gone to NZF, so National has to say NZF will go with Labour.

Half of NZF new votes have come from National, so NZF has to rule out Labour (at least until the day after the election).

This dynamic will repeat until election day

Guess my fav.....

There seems to be a dispute on this.

Journalist Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli bombing of the town of Al-Tayri in southern Lebanon.

Cartoon by
Bob Englehart

Mount Robson is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, standing at 3,954 meters (12,972 feet) in British Columbia's Mount Robson
Provincial Park. 🇨🇦

Yeah...right.

It's good l'onion is getting ahead of the game for now

This Roman statutory group depicts the scene from Book 9 of the Odyssey where Odysseus escapes the cave of the cyclops, Polyphemus, by clinging to the shaggy belly of a great ram. His men had escaped earlier hiding beneath suitably smaller, less heroic sheep

🕰️Early imperial
🏛️📷 ©️ Fondazione Torlonia

"Yeah like that's an insult" says one alive.

This beaver was orphaned and rescued as a newborn. See the incredible instinct to build a dam, even though no parent has ever passed this information to it. [📹 hmuraco]

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When Two Tribes go to War.

On the left Labour wearing the old New Zealand-made poppy and on the right National wearing the new Royal British Legion imported poppy.

What poppy are you wearing this Anzac Day?

Sen. Alsobrooks: "Can you admit today that you said every black kid can get reparented on a wellness farm?"

RFK: "I have no memory of saying anything like that…I do not believe that every black kid should be reparented on a wellness farm or whatever and I have never believed that."

Moody's credit rating agency downgrades outlook for New Zealand It's the second international credit rating agency to downgrade its outlook for the New Zealand economy.

#nzpol
No wonder she was grumpy

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Controversial chemicals boss takes giant pay cut to bail his firm out of trouble The business leader who derided Nadia Lim now has even more to explain to his investors in a colourful saga that features a failed audit, not disclosing internal fraud and now a NZ$15m net loss. Jonat...

#nzpol
A week of inflated misplaced confidence based on the great Unwoke.
(Laugh)
Controversial chemicals boss takes giant pay cut to bail his firm out of trouble newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/21/c...

Moody's credit rating agency downgrades outlook for New Zealand It's the second international credit rating agency to downgrade its outlook for the New Zealand economy.

#nzpol
Nickynoboats

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Audition take: Biopic docodrama: Jeffery Epstein

The debate over Central Otago’s enormous, controversial new gold mine, explained It would add billions of dollars to the national economy, but digging it up could kill 650,000 lizards and leave a picturesque landscape scarred for generations....

The debate over Central Otago’s enormous, controversial new gold mine, explained

Something Is Brewing in the Pacific That Nobody in Washington Wants to Talk About A super El Niño is forming in the same week federal climate policy is being dismantled. The atmosphere doesn't care about the politics.

This is an excellent over view of the dangerous warming period we’ll likely be entering in the next 12 months.

Share it widely.

Corp news will not acknowledge this increased danger until it’s too late in order to keep markets stable. That is their sole job.

open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

In an ironic twist, it looks like dinosaurs will drive humanity to extinction.

As far back as 2023 (a year after parliament protest) this infographic captures the domestic+transnational #disinformation ecosystem linked to Cyclone Gabrielle. The report has much more detail. Climate change denial's scale, & sophistication in NZ is far greater now, which I also flag. #nzpol