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New Zealander of the Year Sir Rod Drury faced misconduct complaint investigation A complaint made during the tech titan’s time as Xero CEO led to an investigation – now a former employee is speaking publicly.

A former junior Xero employee speaks out following the New Zealander of the Year awards

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Truthiness When feeling overrides fact

Such a great word, such a persistent problem.

Education website removes videos of sex offender after Stuff inquiry Videos featuring a man later convicted of sexual abuse were removed after enquiries from Stuff

“Are there any others ways you intend to screw me over?”

Three women told their stories And reclaimed control of them

And here are some answers to questions from readers about what was and wasn’t covered in this investigation

Thank you so much Deb.

Church launches confidential review after Stuff investigation, but survivors fear it's a 'PR move' Church to launch independent review, but the women whose stories prompted it have concerns

Equippers Church launches a review into how it handled sexual assault and abuse cases.

The women are not convinced.

Three women, over a decade of silence, and the church that looked away The women claim they experienced sexual assaults or abuse by people connected to Equippers Church, but didn’t get the support they expected.

And here’s part four

Two other women’s experiences of how Equippers Church dealt with their allegations of sexual assault.

Content warnings apply.

Who knew what about an exchange student’s abuse – and the question she wishes someone had asked The church response to Rabea Santjer – then and now, and the questions that remain.

And here is part three.

More than a decade on, she returned as a tourist to confront the man who had abused her A return trip to New Zealand for a woman who’d previously travelled here as an exchange student led to a police investigation and a guilty plea.

Here’s part two. And part three will be out tomorrow.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

At 16 she came to NZ for a year. What happened in her host family’s home stayed hidden for years She expected adventure and independence. What happened inside her host family’s home would take more than a decade to confront.

Here’s part one of Rabea Santjer’a story. Massive respect to her for being willing to have her name suppression lifted so she could speak publicly.

(I made the request in November.)

Wondering why* a Minister’s office would send 120-odd pages of OIA docs at 6.13pm on a Friday?

*not wondering why

Thank you! Shall fix

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Paula Penfold searched 1000 New Zealand Epstein files. Here’s what they reveal Inside the web of connections revealed in more than 1000 New Zealand documents from the Epstein archive.

You’re welcome.

There’s also a tool in here so you can search the files yourself .. easier than the DOJ site which is clunky as, and I’ve stripped out the duplicates/irrelevancies

‘A Jenga tower’: Why NZ’s health cybersecurity is leaving patients exposed – expert Prompted by a single breach, a cybersecurity specialist scanned hundreds of health systems and says the results point to a much bigger problem

Seems less than ideal

Why apologies don’t bring closure Stories that never quite feel finished

Why apologies don’t bring closure

Thanks @sanjanah.bsky.social
If you didn’t catch it the first time, here’s some uplifting summer viewing

Also I know.. I know.. about Substack. I did start the process of transferring to Ghost. But yeah. Like I say. Busy year 😪

Not the News: Some thoughts at the end of a very long year The parts of the job that don’t make the news

The cat sitting on the dog sitting on me sitting on the window seat trying to read the paper

A useful thread for holiday conversations with *that family member*

Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger

Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

Where did caperberries go?

He used to be my boss at TV3 back in the day so I’m like .. Jaaaasooonnn

*small country reaction* I did hit him up on the socials! Stand by ..😂

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I feel as though they are spending gazillions on endless customer (non)service. They also sent me a modem after I’d cancelled because of the fact that they hadn’t sent me the modem 🫤

But what (probably naively) I still get surprised about is how those above her seemingly have (had?) no issue with any of the warning signs eg the China trips which were all goods 👍🏼