29 Apr 2016

The Week In Review for week ending Fri April 29 2016

From The Week In Review, 11:00 pm on 29 April 2016

A review of the week's news including... Kiwirail's fall from transport powerhouse to commercial cot case is laid bare in a startling report made public this week, ripples from the Panama Papers continue to throw up awkward questions for the Government, the Prime Minister suggests a land tax could be applied to foreigners, women in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga are on edge because a young serial sex attacker is yet to be caught, the controversial Ruataniwha dam looks likely to go ahead, three Wicked Campers vans have been ordered off the road by the chief censor, guilty verdicts for two teenagers who've been on trial for murder, the first ever win for a New Zealander of a leg of the World Rally Championship, how hard it is for some patients to access elective or non-urgent surgery? the country's first ban on winter trout fishing takes effect in North Canterbury this weekend and once labelled a Zombie town, Whanganui now finds itself shortlisted as the world's smartest community.