7 Jul 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri July 7 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 7 July 2017

A review of the week's news including... An official apology and a law change - three decades in the making, the Amercias cup is paraded through Auckland CBD as the Government writes a five million dollar cheque to help Team New Zealand, there's fresh pressure on the Government to tackle high petrol prices, the volume of house sales in Auckland plummets according to the latest QV data, more of Checkpoint's ongoing coverage of billionaire Peter Thiel who became a New Zealand citizen after spending only twelve days in country - just who is he?, another call to raise the drinking age, the minister responsible for drug reform U-turns on medicinal cannabis, fears the Government may try to change the law to get round a Supreme Court ruling against the controversial Ruataniwha Dam, Auckland's new $1.4 billion tunnel opens for its first Monday morning rush hour and 50 years is a long time between red cards.