1 Dec 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Dec 1 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 1 December 2017

A review of the week's news including... Widespread dismay at a decision not to prosecute anyone for the deaths of 115 in the CTV building collapse, the Chair of the embattled Waikato District health board resigns, tensions reach "motion of no confidence point" at the Horowhenua District Council, more emerge about unreleased notes from the coalition talks between Labour and New Zealand First, the New Zealand First leader seeks monetary damages from two journalists, central Auckland comes to a standstill as Tongan league fans converged for yet another protest after their world cup semifinal loss, biographies of Green Party MPs are reviewed, could the Kauri go extinct?, an independent review of the Auckland Council's efforts to improve outcomes for the city's Maori finds little improvement, after waiting 38 years friends and family of those who died in the Erebus crash have finally been promised a national memorial, a mother who suffered from Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is sentenced to seven years jail and a hot, sticky summer is on the cards.