27 Apr 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri April 27 2018

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 27 April 2018

A review of the week's news including... 28 billion dollars to be spent over the next decade on efforts to get Aucklanders moving around their city faster, the Chair of the Board at Counties Manukau DHB reveals the former and current minister of health were told about Middlemore's building issues, a call for a rethink on the use of "jailhouse snitches", a big turn out in for Anzac Day services, the Ministry of Social Development apologises to a woman who's benefit was stopped because she had been on two Tinder dates, the Social Development Minister says an announcement on the promised overhaul of the welfare system can be expected in the next few weeks, claims the bureaucracy is too sluggish and it needs to move faster, the Foreign Affairs Minister talks up the prospect of a free trade agreement between all 53 commonwealth nations, some Christchurch residents say their drinking water now tastes and smells like a swimming pool, the search for the boy in the photo and a Taranaki cinema is standing by its decision to turn away customers wearing pyjamas, onsies and even dressing gowns.