10 Jan 2014

The Week In Review week ending Jan10 2014

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 10 January 2014

A review of the week's news, including... Estimates that legal action against dairy giant Fonterra could cost the average New Zealand dairy farmer 43 thousand dollars, a video showing a child drinking alcohol has prompted police to launch an investigation into an incident in a Hamilton Park, environmentalists are expressing concern at Shell deciding to go ahead with plans to drill for gas off the Otago-Southland coast, the New Zealand and Australian Governments are facing renewed pressure to act on Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters, a fund manager slams the Government's asset sales programme, the Auckland house price average tops 700 thousand dollars, a Christchurch City Council report says many low lying suburbs will be submerged as a result of changing sea levels, a new study may help us understand what causes super volcanoes like Lake Taupo to erupt and some old TV gems in the realm of the political.