29 Sep 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Sept 28 2018

From The Week In Review, 1:00 am on 29 September 2018

A review of the week's news including... the Prime Minister uses her first speech to UN General Assembly to challenge Donald Trump's world view and appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, more information about what happened between a former Minister and her press secretary, National says things are getting ever-murkier regarding the Chief Technology Officer position while the tech entrepreneur at the centre of the controversy appears at an AUT event called 'Making bold moves for you and your career', an urban Maori leader says Auckland Council's development arm is corrupt, arrogant and shutting poor people out of housing, the Greater Wellington Regional Council apologises to bus users wouldn't change anything if it had the chance to go back and start again, the controversial Waka Jumping Bill passes its final reading in Parliament, University of Otago students put down their study notes picked up placards to protest their proctor, The Green Party says National leader Simon Bridges is not fit to run a political party after his 'meth crooks' description, an admission of "criminal" child sex abuse by a priest who led one of their top secondary schools, a rental squeeze so tight that one landlord got overwhelmed by more than 900 enquiries in just 24 hours, Wellington has seen a boom in native bird numbers and other endemic wildlife and the man who was king of Auckland commercial breakfast radio for nearly three decades, has died.