Thank you Lara Meyer for your October 24 letter: Vote upsetting, immoral. You said it all from your own experience of the indigenous Australians’ position. I agree with all your comments 100 percent. You said it was a punch in the face; I will add...
When sufficiently motivated, we will purposively work in the best interests of each other. It is meaningful to do so. We need confidence in each other and the system. Faith is helpful in the face of adversity. Presently, without fundamental change...
Whoop, whoop Murray Ferris, absolutely brilliant letter (Over left-leaning vitriol, October 24). I couldn’t have said it any better. I have been wanting to write in for a while about the same thing. I have had a few run-ins with Mary-Ann de Kort...
The process to independently review the performance of Hawke’s Bay’s flood scheme assets and river management programmes in response to Cyclone Gabrielle is under way. The review has been instigated by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HRBC) in...
A man’s persistent and unwanted advances on a woman one night at a social function has ruined her life, she says, causing her sleep disturbances, health issues, and decimating her career. And because Corey Te Urikore Walker, a 30-year-old barber...
by Jack Ward, Wairoa Star Protection against pests in native fauna and flora is coming to the Whakakī Lake Trust. The trust will receive $113,900 for the pest control project from the Department of Conservation Community Fund Pūtea Tautiaki...
Sign language interpreters are becoming a more familiar sight with seemingly never-ending civic emergency announcements and regular government announcements during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. But what about the general election, and everyday...
Tyla Gordon knows a thing or two about managing a fast-paced and popular fast food restaurant. She’s been a manager of the McDonalds restaurant chain for over 15 years, starting at the tender age of 14 and now approaching 30. “I needed money...
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand is holding an open day to explain how data captured through seabed surveys helps to improve nautical charts and knowledge of the marine environment. The open day is on Tuesday, November 7 at 11.30am at...
A woman has narrowly avoided being jailed after her desperate attempt to stop Australian police acting on her daughter’s complaint of being sexually abused by two relatives in New Zealand. In a two-hour video call to her 12-year-old daughter...
Ulysses Motorcycle Club of NZ Inc will be in Gisborne next month as part of a new nationwide initiative — a countrywide Baton Relay — to raise money for victims of Cyclone Gabrielle. From November 5 to 19, hundreds of bikers will travel the...
In its ninth annual funding round, the Sunrise Foundation has given a funding boost to 35 worthy causes in Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, awarding $200,753 of grants across the arts, education, environment, health, social and sports sectors. Sunrise invites...
A striking selection of artworks by senior art students at Gisborne Girls’ High School including painting and photography is part of a special exhibition opening at the school tonight. Prints of the artworks have been hung on the walls of the...
Licence to research indigenous fungi containing psilocybin a milestone for groundbreaking marae-led project
Review by Avery Lavelle A look back over some of the highlights of the Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival. Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival’s 2023 “RĀ” season was a triumph and brought the Gisborne community together through the activities and events...
Six new artists will join the She Shed Tour this year extending the already wide offering of more than 30 artists who show their arts and crafts on the tour. The first is Steph Barnett, a visual artist, animator and educator whose work orients...
An artwork by Year 13 student Fiona Walker from Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Uri a Māui was chosen to be part of the Ringa Toi Student Exhibition at Te Papa in Wellington. She felt honoured to be chosen to participate in the exibition which...
This Week Build-a-band Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam! Free entry. Fusion Bellydance Every Thursday at 5.45pm. Join vibrant and fun...
Global hit Ladies Night is on the hunt for new blood. Gisborne Centre Stage is looking for actors who are comfortable shedding their clothes for its next production which was labelled New Zealand’s sexiest comedy. The popular production was penned...
Of all the ways that a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet, a film or a book exposing an irreparable rift in a love that perhaps wasn’t as compatible, as symbiotic or as...
Odeon Multiplex Killers of the Flower Moon In the 1920s, members of the Osage Native American tribe are murdered after oil is found on their land, and the FBI decides to investigate. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro Lily Gladstone and Jesse...
Many Māori are nervous about what the change in Government will mean for them, so it was interesting former Māori Party co-leader Dame Tariana Turia telling Whakaata Māori/Māori Television last week that she believes more can be accomplished for...
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director Remember the word “unprecedented”? It was deployed during the pandemic — with some validity. The virus moved quickly. Countries were caught out. Death tolls mounted. Because the threat posed by...
Murray, swap your pen for a trout rod, go fishing. “Relax, Winston’s back.” Frank Murphy
It’s been almost 10 years since the 2014 multi-award-winning movie, The Dark Horse, shone a spotlight on the game of chess. Noble Keelan and Bailey Sadlier reflect on how the movie changed the perspective of the game. Before the movie the game of...
Gisborne is home to native bats also known as pekapeka. “This is often a surprise to people,” Ecoworks NZ’s Steve Sawyer says. “Don’t worry — they aren’t bloodsucking vampire bats or anything that will hurt you or spread disease...
The Surfing for Farmers initiative created by Gisborne’s Stephen Thomson won the FMG-sponsored Rural Champion Award when the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards were handed out in Christchurch recently. The now nationwide farmer mental health and...
Another Tairāwhiti resident has died of Covid-19, taking this district’s death tally to 39. Figures updated at 2pm on Monday show Tairāwhiti has 20 active cases and a total of 25,338 cases since Covid-19 broke out in early 2020. There are 4013...
A man wounded during one of the recent gang-related firearms incidents that have Gisborne police on high alert, has been discharged from hospital after bullet and car door fragments were surgically removed from his leg. Meanwhile, two men accused of...
It is still not known how many back office jobs at Gisborne Hospital are on the chopping block as Te Whatu Ora Health NZ undergoes a massive restructure. Te Whatu Ora earlier this year said some 1600 positions across New Zealand could potentially be...
The Civil Aviation Authority has released its findings into a light aircraft crash in the Waimata Valley last year. An investigation was started after an Air Ruatoria Cessna P206E suffered an engine failure while cruising at 2500 feet (762 metres)...
A man suspected of burgling Gisborne’s Zambrero Restaurant twice in one night is also accused of twice burgling a beauty business four days earlier. Aidan Wesches, 40, made a brief appearance during an arrest list in Gisborne District Court...
Sitting in the helicopter cockpit, an instructor beside them, the pilot pulls a hood down over their face and flies with just cockpit instruments to guide them. That’s the traditional technique pilots use to train for flying in conditions like...
Waka ama clubs were ready to engage contractor but council now aims to have ramps cleared next week.