Television New Zealand,more commonly referred to as TVNZ,is a television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. All of its currently-operating channels are free-to-air and commercially funded.
The New Zealand Police is the national police service and principal law enforcement agency of New Zealand,responsible for preventing crime,enhancing public safety,bringing offenders to justice,and maintaining public order. With about 13,000 personnel,it is the largest law enforcement agency in New Zealand and,with few exceptions,has primary jurisdiction over the majority of New Zealand criminal law. The New Zealand Police also has responsibility for traffic and commercial vehicle enforcement as well as other key responsibilities including protection of dignitaries,firearms licensing,and matters of national security.
John Archibald Banks is a New Zealand former politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999,and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. He left Parliament after being convicted of filing a false electoral return –a verdict which was later overturned.
Alan Ross Meurant is a New Zealand public figure,now Honorary Consul for Morocco,who has at various times gained public attention as a police officer,businessman,politician,and political lobbyist.
Sir John Phillip Key is a New Zealand retired politician who served as the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016 and as Leader of the New Zealand National Party from 2006 to 2016. After resigning from both posts in December 2016 and leaving politics,Key was appointed to board of director and chairmanship roles in New Zealand corporations.
William Wakatere Jackson is a New Zealand politician and former broadcaster and Urban Māori chief executive. He was an Alliance MP from 1999 to 2002,and in 2017 was elected as a Labour MP.
Ngāi Tūhoe,often known simply as Tūhoe,is a Māori iwi of New Zealand. It takes its name from an ancestral figure,Tūhoe-pōtiki. Tūhoe is a Māori-language word meaning "steep" or "high noon". Tūhoe people also bear the sobriquet Nga Tamariki o te Kohu. Tūhoe traditional land is at Te Urewera in the eastern North Island,a steep,heavily forested area which includes Lake Waikaremoana. Tūhoe traditionally relied on the forest for their needs. The tribe had its main centres of population in the small mountain valleys of Ahikereru and Ruatāhuna,with Maungapohatu,the inner sanctum of the Urewera,as their sacred mountain. The Tūhoe country had a great reputation among the neighbouring tribes as a graveyard for invading forces.
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand Māori activist and former parliamentarian. He was elected to the New Zealand Parliament for the Māori electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2005 general election as the Māori Party candidate. His resignation caused the Te Tai Tokerau by-election,held on 25 June 2011,which he won with a majority of 1,117. As Leader of the Mana Movement and Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau,he sat on the front bench in the New Zealand House of Representatives until losing the seat in the 2014 general election.
Tame Wairere Iti is a Tūhoe Māori activist in New Zealand. He grew up at Ruatoki in the Urewera area,and in the late 1960s and 1970s was involved in protests against the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa,and in many Māori protest actions. His ability to court controversy and his full tāmoko make him well-recognised.
Paul Whatuira is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL in 2011. A New Zealand international centre,he won National Rugby League premierships with the Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers and achieved success with the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League.
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in New Zealand.
George Sydney Wood is a former mayor of North Shore City and a former Auckland Councillor. He was the only North Shore City mayor to be elected for three terms and later represented North Shore ward on the Auckland Council between 2010 and 2016. He is now the Deputy Chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board.
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in New Zealand.
There are numerous gangs in New Zealand,of varying criminality,organisation and ethnicity,including outlaw motorcycle gangs,street gangs and ethnically based gangs. A chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club was formed in Auckland in 1961,the first Hells Angels chapter outside the US. Soon after,the Mongrel Mob formed in Hastings and Wellington,developing into a predominantly Māori and Pacific Islander gang,and having the largest membership in the country. Through the 1960s and 1970s,other outlaw motorcycle clubs and ethnically based gangs formed,including another predominantly Māori gang,Black Power,which grew to rival the Mongrel Mob.
The 2007 New Zealand police raids were a series of armed police raids conducted on 15 and 16 October 2007,in response to alleged paramilitary training camps in the Urewera mountain range near the town of Ruatoki. About 300 police,including members of the Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group,were involved in the raids,which involved the execution of search warrants at various addresses throughout New Zealand,and the establishment of roadblocks at Ruatoki and Tāneatua. The police seized four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition and arrested eighteen people. According to police,the raids were a culmination of more than a year of surveillance that uncovered and monitored the training camps.
Peter Brendon Marshall was the 31st New Zealand Commissioner of Police,serving from 4 April 2011 to 2 April 2014. He was previously Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force.
David Breen Seymour is a New Zealand politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Epsom and Leader of ACT New Zealand since 2014. He is Māori,of Ngāpuhi descent.
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd parliament. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives,72 from single-member electorates and 48 from closed party lists. Two referendums,one on the personal use of cannabis and one on euthanasia,were also held on the same day. Official results of the election and referendums were released on 6 November.
On 3 September 2021 at 14:40 NZST,eight people were injured in a mass stabbing at the LynnMall Countdown supermarket in New Lynn,Auckland,New Zealand. The attacker,Ahamed Samsudeen,was being followed by police officers,who intervened during the attack and shot and killed him after he charged the officers. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident was being treated as terrorism and was "ISIS-inspired" according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. This was the second stabbing in less than four months to occur at a Countdown supermarket,the first being in Dunedin,and the first terrorist attack in New Zealand since the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019.
Muru is a New Zealand action-drama film about the 2007 New Zealand police raids of the Ngāi Tūhoe community of Rūātoki. Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi,the film stars Cliff Curtis,Jay Ryan and Manu Bennett. The film was released as the opening night film of the New Zealand International Film Festival on 28 July 2022.
