12 May 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri May 12 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 12 May 2017

A review of the week's news including... Embattled Kiwi rugby league players not being considered for the World Cup after allegedly buying cocaine, does Australia think of New Zealand as a soft back-door path for immigration? Netflix announces a second season of a controversial TV series, major political leaders are reluctant to support a prison based on Maori values, an inquiry into Havelock North's water contamination finds there was 'a failure to protect public health', the education council underlines it's zero tolerance approach to cannabis, is a black market in cigarettes driving the rising number of aggravated dairy robberies? we hear from two MPs who don't own a home, more Myrtle Rust is found in Northland, the former Conservative Party leader reads letters to his then press secretary out loud in court, an expat Kiwi group in Canada objects to an energy drink called 'Haka' and who and what is representing New Zealand at the World's biggest contemporary art event?