The Week In Review for week ending Fri Aug 10 2018

A review of the week's news including... Senior government ministers lose confidence in the deputy commissioner of police, Don Brash heckled off stage by protestors with a loud hailer at an University of Auckland debate on free speech, Shell Oil contaminates groundwater in New Plymouth using a firefighting foam banned here 12 years ago, the Treasury is warning the Government's finances could be under threat, it's been revealed China's aid dominance in the Pacific is overstated, foreign students are paying for jobs that don't exist, young Auckland teachers welcome allowance idea, Iwi leaders are taking the government to court over Maori rights to freshwater, avocados are on hot demand, an ANZ worker says there was enormous relief when the bank announced an end to front-line sales targets this week, your own personal banker, a stranded humpback whale is euthanised on a Northland beach, the top honour at the Children and Young Adult book awards and the antics of a bouncing South Island sheep have captured worldwide attention after his owner posted a video of the woolly jumper trampolining.