15 Sep 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Sept 14 2018

From The Week In Review, 12:00 pm on 15 September 2018

A review of the week's news including... the one hundred thousand dollar payout for the job Derek Handley got, and then lost, the Cancer Society's medical director is frustrated by the human cost of Pharmac decisions, the Deputy Prime Minister has a lapse of memory, a large scale 1080 pest control programme is suddenly stopped while a ban-1080 protest held takes a dark turn, the family living in a 'swamp house' has been evicted, a Women's Refuge study shows a link between domestic abuse and suicide, power poverty is rising, repatriation ceremony snub opens veteran's old wounds, the All Blacks coach isn't backing away from claims that New Zealand Rugby needs government money to keep the country's best talent onshore, it's 46 years since the first ever Maori Language Day, Maori make up less than 5 percent of academic workforce, Laura Langman named as Silver Ferns new captain and Wellington makes Lonely Planet's top NZ destination.