26 Oct 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 26 2018

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 26 October 2018

A review of the week's news including... new strike action announced by teachers, support for the National party and it's leader falling in the latest political poll, one of the country's worst child sex offenders is found guilty of 95 of the 106 charges brought against him, the Prime Minister vows to never introduce another regional fuel tax as long as she's in charge, Steel and Tube insists it never knowingly broke the law and stands by its steel re-inforcement mesh, Colin Craig won't rule out a return to politics after the High Court finds Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater defamed him, Auckland Council orders an urgent safety review into electric scooters, a predator priest sent from New Zealand to Britain was free to keep preying on children for two more decades, Waiwera residents hope their thermal pools will once again become a tourist hotspot after languishing under the management of a Russian billionaire and his diamond-dealing associate, the controversial Maori leader Sir Ngatata Love has died and a skydiver sets a New Zealand record at the weekend.