newzealandinc.com couldn’t resist giving KRudd’s famous video one final airing after the Aussie Prime Minister called on “our friends in Beijing” to get on with the FTA with Australia. (The amusing video was leaked by the Gillard camp when they set out to roll Rudd in 2010). But that was then. Rudd has now called on China – Australia’s largest …

May 19–21 saw several hundred delegates from across the United States and New Zealand gather in Washington for the biannual U.S.-New Zealand Pacific Partnership Forum. The forum, organized by the United States–New Zealand Council, has been instrumental in helping to normalize relations between the two countries, which had cooled significantly following New Zealand’s 1985 ban on nuclear-powered or nuclear weapons-capable …

The Court of Appeal has sentenced all four former directors of Lombard Finance & Investments to home detention, having accepted the initial sentences were “manifestly inadequate.” In a judgment today Justices Anthony Randerson, John Wild, and Christine French substituted the sentences of community work imposed on the Lombard four. Bill Jeffries was sentenced to eight months home detention and 250 …