24 Nov 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Nov 24 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 24 November 2017

A review of the week's news including... Global pressure mounts on Australia to address the plight of Manus Island detainees, options for re entering the Pike River Mine's drift presented to cabinet, the Waikato DHB chairman refuses to resign over the over-spending of the board's chief executive, a freelance journalist lays a complaint against a Hamilton City councillor who sent her a sexually explicit joke, the Government wants to punish charities who refuse to follow the rules after two Destiny Church charities are deregistered, the Associate Transport Minister calls for a crisis meeting over the road toll, the Government is urged to carry out a proper trial of driverless electric vehicles, one of New Zealand's richest places now has some of the cheapest bus rides, it's going to be foiling monohull yachts for the next Americas Cup and plans for a new whizz-bang theatre in Hamilton.