Cabinet is on holiday. 

A family managed to get back to NZ without an MIQ booking by simply using Auckland as a transit port. 

Work and Income told a man living in emergency housing to carry a bat around the motel because he felt threatened by others living there.  

Sandra Goudie will chair her Council from home this week because she's not vaccinated. 

Trish Sherson and Matthew Tutaki discuss this and the rest of today’s news with Heather du Plessis-Allan. 

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