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Black Caps batter Daryl Mitchell has come under fire for his recent post-match comments.

New Zealand is recovering after their 2-nil defeat by Australia at Hagley Oval

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Demand from aspiring business owners has shot up to record levels, according to new data.

Enquiries are up 50 percent from last year, many coming from 'corporate refugees' and former Government consultants.

ABC Business Sales Managing Director Chris Small says many of these laid-off workers have gotten used to a certain lifestyle.

"They need to replicate those incomes and the way the job market is right now, they're having to look at inventive ways of replicating their income. And one of those ways is purchasing a business."

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Air New Zealand is suspending Auckland to Chicago services due to ongoing issues with the availability of serviceable Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines used in Boeing 787 aircraft.

They'll suspended from the end of this month, until late October.

Customers can rebook on another flight, or get a refund or credit.

The airline's chief customer and sales officer, Leanne Geraghty, says the company will work to ensure customers can still get to where they need to go.

"Our teams are in constant communication with Rolls-Royce as we work through trying to resolve the issue."

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The Wellsford Volunteer Fire Brigade is expected to return a $2500 donation gifted by the local Head Hunters chapter.

The infamous motorcycle gang's Wellsford chapter raised the money through their 'Outlaw Run' fundraising ride.

Charities law expert Sue Barker says there's laws around accepting donations from criminal organisations- if the money was raised through illegal actions. 

"The question is- has this donation come from illegal sources? I don't actually know, it sounds like it was done from a charity day, it's only $2500, people could have been donating small cash, items."

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Questions over whether the law forcing the retirement of Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier is fit-for-purpose in the 21st century.

The near 50-year-old Ombudsmen Act states an ombudsman must resign once they turn 72.

It's meant Boshier's resigned ahead of his birthday on Saturday.

Electoral law expert and barrister Graeme Edgeler says this law doesn't make sense, as the Ombudsman appointment only lasts 5 years.

"It's not like we're appointing someone at 50 who's still going to be doing the job at 80, so it is very different from judges."

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Police Minister Mark Mitchell is determined to work out a solution to police pay concerns.

Police staff have widely rejected the Government's latest proposed pay offer, and many are considering industrial action.

Mitchell says they're currently in good faith negotiations with the Police Association.

"The reality of it is, we are in a very tough financial situation. But I just want to assure everyone that we are doing the best that we can."

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A former pilot says the Latam plane plunging mid-air reminds him of a Qantas flight more than a decade ago.

A number of people were thrown into the roof and 50 were treated for injuries.

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's seizing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, with Chilean authorities taking the lead in the investigation.

Massey University School of Aviation CEO Ashok Poduval says a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth in 2008 had an autopilot malfunction.

"It puts the aircraft down very sharply, they lost about 600 feet. And that caused several injuries."

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The Police Association has slammed the Government's latest 'insulting' pay offer.

Police staff have dubbed the four percent pay increase 'demoralising' and are calling for the Government to come to the table.

Association president Chris Cahill says this increase is lower than the public service pay adjustment offer they received last year. 

"It doesn't recognise the high cost of inflation that members have been suffering, the real struggle to make ends meet, pay their rent, pay their mortgages. It's just missing the mark on so many levels."

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I'll tell you what, what happened with that Latam flight yesterday is probably my worst nightmare.

Weirdly, this has gotten worse since I've had a child, I think that maybe you're more worried about your own mortality- but every time since I've gotten on a flight, at some point between getting on the flight and the flight starting to take off, before it's fully airborne, I start to think about how mind-bending it is that a piece of metal that heavy can somehow stay in the air.

At all, never mind the journey of the flight. And then I have to immediately stop thinking about it, because that just freaks me out way too much. I can't, I'm not smart enough to understand how this all works.

So yesterday is my worst nightmare, because that's the thing I think about every single time I get on the flight.

What makes it even more freaky is that at this point, it does not seem to have been caused by turbulence. It sounds like the plane's technology just stopped working.

One of the passengers says that when the plane landed, the pilot came down the back and when the passenger asked what had happened, the pilot said- my gage has just blanked out, I lost all of my ability to fly the plane.

We got a text on the show not long after it had happened telling us- it's not air turbulence, it was caused by a problem with the plane. Do not contact me.

And Latam, in its own statement, is not talking about turbulence. Yesterday, it referred to the incident as a 'technical event'. And then today, it updated the statement to basically call it a 'strong shake'.

Now, we're probably not going to know what actually happened until after the investigations- and there are multiple investigations already, by the looks of things.

Chile civil aviation bodies have sent someone to investigate, our transport accident investigation commission is considering investigating, and Boeing is investigating as well.

And speaking of Boeing, it's not a good time to be Boeing, is it? Because a couple of months ago, the door blew off the Alaskan Airlines plane, now you've got this- and back in 2018, 2019, those fatal crashes made huge headlines around the world.

But back to yesterday. If it pans out to be true that the plane had simply stopped working- and this is not altogether crazy, because that is what happened with QF72 back in 2008.

Remember that one? Where the automation on the plane basically went nuts a couple of times and caused the plane to nosedive dramatically? And the pilots had no control whatsoever, they thought they were going to die.

So it's not altogether crazy for that to happen. If it does work out that this is what has happened, isn't that absolutely the worst imaginable thing that could happen on a flight? 

I mean, if a pilot falls asleep, you can wake him up. If a door blows out, strap yourselves in and put the oxygen on.

But if the computer stops working? Oh no, worst nightmare.

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I'll tell you what, what happened with that Latam flight yesterday is probably my worst nightmare.

Weirdly, this has gotten worse since I've had a child, I think that maybe you're more worried about your own mortality- but every time since I've gotten on a flight, at some point between getting on the flight and the flight starting to take off, before it's fully airborne, I start to think about how mind-bending it is that a piece of metal that heavy can somehow stay in the air.

At all, never mind the journey of the flight. And then I have to immediately stop thinking about it, because that just freaks me out way too much. I can't, I'm not smart enough to understand how this all works.

So yesterday is my worst nightmare, because that's the thing I think about every single time I get on the flight.

What makes it even more freaky is that at this point, it does not seem to have been caused by turbulence. It sounds like the plane's technology just stopped working.

One of the passengers says that when the plane landed, the pilot came down the back and when the passenger asked what had happened, the pilot said- my gage has just blanked out, I lost all of my ability to fly the plane.

We got a text on the show not long after it had happened telling us- it's not air turbulence, it was caused by a problem with the plane. Do not contact me.

And Latam, in its own statement, is not talking about turbulence. Yesterday, it referred to the incident as a 'technical event'. And then today, it updated the statement to basically call it a 'strong shake'.

Now, we're probably not going to know what actually happened until after the investigations- and there are multiple investigations already, by the looks of things.

Chile civil aviation bodies have sent someone to investigate, our transport accident investigation commission is considering investigating, and Boeing is investigating as well.

And speaking of Boeing, it's not a good time to be Boeing, is it? Because a couple of months ago, the door blew off the Alaskan Airlines plane, now you've got this- and back in 2018, 2019, those fatal crashes made huge headlines around the world.

But back to yesterday. If it pans out to be true that the plane had simply stopped working- and this is not altogether crazy, because that is what happened with QF72 back in 2008.

Remember that one? Where the automation on the plane basically went nuts a couple of times and caused the plane to nosedive dramatically? And the pilots had no control whatsoever, they thought they were going to die.

So it's not altogether crazy for that to happen. If it does work out that this is what has happened, isn't that absolutely the worst imaginable thing that could happen on a flight? 

I mean, if a pilot falls asleep, you can wake him up. If a door blows out, strap yourselves in and put the oxygen on.

But if the computer stops working? Oh no, worst nightmare.

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