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Westpac NZ has apologised unreservedly for telling a customer he had three weeks to pay off his home loan and close all his accounts – and for refusing to tell him why.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/customer-turns-fair-go-after-his-bank-dumps-him-without-explanation
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Author: Megan Harvey

Kiwis are being warned to be vigilant with a new scam posing as a courier package alert to unsuspecting "customers".

Many around the country say they have received text messages about paying for track and trace packages.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/fears-as-track-and-trace-parcel-delivery-scam-targets-unsuspecting-kiwis/
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Police are seeking witnesses to an assault that occurred on the corner of Dee and Esk Streets, Invercargill, yesterday, Sunday 8 September.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161705-police-seek-witnesses-to-invercargill-assault.html
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Bullying remains widespread throughout the police little more than a decade after a commission of inquiry into the organisation's culture, victims say.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161630-bullying-police-it-just-builds-up-and-builds-up.html
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Author: Lana Andelane Reddit

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An Australian woman, who was raped by her half brother, is devastated after her own parents supported her rapist in court.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/09/australian-woman-shattered-after-parents-support-her-brother-that-raped-her.html
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Author: Newstalk ZB

Official documents suggest immigration officials were pressured from the top to ask for more money to stop boat people.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/howard-levarko-documents-reveal-government-urged-immigration-officials-to-ask-for-more-money-to-stop-boat-people/
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Author: Jane Patterson

New Zealand spy agencies received intelligence from individuals detained and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan during the 2000s, and in one case provided the CIA with a question for a detainee, a report from the Inspector-General has found.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161675-nz-spies-received-intelligence-from-tortured-detainees-watchdog.html
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A paramedic will have to apologise to a couple after she failed to tell them they should not take themselves to the hospital and should instead wait for an ambulance.

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Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161693-paramedics-response-to-womans-bleeding-from-wound-criticised.html
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