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A staff member says a fatal school caving trip went ahead despite an orange heavy rain warning because he was certain the rain would hit hours after the boys were due to leave the cave.

A coroner’s inquest is currently underway into the death of 15-year-old Karnin Petera, who died during a Whangārei Boys’ High School trip to Abbey Caves in May 2023.

Sixteen other boys and two adults managed to get out of the cave alive after an underground creek tuned into a raging torrent during heavy rain.

Much of the focus of Monday’s evidence was on which weather information was considered and what drove the decision to proceed with the trip.

A staff member, whose name is subject to an interim non-publication order, said he had explored the caves many times and had never known Organ Cave – the one where the tragedy took place – to flood.

He knew the two other, narrower caves – Middle Cave and Ivy Cave – could flood, because he had seen leaves stuck to the ceilings after rain.

The forecast of heavy rain later in the day prompted the organisers to start the trip half an hour earlier than usual and limit it to Organ Cave only, so they would be out by noon instead of the usual 2.30pm.

At the time, the staff member said he was “certain” the band of heavy rain would arrive in Whangārei around 3pm.

That was based on three-day MetService regional forecasts and hourly local forecasts.

Those forecasts had not changed between Sunday and the fateful Tuesday morning, which gave him confidence the predictions were correct.

He knew about the Northland-wide orange heavy rain warning, issued the previous day, but was convinced that was connected with the “gnarly” band of rain he expected around 3pm.

He now accepted, after hearing MetService evidence on Friday, that a severe weather warning could mean “anything could happen at any time”.

He defended not checking the rain radar that morning, saying he needed to know what was coming and not what was happening at the time.

The staff member said he had been to Organ Cave after a full night of rain in 2016 but the water at the entrance was only thigh deep.

In his experience, Organ Cave drained well and could handle a lot of water.

However, when he rushed to the cave after hearing the boys were trapped, he saw the water at the entrance was 2-3 metres deep.

“It was beyond anything I ever imagined,” he said.

The teachers leading the trip told him the water inside the cave rose from waist deep to neck deep in a matter of minutes.

“It sounded phenomenally quick, nothing I’ve ever experienced.”

It also emerged during Monday’s evidence that the school had no clear criteria for when an outdoor trip should be cancelled, or what constituted “extreme weather”.

Ellie Harrison, lawyer for Karnin’s family, questioned his statement he was “certain” the heavy rain would not fall before mid-afternoon.

“How can anyone be certain about the weather in Northland?” she said.

Harrison also questioned the lack of an emergency plan, which could have helped guide decision-making once water levels started rising inside the cave, and the lack of emergency communications.

If the group had a radio or satellite phone, the school might have been able to pass on Karnin’s father’s concerns, who saw city streets flooding in Whangārei around 9am, just before the boys entered the cave.

There is no cellphone coverage underground or at the entrance to the cave.

After getting out of the cave, two of the boys had to find a member of public so they could raise the alarm.

Harrison said the tragedy could have been avoided if the trip had been cancelled, or if the group had retreated to a higher part of the cave and waited for the water level to fall.

However, the staff member said there was no way of knowing how long that would take, and the boys, who were cold and wet, would have been at risk of hypothermia.

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New Zealand and Singapore have inked a deal to ensure the trade of essential goods like fuel and food continue in times of crisis.

It guarantees neither country will impose export restrictions on the other and formalises supply chain resilience cooperation.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Singaporean counterpart Lawrence Wong shook hands on the agreement in October, and Trade Minister Todd McClay signed it in Singapore on Monday.

Luxon, who witnessed the signing with Wong, said it had already proven its worth and shown the two countries can rely on each other in crisis.

“The past few months have shown we live in a volatile world – Kiwis are seeing that every time they fill up their car. That is why we are hustling in the world to protect New Zealand and build our resilience in uncertain times,” he said.

“With a third of New Zealand’s fuel refined in Singapore, this Agreement turns trust into action – and right now, that’s keeping fuel flowing to New Zealand when it matters most.”

The agreement leveraged New Zealand’s “special skill” as the “best food producer in the world”, he said.

The list of goods exempt from export restrictions include fuel, food, and construction materials.

The deal will be incorporated into the existing New Zealand-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, following domestic approval processes in both countries.

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A new measles case has been discovered in Wellington, prompting a call for people who dined at Newtown restaurant to watch out for symptoms.

There were now three cases in the latest outbreak.

Health NZ said the new case was linked to a person who dined at Mediterranean Foods Trattoria and Deli in Newtown while infectious on 19 April.

Medical Officer of Health Richard Vipond said people who were at the restaurant between 5.30pm and 8.23pm that night and who were not immune to measles could now be developing symptoms.

“Anyone who was at the restaurant on Sunday 19 April should be alert for symptoms – such as the start of a skin rash – through to Sunday 10 May.

“If symptoms develop, it’s important to stay at home and seek advice.”

Vipond said the latest person had done the right thing by contacting health services and isolating promptly when they realised they had symptoms.

There were now 10 locations of interest relating to the three cases, and more were likely after health staff interviewed the new patient.

Measles symptoms included a runny nose, fever, cough, conjunctivitis and a rash that developed a few days after the fever.

Health NZ identified the first case on 22 April, saying they had visited a number of places in the capital while infectious from 15 April.

The Newtown Trattoria was one of two locations of interest where people would be considered to be close contacts.

The other was After Hours Pharmacy Wellington on 3 May between 8.30am and 12.15pm.

Health NZ said the MMR vaccine was free for all children under 18 in New Zealand, regardless of their immigration status, and it was free for adults eligible for publicly funded healthcare.

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The mother of an autistic man being held in long-term seclusion has taken his case to the United Nations, arguing New Zealand has failed to act after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons but known as ‘Jay’, has been detained for 21 years in secure hospital or residential facilities after being found unfit to stand trial over minor offending, including breaking windows.

Jay currently lives in a secure wing of the Mason Clinic, where he lives alone under the constant care of three staff, an arrangement described by another judge as “untenable” and unsuited to his needs.

In August – more than a year after the hearing – the Supreme Court ruled the legal test used to justify his continued detention was unlawful.

It asked the Family Court to urgently re-examine its decision. But despite that direction, a hearing for this was only set last month, with the case not due to be heard until 26 October.

Jay’s mother’s lawyer, human rights barrister Tony Ellis, said the delay has left him trapped.

“The violation is ongoing. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court decision, Jay remains detained and the state continues to seek renewed detention orders, and an interim order for an additional 19 months detention has been issued,” Ellis told RNZ.

“He’s spent half his life in detention. His life has been wasted.”

In her complaint lodged with the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Jay’s mother – who also cannot be named for legal reasons – argued it was no longer reasonable to wait for the matter to be resolved domestically.

The ‘proportionality test’

The Supreme Court ruling redefined the legal test used to detain intellectually disabled people, saying more weight must be given to a person’s rights to liberty, over risk.

This “proportionality test” meant a person’s right to liberty became stronger the longer a person had been detained.

The Ministry of Health has since told its specialist assessors that decisions to keep someone detained must start with their right to liberty and be justified against the growing impact on their freedom over time.

The Supreme Court’s judgement also made clear that Jay’s continued detention was harming him, causing his behaviour to worsen, but acknowledged the difficulty of the situation and warned of poor outcomes if proper support was not in place.

Jay’s care order has been extended more than a dozen times as experts have repeatedly assessed him as being too dangerous to release.

Since being in care he has reportedly tried to steal and hide weapons, made threats of harm to certain staff, and reportedly assaulted staff and damaged property.

The search for a new home

Efforts were made last year by authorities responsible for Jay’s care to find a more suitable place for him to live, but one could not be found, according to court documents released to RNZ.

There was only one facility that might be suitable but it was in another city, away from Jay’s mother, which already had a long waiting list. Jay would not become eligible for consideration for a spot there until January 2027.

It could take between six and 12 months to transition Jay there, if a decision was made to move him.

IDEA Services, the largest provider of support for people with intellectual disabilities, told the court Jay’s needs were beyond what it could safely provide.

It recommended he be moved to “a bespoke wrap-around service” that had many of the same security features he currently had, but more space and flexibility allowing him to “enjoy a range of activities tailored to his needs.”

In response, Whaikaha-Ministry of Disabled People said such a solution was difficult to achieve in practice. In a March submission to the Family Court supporting his continued detention, it argued placing Jay in the wrong setting would likely fail and pose risks to both him and his carers.

Because complaints to the UN Committee can take years to be heard, Jay’s mother has filed for interim measures to be made as quickly as possible.

“I’m hopeful we get some rapid progress. They could say this is a breach of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and New Zealand should correct its processes and deal with it promptly, ” said Ellis.

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Dozens of firefighters are tackling a fire at a block of Kāinga Ora apartments in the Auckland CBD.

Fire and Emergency (FENZ) was called to the four-level apartment block on Greys Avenue around 2pm Monday.

Initially smoke was reported coming from the top floor, but upon arrival crews found the fire was at a ground-floor apartment.

FENZ said eight fire trucks were at the scene, including two ladder trucks.

It was not aware of the fire spreading to other units.

No one had been injured and all people were accounted for, FENZ said.

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The cause of a Canterbury baby’s catastrophic head injury remains a mystery more than a decade after the child’s death.

Soul Mathew Turany was 16-weeks-old when he was flown to Christchurch Hospital after emergency services were called to the rural home near Darfield where he lived with his mother Storme Turany and her then-partner Tony Farmer.

Doctors at Christchurch Hospital found the boy had a fractured skull and bleeding in his brain and eyes.

He died in the early hours of 31 August 2014. No-one has been charged over his death.

Soul would have turned 12 on Saturday but the circumstances that led to the end of his brief life were instead being examined by Coroner Ian Telford during a two-week inquest in Christchurch.

“His life was short but he was precious. He was a gift to the world for every second of the three months, 22 days that he lived,” he said.

“One way that I describe the coronial task is this – where there are shadows, we are there to turn on the lights. It’s not my role to find who is liable, attribute blame or discipline anyone. It’s to work out what’s happened and to see if anything can be done better in the future.

“My inquiry to date has led me to a place where I have a reasonable idea as to the cause of Soul’s death. The physical injuries that led to Soul’s death will be looked at very carefully this week. However, what has never been established is how Soul received those injuries, the circumstances of his death.”

Telford said he was there on behalf of Soul.

“I am Soul’s coroner, as such my core responsibility is to him. Shining a light into the shadows that surrounded his death is not only important but necessary. The passage of time, even though it has been a long time, does not change that,” he said.

During the inquest, Telford would hear from Soul’s mother and her former partner, as well a clinicians, police officers and those involved in the baby’s life.

The inquest heard Storme Turany contacted Healthline early on 30 August 2014 because she was concerned Soul was unsettled.

The child became unresponsive.

Emergency services went to the home, where they tried to resuscitate Soul and flew him to hospital.

His condition deteriorated and he died early the next day.

A pathologist found the boy suffered a head injury from blunt force trauma.

The lawyer assisting the coroner Jamie O’Sullivan told the inquest Soul suffered traumatic injuries.

“Soul suffered a serious head injury caused by a hard impact resulting in fracture to the back of the skull, severe damage to the nerve fibres in the lower part of the brain and the top of the spinal cord and widespread brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen to his brain,” she said.

The first witness to give evidence to the inquest was Christchurch Hospital consultant neurosurgeon Dr Simon John.

John was not working at the hospital when Soul arrived in 2014 but reviewed images and notes about his injuries and provided a police statement in December 2015.

Scans revealed a “brain that is dying, essentially”, he said.

“The MRI showed that the vast majority of the brain – so all of the thinking or processing parts of the brain, the frontal lobes, temporal lobes, parietal lobes, occipital lobes – all dead or dying. The only parts of the brain that were alive or with an adequate blood flow were the central, deep processing parts of the brain,” he said.

“It’s an irreversible, fatal sort of picture.”

John told the inquest Soul was too small to have injured himself and the injuries could not have been the residual effects of birth trauma.

He told the coroner the injuries were consistent with head trauma and Soul was likely unconscious from the moment he was injured or very soon after.

“By the time Soul made it to the emergency department he was critically unwell. He was dying by the time he reached the emergency department,” he said.

“It’s most likely or most probable that he was unconscious or significantly affected from the moment of impact.”

It was unlikely that Soul had suffered an injury that went unnoticed, John said.

“I’m just purely basing the opinion on the facts and the facts are the black and white imaging with time stamps rather than what anyone said happened because the problem is that someone’s not saying something,” he said.

“The imaging is awful, the pathology report is horrible, this is a really catastrophic high-energy injury and I think [Soul being] unconscious from the point of impact is the most probable.”

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Disgraced former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming has paid back $500 in relation to taxpayer-funded stays at hotels during his affair.

RNZ earlier revealed Police Commissioner Richard Chambers had written a second letter to McSkimming asking him to pay back the money or he would “consider other options to secure reimbursement”. He had until 8 May to pay the money.

In a statement to RNZ on Monday, Chambers said $500 had been reimbursed to police by McSkimming. The figure was calculated by McSkimming, Chambers said.

“I am pleased he has made a contribution and I now consider this matter closed.

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“I note NZ Police policy for sensitive expenditure requires spending to be reasonable and able to withstand parliamentary and public scrutiny. It is my view that unless there are exceptional work-related circumstances, staff should not require hotel accommodation in the same centre as their normal residence and place of work.”

Chambers wrote to McSkimming on 4 March asking him to pay back the funds.

The request came after the Independent Police Conduct Authority released a summary of its investigation into McSkimming’s decision to invite a woman he was having an affair with – Ms Z – to stay with him in hotel accommodation paid for by police, on numerous occasions, primarily in 2016.

Chambers told RNZ last month he had written a second letter to McSkimming.

In the letter, released to RNZ, Chambers said it was “incredibly disappointing there has been no response to this request”.

“As you are aware, NZ Police is required to ensure public funding is spent carefully and within relevant policies.

“Where those policies are breached, it is important steps are taken to rectify the matter and ensure funds are repaid. That is important both to reassure police staff that standards are being adhered to and for public trust.

“If there is no response to this second request for reimbursement within four weeks (by May 8, 2026) then I will consider other options to secure reimbursement.”

Chambers told RNZ that when public money was found to be “misspent” it was right that steps be taken to “ensure repayment regardless of the amount, the circumstances, or the individual”.

“However, I am very mindful that any path taken should not result in further expense to the taxpayer on this very unsatisfactory matter.”

In Chambers’ earlier letter, obtained by RNZ under the Official Information Act, he referred to the IPCA’s report in relation to his “overnight stays in Wellington hotels with Ms Z”.

“You have confirmed that 8-10 times you stayed with Ms Z in Wellington hotels at the expense of police, but ultimately the taxpayer. The IPCA made an adverse finding in this respect.

“It is appropriate for you to reimburse police for these 8-10 hotel stays, and you are asked to reimburse police as soon as possible. You have knowledge of the hotels in which you stayed and the approximate cost at the time.”

Chambers said he welcomed McSkimming’s response and “swift reimbursement”.

The hotel stays

The IPCA had not been able to review McSkimming’s credit card expenditure, and relied on the evidence of the complainant, McSkimming, his former executive assistant and one of his supervisors at the time.

“In 2016 and 2017, Mr McSkimming’s workplace was at Police National Headquarters in Wellington. He lived about 60-70kms away.”

McSkimming and his executive assistant at the time told the IPCA that he was regularly required to attend functions or late meetings in Wellington or catch early morning flights.

“On those occasions, his executive assistant would book accommodation at a Wellington hotel, paid for by police. The rationale for these bookings was explained to us as being to avoid a long drive home after a work event, or where he was required to attend a social function to ensure he was not having a drink and then driving.”

McSkimming told the IPCA he thought Ms Z stayed with him eight to 10 times.

“This is corroborated by Ms Z. Mr McSkimming breached policy by not informing his senior manager approving the travel that she would be staying with him. If he had done so, we consider it highly likely that approval would have been declined.

“In any case, whether or not he informed his manager, he breached the Police Code of Conduct by staying in hotels at police expense and inviting the woman with whom he was having a sexual relationship to join him. If he had paid for the hotels himself, that would have been a different matter. However, the fact that the hotels were paid for by police gives rise to the perception that he was using taxpayer money to further a clandestine affair, thus bringing police into disrepute.”

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David Seymour says ACT’s immigration policy is a long-held approach aimed at tackling real challenges, and those claiming he’s competing with New Zealand First should be more constructive.

Prominent critics of his immigration policy include opposition parties, an immigration lawyer, a sociologist – and his coalition partner.

But Seymour doesn’t agree with them.

“Some people like to belittle our political debate as a soap opera. I view it as politicians listening and responding to people’s concerns to produce better policy for our country,” he told RNZ.

“When you have 20,000 overstayers at large in the country, when you have literally 100 times more fast food workers than biomedical engineers coming in under the skilled visa, and when you have a serious problem with infrastructure keeping up with population growth, I think it behooves political parties to respond to that.”

Asked for evidence of the fast food claim, ACT pointed to 2480 fast food workers being approved since 2022, compared to 30 biomedical engineers.

‘Straight-up dog whistle’ or ‘doesn’t even touch the sides?’ – the criticisms

NZ First leader Winston Peters on Monday posted on social media the policy was a “good effort”, but “unfortunately it doesn’t even touch the sides”.

“We would encourage ACT to watch this space for when NZ First will be announcing what a real and comprehensive immigration policy actually looks like.”

That came a day after Seymour unveiled the policy, which promises more deportations, renewed focus on overstayer enforcement, a $6-a-day infrastructure fee for temporary work visas, and a five-year ban on welfare payments for residence-class visa holders.

Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said it was a very complex sector, “which is why knee jerk policy at the election that’s not carefully considered and well thought through can be quite damaging”.

She said the $6-a-day fee ignored the moves already afoot to “carefully, proportionately and reasonably collect additional levies from migrants for some of the costs that they directly impose in like the health or education sector”, and the fee would put off the best and brightest from coming to New Zealand.

“They’ll just go somewhere else, but those employers who desperately need migrants like in our rural sector for example, they will be the ones who end up paying that fee.”

She said it amounted to an $11,000 upfront payment at the application stage, plus another $11,000 for their partner.

“No other country levies a migrant like that at such a high rate anywhere in the world, we would be a massive outlier. And so the question is, who’s going to come? And the answer is nobody. And the second thing is, who will pay? And the answer is the employer.”

She said people were uncomfortable with Labour’s post-Covid approach to “throw the floodgates open”, but Seymour “doesn’t understand immigration”.

“He said ‘oh, we have to renew the categories every year’ – there is no category for fast food workers, no categories like that exist … we have a demand driven system. I

“If you are in an area and you need a fast food worker, you have to check that there are no New Zealanders available to do the job … the fact is that there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of outlets across New Zealand who prepare fast food, and they need workers.”

Labour’s immigration spokesperson Phil Twyford said it showed a “bidding war” between ACT and NZ First on immigration, and it was “pure election year politics”.

“The parties of the right are feasting on each other’s votes right now, and they’re in a struggle for survival, and I think that immigration policy is too important to New Zealand’s future to allow it to be politicised by these small parties who are chasing a few votes,” Twyford said.

“NZ First is consciously copying the political tactics of the Reform Party in the UK. But I don’t think actually that there’s large numbers of people in New Zealand who are extremely anxious about immigration … it should have no place in our politics and our society.”

Asked what he thought of the policy overall, Green Party immigration spokesperson Ricardo Menendez March’s first words were that ACT was “competing with NZ First to see who can blame our migrant neighbours”.

“This is a Trump-inspired approach that reeks of wanting to set up an ICE-like unit in our own country, to effectively lead to deportation of undocumented migrants that are not the source of unaffordable housing or a lack of adequate infrastructure,” he said.

He said it was “a straight-up dog whistle”.

“David Seymour first came for the Treaty, then beneficiaries and low-wage workers, and now he’s after our migrant communities. It’s all he knows how to do – play the politics of division.”

Sociology professor Paul Spoonley told Morning Report on Monday it was surprising to see ACT propose more bureaucracy and a new tax, but Seymour was clearly “not prepared to concede the strict controls on immigration space to New Zealand First”.

He also questioned what values migrants would be asked to sign up to, and who would decide that.

“I mean, is there the Treaty of Waitangi in there? I suspect not … how do immigrants demonstrate agreement with those values? And of course, what happens if you breach those values? So, it’s all a bit vague for me.”

Immigration lawyer Alistair McClymont also told RNZ the policy did not add anything to the current system, and it seemed ACT “has seen the success that New Zealand First has had with xenophobic dog-whistle politics”.

Twyford would not go so far as to say ACT’s policy was dog-whistling, but it was “all about trying to look tough – and they are definitely trying – it’s a defensive move politically against New Zealand First”.

“It’s politics. It’s not about what is the best policy for the future of New Zealand.”

‘There are real challenges’ – Seymour

Seymour rejected those criticisms.

He said he had worked with McClymont, who lived in his electorate of Epsom, and he would have hoped he would enter the debate in a “more constructive spirit”.

“I think it’s a shame that someone like Alistair … tends to reduce things to almost a sort of soap opera version of politics. He needs to recognise that there are real challenges with immigration policy. It’s not delivering what it says on the tin.”

He pushed back at Peters’ tweet, saying the NZ First leader was ignoring the position was a long-held ACT view.

“These policies are things that I’m on the record talking about as far back as 10 years ago,” Seymour said.

He also said Peters was wrong to oppose the Free Trade Agreement with India on the basis of immigration – because the projected increase in migrants would only amount to about 6 percent of visas currently issued to Indian nationals.

“To oppose the Indian Free Trade Agreement and all its benefits on the basis of immigration concern, that’s not just barking up the wrong tree, it’s barking in the wrong forest,” Seymour said.

“If we’re worried about immigration we should address immigration policy, not chop our nose off to spite our face.”

In terms of democratic values, Seymour highlighted fraud and overstayers as things that should be targeted.

“Illegal overstayers, you’ve got people whose first act in New Zealand is to break the law – and as someone who’s helped many migrants over the years – have seen the stigma that migrants can face – it doesn’t help and it’s not fair when there’s a whole lot of other people who just aren’t following any of the rules.”

Those concerns would be tackled with the additional deportations and the new overstayer taskforce in Immigration, he said.

He also rejected suggestions from Spoonley that the changes to the Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme could unnecessarily increase bureaucracy.

“We tend to get types of skills that we don’t necessarily need so much of, and they just linger on for a long time while new skill shortages are not always recognised in a timely fashion, so an annual upgrade or review of what sorts of skills can have new visas issued is what we have proposed.”

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