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RNZ News
16-05-2025
- General
- RNZ News
Internet outage hits more than 900 homes in Auckland's North Shore
A map showing internet outages at 6.30pm on Friday. Photo: Supplied / Screenshot Over 900 homes in Auckland's North Shore had lost their internet connection, after a widespread network outage late on Thursday night. Telecommunications company Chorus says around 450 copper connections, and an estimated 500 fibre connections have been impacted. Much of the outage happened around Albany and Browns Bay. Chorus says they are working to restore connections to those impacted. The company said it was still investigating the cause of the outage. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
15-05-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
School support staff protest outside Erica Stanford's Auckland office for more pay
School staff gathering outside Education Minster Erica Stanford's office in Browns Bay. Photo: RNZ/ Victor Waters Dozens of people are gathered outside the electorate office of Erica Stanford in northern Auckland this morning. The group are protesting recent pay equity changes and calling for increased pay for school support staff ahead of the budget next week. They were organised by the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) union and plan to hand an open letter to Stanford. NZEI has told RNZ it is negotiating collective agreements with the Ministry of Education which has offered zero-percent pay increases. School staff gathering outside Education Minster Erica Stanford's office in Browns Bay, Auckland. Photo: RNZ/Victor Waters Jan Monds, a teacher aide at Knighton Normal School in Hamilton, joined the protest and said support staff felt undervalued. "I'd love Minister Stanford to come in and hoist, toilet, tube feed a child, and deal with medically fragile children, deal with those that are in Year 6 and are struggling to read and write," she said. "I think she may get a better sense of what we do." Monds said support staff needed more funding to meet tamariki's needs. The recent pay equity changes were a kick in the stomach, she said. "It's just another means by which the government have let us know that they really don't value us nor the work we do," Monds said. Stanford has been approached for comment.
