She touched him lightly on the head with a rope, which was accepted practice at the pool. The man s lawyer Sonya Vidal said Tume had been offended after the lifeguard hit him lightly on the head with a rope to gain his attention, because her actions were culturally offensive to Māori. Vidal said Tume had been racially abused in the past. Tume got out of the pool and raised his right arm as though to hit her, then grabbed the lifeguard and tackled her to the ground. He dragged her into the pool and submerged her underwater, the summary said.
Debbie Jamieson14:27, Jul 05 2021
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Basil Walker received 187 votes when he stood as an independent candidate in Invercargill at the 2020 elections.
A businessman who stood as an independent candidate for Invercargill in the 2020 election to campaign against the closure of the Tiwai aluminium smelter has been charged under the Electoral Act. Basil Walter Walker, of Queenstown, entered a not guilty plea to a charge of failing to file a return of election expenses and donations with the Electoral Commission between October 2020 and February 2021. In the Queenstown District Court on Monday defence counsel Paige Noorland said Walker had since filed the outstanding documentation.
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23 June, 2021, 12:10 pm
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard might be dividing opinion but one rival competitor says she has nothing but respect for the Kiwi. ALEX PANTLING/GETTY IMAGES
Laurel Hubbard – the first openly transgender athlete selected for the Olympic Games – guards her privacy zealously, but has always insisted all she wants is to be herself.
Yet, the 43-year-old has been a polarising figure since she burst onto the world weightlifting stage in 2017 after transitioning to female.
The debate Hubbard has lived with for the last four years is likely to remain intense, after she was named in a five-strong New Zealand weightlifting team for next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.