Top Stories for Friday 25 March 2022

A backdown by the Australian Government will see hundreds of detained refugees resettled in New Zealand, the Tairawhiti district begins its clean up after two days of heavy rain, with some parts of East Cape still cut off due to damaged roads, the wild weather is now heading south, with orange weather warnings for Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa, and the ACT party is calling for a referendum on co-governance saying the country is abandoning liberal democracy and replacing it with an "ethno state" .