{"id":62692,"date":"2025-10-05T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62692\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T23:16:07","slug":"prime-minister-christopher-luxon-weighs-in-on-netball-new-zealand-stand-off-with-dame-noeline-taurua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62692\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon weighs in on Netball New Zealand stand-off with Dame Noeline Taurua"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019d have a pretty clear view as whether I think that manager is doing a great job or otherwise job and as to the employees, we might have a different conversation,\u201d Luxon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know sometimes employees don\u2019t like their boss. I get all that. I\u2019d want to understand the manager where they\u2019re coming from, what the employees\u2019 concerns are.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d raise that with the manager if I think there are things that they could do differently or better.\u201d<\/p>\n

There had been speculation that Taurua would return to her post, after an emotional plea from star shooter Grace Nweke after the Taini Jamison series calling for her return<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Netball NZ said \u201cdespite considerable and genuine effort\u201d from the two parties, a resolution regarding the Silver Ferns \u201chigh performance programme and environment\u201d had not yet been reached.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Mike Hosking Breakfast, former Silver Ferns coach Yvonne Willering described the whole situation as sad.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Grace spoke out, I thought this would force Netball New Zealand to have some honest conversations and basically work to resolve this whole issue,\u201d Willering said.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially the netball community was disappointed, but now I think they\u2019re quite angry about how it\u2019s all come out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gone from a high-performance programme and environment problem, and it\u2019s now become an employment issue. It started off reasonably small, and it has really festered, and it\u2019s become a major.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019d have a pretty clear view as whether I think that manager is doing a great job or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[752,11536,43196,16851,9436,93,14186,61,5493,60,43191,9440,278,42624,8440,42625,43194,40009,9439,8717,43198,43199,43197,4598,43193,42626,43192,25593,5906,43195,9450],"class_list":["post-62692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-advice","tag-between","tag-brewing","tag-christopher","tag-dame","tag-entertainment","tag-handle","tag-ie","tag-in","tag-ireland","tag-luxon","tag-minister","tag-music","tag-netball","tag-new","tag-noeline","tag-offered","tag-on","tag-prime","tag-resolution","tag-showing","tag-sight","tag-situation","tag-some","tag-standoff","tag-taurua","tag-weighs","tag-which","tag-with","tag-would","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}