{"id":367578,"date":"2026-04-07T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367578\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:05:11","slug":"five-big-things-that-happened-today-tuesday-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367578\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Big Things That Happened Today: Tuesday, April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luxon quizzed on Cabinet reshuffle; Trump lashes out at Australia; Air New Zealand makes further flight cuts, price increases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Did you just forget about him?&#8217; Luxon quizzed on Cabinet reshuffle<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been quizzed on last week&#8217;s Cabinet changes, which saw a reshuffling of responsibilities for some National Party MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Luxon spoke to Breakfast this morning after squeezing through a refreshed ministerial lineup for National&#8217;s section of the coalition Cabinet just before the Easter break. It comes with Judith Collins and Shane Reti retiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/07\/luxon-quizzed-on-cabinet-reshuffle-maori-representation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Didn&#8217;t help us&#8217;: Trump lashes out at Australia<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump lashed out at a number of countries \u2013 including Australia \u2013 today at a press conference as his deadline for Iran to reach a deal approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The president continued to grumble about NATO allies\u2019 refusal to get involved in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their hesitance to assist US offensive operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/07\/didnt-help-us-trump-lashes-out-at-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air New Zealand makes further flight cuts, price increases<\/p>\n<p>Air New Zealand has made further reductions to its services and increases to some of its airfares in response to high fuel prices caused by the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the airline confirmed Tuesday morning that it had made &#8220;a small number of schedule changes for travel across May and June,&#8221; as a result of high jet fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/07\/air-new-zealand-makes-further-flight-cuts-price-increases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch: Tropical cyclone heading for NZ strengthens to a category 3<\/p>\n<p>MetService\u2019s Heather Keats says &#8216;now is the time to prepare&#8217; with Tropical Cyclone Vaianu&#8217;s impacts expected be felt across New Zealand this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/news\/one-news-at-6pm-str-3byltwqdahnxbxtonw0e8jyirwh-1775501890516\/tropical-cyclone-heading-for-nz-strengthens-to-a-category-3-in-depth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ONE OCR EXPLAINER<\/p>\n<p>Economists are predicting the OCR will be held steady tomorrow \u2013 despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the impact it is having on the domestic economy.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began at the end of February, petrol prices have soared, and the global economic outlook has worsened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/07\/why-the-reserve-bank-is-tipped-to-hold-the-ocr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luxon quizzed on Cabinet reshuffle; Trump lashes out at Australia; Air New Zealand makes further flight cuts, price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3944,149383,6852,2024,96416,44246,185449,185450,185451,3455,21666,111,43,139,69,384,1401],"class_list":{"0":"post-367578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-consumerism","10":"tag-customer","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-filling","13":"tag-fossil-fuel","14":"tag-fuel-and-power-generation","15":"tag-fuel-pump","16":"tag-gas-station","17":"tag-gasoline","18":"tag-holding","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-people","24":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}