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It’s barely a week ago that ACT MP David Garrett was telling prison officers that by opposing the governments private prison agenda because of their experiences working in a privately run correctional facility that they “wouldn’t get offered a...
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A species of snail fish–the deepest living fish in the world–have been captured on camera n the southern hemisphere for the first time. These strange,...
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Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for the Te Tai Tokerau electorate has come under fire in the media for comments that the National Business Review described as “racially...
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The National Party made public its harsh welfare policies in August last year, resulting in a marked increase in calls to counseling service Lifeline by distressed...
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Legislation making controversial changes to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has passed its first reading in parliament by a...
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More than 500 motorcyclists roared through the small South Island city of Nelson on last weekend to give a clear message to local MP Nick Smith, who is also the...
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Changes being proposed to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) could block access to counselling for victims of sexual abuse. The...
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For over a week television viewers and newspaper readers in New Zealand -and even some overseas- were fed constant updates about Aisling Symes, the two year old girl...
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When Auckland bus drivers were at a standstill negotiating with their employer NZ Bus, a company owned by Infratil, they took a creative form of industrial action;...
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In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions...
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Department of Conservation workers and scientists from the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have been searching for phreatoicids (pronced...
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The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city...
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Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced her resignation from parliament, effective as of the end of next month. According to the New Zealand Herald
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Back in April, the results of the 2008 Quality of Life survey were released. They showed that Christchurch was New Zealand’s safest city, with less than 100...
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Thirty eight workers at an Open Country Dairy processing plant in Waharoa, Waikato walked off the job at 6pm on Wednesday night beginning an eight day long strike....
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The new $4.9 million Mt Roskill fire station was opened in Auckland on Friday. Yet at the opening ceremony Prime Minister John Key was drowned out with shouts of...
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Photos of New Zealand soldiers posing with a 2000 pound bomb were released to the media last weekend. The soldiers had written “Dear Taleban, enjoy this” on...
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New Zealand First held its annual general meeting last weekend and affirmed it will contest the 2011 election. The party missed out on parliamentary representation last...
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Social development minister Paula Bennett made headlines in July when she released private information on two women who had criticised the governments welfare policies,...
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Vicki Walker, an Auckland (New Zealand) accountant, was sacked for sending supposedly confrontational emails with words in red, in bold and in CAPITAL LETTERS.
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The legislation to allow private contractors to run prisons is currently making its way through New Zealand’s parliament and the Law and Order select committee is...
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The public-privately funded Freedom Houses composes annual lists and reports on the state of freedom in the world. The news this year is not good. In every single...
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After the recent revelation that the New Zealand police have been infiltrating activist groups for the past decade it is worth examining the country’s history of...
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Nicky Hager and Anthony Hubbard have revealed that police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG), which was set up to identify terrorism threats and risks...
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The telecommunications industry, Internet service providers, user groups, Internet advocates and IT professionals have called the recently passed Copyright (New...
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Though there has yet to be much analysis of it in the mainstream media, online a campaign against the governments Immigration Bill (also supported by the opposition) is...
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