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Today in New Zealand and Australia is ANZAC Day. The day commemorates New Zealanders killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women. The date itself marks the anniversary of the landing of New Zealand and Australian soldiers – the...
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The issue of Metro that is coming out tomorrow is going to reveal three incidents - one in 2002 and two in 2010 - when the New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan took prisoners...
made popular Apr 24 2011
After the cardinal re-shape of the British Empire/British Commonwealth in the early sixties of the twentieth century especially, granted independence Pacific nations...
made popular Apr 19 2011
Matt Friedman, regional programme manager in Bangkok for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking has called for New Zealand to act over allegations...
made popular Apr 18 2011
Cat Kane, the woman behind ‘Drugs in the Water’ previously published in Canterbury University Student magazine ‘Canta’ is now taking her comic...
made popular Apr 11 2011
Yesterday I reported that the New Zealand Press Association is closing its doors after over 130 years. So goes a staple of the old media. I got most of my information...
made popular Apr 8 2011
Its been providing content to New Zealand newspapers for almost as long as New Zealand has had newspapers, but now the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) is closing...
made popular Apr 8 2011
New Zealand’s Maritime Union has called for a full audit of the fishing industry after the revelation that foreign companies are operating seaborne sweat shops in...
made popular Apr 10 2011
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharple’s told Waatea News recently that the Maori Party may go back on its agreement with former member and now independent MP Hone...
made popular Apr 9 2011
An open air forum was held yesterday for residents of Christchurch affected by the recent earthquakes who wanted to raise their concerns and form community networks....
made popular Apr 8 2011
Major changes to New Zealand employment laws come into effect today that swing the balance of power from away from workers and even further toward employers. The 90-day...
made popular Apr 1 2011
While courting controversy psychologist turned TV host Nigel Latta has if anything increased his celebrity status. So who is this man? How did he get where he is today?...
made popular Mar 31 2011
An Australian study into how employment status and working conditions affect mental health has yielded some interesting results. Having an awful job is just as...
made popular Mar 26 2011
Two years before the towering West Indian skipper, Clive Lloyd had clasped his hands around the World Cup to lift it in 1975; England skipper Rachael Heyhoe-Flint had...
made popular Mar 25 2011
Tragically, natural disasters happen through no fault of any one person or government entity. It seems Mother Nature has been cruelly working overtime these past few...
made popular Mar 16 2011
Looting seems to be an almost inevitable consequence of a disaster, and post-earthquake Christchurch is no exception. The response to looters has been vitriolic; A ...
made popular Mar 14 2011
What do people do when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hits your city? You pitch in and help. At The number of volunteers working to help those people effected by the quake...
made popular Mar 10 2011
“Great, I’m going to die at work” those were the thoughts of Woolston factory worker Bryce Lowry during the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Christchurch...
made popular Mar 7 2011
The devastating earthquake that hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch last month has disproportionately affected the east of the city, which also happens to be home...
made popular Mar 7 2011
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Ukrainian feminist activists from the organisation FEMEN held a protest in the Ukrainian capital Kiev this week to express outrage at the forthcoming visit of the...
made popular Mar 4 2011
A week after the big quake life was far from back to normal. While on the day of the quake I had cycled over to visit friends in the northern suburb of Casebrook, the...
made popular Mar 3 2011
50,000 people have departed from Christchurch Airport since the 6.3 earthquake last Tuesday that left a third of the central city buildings either destroyed or...
made popular Feb 28 2011
Massive earthquake happened in NZ, killing 76 already.
made popular Feb 24 2011
New Zealand’s second largest city, Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake just before 1pm today. It was 5km deep and the epicenter 10km south east of...
made popular Feb 22 2011
Fijian migrant workers who payed up to $17,000 for visas to work in New Zealand ended up foraging maize from a paddock to feed themselves. Stacey Watson, of Piopio,...
made popular Feb 15 2011
In my last article, about radio station The Rock staging a reprehensible ‘Win a Wife’ competition I stated that “The hegemonic role of commercial radio is...
made popular Feb 14 2011
The Rock is a generic pop-rock station who’s major advertisers include a company offering a ‘patented nasal delivery technology’ cure for erectile...
made popular Feb 11 2011
Facebook has been a mixed bag for activists and the labour movement, Eric Lee of labourstart.org and UnionBook, a social networking site for the union members, has...
made popular Feb 8 2011
Protests were held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch last weekend in solidarity with the uprising taking place in Egypt. In Christchurch about 100 people marched...
made popular Feb 7 2011
WELLINGTON—New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key on Wednesday called a general election for Nov. 26, seeking to avoid letting the outcome of the rugby World Cup...
made popular Feb 3 2011
University of Otago Christchurch researcher Lucia Alonso-Gonzalez hopes to bring ghost bikes to Christchurch. The all white bicycles would be locked to street signs and...
made popular Feb 2 2011
The reprehensible ‘Win a Wife’ competition being run by New Zealand Radio Station The Rock, which has a prize of a trip to Ukraine to pick a bride from an...
made popular Feb 17 2011
Poverty in New Zealand is very hidden, Most of us look OK. We haven’t got the distended stomach and the hollow eyes of the malnourished, but it’s still very...
made popular Feb 21 2011
Auckland’s Sky City Casino has issued Unite Union national director Mr Treen and campaigns officer Joe Carolan with trespass orders. This is the latest move by...
made popular Jan 24 2011
Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is now the subject of a complaint in parliament from his own caucas, after his very public airing of his concerns about the...
made popular Jan 24 2011
The Otago Daily Times reported recently that the pay packets of the New Zealand’s 22,000 meat workers will be thousands of dollars lighter this year with their...
made popular Jan 20 2011
Job advertising website SEEK’s 2010 Employee Satisfaction and Motivation survey, which had about 3000 respondents, has found that 70% of New Zealand workers are...
made popular Jan 12 2011
Unite kicked of 2011 with the kind of action the union is known for, with workers at Sky City Casino walking of the job just 30 minutes after the strike of midnight,...
made popular Jan 11 2011
New Zealand: ANZAC POPPY
The red poppy, one of the first blooms from the mud of Flanders Field, linked battlefield death since the Great War of 1914-1918. The famous...
made popular Jan 7 2011
Its been an big year in the New Zealand media, in April a Roy Morgan poll showed some interesting facts about the way its being consumed. The two biggest stories of the...
made popular Dec 27 2010
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In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, left, greets visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone during their meeting in Wellington, capital of New Zealand, on Wednesday, April 29, 2009....
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