AUSTRALIAN ACT THE GRISWOLDS CONFIRMED FOR SUPPORT Ohio natives Walk The Moon are thrilled to confirm that they are heading to New Zealand for their first ever concert in February 2016. The four-piece will bring their incredible live show to Auckland, ...
International speakers address the future of rehabilitation medicine at the AFRM/NZRA Combined Rehabilitation Meeting 2015
Tuesday’s reopening of parliament will be the focus for delegations of state house tenants from around New Zealand protesting government proposals to sell state houses.
A woman hunts a bear in backcountry New Zealand, a grieving man flees war-torn Ethiopia, and a couple in a polyamourous relationship raise a child – Sarah Jane Barnett’s latest book WORK blurs the line between poetry and fiction to explore the lives of ...
UNICEF New Zealand and the Council for International Development (CID) will co-host an event at Parliament on Tuesday, bringing together Members of Parliament, civil society and the NZ public, to explore the recently announced Global Goals for Sustainable ...
New Zealand’s eventers have qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games this morning at the Military Boekelo Horse Trials in The Netherlands.
New Zealand has extended its unbeaten record in blade shearing tests against Australia with victory in the latest match on Saturday at the Waimate Shears in South Canterbury.
Breads of Europe’s Luke McPherson from Southland won the elite line honours while Christchurch rider Sam Horgan claimed his third Calder Stewart Cycling Series elite title in an exciting final round of racing in the iconic Cycle Surgery Hell of the ...
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final agreement, the ...
Emily Cammock’s winning run has continued picking up the quinella in the CNC3* at Eventing Canterbury’s one day horse trial at the NEC McLeans Island, near Christchurch, today.
In this issue: Child Sex Offender Register – your feedback, New Code to better support victims of crime, Train travel in Auckland.
A good victory to Ireland at 24 to 9, which means NZ will face France in our quarter-final. The pools are not even, but still interesting to look at the net points scored by each team. The are: New Zealand +125 South Africa +120 Argentina +109 Australia +106 Ireland +99 England +58 France +57 Wales […]
Pacific Peoples Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga is calling on all New Zealanders to take part in Niue Language Week this week.
The text of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is to be released in the next 30 days, but an outline on agricultural products shows New Zealand's marketing difference underpinning our exports could be lost in the deal.
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News from WCC The five flag options in the upcoming referendum will be hoisted in unison on the Wellington Town Hall from noon today. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown initiated the move, saying it allows the public to view the flags ‘in action’ and help make a more informed decision on the merits of each design for […]
Friday was the last day of the holidays. Not just the holidays – my holidays. After 17 and a half years of raising a child with special needs, I’m returning to full time work today.
So. This is it. That unimaginable day.
On Friday, I felt I should be tripping hand-in-hand with my children around all the holiday activities on offer in Christchurch. But Jasper was away with a friend having a lovely relaxing lakeside holiday and Claudia was still recovering from her latest general anesthetic, three days ago. Читать дальше...
Gareth Hughes has a bill up for first reading soon called the Electricity Industry (Small-Scale Renewable Distributed Generation) Amendment Bill. I hope the Government/National votes for the bill at first reading, for three reasons. It is a (fairly rare) constructive opposition bill that has identified an issue, and is not proposing a solution that is just […]
Every now and then you see comments that make you want to laugh, cry or just bang your head against a wall at the stupidity of them. Yesterday there were a couple of such comments from Judith Collins in an opinion piece talking about the Auckland mayoralty. They aren’t really the key part of her [...]
Stuff reports: No freedom is in sight for New Zealand’s longest serving inmate, who will have clocked 50 years in jail before he is next allowed to seek parole. The Parole Board has issued a three-year postponement order to pensioner prisoner Alfred Vincent, 77, who has been locked up since being sentenced to preventive detention […]
BusinessDesk report by Suze Metherell The median house price in Wellington increased 2.7 percent in September from August, for an annual increase of 3.3 percent to $413,375. Sales volume increased 7.1 percent between August and September, with 720 houses sold, a 22.7 percent increase on the same month a year earlier. New Zealand’s median house […]
Khalid Amayreh DesertPeace In the final analysis, the PA is subservient to Israel and, to a very large extent, answerable to Israel. Both the criminal, racist state of Israel, and the Palestinian Authority (PA), a police state without a state which we all know is at Israel’s beck and call, are reacting characteristically, each in […]
News from State Housing Action Network Tuesday’s reopening of parliament will be the focus for delegations of state house tenants from around New Zealand coming to Wellington to protest against government proposals to sell state houses. The protest will be led by groups from Tauranga and Invercargill which are the first two centres where the […]
Hamas An Israeli aerial attack on the Gaza Strip at dawn Sunday destroyed a Palestinian home, killing a pregnant woman and her little girl, and injuring three other family members. A spokesman for the health ministry said that Nour Hassan, who was five months pregnant, and her two-year-old daughter Rahaf Yehya were both killed when […]
Press Release – New Zealand Government Three Niuean soldiers who served in the First World War will now be included in the New Zealand Roll of Honour and Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry says.Hon Maggie Barry Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage 12 October 2015 Roll of Honour […]