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Trade unions recently have expressed concern that prison work schemes could cost jobs during a recession The Amalgamated Workers’ Union told The Press that about 130 workers have lost their jobs in the concrete industry over the last few years...
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Private companies operating in New Zealand will soon be able to compete with the public Corrections Department to run new prisons, including a 900-to-1200-bed jail due to open by 2012. Corrections Minister Judith Collins has told officials to draw up...
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South Auckland hip-hop group Smashproof have reached number 2 on the New Zealand singles chart with their song Brother which also features vocals from singer/songwriter Gin Wigmore. Unlike most ‘top 40′ songs the lyrics and music video are...
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Bruce Emery, the businessman who a year ago stabed to death then 15 year old Pihema Cameron after catching him and another teenager he caught spray painting (’tagging’) his garage in Auckland and chasing them 300 meters down the street...
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State owned power company Meridian Energy is raising its prices by an average of 6.5 per cent across New Zealand, with higher increases in Canterbury and Dunedin. This is the company’s second price increase in the past six months and comes at a...
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Local Government minister and leader of the ACT party Rodney Hide has been criticised by CCS Disability Action for comments he made on TVNZ’s current affairs show Close Up. Hide recommended that a Christchurch businessman should break the law and...
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New Zealand’s ‘boy racer’ problem has seen a lot of media attention following a series of recent events, beginning with Christchurch being depicted as a city “beset by hordes of boy racers.” on a German television program and...
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In what New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has described as sending “a strong message” Pacific Forum leaders have voted to suspend Fiji from the Forum unless the interim government sets an election date before May 1. The suspension will mean Fiji...
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Stephanie Lawson wrote in the introduction to her 1996 book ‘Tradition versus Democracy in the South Pacific’ that many scholars have criticised the way in which “the invention of tradition” has been used to legitimate certain forms of...
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Local Fijians say a better way for the New Zealand Government to help the victims of recent floods in in the county is to let them work in New Zealand, and not giving aid money according to an article published in the New Zealand Herald. A meeting...
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