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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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Heavy Metal videos are known for the use of macabre and gruesome imagery, however the new video from 8 Foot Sativa (probably New Zealand’s best known metal act) is not just senseless gore. The band, whose members are all vegan, wanted to use...
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The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) an organisation that represents 460 public, educational, commercial, industrial, legal and government libraries in New Zealand, has voiced its opposition to the implementation of...
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Fairfax media has reported that almost $2 million in Ministry of Health funding is given to Maori healers for Rongoa services. Rongoa is a traditional Maori system of healing that includes rakau rongoa (native herbal remedies), mirimiri (massage) and...
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Today the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions responded to calls for support from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions and the International Trade Union Confederation by calling on the New Zealand Government to place a number of sanctions on...
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