为了方便那些要留学新西兰的同学和想了解新西兰文化的英语爱好者，在线英语听力室的小编特地整理了一套新西兰英语，希望对大家的学习有所帮助。
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The Deaf community wants all New Zealand DVDs to have subtitles for deaf people to read. The MP, Mojo Mathers, who is deaf, asked why New Zealand DVDs which are made with public money do not have subtitles. TV programmes which are funded by NZ on Air...
A group of people, who are against genetically modified plants, destroyed 375 pine trees in Rotorua during Easter. The trees were planted by a government forestry research organization called Scion. Scientists at Scion are trying to develop pine tree...
A cardboard cathedral will be built near the centre of Christchurch city by the end of this year. First listen to March 2nd 2012 to hear about the Christchurch cathedral in the Square. Most of the Anglican churches were very badly damaged during the...
This week a coroners court is trying to find out why a fishing boat sank and six fishermen drowned in August 2010. The ship, the Oyang 70, sank in New Zealand waters. It was a Korean ship, chartered by a New Zealand fishing company. Most of the crew...
Today, the Minister for Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee, announced a new Head of the Christchurch city development. He is Warwick Isaacs. He has been in Christchurch since the day after the February earthquake last year, leading the demolition wo...
John Key spent three days in Indonesia last week and one day in Singapore. The main reason for his visit was to increase trade between these countries and New Zealand. Twenty-five business people went with the Prime Minister including the chief of Fo...
Teenage girl fans went crazy at Auckland airport when the boy band One Direction arrived. The girls screamed and held up posters which said things like We love you. One Direction is a group of five young men, aged 18, 19 and 20, from the UK. They wer...
The Minister of Education sacked the Board of Trustees at Moerewa School yesterday. This is a small rural Northland school which used to offer classes from Years 1 to 10 but in the last three years has had about 25 students altogether in Years 11, 12...
Cities throughout New Zealand held services to remember soldiers who died in the First World War and later wars. Most services were held at dawn because this was the time that New Zealand and Australian soldiers fought at Gallipoli. This was a terrib...
New Zealands scientific base in the Antarctic, Scott Base, has now lost the sun. On Tuesday, the sun was up for 39 minutes then it set at 1.10pm. The team of 14 people who stay at Scott Base for the winter, will wait four months now until they see th...
The Anglican cathedral in Christchurch was badly damaged in the February 22nd earthquake. Later after-shocks have caused more damage and it is now not a safe building. Today the Bishop announced that the cathedral will be taken down, slowly, to about...
Strong winds and heavy rain have caused problems in many places in the North Island and the upper part of the South Island. About 16,000 homes in South Taranaki and Wanganui have no electricity as power poles and lines fell. 600 power lines are down....
Bluff oysters are now on sale in fish shops and supermarkets, if you can afford them. They cost $26 a dozen which is just over $2 each. Bluff oysters come from the clean, cold waters of Foveaux Strait in the far south of New Zealand. The boats go out...
Today is International Womens Day. In many countries it is a holiday but not in New Zealand. In fact, New Zealand women often choose to celebrate September 19th instead. That was the day in 1893 when women were given the right to vote for Members of...
The ship, the Rena, hit a reef near the port of Tauranga on October 5th last year. As a result, containers fell into the sea and oil polluted the beaches, killing many sea birds. This week, a 20 page report gave the facts of what happened. The ship h...
