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The New Zealand Immigration Service has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons. The head of the service, Mary Anne Thompson, resigned last week after it was found that she did not have a PhD after all. Before this job with Immigration,...
We all know about price rises in the last few months. Petrol continues to increase, mostly because of the price of a barrel of oil on the international market. Mortgage interest rates have been increasing for some time although last week there was a...
Last Monday, the government announced that it will buy back the railways for $665 million. That sale includes the inter-island ferries that sail between Picton and Wellington. We have to say buy back because the government used to own the railways bu...
On Wednesday, 3 protesters entered the Waihopai spy base and caused damage to a large globe covering a satellite dish. The director says that the damage could be as much as $1 million. Waihopai is near Blenheim in the north of the South Island. It ha...
This is ANZAC day, a day that New Zealanders and Australians remember all those soldiers who died in wars in the last century. ANZAC means Australia New Zealand Army Corps and it was the name the Australian and New Zealand soldiers gave to their grou...
Today, the junior doctors began a two-day strike in hospitals. They want more money but hospital boards say they cant pay more because the government does not give them enough money. The doctors say they will strike again in two weeks if there is no...
The death of 6 teenagers and a teacher on Tuesday afternoon while they were on a school camp came as a terrible shock to all New Zealanders. They were coming down a steep river gorge or canyon on the Mangatepopo River in the centre of the North Islan...
Who owns New Zealand railways, telephone services, electricity, city buses, airports, shipping ports and Air New Zealand? Some of these were owned by the government or local councils. Some were sold to private companies in the 1980s during the time o...
Forty years ago today was our worst tragedy at sea in living memory. The inter-island ferry, the Wahine, with 734 passengers, struck rocks in the Wellington harbour and sank. 51 people died. This was the Easter holiday and many people were travelling...
Today New Zealand signed a free-trade agreement with China. This is the first free-trade agreement that China has ever signed with a western, capitalist, democratic country but in the future China hopes to sign more trade deals with other western cou...
When Sir Edmund Hillary died in January, some New Zealanders were upset because the Royal family did not attend the funeral in Auckland. However, the Queen promised to celebrate Sir Edmunds life with a special service in England. That service was hel...
A month ago, senior doctors in New Zealand hospitals said they would go on strike at the end of March to get more pay. It now looks as though they will not go on strike after all. The Minister of Health, David Cunliffe, has worked hard in the last mo...
The government announced today some changes to building which might help to make houses cheaper. House prices have risen sharply in recent years, making it hard for young people to buy their own house. Mortgage rates have gone up too. It has been a l...
Saturday night was the final of the National Concerto Competition in the Christchurch Town Hall. This is an event where New Zealands young migrants often succeed. In the final, three of the best young musicians play a concerto with the Christchurch S...
The new Race Relations Report 2007 shows that New Zealand is becoming more multi-cultural and we are also feeling more comfortable about immigrants from different ethnic backgrounds. Maoris represent about 15% of the population, Asians nearly 7% and...
