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Greens try to stop deep sea drilling
The Greens are trying to halt deep sea drilling by submitting a bid for a the right to drill for oil on behalf of Kiwis.The stunt involves the party submitting a bid with signatures from New Zealanders in an effort to protect areas likely to be drilled by oil companies.From May 24, oil companies will begin presenting bids for the right to drill in the sea to the government with new legislation ...
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America Ferrera is graduating from university after 10 years.
The 'Ugly Betty' actress first enrolled at the University of Southern California in 2002, but her burgeoning acting career - including the lead role in the hit comedy show - forced her to put her academic ambitions on the backburner until ...
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Greens launch Kiwi Bid
The Green Party has launched a campaign it hopes will stop deep-sea drilling in New Zealand waters. As the Government begins the tender process for new permits to drill off the west coast of the North Island and east coast of the South Island, the Greens today announced a campaign to gather support for a 'Kiwi Bid' "to protect our oceans and beaches". The party wants supporters to sign a ...
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Stars get behind Kiwi Bid
Olympic rower Rob Hamill and young champion surfer Mischa Davis have thrown their support behind a new campaign to protect what they say is a major threat to New Zealand beaches. The duo joined forces today for the launch of the Green Party's bid to stop deep-sea drilling in New Zealand waters. Mr Hamill, also a former Green Party candidate, said the Government could not be trusted to ensure ...
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Inequality up under National
Bill English can try to rewrite history all he likes, but the truth is that inequality is getting worse under National and Thursday's Budget does nothing to fix that, says David Parker, Labour's Finance spokesperson."Both income and asset inequality have worsened under the current government, and will continue do so."On Q&A this morning, Bill English desperately ...
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Greens suggest 15 surcharge on foreign house buyers
Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says the country needs to look at how overseas demand is affecting the New Zealand housing market. "What Hong Kong did is they put a 15 percent surcharge effectively on non-residents buying property ," he told TVNZ’s Q+A programme this morning, "to try to basically turn down the tap a little bit to take some of the heat out of ...
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US student accidentally killed by police
A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder, Dalton Smith, pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old Hofstra University student in a ...
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No dream start for Brockie
All Whites striker Jeremy Brockie began his Major League Soccer loan spell with Ryan Nelsen's Toronto FC on a subdued note with a 1-0 loss to ...
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Blues winger charged with K Road assault
Blues winger George Moala has been charged with two counts of assault with intent to injure over an incident on Auckland's Karangahape Road last ...
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Carrington through to kayak final
Olympic gold medallist Lisa Carrington is through to the K1 200m final after winning her semi-final at the canoe sprint World Cup in the Czech Republic.Carrington clocked 40.223sec to ease through to the final late on Sunday (NZT).Portugal's Teresa Portela won the second semi-final in 40.520, while Natalia Podolskaya (Russia) powered through the third in an impressive 39.687.Carrington ...
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Katie Holmes has been asked out on the set of her new film - by seven different men.
The 34-year-old star - who divorced Tom Cruise last year - is making heads turn during filming for upcoming drama 'Mania Days' and has had to fend off romantic advances from several besotted crew members and ...
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Britney Spears wants to have a daughter.
Speaking to TV show 'Extra', Britney said: "I want a girl."When further pressed if she was serious about having a daughter by host Mario Lopez, she simply replied: "Yes."The former 'X Factor USA' judge is currently dating David Lucado and hopes the relationship continues to go in the right direction so that he can become a stay-at-home dad and she can ...
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Green Party launches the Kiwi Bid to protect our beaches
Today in Piha the Green Party launched a major campaign to stop the Government's planned expansion of risky deep sea drilling, including offering New Zealanders the opportunity to join a counter bid to protect our oceans and beaches. On May 24th the Government begins the non-financial tender process with oil companies for new permits to conduct deep sea drilling in New Zealand waters ...
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High hopes for Meridian sale
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English. Photo / Greg Bowker The Finance Minister has high hopes New Zealanders will buy into the partial float of Meridian Energy. Bill English has confirmed it is the next asset in line for a sell-down, but he says even after the float, 85 per cent of the company should remain in New Zealand hands. The figure includes the minimum of 51 per cent of ...
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Latest WINZ privacy breach preventable says Labour
Jacinda Ardern. Photo / File Labour says Government inaction over privacy breaches could lie behind the mistaken release from Work and Income. Details of 34 beneficiaries, who are about to be cut off from the system, have been mistakenly emailed to another claimant. Labour's social development spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern says a full investigation of WINZ processes should have ...
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Whincup and Red Bull star on US debut
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election ...
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Two hospitalised after rally crash
A 43-year-old man and 42-year-old woman from Motueka have been hospitalised after their rally car lost control this morning between Riwaka and Sandy Bay. Ambulance, Fire and organisers assited the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter onboard Intensive Care paramedic to stabilise the patients. The man and woman reportedly have neck and chest injuries. Immediately after ...
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Precious penguins needing better protection
An environmental group says the precious small colony of yellow-eyed penguins in the Otago Peninsula urgently needs better protection. The concern follows the release of BirdLife International's review, which has found set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds every year. Forest and Bird says the current four kilometre-wide set net ban around the peninsula's coast needs to be 150 ...
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Man shot point-blank in NYC hate crime
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, in a neighbourhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. New York's police commissioner called the killing a hate crime. Before opening fire, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want ...
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NZ diabetes patients could join lawsuit
An Australian law firm is calling on New Zealanders to get involved in a US class action if they think they have developed cancer by taking diabetes ...
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Hawkes Bay iwi buys back tribal land
A Hawke's Bay iwi says it is buying back tribal land with the purchase of Tautane Station, one of the North Island's prime coastal farm stations.Kahungunu Asset Holding Co, on behalf of Ngati Kahungunu iwi, or tribe, has completed the purchase of the station owned by the Herrick family for more than 120 years for an undisclosed sum.Taratahi Agricultural Training will run a training ...
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An obsessed fan was arrested for swimming to Taylor Swifts beach home on Wednesday.
Police spotted the Chicago man getting out of the water around a mile from Taylor's new residence at 2:20am and upon questioning him, he reportedly admitted he intended to swim to shore, clamber up to the pop star's home and greet her.The man was hauled into a nearby police station and currently remains in custody.Westerly Police Department told TMZ: "There is a zero tolerance ...
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Charlie Sheen believes Brooke Mueller wants to use their children to get money from him.
The 47-year-old actor's lawyers have been summoned to court on Wednesday to hear what is expected to be a request by Brooke for her brother to be granted temporary guardianship over the former couple's four-year-old twins Bob and Max, TMZ has ...
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Concern for missing Pukekohe woman
Police are worried about the whereabouts of a woman from Pukekohe, in rural south Auckland, who has gone missing almost 100 kilometres from home. Ngaire Gibbons was spotted in Puhoi, on the northern edge of the region, yesterday afternoon, and police believe she thumbed a lift there. She is 63, Maori, and about five feet three inches tall (one metre 60 centimetres) with a plump build and grey ...
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Wider set net ban needed to save yellow-eyed penguins
Forest & Bird is calling for an immediate extension to a ban on commercial and recreational set-netting around Otago Peninsula, following the release of a major new international review that has found that set nets kill more than 400,000 seabirds around the world every year. The results of the review, undertaken by conservation group BirdLife International, have been published in the ...
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New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
New Zealand is regional power in the Pacific and this is reflected in our ongoing involvement in the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, which is the mechanism by which the region manages one of its greatest natural resources.
New Zealand has long been a regional power in the South Pacific, and in this capacity the country has lead a number of major initiatives undertaken alone or in conjunction with other Pacific Island nations, the most important of these have been policies aimed at environmental protection and sustainability, as well as monitoring and rehabilitation of important environmental resources, such as the Pacific fisheries. Read more
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