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Labour’s campaign launch disappoints members

By Sally Conor | October 17, 2008

The Labour Party may have lost crucial votes last weekend when around 200 party faithful were locked out of its campaign launch at Auckland’s Town Hall on Saturday. Organisers distributed almost 400 tickets too many for the main auditorium and those who couldn’t be seated upstairs were asked to watch the launch on small television screens in [...] Continue Reading >

Labour’s universal allowance ignores whole generation of debt

By admin | October 17, 2008

By Angela Beswick and Sarah Urlich News that Labour will introduce a universal student allowance has been welcomed by students nationwide, but greeted with scepticism by others. The universal student allowance will make more than 50,000 students aged between 18 and 23 better off by phasing out the parental income threshold. By the year 2012 the threshold will [...] Continue Reading >

McDonald’s small fries demand better pay

By Paul Harper | October 17, 2008

McDonald’s is the latest employer to face the wrath of Unite as the union pressures businesses to improve working conditions for staff. On Friday October 10, staff from branches across Auckland picketed outside their work places from 8.30am to 9.30am, including half a dozen staff members from the Queen St branch. Strikes have continued during this week [...] Continue Reading >

Election billboard vandals waste parties’ time and money

By Finbarr Bunting | October 17, 2008

Three weeks out from the election, candidates are concerned the political discourse is being diluted after wide-scale vandalism and destruction of their electoral hoardings. Nikki Kaye, National Party candidate for Auckland Central, says it is “pretty common in election campaigns”. “It is a cost to the campaign and so it is supporters’ time and money that [...] Continue Reading >

Big Day Out 2009 - Neil Young, Arctic Monkeys and The Prodigy

By Amberleigh Jack | October 2, 2008

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Indie powerhouse the Arctic Monkeys and electro-rock veterans The Prodigy are among the bands confirmed this week to play Big Day Out 2009. The first official announcement for the annual one-day music festival saw previously revealed rock icon Neil Young joined by 20 international and local acts. Chart-topping pop duo the Ting Tings as well as [...] Continue Reading >

Tea and terror with Robert Fisk

By Paul Harper | October 2, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: The journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden three times and has covered the Middle East for over 30 years, tells Paul Harper about the illusion of objectivity and that the most important question is 'why'. Photo: Alan Koon - Pacific Media Centre Continue Reading >

Kiwi chick: the woman who cares for our most precious national asset

By Samantha Motion | September 25, 2008

New Zealand’s leading kiwi incubation specialist, Claire Travers, does not understand the purpose of a day off. It’s a Sunday, but a kiwi chick at work was found “arse-about-face” in its egg, so she had to help. The chick was completely upside down, she explains, with its bill in the wrong position to get the air it [...] Continue Reading >

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