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Teachers lack guidance for dealing with tragedy
After a spate of secondary school student deaths, one high school teacher has been left wondering how to help students dealing with tragic circumstances.
Laia Figueras, a Spanish teacher at two Auckland girls’ colleges, found several of her students were directly affected by the tragic deaths of three King’s College pupils.
And even if most of her students [...]
Immigration consultants paint unrealistic picture for Filipino hopefuls
In a country with a population of 90 million rapidly growing each day, 80 per cent of whom live in poverty, it is no surprise to find thousands of Filipinos are migrating abroad, many to New Zealand.
However migrant advocacy groups are saying many of those who reach our shores are shocked to find the future [...]
Anti-1080 movie heads to international festivals
A controversial film, which takes a scathing look at the effects of the Department of Conservation’s use of 1080 poison for pest control, is being screened to international audiences in an attempt by anti-1080 campaigners to gain further exposure for their cause.
Brothers Clyde and Steve Graf, used graphic footage taken from the drop-zone of many [...]
Climate change – ‘the greatest abuse of human rights imaginable’
Human rights activists and climate change experts are labelling the risk of rising water levels to geographically low-lying communities as “the greatest abuse of human rights imaginable”.
Oxfam director Barry Coates says environmental refugees – people forced to migrate from their homeland because of the adverse effects of climate change to their environment – would experience [...]
Rugby World Cup fans get priority on trains
Auckland train users will be forced to take buses next year when thousands of fans take a free ride on the train to Rugby World Cup games, say organisers.
Auckland City Council announced last week that there will be free public transport to Eden Park for all Rugby World Cup 2011 ticket holders.
When rugby goers are [...]
John Banks fails to calm K-Rd retailers’ super city fears
Business owners on Auckland’s iconic Karangahape Road are looking to politicians for answers to their questions about the impact of the super city.
At the Karangahape Road Business Association’s annual general meeting, Mayor John Banks attempted to promote his leadership to little or no effect.
Barry Blown-Smith, owner of a record store on the street, was one [...]
Raising the booze tax? Then clean up the streets
A percentage of the proposed tax increases on alcohol should go towards cleaning up vomit left in public places by drunk people, says one exasperated central Auckland retailer.
Jayden Chantarasakha, assistant manager of the Lacoste store on the corner of Queen and Fort streets, often finds vomit outside his store.
He blames budget tourists and university students [...]
Worldwide trade in fertility takes off – but not in NZ
New Zealand’s high ethical standards are shutting it out of the new worldwide fertility tourism industry.
The international fertility industry is worth billions of dollars a year, and has progressed to the point that the sperm can come from one country, the egg from another and baby be carried by a woman in a third.
However, [...]
Magic evaporates from the wine dream
Joan and Tony Lawrence were living the dream.
An orthodontist and archaeologist from Auckland, they moved to Otago in 1999, building a house overlooking Lake Dunstan.
The land around the new house became the 45th Parallel Vineyard, and in 2001 the Lawrences added another vineyard further down the road – Te Wairere.
Tony Lawrence says they saw these [...]
DIY a big risk for hearing loss, says deaf foundation
Many New Zealanders are at a high risk of losing their hearing, according to the National Foundation for the Deaf.
General manager Louise Carroll says the traditional “do-it-yourself” approach to gardening and home renovations is largely to blame.
“[DIY] is a very important way of living in New Zealand,” she says.
“[It’s] in our blood, it’s part of [...]
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