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  • Dark Day For Conservation In NZ

    The Government is eroding the conservation estate by allowing Australian owned Bathurst Resources Ltd access to conservation land to build open cast coal mine, the Green Party said today. "Today is a dark day for conservation," said Green Party mining spokesperson Catherine Delahunty.Ms Delahunty was responding to Conservation Minister Nick Smith's decision to allow ...

  • Dunne legal highs bill to be even faster-tracked

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 1:23 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Peter DunneAssociate Minister of Health23 May 2013Dunne: legal highs bill to be even faster-trackedAssociate Health Minister Peter Dunne wants to push the Psychoactive Substances Bill through Parliament faster than planned when it returns from the select committee in mid-June, with the aim of having the legislation ...

  • Meth Plan Continues to Show Results

    Prime Minister John Key today released the latest Indicators and Progress Report for the Government's Tackling Methamphetamine Action Plan, and says while the picture of methamphetamine (P) supply in New Zealand remains a complex one, the efforts of law enforcement agencies are continuing to produce positive signs."When the Government began this plan in 2009, New Zealand had one ...

  • Arcades to revitalise old Crowne Plaza site

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 1:34 pm Press Release: Festival of Transitional Architecture 23 May 2013Arcades to revitalise old Crowne Plaza siteA striking temporary structure is set to bring new life to the central city and facilitate events in Christchurch's former Crowne Plaza site.Construction of the impressive series of six-metre-high vault-like frames, named The Arcades Project, ...

  • James Hardie makes no provision for leaky school claim

    James Hardie Industries has not made a provision for the Ministry of Education's $1.5 billion suit over 800 leaky buildings, saying it hasn't worked out what loss, if any, it may face. The Australian building materials company and its New Zealand subsidiaries are assessing the ministry's claim with the intention of "vigorously" defending it, but haven't ...

Movie Review

The Dark Knight Rises

Shrouded in both astronomical fan expectations and unexpected real-world tragedy, Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final entry in his acclaimed Batman trilogy, is nothing if not grandly ambitious, the filmmakers bold, sometimes unwieldy stateme ... ...

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  • FP Healthcare shares at two-year peak on profit outlook

    Shares in Fisher & Paykel Healthcare jumped to their highest in more than two years as the maker of breathing masks and respirators said it expects to beat analyst estimates for 2014 profit after surpassing its own guidance for 2013. F&P Healthcare shares surged 5.9 percent to $3.21, the highest since February 1, 2011, when it touched $3.22. The stock has surged 23 percent so far this ...

  • Labour Greens right on GCSB report

    COMMENT The Labour/Green opposition coalition is absolutely right to slam Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Paul Neazor’s report into alleged illegal spying of New Zealanders, but on the wrong track calling for it to be released. Reports on security matters should always be kept secret so that they are not seen by the country’s adversaries, with the proper ...

  • Hundreds protest against merger of Christchurch schools

    Hundreds of people turned out in Christchurch this morning to protest against the merger of two primary schools. The Government earlier this year announced an interim decision to close seven Christchurch schools and merge 12 others to create six. Phillipstown School is set to merge with Woolston School, and the new combined school will be located on the Woolston ...

  • Denniston coal mine granted approval

    Mining experts strategise to re-enter Pike River An open cast mining project on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau has been given the green light by the Government. Conservation Minister Nick Smith confirmed this afternoon that Bathurst Resources has been given consent under the Crown Minerals Act to dig an open-cast mine on 106 hectares of the 2026 hectares that comprise the Plateau. ...

  • Kiwi-Made App Released For Movie After Earth

    Kiwi-Made App ReleasedForMovie After Earth A Kiwi company is behind the global release today of an interactive app for the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller movie After Earth, starring Will Smith and his son Jaden.UK-based BeyondTheStory developed the app, titled After Earth: Kitai's Journal, for the Sony Pictures Entertainment/Overbrook Entertainment film and its tie-in book.The ...

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