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  • `Funding boosts New Zealands military capability

    Increase in New Zealand's defence budget and cost savings are helping to improve military capability across all three services, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said Friday. "In the year to July 2013, the NZDF (New Zealand Defence Force) will deliver 190 million NZ dollars ($153.87 million) in savings after achieving 140 million NZ dollars in the year prior," Coleman said in a statement the ...

  • Petrol tax should be invested in public transport

    Saturday, 18 May 2013, 5:27 pm Press Release: Green Party 18 May 2013 Petrol tax should be invested in public transport The Green Party is urging the Government to invest revenue, raised by their increase in petrol tax, on public transport in light of evidence that car traffic volumes are decreasing. "The petrol tax is being increased because people are using their cars less, ...

  • Kiwi Lifestyle under Attack

    Saturday, 18 May 2013, 5:04 pm Press Release: Dick Quax Kiwi Lifestyle under AttackRight now the Auckland Council is seeking feedback on the Unitary Plan. The Unitary Plan will be Auckland's planning "rulebook", setting out where and how the region grows in the future. It will replace former district and regional plans with one document. It is very important that you ...

  • Progress in K2 campaign

    K2. Photo / Sarah Ivey Progress has been made to clear the shelves of the synthetic drug K2. Drug regulation group Star Trust has been able to convince the drug manufacturers to remove the drug from the shelves in the coming weeks. Star Trust general manager Grant Hall says this is a big step. "It's the most famous, probably most successful brand in the southern hemisphere. ...

  • Progress in K2 campaign

    Progress has been made to clear the shelves of the synthetic drug K2. Drug regulation group Star Trust has been able to convince the drug manufacturers to remove the drug from the shelves in the coming weeks. Star Trust general manager Grant Hall says this is a big step. "It's the most famous, probably most successful brand in the southern ...

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Knocked Up

Knocked Up

Writer/director Judd Apatow has a special comedic gift: He can mix bawdiness and tenderness with such a surprisingly deft touch that you can't sense the point at which one ends and the other begins. His two features, 2005's The 40-Year-Old Virgin and his most ... ...

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  • SkyCity expands in Queenstown

    SkyCity Entertainment Group is increasing its presence in Queenstown with the purchase of Wharf Casino.SkyCity said it has purchased Otago Casinos Ltd, which holds the licence for the Wharf Casino, for $5 million.The casino operates from the wharf where tourist attraction the TSS Ernslaw steamship docks.The owner of Auckland's SkyCity casino last week did a deal with the government to build ...

  • Google Glass makes you look like a complete dork

    This just in from Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, where Christchurch man Ben Kepes has been trying company's prototype camera-equipped smart glasses. "Having spent a few hours walking around San Francisco's Moscone center wearing, and trying to use, Google Glass, I'm less worried by the privacy impacts of the device than I am the sartorial impacts," the ...

  • MPs debate petrol tax bill

    Petrol price's downward trip could be over Patience is wearing thin in Parliament as MPs continue to debate a bill to hike petrol tax. The Customs and Excise Amendment Bill is having its third and final reading, under urgency. It will mean petrol tax will rise three cents per litre in July of each of the next three years. The Government says the hike is needed to help fund roading ...

  • Car crashes into canal

    Photo / File A man has been hospitalised with moderate injuries after his car went into a canal in South Auckland. Police and ambulance services were called to the scene on Island Rd in Mangere just before 4pm. The man was taken by ambulance to Middlemore Hospital for treatment, a St John Ambulance northern communication centre spokesman ...

  • Coercive Moves Disguised as Workshops

    Saturday, 18 May 2013, 3:24 pm Press Release: Quake Outcasts Coercive Moves Disguised as "Workshops"Christchurch- The government, through CERA and the quake organisation CanCern released a letter to Canterbury residential "red zone" residents. The letter suggests there will be "workshops" for people to "discuss their concerns" and is targeted at ...

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