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DOC land mining review widened
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MINING PLANS: Forest & Bird claims the Government is planning to allow mining in 7000 hectares of conservation land in the West Coast's Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula. ...
Release mining document now, says LabourTVNZ
Key refuses to confirm mining plansNew Zealand Herald
PM won't confirm reports of mining plansNational Business Review
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Wind and snow forecast
Otago Daily Times
An abrupt drop in temperatures and a dusting of snow on high ground is being predicted by the MetService for Otago today. A cold front is to move over the South Island today bringing winds gusting to 100kmh along the coast from Dunedin to Christchurch ...
Cold front set to hit South IslandNew Zealand Herald
Temperatures due to plungeStuff.co.nz

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Voxy
Power to represent NZ at UN
TVNZ
The Justice Minister represents New Zealand on Tuesday at the United Nations' Human Rights Committee in New York. Simon Power expects to face a range of questions while presenting our fifth periodic report under the International covenant on civil and ...
Commission Welcomes Justice Minister's Appearance At UNVoxy
Anthony Ravlich: Freedom from our social prisonsScoop.co.nz
Simon Power's UN Trip A Truth TestScoop.co.nz (press release)
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Australian Antarctic Division
Bridget Vercoe: Whaling cop-out will bring an ocean of discontent
New Zealand Herald
Bizarrely, New Zealand, whose priority has always been the conservation and protection of whales, is now considering supporting a deal which would see the ban on commercial whaling overturned in return for Japan ...
Whale expedition lays down challenge to JapanStuff.co.nz
Non-lethal research on whales proven - joint teamRadio New Zealand
Non-lethal whale researchNewstalk ZB
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New Zealand Herald
Rower not keen on repeating crossing
TVNZ
After spending his first 24 hours on land in more than 50 days rower Shaun Quincey says he would not like to repeat his trans-Tasman crossing. Back on land the phone has been glued to Quincey's ear with everyone wanting to know how he made it through ...
Rower credits Dad's wise words for transtasman featNew Zealand Herald
Rower's porridge dietStuff.co.nz
Shaun Quincey reflects on his Tasman crossing3News
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Albatross depends on weather
Newstalk ZB
The weather will be the key factor in helping a giant albatross stranded in Wellington make it back home. The female northern royal albatross blew in during Friday's storm and was found injured in the backyard of a Wainuiomata home. ...
Albatross crash-lands in fierce stormTVNZ
Storm blows albatross into suburban yardStuff.co.nz

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3News
Englishman charged after stabbing
Otago Daily Times
An English tourist has been arrested and charged in relation to a stabbing at the Glenorchy Holiday Park early on Sunday. Detective Sergeant Grahme Bartlett said a 53-year-old Englishman, in New Zealand on a visitors' permit, had been charged with ...
Man charged over camper stabbingStuff.co.nz
Man stabbed in campground cooking rowNew Zealand Herald
Violent twist to stag doStuff.co.nz
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Otago Daily Times
Man charged after alleged domestic incident
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In the Christchurch District Court yesterday, Cody Derek Martin, 23, a labourer, of Mairehau, faced 18 charges after an alleged domestic-violence incident on Saturday night. Police allege a car driven ...
Man used car to ram ambulance, police allegeNew Zealand Herald
Charges laid against Cody Derek MartinStuff.co.nz
Ambulance hit by carNew Zealand Herald
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Worker killed as rubbish truck reverses down Mangere drive
New Zealand Herald
A worker on a South Auckland household rubbish truck was killed yesterday after being hit by the vehicle as it was reversing. The truck, owned by Manukau City Council contractor Alpha Refuse Collections, had nosed into a driveway ...
Pedestrian hit by car diesStuff.co.nz
Man killed in truck accidentNew Zealand Police (press release)

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3News
Radiographers' industrial action affecting 14 DHBs
Radio New Zealand
Industrial action by radiographers has now spread to 14 district health boards, but their union says patient welfare will be minimally affected. The union, APEX, began action at five district health boards in February, after unsuccessful negotiations ...
Counties Manukau radiographers go on strikeTVNZ
Strike threat to hospital treatmentNew Zealand Herald
South Auckland radiographers take industrial action3News
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3News
Coolstore firefighter back in front line
TVNZ
Nearly two years after he was critically injured in the fatal Hamilton coolstore fire, David Beanland is back in the frontline of firefighters at the weekend tackling a major blaze in a city boatyard. The fire at Tristram Marine in Te Rapa Park ...
Fire won't delay boat launchWaikato Times
Tristram Marine vows to rebuildStuff.co.nz
Huge fire at boat-building plantNew Zealand Herald
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Guilty verdict for Dean Wickliffe
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A jury at Tauranga District Court took less than three hours last week to find life parolee Wickliffe, 61, guilty of one count of possession for supply of the controlled drug 1,4-butanediol, commonly known as One4B, after a three-day jury trial ...
Wickliffe guilty on drugsThe Bay of Plenty Times

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Cardno's killer denied parole
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The man who kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered Lower Hutt teen Karla Cardno has been declined parole. Paul Joseph Dally, has already served 20 years of a life prison sentence, but is considered too dangerous ...
Karla Cardno's killer refused paroleNew Zealand Herald

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Otago Daily Times
Marijuana-and-Steinlager mentality drivers
NZ City
A culture of mixing drugs with alcohol is being blamed as the main reason for so many drink-drive deaths on East Coast roads. Gisborne and East Coast regions have seven times the rate compared with the rest of New Zealand. Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon says ...
Drink-crash capitalGisborne Herald

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The Daily Post
head 'kicked like a rugby ball'
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An eyewitness to an attack on Bay of Plenty school principal and Environment Bay of Plenty councillor Hawea Vercoe says his head was kicked like a rugby ball. The 36-year-old Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Rotoiti principal died after allegedly being ...
WITNESS ACCOUNTS IN MURDER CASE: Victim 'kicked like rugby ball'The Daily Post

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Abandoned dinghy prompts search
New Zealand Herald
An abandoned and upturned dinghy near Whirinaki that sparked a two-hour search has angered police. Two Hastings fishermen failed to inform emergency services after they abandoned the 3-metre runabout when it was sucked out to sea in a botched launch ...
Abandoned boat sparks two-hour searchTVNZ
Abandoned RunabaoutVoxy

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Sunday Star Times
Rugby World Cup sculpture unveiled
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SMALL BEGINNING: Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast and Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor with the miniature of a sculpture which has been proposed as a centre piece for Wellington's hosting of the 2010 Rugby World Cup. ...
Sculpture model being unveiledNZ City
Why not Lamesville or Proud to be Second-Rate?The Dominion Post

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BigPond News
Antarctic Whale Expedition Returns
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The world's largest, non-lethal whale research expedition has returned from Antarctic waters with a range of new information that will help inform future marine mammal conservation. Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett said that the joint ...
Non lethal whale research team returnSydney Morning Herald

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Man dies in funeral cortege crash
Stuff.co.nz
A Taranaki man riding in a family convoy to Northland to rebury the remains of his father was killed on Friday night, when his motorbike ploughed into a bank. Ronald James Rupapera, 49, from Eltham, was one of four to die on the weekend roads. ...
Tragedy hits Taranaki familyTaranaki Daily News

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3News
Sex offender met girls on Bebo
TVNZ
A man who sexually abused schoolgirls he met through a social networking website has been sentenced to home detention and community work. Douglas Charles Segetin, 23, had met two 14-year-old girls through social networking website Bebo early last year, ...
Man abused schoolgirlsStuff.co.nz

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