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Current Affairs

Spam kings: NZ Post

NZ Post want to sell your private information to companies so they can spam you.

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 16 July 2009 0 comments

Blown up, out of all proportion

A very long time ago a chap in England tried to blow up the Parliament — Guy Fawkes failed and since then it’s been routine to burn wads of cash every 5 November in the form of gunpowder and other explosives. Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; As a kid [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 5 November 2006 0 comments

Money on the waterfront

Oh boy! The news today tells us that our rather lovely waterfront is to be spoiled by a Hilton Hotel: Waterfront Investments plans to build a 5-star, glass-fronted hotel for the international Hilton chain. The Council’s hearing committee received more than 1,000 submissions, largely opposed to the hotel. [Via NewsWire.] Meanwhile, I actually went skating [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 19 September 2006 0 comments

Royals decline in the Pacific

It doesn’t seem a very good time to be royalty in the Pacific these days. In early July 2006: Tongan royals killed in car crash: Two members of Tonga’s royal family have been killed in a car crash during a visit to the United States.Prince Tu’ipelehake, Princess Kaimana and their driver died when a teenager [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 16 August 2006 0 comments

Japan kills adult and baby whales

Bad enough Japan persists in hunting whales, without reading this too: Japan Reports High Rate Of Pregnancy In Hunted Whales: A Japanese Government report has revealed that 70% of whales killed by the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic over summer were pregnant. The report reveals that 224 of the 391 minke females and two [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 25 July 2006 0 comments

Winter storms hang about

New Zealand’s a bit of fragile country: it’s small for starters — from Invercargill to North Cape is about 2,100 Kilometres. The South Island is narrow, with mountains the length of it. The North Island is wider in the middle, but has plenty of mountains dotted about. The AA has maps and distance calculators. It’s [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 22 June 2006 0 comments

NZ Olympian archer dies

I was sorry to read today that Neroli Fairhall has died. Fairhall won a gold medal in Brisbane in 1982 in the only time archery has been included in the Commonwealth Games. She also was the first paraplegic to compete in the Olympic Games at Los Angeles in 1984 and was awarded an OBE for [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 12 June 2006 0 comments

Wild weather in New Zealand

We get some great skiing in New Zealand, with mountains running the length of the South Island and dotted about the North Island. Snow to ground level is always a newsworthy event though. Today a massive storm is lashing the country. We’re somewhat sheltered in our house as there’s a hill between us and the [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 12 June 2006 0 comments

TV ad removed as offensive and malicious

Most TV ads are just a nuisance, with some being annoying or awful, for one reason or another and a very few being enjoyable and entertaining. Last month though I saw one that I found simply shocking, nasty and offensive: a couple getting ready for work in the morning were attempting to kill one another. [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 12 May 2006 4 comments

Domination vs the creative

Apparently five women in conservative Saudi Arabia underwent sex change surgery abroad because they were sick of their male dominated and repressive society. Well, good on them, if that’s what they need to do. What I find particularly interesting is the response of the authorities: they graciously don’t arrest these ‘offenders’ and are worried about [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Current Affairs 9 April 2006 0 comments

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