The Mt Wellington Warriors league club made a stand against pokie money. It ripped the machines out of its Thompson Park clubrooms and turned its back on trust grants. “A lot of the parents can’t buy boots for their kids. They are saying they haven’t got the money, and that they can’t get them to Read more
Auckland vicar Glynn Cardy says the Anglican Church is in danger of becoming a moral dinosaur and is increasingly seen as irrelevant with the passing of the Gay Marriage Bill. He said that with the passing of same gender marriage law, the state had moved well ahead of the church. His comments come a week Read more
Campaigners battling to save the earthquake-damaged ChristChurch Cathedral have taken their case to the highest court in the country. The Court of Appeal last month ruled that demolition of the building could go ahead. But the bulldozers won’t be allowed to roll over the stricken Christchurch landmark just yet after the Great Christchurch Buildings Trust Read more
Representatives from throughout the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki have selected a nominee to be the 7th Anglican Bishop Bishop of Waikato. The name was the outcome of prayer, discussion, and voting, at an Electoral College that began on Friday evening at Southwell School in Hamilton and concluded last Sunday afternoon. Continue reading
The Law Commission is calling on Parliament to update century-old legislation governing incorporated societies. The commission says the 23,000 societies play a vital role in the social fabric of New Zealand and cover everything from chess clubs to the New Zealand Rugby Union. But it says rules covering conflicts of interest and dispute resolution need Read more
A new Pacific islands forum will seek to challenge the Australasian dominance in a regional body. The new grouping’s approach is being billed the ‘Pacific Way’, and also the ‘green and blue’ way for its commitment to environmentally sustainable oceans as well as land. The new Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) challenges the Pacific Island Read more
Anjum Rahman will never forget watching a man wave his fists in front of her as she drove down a street. She hadn’t done anything wrong – the Muslim mum-of-two was just wearing her headscarf. Instances of verbal abuse followed the intimidating experience, as some Kiwis reacted angrily to Muslim protests about cartoons published in Read more
A 58-year-old Vietnamese monk on the premises at the time was assaulted and then handcuffed before the offenders fled. Police currently investigating the “particularly nasty” assault were asking the public for assistance to help identify the three offenders involved. Three suspects are being searched for. Continue reading
A Catholic nun has been ordered to undergo anger management counselling after breaking a girl’s arm when the 9-year-old did not follow instructions at Sunday school. Leva-i-Fangalupe Fono, known as Sister Leva, was also sentenced in Auckland District Court this week to 300 hours of community work, 12 months of supervision and ordered to pay Read more
Only a handful of Marlborough pupils attend secondary boarding schools outside the district, Ministry of Education figures show. The number of Marlborough boys attending St Bede’s College in Christchurch peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when boys slept 60 to a room, but parents now demanded privacy says Rector Justin Boyle. Boyle says Read more