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They are the fourth service and we will remember them

Sep 3rd, 2010 | By Michelle Cooper | Category: Featured Article, News

The first New Zealand national merchant navy day was celebrated by a service held at the Wellington National War Memorial, reports MICHELLE COOPER.



Lower Hutt can tab collectors up to 38,600 and they’re still counting

Aug 20th, 2010 | By Anita De Muth | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Chilton St James School students know how to count to 38,600 – that’s how many aluminium drink can tabs they have, reports ANITA DE MUTH.



Whitireia Independent Students Association – how saga unfolded

Aug 20th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

NewsWire has carried detailed coverage of the events surrounding revelations that the Whitireia Independent Students’ Association’s financial affairs got into a mess last year.

Turn to this page to get links to our stories:

# Auditor: student body books ‘a big mess’.
# Polytech says it’s there to help students.
# Problems with NZ student groups common.
# Onus on association to be transparent.
# Whitireia head yet to see student accounts.
# We want our money back, say aggrieved students.
# Student body mess a ‘tragedy’ for Whitireia.
# No milk, no sugar…no hope.
# Student association inquiry may take months.
# Acting president not giving up on crippled association.
# Student exec member felt ‘out of the loop’.



Kadine the Kiwi ‘birthday present’ a gift to the nation

Jul 22nd, 2010 | By Kate Melzer | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Patty Kilpatrick thought finding a birthday present for husband John’s 50th would be hard – he wanted a kiwi, reports KATE MELZER.



Wellington buses trialling NZ developed ‘green’ diesel

Jul 22nd, 2010 | By Kate Melzer | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

Four city buses have no black smoke coming out their back ends, all because of a new kind of fuel developed in the Hutt, reports KATE MELZER.



The anatomy of a Saturday late night suburban car crash

Jul 7th, 2010 | By Josie Glasson | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

‘His parking needs some work,’ the fireman said to JOSIE GLASSON after her neighbourhood peace was broken by a crash.



Dead harbour: North Island’s biggest estuary ‘very sick indeed’

Jun 30th, 2010 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Porirua Harbour was once a major source of seafood. Now it’s dying, reports CATHERINE McGREGOR.



Comedian Dai Henwood: One line can drive the whole show

Jun 29th, 2010 | By Kate Melzer | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

Dai Henwood is everywhere these days. After a recent live show in Wellington, he chats with KATE MELZER on acting up.



Just a regular guy – with his finger on Upper Hutt’s pulse

Jun 29th, 2010 | By Tory Regan | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Running a community pharmacy served as his training ground, says Upper Hutt’s plain-talking mayor, Wayne Guppy. TORY REGAN penned this portrait.



Four-way tie for Kapiti art prize settled by last few votes

Jun 23rd, 2010 | By Tanya Wood | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Just one vote separated Amanda Sattler from three other artists when she won the people’s choice award at Waikanae’s Mahara Gallery. TANYA WOOD reports.



Cartoonists defend drawing Prime Minister with a big nose

Jun 16th, 2010 | By Greg Ford | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

A Wellington Jewish community leader says some cartoons of John Key with a big nose are offensive, reports GREG FORD.



Wellington airport copper ‘pumpkins’ get their outer skin

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Copper cladding roof goes on new international terminal, which is due to open in September, report SAM GUZZO and OWEN WINTER.



Wellington boy racers find ways round police crackdown

May 24th, 2010 | By Sarah Cullen | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News, Picture story

Wellington’s boy racers have caught on to strategies being used by police in their attempts to shut down the local drag racing circuit, reports SARAH CULLEN.



Welly underbelly: world’s ‘best’ brothels not what they seem

May 6th, 2010 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Wellington has its own brand of “underbelly”. TASHA BLACK reveals our local version doesn’t live up to a UK TV doco view that it’s the “world’s best”.



Top Whitireia student entries vied for 2010 Canon Photo Award

May 4th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Picture story

Some great photographs were entered in this year’s Canon Photo Award for best student photographer at Whitireia Journalism School.



Tricky Dick in the White House among memories of long career

Apr 30th, 2010 | By Liz Proctor | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Apollo space launches, famous funerals and a pen from a notorious president rate highly when radio man Terry Brown reflects on his life as a journalist. By LIZ PROCTOR.



Inspired young Pasifika people will ‘make changes for themselves’

Apr 29th, 2010 | By Janice Ikiua | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Victoria University leadership exponent Kabini Sanga says new leaders of the Pacific are already emerging. JANICE IKIUA talks to a father of Pacific leadership.



Logan Brown’s chef’s a master at restaurant, home and BBQ food

Apr 29th, 2010 | By Kara Lok | Category: Featured Article, Features

KARA LOK finds cooking makes the world go round for Shaun Clouston, the man behind the award-winning menu at Wellington restaurant Logan Brown.



Nurturing 100% pure New Zealand

Apr 28th, 2010 | By Simon Bunny | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

He’s not saving kakapo or kiwi but it’s work he says is just as important. And visitors to his Wellington native plant haven appreciate the results, Tom Petrie tells SIMON BUNNY.



Gentle teacher conveys the exacting art of calligraphy

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Tasha Black | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Diversity, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

New Zealanders respond well to the teachings of the country’s only grandmaster calligrapher. TASHA BLACK talks to Akiko Crowther about creating the perfect line.



Land of the long working day: Travellers’ insights on Japan

Apr 26th, 2010 | By Jess Jones | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

Two Wellingtonians explore their Japanese connections and reflect on travels in a country they love, in conversation with JESS JONES.



A teenage view on nana’s wheels

Apr 19th, 2010 | By Benjamin Strang | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Opinion, Student Features

Your modern teen hopes like heck he can look cool even when driving his gran’s small car. Is this remotely possible in a Sirion or a Getz or will the iCar rule the roost, asks BEN STRANG.



Blink throws fests that are the best

Apr 15th, 2010 | By Chris Armstrong | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

How a teetotal music fiend and not-for-profit entrepreneur from Wellington creates events that inspire the loyalty of a whole ’scene’. By CHRIS ARMSTRONG.



Play it really loud – eh?

Apr 15th, 2010 | By Tory Regan | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

TORY REGAN talks to a young musician about the ‘listen loud and lose it’ message and how exposure to high-volume music has already affected him.



A lifetime covering politics

Apr 9th, 2010 | By Vaughan Elder | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Ian Templeton, an institution in the Parliamentary press gallery, shares some insights with VAUGHAN ELDER.



The Kiwi softball enthusiast who calls the Czechs mate

Apr 7th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Sport, Student Features

Wellingtonian Lawrence Allen is instrumental in the sporting ties between New Zealand and the Czech Republic. The Island Bay softballer is interviewed by SIMON BUNNY.



Capital’s wartime history lesson buried in Karori hillside

Apr 1st, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

What lies beneath Wrights Hill in the Wellington suburb of Karori is revealed on only a few days of the year. ANZAC Day is one of them. AMIE HICKLAND reports.



Whakapapa, tikanga, whanau – that’s what Maori rugby is all about

Apr 1st, 2010 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Sport, Student Features

As Maori rugby prepares to celebrate 100 years, LEE STACE explores what is being done to grow Maori participation in rugby and what Maori players learn from the experience.



Slaughter on the news-stands – why our mags are in trouble

Mar 27th, 2010 | By Daniel Simmons Ritchie | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Where have all the readers gone? DANIEL SIMMONS RITCHIE talks to the kings and queens of glossy print.



Have camera, will travel – life of our top rugby photographer

Mar 27th, 2010 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Features, Sport

LEE STACE finds veteran rugby photographer Peter Bush has as many stories to tell as he does pictures to illustrate them.



Kōiwi tangata: A long way home to where the heart is

Mar 24th, 2010 | By Amanda Kirby | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

When Te Papa brings home ancestral remains, it is a long process to ensure they reach the appropriate final resting place. AMANDA KIRBY reports.



Maori women feel ill effects of virulent pokies plague

Mar 24th, 2010 | By Penelope Scott | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

PENELOPE SCOTT goes into the pokie dens to talk to those worst affected by the lure of gambling – Maori women.



Changing the world – one baby cuddle at a time

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By Sarah Hardie | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

SARAH HARDIE meets Mandi Lynn, the teacher, consultant, nurse and photographer behind the ‘Boobs in the Berries’ breastfeeding class taught in a tepee in the Akatarawa Valley.



$15 too much to ask? Minimum wage hits more Maori in pocket

Mar 19th, 2010 | By Vaughan Elder | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout

Maori are over-represented among low-paid workers. VAUGHAN ELDER takes a look at Maori views of the minimum wage.



Can the click of a mouse save public broadcasting? Maybe…

Mar 12th, 2010 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

EXPRESSING your opinion these days is easier than ever. SABRINA DANKEL looks at how nearly 20,000 clicks on the web “save” Radio New Zealand.



Do sci-fi geeks dream of statuettes?

Mar 9th, 2010 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

No big bang as sci-fi comes close to a Best Picture Oscar, writes KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON.



Te Rakau or jail? Where the lost boys can go for help

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By Kara Lok | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

How do you turn around the life of a young man who’s got nowhere to go? KARA LOK found out at Te Rakau, Wellington’s Maori education and drama company.



Indian burial customs adapted for the NZ generation

Feb 26th, 2010 | By Brenda Cottingham | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

New Zealand-born Indians have added elements of Christianity from their adoptive country to their traditional funerals, reports BRENDA COTTINGHAM.



Wellington woman helping to de-mine Cambodia – from NZ

Feb 24th, 2010 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout

There are as many as six million landmines left in Cambodia from the conflicts in the 1970s. LEE STACE meets a NZ woman doing her bit to help.



Quit smoking around me please

Feb 17th, 2010 | By Benjamin Strang | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

BEN STRANG puts his case for a smoking ban on Wellington’s streets and in public places like toilets.



First sighting of Balibo Five movie made victim’s wife sick

Feb 15th, 2010 | By Tasha Black | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

Balibo film director Robert Connolly talks to TASHA BLACK about what the New Zealand and Australian governments didn’t want you to know about journalists’ deaths in East Timor.



Why I love My Chem

Feb 12th, 2010 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Cold, hard, scientific proof from KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON that My Chemical Romance are the greatest band in the world.



Bigger, better, cheaper: Rodney Hide puts bomb under councils

Jan 27th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Will Rodney Hide make the capital a Super City too? Perhaps. But local councils will certainly have to do things differently.



An anxious time for providers as health reforms take shape

Dec 18th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Health reforms, IN DEPTH, Opinion, Student Features

The Government is taking a new broom to health – and a multiplicity of small, local providers appears to conflict with its solutions. NewsWire explores smaller community services with an uncertain future.



Fear and loathing over what’s up in New Zealand’s primary schools

Dec 16th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Education reforms, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

The controversial national standards for primary schools will be introduced on the first day of school next year. Our IN DEPTH team looks at why teachers and education academics are resisting.



Climate change – PM John Key forgets his Pacific responsibilities

Dec 13th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Climate change, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, IN DEPTH

When he initially turned down going to Copenhagen, John Key forgot NZ has senior responsibilities to Pacific neighbours. Our IN DEPTH team investigates.



What to do with beach may be Nats’ biggest issue as honeymoon ends

Dec 13th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, National's first 100 days

Our IN DEPTH team finds the Foreshore and Seabed Act repeal may put an end to National’s wedded bliss with electors.



After tragedy, outdoor pursuits centre firmly on way to recovery

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Liz Proctor | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

LIZ PROCTOR found it relatively easy to see beyond a media blackout the passion OPC staff are applying to restore the centre’s reputation.



Britain says ‘ET, stay home’

Dec 10th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

The Royal Air Force have closed down its UFO hot line. KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON – who is susceptible to mysterious lights in the sky – thinks it’s the end of an era.



I’m an atheist and I’m OK

Dec 7th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Spreading the good word, atheist style, KYLIE KLEIN NIXON examines why she chooses not to believe.



Why I love It’s Not Ok! campaign

Dec 2nd, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

A news series of billboards aims the safety message in the wrong direction, says KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON It’s time to put pressure on the ones who need to change.



Where is my robot buddy?

Dec 1st, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Newsroom Blog

Technology isn’t really keeping up with the imagination, writes KYLIE KLEIN NIXON. Where are the robot buddies Science Fiction promised us?



Character of Wellington’s wild south coast needs protection

Nov 27th, 2009 | By Penelope Scott | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

The protection group looking after Te Raekaihau Pt wants this recognised in coastal rehab plan, reports PENELOPE SCOTT.



Artists mix illustration, photography, fashion and jewellery

Nov 20th, 2009 | By Jonathan Tringham | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Picture story

Woven-tales of Ink, Silver and Silk is an exhibition showcasing the work of Minu, Mairi, Sarah Dalley, Sophie Lewis-Smith, reports JONATHAN TRINGHAM.



Inner city church finds new ways to attract young people

Nov 18th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

What happens on Sunday evenings at Presbyterian St John’s in Wellington is unconventional, writes SABRINA DANKEL.



Artist Jason Munn: Haunting band poster visuals grounded in sound

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, News

In Wellington to open a career retrospective exhibition, leading US graphic designer Jason Munn talks to CATHERINE McGREGOR.



Wellington author unravels ancestor’s war-time exploits

Nov 10th, 2009 | By Sarah Hardie | Category: Featured Article, Features, Uncategorized

Stephen Harris talks to SARAH HARDIE about uncovering the story of his great-uncle’s World War II experiences.



VIDEO: Whitireia performing arts centre show was fit for a prince

Nov 9th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

‘Wonderfully evocative’ were the words Prince Edward used to describe Whitireia Performing Arts Centre. Video: CARL SUURMOND. Story: JESS JONES.



Overcoming odds – how a little rugby club became a great one

Nov 6th, 2009 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Sport

The Waikanae Rugby Club has been around for a while, but only in recent times has it become a force in the Horowhenua Kapiti competion. LEE STACE reports.



Wellingtonians get more time to have say on 30-year plan

Nov 5th, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Wellington City Council wants more input into plan that will guide Capital for next three decades, reports TASHA BLACK.



New Zealand come back to claim first day

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Latest News, News, Sport

After strong start, Pakistan find themselves in trouble



Now the cavity’s in my wallet

Nov 3rd, 2009 | By Bonnie Tai | Category: Featured Article, Features, Opinion

‘We told you so!’ BONNIE TAI explains why it’s your bad to put off that trip to the dentist.



A conversation with My Year Without Sex director Sarah Watt

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Melissa McDonald | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

My Year Without Sex is not, in fact, about the sex, Australian film director Sarah Watt reveals in an interview with MELISSA McDONALD.



Vampires are the new black

Nov 1st, 2009 | By Bonnie Tai | Category: Featured Article, Features, Opinion

Forbidden love, fangs and frantic fans – the Twilight saga has it all. NewsWire’s BONNIE TAI offers her opinion on the growing trend.



The bane of a child’s school life

Nov 1st, 2009 | By Tory Regan | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Opinion

Being bullied is not a life sentence, says TORY REGAN. Children need to know bullying will end, and be proud that they are different.



No more boozy Saturday nights, no more sausages on the barbie

Oct 29th, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

But converting to Islam has been a positive experience for five young Kiwis, who tell their stories to TASHA BLACK.



Sharing is key to web success, says leading Chinese blogger *VIDEO*

Oct 23rd, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Isaac Mao, China’s first blogger, visited Whitireia journalism students to talk blogs, the great firewall and censorship 2.0.

The NEWSWIRE TEAM took video, photos and interviewed Isaac about the concept of “sharism”.



Karaoke nights help to smooth business deals in South Korea

Oct 21st, 2009 | By Tasha Black | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News, Uncategorized

But it’s no place for a businesswoman. Dunedin CEO Brigit Blair gives TASHA BLACK her perspective on trading Korea style.



Meet your new neighbour – a four-lane expressway

Oct 13th, 2009 | By Lee Stace | Category: Featured Article, News

Marie Grant and Joan O’Dea fear they are about to either lose their homes or find themselves living next to a motorway. LEE STACE finds out about the downside of the Kapiti Coast expressway options.



Aboriginal director tells the hard stories about his community

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Kylie Klein-Nixon | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Features

Director Warwick Thornton visits Wellington to promote his first feature length film, Samson and Delilah. He speaks to KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON about community and telling the truth.



Water, water everywhere – but nothing to drink in Manila

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

SABRINA DANKEL discovers a Whitireia connection to the devastating typhoon and flood in Manila. She talks to Kaye Jujnovich about the plight of her Filipina friends.



Chathams women take hard line with men over prostate cancer

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Featured Article, News

NewsWire journalist CARL SUURMOND went to the Chathams with the Prostate Cancer Foundation last weekend. Here’s his report on how the island’s 150+ men were targeted.



Please call me Bill: how migrants choose their new NZ names

Sep 24th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Computer giant Bill Gates inspired one young newcomer to NZ to change his name to Bill, reports SABRINA DANKEL. She writes here about why some migrants take Western names.



Oscar winner will restore cinema that’s not shown a movie in 44 years

Sep 19th, 2009 | By Daniel Simmons Ritchie | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Jamie Selkirk’s pet project is a multi-million dollar revamp for the Capitol. He wants to have it open by next September, reports DANIEL SIMMONS RITCHIE.



French rooster not for the chop in Cafe Bastille’s art auction

Sep 18th, 2009 | By Melissa McDonald | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

FANS of award winning Cafe Bastille are mourning its closure – but also got a chance to buy some of its art, reports MELISSA McDONALD.



Capital’s people are much more beautiful than its buildings

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News, Picture story

WELLINGTONIANS are more beautiful than their architecture, says a Chilean photographer taking pictures of people on the capital’s buses. CARL SUURMOND took pictures of him.



Queer youth support project loses funding in government cuts

Sep 11th, 2009 | By Tory Regan | Category: Diversity, Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

A New Zealand-wide queer youth development project will close after losing $150,000 in government funding, reports TORY REGAN.



Outsiders size up big gig outside

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Reuben McDougall | Category: Arts/Entertainment, Featured Article, Front Page Layout

WELLINGTON punk-rock band The Outsiders are set to take on Europe at the end of this month with a four-week tour of Germany, the Netherlands, UK and Ireland, reports REUBEN McDOUGALL.



Bleak landscape to be transformed for community to enjoy

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Catherine McGregor | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

An under-used Waitangirua carpark is to make way for picnic areas and playgrounds. CATHERINE McGREGOR finds out why community representatives are enthusiastic.



Move over for Rover on the buses?

Sep 2nd, 2009 | By Kara Lok | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News

Should public transport users be dogged by the canine companions of fellow travellers on their way to exercise areas? In the capital, many people aren’t in favour. By KARA LOK.