Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:23 am

Student Features

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.



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.



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.



Players learn lesson in bouncing back

Dec 18th, 2009 | By Kimberley Crayton-Brown | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

Young players prove themselves away from rugby field.



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.



German recluse gives a rare look into his life

Dec 17th, 2009 | By Sabrina Dankel | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

Karl Reipen will give away Mt Taranaki’s Mountain House.



VIDEO: Walking on Lovely Bones red carpet

Dec 15th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

There’s nothing like being in a Wellywood home crowd.



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.



Capital’s carbon zero – gone by lunchtime

Apr 20th, 2009 | By Paul McBeth | Category: Front Page Layout, Lead Story, Student Features

Wellington City declared it would be a leader in the battle against climate change but its carbon-zero goal is unrealistic, the mayor now admits.
NewsWire reporter PAUL McBETH continues his investigation.



It’s about safety for an English rose

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Being English and settling in New Zealand should be a breeze – shouldn’t it? Not necessarily, as one Wellington woman tells MELISSA KINEALY.



Maori partnership seen as ‘model’

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Amid renewed national debate about Maori representation, PAUL McBETH, KRISTINA KEOGH, CHARLOTTE HILLING and LUKE APPLEBY look into Wellington regional council’s partnership with Maori.



Niueans share gift of culture

Apr 1st, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

As part of moves to save their culture, Niueans from Wellington are on a visit to the island. BRENDA COTTINGHAM explains the value they place on the trip.



Out in the world and coping with an ‘invisible disability’

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Asperger Syndrome is more than just a troubling form of autism. REESH LYON meets a Wellingtonian who has the syndrome, to gain an insider’s guide to the condition.



Maori take softly, softly approach to Crown waterfront jewel

Mar 24th, 2009 | By William Liando | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

Maori will have soon have control of a chunk of the Wellington coast. AARON CASKEY, JESSICA DIXON, MIYUKI McGUFFIE, REESH LYON and WILLIAM LIANDO explain.



Wanted: ideas on how you can raise $1 million in a recession

Mar 23rd, 2009 | By Kristina Keogh | Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, Student Features

It took Kitty McKinley just one lecture in law school to know being a lawyer isn’t anything like law on TV. KRISTINA KEOGH talks to a youth centre manager with a big challenge.



Moa egg expert intrigued by Transylvanian find

Mar 18th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

A rare and intact moa egg has been found in a museum in Romania by a Wellington couple.

Now a Te Papa expert in taonga wants to investigate how it got there, reports REESH LYON.



Book shines light on Asian Muslims in NZ

Mar 14th, 2009 | By Alexandra Johnson | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

Adrienne Jansen talks about the Asian face of Islam in NZ.



Let us NOT have a ‘gay’ old time

Mar 14th, 2009 | By Laura Frykberg | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

Should we worry new meaning’s been given to an old word?



Vaccine prevents cervical cancer: but what about the moral issues?

Mar 14th, 2009 | By Sarah Coddington | Category: Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Student Features

A cervical cancer vaccine has raised heated debate among religious groups. So what do New Zealand’s Catholics think of Gardasil? SARAH CODDINGTON finds out.



Sensing Murder boosts ‘new age’ health care

Mar 14th, 2009 | By Melissa Kinealy | Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Latest News, Student Features

More Kiwis sidestep conventional medicine for alternatives.



Woman with a big heart for Wellington’s homeless

Mar 13th, 2009 | By Jessica Dixon | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

JESSICA DIXON finds a Wellington Good Samaritan organisation that tries to keep the hurt, the abused and the needy off the city’s streets at night.



Make my pimples go away! Govt eases access to acne-busting drug

Mar 3rd, 2009 | By Jenny Meyer | Category: Featured Article, Features, Student Features

Sufferers of severe acne no longer need a specialist to prescribe them a powerful medication. JENNY MEYER investigates.



Heart fever rates fail to fall among Maori and Pacific Island people

Feb 27th, 2009 | By Jessica Dixon | Category: Features, Student Features

Rheumatic heart fever affects Maori and PI people more than any other group. JESSICA DIXON investigates this preventable disease that haunts a quarter of the nation.



Suspension more than just skin deep, say its adherents

Feb 1st, 2009 | By Miyuki McGuffie | Category: Featured Article, Student Features

What makes a person want to be suspended above the ground with hooks through their back, chest or legs? MIYUKI MCGUFFIE investigates an activity foreign to most.