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Sep 22nd, 2017 |
By Sarah McMullan |
Category: Editor's Picks, Most Popular, Top Picture
The Whitireia Team is covering the election live around Wellington. Click above for a rolling blog of updates as election night progresses.
Tags: Act Party, Bill English, Gareth Morgan, General Election 2017, Jacinda Ardern, James Shaw, journalism, Labour party, Marama Davidson, national party, new zealand, newswire, NZ, NZ First, Te Auaha, The Opportunities Party, Top, wellington, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic, Winston Peters
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Aug 26th, 2017 |
By Aimee Eastwood |
Category: Editor's Picks, Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
Year 10s at Wellington High School are looking closely at this year’s General Election
Tags: Act Party, Aimee Eastwood, clean water, Climate Change, election, election 2017, environment, equality, gender pay gap, Greens, housing crisis, journalism, Labour party, national party, parliament, politics, poverty, sexism, wellington, Wellington High School, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic, youth vote
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Aug 23rd, 2017 |
By Aimee Eastwood |
Category: Diversity, Features, Front Page Layout, Lead Story, News, Student Features
ACT’s Stephen Berry was booed at the LGBTQI Rainbow forum on Tuesday for not backing new hate speech law.
Newswire’s AIMEE EASTWOOD asked candidates after the meeting about hate speech and free speech.
Tags: Act candidate, Act Party, Brain Tamaki, community, election, free speech, government, Green MP Jan Logie, Green party, Hate Speech, homophobia, Inside Out, labour, LGBT, LGBT rights, LGBTQI, national, national party, newswire, Nicola Willis, parliament, politics, Rainbow Wellington, Stephen Berry, transphobia, wellington, Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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May 30th, 2017 |
By Sapeer Mayron |
Category: Editor's Picks, Latest News, Multimedia, News
New party gets electioneering opportunity at Victoria University
Tags: Act Party, cannabis, David Seymour. Meritira Turei, elections, Gareth Morgan, government, Green party, James Shaw, journalism, Kelburn, new zealand, parliament, politics, Q&A, questions, students society, tax reform, The Opportunities Party, universal basic income, Victoria University, VUW, wellington, youth
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Mar 19th, 2014 |
By Sam Duff |
Category: Editor's Picks, Featured Article, Features, Front Page Layout, Most Popular
There are questions about his mana, but Te Ururoa Flavell tells SAM DUFF it is better to be on the field scoring goals.
Tags: 2011 General Election, 2014 General Election, Act Party, Alliance, Auckland, Beehive, Bryce Edwards, Christchurch, community, education, election, feature, future, government, Green party, Hoani Hotene, hone harawira, Jennifer McIlroy, john key, journalism, Labour party, Levin, Mana Party, Maori, maori party, national, national party, new zealand, new zealand first, newswire, NZ, parliament, Petone, pita sharples, politics, porirua, Rangi Phillips, Sam Duff, Tariana Turia, Te Ururoa Flavell, The Conservatives, The Internet Party, United Future, wellington, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Jan 26th, 2012 |
By Newswire Team |
Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
Everything quoted from tape “deadly accurate”, says Peters.
Tags: act, Act Party, constituents, cup of tea, election, election 2011, Epsom, John Banks, john key, journalism, Journalist, media, national party, new zealand, new zealand first, newswire, older new zealanders, recording device, Reddit, social media, tea gate, tea tapes, voters, Whitireia Journalism School, Winston Peters
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Nov 28th, 2011 |
By Robbie Parkes |
Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
A slight victory for ACT but to party members, it is not enough.
Tags: Act Party, Alex Speirs, don brash, election, Epsom, John Banks, journalism, national, new zealand, newswire, NZ, parliament, politics, Stephen Whittington, wellington, Wellington City Council, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Nov 24th, 2011 |
By Robbie Parkes |
Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
Parish platform perfect pulpit for political pontificating
Tags: Act Party, Alex Spiers, beneficiary, Chris Duthie-Jung, conservative party, economy, education, election, Gordon Copeland, Green party, health, Holly Walker, Hugh Barr, Hutt South, Hutt Valley, journalism, labour, Lower Hutt, Maori, national, national party, new zealand, New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, New Zealand economy, newswire, NZ, NZ First, ohariu, parliament, Paul Quinn, Peter Mccaffrey, politics, prisons, race relations, Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Securing the Common Good, sex education, student debt, Treaty of Waitangi settlements, Trevor Mallard, Unemployment, wellington, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Nov 24th, 2011 |
By Anna Williams |
Category: Latest News, News
Hecklers’ drown out candidates at final Wellington Central.meeting
Tags: Act Party, Anna Wililams, Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Basin Reserve flyover, Copyright Law, Crossways Community Centre, general election, General Election 2011, Grant Robertson, Green party, James Shaw, Ken Rickeby, Labour party, laurence boomert, Michael Abbleby, national party, New Economics Party, newswire, party policies, paul foster-bell, Pirate Party, Stephen Whittington, wellington, Wellington Central candidates meeting, wellington central electorate, Wellington transport, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Nov 23rd, 2011 |
By Angie Mills |
Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
Anti-National Cuba St rally urges voters to cast an educated vote.
Tags: Act Party, Anne Tolley, cuba st, David Do, Dr Sandra Grey, Green party, Labour party, Mana Party, maori party, Minister of Education, MP, national party, nz union of student association, NZUSA, polytechnic, robyn hambleton, singing for non-singers, stephen day, Tertiary Education Union, TEU, Wellington High School, wellington high school adult education, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Nov 22nd, 2011 |
By Robbie Parkes |
Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
Candidate tosses in his own question for opponents.
Tags: abortion, Act Party, Alex Speirs, Archbishop John Dew, Catholic Church, Catholic Parish of Saints Peter and Paul, Catholisism, Chris Duthie-Jung, conservative party, Durex, election, Gordon Copeland, Hutt South, Hutt Valley, journalism, labour, Lower Hutt, new zealand, newswire, NZ, parliament, Peter Mccaffrey, religion, schools, Securing the Common Good, sex education, sex education in schools, teaching, Trevor Mallard, wellington, Wellington City Council, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
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Apr 2nd, 2011 |
By Jonathan Chilton-Towle |
Category: Features, Front Page Layout, Lead Story, Student Features
The ACT party’s Freedom of Association bill – heading into its final stages in Parliament – could destroy student unions as we know them.
JONATHAN CHILTON-TOWLE talks to both sides of a debate about the world’s last surviving compulsory unions.
Tags: act, Act Party, Aishling Reilly, Alex Abernethy, compulsory union membership, David Do, debate, Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, freedom of association, Heather Roy, Liam Grandy, Michelle Cooper, new zealand, newswire, Noelle Fynmore, NZ, nz government, NZUSA, parliament, Salient, Victoria University, Victoria University Student Association, voluntary union membership, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School
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Oct 13th, 2010 |
By Tanya Wood |
Category: Featured Article, Front Page Layout, News
Mana by-election takes place on November 20. ALICE PETRIE reports on the efforts to get young people voting while TANYA WOOD lines up the candidates.
Tags: ACT MP Colin Du Plessis, Act Party, Alliance, alliance party, Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Assistant Vice Chancellor Pasifika, Colin du Plessis, Dominion Post, Green MP Jan Logie, Green party, GST increase, Hekia Parata, Jan Logie, journalism, Julian Crawford, Kapi-Mana, Kapiti Coast, Kapiti expressway, Kelly Buchanan, Kilbirnie, Kris Faafoi, labour, Labour candidate Kris Faafoi, Labour MP Kris Faafoi, Labour party, Libertarianz, Libertarianz representative Sean Fitzpatrick, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, Mana, Mana by-election, Mana electorate, matt mccarten, national, National MP Hekia Parata, national party, new zealand, newswire, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Porou, NZ, nz minimum wage, nz trade union, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu, Paul Holmes, politics, porirua, Raumati, Scoop Business, Sean Fitzpatrick, Titahi Bay, Tokelau, Tokelauan, tvnz, Victoria University, Western Link Road, Whitby, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic, Winnie Laban
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Nov 12th, 2008 |
By Paul McBeth |
Category: Featured Article, News
The dust is settled and National has won the reins of power – PAUL McBETH looks at what they have planned for New Zealand.
Tags: Act Party, Annette King, apec, Bill English, cabinet, Chris Finlayson, cullen fund, education, EFA, electoral finance, emissions trading, fast forward fund, infrastructure, jane clifton, john key, Kiwisaver, law & order, murray mccully, national-led government, Nick Smith, no parole, nz prime minister, nz superannuation, Peter Dunne, phil goff, pita sharples, resource consent, resource management, rma, Rodney Hide, Tariana Turia, tax cuts, tertiary education commission, three strikes, tim groser
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Nov 7th, 2008 |
By Paul McBeth |
Category: Featured Article, Features
NewsWire’s resident political pundit PAUL McBETH joins the chorus of picks for Cabinet places.
Tags: Act Party, cabinet, cabinet ministers, coalition government, election 2008, Green party, jeanette fitzsimons, Labour party, mmp, national party, Peter Dunne, pita sharples, Rodney Hide, Russel Norman, steven joyce, Tariana Turia, United Future
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Nov 4th, 2008 |
By Paul McBeth |
Category: Featured Article, Features
Current polling has National sleep-walking to victory, but PAUL McBETH’s analysis shows it will be much closer than you think.
Tags: Act Party, coalition agreement, david farrar, election 2008, electoral system, FPP, Grant Robertson, Green party, Helen Clark, Jim Anderton, john key, judith tizard, Labour party, maori party, Marian Hobbs, marian simms, mmp, national party, nikki kaye, Peter Dunne, pita sharples, progressive party, Stephen Franks, United Future, voting
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Oct 17th, 2008 |
By Alexandra Johnson |
Category: Features
Mt Victoria’s Meet the Candidates meeting got off to a smoking start on Thursday night with Michael Appleby pontificating on the benefits of cannabis.
Tags: 2008 election, Act Party, Alliance, Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Central Wellington Electorate, Crossways Community Centre, Don Franks, Grant Robertson, Heather Roy, Kiwi Party, Labour Government, Labour party, Michael Appleby, Mt Victoria, national, New Crossways, Rebekah Clements, Richard Wallism, Stephen Franks, Workers Party
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