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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.

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Waterfront watchers take council to court

Mar 4th, 2010 | By Jonathan Tringham | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, Uncategorized

At stake, say protesters, is the public’s right to have a say.

Tags: council, kumitoto, protest, queen's wharf, Variation 11, waterfront Buildings, Waterfront Watch, Wellington City Council, wellington waterfront, wellingtonians
Posted in Front Page Layout, Latest News, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Loyal listeners protest threat to RadioNZ

Feb 25th, 2010 | By Newswire Team | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News

Hundreds demonstrate against government RNZ funding freeze.

Tags: broadcasting, Clare Curren, funding freeze, Grant Robertson, Green party, labour, National Government, new zealand, newswire, NZ Parliament, parliament protest, Peter Dunne, protest, public broadcaster, radio, radio new zealand, radio nz, Russel Norman, Sue Kedgley, United Future, wellington, whitireia, Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Whitireia Journalism School, Whitireia Polytechnic
Posted in Front Page Layout, Latest News, News | 4 comments

Bikoi crowd chants clear message against fee rise

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Newswire Team | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News

Thousands of motorcyclists revved up about ACC changes.

Tags: ACC, bikeoi, Brent Hutchison, motorcycling, Nick Smith, parliament, Peter McIntosh, protest, Ulysses Club, wellington
Posted in Front Page Layout, Latest News, News | No Comments »

Locals join global call to free ‘Cuban five’

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Adam Gosney | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News

Eleven years on, support remains for five so-called spies.

Tags: American foreign policy, Antonio Guerrero, Barack Obama, Cuban Five, Fernando González, Free the five committee, Geraldo Hernandez, Julie Web-Pullman, Obama, protest, Ramón Labañino, René González, terrorism, terrorist groups, Wellington Cuba Friendship Society
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Hundreds turn out to back ’shameful’ protest

Jun 24th, 2009 | By Carl Suurmond | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, Multimedia, News

The protest about pay parity for women. WITH SLIDESHOW.

Tags: carl suurmond, Catherine Delahunty, council trade unions, CTU, engineering printing and manufacturing, epmu, Green party, helen kelly, march, new zealand educational institute, NZEI, pansy wong, parliament, pay equity, protest, rally, Sue Moroney, wellington
Posted in Front Page Layout, Latest News, Multimedia, News | 2 comments

‘Sewage leaked through my walls’ says student

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Jessica Dixon | Category: Latest News, News

Wellington students want $1000 compo from hostel-owner.

Tags: ING, Joel Cosgrove, protest, Unicomm, Victoria University, VUWSA, wellington
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VIDEO: Uni students’ hostel protest coverage

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Luke Appleby | Category: Latest News, News

Video coverage of Victoria Uni student hostel protest on Willis St.

Tags: Joel Cosgrove, protest, Unicomm, Victoria University, VUWSA, Willis Street
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Video: Truckers take over Wellington for protest

Jul 4th, 2008 | By Newswire Team | Category: Multimedia

Voice-over: Katrina King. Reporting by: Nicola Tod, Luke Appleby, Aaron Caskey and Jenny Meyer

Tags: convoy, fuel prices, new zealand, protest, road charges, truckers, wellington
Posted in Multimedia | 1 Comment »

In Pictures: More truck protest

Jul 4th, 2008 | By Jim Tucker | Category: Picture story

A cyclist is dwarfed by the convoy behind him as he waits at the traffic lights on the corner of Dixon and Taranaki Sts in Central Wellington. (Picture: Sarah Coddington)

A lone protestor on the Wellington waterfront disagrees with the truckies’ case. (Picture: Jenny Meyer)

The trucks back up along Wellington’s Jervois Quay. (Picture: Jenny Meyer)

The convoy [...]

Tags: protest, ruc, truckies, trucks
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Police ‘very pleased with everyone’ at protest

Jul 4th, 2008 | By Paul McBeth | Category: Uncategorized

Traffic ran smoothly through the Wellington CBD earlier today as truck drivers sent a convoy down the motorway to protest outside Parliament.
Excellent co-operation from the public was cited as the main reason why the protest did not cause too many traffic delays, say police.
Kaye Calder, Wellington Police spokesperson, says they had encouraged commuters to come [...]

Tags: kaye calder, police, protest, truckers, wellington
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