Dave Cadman Race Relations Minister Trevor Mallard regards himself as an indigenous New Zealander because he comes from Wainuiomata. Pardon? I had a pakeha friend once who thought it was okay for him to tell Maori jokes because he came from Whangarei. Is that the same thing? The comment was made in a speech entitled “We are all New Zealanders now” (what we were before Trev pointed that out I don’t know) to the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand studies at Victoria University. In the same speech…
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Recent research into the effectiveness of grassroots crime prevention initiatives match the experiences of the Karori community patrol. A Canterbury University sociology and anthropology student worked…
Tricker calls it a day
After a rumour mill surrounded Don Tricker about his pending retirement since the successes of last summer, the Black Sox coach supreme pitched-up his decision and struck-out for good last week. The…
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