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02 Nov Govt not rushing to make Foreshore and Seabed changes (The New Zealand Herald)

Posted at 09:01h in News, Posts

The prime minister says the government will repeal the Foreshore and Seabed legislation but it will not be rushed. Mr Key told this afternoon's post-Cabinet news conference that it's important first to work out what to replace it with and that process could take months...

29 Oct Truancy warnings fall on deaf ears (The Australian)

Posted at 09:07h in News, Posts

A Report on a trial in four Cape York communities, in which parents of children who do not attend school are counselled, shows that more than half of those whose conduct is questioned ignore the initial counselling. But that is the only negative identified in...

29 Oct The Last of the Reindeer Herders (Al Jazeera)

Posted at 09:04h in News, Posts

Anders Kroik, one of the last of the Sami reindeer herders, must herd his reindeer to their winter grazing land or they would starve in an environment of minus 30 degrees, but for the past few years these forests have been at the front-line in...