Lawmakers voted 119-1 in favour of the bill, which bans military-style semi-automatic rifles
James Horwill says he’s taking no comfort from Australia’s recent success against South Africa ahead of their Rugby World Cup quarterfinal clash.
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/ 19 September 2011
New Zealand’s famous war dance was in danger of losing its potency because it was being performed too often, says Peter de Villiers.
Fiji says they refuse to be intimidated by SA’s lineup for Saturday’s World Cup match, and the Boks’ list of injured player won’t make them complacent
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/ 4 September 2011
Sex workers in New Zealand expect to be rushed off their feet as 95 000 fans arrive for the Rugby World Cup, with brothels doubling condom orders.
The New Zealand government has announced the end of a 10-year moratorium on aquaculture on the South Island.
New Zealand on Tuesday said the latest Christchurch earthquake had confirmed fears that thousands of homes in the city would have to be abandoned.
Huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts in Tonga, contributing to its obesity epidemic.
While the Crusaders’ match at Twickenham on Sunday was an on-field success, the New Zealand club says it was not the financial lifeline it hoped for.
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/ 13 December 2010
Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.
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/ 18 October 2010
The Oceania Football Confederation will cooperate with a Fifa probe into allegations its president offered to sell his vote for the 2018 World Cup.
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/ 27 September 2010
Filmmaker Peter Jackson threatened on Monday to move the production of <i>The Hobbit</i> from New Zealand over a dispute with an actors’ union.
New Zealand on Thursday marked one year out from the Rugby World Cup, with one of the host cities still reeling from a huge earthquake.
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/ 14 September 2009
Energy giants Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil on Monday agreed to develop Australia’s massive Gorgon field.
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/ 10 December 2008
Australian cricket legend Shane Warne on Wednesday threw his support behind a musical stage show that presents a warts-and-all account of his career.
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/ 10 December 2007
When Jhiymy Mhiyles arrived in Sydney homeless and broke during the 2000 Olympic Games, he decided he liked Bondi beach so much that he set up camp on the cliffs overlooking the famous stretch of sand. He’s stayed there ever since, enjoying million-dollar views from a surfside squat made of tarpaulins and rope.
Huddled around a campfire in a community deemed unworthy of inclusion on Australia’s official maps, Aboriginal elder Dick Brown reflects on a vote that ended the practice of counting his people among Australia’s flora and fauna. "We thought that it would change for the better," Brown says without rancour when asked about the 40th anniversary of a landmark vote that recognised Aborigines as full Australian citizens for the first time.
Olympic champions South Africa backed up their pre-Games taunts towards Australia on Thursday with a Commonwealth Games record swimming performance in the 4x100m men’s relay that ended the host nation’s 28-year stranglehold on the event.
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/ 29 December 2005
2006 will be a make-or-break year for airlines with big expansion plans in the Asian region, the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation said in its annual outlook report. With an unprecedented number of aircraft ordered by Asian airlines for delivery in 2007, the Sydney-based industry research group said next year represented "the quiet before the storm"..