Ed's View
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Just when you thought it couldn't get worse
If last week's news of a decent honest man being knifed and killed for going to the aid of a woman asking for help wasn't enough to prove that New Zealand society is going horrifically downhill, then the story making headlines all over the country today...
Tue, September 30, 2008, 1:11 pm EST -
NZ has gone to the dogs
A hero is dead and it's official: this country has gone to the...
Fri, September 26, 2008, 12:07 pm EST -
Gangs and the Treaty
There has been outrage this week after members of the Black Power gang lodged a Treaty of Waitangi...
Fri, September 19, 2008, 4:44 pm EST -
What's happening Stateside
While our own Parliament is yet to call an election, the race to the White House over in the States is heating...
Wed, September 10, 2008, 4:29 pm EST -
Drugs and prisons
It's been a busy month for prisons around the...
Thu, September 4, 2008, 10:46 am EST -
A week of Winston
I'd rather not devote more time to the rambling saga of Winston Peters and his endless soundbites, but he's been in the headlines all week and deserves a...
Fri, August 29, 2008, 4:27 pm EST -
Police cop their share
Every now and then there's a story that proves that the boys and girls in blue are getting things...
Fri, August 22, 2008, 12:26 pm EST -
Parade is nothing to Crow about
As most of the country is rugging up to keep warm, porn "king" Steve Crow has successfully fought for the right to send a parade of topless women down Auckland's main...
Tue, August 19, 2008, 11:59 pm EST -
Egg on National's face
I wrote on Monday that the heat was on certain members of the National Party after some rather candid quotes were leaked out of their conference by some enterprising individual with a tape recorder.Now National are trying to deflect attention from the...
Fri, August 8, 2008, 12:30 pm EST -
It's ours... for now
Winston must be thrilled. For the moment, the heat is off him and his donation saga, as all eyes are on National and the raft of policies and plans they unveiled at their conference over the...
Mon, August 4, 2008, 12:05 pm EST -
Small town shenanigans
Poor old Dannevirke. The tiny town, population 6200, seems to be having some sort of identification...
Fri, July 25, 2008, 2:35 pm EST -
Two very different kidnappings
This week has seen the end of one kidnapping story and the beginning of another - and they couldn't be more different...
Fri, July 18, 2008, 10:31 am EST -
Everyone's talking about...
The news everyone's discussing this week is the allegation that TV and radio personality Tony Veitch assaulted his former partner in 2006 - and paid her $100,000 to keep...
Thu, July 10, 2008, 12:12 pm EST -
The week in news reviewed
Parents around the country this week may well be checking their children's pupils after revelations a group of nine-year-olds were caught smoking a joint at their Rotorua primary school. The school has dealt with them in what sounds like a reasonable...
Wed, July 2, 2008, 4:22 pm EST
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