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A growing demand for Polynesian players in tough, physical football codes played around the world will ultimately lead to more tragedy, unless professional sports bodies reconsider their view of young Pacific Island athletes. "Pacific Islanders have become the most prodigious and prevalent ethnic...
Children's birthday parties are becoming increasingly elaborate affairs and now a request from a Wellington boy for his hero, Maui, to perform at his fourth birthday party, has his parents stumped. Te P o Atarau Cormack is such a fan of Maui, it was the first word he said. Now his parents have the...
Chanelle Taupo sat at her uncle's home in Melbourne listening to the phone call that she prayed was a joke. There had been a crash, she was told. Three of them were dead. Another was on life support at Middlemore Hospital. Dominic Stehlin, her partner and the father of her unborn child, was the...
Restaurant staff were unable to contain a devastating Queenstown fire because extinguishers hadn't been recharged after a fire a few days earlier. Southern region fire safety officer Stuart Ide said Fat Badgers pizza restaurant staff used extinguishers from the restaurant and upstairs bar The World...
The girlfriend of a West Coast man who died in a fire yesterday says the love for their two young children is all that is holding her together. The body of Ben McBride, 25, was found by volunteer firefighters in the early hours of yesterday in a shed at the back of the house he shared with Renee...
God has been pulled from the classrooms of dozens of state schools in the past two years, as experts call for children to be taught about a wider range of faiths and values. More than 50 state schools have cancelled Bible-based education in school hours since 2011, with a lack of teaching volunteers...
