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Big News: The Great Trade Robbery
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:13 am | Dave Crampton
This week Oxfam released a report accusing the rich world of robbing the poor world of $100 billion a year by abusing the rules governing world trade. More >>
Big News: You're Just Sick
Tuesday, 9 April 2002, 9:48 am | Dave Crampton
Break open your piggy banks because it is nearly film festival time, when the incredibly strange, wonderfully weird and R-rated sex films are shown to film buffs. But this year is a little different. Public standards watchdog, the Society for the Promotion ... More >>
Big News: Paying For The Sins Of The Fathers
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 11:28 am | Dave Crampton
It’s Easter already and that must mean the Church is in the news again. Usually at Easter the media report on some Church leader denying the virgin birth of Jesus or his resurrection, but that is so common now it’s not even news. This year’s news ... More >>
Big News: Hate Crime – Don’t You Just Hate It?
Tuesday, 19 March 2002, 9:04 am | Dave Crampton
It goes on, doesn’t it. Every time a bill is drafted, it seems, something is wrong with it. The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill is the latest piece of legislation that mouths, emotions, and word processors were engaged before anybody thought of ... More >>
Big News: Hollingworth Has To Go
Monday, 25 February 2002, 10:14 am | Dave Crampton
Imagine it. You’ve been working in a job for about eight months. Your previous job was quite demanding, fulfilling, but unrelated to your current one. Yet you are called to give account on national television of something done eleven years ago by one ... More >>
Big News: The Demoralisation Of Christian Heritage
Thursday, 21 February 2002, 11:08 am | Dave Crampton
Early last year, Christian Heritage Party leader Graham Capill was at his wits end. Still miffed at his party’s poor 2.4 percent showing at the last election, he was sitting down with his Bible and his strategy director wondering how he could get ... More >>
Big News: Is The Father Of Jesus The God Of Islam?
Thursday, 14 February 2002, 9:32 am | Dave Crampton
Since September 11 it has been interesting seeing how the Christian Church and the Islam community are trying to build bridges based on common ground – yet in the US some Christian denominations don’t want anything to do with each other, let alone ... More >>
Big News: Margaret Wilson Heaps Big Legislator
Thursday, 7 February 2002, 10:54 am | Dave Crampton
If you are in a de facto relationship, you may as well be married when it comes to sorting out your possessions should you split up after living together for three years. The Property (Relationships) Act came into force on February 1 compliments ... More >>
Big News: Parachute Festival or Parish Hoot?
Wednesday, 30 January 2002, 12:50 am | Dave Crampton
Last weekend, up to 23,000 people gathered for a four-day music festival in Matamata. It is the biggest festival of its kind in the world, outside the US. As these festivals have been running in some shape or form for more the 10 years it is the oldest festival ... More >>
Big News: Spelling Christmas with an X
Thursday, 20 December 2001, 11:20 am | Dave Crampton
Well it’s that silly money-making season again – Wellington is renamed Middle Earth, Christmas parades turn into Santa parades, we eat, drink and be merry until we’re overflowing wrecks and when writing out our Christmas cards spell Christmas with ... More >>
Big News: How Corporate Greed Helps The Poor
Wednesday, 12 December 2001, 10:11 am | Dave Crampton
Hey kids, want to make the world a better place? Then grow up: Start a business or get a job. Do you want to provide new help for the world’s poor? Hire them. Corporate greed has helped far more people than big puppets ever will. More >>
Big News: It’s The Muslims, Not The Christians
Wednesday, 5 December 2001, 9:20 am | Dave Crampton
The war goes on like a tidal wave. War in the air, war on the ground, war in Afghanistan, war in the Middle East and war in Indonesia. Mind you, you’ll never guess there is war in Indonesia, the media has not been reporting it much. More >>
Big News: The Soft Cells Of Tainted Life
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 9:34 am | Dave Crampton
When is a human embryo not a human? When it is a clone, say US scientists at Advanced Cell Technology. The news that the scientists have cloned human embryos has opened up the ethical debate as to whether human embryos are human life. The scientists ... More >>
Big News: Justice Vs Jihad
Thursday, 22 November 2001, 8:36 am | Dave Crampton
This morning I witnessed the 50-minute Taliban press conference held in Spin Boldack in Southern Afghanistan, broadcast on BBC World. It was held for the sole purpose of telling Western journalists that the Taliban were going to continue the fight ... More >>
Big News: When Bombing Activates Peace Activists
Monday, 19 November 2001, 10:20 am | Dave Crampton
Well, if it wasn’t for the war, the Taliban would still be in Kabul - and so would the eight Christian Aid workers who were detained for three months after being accused of preaching Christianity. The bombing did sufficient damage to allow the Northern ... More >>
Big News: Why Paid Parental Leave Is Unfair
Thursday, 8 November 2001, 9:09 am | Dave Crampton
Getting money for having kids sounds like a good idea – but not as suggested by the Government. If you are working for an employer and have kids you are valued more highly than if you choose to stay at home before having kids. Well not now you aren’t, ... More >>
Big News: Some Seek Justice, Others Prefer Peace
Thursday, 1 November 2001, 9:21 am | Dave Crampton
I recently received a number of e-mails on the peace march held in Wellington on October 27. While they certainly didn’t tempt me to march for peace, I did question why the march was planned. As well as peace, the organisers want to see justice, ... More >>
Big News: Passing The Buck Oz Style
Saturday, 27 October 2001, 6:25 pm | Dave Crampton
Well, Australia has decided to take in 40 asylum seekers, and Fiji could host up to 1000. That’s according to Government ministers from both countries. It appears that Australia is quite happy to fund the setting up and maintenance of a facility ... More >>
Big News: Pagan In A Pagan Land
Wednesday, 24 October 2001, 11:46 am | Dave Crampton
Asylum seekers may no longer be big news in New Zealand, but in Aussie it is heating up again. Many asylum seekers are still heading for Australian shores, despite it being the only country in these parts that refuses to consider taking any on. New ... More >>
Big News: The Hunt For Bin Laden Is On
Monday, 17 September 2001, 1:24 pm | Dave Crampton
Well, it doesn’t really matter that Wellington lost to Southland at home any more, does it? That shocking rugby result all faded into insignificance after last weeks even more shocking terrorist attack on the financial, political and defence powers ... More >>
