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Big News: Asylum Seekers Seeking Asylum
Monday, 10 September 2001, 10:48 am | Dave Crampton
How many asylum seekers were on the Tampa? It depends what paper you read, and on what day you read it. The Sydney Morning Herald said there were 436, two days later they said 438. Reuters have said 460. Another paper said 434. Now just about everybody ... More >>
Big News: "Knock out the Green Party", CHP Told
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 9:36 am | Dave Crampton
The Christian Heritage Party rebranded itself at their triennial convention earlier this month. Despite being “the highest polling party outside Parliament” at the last election, they are not happy with 2.4 percent of the vote they got and aim to more ... More >>
Big News: As I Light My Spliff
Wednesday, 22 August 2001, 9:24 am | Dave Crampton
Well, after entering the drug debate last week, I was both praised on one hand and accused of smoking dope on the other, so I thought I`d carry on¡K writing, that is. As I light my spliff and write this column (just kidding!), I realise the cannabis ... More >>
Big News: Why Should Smoking A Joint Be A Crime?
Wednesday, 15 August 2001, 7:20 am | Dave Crampton
Last week I was asked if I was going to do a column on decriminalising cannabis, and whether I supported the move. I said yes on both counts. I support dope decriminalisation only if it leads to more education and lower use, especially amongst kids. More >>
Big News: Two Inequitable Bills
Wednesday, 8 August 2001, 2:19 pm | Dave Crampton
The Prostitution Reform Bill and the bill on paid parental leave are two of the most discriminatory bills around. I partially support the prostitution bill purely because it will provide sex workers with protection – well, those 18 and over at least. Those ... More >>
Big News: Condoms for Catholics
Wednesday, 1 August 2001, 8:42 am | Dave Crampton
Last weeks issue of Newsweek opened the Catholic condom conundrum with a story on the debate in the South African Catholic church over whether getting it on meant rubbering it up or not. One of their bishops wanted the Vatican to change its mind ... More >>
Big News: Why G8 Leaders Have Failed The Poor
Thursday, 26 July 2001, 11:17 am | Dave Crampton
It is ironic that during last weekend’s G8 summit there were two sets of demonstrators – the anarchists who were campaigning against globalisation and the pacifists who were demonstrating against debt. More >>
Big News: G8 Summit Special Report
Monday, 23 July 2001, 11:02 am | Dave Crampton
Last weekends G8 summit in Genoa, Italy – the last of it’s kind - will be remembered for Europe’s worst rioting, rather than discussions of G8 leaders on economic and policy issues for poor countries. More >>
Big News: Debt Cancellation and The G8 Summit
Thursday, 19 July 2001, 10:54 am | Dave Crampton
This weekend is a big weekend for debt campaigners and globalisation haters. About 120 000 of them are travelling to Italy his week for the G8 summit, an annual meeting of leaders from the eight richest countries. Campaigners will be demanding G8 leaders ... More >>
Big News: Double-Dutch Contraception Lessons
Wednesday, 11 July 2001, 8:37 am | Dave Crampton
Well, its not often that the moral minority looks to a country such as the Netherlands to give them a benchmark to back up their moral and ethical beliefs. After all, the Netherlands tolerate prostitution, cannabis, euthanasia, and homosexuality. In 1971 ... More >>
Big News : A “Morally Repugnant Trade”
Wednesday, 4 July 2001, 9:58 am | Dave Crampton
The Prostitution Law Reform Bill that is currently before the Justice and Electoral Select Committee appears to be heading for parliamentary approval in a country where it is illegal to sell sex but not to buy it. More >>
Big News: NE1 nos txt msgs R PITA! YKWIMAITYD
Wednesday, 20 June 2001, 10:13 am | Dave Crampton
Well, if you can understand this week’s heading, that’s just too bad. You’re sick. You must have read the only book that has outsold Harry Potter last Christmas – well, in the UK at least. The book is entitled WAN2TLK? ltle bk of txt msgs. It was the ... More >>
New Evangelical movement planned in New Zealand
Friday, 15 June 2001, 9:21 am | Dave Crampton
Five senior pastors from New Zealand, including Presbyterian moderator Rob Yule, are discussing the introduction of a new evangelical movement modelled on the Evangelical Alliance. Initiated by Pentecostal leader John Walton, the group met with 70 senior ... More >>
Big News: PM Out Of Touch With God
Wednesday, 13 June 2001, 8:54 am | Dave Crampton
“Please Prime Minister – keep reading your bible, keep saying your prayers, keep listening to God” – Anglican clergyman. Big News With Dave Crampton More >>
Big News – The Columbine Travelling Road Show
Wednesday, 6 June 2001, 2:26 pm | Dave Crampton
Well, much has been made of the trip of eight school students affected by the world’s worst school shooting at the Columbine High School cafeteria on 20 April 1999. The graduates have just concluded a ten-day trip to NZ aiming to speak with Kiwi students ... More >>
Big News: The Archbishop and the Moonie?
Wednesday, 30 May 2001, 8:33 am | Dave Crampton
Its not very often a Catholic archbishop marries a woman he has never met. Come to think of it, Catholic clergy aren’t supposed to marry at all, as they should be celibate. Then again, Catholics are supposed to get married in a Catholic Church, presided ... More >>
Big News: Demilitarisation Of The Sally Army
Wednesday, 23 May 2001, 2:03 pm | Dave Crampton
Well, there’s the old joke: how many Salvation Army Officers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: change, what’s change? More >>
Big News: The Pope On Tour
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 9:51 am | Dave Crampton
Well, the Papal visit to Greece, Syria and Malta has ended, and what a tumultuous trip it was for the 81 –year old pontiff. Although the majority of the mainstream media has hailed it as successful and worthy, which it was, there are a few things ... More >>
Big News: Cloneliness Is Next To Godliness, Right?
Wednesday, 9 May 2001, 9:51 am | Dave Crampton
The news that 30 babies were born in the US through “genetic modification” has revived an ethical debate as to whether humans should be genetically modified or cloned. The revolutionary fertility treatment has been criticised as it used the genes of ... More >>
Big News: There’s No Such Place As Hell
Wednesday, 2 May 2001, 10:26 am | Dave Crampton
It’s official – hell is not a place, it’s just a state of being, So is purgatory. At least that’s according to two people in the Catholic Church. More >>
