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The Conservative Party: the promising “also ran”
Monday, 20 August 2012, 12:09 pm | Triangle Television
In the 2011 General Election the Conservative party received many more list votes than did ACT, Mana or United Future, but they are not represented in the present Parliament because, unlike those parties, it failed to win an electorate seat. More >>
Is Auckland Too Large?
Saturday, 11 August 2012, 4:36 pm | Triangle Television
Is Auckland Too Large? Auckland was already a big city a couple of years ago when its governing structure was replaced by a single Auckland Council and 21 elected local boards. If the past is any guide. the new entity is in danger of growing to ... More >>
The Growing Child Needs To Read Books
Monday, 6 August 2012, 10:03 am | Triangle Television
The guest this week In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Triangle Television is the children's author Dorothy Butler who is one of New Zealand’s legendary writers for children and about children. At 87, Dorothy is a passionate advocate for the ... More >>
The Smallest Parties in Parliament -- Part 3, The ACT Party
Monday, 30 July 2012, 11:13 am | Triangle Television
In the most recent General Election, 47% of the votes cast went to National, 27% to Labour. More >>
Pounding the pavement the Irish way
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 9:01 am | Triangle Television
Hitchhiking in New Zealand was once a national institution, but recently safety concerns highlighted by some serious attacks has seen this way of travel become viewed as dangerous and foolhardy. But is it really? In “ Bluffing it : Discovering New ... More >>
The Unification Church ("Moonies") On Triangle TV
Monday, 25 June 2012, 11:23 am | Triangle Television
With 7 million members world-wide The Unification Church is about 10% of the size of the worldwide Anglican communion. It is often greeted with suspicion, part of which may be due to their audacity when, in 1959, they sent missionaries from Korea ... More >>
Triangle’s letting the bogan boys loose
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 10:05 am | Triangle Television
MEDIA RELEASE: June 14, 2012 Move over GC, Triangle’s letting the bogan boys loose Without so much as dipping a pinkie in the government’s money piles, Triangle Television has found new fodder for GC lovers. “The Boy’s Place”, a six-part comedy series, ... More >>
Physiome -- the scientific view of "life as a whole"
Monday, 4 June 2012, 5:33 pm | Triangle Television
Physiome -- the scientific view of "life as a whole" For some centuries, scientists have been investigating the human body as though it were a collection of machine-like components. While it has been profitable to proceed one organ at ... More >>
Poverty is an injustice which needs to be addressed
Monday, 30 April 2012, 9:36 am | Triangle Television
In 1942 – during the Second World War – a group in the UK campaigned for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade of enemy-occupied Greece to starving women and children. The group was named the Oxford Committee for Famine ... More >>
Triangle TV heats up Wednesdays with Richards’ romance
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 10:40 am | Triangle Television
Triangle Television heats up Wednesdays with Richards’ romance Commencing 8:30pm Wednesday May 2 – UHF Ch 41 Take a best-selling American author, add her New Zealand love stories, mix in a German film crew and you get the spices that make up a hot, ... More >>
Aussie Rules gets NZ TV slot
Thursday, 19 April 2012, 10:51 am | Triangle Television
Aussie Rules is getting a foothold in New Zealand – now it even has its own TV slot. The Local Footy Show , a one-stop shop to understanding what that fast-paced, action filled game called Aussie Rules is all about, will screen on Auckland’s ... More >>
The State of the Welfare
Monday, 16 April 2012, 9:58 am | Triangle Television
The "Welfare State" will surely never be right because there are too many competing views as to what would make it right. More >>
Public Broadcaster Helps With Legal Rights
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 12:02 pm | Triangle Television
Public Broadcaster Helps With Legal Rights The majority of New Zealanders don’t really understand their legal rights and for some even getting a speeding ticket can be a traumatic experience. More >>
The Union Report - starts 8pm Monday 23rd Apri
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 10:52 am | Triangle Television
In a turbulent year of lock outs between Unions and employers, Triangle TV is proud to announce “The Union Report”, a new current affairs show that looks at the news week through the lens of industrial relations. More >>
When is an Anthropologist also an Historian?
Monday, 2 April 2012, 3:06 pm | Triangle Television
When she is Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond from the Department of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland. From early studies of Maori protocol in her book "Hui" through the biographical portraits of the elders Amiria and Eruera Stirling, ... More >>
Genealogy: Preserving our Past for our Future
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 8:02 pm | Triangle Television
One way in which history and biography come together is through the blend of art and science called 'genealogy'. The motto of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists is 'Preserving our past for our future' and the guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer ... More >>
We are digging our graves with our knives and forks
Monday, 19 March 2012, 10:25 am | Triangle Television
The guest this week In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Triangle Television is Dr Robyn Toomath -- an endocrinologist by profession and a campaigner against obesity by conviction. She explains how our eating habits are killing us. More >>
A Golfer’s Dream with an Oriental Twist
Friday, 24 February 2012, 5:21 pm | Triangle Television
Imagine a par 72 golf course where the distance from the first tee to the 18th hole is more than 3500 Km. More >>
Triangle TV Schedule
Thursday, 29 December 2011, 12:39 pm | Triangle Television
Saturday 7 January 2011 12.00am Schlocky Horror: A Walking Nightmare (1942) [AO] and War Of The Robots (1978) [AO] 3.00 Documentaries 4.30 In Focus 5.00 Bloomberg TV 5.30 Bible Ministry 6.00 Baha’i View in Farsi 7.00 Aljazeera News Hour 8.00 ... More >>
Capitalism: "Good" and "Bad"?
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 11:11 am | Triangle Television
Capitalism has been described as “the least worst” economic system and it is both applauded and deplored. Some even think that, like cholesterol, there are two kinds of capitalism – "good" and "bad". Getting an adequate ... More >>