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• 1.新西兰英语 32 World Food Conference
• Today is the last day of the World Food Conference in Rome. New Zealand has sent 11 people to this conference, with Jim Anderton, Minister of Agricult...
• 2.新西兰英语 31 Queen’s Birthday
• Today is the official Queens Birthday. It is not the Queens actual birthday. That is April 21st, but every year on the first Monday in June, we honour...
• 3.新西兰英语 30 Apology
• On Wednesday this week, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, apologised to soldiers who served in the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1972. She apologised fo...
• 4.新西兰英语 29 Three Murder Trials
• During the last week, three major murder trials came to an end. The first one to end, last Wednesday, was a trial of an immigrant from Zimbabwe, Georg...
• 5.新西兰英语 28 The Budget
• Today, the Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen, announced his budget. Every year, at about the same time of year, the Minister of Finance announces...
• 6.新西兰英语 27 Immigration Service in Trouble
• The New Zealand Immigration Service has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons. The head of the service, Mary Anne Thompson, resigned la...
• 7.新西兰英语 26 Price Rises
• We all know about price rises in the last few months. Petrol continues to increase, mostly because of the price of a barrel of oil on the internationa...
• 8.新西兰英语 25 Government Buys Back Railways
• Last Monday, the government announced that it will buy back the railways for $665 million. That sale includes the inter-island ferries that sail betwe...
• 9.新西兰英语 24 Waihopai Protesters
• On Wednesday, 3 protesters entered the Waihopai spy base and caused damage to a large globe covering a satellite dish. The director says that the dama...
• 10.新西兰英语 23 ANZAC Day (April 25th)
• This is ANZAC day, a day that New Zealanders and Australians remember all those soldiers who died in wars in the last century. ANZAC means Australia N...