Dorothy – 4/2/00 Bent Not Broken – front cover Bent Not Broken The frank account of the life of Lauren Roche who achieves a seemingly impossible ambition after years of destructive experiences Bent Not Broken – front cover – Photo of Lauren by Vlad Petrovic, Images by Woolf, Streetwalker deatil from mural designed by…
Jess Boanas-Dewes – 4/2/00 Flatting, of the ‘student’ kind is truly an experience in itself – perhaps even an ‘adventure’ to an optimist. At least this is what I have discovered. In my first year of university, I was able to live comfortably at home. This year, a change of courses meant a different city…
Dorothy – 4/2/00 Geraldine, a beautiful country town where you can relax, go fishing, walk in the bush and look back at history On one of our journeys south we took time to stay two nights in Geraldine and found it most enjoyable. We had been working under pressure before we left, so on the…
John Creely – 28/1/00 Every year we celebrate Waitangi Day with a national holiday. To many it is nothing more than that, just another day off work. To many it is a day to celebrate the signing of a Treaty which was unusual in its time, being a recognition of the rights of the indigenous…
Turi Hollis – 21/1/00 An address given by The Ven. Turi Hollis, University Chaplain, University of Canterbury, to the National Forum on Education, organised by Canterbury University on 17 November 1999. One of the things that the University of Canterbury is proud of is that one of its early graduates was the esteemed Maori leader,…
Dorothy – 21/1/00 Don McKinnon Photo source New Zealand National Party Every time Don McKinnon gets a little closer to his dream, a new obstacle somehow gets in the way. Not that he’s complaining. The latest “obstacle” is his election as Commonwealth Secretary General, a position he takes up in April in London. Mr McKinnon’s…
Bob Bargh – 14/1/00 Bob Bargh looks at the myths of the Good Samaritan and George Washington and the cherry tree. Are their values current today or should they be revised? A couple of our ancient and founding myths need to be revised in view of the redefined values which have been universally embraced throughout…
Dorothy – 14/1/00 An interview with Bernadette Kernick. Senior English Senior English can involve interactive study? Language study can relate to the way New Zealanders use English innovatively. When senior school students tell us that they are doing Bursary English in their final year at a New Zealand secondary school how many of us know…
Dorothy – 22/12/99 Christmas, Post-Election and Millennium Hopes What are New Zealanders hoping for at Christmas and in the new millennium? Many New Zealanders are at present living with serious problems and are hoping that the new Labour-Alliance Coalition Government elected in November, 1999, will be able to live up to its pledges. Housing For…
Editor – 22/12/99 Conrad and I, the people who work on NZine, and the rest of the staff at Plain Communications Ltd., NZine’s sponsor, wish you all health and happiness and interesting surfing on the Net at Christmas, in the New Year and beyond in the next millennium. We want to thank our contributors for…
