Film & TV | ABC News | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
19 October 2002
New York-based Kiwi, Martin Henderson (Shortland Street, Windtalkers), co-stars in October’s US box-office No.1 – The Ring. The thriller is a re-make of the cult Japanese Ringu series, and revolves around a video-tape curse….
Golf | ABC News
16 October 2002
Golfer Philip Tataurangi had the first US PGA Tour win of his career at the Las Vegas Classic, beating Australia’s Stuart Appleby by one shot. The 32-year-old pulled out his best round ever – 10 under…
General | ABC News
27 June 2001
New Zealand’s health minister Dr Annette King calls on the world not to neglect the small island nations of the Pacific in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
15 May 2001
New Zealand will provide personnel, technical and funding assistance to ensure Fiji’s up-coming elections run properly.
Nature | ABC News
20 April 2001
Japan gets sharky over New Zealand’s support for a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, but South Pacific nations are right behind the proposal.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
16 April 2001
Bi-lateral trade between New Zealand and Singapore grew 35% from January to February, following a free trade pact which kicked off at the beginning of the year.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
10 April 2001
New Zealand’s cabinet rulebook gets an overhaul to make it coalition compatible.
War & Peace | ABC News
5 April 2001
New Zealand’s Vietnam vets are to gain more recognition for their service.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
7 March 2001
Standard and Poors lifts New Zealand’s long-term foreign currency credit rating to stable on the back of a government surplus and declining debt burden.
Nature | ABC News
8 February 2001
New Zealand representatives at the International Whaling Commission are keeping up the pressure for a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
6 February 2001
Sir David Beattie, former Governor-General and Supreme Court Judge, died suddenly in his home, aged 76.
Z-Files | ABC News
9 January 2001
New Zealand’s legendary 20:1 sheep to human ratio is in decline, expected to fall to 10:1 by 2005.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
26 December 2000
47% of New Zealanders, including 63% of Maori, believe the monarchy should go.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
22 December 2000
Foreign Minister Phil Goff has ruled out allowing high-level nuclear waste to travel through New Zealand waters.
Business | ABC News
17 December 2000
Christchurch Casino has placed a clock in its gaming room – a first for the industry, which usually likes punters to forget the outside world exists.
Taste | ABC News
8 December 2000
New Zealand butter has much lower concentrations of dioxin than Australian, European and American products.
Medicine/Health | ABC News
3 December 2000
New Zealand researchers have found Pravastatin, a drug that helps control cholesterol, also helps ward off heart disease. Bring on the Xmas pav…
Politics and Economics | ABC News
21 November 2000
New Zealand First’s annual conference saw leader Winston Peters returning to traditional themes of nationalism, battling on behalf of the battler, equal rights for all New Zealanders and anti-political correctness. He also mentioned that NZF is still…
Nature | ABC News
19 November 2000
Whales eat up to five times as much fish as humans, therefore protecting them is absurd, according to Dan Goodman of the Japan Institute of Cetacean Research, speaking at a whaling conference in New Zealand. …
Medicine/Health | ABC News
30 October 2000
Polio has been eradicated in the Western Pacific, which stretches from China to New Zealand to French Polynesia.
Watersports | ABC News
1 October 2000
The gold medal in women’s 470 sailing class at Sydney went to Australia – with a Kiwi doing the work. New Zealander Jenny Armstrong teamed up with Barbara Stowell, originally from Zimbabwe, to win Australia’s 50th medal.
General | ABC News
6 September 2000
A unique initiative has seen New Zealand kindergartens offering “licences” for toy guns in a bid to instil the “use guns responsibly” message in youngsters. Police have tacitly endorsed the scheme, but will not…
Science/Tech | ABC News
26 July 2000
Female hackers have proved so elusive that they slip under the radar of sociologists. ABC News investigates part of an underground subculture better known for the misogynistic stink of a high school boys’ locker room – geek…
War & Peace | ABC News
14 May 2000
In a daring jungle escape, a Kiwi, Major David Lingard, and three British officers on peace-keeping duty in Sierra Leone, evaded capture by rebels, one of whom, clad in a stolen UN uniform taunted, “I have…
War & Peace | ABC News
25 April 2000
The soldiers left home as British colonial troops, those that returned came back as New Zealanders, she said. “Today, New Zealand is a country which is dedicated to bringing about a more peaceful world”.
Politics and Economics | ABC News
23 April 2000
Impatient at the slow progress in arms control, governments from Brazil to New Zealand plan to tell the United States and other nuclear powers on Monday they have to do more to make the world safer.
Science/Tech | ABC News
18 April 2000
“If we can simulate an earthquake in a laboratory under our conditions on our time scale, we can make progress much faster,” said New Zealander Dr. Ian Buckle director of the Centre for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research…