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Dear
homesick Kiwi,
A
short week in NZ this week with the country taking Friday
off for Waitangi Day. Here in Wellington people are
gearing up for the annual two-day Rugby Sevens on Friday
and Saturday - let's hope we can beat the Poms at this
version of the game!
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| NEWS |
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Leading
up to Waitangi Day, National leader Don Brash
has suddenly taken political centre-stage with a controversial
speech about the state of race relations and the Treaty
in NZ. National leapt in the polls, suddenly coming
in even first with Labour on 32%. Read
the speech in full.
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everyone was quite so pleased: National's only Maori MP
has been sacked for refusing to toe the party line and
Brash has received safety
warnings about going to the Waitangi Day
commemorations. He in turn is considering
his own boycott of the event due to a partial
media-ban. |
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| Meanwhile,
the "Good Bastards" club are campaigning
to change "Waitangi Day" to "New Zealand
Day." |
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| NZ
swept the Oscar
nominations, with 11 nominations for Return
of the King, including best director and best picture
(no surprises), and the 13 year old star of 'Whale
Rider' received an unexpected best actress nomination
(unlike Nicole Kidman). |
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| New
Zealand literary giant Janet
Frame has died. The novelist and poet's
autobiography was made into the film "An Angel at
My Table", won dozens of awards and was a Nobel prize
contender. She was 79. |
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| SPORT |
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| The
NZ Black Sox and the Americans look like the two
title contenders as the world softball championships
in Christchurch head into the play-offs. |
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| New
Zealand's Sevens squad
has been named for the long weekend's tournament
in Wellington, and the side is one of the fastest ever:
five of the players can sprint 40m in under 5 secs. |
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Greg Chappell, who ordered Australia's infamous under-arm
bowl in 1981, has revealed
in an interview that he was feeling stressed
and that incident was a cry for help. Hearts are bleeding
around New Zealand. |
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| ONLY
IN NEW ZEALAND |
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club cricketer in Rotorua, fielding at the boundary, fell
through the ground and into a hot spring. He
was treated for burns to one leg, but fortunately it wasn't
geyser temperature. |
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New
Zealand's coolest bar has just opened
in Auckland. That's a pun: it's carved out of ice.
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| And,
groan, New Zealand Idol kicked
off this week with thousands auditioning to
become the latest manufactured pop sensation. The man
in the Cookie Monster suit is appealing
his rejection, he believes the judges were
prejudiced because he was wearing a Cookie Monster suit. |
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me your comments!
elaine@homesick-kiwi.com
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