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Australia and New Zealand

Dear Oprah, got any holiday plans?

It looks like Oprah’s trip of Oz has been a big boost for our neighbours, with web traffic to the australia.com website up 120 percent in America after her first Down Under episode screened last week. Maybe we need to encourage her to visit us … boost our own tourism industry. No, not New Zealand, […]

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A cautionary tale of flatmate woe

You can’t help but feel sorry for the Queenstown bloke who came home from holiday last week to find his new flatmate had trashed his house. The roomie from hell moved in before Chrismas and the landlord/homeowner buggered off on Christmas day for a couple of weeks. He came home to a damage, dirt and

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Pope pleads for proper names

Listen up Posh and Becks: the Pope has had enough of parents opting for trendy, silly names. I never thought I’d see the day, but here I am agreeing with a man in a frock. Who’d have thunk it? Pope Benedict the 16th-ish (I think) has called on parents to use proper Christian name for their

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Million-dollar confusion

Okay, I’m confuddled. It seems a nice bloke from Christchurch (well, I’m assuming he’s a nice bloke, but in actual fact he could well be a total arsehole … but for the sake of this post let’s just continue to assume he’s a nice bloke) … now, where was I? Oh yes, the nice bloke

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Living (and dying) online

These days we do so much of our living online I suppose it should come as no surprise that people are now choosing to die online. Bill Zeller chose to end his life in a very public way: he went to his Facebook account and wiped his entire profile, leaving in place a letter that explained

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