Viv Rickard: One of three candidates for the next Police Commissioner's job...

 Rickard Deputy commissioner (resource management)

Viv Rickard. Photo / HOS

Joined the police in 1985 and appointed to his current role in May 2010. Previously he was assistant commissioner of operations and assistant commissioner of crime and investigations. He served in both general and investigative branches before becoming part of the Police Executive, when he was appointed district commander for Northland in 2001. Other roles have included two years as district commander in Waitemata and national manager for crime and investigations.

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Visit Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington, February 2014 - spotlight on the Tuatara...

Tuatara February at Zealandia.

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Goodbye to the chemical toilets, storage tanks and portaloos that were in use in Christchurch after the earthquakes...

Port-A-Potty (Photo credit: b-cline)

• Goodbye to the chemical toilets, storage tanks and portaloos that were in use after theearthquakes in Christchurch. The people in mainly the east side of town won’t be sorry to see them go…
  

http://www.rebuildchristchurch.co.nz/blog/2014/1/final-chemical-storage-tank-removed

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Beyond the HuttRiver - New Zealand today..: Kiwi Legionaire a real southern man...

Beyond the HuttRiver - New Zealand today..: Kiwi Legionaire a real southern man...: Anzac Day He stands arguably as New Zealand's greatest war hero alongside Sir Charles Upham - even though he fought for th...

Kiwi Legionaire a real southern man...

• Anzac Day

He stands arguably as New Zealand's greatest war hero alongside Sir Charles Upham - even though he fought for the French Foreign Legion. But, as Paul Charman writes, the life and times of secretive Gallipoli hero James Waddell are celebrated more overseas and are proving difficult even to make into a book

A French Foreign Legion officer laying a wreath to commemorate Kiwi war hero James Waddell. Photo / Supplied

He was a pint-sized Kiwi warrior who commanded French Foreign Legion troops at Gallipoli and became one of the most decorated combat soldiers of the Great War. However, efforts to showcase James Waddell's incredible exploits are so far being frustrated.

Film-maker Jasmine Pujji says few New Zealanders know anything about Waddell's remarkable story - but it's high time they did.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10800634

National education policy will not teach hungry kids...

Peter Petterson

Deal with poverty first. Make sure kiwi children go to school with a full belly and ready to learn. A principal on a $100,000 bonus would not teach hungry children until the cows come home..

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The inaugural NRL Nines Tournament at Auckland

Rugby has had its Sevens Tournament at Wellington for a number of years now.

Now rugby league has its abbreviated  tournament too at Auckland.

Those who follow both codes now have the best of both worlds before  Super Rugby and NRL starts.

The tournament is to be held on Feb15-16 at Eden Park in Auckland.

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Cardigan Castle 1873 - my Petterson ancestors emigrated to NZ aboard this boat from Gotland, Sweden...

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Beyond the HuttRiver - New Zealand today..: Should be an interesting read...

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Beyond the HuttRiver - New Zealand today..: Oz - based Kiwis fed up with second class status. ...

Beyond the HuttRiver - New Zealand today..: Oz - based Kiwis fed up with second class status. ...: Kiwis living under a bridge in Sydney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py-bZ58oZug   Watch this video: Aired on television  1...

Oz - based Kiwis fed up with second class status. Is the spirit of Anzac dying?

Kiwis living under a bridge in Sydney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py-bZ58oZug   Watch this video:

Aired on television 13 Jan 2014

An Australian current affairs programme has reignited a longstanding debate about Kiwis in Oz being treated like second-class citizens. The story aired last night and showed Kiwis fed up with the Australian system and want to be treated the same as Australians who move to NZ.

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Homophobia and the All Blacks...

Homophobia and the first All Black to "come out" will be the bravest - writes Phil Gifford...

English: Rugby player Gareth Thomas at an LGTB reception at No10 to launch new campaign to kick homophobia and transphobia out of sport. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The first All Black to out himself as gay be the bravest man in sport in this country, or will the announcement be received with the acclaim Trevor Mallard's witty, good natured endorsement of same sex marriage did?

Officials in sport all over the world have acknowledged racism as an evil that should be stamped out.

There's still work to do. But at least the redneck ranks of those who say non-white sportspeople need to harden up when they're called racist names are thinning.

When Chelsea's John Terry was fined $440,000 and banned for four games by the Football Association in 2012 the money Terry had to pay may have been on a wet bus ticket scale, but at least the FA acknowledged that calling an opponent a "---ing black ----" was unacceptable.

Homophobia is the next challenge for sport, with the Sochi winter Olympics next month tainted by an anti-gay law in Russia forbidding "gay propaganda" being shown to minors.

In a masterful touch of hypocrisy, Russia's Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko says now it might have been better to wait until after the Sochi Games to pass the law.

Closer to home I'd like to think attitudes towards gay people in our biggest sport, rugby, are more liberal, but I've been wrong about that before.

When Lew Pryme, a former pop singer, was appointed as the chief executive of the Auckland Rugby Union in 1985, I doubt there were any on the appointment board who didn't know he was gay.

But in the rugby environment Lew stayed firmly in the closet. When he was first appointed he needed to. Homosexuality was still a crime. The Homosexual Law Reform Bill wasn't passed into law until August, 1986.

Lew was a rugby fan to his fingertips (he'd played for Auckland in a fourth grade side). Almost single handed, he stitched together an opening ceremony for the first World Cup in 1987. Likeable, efficient and creative, he was a huge success as Auckland rugby's CEO. So much so, there were times when I was tempted to say to Lew, who had been a friend of mine for years, there was no need for him to hide being gay.

Easy for me to think, but sadly Lew was probably reading it right in hiding the reality of his private life.

Read more below:


http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/9600399/Gifford-Homophobia-sports-next-big-challenge

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