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Union protest likely to hit funding, jobs: varsity chief

Students expelled after vicious attack

<i>Dita De Boni</i>: My 'real' mummy

I am accustomed to being hailed from the other side of the house to the cries of "mummy! mummy!", but by now, I know I'm not the character in the house that goes by that name.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. find out what it means to me

Being respectful is an admirable quality. I know I probably sound like some old digger who fought in the trenches for his country when I say that sort of thing, but it is.

Deborah Coddington: Sad school system leaves us lacking smarts to save

Weekend project: Ramping up the action

Justin Newcombe creates some skateboard fun in his own driveway.

Facebook tribute pages to dead student Emily defaced

Facebook tribute pages to Emily Longley were defaced with lewd photos and nasty...

10-year-old boy in alleged indecent assault

Scott Kara's Forward Thinking

While I've only watched <i>Coronation Street</i> in passing over the years, from what I've seen recently, the murder plots, dodgy affairs (yes, Kevin, I've seen you in bed with that floozy. Poor Sally)

Key offers his support for young employment schemes

Funds for youth training boosted

When kids are all alone at 10,000m

Kids often like solo air travel, but it's scary for the parents, finds Danielle Murray.

Facebook predator had sex with minor

Aucklander Natalia Burgess has broken her silence amid revelations she had sex with at least one 15-year-old boy.

Reports of child abuse escalate in Central North Island

Child abuse complaints have more than tripled in Rotorua, Whakatane and Taupo in the past five years.

Schoolboys caught 'sexting'

Facebook predator unmasked

Natalia Burgess, 28, of Mangere in Auckland, has assumed multiple false online personalities to form internet relationships with teenagers.

Parents on charges of beating children

A mother and father have been arrested for allegedly beating their eight children with weapons, including sticks and electrical cord - and the woman is pregnant again.

Missing girl's mum, step-father arrested in Sydney

There has been a major development in the case of missing Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams with the arrest of two people.