Stuff.co.nz - Jo McKenzie-McLEAN - Mar 15, 2010
Young sportspeople are the target of a campaign to turn around New Zealand's "entrenched" culture of heavy after-match drinking.
Police, the Alcohol Advisory Council and Sport Canterbury...
TVNZ - Mar 14, 2010
A five-year-old child and two six-year-olds were among the 12 children apprehended by police for sexual assault in the 2008/09 financial year.
In total, police reprimanded 716 children for a range of offences during...
Stuff.co.nz - Matthew Littlewood - Mar 14, 2010
An 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with a house fire in Waimate which left a young tenant with "only the shirt on my back".
Detective Greg Harrison said the fire at a Meyer...
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - Mar 16, 2010
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is concerned about the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media.
"Sexualisation of children involves the imposition of...
Source: Economics Letters, Volume 105, Issue 3, December 2009, Pages 336-339 Gail, Pacheco
This paper revisits the contentious link between the level of the minimum wage and wage inequality. This is done utilizing the differential rates of...
Source: Appetite, Volume 53, Issue 3, December 2009, Pages 407-413 Joanne H., Gerrits , Denise T.D., de Ridder , John B.F., de Wit , Roeline G., Kuijer Purpose: The Prototype/Willingness model states that adolescents' willingness to engage in...
Source: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 December 2009 Jaimee, Stuart , Colleen, Ward , Paul E., Jose , Pancha, Narayanan
The present research was conducted by the Centre for...
The New Zealand Listener: Features
March 6-12 2010
The founder of a successful intervention programme for at-risk youth says if we can transform the energy of hatred, we will have a better chance of success than when people just don't care....
Nine To Noon > Monday, 08 March 2010 Kerry Gosset - mother of a P addictSupport for P Addicts
Kerry Gosset's son, Kasha William, is a P addict who was jailed for attempted murder last week in Christchurch. The family repeatedly sought help...