Sunday Star-Times back issues from June 2007:
Prisoners pulling Burton's leg
Jun 03, 2007; ... GRAEME BURTON, who shot dead Wainuiomata dad Karl Kuchenbecker inJanuary, has become the butt of fellow inmates' practical jokes overthe loss of his leg. Last week, he had his wheelchair tyres let down by a fellow inmatein Paremoremo Prison, north of Auckland. Kimble Moore, ...
Maybe I should resign
Jun 03, 2007; ... As Folole Muliaga's family today prepares to receive her bodyhome, the head of the power company accused of precipitating herdeath has finally said "sorry" and promised to ensure it does nothappen again. Kim Knight reports. MERCURY ENERGY has halted all electricitydisconnections ...
NEW LOOK FOR YOUR TOP READ
Jun 03, 2007; ... AS WINTER finally arrives, and our readers drag out their skis -or start dreaming of a mid-winter getaway on a Pacific beach, theSunday Star- Times next week launches a revitalised and expanded 16-page travel and entertainment section, ESCAPE. The section will offer readers the ...
WAGES Kiwis lag behind Oz for pay
Jun 03, 2007; ... NEW ZEALAND salaries continue to lag behind those in Australiaeven in industries that have seen big pay increases over the pastyear. Despite rising salaries in most sectors because of a shortage ofskilled workers, New Zealand salaries are still lower than inAustralia. The ...
Crash locals saw three cars racing
Jun 03, 2007; ... THREE CARLOADS of boy racers were seen speeding along a ruralMasterton road shortly before a fatal pile-up with a van carrying afamily early yesterday afternoon, say nearby residents. Police said a Featherston woman aged 20 died at the scene and sixothers were injured after a ...
Flaming bar trick leaves student badly burned
Jun 03, 2007; ... A YOUNG woman who suffered severe burns from an exploding fireballafter a cocktail bar trick went wrong is calling for the banning ofsimilar stunts. Miro Szabados still finds it difficult to look in the mirror aftersuffering extensive burns to her face, neck and hands during a ...
HEALTHCARE $10,000 bill for 'free' medicine
Jun 03, 2007; ... Young cancer patient's costly choice AUCKLAND MOTHER Mary Bradleyis being forced to pay $10,000 for cancer drugs she should be gettingfor free. All because she's opted to have private treatment to getthe best care. Bradley, 28, whose cancer was diagnosed on Valentine's Day - ...
SOLID ENERGY Firm cuts links with spy masters
Jun 03, 2007; ... A WELLINGTON security company pulled out of protecting state-owned enterprise Solid Energy's coal mines because it opposed covertspying on protest groups. Last week, the Sunday Star- Times revealed Auckland privateinvestigators Thompson & Clark Investigations hired people ...
Woman who bust Burton from jail is nabbed in Oz
Jun 03, 2007; ... A KIWI woman on the run for nine years after allegedly helping twoof New Zealand's most notorious criminals escape from jail has beencaught by Australian police. Joanne Francis Hewetson, 44, was arrested in Queensland attemptingto board a cruise liner to Noumea on a false British ...
WHAT OUR BIG GUNS THINK ABOUT SPIES
Jun 03, 2007; ... KIWI BUSINESS leaders canvassed by the Sunday StarTimes saycorporate spying is never acceptable and they want the practice keptout of New Zealand. However when asked where they would draw the linebetween spying and information gathering about competitors and normalrisk management, our ...
THE FOLOLE MULIAGA CASE 'Sorry it took until Friday to get to the right point'
Jun 03, 2007; ... Apologies continue for the tragic death of a South Aucklandmother. Kim Knight reports. CAROLE DURBIN wore black yesterday. Sheasked the photographer not to snap her smiling. "I don't care how unflattering it is. I don't want it to be aninappropriate image to the family." ...
MPs to look at power firm guidelines
Jun 03, 2007; ... FORCING POWER companies to meet their social obligations will be"high on the cabinet agenda" when ministers discuss the death ofFolole Muliaga on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for acting state owned enterprises minister ClaytonCosgrove told the Sunday Star Times: "The voluntary ...
Samoan lawyer cites culture
Jun 03, 2007; ... SAMOAN BARRISTER Frank Godinet says cultural deference toauthority would have made it unthinkable for the family of FololeMuliaga to challenge Mercury Energy's contractor as he switched offtheir electricity. Godinet, a New Zealand-born Samoan, said deference to authorityand ...
THE FOLOLE MULIAGA CASE AT THE HEART OF A POWER CRISIS
Jun 03, 2007; ... Less than a week after the death of Folole Muliaga, Tony Walldiscovers how a small corner of Mangere is coping with the glare ofworldwide media coverage. BRENDEN SHEEHAN takes a couple of minutes'break from an exhausting week to have a cigarette at the back of theMuliaga family home, ...
CALL FOR CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER LAW
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE DEATH of Mangere mother Folole Muliaga after Mercury Energycut off her power supply - despite her reliance on an electric oxygenpump - has spurred calls for New Zealand to introduce a corporatemanslaughter law. The Maori Party is looking at a new law passing through ...
ENTERTAINMENT DANCE FLOOR DREAMING...
Jun 03, 2007; ... The glitz and glam of Dancing With The Stars may be over foranother year, but Kim Knight asks who you would like to see struttingin the next series. HELEN CLARK is the country's most preferred ...dancing star. In a random phone poll of reality television addicts, the ...
Database hitch dogs councils
Jun 03, 2007; ... DANGEROUS DOGS are not being properly tracked, as more than one in10 councils admit they are not ensuring information about the dogs iscaptured on a national database. That is despite many councils increasing dog registration fees topolice tougher laws that were sparked by the ...
PROPERTY How I got my own home at 19
Jun 03, 2007; ... Working out a strict budget and sticking to it helped a youngfamily get on the property ladder, reports Emma Page. PROUD HOMEowner Rosalie Cadigan credits working out a budget with her nana andliving frugally as the secret behind owning a home at the tender ageof 19. The ...
POLITICS MPs forced to certify spending legal
Jun 03, 2007; ... MPS WILL be forced to certify that their taxpayer-funded spendingis legal under a new regime prompted by last year's unlawful $1.2million dip into parliamentary cash. The strict new rules - where MPs will have to sign off everyinvoice and certify the money has been properly used ...
How to drop the drop-kicks
Jun 03, 2007; ... COME ON ladies, get a grip. The biggest hurdle facing Kiwi women looking for love is not theman drought but a lack of self-esteem, says author and televisionprivate investigator Julia Hartley Moore. Hartley Moore's new book Suddenly Single is a survival guide forwomen who ...
Moves to work out decline in gym bunnies
Jun 03, 2007; ... KIWIS ARE better at getting to the gym than the Aussies. But asurvey has found our dedication wanes once we hit our mid-30s. Fitness NZ chief executive Richard Beddie wants to pull mid-lifers back into gyms. Across the country, 11% of us belong to a gym - 2% up onAustralian ...
How to drop the drop-kicks
Jun 03, 2007; ... COME ON ladies, get a grip. The biggest hurdle facing Kiwi women looking for love is not theman drought but a lack of self-esteem, says author and televisionprivate investigator Julia Hartley Moore. Hartley Moore's new book Suddenly Single is a survival guide forwomen who ...
AND NOT A DROP TO DRINK
Jun 03, 2007; ... Australians may have reached crisis point after a seven-yeardrought, but Kiwis should also be worrying about water, reports GregMeylan. NEW ZEALAND'S latitude and topography have blessed us with plentyof fresh water, a natural ingredient we combine with sunshine andsoil to ...
NO BEEF WITH BIKINIS, PLEASE
Jun 03, 2007; ... GOOD LUCK to Burger King in appealing the decision of theAdvertising Standards Authority upholding complaints against its"bikini" ads. The result could strike a blow not just for femaleemancipation, but freedom of expression in general. Especially theexpression of commercial messages ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This spying game is poor use of taxpayers' money
Jun 03, 2007 ... A STATE owned enterprise is using taxpayer funds to spy on a legalgroup that wants to protect a few snails ("I was paid to betrayprotesters", May 27). Do we as taxpayers want our money used in thisway? This protest group has a legal, moral and ethical right toquestion and ...
Blaming the victims a further abuse of power
Jun 03, 2007 ... SOME ARE starting to blame Folole Muliaga's family for herterrible death. Why did her relatives not move quickly to get helpafter the power was cut off and her oxygen machine stopped working?Shouldn't they have done more to save her? Blaming the victim, itseems, is a habit that dies ...
WINNING WORDS Curb the boy racers with compulsory car insurance
Jun 03, 2007 ... WE ARE allowing ourselves to become a society without scruples orstandards. I listen to the claptrap spouted forth around the boyracer issue. A large part of the solution is simple. Make every ownerof a vehicle in this country pay full insurance before they canobtain registration and ...
THE BIG ISSUE: Leaky homes sstlive. co.nz
Jun 03, 2007 ... BRIAN ANDREOLI is the poor guy who put the plaster on at the endof the chain in what was a systematic failure in the constructionindustry. That it is a systematic failure is evidenced by thewidespread nature of the problem and the changes in government andlocal authority regulations and ...
THE INTERVIEW ABs work on getting their heads around 'entitlement'
Jun 03, 2007; ... ALL BLACKS assistant coach Wayne Smith says the team has to guardagainst developing a "sense of entitlement" to a Rugby World Cupvictory. The All Blacks should romp through their four pool matches againstItaly, Romania, Portugal and Scotland before a likely quarter-finalagainst ...
THE POST-MATCH Henry casts a positive eye on mediocrity
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT'S THE standard fallback position of soccer coaches around theworld to justify a performance that looked OK but failed to delivergoals. The goal-less coach tends to accentuate the positive and ponderthe chances created rather than those missed. Graham Henry was no ...
Smith working on ABs beating 'entitlement'
Jun 03, 2007; ... ALL BLACKS assistant coach Wayne Smith says the team has to guardagainst developing a "sense of entitlement" to a world cup victory. The All Blacks should romp through their four pool matches againstItaly, Romania, Portugal and Scotland before a likely quarter-finalagainst either ...
All Blacks How the game unfolded
Jun 03, 2007; ... WAKE US up when the Tri- Nations starts. The All Blacks started world cup year flatter than the Sky TVcommentary team at Eden Park last night, before burying France C in apile of second-half points. In a match which resembled an opposed training session for mostpart, the ...
THE POST-MATCH Henry hedges as season starts with a whimper
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT'S THE standard fallback position of a soccer coaches around theworld to justify a performance that looked OK but failed to delivergoals. The goal-less coach tends to accentuate the positive and ponderthe chances created rather than those missed. Graham Henry was no ...
THE BIG MATCH Carter limps, nation groans
Jun 03, 2007; ... NEW ZEALAND 42 FRANCE 11 THE ALL Blacks were never worried on the scoreboard: ashamefully ill-staffed and under-prepared French team saw to that. Yet there were worries nonetheless last night. In fact, the match was only nine minutes old when a nervoustwitter went ...
THE BIG MATCH Carter limps, nation groans
Jun 03, 2007; ... NEW ZEALAND 42 FRANCE 11 THE ALL Blacks were never worried on the scoreboard: ashamefully ill-staffed and under-prepared French team saw to that. Yet there were worries nonetheless last night. In fact, this match was only nine minutes old when a nervoustwitter went ...
RUGBY: THE INTERVIEW WEEPU WEIGHS OPTIONS
Jun 03, 2007; ... Down and out on last year's tour of Europe, a leaner moreconfident Piri Weepu is ready to make his mark in world cup year. Michael Donaldson reports. ANYONE WHO has lost weight knows the feeling. That boost inconfidence, the increased self- esteem. It's no different for an ...
CRICKET: CATCHING UP Ex-cocaine addict Reeve straight-bats it in Queenstown
Jun 03, 2007; ... DERMOT REEVE, the former England allrounder and recovering cocaineaddict, is turning around his life in Queenstown and has evenembraced that fast-growing Kiwi icon, trademe. Reeve, under the trading name lovepeppers, has been sellingsporting memorabilia, including a bat signed by ...
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS Batter up: rules a kick in teeth for bowlers
Jun 03, 2007; ... CRICKET IS about to become even more a batsman's game if theInternational Cricket Council gets their way. The ICC's cricket committee has suggested several rule changes toone- day cricket. And it's fair to say they all favour the blokeholding a bat. The most serious is that ...
THE FINALS: RACE 1 Fast start, but fears rife about Alinghi
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT WAS without doubt the quote of the stuffy Louis Vuitton Cup andit was Tony Rae, the most unpretentious bloke you'd every meet, to atee. "It's a bit like your first beer," the veteran Team New Zealandcrew member mused. "Once you get the first one down the second is loteasier." ...
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS Valencia's vibe building, as our support grows
Jun 03, 2007; ... I T'S THE question everyone I speak to back home wants to know. Not whether Team New Zealand is going to win the America's Cup -that's a given - but what's Valencia like? What do the locals thinkof the regatta? The answer to question one is "definitely cool". Some ...
Dalts' house captures the green, green grass of home
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT STARTED as a joke. The boys in the Team New Zealand sail loft are pretty handy with asewing machine. So they cut out some stars from sail cloth, patchedtogether a union jack and slapped it on the remnants of an old bluespinnaker and voila: a New Zealand flag which they hoisted ...
THIS BABY IS BUILT TO LAST
Jun 03, 2007; ... GRANT DALTON says the secret to Team New Zealand's success is intheir flag and a boat built to last. The syndicate boss released new photos to the Sunday Star-Timesthis week which illustrate his point. In the final race of the semifinal against Desafio Espanol on May24 (NZ ...
RUGBY LEAGUE Jones wants one more year
Jun 03, 2007; ... STACEY JONES is ready to postpone his retirement from rugby leaguefor one more season, but is unlikely to consider a return to the NRL. Suggestions that Jones would sign with the Wests Tigers in 2008were yesterday firmly dismissed by sources close to the veteran Kiwisinternational ...
Kiwi could make killing at Celtic
Jun 03, 2007; ... ALL WHITES striker Chris Killen could bank huge cash bonuses ifCeltic emulate or better their 2006-07 quarter-final place in theEuropean Champions League this season. Killen signed a three-year deal with the Scottish premier leaguechampions on Friday, reportedly for about $NZ1 ...
Critics get chance to see full Monty BOXING
Jun 03, 2007; ... FORMER WARRIORS captain Monty Betham doesn't expect to satisfycritics of his switch from rugby league to boxing in his first fighton home soil on Friday night. After bouts against lowly opposition in Samoa and Australia,Betham's third professional fight is on the undercard at ...
Sigmund's A-League dream alive
Jun 03, 2007; ... BEN SIGMUND'S lifeline to professional football is pumping fullbore after his heroics for the All Whites in their 2-2 draw againstWales. After being in the All Whites' wilderness for six years Sigmund,26, a late call-up by coach Ricki Herbert, performed exceptionallywell against ...
SIGNING ON AND OFF Swann keen to stay for another season
Jun 03, 2007; ... WARRIORS SECOND-ROWER Logan Swann - the 14th oldest player in theNRL this season - has dismissed suggestions he will retire and ispursuing talks with the club about extending his contract. The 32-year-old, who returned to the club this season after threeyears in England, says he ...
THE BIG MATCH Warriors see no evil
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE WARRIORS have binned the video of Monday night's humbling byParramatta and are instead focusing on a game this afternoon thathooker Nathan Fien says could be the "turning point" of their season. Unusually, the club have done no video review work of their 30-6defeat by the Eels ...
Family support gives Moorwood fast start
Jun 03, 2007; ... CLASSY MIDFIELDER Hayley Moorwood didn't need to look far forfamily support when she turned out for Lynn Avon United in heryounger days - she had three of them alongside. Her mother Naomi and sister Angela, plus an aunt, were all in thesame side and she will look to them for more ...
SHOOTINGSTAR
Jun 03, 2007; ... Regarded as one of the best sports photographers in the world,particularly for his shots of Muhammad Ali, Neil Leifer is bringingan exhibition to New Zealand for the first time. He talks exclusivelyto Michael Donaldson. NEIL LEIFER, inspired into photography by a New Zealander, ...
PHOTO LEGEND INSPIRED BY A KIWI
Jun 03, 2007; ... NEIL LEIFER was inspired into photography by New Zealander GeorgeSilk. "He was my inspiration because he was the guy shooting sports forLife magazine," Leifer explains. "I know this sounds like aselfserving statement given that I'm coming to New Zealand, butGeorge was one of the ...
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
Jun 03, 2007; ... Clive Solomon is the whistle-blowing doctor who said publicly latelast year that Wanganui Hospital was unsafe. Now the district healthboard wants to discipline him. Anthony Hubbard reports. CLIVE SOLOMONis the toughest kind of enemy: an idealist. As a young lad inJohannesburg he wanted ...
THE SNAIL TALE
Jun 03, 2007; ... In light of last week's revelation that a spy had infiltrated theSave Happy Valley protest group, Kim Knight backgrounds the fight for the snails at the centre ofthe West Coast controversy. ABOVE THE cloud line, where the annual rainfall is six metres,searchers crawl ...
A GOOD CAUSE
Jun 03, 2007; ... Russel Norman has just been re-elected Greens co-leader in an easywin far removed from his toughest battle, he explains to IreneChapple. GREEN CO-LEADER Russel Norman was fighting the 2005 electionwhile his partner Katya Paquin was in Wellington Hospital for brainsurgery ....
SHREK THE THIRD
Jun 03, 2007; ... (PG - contains low-level violence) featuring the voices of MikeMyers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, John Cleese.Directed by Chris Miller, Raman Hui. 93 mins. Opens Thursday. HHH12 THERE'S A thrilling Ride of the Valkyries moment in Shrek theThird. The oft- ...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
Jun 03, 2007; ... Dai Henwood is following in his father Ray's webbed footsteps inmaking the nation laugh. Kim Knight meets them both. IF THE extraordinary eyebrows don't convince youthey're related, ask the Henwoods to take off their shoes. Father and son - actor and comedian - have ...
REALITY TV'S HALL OF SHAME:
Jun 03, 2007 ... MAY 2001: Australian Big Brother The show sparks outrage over scenes of full-frontal nudity,bondage displays and talk of group sex. Kiwi Gordon Slone features ina bondage scene. July 2003: Going Straight Mahesh Muralidhar, prize winner in Going Straight, a ...
BRIGHT SPARK
Jun 03, 2007 ... Kiwi Ian Wright drives an electric car he has built that can out-pace a Porsche and a Ferrari. Garry ...
Record-breaking harvest, great quality... wrong grapes
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE PRICE of sauvignon blanc and pinot noir are likely to rise byaround $1 a bottle this year, but we could be swimming in chardonnay. This year's grape harvest was a record-breaking 205,000 tonnes, up11% on last year's harvest of 185,000 tonnes - which was also arecord. But ...
Lawyers warned over client care
Jun 03, 2007; ... Told to break up 'club' or face real estate's fate LAWYERS FACEthe same fate as real estate agents if they fail to focus on lookingafter customers, a legal consultant has warned. Lawyers are working on implementing last year's Lawyers &Conveyancers Act, which requires them to ...
Google risks ad lawsuits
Jun 03, 2007; ... GOOGLE IS walking a legal minefield by allowing companies to userival names as triggers for "sponsored links" on internet searches. The practice is rife in New Zealand by companies trying to attractweb traffic from rivals, a Sunday Star-Times investigation found lastweek, but many ...
CATCHUP/THE WEEK IN BUSINESS
Jun 03, 2007 ... * FASHION management company Pod has received its second takeoveroffer in as many months. LWR Manufacturing has offered 50c a share.Pod has also received an offer for the purchase of Designer Textiles,one of the company's three operations, from Melbourne-based TheMerino Co. Pod chairman ...
New Telecom network roams into Vodafone territory
Jun 03, 2007; ... A NICE little sweetener awaits Telecom if, as expected, it decidesto build a new mobile network. Currently the vast majority of visitors to New Zealand must useVodafone if they want to use their mobile phones here. This isbecause Vodafone uses the most widespread mobile technology ...
EXIT EARL, WHO PROMISED TOO MUCH
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE AMAZING Technicolor Dreamshirt says it all. Earl Stevens isout there, and largely unrepentant. When he was dumped as managing director of listed ICPBiotechnology two weeks ago, the news hit the wires with a strongsense of deja vu. His short stay at ICP Bio in many ways ...
ICPBio's largest shareholder denies insider trading
Jun 03, 2007 ... EARL STEVENS says allegations that he was involved in insidertrading when he sold one million ICPBio shares just over two weeksbefore the company notified a massive profit downgrade was "mud-slinging". A disgruntled shareholder is understood to be lodging a formalcomplaint with ...