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Captain Mauro Balomaga and navigational officer Leonil Relon

Rena owners also to blame - seafarers

The owners of the Rena should share the blame for the disaster that led to two Filipino seamen being jailed, says a Philippines-based seafarers group.

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Tame Iti

Minto outraged at Urewera jail terms

A supporter of the Urewera Four says sentencing two of them to jail terms is an outrageous outcome.

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Jules Mikus, 53, raped and murdered six-year-old Napier schoolgirl Teresa Cormack in 1987

Child murderers denied parole

A murderer who strangled a Christchurch toddler to death and another man who raped and murdered a six-year-old Napier schoolgirl have been denied parole.

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The Family First lobby group wants a law change to make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on non-commercial small boats, canoes and dinghies

Call for compulsory lifejacket use

A water safety authority is backing calls for the mandatory use of life jackets on small vessels after a father and son died when a dinghy capsized in Manukau Harbour.

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Imported pork accounts for about 45 percent of the pig meat consumed in New Zealand

NZ pork board appeals against court ruling

The New Zealand Pork Industry Board is appealing a High Court decision allowing new health standards for imported pig meat.

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Corrections wants a quarter of all re-offending wiped out

Govt boosts prisoner rehabilitation and training video

The Government's promised a massive drop in crime – 25 percent less re-offending over the next five years.

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Corrections Minister Anne Tolley has made a move toward prisoner restoration to reduce reoffending

Govt unveils prisoner rehab plans

The Government has found $65 million in its Corrections budget to fund a new rehabilitation programme to cut the rate of reoffending and cull prisoner numbers.

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Korean Ambassador Yongkyu Park

Korean govt investigates unlawful practices in NZ video

The Korean government is sending a high-level delegation to New Zealand to investigate allegations of violence, sexual harassment and wasteful fishing practices aboard foreign charter vessels.

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Hurring blinked back tears as the verdict was read

Home detention likely for Hurring video

It has taken a jury less than an hour to convict runaway millionaire Kara Hurring.

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There will be no reduction in constabular numbers or frontline staff

125 police jobs axed

Police will be cutting staff numbers by around 125, despite its budget staying the same for the coming financial year.

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ACC and Justice Minister Judith Collins won't comment on the action

Collins pushes on with court action

Justice Minister Judith Collins has commenced her High Court defamation case against Labour MPs Trevor Mallard and Andrew Little.

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A Brisbane Supreme Court jury found them guilty last year of attempting to possess 1.86kg of cocaine (file pic)

Drug smugglers refused sentence cut

A court has refused to cut the 11-year jail term given to a New Zealand couple.

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