Wellington - Some voters on welfare rang police emergency numbers and counselling hotlines on New Zealand's election night fearing that the winning conservative party would slash their benefits, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The National Party won Saturday's election, ending nine years of Labour-led government that raised welfare benefits and pensions.
After breaking the reign of the Helen Clarke's labour party for the past nine years, John Key, PM-elect of New Zealand, is in a hurry to form the Government to fight the Global Economic Crisis. Key's Party won 59 seats in the 122-seat parliament according to a preliminary count of Saturday's election.
Wellington, Nov 10 : A school in Stratford has devised a rather ‘relaxing’ way to help students beat the stress during exams—Yoga.
St Mary''s Diocesan School has combined the bendy yoga move, Upward facing dog with the tree pose, the prayer pose and the reverse swan dive that may help students to have calm, focused minds before upcoming exams.
The programme will be starting in all participating secondary schools on November 14, and will finish on December 3.
The school held the classes as part of its futures scheme, which focuses on giving students all-round skills that they can put to use after leaving school.
Melbourne, Nov. 10 : New South Wales Blues have called up a teenager from the bush for their match against New Zealand this week.
Dubbed the "new Glenn McGrath" Josh Hazlewood will be given the job of embarrassing the tourists at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the absence of lethal quicks Nathan Bracken and Doug Bollinger.
The 17-year-old Hazlewood had just completed his final HSC exam in geography when told he would be lining up against the cross-Tasman rivals.
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key, the self-confessed centrist leader of a conservative party that won Saturday's general election, chose Monday to keep right-wing allies in his new government at a distance.
Key, whose National Party's 59 seats fell short of an overall majority in the 122-member Parliament, received confirmation of support from the free market ACT party, which holds five seats.
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key said Sunday that he wanted a fast-track swearing-in process so that he could attend an important Asia-Pacific regional summit in Peru this month.
Key, whose conservative National Party swept to victory over the incumbent Labour-led coalition in Saturday's general election, told a news conference it would be in the country's best interests if he could attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Lima on November 22-23.
Wellington - Some voters on welfare rang police emergency numbers and counselling hotlines on New Zealand's election night fearing that the winning conservative party would slash their benefits, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
After breaking the reign of the Helen Clarke's labour party for the past nine years, John Key, PM-elect of New Zealand, is in a hurry to form the Government to fight the Global Economic Crisis. Key's Party won 59 seats in the 122-seat parliament according to a preliminary count of Saturday's election.
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key, the self-confessed centrist leader of a conservative party that won Saturday's general election, chose Monday to keep right-wing allies in his new government at a distance.
Wellington - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key said Sunday that he wanted a fast-track swearing-in process so that he could attend an important Asia-Pacific regional summit in Peru this month.
