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...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
...also think we have no idea how sustainable the "unsustainable" current account deficit might be. Current account deficits even higher than ours as a percentage of GDP have not prevented the currencies of Australia and New Zealand from soaring the past several years...
...changes there's cause for both optimism and hardheaded caution. "I'm not convinced I'll put in place the perfect system," says Ruddock. "I don't feel I'm God. But I do think we can do a hell of a lot better than we have done." New Zealand men's groups - which insist their country's family law system is more flawed than Australia's - are watching with interest and planning a fresh lobbying assault on parliamentarians...
...generally simpler. Most people need lawyers to help them divide up property - a task that can inflame passions, to be sure, though not usually as explosively (nor over as long a period) as the business of dividing up time with one's kids. In both Australia and New Zealand, one child in four lives apart from one of his natural parents. What troubles many is that the parent on the outer is usually the dad. Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than 70% of cases that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia...
...they're going to be disappointed. In its report, Every Picture Tells a Story, the parliamentary inquiry rejected the idea that the courts should start from the presumption that children spend equal time with each parent after separation - the holy grail of many lobbyists in both Australia and New Zealand. A presumption of shared time would demolish the premise that, during the week, older children need a stable base from which to travel to and from school and do their homework. Arguments about whether equal time was fairer or even practical (for many separated parents and their children...