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...country's universities are adequately preparing students for the demands of teaching. "The single most important challenge that our country faces in education," Nelson said, "is how do we raise the respect society has for teaching as a profession?" While the committee will report back next year, New Zealand schools believe they could give their Australian counterparts a lesson in teacher?parent harmony right now. "There's an extremely pervasive culture here," says John Grant, principal of Kaipara College, a state high school in Helensville, near Auckland, "that emphasizes schools' accountability to their parents...
PETE HODGSON, New Zealand Climate Change Minister, setting the world's first carbon tax which, from 2007, will add 6% to household energy prices
...good deal of our life taking care of everyone else. We come to the place where we say, 'It's my turn.' If women get there, they get there with fervor." The transcendent confidence Wright acquired on that trip ultimately inspired her to move to - of all places - New Zealand and become what she calls an "adventure coach." She leads hiking trips through rugged scenery - a "midlife, middle-earth adventure" on the Banks Peninsula Track in New Zealand. But Wright also emphasizes the internal journey: "You step out of time. You don't know what day it is, what time...
Most people who buy Black Swan or Red Bicyclette probably don't realize they are drinking a Gallo wine. The Gallo brand appears nowhere on the labels. But Gallo's partnerships with international wineries--in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and France--account for an estimated 10 million cases of the company's sales. (That's still a puddle compared with the ocean of California wine Gallo produces every year--65 million cases in 2004, or half of all grapes grown in California.) Gallo formed its first partnership 10 years ago when executives saw how Americans who had been guzzling Chardonnay...
...Gallo is already planning new international brands, from Chile and Germany. He thinks the company's New Zealand partnership has a lot of potential. "Our objective is to fill as many different niches as we can," says Gallo. It's wine on a global scale, a long way from California jug wine, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. --With reporting by Liz Keenan/Sydney, Mimi Murphy/Rome and Grant Rosenberg/Paris