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Dr Matt Wildbore - RIP - 22-Jun-2008

Dr. Matt Wildbore, 45, died at his Auckland apartment on Friday. Tributes are been paid to him for his work as an Auckland gay doctor during the 80s and 90s assisting many HIV positive gay men during the early years of the HIV/AIDS health crisis. Read the full story/Visit the site - Gaynz.com

Revealed: Cindy of Samoa's secret - 15-Jun-2008

Cindy knew, Simon knew. TVNZ knew. But Stars in their Eyes viewers had to make up their own minds. Was that Tina Turner impersonator an Amazonian woman or a bloke? Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

Mahinarangi Tocker - 26-Apr-2008

Radio New Zealand's interviews with Mahinarangi Tocker Read the full story/Visit the site - Radio NZ

Your Tributes to Mahinarangi Tocker - 18-Apr-2008

New Zealand Herald reader tributes to Mahinarangi Tocker Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Maori Party mourns death of Mahinaarangi Tocker - 16-Apr-2008

Statement by Co-leaders Hon Tariana Turia and Dr Pita Sharples 16 April 2008 The Maori Party is deeply upset to hear that Mahinaarangi Tocker has drawn her last breath at the young age of 52. We mourn our own loss, and share the grief of her whanau. Read the full story/Visit the site - Maori Party

Musician Mahinarangi Tocker dies age 52 - 15-Apr-2008

Musician Mahinarangi Tocker's life support was turned off yesterday at North Shore Hospital, after she suffered an asthma attack last week that left her without oxygen for a period of minutes. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Ministers acknowledge the life and work of Mahinarangi Tocker - 15-Apr-2008

Associate Ministers for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Judith Tizard and Mahara Okeroa, have expressed deep sorrow at the death of Mahinarangi Tocker, one of New Zealand's most talented and prolific singer/songwriters. Read the full story/Visit the site - Judith Tizard

Paul Thomas: Folk who don't like ordinary folk - 16-Feb-2008

I wasn't surprised to learn that English writer and aesthete Duncan Fallowell reckons New Zealand's a dump. What would have come as a surprise is Fallowell, whose hobbies are rose wine, rent boys and doing strange things to his hair, thinking otherwise. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

First transsexual MP devotes her energy to the silver screen - 10-Jan-2008

She was the world's first transsexual MP and now an Australian-based Kiwi couple want to put Georgina Beyer's story on the big screen. Read the full story/Visit the site - TV3 Related Site - TV3 Video Clip

New Years Honour: Pare Areta Keiha - 31-Dec-2007

Associate Professor Pare Areta Keiha has been made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order, for services to business, education and Maori. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Governor General Website Related Site - Associate Professor Pare Areta Keiha - AUT

New Years Honour: Marilyn Waring - 31-Dec-2007

Professor Marilyn Waring becomes a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women and economics, in the New Years Honours list. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Governor General Website Related Site - Wikipedia: Marilyn Waring

New Years Honour: Stephen Stehlin - 31-Dec-2007

Television producer Stephen Stehlin becomes a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific Island television broadcasting and the arts. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Governor General Website Related Site - Taualeo'o Stephen Stehlin - TVNZ

New Years Honour: Mahinarangi Tocker - 31-Dec-2007

Jazz musician and composer Mahinarangi Tocker becomes a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music in the New Years Honours list. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Governor General Website Related Site - Mahinarangi Tocker - nzmuzic.net.nz website

Historian delves behind Heavenly Creatures - 27-Jan-2007

An Auckland historian's personal link with the infamous Parker-Hulme murder has inspired him to research how it was portrayed by film-maker Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Press

Carmen, 70, goes back to Parliament - 11-Oct-2006

Gay identity Carmen was back at Parliament yesterday, 32 years after being hauled before a select committee for alleging some MPs were closet homosexuals. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Pacific writer residency awarded to Victor Rodger - 11-Jul-2006

Award-winning writer Victor Rodger is the recipient of the 2006 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers' Residency, based at the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai'i. Read the full story/Visit the site - Creative New Zealand

Writer awarded Hawaii residency - 11-Jul-2006

Writer Victor Rodger is Hawaii-bound after winning the 2006 Pacific Writers' Residency. Rodger, who was born and grew up in Christchurch, plans to use the residency to write a screenplay drawing on events in his semi-autobiographical play, Sons Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

A decent proposal - 7-Oct-2006

In his first job, Bill Hastings was a film destroyer. At age 16, in a Toronto warehouse, his daily task was to run films - mainly the old silver nitrate inflammable kind - off their reels into bins for destruction. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Carmen recalls Coffee Lounge glory days - 23-Apr-2006

Attention mystery gentlemen. Yes, you know who you are. You rich, powerful businessmen of 1960s Wellington. Married with families when you crept to the top flat at 86 Vivian St at night to sample Carmen's carnal delights. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Barrymore expects protests in UK - 4-Jan-2006

Michael Barrymore is reported as fearing angry protests when he arrives in the UK to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. Read the full story/Visit the site

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