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Is Shakespeare still relevant to today's students? New Zealand's arts council appears to have its doubts after ending funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, arguing it relied too heavily on busy schools, failed to show relevance to “the contemporary art context” and relied on a genre “located within a…

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today’s students

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she fist-pumped on first hearing Julia Gillard's misogyny speech, believing the Australian PM had been bullied.

If we block abusive language on the parts of the internet most people use, it will just move to the shadows where we can't monitor for extremists, writes Joanne Wilkes.

Many cities chose conservative candidates but the results were less about national trends than local conditions

The proposal has sparked a fierce backlash from farmers

The levy is strongly opposed by farmers

Wellington (AFP) - New Zealand on Tuesday unveiled plans to tax the greenhouse gas emissions from farm animals, in a controversial proposal designed to tackle climate change.

Farm animals produce gases that warm the planet, particularly methane from cattle burps and nitrous oxide from their urine.

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.

By 2025, farmers would pay a levy on emissions from sources such as cow burps and gases from their urine under proposals released by Jacinda Ardern