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Violent CrimeMurders, rapes and assaults dominate newspaper headlines and outrage the public – but violent crime is only 14% of recorded offences. However, rates of all types of violent crime have increased... Continue Has violent crime affected you?
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Two firsts and a secondOver the last month Te Ara had two new experiences: We opened up all our 'resources' (the images, film clips, sound files, maps, graphs, and diagrams which enrich every page of the site) for contributions from our users. It has been a slow and steady start, but we are now starting to get really interesting pieces which really do add value to the information on Te Ara. It is worth looking, for example, at Sarah Gallagher's interesting comment about the unique Dunedin tradition of naming student flats, or at Emma Osment's history of Anglo-Nubian goats, strange-looking animals with large curved noses and pedulous ears which turn out to have been bred to provide milk on sailing ships.  We were also the subject of a cartoon for the first time. It appeared in the Waikato Times shortly after the launch of Te Ara's entry on the Waikato. Appearing in a cartoon can be a fraught enterprise, so we were lucky that this one, by Allen Hawkey, was sympathetic... Read more |
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