Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today congratulated Australia, together with Luxembourg, Korea, Argentina and Rwanda, on their election to non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. “I have congratulated Foreign Minister Carr on a well-fought campaign, which Australia thoroughly deserved to win,” McCully says. “New Zealand looks forward to working closely with Australia during its two-year tenure on the …

The 2012 International Sports Event Management Awards today announced Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) as a finalist for the prestigious Sport City Award. The ISEM Awards are the only international Awards to recognise excellence in the global sports event management industry. Conducted annually and now in its sixth year, the Awards honour sports event management industry leaders through …

Most New Zealanders must be very confused about what they are seeing in the US Presidential race.  Aside from those who take the time to seek some balancing of the media views on US politics by tuning into Fox, or reading the Wall Street Journal, there is an incessant anti-Republican bias to most of the news feeds being taken here.  …