"The Corrective Party are reserving their judgement on Big Brother. We are prepared to be shocked, disgusted, appalled, stapled and pinned, but not until we test out our new Nun-Cam X-Ray Current Affairs CCTV on debonaire studmuffin Paul Holmes!!!" said Sister Malodora, leader of the Corrective Party today.

"We have nothing against surveillance of pulsating taut buttocks thrusting against lust-inducing lycra and leaving nothing to the imagination!!!" said Sister Ophelia Larret, Police Affairs spokesnun for the Correctives today.

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Gordon Campbell: On Compensating Afghan Civilian Casualties

Reportedly, there have been nine incidents resulting in 17 civilian deaths and injuries (seven of the dead were children) caused by ordnance left behind on what used to be the firing range of our Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Bamiyan province.

Given that the NZ Defence Force has needed to be hauled kicking and screaming into belatedly arranging an adequate clean-up of its old firing range… what would it take before New Zealand offers to pay compensation to the families of those who suffered death and injury from what was left behind on our watch? More>>