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If you're of a foreign persuasion, you may wonder from time-to-time just what exactly are the burning issues of the day down there in little ole Noo Zeeland? Well, that's why they invented the internet and that's why they invented me:

• Work allowance no poultry matter
  "Taranaki's professional chicken-catchers have won a legal victory over an allowance for what their union says is heavy and unpleasant work."
  
  
• Teaching cows new tricks
  "Dr Jago said the research was designed to encourage cows to walk to automatic milking machines without the presence of a farmer, which would enable farmers to dedicate more time to farm management."
  
  
• Gay victor booed for 'straight' look
  "'I don't look like the average lesbian. They look like boys, they don't shave under their arms, they have short hair. They just automatically assume that I'm straight.'"
  
  
• TV3 graphic beats around the Bush
  "TV3 has apologised after a graphic labelling US President George W. Bush a "professional fascist" flashed up during its primetime news."
  
  
• Livestock burp tax sticks in throats
  "Farmers will be taxed on the flatulence of their livestock in a bid to reduce New Zealand's contribution to global warming."

Consider yourself in the know.
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