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  • Wellington rally in solidarity with Gaza

    12pm, Saturday 24th November Cuba Mall bucket fountain Facebook event Read more

  • Interview: BOX Events (queer women of colour group)

    BOX Events is a recently formed Wellington group that organises female-inclusive events, starting with the Shirts and Skirts event that raised funds for Wellington Rape Crisis. Spark writer Ian Anderson interviews BOX members Leilani and Trixie. The Spark: First off, what is BOX and how did it form? T: I only joined after the first… Read more

  • Reclaim The Night: Interview with Margarita Windisch

    Joel Cosgrove conducted this interview after the recent Reclaim The Night march in Melbourne.   THE SPARK: Reclaim the Night seems to have been an important event throughout Australia this year, what is reclaim the night and what has driven people to get involved? MARGARITA WINDISCH: Reclaim the Night originated in the US, with the… Read more

  • November issue of the Spark online

    By now a number of readers may have seen a letter that originally appeared in Northern Outlook, a small North Canterbury paper. In the letter Jasmine H, a 14 year old home-schooler, articulates her view that the legalisation of equal marriage, and with it a greater acceptance of homosexuality, will lead to ducks overtaking humans… Read more

  • Same work, same pay. Youth rates, slave rates!

    The Government has recently announced the introduction of a new pay rate for 16 to 19 year-olds of a $10.80 minimum wage set to take effect on April 1st 2013. The new youth rates will be set at 80% of the adult minimum wage (currently $13.50) which will apply for the first six months of… Read more

  • Construction workers strike in Queensland

    Many Kiwis see Australia as a land of high wages and great opportunities. But as the Australian economy has slowed down, workers there have had to struggle to maintain their relatively good terms and conditions, even in well-unionised industries. Employers have put up increased resistance over the renewal of Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBAs), the main form… Read more