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Arrest over $500,000 AUT fraud
Police have arrested a 53-year-old man over "accounting discrepancies" allegedly totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Auckland University of Technology. Jonathan Kirkpatrick resigned as chief of AUT's Business Innovation Centre...

Fiction Addiction: Introducing 'Caleb's Crossing'
Geraldine Brooks very nearly missed the inspiration for her latest novel, this month's feature book Caleb's Crossing.

Catch me if you can: Illegal downloaders
When the fangs are bared in the latest US episode of Anna Paquin's True Blood, Bernie will be watching within a few hours.

<i>Dita De Boni:</i> Stumping up to get them in class
Paying for breakfasts for all children in decile 1 -3 schools is a good, concrete start for the taxpayer...

AUT resignation over missing $500k
A senior AUT employee has quit after $500,000 went missing at the university. AUT spokeswoman Barbara Vilcich says it's a result of an internal investigation carried out by AUT.

Brian Rudman: Hunger in land of milk and honey
The causes of increased poverty, and the growth of school food programmes go back to National's big benefit cuts of 1991.

Hundreds protest 'bias' against kohanga
Marchers upset that kaumatua who teach Maori language to the young are not paid.