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The suburb of Flaxmere in Hastings New Zealand has had its fair share of notoriety as a hot-bed of social unrest both in the past and recently. The last time was because a number of its youth (comprised of students from
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Hawkes Bay where I now live is such a great place that it’s hard to believe that firstly other people don’t know that and secondly that people who live here appear diffident in their belief of that truth too! Take it from me, it IS! It’s a stunning region.
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The Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre provides music therapy for special needs children of school age and younger. It is New Zealand’s first music therapy centre. The idea grew from a Kiwi family’s experience of music therapy in
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I’ve sometimes thought that the act of harmony and accord is such a tight-rope performance, having us teetering above a cauldron of fiery emotions that lick at our heels and feeling for all the world like they
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From time to time the buck as they say stops with you. Of course we’d all rather it didn’t, instead opting to move from under the heavy gaze of responsibility to blame-shifting. Now blame-shifting is an acquired art although children learn it with stunning alacrity right out of nappies it would seem!
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