By Annie Boanas

“No more Hiroshimas! No more Nagasakis!”

This message was repeated over and over again during my recent two week trip to Japan. Julia Johnstone and I travelled to Nagasaki and Hiroshima for the World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. We attended as representatives of the Peace Foundation and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, during the 60th Anniversary of the bombings.

By Kate Thompson, age 15, Wainuiomata
In February 2004, Wellington and the Manawatu region were affected with the worst flooding in recorded history. Then in July of the same year, the eastern Bay of Plenty region was hit even harder. They were subjected to severe flooding and they then had to cope with a consistent attack of earthquakes that lasted for a number of days, adding insult to injury.

By Miranda Cossar. The clothes we choose to wear are one of the most obvious ways we can tell the world who we are. But some people are freer to do so than others.

By Cameron Walker, Auckland. So it turns out the new hoodie that was going to make you feel good and like you fit in (finally) for just the small price of $149.95 was actually made by an under-paid, over-worked young woman in Asia. Yeah. Still feeling good?

By JEHAN CASINADER. Native West Papuans continue to fight for their freedom. In the recent past, three major countries have struggled for control of West Papua. Two failed. One didn’t.