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PM John Key's Statement to Parliament 2010

John Key delivers his Statement to Parliament for 2010, signalling tax changes, welfare and education reform and mining on conservation land.

John Key is congratulated after his Statement to Parliament for 2010.

Sea Shepherd anti-whaling protest

Organiser Lisa Baines hails pedestrians on a megaphone during the protest.

Fire at Auckland business

A fire at Modus Architectural Lighting in St Lukes, Auckland, sent a thick column of smoke over Auckland.

WELL ABLAZE: The fire at Modus Architectural Lighting, St Lukes.

House of Horrors

HOME NO MORE: The Wainoni home where the bodies of Tisha Lowry and Rebecca Somerville were found is torn down.

Holiday snaps - Part I

Mobile phone pictures of Stuff readers' hols

Holiday snaps

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Odd accidents 2009

Crazy incidents on (and off) NZ roads

ROCKED BUT NOT ROLLED: A tonne of rock in one of Wellington's Happy Valley Rd sculptures hangs over the crashed car.

Politicians rated by Trans-Tasman

LOCKWOOD SMITH: A real commitment to Parliament.

Greenpeace protest

The banner unfurled by Greenpeace protestors at the mine.

Photos: Hone Harawira apology on Radio Waatea

Hone Harawira, right, with Radio Waatea host Willie Jackson.

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Halloween 2009

BOO! Ghostly goings-on at a Halloween party in Wellington's Oriental Bay.

Rimutaka hill crash

HARD TO FIND: The car that fell 200 metres down the Rimutaka hill near Upper Hutt came to a stop in bush.

Funeral for Aisling Symes

FAMILY: Aisling's Parents Alan and Angela, along with their daughter Caitlin.

New Zealand's top 10 birds

The top ten birds of New Zealand for 2009 as voted by the public.

THE KIWI: A rare rowi kiwi. DOC call the kiwi: 'a biological oddity - it has whiskers like a cat's, it burrows like a badger, it kicks like a kangaroo and it smells like a forest mushroom.'

Search for Aisling

TRIBUTE: A boy lays a bouquet amid flowers and toys left outside the property which had belonged to the Symes family.

Tsunami in Samoa

The stench of rotting flesh is overpowering along the stretch of coast devastated by the Tsunami.

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Sir Howard Morrison's tangi

Sir Howard's casket is carried into St Faith's Church, with his son Howard Morrison Jnr in the front.

Sue Bradford

Sue Bradford supports Hoodie Day by wearing a hoodie at Parliament.

Sir Howard Morrison photos

Sir Howard Morrison performs during Nelson's Sealord Night With the Stars in 2007.

Boobs on Bikes 2009

SAFETY FIRST: Boobs on Bikes participants pose before the parade starts.

Greenpeace protester photos

Greenpeace protesters on board the East Ambition, which was carrying palm kernel into Tauranga.

Undie 500 riots

Wilma McCorkindale took to the streets of Dunedin to photograph the mayhem that ensued from the third Undie 500 rally.

Police in riot gear during the Undie 500 car rally riots in Dunedin at the weekend.

Photo gallery: 24 hours in ED - 4am-midday

A Dominion Post team spent 24 hours in Wellington Hospital's emergency department.

A drunk patient lies asleep in his own urine.

Photo gallery: 24 hours in ED - 8pm-4am

A Dominion Post team spent 24 hours in Wellington Hospital's emergency department.

The Westpac Trust rescue helicopter arrives with an injured motorcyclist.

Photo gallery: Aircraft fossicker Tony Stevenson

Fossicker Tony Stevenson with some of of the WW2 aircraft parts at his Mystery Creek property near Hamilton.

The week in pictures - Aug 8 - 13

A lantern parade to mark the end of the Taranaki Festival of Arts, finishing at the Bowl of Brooklands.

The week in pictures: August 1 - 7

Police investigate the shooting of three people which took place on a grassed area at the junction of Farnham and Croyden avenues in Palmerston North.

Horror Waikato dog attack

A mother-of-two was attacked by eight pig dogs in an attack described by doctors as one of the most serious they had seen.

ROUNDED UP: Animal control officer Eric Teukura captures one of the dogs involved in the attack.

Wellington's south coast seals

A fur seal pup at the camp at Sinclair Head near Red Rocks on Wellington's south coast.

Pool plunge crash

An Arrowtown woman escaped with minor injuries after she drove through a fence, through a shed, struck a stone barbecue and ended up in a covered icy swimming pool.

An Arrowtown woman had a lucky escape after she went through a fence, through a shed, struck a stone bbq and flipped into a covered icy swimming pool.

Stormy weather in Wellington

FLOODED: Kokotau Rd Bridge in Wairarapa.

Clayton Weatherston murder trial

The grandmother of Sophie Elliott is comforted by Garth McVicar from the Sensible Sentencing Trust outside the Christchurch High Court after Clayton Weatherston was found guilty by the jury of murdering Sophie Elliott.

Nai Yin Xue photo gallery

COURTROOM SCENE: Nai Yin Xue reacts angrily after he was found guilty of the murder of his wife An An Liu.

White out in Dunedin

STAYING WARM: Jen Hancox stays warm while enjoying Dunedin's snowfall.

Fatal mauling at Zion Wildlife Park

A zookeeper was mauled to death by a white tiger at the troubled Zion Wildlife Park.

MAULED: South African zookeeper Dalu Mncube was mauled to death at Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens.

Winter hits New Zealand

FENCED IN: Fields of white.

Funeral for slain policeman Len Snee

EMOTIONAL OCCASION: Injured policeman Grant Diver, who was shot by Jan Molenaar, attended fellow officer Len Snee's funeral in his hospital bed.

Lightning, hail hits Wellington

Newtown, Wellington about an hour after the storm.

New Zealand ghost photos

Tony Wilson writes: This picture was taken with a digital camera at Tunnel Gully in Upper Hutt. We took it while on set for a Video clip we did with our band Civilian Down. It is quite obviously a person. I am the guitarist to the left and I'm sure that I would have noticed an old man walking through our video shoot.