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Julia Gillard
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Prime Minister from 24 June 2010 to - 26 June 2013
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1879 Kaitangata mine accident
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On 21 February, 34 miners were killed in an explosion at the Kaitangata coal mine in Otago.
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1894 Wairarapa shipwreck
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In the third worst shipwreck in New Zealand waters, 121 lives were lost when the Union Steam Ship Company steamer Wairarapa struck Miners Head, on the northern tip of Great Barrier Island, 90 kilometres north-east of Auckland.
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1896 Brunner mine accident
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On 26 March an explosion at Brunner, West Coast, killed 65 coal miners in New Zealand’s worst mining disaster.
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1942 Seacliff Mental Hospital fire
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On 9 December a fire at Seacliff Mental Hospital, north of Dunedin, killed 37 of the 39 female patients in Ward 5.
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1943 Hyde railway accident
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On 4 June the Cromwell–Dunedin express derailed near Hyde, central Otago, with the loss of 21 lives.
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1947 Ballantyne’s fire
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On 18 November 41 people were killed in New Zealand’s deadliest fire, in the Ballantyne’s Department Store in Christchurch.
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1968 Wahine shipwreck
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On 10 April the Lyttelton–Wellington ferry Wahine struck Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in atrocious conditions caused by tropical cyclone Giselle.
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1984 Floods devastate Southland
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A record one-day total of 84.8 millimetres of rain caused extensive surface flooding in the streets of Invercargill, Riverton, Otautau, Tuatapere and Bluff. A state of emergency was declared in the early hours of 27 January.
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1995 Cave Creek disaster
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On 28 April a Department of Conservation viewing platform built over a cliff at Cave Creek in the West Coast’s Paparoa National Park collapsed, killing 14 people.
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