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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/02/05/1139074108606.html?from=top5
Cartoon Rage Spreads to New Zealand
(The Age-Australia) Barney Zwartz - New Zealand became the latest nation unwillingly drawn in after two newspapers ran the cartoons in a move likely to cost the country its $100 million sheep trade with Iran. Tim Pankhurst, editor of Wellington's Dominion Post - owned by John Fairfax, which also owns The Age - said the paper published the cartoons as an issue of solidarity and press freedom. More than 700 angry Muslims marched through Auckland Sunday.