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Panoramic images by David McLellan of frost at Karori Nornal School this morning. Miniature frostball in gloved hand
As a feminist of thirty years’ standing, I would like to make a short statement. Being able to wear short skirts and
long earrings to work is not an inalienable feminist right. It is not even a feminist issue.
New Zealand search site SearchNOW.co.nz has indexed over 3.2 million local web pages - making it easily New Zealand's
largest search engine.
More images of the environs of the most photogenic mountain village in the world taken by Norman Mackay .
Inside This Edition: It's Official - XtraMSN Is Not Abusive (Legally Anyway) - But You Too Can Be Freed From XtraMSN!
Slow down, stop multi-tasking, work less, follow your heart and soul and work from the centre of yourself. These are
messages baby-boomer executives are taking on board as a spiritual awakening travels across the world. Maree Howard
writes.
Green Party ACC Spokesperson Sue Bradford today called on the Government to reverse its sudden decision to renege on
its offer of ACC premium refunds to self-employed people who where overcharged last year.
I have received some feedback after last-week presenting an argument in favour of a home equity tax. One responder
cannot understand the difference between a home equity tax and a capital gains tax. Another sees the idea of offsetting
a tax with ...
Winz Chief Executive Christine Rankin starred in a Michael-Jackson type performance at a senior manager's conference,
dressed in an extravagant costume and descending from the ceiling on a flying rig said Alliance spokesperson on Social
Welfare, Grant ...
A three thousand year old mystery has been solved after scientists discovered that the purring of cats is a natural
healing frequency which has helped dispel the myth that a cat has nine lives and that they are simply contented. Maree
Howard writes.
Accusations from the Act Party that the Greens were using incorrect statistics in measuring the role of trucks in road
fatalities have been proven incorrect.
One key witness in the terrorist case is gone and two are left. This view was heard being expressed by someone
associated with Fiji Police after the brutal murder of Red Cross Director John Scott.
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff in the Solomon Islands. He is shown with members of the International Peace
Monitoring Team and at a weapons container at Kakabona on the outskirts of Honiara.
The theatrical trailer for the year’s most-anticipated family film - “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” will make its cinema screen debut in New Zealand for the first time on Thursday, April 5.
The following email, urging women to get their Christine Rankin styled glad rags on in support of women workers, is
doing the rounds across the country. Meanwhile, broadcasters Robert Rakete and James Coleman both donned Rankinesque
dangly earings ...
Few suspect that our national carbon stocks and net greenhouse gas emissions may also be significantly affected by soil
or the loss of it through erosion.
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson’s public statement on abolition of appeals to the Privy Council is very worrying, ACT
Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today.
The Green Party is guilty of using figures disingenuously in order to scare people about trucks, ACT MP Penny Webster
said today.
I have read Mr Wintringham's statement and will naturally be discussing the matters he has raised with the WINZ
management team.
The Prostitution Law Reform Bill that is currently before the Justice and Electoral Select Committee appears to be
heading for parliamentary approval in a country where it is illegal to sell sex but not to buy it.
Cancer Treatment – Apple Industry – Sea Search – Icy Roads – Michael Winteringham – Soy Sauce – Lake Omapere –
Indonesian Violence – Middle East – Yugoslav Parliament – Dairy Owner – Marie Jamieson
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's call for closer trading relations between New Zealand and the United
States was a welcome one, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
I have been asked to introduce this discussion by commenting on why the New Zealand and UK economies seem to be
withstanding the slowdown in the global economy.
Internationally-renowned physicist Professor Paul Callaghan is the inaugural appointee to the Alan MacDiarmid Chair of
Physical Sciences at Victoria University.
The government's refusal to refund up to 100,000 self-employed New Zealanders who were over-charged for their ACC
premiums last year, is nothing short of institutionalised theft, says ACT deputy leader Ken Shirley.
The government's response to the Maori Affairs Select Committee report on Lake Omapere in Northland is a sham and
reveals a disturbing level of self delusion, says ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley, who was a member of the committee.
It is a pleasure to join you this evening and I bring warm greetings from home.
Wellington activists will protest tomorrow outside Te Papa, where ex- Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney is
speaking. Mulroney will be promoting the NAFTA free trade agreement that his government signed with the USA and Mexico,
and encouraging New ...
If and when more teenagers are killed by another young Palestinian suicide bomber, Israel’s Cabinet will only have
themselves to blame. And when they go to comfort the grieving parents of the victims, they should remember to say sorry.
In our lead story this week….. CANTERBURY'S FINANCIAL WOES Staff at Canterbury University are calling for more rigorous
accounting after revelations of budget errors pushing the deficit up to around $7m. this year. A recent Council meeting
heard that the ...