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Friday, 3 June 2005, 6:54 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: NZ Chile Singapore Brunei Strike Zero Tariff P4 Deal
Lyndon Hood's Alternative National Party Billboards
C4 Set To Rile Worlds Largest Religion
Tests Offer Positive Outlook For Breast Cancer Treatments
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
United Nations Calls For Global Action On HIV
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Kevin List's A Week Of It
Hon Simon Upton Writes About France's EU Referendum
America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives (Part 5)
Sonia Nettnin Film Review: Waiting for Quds
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
POLITICAL COLUMNS:
ACT Gets In Behind Transmission Gully
New Zealand Government / Japan Joint Statement
Green Party Smells Another NZ GE Foreign Affairs Swifty
MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
NZ Chile Singapore Brunei Strike Zero Tariff P4 Deal

[1] Tariffs will be eliminated and markets opened up for New Zealand exporters with a new Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement. Ministers from New Zealand, Chile, Singapore and Brunei, at a meeting with their APEC counterparts in Jeju, South Korea, have announced that negotiations have been completed for what was formerly called the Pacific-Three Closer Economic Partnership (P3 CEP). See... NZ Enters Tariff-Free Trans-Pacific Agreement [2] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00065.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00065.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00068.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00067.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00071.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00074.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00073.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00072.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00066.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00029.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00059.htm

Lyndon Hood's Alternative National Party Billboards

- What with the poorly-mocked up pre-publicity from Bhatnagar via Farrar , and jamming suggestions coming thick and/or fast , looks like it's open season on annoying, simplistic, disingenuous billboards. See... Does This Mean Everyone Gets To Fake Up A Nat. Ad? [1] ...Meanwhile... Maori Party Co Leader Pita Sharples told Scoop this afternoon that he was sick of Maori being used as a political football in election year. Mr Sharples was angry at the latest National Party billboard, which he considered ‘degrading’. See... Sharples Slams ‘Mischievous And Wrong’ Nat's Ad [2] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00053.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00039.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00037.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00052.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00386.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00043.htm

C4 Set To Rile Worlds Largest Religion

- It was with disappointment that Catholic organisation Family Life International learnt this afternoon that C4 television plans to proceed with the broadcasting of the offensive Popetown cartoon. See... Response to the C4 Popetown press release [1] Earlier:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00040.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00024.htm

Tests Offer Positive Outlook For Breast Cancer Treatments

- Local research shows breast cancer reoccurrence rates halved New Zealand women and local researchers contribute to landmark study. 31 New Zealand women and their oncologists have contributed to a significant step forward in the global fight against breast cancer. See... Research shows breast cancer reoccurrence halved [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0506/S00017.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0506/S00028.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0506/S00048.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0506/S00016.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0506/S00027.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00029.htm

United Nations Calls For Global Action On HIV

- Despite years of significant progress, the global battle against the AIDS epidemic is still losing ground, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told high-level officials meeting in New York to review progress made towards combating the deadly disease. See... Annan Calls for Action, Leadership against HIV [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00057.htm
[2] - http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ga/59/ga050602am.rm
[3] - http://radio.un.org/story.asp?NewsID=2245
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00061.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00051.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00060.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00058.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00056.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0506/S00054.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Kevin List's A Week Of It

- In This Edition: - John Key – From State House to Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Man - ‘Classically Liberal’ Media Dream Team Not To Be - TV3 Distance Themselves From News-Generating Perk-Busting Internet Political Diarist - What Do Georgina Te Heu Heu and Tau Henare Think Of the National Party’s Latest Campaign? See... A Week Of It: Key, K(iwi)s & Coddington [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00051.htm

Hon Simon Upton Writes About France's EU Referendum

- In this issue: The aftermath of the French referendum on the European Constitution ; and Stuart McMillan explores the NZ/Australia security relationship in an address to the NZ Institute of International Affairs. See... Upton-On-Line 2/6/05: French Referendum Aftermath [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00047.htm

America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives (Part 5)

- Death by stoning for atheists, adulterers, and practicing male homosexuals. And, oh yes, death to witches, Satanists, and those who commit blasphemy. Does this sound like a radical Islamist nightmare, a replay of Afghanistan under the Taliban? See... Steve Weissman: The Ayatollah of Holy Rollers [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00043.htm

Sonia Nettnin Film Review: Waiting for Quds

- “Waiting for Quds” chronicles the inspiring lives of a Muslim Palestinian man and an Israeli woman who fell in love, married and managed the birth of their first child while the man was a political prisoner in administrative detention. See... Sonia Nettnin Film Review: Waiting for Quds [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00042.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00049.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00048.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00046.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00045.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00044.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00041.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00040.htm

POLITICAL COLUMNS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00097.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00096.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00095.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00082.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00088.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00075.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00062.htm

ACT Gets In Behind Transmission Gully

- A final decision on the future of Transmission Gully must be made now, Wellington-based ACT MPs Heather Roy and Stephen Franks said today in announcing their party’s Wellington transport policy. The MPs released the policy in conjunction with a visit to the Paremata roundabout, the scene of frequent traffic delays for motorists leaving Wellington in peak hour and holiday weekends. See... ACT launches Transmission Gully policy [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00092.htm

New Zealand Government / Japan Joint Statement

- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan and Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand met in Tokyo on 2 June, 2005 and discussed a wide range of issues. See... Japan - New Zealand joint press statement [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00091.htm

Green Party Smells Another NZ GE Foreign Affairs Swifty

- New Zealand is doing the dirty work for pro-GE countries outside the Cartagena Protocol on bio-safety by trying to unravel the deal from the inside, says Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. See... Cartagena talks: NZ doing GE exporters' dirty work [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00069.htm

MORE PARLIAMENTARY HEADLINES:

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[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00070.htm

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