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Developments
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, 22 June 2005 Prince William hopes to raise profile of water polo to teenagers Prince William
has chosen to attend a water polo event in west Auckland during his up-coming visit to New Zealand to promote the sport
to other ...
New Zealand wineries and grapegrowers are furious that the government has announced yet another tax increase on wine,
the 2nd in just one month.
The Government is dumping issues that requires leadership into the too hard basket until after the election, United
Future leader Peter Dunne said today in detailing half a dozen recent matters that the Government has opted not to deal
with or has ...
“Motorists, commuters and businesses will benefit from a one-off increase in the government’s tax take as the financial
industry responds to new tax law,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
The first piece below, published on the Herald's Dialogue page this week, answers the devoted fans of Che Guevara who
were upset that I was so nasty to him. The second is the text of the piece I will send out to anyone who takes up the
invitation to ...
A Salon/Rolling Stone joint investigation. When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused
autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data - and to prevent parents from suing drug
companies for their ...
Legislation tabled in Parliament yesterday paves the way for New Zealand’s wine producers who export to Australia to
have access to Australia’s wine equalisation tax rebate, Revenue Minister Michael Cullen announced today.
Bishop Tamaki’s ‘Nation under Siege’ tour attracted over 450 locals at Rotorua Boys High School last night.
A controversial plan to screen all Illinois school children for mental health disorders is set to become a reality on
June 30th, if the Governor accepts the final proposal from the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership (ICMHP).
The bill allows the crown to seize assets from suspected criminals on a civil ("balance of probabilities") standard of
proof. But the crown does not have to link the assets to any specific criminal activity; all it has to prove is that the
target has engaged ...
The most repeated excuse by U.S. media outlets for not covering the Downing Street Minutes and related documents is that
they tell us nothing new, that they're old news. This conflicts, of course, with the second most common excuse, which is
that ...
An Otago PhD student researching environmental contamination from leaky landfills has taken top honours at the 2005
MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards, held in Auckland tonight.
Northcote MP Ann Hartley is furious that Transit New Zealand says it will give priority to putting power cables on the
Auckland Harbour Bridge over a cycle and walkway, delaying the bridge bike ‘n’ hike plan for up to 20 years.
Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George
Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003
invasion and occupation of that ...
Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI
informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator
with specific ...
Dana Milbank's snotty attack on critics of White House behavior as revealed in the Downing Street memos illuminates a
carefully concealed truth about the media: its definition of objectivity stops at the edge of anything left of center.
Standard ...
The Criminal Proceeds and Instruments Bill introduced in Parliament yesterday is a gross violation of the principles of
justice and does not address the real issue of how to stop gang-related crime, says the Alliance.
The demand for electricity in the upper North Island reached a record level on Tuesday evening.
The Smokefree Coalition is welcoming a Liquor Licensing Authority ruling that Kelly Browne’s Bar must shut for three
weeks. The Cambridge bar had repeatedly thumbed its nose at the new smokefree bars law. The Coalition represents 27
health groups, ...
The roar is being heard throughout the land as the British and Irish Lions continue on their tour of New Zealand.
Gay man and human rights campaigner Jeremy Lambert is seeking inclusion on the National Front’s ‘hit list’ of known
“communists, anti-facists, anarchists, homosexuals, multiculturalists”.
After Mark Felt unmasked himself as "Deep Throat," I immediately tried to contact our contemporary GOP mole, "Shallow
Throat," inside the Bush Administration, the one who had fed us numerous tips many times before.* But I received no
response from ...
More than 1000 angry protestors whose livelihood’s rely on getting kiwi apples into the Australian market swarmed
through the streets of Wellington this afternoon. The protest was reasonably lively and a good number of office workers
and downtown commuters ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Trevor Mallard presented international rugby referee Paddy O'Brien with a special award
for his contribution to sports officiating today.
( Uncorrected transcript—subject to correction and further editing. For corrected transcripts, please visit:
http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/hansard )
The leaders of the Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Salvation Army churches held a meeting with
the Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers yesterday. At this meeting the Church Leaders noted that there had been
an improvement ...
Richard Nixon authorized the Watergate burglary and subsequent cover-up to advance his own political ambitions. Because
Nixon's lies were done for the craven purpose of getting and holding political power, his lies - in the minds of the
majority of ...
National Party MP Wayne Mapp says political correctness is deeply imbedded in New Zealand's public institutions and the
next National Government will get rid of it.
The Minister of Education’s threat issued on Monday to sack the Board of Te Wananga O Aotearoa is part of a crisis
manufactured by the government rather than created by the Wananga.
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