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Westpac's analysis of Labour's proposal to abolish interest on student loans appears to be self-interested, Education
Minister Trevor Mallard said today.
As highlighted by the television programme Stakeout, aired Channel 3, 28 July 2005, increasing anecdotal evidence
suggests that significant rates of drink spiking/drug assisted assaults are occurring in New Zealand.
If anything merits drawing the filibuster sword out of its sheath, it is the energy bill that came out of a
House/Senate conference this week.
Can anybody tell me some more about Telecom's decision to withdraw all its faster JetStream consumer plans - meaning
that anyone who wants a 2Mbit service now faces a price rise from $79 a month to a "business" rate of between $249 and
$299? I had ...
When Richard Prebble arrived in Parliament as a Labour Party MP thirty years ago he pointed out the gaps that existed
between the wealthy and the poor in New Zealand to his parliamentary colleagues. Yesterday when Mr Prebble gave his
valedictory speech ...
Industrial action has forced National Radio’s Morning Report programme off the air this morning.
It is the lie that began the long decline to America’s loss of its soul. The people are still fed, and still swallow,
the propaganda that began 60 years ago, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were leveled. As Time magazine echoed for the
umpteenth time this week: ...
Research by Otago University’s Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences suggests that young people with a
predominently homosexual orientation have significantly greater risk of developing mental health problems than their
heterosexual counterparts.
BBC journalists today condemned the use of their broadcasts by Radio New Zealand during industrial action.
Address to the Australian Defence College visit Defence and New Zealand foreign policy Hon Phil Goff Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Tradeto the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Victoria University, Wellington, 9.15am, 1 August
Author's Note: In the early 1980s, my wife Anna and I investigated a racial killing in my hometown, Tampa, Florida. This
is the story, which I recently rewrote for a new book-in-progress, And Then You Die: True Stories, Take Two.
The weekend's Sunday Star-Times BRC poll has confirmed support for Labour is on the rise while the National-New Zealand
First voting block is becoming less favoured. The Star-Times reported that its poll of 781 voters showed Labour up three
points ...
As democracy spurs, the monarchs in Nepal get up in arms, which is evidenced by two royal coups in past 50 years. The
first royal coup of 1960 orchestrated by the king Mahendra father of present king not only lasted for thirty years but
also resulted ...
Early-stage breast cancer patients who are intolerant to tamoxifen have received great news with the announcement that
Pharmac will increase funding of aromatase inhibitors such as Arimidex® from August 1. Pharmac also announced a review
of the ...
Here's another gross distortion of the truth by TeenScreen. On its web site, in response to the question, is TeenScreen
related to TMAP, the Texas Medication Algorithm Project? It says: “No. ... Some Web postings inappropriately and
inaccurately claim ...
Many students and their families wrongly believe Labour’s student loan policy means a cash windfall for them if they
vote Labour, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English.
New Zealand’s top hairdresser has been announced amidst a summit of glamour, style and fashion in Auckland last night
(July 30).
Officials Routinely Rewarded for Lying and Punished for Telling the Truth
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This week: 1. Running the Rule over the Nats 2. No Power 3. Election Bribes for Students
Labour has become so desperate to hang on to power that it has resorted to telling lies about National’s policies, says
National’s Outdoor Recreation spokesman, Nick Smith.
COLUMBUS -- New charges filed against Ohio Governor Bob Taft's former top aide have blazed a new trail between
"Coingate" and the GOP theft of the 2004 presidential election.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much for that very warm welcome. And I actually should be extending to you, ladies and
gentlemen, our friends and colleagues a welcome here to the State Department to the Harry S. Truman Room -- Building in
the Treaty Room. ...
To all those readers who take the Boy Scouts of America and their Commander in Chief seriously: What follows is a
parody, so you might want to leave before you get offended. But as a special gift, just for reading this far, here is a
photo from the U.S. Army ...
In their public statements, officials within the FDA and CDC, are always claiming that researchers and scientists who
conduct studies, not funded by drug companies or the government, are making unfounded claims about a link between
thimerosal-laced ...
My old friends Children's Hour are back together and playing a gig at the King's Arms tonight, to celebrate the release
of Looking for the Sun, a collection of live recordings retrieved and fixed up by Rob Mayes of Failsafe Records...
The National Party wants to start charging New Zealanders for the right to go hunting on public conservation lands,
Conservation Minister Chris Carter said today.
The election date is announced. Parliament finishes on Wednesday. The polls all show Labour back in front. Labour
announced interest free student loans. The Governor of the Reserve Bank predicts inflation will be over 3%.
The Maori Party today is asking questions of the Genographic Project, a huge project in which DNA samples will be
extracted from 100,000 indigenous volunteers.
Allowing the Zaoui family to reunite in New Zealand is hardly a security problem, the Green Party's Human Rights
Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Devoted to human freedom, you must embrace even the freedom to express stupidity. So I can happily report that a week
ago at this writing Thomas Friedman struck a mighty blow for freedom with one of the dumbest columns he has ever
written, "Giving ...
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