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The Green Party is urging Air New Zealand to buy Kiwi made after the announcement today that the airline is considering
laying off 600 aircraft maintenance staff in favour of sending work offshore.
Hurricane Wilma, which earlier today became the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, remains on track
to make landfall on the Florida Peninsula sometime this weekend.
Nothing in politics is so simple that it can't be misunderstood. The closed-door coalition shuffle is mercifully at an
end. And did it take its time! We had an election over a month ago and we got what we least expected: a result that
should have come ...
Three United Nations peacekeepers who were injured in a road accident in the Eritrean-Ethiopian border area had to be
evacuated over land in an eight-hour trip "under very precarious conditions" because Eritrea did not respond to a
request to lift ...
Beneath an unsmiling portrait of Queen Victoria, a couple of likely lads in the shape of Winston Peters and Peter Dunne
made up the numbers for the third successive Labour/Jim Anderton Government.
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing
of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of
prewar ...
17 October 2005 Immediate release Futuristic concept from Hyundai shocks Tokyo Hyundai has grabbed the opening limelight
at the Tokyo Motor Show with a startling new concept for a crossover vehicle. Called the Neos III, the radical newcomer
sports a big V8 ...
Helen Clark said that the government was renewing and refreshing itself for the third term in government.
The deal that has cleared the path for government agencies to adopt and expand their use of non-proprietary software is
great news for the Open Source cause in New Zealand, Green Party IT Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.
New Zealand First congratulates Hon Parekura Horomia for his reinstatement as Maori Affairs Minister, and his elevation
to the front bench, but warns that his performance will be closely monitored.
Embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller acted as a "middleman" between an American military unit and the Iraqi
National Congress while she was embedded with the U.S. armed forces searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in
April ...
Appointing a person with no judicial experience whatsoever to the Supreme Court is by no means an unprecedented act.
Indeed, some of the most influential Justices ever to serve never wore the robe before assuming that high seat. Earl
Warren and William ...
Captain Ken Masters, British chief police investigator in Basra died under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death
was not mentioned. According to a Ministry of Defense spokesman, his death was "not due to hostile action" nor to
natural causes.
The New Zealand Press Association, in a dramatic departure from its traditional role as the national news agency, has
launched its photo and graphics arm, NZPA Images, to coincide with the start of Auckland Fashion Week.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has announced that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and United Future leader Peter
Dunne have been allocated ministerial positions in a Labour-led Government. Labour has successfully negotiated a
Centre-Right deal that ...
It is just as well for Helen Clark that the prostitution law reform bill was carried. Otherwise she would be a prime
candidate for prosecution. Wellington lawyer Michael Appleby, who is Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party Leader, said that
getting into bed ...
The Labour Government should step in as the major shareholder of one of the most important strategic assets in this
country and take control of Air New Zealand before the privatisers wreck the company - as they did before.
More than 70 people took part in an action organised against the Weapons Defence Industry Association conference held
at Te Papa on Tuesday. The action, which was organised by Peace Action Wellington, involved a large sit-in/blockade in
front of ...
Steve Maharey says he is delighted with his new role as Education Minister and determined to build on the significant
gains made under the previous two Labour-led governments.
"The PSA and the Greens now have something in common - they both know what it feels like to be shafted by the
Clark/Peters Government," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key.
"Finance Minister Michael Cullen returns to Cabinet with his integrity and his reputation already in tatters," says
National Party Finance spokesman John Key
As the new Government celebrated the swearing in of its Ministers at Government House, unionists were reeling at the
devastating announcements of mass job losses with Air New Zealand.
Air New Zealand engineers are shattered to learn that 600 of them could lose their jobs. The company today announced
that it proposes making 600 of the 2100 engineers redundant in July next year.
In the weeks and months preceding the Iraq war in March 2003, various US officials informed the already baffled public
that the war would be marred with tactical misinformation for the sole purpose of derailing Iraq’s war stratagems and
ultimately protecting ...
As the world mobilizes to combat a potential deadly human bird flu pandemic, the risk of the virus spreading to the
Middle East and African countries has markedly increased after the confirmed outbreaks in Romania and Turkey, the United
Nations ...
The latest proposal for a shortened Transmission Gully road would create a very expensive cul-de-sac and virtually
ignores the need to improve public transport, Green Party Transport Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
For years, I searched for my purpose in life. For a while, I thought maybe it was to help spike the country’s marriage
mean average, with three mean marriages (hey, it takes two, or, in this case, four total) to my, uh, credit. However, I
think I’ve ...
Let's be geeky about something else for a change: the IRB's Tri-Nations 2005 Statistical Review and Match Analysis is
online (PDF) and it's fascinating. Foremost among its findings: 100% of tries scored in this year's Tri-Nations games
were preceded by ...
Different standards apply. The signing of someone else’s work can be described as plagiarism. Patently that this has
taken place in the Maxim foundation is a great pity because their very useful work will carry a stigma for some time.
Bruce Logan ...
Two separate sets of information on business continuity planning are being released today, Thursday 20 October.
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