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When is it ever appropriate to get your kit off and sprint down Queen Street in your undies to the screams of hundreds
of supporters?
I want to make it clear that when I referred in my statement of resignation to a "politically appointed" Board, I was
not alleging that there has been political interference in the editorial content of TVNZ News. I state categorically
there has been none. ...
“I can confirm that I told the Chairman of TVNZ on Friday that I intended to resign my position as Chief Executive.
Mexico’s Treaty Deposit at the UN Reveals a Momentum that will not be Reversed
5: The Letter
Ian Fraser goes before he is pushed. Today Cabinet signs off the government program for the opening of Parliament next
week.
TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND $202 BILLION into the war in Iraq, the United States has at least one significant new asset to
show for it: effective membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting ...
Earlier this week State Services Commisioner Mark Prebble released a report showing that Public Service chief
executive's wages were not rising as fast as he wanted them to. In a graph on page 102 of the report a brave line clawed
its way to salaries ...
On Friday, after securing a five-count criminal indictment against Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis
“Scooter” Libby, for lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when he knew it in regard to the outing of a covert
CIA agent, ...
National's Broadcasting spokesperson Georgina Te Heu Heu has accused TVNZ of having abandoned political neutrality
during the election campaign. She told RNZ that "during the election... [TVNZ's] political neutrality... seemed to be
absent."
Amidst rumors that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is close to indicting White House officials in the Plame leak
case are reports that Scooter Libby was Judith Miller’s source of information. Part One of this series explored Libby’s
“handler,” ...
Following the statement released earlier today by Ian Fraser, the TVNZ Board of Directors wishes to make it clear that:
Ian Fraser's allegations of political interference by the TVNZ board are extremely serious and need to be thoroughly
investigated by an inquiry that takes in the state broadcaster's contradictory mission, Green Party Broadcasting
Spokesperson Sue Kedgley ...
ACT leader Rodney Hide said today that the festering sore of TVNZ's political shenanigans and mismanagement should be
properly addressed.
Supporting the basic human rights of transgender and intersex people has nothing to do with political correctness and
Wayne Mapp’s remarks over the dumped gender identity bill are just another glaring example of intolerance, PPTA
president Debbie ...
For immediate release The Chairman of TVNZ, Mr Craig Boyce, announced today that TVNZ has accepted, with regret, the
resignation of CEO, Ian Fraser.
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today she was distressed to learn that more than 50 people had died in three explosions
in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
National Party Leader Don Brash says the TVNZ board must resign if there is found to be any basis to the serious
allegations raised by Ian Fraser as he resigned.
A New Zealand soldier sustained lower body injuries during routine movement of ordinance for disposal at a Coalition
Base in Afghanistan earlier today. An explosive device detonated during handling.
Green Party MP Keith Locke has expressed his sadness at the injury of a New Zealand SAS soldier in Afghanistan, and
asked for a reassessment of the SAS role there.
National Party Families spokeswoman Judith Collins says a court case highlights the folly of the Greens/Labour push to
change the laws that protect parents who might lightly smack their children.
Gay, disabled comedian and social entrepreneur Philip Patston believes he should be eradicated, as a warning to anyone
who thinks they should be the beneficiaries of political correctness.
As part of my general getting up to speed with the theft of a national icon, I decided to look into the story of the
real Pania of the Reef. Typically there are variations, but here's the version I like best...
The lives of many Zambians could be in peril with the number of people needing food assistance climbing to at least 1.7
million due to crop failure and rising food prices, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today in an urgent
appeal for more ...
National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says there is something wrong when police can prosecute a speeding driver by mail on the
word of a member of the public but ignore videotaped evidence of a burglary.
The central tenet for war planners in countries with the ability to project force abroad is summarised in four words:
stage, thrust, seize, and hold. The US proved remarkable in accomplishing the first three phases of the invasion of
Iraq. What ...
Topics covered included: - The resignation of TVNZ CEO Ian Fraser; - The status of the investigation into Taito Phillip
Field; - Foreign Minister Winston Peters travel plans; - Greenpeace's concerns over NZ's approach to a moratorium on
deep sea fishing ...
Review by International Researchers Concludes That Child Abuse is a Causal Factor for Psychosis And Schizophrenia
With Scooter Libby's indictment, the first shoe has been dropped in the Plamegate criminal case. Whether there will be
other shoes is problematic.
Why did the creation of Israel engender such deep but opposing emotions in the Islamic world and the West, leading to
Arab wars against Israel and Israeli wars against its Arab neighbors, producing tensions that have poisoned relations
be-tween Islam ...
From the point of view of business and the economy (which means, in effect, the living standards of all New Zealanders),
there are some promising omens arising out of last month’s general election and the formation of the new government.
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