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In a brief announcement at the beginning of caucus today the Prime Minister Helen Clark told media that she had accepted
an offer from David Parker to resign from all portfolios. She said Mr Parker had discussed the situation with senior
colleagues ...
The public sphere as a concept which has been under development since the days of Socrates and Plato, continues to be
the subject of modern debate. Socrates, in the end, was executed not for asserting the way the world should be, but for
doubting ...
Kevin Phillips, former Republican strategist and bestselling author of American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy ,
provides a critical and extensively researched analysis of the current political condition as shaped by the “Republican
Majority” and the ...
Australia’s second biggest auction house Bonhams and Goodman are expected to return record prices at their March
auctions in Sydney starting this week.
Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left
and now the Right, is just dead wrong. On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59
million Homer Simpsons who ...
1. Dr DON BRASH to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Energy, Minister of Transport and
Minister responsible for Climate Change Issues; if so, why?
Despite Aboriginal Elder, Uncle Max Eulo of the Buddgeti Tribe (West NSW), standing in the hot sun for well over three
hours to extend a traditional welcome and invitation to the Queen and Prince Phillip and/or visit Camp Sovereignty in
King's Domain; he ...
David Parker's resignation as Attorney General was appropriate - but his subsequent departure from all Cabinet posts
would seem to relate more to a desire for comprehensive damage control than a response to the actual offence in
question...
Attorney-General David Parker could face up to $1.8 million in fines or a five year jail term after filing false
statements with the Companies Office during his time as a Labour MP, according to a story in the latest Investigate
magazine.
1. Dr DON BRASH (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Energy,
Minister of Transport, and Minister responsible for Climate Change Issues; if so, why?
Algerian Under A Death Sentence Fights Deportation http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article351349.ece
Coca-Cola Challenged at World Water Forum "Coca-Cola's Sponsorship is Like the Fox Guarding the Chicken House" Mexico
City: The India Resource Center is challenging the Coca-Cola company's sponsorship of the World Water Forum, the largest
international ...
The identity of intelligence officials who are thought to have passed information about covert CIA operative Valerie
Plame Wilson to Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, surfaced in a federal
court document filed ...
Even before it makes a jump to direct human-to-human transmission, fears of Avian Flu being acquired from poultry and
catching it from other infected humans will impact the way American society operates.
As the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq passed into history, the White House continued to dumb down what
defines "victory," Bush administration officials regurgitated their upbeat talking points, and Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld wrote an op-ed ...
SECRETARY RICE: Well, Chancellor Santow, thank you for that extraordinary and wonderful introduction and for the warmth
that you've exhibited. I want to thank the Vice-Chancellor for being here and I know that Ambassador Richardson is here,
and also to the director ...
"Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a Minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on returns to the
Companies Office to retain the critical transport and energy portfolios," says National Party Deputy Leader Gerry
Brownlee.
Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk has been running elections for 23 years. He was quite content with his optical scan
system. The state of Utah thought otherwise: On Dec. 27, Funk took delivery on 40 Diebold TSx touch-screen machines,
part of a statewide ...
Paris, 17 March 2006 - "Ignore the Bush Administration's apparent reckless intent to ravage the planet," says Greenpeace
today as experts attend an urgently convened meeting on World Heritage and climate change. Greenpeace called on the
experts to ...
“Unionists met with Philippines’ Government diplomats today to express concern at the alarming increase in deaths of
union leaders in the Philippines and the arrest of veteran political and union leader Crispin Beltran”
On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush swaggered across an aircraft carrier deck and declared "Mission Accomplished."
Yesterday, his proclamation was a little more understated. He said it marked "the third anniversary of the beginning of
the liberation of Iraq," ...
The criminal trial against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, may still be
nearly a year away, but the special counsel prosecuting the case has already provided a preview into the government's
criminal case against ...
David Parker has resigned from the position of Attorney General in the Cabinet. He keeps his other cabinet positions.
The resignation was announced around 20 minutes ago at Parliament.
Cabinet Minister David Parker said today he had offered Prime Minister Helen Clark his resignation as Attorney-General
and she had accepted it.
Two weeks before President Bush signed Congressional legislation that made permanent all but two sections of the USA
PATRIOT Act, State College, Pennsylvania., became the 397th American community to reaffirm the belief that the
Constitution and Bill ...
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you all. Please be seated. Sanjiv, thanks for the introduction. He
called me on the phone and said, listen, we believe in free speech, so you're going to come and give us a speech for
free. (Laughter.) ...
Hungry for love after a trouncing on these pages by antiquities whistleblower Oscar Muscarella, New York Times chief art
critic Michael Kimmelman and Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello took their "Who Owns Art" show
last week to ...
Eight people, including three former High Court judges, have been appointed to the Expert Panel which will from June 1
determine disputes over .nz domain name registrations.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill held a press conference this
afternoon at the US Embassy. Scoop attended and asked the most senior U.S. diplomat to visit New Zealand in recent times
whether ...
New Zealand gamers keen to be first to get their hands on Xbox 360 – the new generation of electronic gaming that was
an instant sell-out in the United States – are heading to Hamilton tomorrow (Weds, March 22).
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