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POLITICS
HEADLINES:
Pacific News: No Fiji Military
Coup Today, We're Playing Rugby
Scoop
Satire: Commodore Bainimarama Please Come Back To NZ,
There's Unfinished Business
Parliament: Key
Lays His Reshuffle On The Table
Justice:
Cullen Stays Action For War Crime
Exports:
Applegrowers Offered Clayton's Access To
Australia
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Pacific News: No Fiji Military Coup Today, We're Playing Rugby
Fiji's military commander, Commodore Frank
Bainimarama has put off conducting a coup in Fiji so he
could watch a game of rugby between Fijian Police and the
Army. When asked by local media FijiLive [1] whether the coup would
take place, Bainimarama said: "I have not heard anything
from him [PM Laisenia Qarase]." When asked by FijiLive what
was he going to do now that his midday deadline had passed,
Bainimarama said: "Nothing, what do you think is going to
happen?" Meanwhile, Fiji's prime minister, Laisenia Qarase
is expected to address the island nation shortly. See... Qarase
Concedes - Military Achieves Political Coup [2]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.fijilive.com/news/show/news/2006/12/01/fijilive4.html
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00514.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00001.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00006.htm
Scoop
Satire: Commodore Bainimarama Please Come Back To NZ,
There's Unfinished Business
By Lyndon Hood - We, the undersigned, being gravely concerned that the New Zealand House of Representatives has retrospectively legalised previous illegal election spending and thus usurped the Constitution of New Zealand and its democratic processes, earnestly petition you, as someone who really understands how to eliminate unconstitutional laws and fight corruption, that you return to New Zealand and "clean up" aforesaid legislation and corruption. See... Scoop Satire: Internet Clippings [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00015.htm
Parliament:
Key Lays His Reshuffle On The Table
National Party
Leader John Key has announced a reshuffled portfolio lineup
that will form the foundation of National’s team heading
into the next election. A highlight of the reshuffle is the
replacement of the front bench group with a Shadow Cabinet
that comprises the first 16 portfolio holders. See... National’s
Shadow Cabinet revealed [1]
ALSO:
KiwiFM Audio: [11] Wammo IVs
John Key - The first interview from Don Brash's old office
apparently. They talk about being leader, what to do with a
problem like Don Brash, dream teams, Hollow books, answering
emails, speech writing, centrist governments, Brian Sinclair
and his cronies…
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00011.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00024.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00021.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00016.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00505.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00574.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0612/S00014.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00020.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00018.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/#keyeng
[11]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00506.htm
Justice:
Cullen Stays Action For War Crime
Global Peace and
Justice Auckland is appalled at Attorney-General Michael
Cullen’s staying of legal action against self-confessed
war criminal Moshe Ya’alon who has been visiting New
Zealand this week. Cullen on Wednesday over-ruled Monday’s
decision by District Court Judge Avinash Deobhakta...
Deobhakta found that a prime facie case had been established
for Ya’alon’s involvement in the 2002 assassination of
Palestinian leader Salah Shehadeb in Gaza City. That bomb
strike also killed more than 20 other civilians in the
neighbourhood. See... Cullen’s
disgraceful defence of a war criminal [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0612/S00001.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00022.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00014.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0612/S00016.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0612/S00011.htm
Exports:
Applegrowers Offered Clayton's Access To Australia
New
Zealand apple growers have been denied meaningful access to
export to Australia, after the final Import Risk Analysis
was released today. Growers say Australia has blindly
ignored World Trade Organsation rulings and international
scientific evidence to keep New Zealand apples out. In a
joint statement today Pipfruit New Zealand (PNZ) and the
Australian Apple Action Group (AAAG) called upon the
Government to take immediate WTO action against Australia as
already promised by New Zealand Government ministers. See...
No
Access for NZ Apples to Australia [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0612/S00003.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00001.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00023.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00004.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00005.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00019.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0612/S00019.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00003.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00015.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00013.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00009.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00008.htm
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