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POLITICS HEADLINES:
Section 59: Timaru Whip Lady Back In Court
Ahmed Zaoui: NZ's North African Affairs Specialist On Algerian Bombings
Election Funding: Govt Pressured To Open Up Reform Debate
Employment: Dole Figures Lead To Plenty Of Employment For Press Secretaries
Broadcasting: Charter Driven, Public Service TV Involved in Employee Cull
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Section 59: Timaru Whip Lady Back In Court
Today the media reported that the Timaru mother acquitted, under Section 59, of using a riding crop on her son is back
in court. “The reported evidence of serious assault on a teenager by a mother and step-father must cause all those who
see no relationship between section 59 and child abuse to pause and reflect,” said Murray Edridge, Chief Executive of
Barnardos New Zealand. See... Who said changing s59 won’t reduce child abuse? [1]
ALSO:Public Address - Hard News: A Depressing Day In Court [2] Scoop Link - YouTube: The Timaru Lady speaks out - herself [3] Scoop Full Coverage - Section 59 Bill [4]
Ahmed Zaoui: NZ's North African Affairs Specialist On Algerian Bombings
New Zealanders in London when the Rainbow Warrior was sunk may know something of what Ahmed Zaoui felt after the
bombings in Algiers this week, that left over 30 people dead. Suddenly, the television screen carries images of home,
but in a truly unsettling light. See... Zaoui on the Algiers bombings [1]
Election Funding: Govt Pressured To Open Up Reform Debate
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour should stop the "shadow boxing" and put its secret plans for
election spending reform on the table. "For more than a week now, Labour has been shuffling its feet on what may or may
not be in the bill which it says will be tabled in Parliament by June. If Labour is confident its proposals are 'fair
and transparent' then it's time for them to come clean with the public. See... Secrecy on election laws anti-democratic [1]
ALSO:NZ Govt - Reforming third party advertising vital [2] ACT New Zealand - Heather Roy's Diary: No donations please, we're Labour [3] National - www.mccully.co.nz 13 April 2007 [4]
Employment: Dole Figures Lead To Plenty Of Employment For Press Secretaries
"David Benson-Pope needs say whether it is him or his department that is misleading the public over the long promised
work on 'beneficiary clusters'," says National's Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. Ms Collins is referring to a report
in the Dominion Post which revealed that 'nearly a year after the Government promised a crackdown on clusters of
beneficiary households, officials have admitted no reports or statistics were ever produced.- See...Benson-Pope fudges on 'clusters' [1]
ALSO:
NZ Govt - Maori unemployment drops below 10,000 [2] NZ Govt - Unemployment Benefit numbers drop 35% [3] National - Sickness and invalids benefit numbers climb again [4] Council of Trade Unions - Active Labour Market Approach Confirmed [5]
Broadcasting: Charter Driven, Public Service TV Involved in Employee Cull
TVNZ's decision to make nearly sixty news and current affairs staff redundant is a short-sighted move that poses a major
threat to New Zealand journalism, say the unions that represent journalists. The proposal includes the total closure of
the news reference library, the closure of Wellington's 'Sunday' office and a serious reduction of camera operators in
Wellington and Auckland, and smaller cuts across almost every other news and current affairs division. See... TVNZ proposes to gut NZ journalism [1]
ALSO:National - Groundhog day for staff at TVNZ [2] CTU - CTU Backs Workers' Stand In Favour Of Quality [3] EPMU - EPMU condemns APN outsourcing [4]
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:
NZ Govt - Google and 100% Pure NZ launch a tourism first [1] NZ Govt - Solomons focus moves to reconstruction [2] NZ Govt - Primary industries must work harder [3] NZ Govt - RMA Survey triggers investigation of councils [4] National - National backs call for emissions trading [5] National - Gun-shy Corrections failing the public [6] National - Infrastructure bonds a hoax [7] Greens - Rail electrification will cut greenhouse emissions [8] Greens - Govt needs to scale back its money grab from TVNZ [9] Dunmore Publishing - Tell The PM How To Run The Country [10]
POLITICAL COLUMNS:
Heather Roy - Heather Roy's Diary: No donations please, we're Labour [1] Pansy Wong - Pansy Speak - You're covered, yeah right! [2] Murray McCully - www.mccully.co.nz 13 April 2007 [3] Richard Worth - News Worthy - Friday 13 April 2007 [4] Marc Alexander - Marc My Words - The empire strikes back.again [5] Wayne Mapp - The Mapp Report Looks At Defence [6] Judith Collins - Collins Comments - 30 March 2007 [7]
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