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New Zealand Government
“Missy Teka was a talented musician in her own right, a wonderful person and a good friend. I am truly saddened by her
passing” Minister of Maori Affairs, Parekura Horomia said today.
NZEI
The union representing thousands of public sector early childhood teachers, says the government should step in and buy
up all ABC Learning Centres across the country.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
Two cheers for Al Gore on his about-face on man-made Global Warming, says SOLO Principal, Lindsay Perigo. "Gore's
renunciation of a cause whose Number One cheerleader he has been for so long is a triumph of the scientific spirit.
Confronted by mounting evidence ...
Scoop News
Two top positions at the UN will be vacant by the end of June opening a new diplomatic war within the Membership to fill
them. Both leaders at the Peacekeeping Operations Dept (DPKO) and the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are
leaving.
Scoop News
Scoop News: Radio New Zealand has reported that United States Marshals have captured Nai Xin Xue in Atlanta USA this
morning (NZ Time). An Interpol arrest warrant was issued for Nai Xin Xue in connection with the body-in-the-boot
homicide case in Auckland, ...
Tiaho Trust
An internationally acclaimed photographic exhibition ‘Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality’ by photographer
Belinda Mason-Lovering will tour New Zealand.
Martha Rosenberg
The Humane Society's recent slaughterhouse expose www.hsus.org which led to the biggest beef recall in US history was an
ethical and hygienic shock to the public. We're eating WHAT people asked. The downer cows were products of the US dairy
industry ...
Kevin List
Click for big version A young and vivacious portrait of Queen Elizabeth beams down on NZ First Leader Winston Peters
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Asian Centre for Human Rights
According to Bhutan's State media on 21 Feb 2008, Bhutanese security forces arrested 8 people from the Nepali speaking
minority in Bhutan. They were detained in connection with a series of bombings apparently aimed at disrupting
forthcoming elections.
Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Forestry Offset Scheme, proposed by the Flexible Land Use Alliance today, will see investors buying and foresting
some of the more than 800,000 hectares of seriously eroding land found in New Zealand’s high country.
Flexible Land Use Alliance
Some of the country’s largest exporting companies have joined forces to seek changes to the proposed Emissions Trading
Scheme (ETS) that they say will encourage the planting of more than 800,000 hectares of seriously eroding hill country
land.
The Kiwi Party
Friday Feb 29th,2008 Largest petition collecting exercise in 20 years! At 11am this morning, Sheryl Savill and Larry
Baldock, will deliver two petitions to the Clerk of the House of Parliament. With a combined total of more than 600,000
signatures ...
United Future NZ Party
Normally when petitions are presented to Parliament, invitations are sent to MPs sympathetic to the cause regardless of
party affiliation, to be present when it is received. This did not happen today.
Skip Ink
After a huge response to this week's exclusive Visa pre-sale, good seats remain available at all prices for the Public
On Sale this Saturday (1st March) at 9am. Within three hours of tickets being offered on the Visa Entertainment's
pre-sale ...
Greg Palast
Next month marks 19 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped its load of crude oil across the Prince William Sound, Alaska. A
big gooey load of this crude spilled over the lands of the Chenega Natives. But Exxon didn't do it alone. They had
enablers.
Victoria University of Wellington
What looks at first to be a slimy mess in a Petri dish represents a highly-significant advance in conservation and
restoration ecology.
Human Rights Organization Of Bhutan
As reported the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) in Sarbhang like in ninety's started crackdown in the villages and arresting
people on suspicion of allegedly helping the so called militants and also keeping or meeting relatives from the refugee
camps in Nepal.
Peter Hausmann
Former Hawke’s Bay District Health Board member Peter Hausmann says he is deeply concerned by the deliberate campaign to
derail the review into governance issues at the board.
Unlimited Magazine
Organisation that strives to help create 'better people, better communities and a better world' voted best place to work
in the country One of the country's best loved icons, Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand, has been voted the Best Place
to Work ...
Alastair Thompson
HE Mr José Luis Robaina Garcia arrived in New Zealand with little fanfair on Halloween last year and was officially
credentialed by the Governor General in early November . Since then he has been busy establishing a little piece of Cuba
in Embassy Row ...
Downtown Community Ministries
The first definitive perspective on homelessness, a critical issue for New Zealand’s social service agencies, has been
released as an edition of Australian magazine, Parity. It has been written by New Zealand social service organisations
and government ...
Family First
More than 600,000 signatures will be delivered to Parliament today claiming that the anti-smacking law is unreasonable
and has been forced through against the will of NZ parents and their families.
Merck Sharp and Dohme NZ
New Zealanders with Type 2 diabetes now have access to a new medicine which is significantly less likely to cause weight
gain or dangerously low blood sugar; thanks to Merck Sharp & Dohme New Zealand's (MSDNZ) once-daily tablet, JANUVIA® (sitagliptin, MSD), ...
The Scoop Editor
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Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Mental health watchdog claims antidepressants are not only ineffective as a recent British study reveals, but can also
be dangerous for your health. “It should be widely known that these drugs can cause severe reactions with people,” said
Steve ...
Air New Zealand
Kiwi Mardi Gras party-goers looking to celebrate the 30th anniversary Sydney Mardi Gras in style will not be
disappointed with a tropical Pink Paradiso experience for Air New Zealand’s “Pink Flight of Fabulosity” today.
Green Party
The Green Party is hopping about on Leap Day with some serious fun with a serious message all about frogs.
New Zealand Government
Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Ruth Dyson today announced the recipients of the 2008 Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust Fellowships.
New Zealand National Party
Jonathan Coleman MP National Party Associate Health Spokesman & Wayne Mapp National Party North Shore MP
Auckland Zoo
Auckland Zoo is inviting Kiwis to join it in leaping into the global Amphibian Ark Year of the Frog campaign, which will
be helping to save the four endangered New Zealand native frog species.
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