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New Zealand Post
From Thursday 6 March 2008 New Zealand Post and Visa International will be offering New Zealand e-tailers an opportunity
to expand their customer base with the launch of “Loaded”, the country’s first general-purpose reloadable prepaid Visa
card.
ACT New Zealand
I am delighted to announce that Sir Roger Douglas has committed his formidable skills and experience to the 2008 ACT
Campaign.
Sam Smith
SAM SMITH - AP started it in their lead story on Ralph Nader's announcement that he is running for president: "He is
still loathed by many Democrats who call him a spoiler and claim his candidacy in 2000 cost the party the election by
siphoning ...
Green Party
The Young Greens will be strongly campaigning in support of Sue Bradford's Youth Rate Abolition Bill, Green Party Youth
Affairs Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.
Effie Awards
Singapore, 29th February 2008. The first-ever Asia Pacific Effie Awards, which recognize the most effective advertising
and marketing campaigns across the region, were presented in Singapore this evening at a gala dinner marking the close
of the inaugural World ...
The Maori Party
The precious love lyrics of 'E Ipo' will be resonating in many Maori homes around Aotearoa, said Dr Pita Sharples today
at hearing of the death of Missy Teka.
The Marketing Association
Oxfam ‘Unwrapped’ campaign by TEQUILA\ and Onecard Wine programme by Proximity iD share top honours at NZ Direct & Interactive Marketing Awards
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.
Global Peace And Justice Auckland
Wednesday 5th March, Auckland District Court, Albert Street, 9am to 11am. All the defendants arrested in the so-called
anti-terror raids on October 15th last year appear in court once again along with four further Tuhoe activists arrested
last ...
New Zealand Government
Labour supports the call from Every Child Counts to establish a cross-party caucus to discuss issues affecting children,
says Minister of Social Development, Ruth Dyson.
GE Free NZ
Money Wasted; Public Left in Dark Over Non-GE options to Feed the World Last year traditional and non GM plant breeding
methods achieved spectacular advances. The breakthrough developments produced plants with higher nutritional values,
tolerance ...
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 ...
Abukar Arman
Whenever the media fails to press and keep the powerful at check the inevitable consequence is prolonged oppression,
lethal destruction, and radicalized insurgency. Aside from Baghdad, nowhere is such consequence more evident than in
Gaza and Mogadishu.
UNICEF
“Children’s Day 2008 gives us a very special reason to celebrate and congratulate our Parliament on its courageous stand
in support of children.
Smokefree Coalition
The Smokefree Coalition is calling an alcohol promotion involving a cigarette tin give-away scurrilous, underhanded and
reprehensible.
New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government's failure to deal with growing health workforce shortages is directly to blame for what is looming
as a crisis of desperate proportions in public hospitals this winter, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
NZ Dairy Industry Awards
Moving to New Zealand to pursue a dairying career has proven extremely fruitful for Arno Renes, who has won the 2008
Manawatu Rangitikei Horowhenua Farm Manager of the Year Award.
Scoop News
Scoop News: Candidates are beginning to appear for the vacant role of United Nations Special Envoy for Afghanistan after
the collapse of the candidature of prominent British politician Lord Paddy Ashdown. Norway’s Ambassador to NATO) in
Brussels.
Candor Trust
ACC should rethink if they plan to decorate NZ?s new drug test capable "booze buses" with bold anti drink driving livery
alone. That could exacerbate the drug driving epidemic by communicating an offer of immunity to high risk offenders.
Spirit of New Zealand
The Hillary Step that the Spirit of New Zealand had made to allow the family to scatter Sir Ed's ashes on the Hauraki
Gulf this afternoon at the waterline. The two young women in the photograph are: Left - Larissa Mueller of Auckland
(Spirit of NZ volunteer ...
NIWA
National Climate Summary – February 2008: A Northland flood, but generally a very dry North Island
Rural Women
Rural Women New Zealand is part of the Government’s recently formed National Drought Committee, with our National
President Margaret Chapman attending weekly meetings in Wellington. We have recently set up a blog, ‘Droughtspeak’ which
you can link ...
Greater Wellington Regional Council
A comprehensive water strategy is on the cards for the Wellington region following agreement by local political leaders
to work in a collaborative exercise.
New Zealand Government
The Multi-Party Working Group on Family Violence is giving its full backing to this year’s Children’s Day.
Auckland Cup Week
Hats were firmly fastened and the pretty young things were out in force as Aucklanders swapped their traditional blue
and white and donned the traditional black and cream for Mercedes Derby Day. Â
Middle East News Service
Virtually every news media in the country is reporting the story below which is taken from the Sydney Morning Herald. My
colleague Shraga Elam, an Israeli journalist living in Switzerland, a winner of Australia’s Gold Walkley Award and, for
anyone interested, ...
Sam Smith
The Clintonites' sense of entitlement stemmed from qualities they valued in themselves and others: intelligence, skill
in communications, and a managerial ability to rise above the factions and ideologies of everyday life.
Sex Therapy New Zealand
Lack of sexual desire, infrequent intercourse, relationship problems, sexual avoidance and anxiety about sex are the
most common sexual problems experienced by New Zealanders. Massey University student Laura Buckley completed Honours in
psychology with a study ...
Internet NZ
InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) supports the Minister of Communication's decision to decline
Telecom's Amended Separation plan. Today David Cunliffe instead set out further amendments he will require to the draft
plan before he accepts it.
Toni Solo
Cuba was ranked at 51 in the 2007 UN Human Development Index. One place above Mexico. You will never read that fact in
corporate mainstream reporting on Cuba. Nor will you read that around 90% of those eligible voted in Cuba's recent
elections. Nor ...