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Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
Judges’ Statement included the comments: “...an obscene $5.4 million final year payment to outgoing CEO Theresa Gattung,
the scrapping of concessions for NGOs and the School Connection scheme. These sins and more ensured Telecom was in top
form ...
Round the Bays
Around 70,000 walkers, runners and wheelchair participants, including 47,000 registered entrants, laced up their shoe
laces in fine Auckland style this morning for HSBC Round the Bays, an event described as one of the biggest and most
spectacular fun ...
Ministry of Health
The review into the management of conflict of interest at Hawke's Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) has found the Board
failed the most simple test of good governance.
Paul G. Buchanan
Chinese repression of Tibetan dissidents has pushed the issue of the impending Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between New
Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) back into the news. In a diplomatic sidestep both Helen Clark and John
Key claim ...
Green Carbon Ltd
St Patrick’s Day March 17th will see the celebration of a new kind of green as new company ‘Green Carbon Ltd’ is
launched at the Westin Hotel.
Word of Mouth Media
Top New Zealand expedition leader Guy Cotter today appealed to the Government to step into the Chinese-Nepalese closure
of Mt Everest.
Freeview TV
Steve Browning, General Manager, Freeview, today announced that Kiwis' can look forward to HD capable Digital
Terrestrial Television (DTT) courtesy of the Freeview|HDTM service from 2nd April 2008.
Bill Berkowitz
Kert Davies, a campaigner for Greenpeace, called it "the largest convergence of the lost tribe of skeptics ever seen on
the face of the earth." Frank O'Donnell, head of Clean Air Watch, told The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the
conference ...
Gordon Copeland
Independent MP Gordon Copeland, the Kiwi Party’s spokesperson on commerce, today questioned whether New Zealanders are
paying too much for milk.
Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand’s domestic, Tasman and Pacific Island fares are about to cost more as a result of high fuel prices.
Group General Manager Short Haul Airlines Bruce Parton says the cost of fares in all three markets will rise by an
average of three ...
Anglican Church in Aotearoa
A Canadian Bishop who is part of a high-level advisory group to the worldwide Anglican Communion has been elected
Bishop of Christchurch. The Rt Rev’d Victoria Matthews is currently bishop-in-residence at Wycliffe College in Toronto.
She was Bishop of ...
Carbon News
A secret Government negotiating stance to try convincing the world that forests planted before 1990 should be cleared at
no carbon cost is revealed in the first edition of Carbon News which goes live at 9am tomorrow [17 March].
Kevin List
Click for big version The end of an era – Mr Stephen Fleming an deodorant salesman and onetime NZ cricket captain walks
off Wellington's Basin Reserve for the last time as a test cricketer
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
“The independent expert report commissioned by the Director-General of Health exposes seriously dysfunctional leadership
at the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical
Specialists, ...
Healthcare of New Zealand
The Director-General of Health’s independent investigation has found no illegal or unethical practice by Healthcare of
New Zealand Managing Director, Peter Hausmann, in relation to his role on the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board.
Alastair Thompson
Today's cabinet readout was followed by Q on a wide ranging variety of subjects including protest violence in Tibet and NZ's Free Trade Agreement negotiations
with China and Air New Zealand's wage rates to Chinese employees.
Andreas von Warburg
Andreas von Warburg writes that the risks posed by climate change are real and its impacts are already taking place. The
latest report of the European Commission is crudely honest and, quite frankly, one of the most alarming, with grave
repercussions ...
Te Ohu Kaimoana
Te Ohu Kaimoana, the Maori Fisheries Trust, is urging the New Zealand Government to find a compromise solution to the
whaling debate before the International Whaling Commission collapses.
Progressive Party
Roger Douglas is a dinosaur who should come out and debate his dinosaur policies if he wants to make a return to
politics, the youthful Progressive party leader and Act nemesis Jim Anderton said today.
Problem Gambling Foundation
Introducing online lotto tickets without knowing the consequences is dangerously irresponsible says the Problem
Gambling Foundation. News that NZ Lotteries is likely to move into the internet gambling business within a month has
shocked the Foundation ...
Green Party
The Green Party is calling for mandatory reporting and tightening of the rules surrounding potential conflict of
interest in the light of the Hawke's Bay District Health Board report released today.
Maritime Union of New Zealand
The Maritime Union says the use of overseas flight crews being paid under the minimum wage by Air New Zealand is a
blatant attack on workers.
Syed Akbar Kamal
Ravi Musuku the pastor from Hillsborough Baptist Church has secured National ticket for this year’s general elections to
challenge Prime Minister Helen Clark in Mt. Albert electorate for the second time.
United Nations
A senior United Nations official today underscored that challenges - which violate Belgrade's pledges to the Security
Council - to the mandate of the world body's mission, known as UNMIK, must come to an end.
Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Bargaining between members of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Telecom contractor Downer
Engineering broke down on Friday.
Australian Defence Force
In a historic day for the Royal Australian Navy and members of the Finding Sydney Foundation, the HMAS Sydney II has
been found, 66 years after the entire ship's company perished following a furious sea battle in November 1941.
Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke said the Prime Ministers' post-Cabinet statement is letting down the Tibetan people and
selling short the people of New Zealand. "Ms Clark's view that the free trade agreement with China has nothing to do
with its human rights ...
Joint Media Statement
HortResearch and AgResearch today announced their intention to explore a new level of scientific and technological
collaboration in the fields of food, human nutrition and health. The collaboration will have a strong “Farm to Fork”
focus, taking ...
Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation
Algae biodiesel developer Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation of Nelson has appointed Des Ashton as a consultant to lead key
areas of operational development, in particular aviation projects.
EUFA
As a result of meetings and contact from hundreds of Blue Chip and other finance company investors members of EUFA are
calling on the Prime Minister, as head of State, to urgently freeze the situation. The call was made to immediately “…
freeze ...