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Difted Media Group
Craig Gross, founder and pastor of the United Stated based XXXchurch.com is currently touring Australia. A former you
pastor turned self proclaimed “Porn Pastor”, Gross started XXXchurch.com in 2002. The website has been featured around
the world ...
Toni Solo
Starting April 1st, 2008, Lufthansa offers 295 seats, three times a week, in a superb Airbus for anyone wanting to
travel from Frankfurt to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea’s capital city. It now seems incredible that in the 90’s only Iberia
flew to Malabo, ...
New Idea Magazine
Terri Irwin is fighting back over claims she has kicked out her father-in-law Bob and is selling the animal park made
famous by her late husband, Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. She points out that she has helped fund Bob's dream to create
a new ...
Kevin List
A sommelier in Wellington signed up his son as the 500,000 Kiwi Saver this afternoon at the ninth floor of the Beehive.
Jules Van Cruysen, who is a Labour Party supporter but not presently a card carrying member, was happy to put down the
plonk and complete ...
Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior has blocked a shipment of export coal from leaving the Port of Lyttelton. This is
the first time the Rainbow Warrior has been used to block another ship in New Zealand.
John Lama
Gyanendra, supposedly the last king of Nepal, is not contrite. He seems as confident as before when he was equipped with
ample state powers and privileges. He still lives in the Narayanhiti Royal palace and oversees the classic drama of
conflicts and contradictions ...
Undernews
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. -- William Allen White
Toni Solo
"Evidence is mounting that United Nations peacekeepers shot and killed unarmed civilians, including children, during a
recent raid in Haiti...Independent witnesses say up to 23 people were killed during the raid and that many were shot in
the head. ...
New Zealand Government
Minister for Building and Construction, Shane Jones, today announced plans to slash red tape in the building industry
and provide simpler, more flexible consents process for starter homes.
Hugh Pavletich
“The initial steps announced by the New Zealand Government, in belatedly addressing the serious issue of housing
affordability, are to be welcomed” said Hugh Pavletich, co author of the Annual Demographia International Housing
Affordability Survey.
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council (Greater Wellington) is to prosecute Exide Technologies Limited (Exide) for a second
breach of its lead-to-air discharge resource consent conditions.
Green Party
Green Party MP Keith Locke wants the Government to criticise the Fiji Government's support for the Chinese actions in
Tibet. The Fiji Prime Minister's secretary Parmesh Chand confirmed today that a letter of support had been sent to the
Chinese Government.
Care For The Wild
New Zealand has received the worst possible ranking, last amongst 130 countries, for its protection of threatened
species, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report (T)
Suzan Mazur
IT'S PRIVATE. That is now the word from organizers as to whether or not the public can listen-in to the conversation of
16 scientists meeting to remix the theory of evolution at Altenberg, Austria in July. So while Konrad Lorenz Institute
where the ...
Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The new meal-break law will make a huge difference to tens of thousands of New Zealand workers says the Engineering,
Printing and Manufacturing Union. While nearly all unionised workers already have paid breaks and lunch-hours written
into their collective ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says the housing policies announced today by Labour are an admission of
both guilt and failure.
Australia West Papua Association
Australia's defence minister should not only raise the human rights situation in West Papua with the Indonesian defence
minister but call on the Indonesian government to release all political prisoners including the nine arrested in
Manokwari.
Fisher Funds
Fisher Funds today announced the re-opening of its three New Zealand funds to new investments. The Fisher Funds NZ
Growth Fund, Fisher Funds Premium NZ Fund and the Fisher Funds Fledgling Fund had been closed to new investment in
October 2007 as ...
Skip Ink
New Zealand’s newest singing sensation Elizabeth Marvelly will perform on Dancing With the Stars TOMORROW night.
New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says Housing Minister Maryan Street should withdraw her Affordable Housing
Bill.
Christchurch City Council
A major clean up is in under way in the Botanic Gardens today after vandals caused damage in two areas of the gardens
over the Easter weekend. Last night two newly planted areas were torn out, with plants and rocks dumped along the
pathways. Garden ...
Silver Ribbon Foundation
On the weekend of her 5th Wedding Anniversary, Shaline received her ovarian cancer diagnosis - stage 4 Ovarian Cancer
and a few years left to live. “I would assume that a cancer diagnosis will always come as a shock, but I could not
understand how ...
Asia New Zealand Foundation
In this issue, Tibet, the Beijing Olympics and a free trade agreement put China at the top of the news agenda for the
months ahead. There’s also information of a new regional media scholarship for young New Zealand journalists, a regional
school ...
New Zealand Government
The Minister of Education, Chris Carter, says he will visit the site of the serious fire at Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o
Taumarere in Northland tomorrow. Over the weekend five classrooms were destroyed at a Maori immersion school, Te Kura
Kaupapa Maori ...
Rosalea Barker
As me dear old Dad was fond of saying wryly: the Lord moves in mysterious ways. And so it was that on Easter Sunday, I
woke up so late I caught just the closing credits for “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and had to bunny-hop across
the channels ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Northland Labour List MP Shane Jones said today he was left shocked and in “agony” at the arson attack which destroyed
the Kura Kaupapa School in the small Bay of Islands township of Moerewa.
Syed Akbar Kamal
Voices of discontent are emanating from some quarters concerning the proposed new Waitemata harbour crossing. They say
millions and billions of public dollars are at stake and there seems to be surreptitiousness in the way things are being
presented ...
New Zealand Government
Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe has announced the government will fund the
establishment of a new overarching digital sector forum.
New Zealand Government
500,000 New Zealanders are planning for their future and are now enrolled in the Labour-led Government’s KiwiSaver
scheme, Prime Minister Helen Clark, Finance Minister Michael Cullen, and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne announced today.
Local Government NZ
“New initiatives to improve the building consent process for starter homes are positive steps forward,” said Local
Government New Zealand President Basil Morrison.