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Nickelodeon
Johnny Depp, Jessica Alba, Eddie Murphy, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, Drake Bell, Chris Brown, Tony Hawk, Alvin and
the Chipmunks, Cameron Diaz (Wannabe Award) – and many more scored at Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards this year.
Catch ...
Pacific Network on Globalisation
PRESS RELEASE Pacific trade ministers slam EU bullying in trade deal Pacific trade ministers have slammed the European
Union's approach to negotiating a new trade deal with the Pacific island countries as divisive, harsh and unnecessarily
domineering.
Coalition for Open Government
The Coalition for Open Government is delighted that the Press Council has upheld its complaint against the NZ Herald's
Electoral Finance Bill campaign. The Press Council found that the Herald's front-page editorial last year contained a
"mis-statement ...
Global Research
When Gen. David Petraeus along with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker gave their testimony to the Senate on April 9,
they did nothing more than to confirm in spades what had been being mooted and duly leaked by the Washington-based
press: that the ...
PPCS
Eoin Garden, Chairman of PPCS Limited, believes industry consolidation along the lines of the proposed Alliance Group’s
mega-merger concept still represents the ultimate solution for the long term sustainability and profitability of the New
Zealand ...
New Zealand National Party
I’d like to start by congratulating the Sensible Sentencing Trust and your members for the work you do. Your advocacy
for victims of crime and your fostering of awareness of the issues they face makes an important contribution to public
debate and policy ...
PPTA
Over-emphasis on the quality of teaching ignores the wider social causes of underachievement, University of Waikato
professor of Education Dr Martin Thrupp says.
Matt Robson
In a NZ Herald Opinion Piece John Minto of the organization Global Peace and Justice argues that the recently completed
New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China will only benefit China and bring “nothing but more pain and suffering
for New ...
United Nations
New York, Apr 17 2008 4:00PMInvitations to the upcoming high-level meeting of the International Compact for Iraq – to
be held on 29 May in Stockholm, Sweden – have been issued to all UN Member States, as well as to several regional and
international ...
Department Of Labour
The Department of Labour today corrected an assertion in a media release from Air New Zealand relating to the
employment of Shanghai-based cabin crews.
Ballance Farm Environment awards
Wanaka farmers Richard and Sarah Burdon are the Supreme winners of the 2008 Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
New Zealand National Party
For several weeks now all Government guns have been trained on John Key. Forgotten, apparently, is the fact that a
majority of the Labour caucus have ministerial warrants, small empires of flunkies, chauffeur- driven limos and handsome
ministerial houses ...
The Kiwi Party
Independent enquiry called for on Immigration head’s actions. Kiwi Party Leader Larry Baldock today called for Mary-
Anne Thompson, head of Immigration NZ to stand down while an independent enquiry is conducted. “Giving special help to a
family ...
Child Poverty Action Group
With job losses appearing in an already worrying economic climate, New Zealand is about to discover the flaws in the
Working for Families package, says Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).
Scoop Link
DENILIQUIN, Australia: Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of this dusty southern Australian town, remembers the constant whir of
the rice mill. "It was our little heartbeat out there, tickety-tick-tickety," he said, imitating the giant fans that
dried the ...
New Zealand National Party
Today’s figures showing yet another increase in New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are a fatal blow to the
credibility of Labour’s climate change record, says National’s Climate Change spokesperson, Nick Smith.
Joint Media Statement
Antarctica New Zealand and Meridian Energy are about to embark on a project to build the southernmost wind farm in the
world. The project will be part of Antarctica New Zealand¹s contribution to the joint logistics pool with the United
States Antarctic ...
Undernews
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are
those who try to tell them the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
United Nations
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts has lauded the endorsement given to a landmark declaration on
the rights of indigenous peoples by the House of Commons in Canada -- one of four States that voted against its adoption
in the ...
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
Tariana Turia's comment that Wanganui's proposed ban on gang patches is akin to what the Jews went through in Nazi
Germany should spark outrage and calls for resignation from all who have any sense of perspective and morality. This is
not because I support ...
District Health Boards
District Health Boards are pleased to reach an agreement with Spotless Services (NZ) Ltd which enables low paid workers
to receive a wage increase promised last year. The agreement also averts planned strikes by the Service and Food
Workers’ Union ...
New Zealand Government
The latest annual greenhouse gas inventory report shows New Zealand’s emissions rose less than one per cent between
2005 and 2006.
John Gideon
Were you aware that HAVA mandates the accuracy of voting machines? Were you also aware that many of the voting machines
used in elections today fail miserably to meet those mandates? The maximum legal error rate is 0.0002% or one error in
500,000 ...
Meat And Wool New Zealand
Meat & Wool New Zealand has expressed disappointment that the concept for forming a new entity to consolidate the meat
industry in New Zealand has failed.
Maori Television Service
NATIVE AFFAIRS (CURRENT AFFAIRS) - Monday May 5 at 8.00 PM Julian Wilcox presents regional and national stories from a
Maori perspective as well as international indigenous news. Tonight: An in-depth look at child prostitution in central
and south Auckland.
Gordon Campbell
Helen Clark successfully kept New Zealand out of Iraq, but her policy in Afghanistan – the other front in the Bush war
on terrorism – is on track to become more hazardous until the Afghan elections, at least. Cleverly, New Zealand managed
to tuck its PRT ...
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council has absolutely no proposal for congestion charging, Chair Fran Wilde said today.
PPTA
Media Release 18 April 2008 Forward thinking teachers impress international academic. When the radio was first invented
it took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Television took 13 years and the personal computer four. It took
six hours for the ...
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New Zealand Government
New Zealand and Antarctica: the next 50 years Speech to the Antarctica NZ International Polar Year function BNZ Centre
Wellington