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The Maori Party
Kahurangi Taylor last night confirmed what her parents always knew, when she won Miss World New Zealand.
Paul G. Buchanan
Paul Buchanan writes: The Waihopai ANZAC Ploughshares direct action operation on the Echelon signals intelligence
(SIGINT) collection station outside Blenheim is an excellent example of civil disobedience in a democracy. It also
raises questions ...
New Zealand Government
The Labour-led government has reached agreement with Toll Holdings Ltd for the purchase of Toll New Zealand’s rail and
ferry business, Prime Minister Helen Clark and Finance Minister Michael Cullen announced today.
New Zealand Government
Q What will the government own after today's purchase? A The government already owns the rail infrastructure which
includes 4,000 kilometres of track, six million sleepers, 1,787 bridges, 150 tunnels, 12,000 culverts and signalling
infrastructure including ...
New Zealand Government
Bill English has been rolled on his previous promise to sell the rail network back into private ownership as John Key
makes it clear National will not campaign on any actual policy principles, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
grahamcleghorn.org.nz
Cambodia is desperately poor. A few short years ago, there was no justice, and millions were killed. Today there is a
fledgling justice system, but corruption is rife.
New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says at a time when householders are struggling to pay the weekly bills, Helen Clark’s
decision to spend the thick end of a billion dollars to buy back the rail rolling stock does not make any sense.
Lena Maria Fa'asino
The High Court in Auckland has relaxed bail conditions to allow Tame Iti to travel to Europe to play a part in a play
that ironically explores sovereignty issues and unlawful detention in an uneasy post 9/11 world.
Undernews
ABC NEWS The $6 billion reading program at the center of President Bush's signature education law has failed to make a
difference in how well children understand what they read, according to a study by the program's own champion - the U.S.
Department ...
Waikato District Health Board
Mary-Beth Wood, 15, thought the driver of a car that lost control and slid into the crowd outside a bach in Otahu Rd,
Whangamata yesterday was just "kidding and showing off".
Suzan Mazur
In his new book, Reinventing the Sacred , legendary complexity pioneer Stuart Kauffman continues to challenge the view
of most biologists that natural selection is the only source of order. However, Kauffman is more charitable than
hundreds of other ...
New Zealand National Party
Treasury figures released today that put New Zealand's Kyoto liability at over $1 billion for the first time demonstrate
the extent of Labour's climate change failure, says National's Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith.
Progressive Party
Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton is welcoming the repurchase of New Zealand’s trains, saying they should never
have been sold by National in the first place.
Green Party
The Green Party congratulates the Government for finally recognising the important role rail will play in a future with
less oil.
Gordon Campbell
Today’s $665 million buy-back of the rail network from the Australian firm Toll Holdings is a genuine cause for
celebration. For years, it seemed the privatisation of key assets carried out at the height of the 1980s market mania
was irreversible. ...
New Zealand First Party
New Zealand First has welcomed the Government’s purchase of Toll New Zealand’s rail and ferry business but regrets that
the railway system was sold for a song in the first place.
Uri Avnery
EVERY TIME I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words "Therefore we are gathered here…" I think of Issar
Barsky, a charming youngster, the little brother of a girl-friend of mine.
Rail And Maritime Transport Union
“Railway workers will be celebrating today’s news of the government’s repurchase of the national rail and ferry
operations. This purchase will see the national railway asset and the “iron bridge” across Cook Strait returned to the
people of NZ, ...
Auckland Regional Council
Auckland Regional Council chairman Michael Lee congratulates the New Zealand Government on its decision to purchase Toll
New Zealand’s rail and ferry business.
Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The urgent need for civics and citizenship education in our schools has been underlined by the Electoral Enrolment
Centre survey of New Zealanders which showed an abysmal lack of general knowledge of our political system.
SOIL and HEALTH Assn of NZ
Crown Research Institute Scion's claim that its research shows that GE trees are environmentally safe is seriously
misleading, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ.
Electricity Commission
New Zealand taxpayers have paid the Electricity Commission $230 million over the past four years but have next to
nothing to show for it, says National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee.
Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is praising the actions of the TradeMe community after an investigation into children's cots
being offered for sale via an online auction.
Natasha Burling - AUT Journalism Student
Natasha Burling reports that while opportunities have improved for deaf people in New Zealand there is still much to be
done to assure sign language is accepted not just by governments but also understood. Interpretation is the key.
Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland May 5 2008 – Delaying the transport component of the emissions trading scheme won't help householders, but it
will help trucking and oil companies, says Greenpeace.
Tortilla con Sal
In recent months, critical reports from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, international institutions
crucial in developing neoliberalism, have joined numerous voices from civil society warning of the social, economic and
environmental ...
NZ Biofuels Manufacturers Association
Biofuels should not become a political scapegoat for petrol and diesel price increases says the New Zealand Biofuel
Manufacturers Association.
Greenhouse Policy Coalition
The Treasury has just revalued New Zealand’s Kyoto Protocol deficit to be worth over $1 billion based on a price of
NZ$22/tonne of carbon, a 165% increase in the price of carbon over three years (38% compounding per annum).
West Coast Brewing
Recently West Coast Brewery had its flash bar stolen in Auckland. It is contained in a distinctive very large trailer
that promotes the Hokitika Wild Foods on one side with a snail perched on top of a beer bottle. The other side promotes
the West ...
Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board's key focus during the next strike by junior doctors will be on maintaining patient
safety.