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Scoop Audio
Audio: At the National Party conference on Friday night National Party deputy leader Bill English was overheard talking
to a couple of delegates about how he would sell KiwiBank and make changes to Working For Families once elected.
Green Party
News that the National Party plans to borrow billions and gut the RMA so it can fast track new motorway projects is
evidence that National is living in the past, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.
Undernews
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton
Sinclair
MTV NZ
Christchurch will experience an invasion of heavyweight musicians when US hip hop stars Lil Jon, Fat Joe and Baby Bash
as well as Aussie Rockers The Vines fly in to perform at the upcoming 2008 MTV Snow Jam.
New Zealand Government
Revelations that National intends to sell Kiwibank if it is elected are a serious blow to the credibility of John Key
and Bill English, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
L'Oreal Colour Trophy Awards
Caleb Alex from Servilles in Newmarket has been crowned New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year after taking out the Supreme
Award at the prestigious L’Oréal Colour Trophy Awards last night (August 2).
Sherwood Ross
When Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were
killed and nearly 900 wounded. This slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned in the United States and Great Britain.
Department Of Labour
The Department of Labour says it is now of the opinion that a scientist who contracted meningococcal disease while
working at an Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) laboratory probably contracted the disease from the
laboratory in ...
New Zealand National Party
John Key: Today we can once again reaffirm the very values and principles this party was founded on. Personal
responsibility. Love for families. Support for our communities. Respect for one another. And a fundamental belief that
less government is better ...
Scoop Full Coverage
On the weekend National Party leader John Key rolled out a vision for New Zealand. The vision included Corrections
reform and a building infrastructure plan... This Full Coverage item includes Gordon Campbell's analysis and raw news
reaction.
Scoop Audio
95bFM Audio : Joe Nunweek talks to Bill English, National's number two man, about the policy released by the part at
their annual conference and his supposed gaff about Kiwibank.
University of Auckland
A major full-day conference on immigration law and human rights is being staged in Auckland on 12 September.
New Zealand Government
Low income families and beneficiaries have access to further financial assistance from tomorrow. The doubling of Special
Needs Grants (SNGs) for food and increased assistance for the other emergency category is administered by Work and
Income.
Scoop Review of Books
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast Victoria University Press, $60. Review by RICHARD THOMSON for the
Scoop Review of Books Between 1890 and 1920 the New Zealand government bought 4.2 million acres of Maori land, for which
it paid ...
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
The High Court direction to release Bailey Kurariki from prison doesn't alter the fact that he breached his parole by
smoking cannabis, said Kim Workman , Director, Rethinking Crime and Punishment. He needs to be confronted about that,
and a strategy ...
US State Department
The United States, along with many other countries, is facing a stiff challenge in rising energy prices. The escalating
price of oil is a drag on American consumers' pocketbooks and on the U.S. economy and is adding to inflationary
pressures.
Scoop Audio
Text & Audio: Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning raises the question: If a National govt builds the infrastructure, will it also
pay for the service? Or are we seeing a policy that will have the user pay a private provider for essential services?
Scoop Audio
95bFM Audio : Mikey Havoc talks to the PM Helen Clark about the National Party's weekend conference and policy roll
out, privatisation, voting numbers and Tonga's new King.
New Zealand Police
The name of the man believed to have been struck and killed by a train in South west Christchurch on Saturday night has
been named as Wayne Michael McKenzie, a student aged 23. Mr McKenzie was originally from the West Coast but now of
Christchurch. ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Labour has scored an impressive own goal in its rush to attack
National’s plan to significantly boost infrastructure investment.
PPTA
As the election campaign starts heating up the Electoral Finance Act complaints come rolling in.
Ramzy Baroud
The exit of Bush from the White House is already anticipated in the Arab region with sighs of relief. But what is ahead
under the next US president; more of the same, regardless of who wins, or change?
Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The physicist Richard Feynman, who famously dunked a little O-ring in ice water and broke it to demonstrate why the
Space Shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, was fond of saying, “Don’t fool yourself; and you are the easiest person to
fool.”
Small Business Expo Ltd
The popularity of an information roadshow to help small businesses succeed has resulted in a second series of events
that kicks off in Tauranga today, said the Minister for Small Business Clayton Cosgrove.
Family Planning
Upd@teMe – sexual health and relationship information for the over 40s looking for, or already in, a new relationship –
is the newest resource produced by Family Planning.
J. Sri Raman
Terror and tragedy have revisited parts of Ahmedabad, capital of India's state of Gujarat, which have yet to forget the
fascist violence witnessed in the early months of 2002.
SKYCITY
Tonight Auckland’s skyline returns to its former splendour when the Sky Tower is re-lit for the first time since the
first power saving campaign began two months ago.
Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce
Reports that the Brazilian President is seeking to revive the Doha Round of World Trade talks are encouraging,
according to Charles Finny, CEO of the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Finsec
Bank workers’ union Finsec says the National Party’s plan to sell KiwiBank is bad news for customers and the country’s
banking sector.
Global Research
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary
prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." Ernest
Hemingway (1899-1961)