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Undernews
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton
Sinclair
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.
Office of the Clerk
1. R DOUG WOOLERTON to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Has he been involved in discussions on electoral systems in the
Pacific?
New Zealand National Party
“Statements of mine secretly recorded at a social function last Friday and published over the weekend have caused
confusion and concern about National’s policy on Kiwibank and Working for Families,” says National Party Finance
spokesman Bill English.
I Steadman
In Wellington today a group of human rights activists held a protest in front of parliament against the repressions in
China and Tibet, and against the increasingly severe crackdowns and large-scale home evictions taking place in the run
up to the ...
New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says that for the first time Labour has confirmed it is indeed campaigning on
the public purse in the 2008 election.
New Zealand First Party
Rt Hon Winston Peters has welcomed the opportunity to meet Parliament’s privileges committee to discuss matters laid
before the Speaker.
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.
US State Department
"We look at Sri Lanka and we see friends. We see ourselves as the friends of Sri Lanka and friends of the people of Sri
Lanka. We try to make sure that we make a positive contribution here. We stand with the people of Sri Lanka."
Scoop Audio
Raw audio of the Prime Minister's press conference 4 August 2008. For a detailed Scoop analysis of what was said go
here:
New Zealand National Party
Confidence in Immigration New Zealand has been damaged further with more allegations of murk, says National's
Immigration spokesman, Lockwood Smith.
TrustPower
The Marlborough District Council has advised TrustPower that it has been granted the resource consents required to build
its proposed 72MW hydro scheme in the Wairau Valley in Marlborough.
New Zealand National Party
Helen Clark is making mischief by suggesting National will cut education spending to fund tax cuts says National’s
Education spokeswoman, Anne Tolley. “Even the Prime Minister admits she was just guessing when she made the comment.
Hi-5
Roll up, roll up! Come one, come all, and be part of Hi-5 Circus, the most spectacular Hi-5 stage show yet!
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.”
Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) is predicting the strength of the dairy sector will reinforce
agriculture’s cornerstone position in the New Zealand economy over the next five years.
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?
New Zealand National Party
The hongi between Michael Cullen and Tame Iti is the height of hypocrisy and cannot go unchallenged, says National's
Shadow Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee.
AA Media Centre
The AA is warning motorists to be wary of buying fuel saving devices that may not deliver the promised results. Jack
Biddle, AA Technical Advice Manager, says people should be sceptical of the savings offered by fuel catalysts or other
devices and ...
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand (AIANZ) is delighted to host one of the world's most famous journalists as
its keynote speaker during its 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR) celebrations.
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).
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour candidate for Te Tai Tokerau and former school Principal Kelvin Davis says he’s seen more imagination in a Year 5
essay competition than National’s policy for New Zealand’s future.
Mental Health Foundation
(Upper Hutt, New Zealand) Sports and art programmes should be first-line methods for improving mental health among New
Zealand’s disadvantaged, says the head of one of Australia’s largest recreational charities, RecLink.
New Zealand Government
Bill English needs to clarify exactly what he was saying would 'eventually' go under a John Key government, Social
Development Minister Ruth Dyson and SOEs Minister Trevor Mallard said today.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
Neville Key certainly will have by now - more's the pity, observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo. This after the release
by TV3 of a secretly taped conversation in which National's deputy-leader let slip that a National Government would
privatise ...
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.
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.
The Maori Party
Maori Party MP for Te Tai Hauauru, Tariana Turia, described the Environment Minister's answers to her questions in
Parliament today as 'another load of the same old rubbish'.
Bayfair Shopping Centre
Retail isn’t famous for its eco-friendliness, but one regional shopping centre is changing all that by showing that
turning a profit and caring for the environment don’t have to be mutually exclusive – that in fact, a green retail ethos
is better ...
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.