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New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Pete Hodgson has called upon National Leader John Key to discipline his deputy Bill English and front bencher
Nick Smith after a series of politically incorrect jokes including jibes about Labour MP and Deputy Prime Minister
Michael Cullen’s ...
Malcolm Evans
Scoop presents a selection of some of notable New Zealand cartoonist Malcolm Evans most recent work.
Watties
Allyson Gofton is leaving the highly successful Wattie’s Food in a Minute to pursue some other challenges – including
running around after two active kiddies. And the Food in a Minute team is looking for someone with the same incredible
skills ...
Agenda
RAWDON All eyes are on the Maori Party this election campaign they are highly likely to hold the balance of power after
the election and their leadership is saying that this time they won't stay neutral but be supporting either National or
Labour, however ...
Newmarket Business Association
Auckland’s leading retail district is urging TVNZ’s One News not to over dramatise its Special Report on the “retail
recession” due to go to air 6pm tomorrow night.
MetService
MetService is warning that on Tuesday, northwest gales may generate gusts of 120 km/hour over inland eastern areas from
Southland to Wairarapa and about Wellington. Additionally, heavy rain is likely in the mountains about and south of
Otira, with ...
New Zealand Government
Housing Minister Maryan Street says criminals using state houses to produce drugs have been put on notice that Housing
New Zealand will leave no stone unturned when it comes to recovering damages to pay for the mess they cause.
Peter Dyer
Sixty-two years ago this month, four judges met to deliberate the fate of the first men ever tried for war crimes in an
international court of law.
New Zealand Government
The Labour-led Government has taken a significant step towards reducing the cost of remitting money from New Zealand to
Pacific countries.
Maori Television Service
New Zealand’s national indigenous broadcaster, Maori Television, will present comprehensive coverage of this year’s
General Election from a Maori perspective including tailored research on Maori in the General and Maori electorates.
Undernews
Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch - By all rights, this last crisis has brought us to the crossroads where neoliberalism
should be buried with a stake through its heart. We’ve had thirty years worth of deregulation - the loosening of
government supervision. ...
Air New Zealand Fashion Week
The eighth annual Air New Zealand Fashion Week has drawn to a close for 2008. The week long Fashion Event featured a
total of 50 designers over the four day trade event, and has been described as a “huge success” by local and
international ...
United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture deputy leader Judy Turner is pointing the finger squarely at the Government based on the result of today’s
Stuff opinion poll, which indicates that 77% of over 7000 people surveyed, would happily donate their organs to others
once they ...
New Zealand Defence Force
Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae today announced Retired Brigadier, Mr Rick Ottaway as the new
General Manager of Veterans’ Affairs New Zealand (VANZ).
Department Of Internal Affairs
New Zealand daylight saving begins next Sunday 28 September 2008, when clocks go forward an hour at 2.00 am to become
3.00 am. The extra hour of daylight in the evenings will run till Sunday 5 April 2009, when clocks go back an hour at 3
a.m. to 2 a.m.
New Zealand National Party
It’s clearer than ever that Labour can’t be trusted to manage the prisons system, now that Phil Goff has admitted Labour
will need to build 'more prisons' after years of denials, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power.
Ferrari
Just days before its public debut at the Paris International Motor Show (2 October 2008), Ferrari has shown its newest
model the California to more than 1000 potential owners in its largest potential market – California.
United Nations
The United Nations labour agency today expressed concern at the recent sentencing of an activist in Myanmar to two years
of hard labour, saying it raises questions about the honouring of an agreement between the Asian country and the agency.
Scoop Audio
Wallace Chapman and Selwyn Manning discuss what is behind the Marriot Hotel bombing in Islamabad. Is Al Qaeda behind it?
The Taliban? If so, why? What effect does instability in the Pakistan/Afghanistan region have on the Indian
sub-continent?
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that New Zealand’s commitment to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in
Sudan (UNMIS) is to be extended for one further year, to 1 October 2009.
NZ Nutrition Foundation
The New Zealand Nutrition Foundation is concerned misinformation surrounding the common food ingredient aspartame could
be prompting New Zealanders to avoid diet products in favour of the regular versions.
New Zealand Police
While the number of fatal crashes on State Highways in the Waikato decline the number of serious or fatal crashes on
'rural rat runs' are increasing with the latest fatality happening in the Eastern Waikato on Friday morning.
Government House
The achievements of New Zealanders across a wide spectrum of fields will be celebrated at Investiture Ceremonies at
Government House Auckland this week. The Governor-General, Hon Anand Satyanand, will host four ceremonies at 10.30am on
Tuesday, Wednesday, ...
Logitech
Logitech Also Introduces Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks, Logitech Cordless Desktop S520
Julie Webb-Pullman
It's official – Cuba has suffered $5 billion dollars worth of damage from hurricanes Gustav and Ike, according to both
Cuban government sources and the United Nations. What's the big deal - that's only about a nineteenth of the losses
they've suffered ...
New Zealand Police
A third person died on Saturday as a result of injuries suffered in the car crash near Ahipara in the early hours of
Friday morning (Sept 19).
David Swanson
Every time there's a new Cheney-Bush scandal, every time we discover that Dick Cheney lied to Dick Armey, or another top
Iraqi informed the White House there were no weapons, or another missile kills another large family in Afghanistan, or
the wars in Pakistan ...
NZ Lotteries
An Auckland man has finally come forward to claim his $2 million Lotto First Division prize, two weeks after NZ
Lotteries' Chief Executive Todd McLeay predicted some lucky father was probably unaware he was sitting on a goldmine.
Scoop Audio
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo talks to Prime Minister Helen Clark about National saying it’s no time for a lolly-scramble, the
polls, her prediction that 60 body-bags would’ve come back from Iraq had NZ sent troops there, using social networking
sites for campaigning, ...
New Zealand Government
Youth Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta today thanked school guidance counsellors for their dedication to young people at
the New Zealand Guidance Counsellors Conference in Hamilton.