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Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank today reduced the Official Cash Rate (OCR) from 6.5 percent to 5.0 percent. Reserve Bank Governor Alan
Bollard commented that "ongoing financial market turmoil and the marked deterioration in the outlook for global growth
have played ...
Common Ground News Service
CGNS: Those who believe in the “clash of civilisations” also claim that Islam cannot flourish in the West without
creating a threat there. However, such talk falls on deaf ears in France where Islam has been present since the Middle
Ages.
Massey University
A daunting emotional journey awaits new MPs when the 49th New Zealand parliament sits for the first time next week,
according to a Massey researcher.
Google
Auckland, New Zealand, 2 December 2008 Google today announces the launch of Street View on Google Maps in New Zealand:
maps.google.co.nz/streetview . Street View is a new feature for Google Maps that lets internet users view and navigate
360 degree ...
Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little has condemned Business New Zealand's
employment briefing to the incoming government as "anti freedom".
Westpac
I've just emerged from a pricing discussion and am able to confirm that Westpac New Zealand has responded to today's OCR
cut buy announcing a cut to the following lending rates:
Content.net
The top United Nations humanitarian official in Sri Lanka today called on authorities to mount a thorough investigation
into last week’s murder of an aid worker in the east of the violence-wracked country – the third staff member from the
same relief ...
Gordon Campbell
Everyone knows that Hollywood is a den of godless, Obama –loving pinko liberals. That being so, New Zealand’s
transformation, post Rings, into a minor hub of Christian movie making seems like…well, a minor miracle. In my
experience, local film crews ...
New Zealand Government
Finance Minister Bill English has today released the Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Finance from the Treasury.
Scoop Feedback
Frederick Engels, in an 1875 letter, stated: “The whole Darwinian teaching of the struggle for existence is simply a
transference from society to living nature of Hobbes’s doctrine of bellum omnium contra omnes and of the
bourgeois-economic doctrine ...
Telecom New Zealand
Santa’s Elves have been busy in Auckland stitching together more than 37,000 magical lights to carry wishes to Santa
this Christmas. The Telecom Tree - a seven-storey high light structure - will shine in Auckland’s Victoria Park this
December and ...
James Petras
Newly emerging nations have joined with the usual neocolonial suspects in a massive bid to buy up poorer countries'
available land. How do they pull it off? "The process of agro-imperial empire building operates largely through
political and financial ...
Syed Atiq ul Hassan
India is the largest democracy in the world and is claimed to be the world’s rising economic power after China with
Mumbai a leading international financial city. With a population of more than a billion India has vast division among
the people on the ...
Air New Zealand
More than 20 family and friends of the New Zealanders lost in the A320 accident will be in Perpignan by tomorrow.
Kiwibank
Kiwibank has reacted immediately to the cut in the Official Cash Rate by reducing all home loan rates. The bank is now
offering a one-year fixed rate of 6.49% p.a. and a variable rate of 7.45%.
The Maori Party
This is a fantastic time to be holding this ninth global forum on bioethics in research. The last three months, in
particular, have been unprecedented in terms of the acts of resistance and celebration initiated by indigenous peoples
and members of vulnerable ...
Toni Solo
For years it has been more than clear the course US and European Union policy would take towards the progressive
governments of Latin America. Even in December 2006 it was possible to write "One can only hope Latin America's Spring
endures longer ...
Bayley's Real Estate
While the lower OCR is positive news for New Zealand’s property market, it could be some time before the full effects of
the decrease flow through to the property sector, according to the managing director of leading real estate company
Bayleys, ...
Al Giordano
Although the steps between President-elect Obama's November 13 meeting with Senator Clinton in Chicago and the December
1 nomination of the latter for Secretary of State did not exactly embody the "no drama" brand of the former (and, behind
the scenes, ...
United Nations
Somalia’s population faces total destitution next year without more effective aid, a United Nations humanitarian
official cautioned today, as the many problems in the Horn of Africa country are exacerbated by extremely difficult
political and security ...
Green Party
Welcoming the Maori Party's call today for 'urgent and meaningful' action on climate change, the Green Party urges Maori
Party Ministers to help rescue New Zealand's climate credibility.
Bruce Dixon
Some Obama supporters are wringing their hands over the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hillary was,
after all, a consistent supporter of the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and much more. But Barack Obama's
selection of Reaganite ...
Thinking Cactus
Monday the 8th of December 2008 will see the first ever global celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship through
business incubation.
The Maori Party
As we have travelled from across the country and across the world to Taranaki, I have been thinking about the beautiful
and delicate mountain, Pihanga, who brought us together – from Te Kahui Maunga – the mountains of Ruapehu, Tongariro,
Ngaruahoe, ...
Exposing Unacceptable Financial Activities
The polished delivery at the final Hanover Road Show meeting today will undoubtedly have placed further fear and a
possible dilemma for some inexperienced voting investors.
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour leader Phil Goff welcomed today’s signing in Oslo of the Conventions on Cluster Munitions which bans the
manufacture, possession and use of such weapons by signatory countries.
ACC
An Auckland choreographer and an Eftpos-servicing company are helping lead the way in changing New Zealanders’ attitudes
towards people living with disabilities.
1-Day.co.nz
www.1-day.co.nz is second behind Trademe in terms of being the most visited site in New Zealand, and is inching towards
the number one spot with a record 1.122 million visits in only 24 hours.
New Zealand Government
Officials are recommending an increase in earners levies of $1.337 billion over the next three years to cover
significant increased costs of the ACC Earners' Account that funds non-work accidents involving employees.
Right To Life New Zealand Inc
A new study conducted by the Otago University reveals that women having an abortion have a 30% risk of developing mental
ill health, higher than other women who chose life for their baby. The study was reported in the British Journal of
Psychiatry. ...