Japan Avalanche - Marine Bill - Acc Changes - America’s Cup - Maori Voting - Online Elections - Tuvaluen Pm- Student
Loans - China And Taiwan - Waikato River Murder – Prison Food Hundervasser Dead
JAPAN AVALANCHE: The company New Zealand Insurance has clarified it was not told by any Japanese authority that it
required insurance before it would search for three New Zealanders buried in a Japanese avalanche.
MARINE BILL - Labour’s Maori MPs want treaty considerations added to the bill creating a marine park near Auckland.
ACC CHANGES The Minister in charge of the Accident Compensation Corporation, Michael Cullen has confirmed he would make
some changes to allow the self employed to nominate how much they should pay in premiums instead of it being calculated
on the previous months pay.
AMERICA’S CUP: Team New Zealand has left the America’s Cup Village this morning amid much celebration to start the
second America’s Cup race today
MAORI VOTING: An outspoken Maori MP and a former Maori MP are calling for changes in the way voters on the Maori
electoral role are treated when they go to vote.
ONLINE ELECTIONS: The Internet Society of companies say the technology is already available to vote in elections through
the internet but security and transfer of the data are major considerations.
TUVALUEN PM: The Tuvaluen Prime Minister is meeting the Prime Minister Helen Clark to discuss solutions to the number of
Tuvaluen overstayers in New Zealand after she initially said she was too busy to meet him.
STUDENT LOANS: Students affected by loans processing delays will be able to get an emergency grant says Tertiary
Education Minister Steve Maharey.
CHINA AND TAIWAN: China has hardened its reunification policy on Taiwan, warning the island that it will go to war if
Taiwan does not enter negotiations to peaceful reunification.
WAIKATO RIVER MURDER: Police in Hamilton say it may be a number of weeks before tests say how a man who have been found
in the Waikato River died. Police have ruled out the possibiility of suicide or accidental death and have put 20 staff
on a homicide inquiry.
PRISON FOOD: The manager of Christchurch Womens prison is treating seriously the concerns of inmates upset about the
planned closure of their kitchen. Some inmates had gone on hunger strikes because of the change.
HUNDERVASSER DEAD: Renowned Austrian painter and architect “Fredrick” Hundervasser who made a temporary home in New
Zealand in the 1970s died en-route to Europe from New Zealand today.