Fiji Coup – Children’s Day – Mobile Phone Cancer – Farm Deaths – Overseas Investment – Business Confidence – Fire
–Inside Political Headlines – Editorial: Govt Loses Plot
FIJI COUP: The Dominion leads today with a report that rebel leader George Speight last night turned on Fiji’s military
ruler, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, saying he is a “lost cause”. Speight now wants the scalp of the commodore. The
report is accompanied by pictures of George Speight and Bainimarama.
Also on the front page:
- CHILDREN’S DAY: a report that NZ children will get their own national day on the last Sunday in October.
- MOBILE PHONE CANCER: a report that NZ mobile phone users will soon know if the phones increase the chances of head and
neck cancer;
- FARM DEATHS: a report that a man and a young boy were killed in a fram accident at Canvastown, 51 kms northwest of
Blenheim yesterday;
- OVERSEAS INVESTMENT: a report that the Government has instructed the Overseas Investment Commission to take a more
neutral stance in assessing applications from foreign investors;
- BUSINESS CONFIDENCE: a report that business confidence has just suffered the biggest monthly drop in the
12-year-history of the National Bank survey and it could get even worse;
- FIRE: a report that a luxury hotel in the Marlborough Sounds has been badly damaged by fire.
Inside Political Headlines:
- Airways bosses inquiry ordered;
- Put a gag on Anderton says Shipley;
- Changes only minor – Harre;
- ABOUT THE HOUSE: War declared on a black skivvy;
- Cabinet papers reveal digital TV risks;
- Totting up Maori spending may be impossible task;
- Henare handpicked for Zimbabwe.
EDITORIAL – POLITICS: Labour loses the plot. When it came to power it the Labour government had everything going for it.
Now it looks ominously similar to the one term 1972-75 Labour Government.