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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbit's excluded) were...
C.D. Sludge has now caught up with the MP who made a trip to Fiji last year to attend a seminar of Investors
International, the principal of which, Rudolf van Lin, was later arrested and charged in the US with Securities fraud.
And an organisation which ...
What follows is a transcript of conversations recorded with leading figures in the Free Money for Greedy Mystery
described in Sludge Report #10.
HOBBIT STORIES...
Today's Sludge Report relates a strange tale involving the visit of a NZ MP to Fiji on a speaking trip, free money for
the secretive and greedy, and a so called "financial freedom" movement which promotes tax avoidance, offshore trusts and
VERY high yield ...
The Reserve Bank will want to raise interest rates yet again. Inflation is lurking everywhere and our over-heating
economy will be in need of the wet blanket again. Governor Don Brash will stand at the podium and announce seven percent
interest, ...
Today’s Questions Concerned: R Taxation – Economic Indicators – Independent Contractors and the ERB – Budget Projections And ERB – Home Detention –
Victims Package – Rural Hospitals – Northland Mental Health – Export Credit Guarantees – Electricity ...
SUVA: It's an irony of this bizarre insurrection in Fiji, now in its fourth week, that the country has been
"celebrating" two public holidays in two successive weeks: Today Fiji, which is on the verge of becoming a Commonwealth
pariah, is celebrating ...
Today's Questions concern: Truth In Sentencing - School Zoning And Balloting- Budget Growth Forecasts - Immigrant
Doctors - Maori Spectrum And Quest Communications - Bulk Funding - Government Procurement - R Taxation - Highway Patrol - ILO Conventions ...
The NZ electricity inquiry report (1), released this week, is a move toward the international mainstream in electricity
regulation, which is not a surprise given the Australian and British leanings of the inquiry panel. Simon Orme writes
from Sydney.
Bologna, Italy. 13 June 2000. - Software entrepreneur Sir Gil Simpson tonight closes the loop on a remarkable supply
chain that started under the gaze of Aoraki/Mt Cook and finished in front of European business and political leaders.
The release Monday of 40 pages of Cabinet papers and minutes backgrounding Government's decisions to end the harvest of
rimu timber and to extinguish the 1986 West Coast Accord, has failed to impress West Coast leaders. John Howard reports.
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year
for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
Government Spy Agency Watchdog “complete waste of time and taxpayers’ money” – Complainants call for abolition or
radical overhaul
Courtesy of http://theonering.net and photographer Karen Tucker - Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson with the
Olympic Flame in Wellington's Civic Square yesterday.
Answers to the questions will be published shortley after 3pm this afternoon.
The latest analysis of prospects for NZ from independent economists BERL contain a cautiously optimistic message.
19: Road Safety 2000
The government's reduced tolerances announced in last week's road safety package is designed to save lives and prevent
injuries on New Zealand roads and highways, the Minister of Transport Mark Gosche said today.
A major new facility for the performing arts in Christchurch will become a reality following Government approval to the
construction of the Aurora Centre.
Drug law reformers say that Parliament's Health Committee should expeditiously review the legal status of cannabis -
"and quick smart", because the committee is already sitting on drug scheduling legislation, the Misuse of Drugs
Amendment ...
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today she was very sorry to learn that the Leader of the Opposition Jenny Shipley had
been admitted to hospital last night.
Prime Minister Helen Clark is turning on the charm on businesses, sending a letter to over 10,000 small companies
promising to review the government’s proposed employment law.