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This awesome picture was taken in Bitteroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000. The photographer, John
McColgan, is a Fire Behavior Analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska. He took the picture with a digital camera. A
once-in-a-lifetime shot this ...
Following the Danish vote against adopting the ailing euro the Kiwi lost more than a cent which has again inflamed the
debate about merging the Kiwi and Aussie dollars. But joining our two countries politically is the ultimate aim. John
Howard writes.
NSW Premier, Bob Carr, has launched a $A24 billion post-Olympics investment drive for Sydney and regional NSW and is
planning to make a series of major announcements over the next 10 days. John Howard writes.
"The Corrective Party was right about the sordid and lewd spectacle of the Olympics. According to an Australian
newspaper report, athletes were incited to sex due to the heaving bodies in skintight shameful lycra around them!!! And
what was more, ...
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald has accused Winston Peters of gay bashing following his attack in today's Sunday Star
Times on Green Party co-convenor Richard Davies' website advertising his homestay to gay men.
To go to a Global Exchange/KPFA Free Speech Radio benefit in Berkeley is to see 30,000 years evaporate right before your
very eyes. A thousand greyhairs in their Birkenstock sandals shed 30 years and become again the young radicals that made
Berkeley famous ...
The Employment Relations Act comes in today at the worst possible time for businesses, employers, employees and New
Zealand, National Industrial Relations spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - Funny how things change, isn't it? Not so long ago, the New Zealand Herald, in an editorial
headed 'Mark Todd owes us all an explanation' had predicted shame and vileness if Todd so much as showed his face in
Sydney. Go now, ...
“Gutted mate, just gutted.” This choice phrase would be on the top ten to come out of any sports ground around the
country, when the home team loses. Sports mad Kiwis are regularly gutted, whether it’s the All Blacks losing, the
Hurricanes, or the ...
"You can't help wondering whether today's Cabinet Agenda, faxed to National's parliamentary offices by the Finance
Minister, might best have been kept confidential," National's Roger Sowry said today.
On the day the union promoting Employment Relations Act comes into effect, ACT is releasing an alternative policy -
"Freedom to Contract". ACT's policy release is the first by any party for the 2002 election. ACT intends setting the
agenda by ...
31 October 1999: "Television has only one dedicated arts programme - the bold and independent Backchat. But in the last
few days we hear that Backchat may be marginalised - that it may not fit the hip and groovy image the television
managers appear to ...
Ever wanted the enhanced cleavage of Hollywood starlets without having to go under the knife? Now Kiwi women can have
their own silicone-enhanced bust, without the surgery, when Elle Macpherson Intimates launches its Silicone Valley bra
this week.
Wairaka Rock at Pukerua Bay stands sentinel against a northerly storm that has brought big seas and high rainfall to the
Kapiti Coast.
Sydney Airport – Closing Ceremony – Downpours – Nurses Pay Negotiations – Workplace Safety – Superannuation –
Israel/Palestinian Ceasefire – Campbell Win – Olympiand Come Home – Murder-Suicide – Bodies Found – Racing Report –
Backchat Canned – Murder ...
A 15% jump in exports in the June year raises hopes NZ's 6-year trade deficit may become a surplus in the future. Annual
exports topped $26 billion for the first time. The June year rise was the biggest annual increase in exports for 8
years.
It was fitting Labour Minister Margaret Wilson chose Manakau City Council as the venue for her breakfast address on the
morning the country’s new Employment Relations Act came into law, PSA secretary Richard Wagstaff said today. Manukau
City Council ...
Upton-on-line’s little announcement last week seems to have caught some of the Capital’s better-informed information
brokers/gossips by surprise. Upton-on-line has, in turn, been truly surprised by the amount of attention given to his
forthcoming evaporation ...
The convenor of the North Harbour Lawyers wrote and asked that today’s address be about “some quasi legal topic”.
A memo issued today by Parliamentary Services putting a two week stop on the employment of any new staff, either casual
or permanent, in the parliamentary complex is an indication of how difficult employers are going to find the new law,
said ACT Leader, ...