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Earlier this week I wrote on Scoop that we should drop the charade about monetary union with Australia and focus of the
real debate - New Zealand the seventh State of Australia. The column created widespread public and media interest - so
let's ...
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 ...
The New Zealand dollar hit a new record low of US 40.3 cents this afternoon, following comments by Reserve Bank head Don
Brash at the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee this afternoon, warning of a possible return to stagflation, the
combination of high ...
One of the decisions to arise from Helen Clark’s recent visit to East Timor is that the government is to look at
extending the New Zealand deployment in the former Portuguese colony until after elections there in November.
There is a note of desperation creeping into the Labour Government's Immigration policy in a vain attempt to stop the
brain drain, National Immigration Spokesperson Marie Hasler said today.
"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, ...
“Perhaps the most blatant, insensitive attempt at political mileage I have ever seen,” said Stuart Jordan, Southern
Regional Chair of the Young Nationals. He was responding to ACT MP Rodney Hide’s attack on the use of an Air Force
Hercules to ...
1 October 2000 (Newsroom) -- Two weeks after Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic cauldron in Sydney and sparked the hope of
Australia's Aborigines for reconciliation, a popular rock band performing in Sunday's closing ceremonies supplied the
word that many Australians ...
Today's Questions concerned the subjects of: Unemployment Rises – Closing The Gaps – Double Jeopardy – Food Banks –
Electricity Regulation –Consumer Confidence - Telecommunication Regulation – Auckland Transport Woes – Road Safety
–Mangaroa Compensation – East ...
Communications Minister Paul Swain has today released the report from the ministerial inquiry into telecommunications.
Dunedin based National MP Katherine Rich has confirmed that it was her request which lead to a Government decision to
divert an Air Force Hercules aircraft back to Apia in Samoa to pick up a civilian.
Today's Questions concerned the subjects of: East Timor – Economic Growth Or Not – ERMA Maori Committee – Lower Dollar
And Grocery Prices - Poverty – Samoan RNZAF Transport Incident - Superannuation – ERA Launch Party – Medical
Professionals - ...
Wairaka Rock at Pukerua Bay stands sentinel against a northerly storm that has brought big seas and high rainfall to the
Kapiti Coast.
At long last, an official report on adoption law reform has grasped most of the biggest problems with this 45-year-old
legislation, and put forward some reasonably sound remedies. But when the Law Commission's report came out last week, it
made few headlines. ...
Labour poll results are behind the blatantly transparent attempt by Social Services Minister, Steve Maharey, to
re-launch the GovernmentÆs Maori/ Pacific Island æClosing the GapsÆ policy, ACT Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman, said
today.
Twenty two innovative small businesses from all over New Zealand have been offered the Government’s first Enterprise
Awards, Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
The Labour Minister has dropped herself in it with employers - once again," National's Industrial Relations spokesperson
Max Bradford said today.
A major US health foods manufacturer has predicted Greenpeace and other eco-groups may not survive their battle against
genetic modification.
Keith Locke, Nandor Tanczos and Rod Donald, the leaders of the Green Republicans, will receive a “Declaration of War”
from Lieutenant Carl Layton and his Loyal supporters on the steps of parliament at 1pm today. The Declaration is
attached.
A Proposal to cut open-road speed limits, flies in the face of overseas experience, ACT Transport Spokesman Penny
Webster said today.