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Last night, when driving home, I was stopped by the police and failed a breath alcohol test.
This morning I received a letter from Ruth Dyson offering her resignation from all ministerial warrants, following an
incident where she was apprehended by the police and failed a breath alcohol test.
5: Ruth Dyson
It was with much sadness I learned Ruth Dyson had resigned her ministerial posts this morning, says Associate Minister
of Health Tariana Turia.
Ruth Dyson has done the responsible thing in offering her resignation, Deputy Prime Minister and Alliance leader Jim
Anderton said today.
The Prime Minister Helen Clark had no option but to accept Associate Minister Ruth Dyson’s resignation, said ACT leader
Hon Richard Prebble.
Less than a year in, the Government is showing too many signs of strain, Acting National Leader Wyatt Creech said today.
Health Minister Annette King says she is saddened to hear of Ruth Dyson's resignation from her ministerial portfolios.
United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne, has applauded Ruth Dyson's decision to resign as a Minister after failing a
drink-drive breath test.
Labour – 44 down 3 National - 39 up 3 Green - 4 down 1 Alliance – 5 up 2 ACT - 3 down 1 NZ First - 2 static
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The efforts to recover the bodies of the 118 Russian sailors, who died when the submarine Kursk sank on August 12, are a
reminder that above all else that this incident was a human tragedy.
An agreement concluded this morning will allow more young New Zealanders and Germans to have working holidays in each
other's country from 1 December, Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Immigration Lianne Dalziel said today.
The Race Relations Office is doomed, following news the Government is considering subsuming the office into a new Human
Rights Body, National's Tony Ryall said today.
It was the weekend before Halloween and the darker folk from all corners of Wellington went all out for a huge
hell-raising night.
Hospitality LOOParazzi from Sunday night's awards.
Cuba Street is fast becoming Art Gallery central. Small galleries are popping up everywhere and there’s something for
everyone’s taste.
United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne, has strongly attacked suggestions that the Race Relations Conciliator's
office should be scrapped and its functions absorbed within the Human Rights Commission.
The business forum is an implicit acknowledgement by the coalition that it is the economy that will determine its
electoral fate. The difficulty now, is that after ad-mitting the vital importance of busi-ness confidence to economic
pros-perity, ...
New Government appointees to university and polytechnic councils were announced today by Associate Education (Tertiary
Education) Minister Steve Maharey.
Government papers relating to the New Zealand case for a Motorola software development centre show the effort and
commitment that went into the project, says Associate Minister for Economic Development Pete Hodgson.
World marketing opportunities, work for disabled people in Hawke’s Bay and joint ventures with Maori land-owners could
result from a Chinese visitor’s accident in Napier and a small grant from Technology New Zealand.
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