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Trustpower spokesman Graeme Purches told Scoop this morning that the company would shut down its Dillams, Arnold, and
Wahapo stations if there was no rain within the next 24 to 48 hours.
More questions than ever are raised by Meridian Energy's attempts to explain its surreptitious advertising of Labour MP
Tim Barnett, ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide said today.
High electricity prices can be blamed in large measure on grossly inaccurate forecasts by NIWA, ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff
said today.
1. Rt Hon JENNY SHIPLEY to the Minister of Health: Will she instruct the Canterbury District Health Board to ensure
that their restructuring plans for the Christchurch Hospital emergency department do not put patient safety at risk or
undermine the ...
Today's questions of the day concerned: Christchurch Hospital – Pepper Spray Deaths – Canterbury Health Cuts – ENZA
Bailout – TVNZ Financial Woes – Climate Change Agreement – Southland Health Budget – Regional Development – Northland
Health Budget – Electricity ...
In the 1960s Gill Scott Heron sang "The Revolution will not be televised". On Saturday I watched as Sky News broadcast
from the police front line. Walking past the camera, lines of police moved forward.
The Waikato Times have been condemned as "vicious liars" by Libertarianz leader Peter Cresswell following what he calls
"disgusting and baseless accusations of racism" on the front pages of the Times that will undoubtedly impact on the ...
Images from Ohau ski-field, nearby the most photogenic mountain village in the world, taken by Norman Mackay .
The following image sequence shows the death of anti-capitalist Carlo Giuliani during protests in Genoa yesterday,
Friday 20th July.
We learn from the Italian media that in a meeting held in Rome on May 24, the Italian and the US government have decided
to declare war to the multitude of brothers and sisters that will gather in Genoa against the G8 meeting scheduled for
July.
Dams Closed – Jamieson Killing – Dog Attack – G8 Arrest – Trade Agreement Framework – Job Losses – Liver Pieces – Mall
Attack – Maori TV – Chilean Wine – International Students – Campbell Will Play – ADHD Guidelines
EN was detained for five hours by Carabinieri. JA was beaten by Carabinieri. This is our account. NOTE: The authors of
this report have requested to be identified only by their initials.
A no-show from Labour at a paid parental leave rally at Parliament today speaks volumes about their commitment to paid
parental leave, National MP Marie Hasler said.
Businesses facing contract renewals for their electricity supply are in deep trouble, the Employers & Manufacturers Association says. Competition in the electricity market is now virtually non-existent with the price of
power peaking 500 per cent ...
There's good news for New Zealand university and research institutes' seeking public funding following the release of a
Stanford University study which shows that the economic return on publicly funded basic research, while slow in coming,
is far greater ...
Foreign Affairs have confirmed that the New Zealander arrested at the G8 summit protests in Genoa is Wellington
journalist, Sam Buchanan. Mr Buchanan, who has worked for a number of community papers including City Voice, was one of
over 90 protesters ...
A prominent local politician, a number of local lawyers, and some local media personalities are among "the main actors"
in pornographic video tapes seized from the home of the murdered Red Cross director John Scott, claims the Daily Post
newspaper.
The National Party has lost its academic argument over the establishment of a superannuation fund and has resorted to
trying to scare retired people into believing that their services will be cut.
"The Labour/Alliance minority Government should stop stealing money from Maori in taxes to let them fund their own
television network, rather than setting up a nationalised, taxvictim funded, propaganda service for the Minister of
Maori Affairs ...
Business New Zealand welcomes today's intervention by acting Energy Minister Paul Swain in calling an urgent meeting
with business and industry over the electricity crisis.
"The Libertarianz Party believes a broadcasting service for New Zealanders of Maori descent is long overdue," said Larry
Timberlake, the Party's Spokesman on the Deregulation of Broadcasting. "Ethnic minorities may already tune into ...
United States President George W. Bush is claiming success in behalf of his fellow G-8 leaders following their summit
meeting in Genoa over the past week. Despite having to contend with differences of opinion with European nations over
the Kyoto pact ...
Govt Unveils Maori TV Plan - Nats Have Super Committee, But Still No Policy - Integrating Labour Standards Into Trade
Agreements - Labour MPs Snob Paid Parental Leave Rally - Questions Over Labour MP’s Meridian Ad Unanswered - Primary
Students’ Reading Improving ...
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today welcoming the government’s decision to cut public
funding to new private training courses and providers.
Families Apart Require Equality (FARE) spokesperson Darryl Ward today condemned the series of advertisements currently
being broadcast in support of the Women's Refuge Campaign as being "hate promoting and seriously socially
irresponsible", ...
Congratulations to Pete Hodgson, Minister for the Environment, and his staff, for their work on the Bonn agreement. They
have demonstrated what New Zealanders who are passionate, and believe in their country's potential as international
brokers, ...
Conservation Minister Sandra Lee says the world's largest rat eradication project is running ahead of schedule,
following the completion of a helicopter airdrop of 120 tonnes of poisoned bait on remote Campbell Island.
Today's questions of the day concerned: Super – Charity Tax Status – Ngawha Prison Bribery Allegations – DHB Deficits
And Service Cuts – Time Limits On Benefits – Statutory Management For ENZA – Telephone Line Charges – Select Committee
Evasion – ERO Review ...
It is interesting to note that the US Army has decided to equip its Interim Brigade Combat Teams with LAV-111's of a
similar variant to those being purchased by our government for the New Zealand Defence Force.
The PTE (private training establishment) sector expressed its concern today at the impact of the Government’s funding
moratorium on innovation in tertiary education.