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The people’s favourite Ethereal is tipped by the Prime Minister and leading businessman Eric Watson to win Australasia’s
richest race – the 2001 Tooheys New Melbourne Cup tomorrow.
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
November 5, 2001 — The death, two weeks ago, of Lingua Franca, the great magazine about intellectual and literary life
in the academy, was not only sad news for the magazine's followers and admirers — it was a shock.
A few weeks back I was on Gadigal land. Unceded Aboriginal land. Sydney, Australia. If it had been a couple of hundred
years ago and the stickers had been put up by Aboriginal people, I might have agreed with their message... I ripped down
the few ...
The 2000/01 Household Economic Survey results from Statistics New Zealand showed that since 1997/98 average household
spending has risen 2.5 percent to $758 per week.
Below is the text of an advert which will be going in the NZ Herald together with a list of groups and names of people
who support it. The advert is being organised by the Peace Foundation - if you wish to have your name or group added to
the list ...
In a major first for New Zealand art, works by the late, internationally renowned artist Len Lye will tour major
Australian art museums over the next year.
I wanted to let you know that How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, my book about the five years I spent trying to "take" Manhattan, has just been published by Little
Brown. It charts my rapid descent down the New York food chain, ...
In This Edition: Feedback For Gerry Eckhoff - Taliban + ISI + CIA = Disaster - Communist Propaganda Of The Shoddiest
Kind
1. JUDY KEALL to the Minister for Industry and Regional Development: What reports has he received on the state of New
Zealand's clothing and textile industry?
United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne, says Associate Corrections Minister Tariana Turia's actions in lobbying for
family friends and associates to be transferred around from various prisons should not surprise anyone.
It's been reported to the Letter that Michael Cullen said of the McLeod tax review: "I've spent $985,000 of taxpayers'
money proving ACT's tax policies". We think it's money well spent.
UN NEWS HEADLINES: - Annan steps in to boost negotiations on anti-terror conventions - Annan says Muslims and others
should not be misled by bin Laden's statements - In Iran, Brahimi says Afghans must determine their own future
BBC: I was reading your fascinating October 3rd and 4th Joint Armed Services Committee presentation. We presumed it was
all written in the three weeks preceding the presentation. It was just fascinating.
2000+ March for PEACE in Dublin Protesters demanded an end to the Bombing in Afghanistan. Dublin city centre was
transformed to to ‘a carnival against war’ despite Government attempts in Recent weeks to crush Anti-War Anti Capitalist
demonstrations (26 Arrested ...
Today's questions of the day concerned: (Should Tariana Turia Answer Questions? – Point Of Order) - Textile Industry –
Tariana Turia And The Prison Service – Sow Crates - Tariana Turia – Paid Parental Leave – Tax Review – Cancer Treatment
In Oz ...
New Zealanders bet a total of $6.5 million on the Melbourne Cup, the third highest total ever, as sensational Kiwi mare
Ethereal raced into Cup history. The win makes Cambridge trainer Sheila Laxon the first woman to train a Melbourne Cup
winner.
It has been almost two months since the nightmare began. A nightmare for almost everyone I know. A nightmare for
thousands of innocent lives lost; now they dream no more.
Scoop’s content partner theonering.net has kindly provided us with the following exclusive preview of the latest Lord of
the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring) publicity poster. Expect to see it on a street corner near you shortly…
New Zealand should leave the International Whaling Commission following public statements from its Commissioner, Jim
McLay, that New Zealand is “adamantly opposed to commercial whaling, anywhere and at any time[1]”.
Many people here in the Middle East believe that behind the acts of hijacking and building destructions and the
murdering of innocents were non-Muslim encouragement or assistance.
From July 1 2002 20,000 working women a year will qualify for 12 weeks paid parental leave following the birth or
adoption of a child, Labour Minister Margaret Wilson and Associate Labour Minister Laila Harré announced today.
Today's questions of the day concerned: Paid Parental Leave – Afghanistan Aid - Bathgate-gate – Recession Roading Plans
– Breast Cancer Treatment – Health Information (IT) Management – Substandard Policing – Refugee Interviewing – Carol
Moseley Braun’s ...
Calling all super-heroes! super-citizens! and super-spandex wearers! Converge on Cuba Mall- Wellington- and resist GE -
November 9th - 3pm
Motor racing fans are guaranteed three days of petrol head heaven when the V8 SUPERCARS cross the Tasman in November
this year.
Calling all super-heroes! super-citizens! and super-spandex wearers! Converge on Cuba Mall- Wellington- and resist GE -
November 9th - 3pm
Prime Minister Helen Clark said tonight that the Minister of Corrections has made it clear to his department that
representations received from ministers and MPs are to be given the same weight as are representations from members of
the public.
NZ has been ranked as 3rd cleanest country in terms of corruption again by Transparency International.
The gross interference by the Associate Minister of Corrections in a number of cases involving prison inmates is
extremely serious and raises questions about Tariana Turia's fitness to hold a Ministerial Warrant, National MP Tony
Ryall said today.
The newly published guide to New Zealand battlefields in France and Belgium would prove an invaluable guide for
visitors to a region where New Zealanders played a significant military role in World War One, Prime Minister and
Minister for Arts, ...