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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.
… what one prominent Australian politician, retiring Victorian State MP, Mark Birrell has to say about the state of the
Trans-Tasman relationship, some fresh headaches for the nuclear industry and some seriously sensible commentary on Maori
Knowledge ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so it is week four or week five of the bombing? I've lost count. Having convinced the world it
was to undertake a police action, the American government is running a so-called War on Terror that still does not
appear capable ...
Motor racing fans are guaranteed three days of petrol head heaven when the V8 SUPERCARS cross the Tasman in November
this year.
The Commerce Commission is investigating allegations of collusion during a tender of lucrative Auckland City Council
rubbish disposal contracts earlier this year. The Commerce Commission probe comes as Auckland City Council also faces a
multi-million ...
If you've been keeping up with online independent media, you will have noticed the lack of balanced information about
the attacks in Afghanistan coming through New Zealand TV, radio and print mass media sources.
- LC: Linda Clark - TT: Tariana Turia - Associate Minister of Corrections - DO: Denis O'Reilly - consultant and prisoner
rehabilitation advocate - GM: Garth McVicor - tougher sentencing campaigner
EDITORS NOTE: The following is a transcript of a link submitted to Scoop by a Scoop reader. Clearly questions are
raised in this material about the nature of the relationship between the Bush family and the family of Osama Bin Laden.
In This Edition: War Against Terrorism – “No New Taxes”, Helen Clark Before The Last Election - Government For Whom?
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks has written to the Solicitor General asking that he charge the Hon Tariana Turia
with "Scandalising the Court".
“The unhappy people at this weekend’s Alliance Party conference will be even unhappier when they realise that their
strategists have assigned one of their major debates to the five o’clock shift, ” New Zealand First leader Winston
Peters said today.
Armed government agents grabbed Nancy Oden, Green Party USA coordinating committee member, Thursday at Bangor
International Airport in Bangor Maine, as she attempted to board an American Airlines flight to Chicago.
The US administration is so concerned with the direction the war on terrorism is taking, that it is summoning Hollywood
showbiz and media moguls to an urgent meeting on Sunday morning to aid its fight against terrorism. But it's not what we
in the ...
Green MP Keith Locke says new anti-terrorism legislation currently going through Parliament could see protestors or
activists designated as terrorists. The Government should not let the events of September 11 panic them into curtailing
the freedom ...
After leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and trade the carnival made its way across town to Cuba Street (with the
occasional incident along the way outside Starmart oulets) to Cuba Mall where an Anti-GE rally was held. Finally the
group moved up ...
"Rod Donald is a tit of the first order." -Labour MP Jim Sutton
(1) There has been an immense movement of troops and extreme use of military rhetoric, up to comments about terminating
governments, etc. Yet, to many people there appears to be considerable restraint...what happened?
In sport we see a microcosm of life, and the All Blacks' decline from their snorting, snarling world-conquering best has
shown in microcosm what happens when success and winning are derided.
A group of around 50 protestors raged against free trade outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade today as
part of Wellington’s ‘Carnival Against Capitalism’, timed to strike a sour note against Trade Negotiations Minister Jim
Sutton’s attendance ...
Today's questions of the day concerned: Tariana Turia – Auckland Moth Spraying – Tariana Turia – ACC Levy Collections –
TEAC Racism? – Securities Bill – Tariana Turia - Customs Cost Recovery – PM’s Experience And Education (vs Tariana
Turia) – State ...
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
New Zealand could have a key role to play at the world Trade Organisation meeting scheduled to start this evening, Trade
Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
Claims that were liable to mislead consumers over its "free" internet service have cost Clear Communications $15,000 in
the North Shore District Court.
New Zealand First MP, Hon Brian Donnelly, labeled the recent Annual Report of the State Services Commission, “an insult
to taxpayers and irrefutable evidence that the Labour/Alliance government has no greater interest in reining in ‘those
up to ...
Vision is a new year's eve festival happening in a beautiful, bush-clad coastal valley near Farewell Spit, Golden Bay,
in the Nelson region of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. It starts on December 30th 2001 and runs until Jan 2nd 2002. Tickets are
available nationwide ...
Wellingtonians are having a Carnival against Capitalism on Friday November 9th as part of a global day of action against
the World Trade Organisation as it begins its Ministerial Meeting in Qatar. Protests are being organised across the
world, ...
Symantec Makes Internet Security Protection a Breeze with its 2002, Windows XP Compatible, Versions of World’s Most
Trusted Security Products
Acting Minister of Customs Jim Anderton announced today in Parliament that a new tax on importers of $16.50 plus GST
will be imposed on every shipment coming to New Zealand.
The New Zealand Government has embarked on a consultation process that will inform Cabinet decisions leading to
ratification of the Kyoto Protocol next year.
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 ...