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Images from the weekend’s 10th annual Taste Martinborough event, a sellout with 10,500 tickets sold.
Even as the Berlin Wall was taken apart brick by brick, another institution was crumbling around the world: the enforced
socio-economic integration of different ethnicities within former Communist nations.
Well, if it wasn’t for the war, the Taliban would still be in Kabul - and so would the eight Christian Aid workers who
were detained for three months after being accused of preaching Christianity. The bombing did sufficient damage to allow
the Northern ...
At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After
stating his name, country and function (king / president / emir / dictator / tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer
the question: “Do ...
1. YET ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL TEAC REPORT 2. BUSH STILL THE MAN 3. WALK FOR CAPITALISM 4. TOP TEN HEADLINES WE'D LIKE TO
SEE 5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
The PM and her deputy have become experts at claiming all is well with the coalition, but an objective way of measuring
the cost of internal tensions is to look at the parliamentary order paper - the government's legislation and its
progress through ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... New York deserved none of this. Its triple calamities - September 11, anthrax attacks and, now,
this week's air disaster - can be feasibly be put down to three different causes - external terrorism, an enemy within
and an ...
On Saturday I started changing the world, one doorknob at a time. Armed with some pamphlets that fit over doorhandles
and the house numbers of registered voters who'd voted in the November 2000 election, I walked down the sunny side of
21st Ave, from ...
Another reason to love New Zealand: It’s still the only country in the world that will make the weather the lead item on
the TV news, ahead of GM, the war on Afghanistan and the top ten New Zealand songs of the last 75 years.
New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, has learned that Armourguard have been staffing the new anti-terrorist
security force in Parliament with students who are working for free and are on work experience. “It seems that since
Parliament ...
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson said today she had now considered a Courts Department report on a telephone call list
MP Tariana Turia made to Maori Land Court Chief Judge Joseph Williams.
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite
television channel
“The recent decision by the Government to substantially increase the charges for accessing information or records held
by its department of Births Deaths and Marriages, will come as a most unpleasant surprise when they are required to now
pay a grossly ...
"The women told me many stories while I photographed, mostly about survival....." In 1999, one of New Zealand's most
significant documentary photographers went behind the scenes to strip clubs, massage parlours and brothels in Auckland
and Hamilton ...
ACT leader Richard Prebble has pledged to lead a campaign against Margaret Wilson's Health and Safety in Employment
Amendment Bill.
The Infotech article did an excellent job summarizing the relevant key topics of the 70-page "Blazing a Trail" report
and their current relevance in light of the specific regional industry developments, e.g., Telecom has been subsidized
by the ...
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today called on Environment Minister Marian Hobbs to urgently clarify whether
the Govt will allow new experiments involving genetically engineered sheep and cows with human genes to go ahead.
Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey joins Geoff Chapple, the first social entrepreneur to receive
funding under the new Government scheme which backs local people making a difference in their communities.
The world’s greatest, gutsiest and gruelling adventure race will take place in New Zealand over 28 days at the end of
this year.
Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Antony 'Lofty' Hayward along with another one hundred and sixty members of the Fifth New
Zealand Battalion Group (NZBatt 5) arrived in East Timor on Thursday to begin a six month tour of duty with the United
Nations ...
National will next week seek leave of the Parliament to change a tough new defamation clause which was slipped into the
Electoral Amendment Bill (No.2) at the last minute.
As this item is published US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are headed south to
“The Ranch” for a superpower summit. And as has been oft reported before by this column. Where goes Dubya, there often
follows a ...
GE-Free New Zealand is welcoming the decision by Woolworths, one of New Zealand's major supermarkets and owners of Big
Fresh, to make their own products GE-Free.
In my view a good deal of commentary about the Employment Relations Act has been misdirected. I want to open this panel
discussion by making six brief points.
Labour's policy of allowing illegal overstayers to live permanently in New Zealand is costing the taxpayer a fortune in
hospital and welfare bills, ACT Immigration spokesman MP Penny Webster revealed today.
It's a pleasure to be speaking at the Christchurch Regional Conference of ACT. I believe your decision to take the
Party to the public is both innovative and bold.
New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown, is astonished that Labour MP Tim Barnett on the Kim Hill show, has
admitted the Government will need to amend an amendment to the Electoral Act—less than a day after passing it.
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At a meeting last night Councillors voted to declare the City, the fifth largest City in New Zealand, free from genetic
engineering field trials and also to oppose the genetic modification of food items.
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.