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In This Edition: Good Tidings Of Great Joy – To The Barricades - Calling all Cultural Patriots (With The Ultimate LOTR
Christmas Present!) – The Plan - And.... The Secret of Scoop’s Success
Latest figures released by the government show that the so-called ‘Brian-drain’ continues unabated with a further 412
Brians leaving for overseas in the last 6 months.
Latest images from the Southern Ocean show the fate of the Minke Whale caught yesterday. It was sampled....
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, Director General of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo today referred to Greenpeace as an
“eco-terrorist organization” and issued a public statement following the sighting of the Greenpeace vessel Arctic
Sunrise in the Antarctic ...
Today's questions of the day concerned: Peace-Keepers To Afghanistan – SAS In Afghanistan – Tania Furlan Murder Witness
Payment – Murders And Police Resources – University Entrance / NCEA- Budget Cap/ DEFU – Business Compliance Costs -
Dodson Report – Pacific ...
Christmastime – the season of peace and goodwill – has already been marred by murder and mayhem here in New Zealand. Yet
our film censor has given an R18 rating to a violent French movie featuring rape, torture and murder of the most brutal
kind and ...
AUCKLAND, December 18, 2001 – With holidays looming there a number of ‘quick and simple’ things you can do before you
leave for the break.....which will make life easier on your return.
Prime Minister Helen Clark needs to discipline her Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton after his 'loose lips' revealed
that the SAS had been deployed to Afghanistan, National's Defence Spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
The idea of separate jails for Maori, is turning the Treaty of Waitangi on its head, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
By March 2002, the United States Bush administration will be ready to begin construction of silos and a testing command
centre for a futuristic and expensive U.S. anti-missile defence shield near Fairbanks in Alaska. This is US Superpower
Nuclear Dominance.
The Labour Government is threatening the fundamental tenets of the Resource Management Act, says Forest and Bird.
As excitement builds about the first feature in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is receiving rave reviews in London
and has its Australasian premiere in Wellington tomorrow, a web-based audio visual that lets people journey through the
New Zealand ...
The defensive posture taken by the Higher Salaries Commission over public criticism of politicians pay rises, suggests
a disconnect and a tension between society and the modern state, such that the political party who can reconcile that
and provide ...
Scoop Update: Season’s Greetings - Satire: Brian Drain Figures Worst Yet - Scoop Is In The House - Under Urgency!-
Government Is Seizing the Power To Sack MPs - With Bill of Rights Breaching Bill! - Petitioning Rages On As SAS May Or
May Not Get A ...
Amsterdam, 14 th December 2001- Following Greenpeace’s first encounter with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica,
the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) – a private institute that catches whales under a license from the Fisheries
Agency ...
Taxpayers are being 'ripped off' by additional police and security costs of over $31,000 per week at Parliament
following the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to National MP Murray McCully.
Earlier today we received the media release below which came as an email message with the subject heading 'NGO support
for Hercules'.
In an attempt to get the New Zeal economy moving in a growth-focused directional capacity, Lord High Inquisitor of the
Preserved Bank, Reverend Don Crash, is to host a ‘Black Breakfast’, despite such rituals being banned in most national
treasuries, ...
Full Screen Size Images of Japanese whaling underway in the Southern Ocean. Minke whale flees a harpoon. A whale is
shot. And pulled in to be slaughtered. Greenpeace activists are sprayed with watercannon as they attempt to go to the
whales aid.
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ACT leader Richard Prebble says the ACT Party strongly opposes taxpayer money being spent to fund political parties.
Environment Minister Marian Hobbs is putting business concerns ahead of the environment with today's announcement of
changes to the Resource Management Act.
Scissors, pocket-knives and other sharp objects that have been relinquished by airline travellers since September 11 are
being found a good home.
Edwin Tucker, of Papatoetoe, leaves New Zealand December 27th to begin an expedition to circumnavigate the world by
bicycle.
Mr Speaker, I move that the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill be now read a first time. At the
appropriate time I will move that the Bill be referred to the Primary Production Select Committee with an instruction
that the ...
Helen Clark must immediately launch an inquiry into a serious breach of security around the deployment of SAS troops to
Afghanistan, says National Leader Bill English.
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today proposed changes to the Resource Management Act show the Government has
lost its nerve and is rolling over for big property developers.
On Thursday 13 December a further 2521 signatures on the petition for peaceful resolution were presented to parliament
in Wellington. More than a hundred people joined the lively march, led by Brass Razoo, from Midland Park down Lambton
Quay through parliament ...
General Manager, Government Relations Bruce Parkes said today Telecom was pleased to have completed the process of
updating the Kiwi Share as one component of New Zealand¡¦s new framework for regulating telecommunications.
"Last week's reported cumulative $200 million bill for long-term jobless is nothing," says Lindsay Mitchell, Petitioner
for a Parliamentary Review of the DPB.