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Can Israel be a state like all others? That is the true question of its existence, writes Edward Said.
The oceans around New Zealand are warming at a rate not seen since the 1930s. Figures from NIWA show that the ocean
temperature around New Zealand has increased rapidly over the last 10 years.
In the most significant leak since the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was exposed to public scrutiny in 1997 and
eventually sunk, drafts of the European Union's 'requests' of other countries in the WTO services negotiations have just
been posted on a European ...
This news has just come in. The Israeli government has announced that it will not facilitate entry of the UN Human
Rights mission into Israel and the Palestinian territories. The mission was to have been led by UN rights chief Mary
Robinson, former anti-apartheid ...
Transit New Zealand security measures are failing to prevent damage, vandalism and theft from occurring in the upper
Cuba Street area since tenants were evicted in February, and concern is mounting over the safety of heritage buildings
in the area.
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Alliance Leader Laila Harre are colluding to breach the principle of the Electoral
Integrity Act, National Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee said today.
Lower Hutt detectives have this morning arrested and charged a Taumarunui man with the kidnapping of baby Kahu Durie.
Thanks, some deep topics are covered there, in a positive chatty way. You could sub-title it The Failure of SNAG.
You've nailed the modern man's dilemma exactly - how to be post-SNAG, keep the few useful SNAG qualities, and not revert
to brute. ...
Baby Kahurautete Durie is safe, well and back in the arms of her parents Justice Eddie Durie and lawyer Donna Hall.
The Mexican government at the Biodiversity Convention meeting in the Hague on Friday confirmed that the worlds home of
corn diversity has become contaminated with a GE virus and other GMO material used in genetically engineered corn. This
contamination ...
A supreme court? Steady on, Old Girls! Faint though it is, there is still a glimmer of hope that a stay-at-home Kiwi
will win an Academy Award for best director/best picture without Aotearoa having to become the 52nd state of the United
States. Australia, ...
For those who lust after power, frustration ensues at any barrier to the exercise of that power. From the U.S. to New
Zealand, the reaction of the power-luster to his (or her) power being blunted is the same.
You'd have thought from the last few political polls that the Prime Minister was utterly untouchable. Labour is polling
as high as 56 per cent - twice where National's at and miles clear of the need to patch together a coalition.
Cabinet Ministers' speeches and policy documents dating back to the mid-1990s are available on a newly upgraded web site
that went live on Monday 15 April.
National MP Gerry Brownlee’s claims with regard to the new Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill are grossly
exaggerated and designed to mislead, Minister of Labour Hon Margaret Wilson said today.
This statement is to advise all editors and news editors to check the source of material presented to them in the name
of Stephen Robert Tindall.
Rugby World Cup Today is a sad day for rugby fans like myself. I am hugely disappointed at New Zealand missing out on
co-hosting the World Cup, and I know others feel the same. It is not just a game - it is a huge part of our national
culture and identity, ...
Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall’s current internet identity crisis serves as a reminder that your name is not
necessarily your domain,” warns Robert Wiles, Chief Executive of New Zealand’s only personal domain name company
http://www.pdom.com/.
Laila Harre's election as leader of the Alliance in place of Jim Anderton raises important questions about the integrity
of the Government, National Leader Bill English said today.
What’s it like to be a man? No really, what is it like? Short of putting one into therapy for 10 years and extracting
marrow from bone we may never know. Not because we don’t want to or because men are aliens but because men don’t seem to
know themselves.
The “loneliness of the long distance runner” syndrome is a prescription for an early drop-off of involvement in fitness
programmes, according to Lincoln University doctoral researcher Kim Sinclair.
As the UN Security Council meets today to discuss the grave situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories, Amnesty
International reiterates its calls for an international inquiry into alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in
Jenin Refugee Camp ...
The European Union's "wish list" for trade liberalisation with this country finally explodes the myth that so-called
free trade is in the least bit "free," Green Party Trade spokesperson Rod Donald said today.
In the most significant leak since the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was exposed to public scrutiny in 1997 and
eventually sunk, drafts of the European Union's 'requests' of other countries in the WTO services negotiations have just
been posted on a European ...
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
April 22 2002 Attorney-General Margaret Wilson will visit Australia this week to see first-hand the operation of the
Judicial Commission of New South Wales and the Australian Electoral Commission in Canberra.
Thousands of state servants will soon become personally liable for all costs and fines of up to $500,000 that result
from prosecutions for breaches of OSH regulations in their work places, National ACC Spokesperson Gerry Brownlee said
today.
14 years ago I spoke to you on the subject: “Race Relations—the Last Chance for Change”. Reviewing that speech over the
last few days has been an alarming experience. How true some of the predictions made back then have become.
It is of great concern that the outflow of skilled New Zealanders has started again, ACT leader Richard Prebble said
today in response to the March immigration figures.
Auckland's billion dollar traffic problem cannot be resolved so long as there are seen as just two factions spouting the
slogans: "complete the motorway network" or "no more motorways". Rather, each roading and public transport project ...