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Labour has reached an all time low when it actually puts its own members in prison for trying to attend the Party
conference. However at this weekend’s Labour conference this is exactly what happened.
Fears that used car importers would be forced out of business by new frontal impact rules have proved to be completely
groundless, based on a near-record 11,929 used cars imported in April, the first month that the new standard came into
operation.
Heaven knows, I didn't go to the Amelia Earhart Symposium at the Western Aerospace Museum on May 17-18, 2002, in order
to become intrigued about that pioneering pilot's disappearance. She flew. She fell out of the sky. Joni Mitchell wrote
a song about ...
United Future leader and Ohariu Belmont MP, Hon Peter Dunne, has rubbished claims the Labour Government has been good
for Wellington.
I'd like to say that Baise Moi is a thought-provoking social statement on the rape-culture that permeates our
patriarchal society. I'd like to say that, but I can't, since I haven't been able to see it, and it's rather silly to
make outrageous assertions ...
EU SUPPRESSES STUDY SHOWING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS ADD HIGH COSTS FOR ALL FARMERS AND THREATEN ORGANIC
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton says he expects to have a role in a future Labour-led government, despite intimations
at the weekend’s Labour Party congress that the senior coalition partner could govern alone.
This was the text of the leaflet I wasn't allowed to take into the Labour conference:
Oxfam International's report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" on Trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty
is a brave attempt at combining two paradigms. However, when two paradigms are incommensurate, putting them together
only creates a schizophrenic ...
In an article entitled “Film festival censorship simply fascist”, Scott Wilson, Spokesman on Free Speech for the
Libertarianz Party, bemoans “the banning” of the films Visitor Q, Baise Moi, and Bully, calling it “a jackbooted attempt
by book-burning busybodies ...
Waking September 11, 2001, felt like one of those nightmares where I think I've woken up until the monster leaps out to
grab me. It took weeks for me to grasp that the two 110 story tall towers I used to be able to see through my window as
I typed were ...
"Those of us paying for the DPB have a right to know what Mr Maharey is doing with our money," says an angry Lindsay
Mitchell, Petitioner for a parliamentary review of the DPB. "We can have no confidence in a Minister who completely
changes ...
"The State Services Commission report into the hiring of Millennium People only confirms that the 'bunch of amateurs'
are more likely to be on the Board of Maori Television Service and Te Puni Kokiri," says National's Broadcasting
spokesperson ...
For the moral high-grounders among us the decisions to ban the movie Baise Moi both in New Zealand and Australia must
seem like a victory for all that is good in the world. Certainly Baise Moi is pornographic in many aspects. There's
real-time sex ...
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 ...
The lack of accountability and Ministerial responsibility for the new Maori Television Service is a recipe for disaster,
National Maori Affairs Spokesperson Georgina te Heuheu said today.
East Timor's Independence must be celebrated. And New Zealand must share in that, but we must also say sorry for past
government's policy of silence, a policy nurtured significantly in the 1990s by the then New Zealand Foreign Minister
Don McKinnon.
This Conference has been about preparing to earn victory at this year’s General Election. It has been about reminding
ourselves of our achievements in office for the last two and a half years and about the direction we hope to take our
fellow New Zealanders ...
BSB’s article makes some good points, but it misses what I see as the big picture.
The Father of All Give-Away Budgets: ACT Alternative Budget 2002 Speech by Richard Prebble
Justice Minister Phil Goff is appalled National leader Bill English has misrepresented the new Sentencing Act in an
attempt to make political capital out of the recent tragic killings in Auckland.
National has written to the Speaker of the House labelling the Alliance split a "charade" and asking him to formally put
a stop to it.
New Zealand’s uptake of e-commerce continues to improve which will bring benefits to the new economy. This was the
message delivered by speakers at the E-Commerce 2002 Sector Forum, which took place in Wellington today.
National's Agriculture spokesman Gavan Herlihy has congratulated Greg Gent, Jim van der Poel and Earl Rattray on their
successful election to Fonterra's board.
SCOOP EDITORS NOTE: CBS News is being attributed with breaking the news of White House foreknowledge of the 911
hijackings. The following are links to their Scoop reports.
Auckland 20 May, 2002: Last Saturday in Lorient, France, an incident occurred with a Greenpeace inflatable and the
official French entry into the America's Cup "Defi Areva".
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, let's hope the police have the right men, and all of them. You didn't need to live in
South Auckland to feel a sense of dread this week in the wake of three armed robberies - two of which culminated in
cold-blooded ...
Golly, it was an eventful week. What with a 5.2 earthquake to get us going - the building I live in swayed like a blues
mama - and then the new tabloid format of the 'San Francisco Examiner', with its flip-over two front pages, followed by
the ...
All uniformed defence personnel will receive a pay rise from June 30 this year, Defence Minister Mark Burton announced
today.
A starting pistol and a knife brought into New Zealand by a German tourist were in a rucksack stowed in the hold of the
aircraft on which he was travelling, says the Aviation Security Service (Avsec).
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