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…upton-on-line reflects on the consequences of the 2002 NZ General Election for the centre-right of politics. (Results
table on last page)
“Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.” —Donald Rumsfeld
That plastic comb I call a brain has attracted all manner of tissue-paper scraps this week. Iran, it seems, is about to
host a celebration of its 7,000 years of history - in Cuba.
A stunning day is to be had today at Whakapapa skifield on Mt Ruapehu. Mt Ngaruahoe Mt Ruapehu ENDS
Speaking to the Rotary Club of Wellington today in his first major post election speech, United Future leader, Hon Peter
Dunne, outlined his party's plans for the coming three years.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Morgan Williams, is happy to accept a salary of $160,000 a year
to tell the government it must modify its goal to make New Zealand a rich country again, and impose even more taxes and
red tape.
There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the
documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought.
An icon of child play and development will disappear from retail shelves in New Zealand and the World over this month
after a presence of more than 20 years.
Big News with Dave Crampton Lets talk about coalition, baby, lets talk about you and me
Finance Minister Michael Cullen must not reward intimidation by giving Young Nick's Head to Maori political law
breakers, says ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks.
This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S.
Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from
creating up to three ...
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today welcomed a new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
saying New Zealand risks losing its economically valuable 'clean green' image unless it moves towards more sustainable
development.
It is rich for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to be pooh-poohing economic growth when he lives high
on the hog on a taxpayer supplied salary over four-times the average wage, ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today.
“Could it be that Labour MP David Benson-Pope’s recent attacks on the media are designed to disguise the increasing
criticism that the media favoured Parties on the Left of the political spectrum,” asks Party Leader Graham Capill? The
recent campaign ...
One of the United Kingdom’s most popular internet sites has come to New Zealand.
Environment Minister Marian Hobbs has welcomed the release of a report on sustainable development by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for the Environment.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - there was an emblem of Labour's case for a return to the Treasury benches in the very fact of the
vote on Saturday. Immediately after the 1999 election, Helen Clark promised that the next one would be properly
organised and the votes ...
In This Edition: Senate Hearing On Iraq “Blitzkrieg” Now On - Richard Butler Is A U.S. Spy – A CIA Asset
Green co-leader Rod Donald and Wellington MP Sue Kedgley will today greet the Ngai Tamanuhiri hikoi protesting the
proposed sale of Young Nick's Head when it arrives at parliament at 1pm.
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today condemned Phil Goff for his extraordinary attack on New Zealand's judiciary.
“The Act Party has wasted no time since the election in trivialising the tragic issue of workplace deaths,” said Council
of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson today.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s apparent dismissal of a sustainable growth strategy deserves closer
examination, says Business NZ CEO Simon Carlaw. “Before jettisoning the clarity of a balanced, sustainable growth
strategy (which New Zealand ...
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and
abuse, said today that President Bush’s signing of corporate reform legislation is merely a cosmetic effort by the Bush
administration ...
(New York, August 3, 2002) - A new law supposedly protecting U.S. servicemembers from the International Criminal Court
shows that the Bush administration will stop at nothing in its campaign against the court, Human Rights Watch warned
today.
Auckland based start-up company Esphion Limited today announced that it had raised NZ$5 million in venture capital to
fund the commercialisation of network products including security software targeted against cyber terrorists.
It's astonishing how quickly Peter Dunne has backed away from his party's policy to cut the size of the Government's
executive - now he senses an opportunity to gain a Cabinet post, ACT acting leader Ken Shirley says.
The authority given by Congress to President Bush to negotiate on free trade will test in practice how far the US is
prepared to liberalise its own economy, says the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern).
Like the birth of a giant panda, a general election is a rare, wondrous, but agonisingly drawn-out experience.
With fingers crossed that the weather holds, Scoop is this week taking readers on a virtual visit to Whakapapa
ski-field. For the benefit of foreign readers this is on Mt Ruapehu in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island.
National wants to know when the next official Police crime statistics will be released, as they will be a test of
credibility on crime, says National's Police Spokesman Tony Ryall.