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Sunday's oil spill in Milford Sound is proof that a recent decision to ban large ships from Doubtful Sound was necessary
according to conservationists.
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
Under Parliament’s Standing Orders, I have the opportunity through this formal Prime Minister’s statement to review
public affairs and set out the government’s key policy and legislative intentions for the year. I welcome this because
there is a very positive ...
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
Don Brash's comments on the Treaty of Waitangi and on Maori portray the blindness of a colonialist mentality and simply
demonstrate his ignorance of the fundamentals of the Treaty of Waitangi, United Future's Maori issues spokesman, Murray
Smith, ...
Big brand companies and retailers in the fashion industry are driving down employment conditions for millions of women
workers around the world, according to a new study by international agency Oxfam.
I experienced an epiphany at Waitangi: I realised I agreed with Don Brash. Not with the "one people" line or any of that
nonsense, but on one point he's right. Maori do get special treatment, or more specifically, the mob up at Te Tii Marae
...
Speech notes: Hon John Banks QSO – Mayor of Auckland City Property Council Breakfast The Auckland Club, 34 Shortland
Street Tuesday, 10 February 2004
The Holidays Bill that gives four weeks annual leave to all New Zealanders was passed in Parliament today.
Don Brash’s speech on race-relations last week was perhaps one of the most controversial public addresses given by the
leader of a major political party and certainly of his burgeoning political career.
So I get some relief on broadband pricing - but only if I drop from full-speed JetStream to a 256k service. As ever,
Telecom is inclined to do no more than meet the market. And for so long as the market remains tepid, so will the
incumbent's offerings...
As the international community meets in New York on 5 and 6 February to discuss post-conflict reconstruction in
Liberia, Amnesty International urges that good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights are given the
highest priority.
A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret
society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the
Hidden Paths ...
Speech to Auckland Harbour Rotary 7 am Tuesday 10 February 2004 Hyatt Regency, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant and Princes St,
Auckland.
Fatma, two years old, is the daughter of Abed and Fathiya *. The family resides in a tent in an unrecognized village
south of Be'er Sheba.
Reacting to the conclusion of a "free trade" agreement between the United States and Australia, Trade Liberalisation
Network Executive Director, Suse Reynolds, said it confirmed the Network's worst fears for agriculture.
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson is calling for more New Zealanders to install solar water heating and says there are
government grants available now to help with the purchase of solar systems.
I watched President Bush’s hour-long interview with Tim Russet on NBC (02.07.04), with great patience. You have to be
patient while the President processes questions and occasionally tries to answer one, after the interviewer has asked
the same question ...
TIM RUSSERT: And we are in the Oval Office this morning with the President of the United States. Mr. President, welcome
back to Meet The Press.
Karen Walker, New Zealand's most illustrious fashion designer, will show her Autumn/Winter 2004/2005 collection entitled
'Liberal & Miserable' at an off-schedule show during London Fashion Week next Tuesday.
Donors meeting at the United Nations in New York today pledged $520 million to help Liberia to meet a host of
reconstruction and humanitarian needs, including disarming fighters, creating jobs, retooling the country's
infrastructure and stopping the ...
More streets are to be restricted to non-residential traffic on weekends and public holidays in order to tackle the
scourge of illegal street racing in Manukau. This will include a large stretch of Te Irirangi Drive between Dawson Road
in Otara and ...
10 February, 2004 Speech by Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons in reply to the PM's statement to Parliament
There are times in this Parliament when one is truly moved by the eloquence of impassioned and sincere speeches given by
inspired orators who lift the standard of this place and give Parliament a purpose and meaning for which the public are
grateful.
I'd been trying to reach ''Shallow Throat'' for several months, but had never received a response. ''I apologize,
Bernie, for not answering your coded messages,'' said ST, as we sat opposite each other in a dimly-lit Virginia tavern,
''because you wouldn't ...
National Party leader Don Brash has flatly rejected suggestions from Prime Minister Helen Clark that he was inciting
civil unrest with a newspaper advertising campaign on Labour's seabed and foreshore proposals, to be run tomorrow.
Ruth Dyson's flippant description of herself as Steve Maharey's "stunt double" and tongue-in-cheek reference to her
"non-controversial portfolio's", ACC and CYFS, which produced publicity and, "in politics, any publicity is good ...
“Respect for property rights, regardless of ethnicity, is in everyone’s interests and is essential to fair and
principled government,” Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen said today.
"The lousy deal for Australia is a reminder that our real interests lie with resumed multi-lateral negotiations,"
Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's
Weather Nightmare - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House
is not. The ...
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