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ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today criticised the Liquor Licensing Authority's decision to crack down on
supermarkets selling rice-based cooking wine due to its high alcohol content, describing it as an over-zealous
application of the law.
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.
The deep low off the Wairarapa Coast that brought stormy conditions over the lower North Island is forecast to move away
to the southeast from late morning,with the rain and severe southerly gales easing. However, another 20 to 30mm of rain
is still ...
Unlike the Wairarapa and Manawatu, major rivers in the western part of Wellington region have generally sustained
moderate flood flows in the southerly storm that swept the lower North Island last night, although there is a lot of
surface flooding.
Road and commuter train disruptions of unprecedented scope have affected the Wellington region this morning with slips
and downed trees throughout the city and surrounding areas. Eastbourne and Wainuiomata have been cut off and the
Johnsonville commuter ...
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 ...
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Acceptance by ACT that its days as a significant player at a Parliamentary level are drawing to a close might be assumed
from the attention it is now paying to involvement in local authority politics.
With more than 5 million African refugees and internally displaced people preparing to return home, the United Nations
refugee agency announced plans today to hold a ministerial-level meeting next month on comprehensive regional approaches
to repatriation ...
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that Attorney General Margaret Wilson should be trying to
sack Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres, for his attack on Dr Brash's Orewa speech - as reported in today's
Dominion Post.
It seems to have escaped some people that NZ Idol isn't a talent quest, it's a TV format. Sure, it's a TV format based
on a talent quest, but that's not quite the same thing...
Some time in the next day, week or month a lot of us will be putting pen to paper condemning a Palestinian suicide
bombing in which innocent civilians have been killed. But, more than any other time in the past we would be condemning
the other side as ...
National Leader Don Brash has taken the message from his Orewa speech on New Zealand nationhood to Rotorua, in the
first of a series of provincial tours.
Brian Easton Joins The Race Debate - A transcript of an interview of economist Brian Easton by Carol Archie for Mana
News broadcast on “Radio New Zealand”, 6.25am Tuesday 10 February 2004. See... Public Policy& the Maori and the Don Brash-eitis
Scientists from New Zealand and Japan will later this year explore submarine volcanoes and seafloor hot springs off the
New Zealand coast in the world's deepest-diving research submersible.
AUCKLAND (AUT/Pacific Media Watch): Two former Fiji journalists and a Tongan community volunteer have been awarded the
AUT/PIMA Pacific Communication Scholarships 2003 and will take up their studies at Auckland University of Technology
this year.
America’s leaders in Washington and Wall Street firmly believe in the righteousness of war and authoritarian forms of
government as a means to ''safeguarding democratic values''.
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today said that the Labour Government's personal attacks on Dr Don Brash were
now verging on the hysterical.
Weapons of mass destruction scandals are gaining momentum in the United States as well as Britain. The two major war
allies, who violated Iraq’s sovereignty without an international mandate last year, are now scrambling to show that they
were simply ...
National Party Leader Don Brash goes on the road tomorrow in the first of a series of regional meetings following his
Orewa speech.
The United Nations is calling for a humanitarian corridor to be established in Haiti to allow aid workers access to the
country's north, which has been cut off for days because of the violence convulsing the Caribbean nation's cities.
A transcript of an interview of economist Brian Easton by Carol Archie for Mana News broadcast on “Radio New Zealand”,
6.25am Tuesday 10 February 2004.
Skype Technologies S.A., the Global P2P Telephony Company that offers consumers the ability to make free voice calls
using their broadband connections, today announced the world's first peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet telephony conference
calling feature, ...
Do you remember how many U.S. soldiers died in the first Gulf War? On television at the time, they told you it was
around 64. Later, as news agencies recalculated the total from a variety of sources, it became 146. But now, some 13
years later, ...
GAZA, Palestine - A Palestinian Health Ministry report revealed Sunday that 27 Palestinians have been killed and 147
others wounded by Israeli troops over the past week.
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate
and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home
city, Los ...
Don Brash’s Orewa speech was an earthquake that split the political landscape. Now it is producing an electoral
landslide. On one side is middle NZ that has firmly returned to National and on the other is the Wellington elite and
most media commentators. ...
HRH Prince Edward Earl of Wessex will be visiting New Zealand from the 15th to the 22nd of March. He will attend
official functions in Auckland, Wanganui, Dunedin, and Nelson. The major purpose of the visit is to present Duke of
Edinburgh Awards, ...
Overworked police in Christchurch are operating out of a substandard base and the Labour Government is turning a blind
eye, says National MP David Carter.
As a motoring writer, I have a problem with Honda's new Accord Euro. I knew I had a problem a mere five minutes after
getting behind the wheel. You see, it’s so impressive that my overwhelming tendency - rather than to write a considered,
well researched ...