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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.
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 ...
Delivered at 7.30pm 20 February, 2004 to the New Zealand Business Roundtable Annual Retreat
Green MP Keith Locke says the government should show some compassion and allow the Sri Lankan girl deported last week
back into New Zealand. The Green Spokesperson on Human Rights is supporting the deported 16-year-old's lawyers as they
make an ...
It generally takes something pretty substantial to drag our media around from the day-to-day focus on personalities and
press releases and towards coverage of an issue in depth, but our sudden swelling of public feeling on race is clearly
such a thing...
National Party Leader Don Brash says the public needs answers about the role of the Prime Minister's electorate office
in the 'leaks and lies' scandal that's led to the sacking of Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel.
The Green Party is calling for the incoming Immigration Minister to take a fresh look at the country's two most
contentious refugee cases.
Days after Brazil's Congress approved a bill to decriminalize drug users, a heavy hitter from Foggy Bottom was
dispatched to Brazil to discuss, among other matters, ''security concerns including terrorism and narcotrafficking,''
according to this ...
Juken Nissho Winner Of Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation In New Zealand In 2003
Lianne complains she is not the first minister to leak a paper and then deny knowledge. The ninth floor has made it an
art form. Like Nixon in the Watergate scandal, Clark has fired her minister to hide her own role. The PM’s electorate
office leaked the ...
Way back in the '80's, during the frozen depths of the Cold War, there was a promising movement in America called
''Beyond War.'' It seems rather quaint now, since America has found an enemy that will never fail it, permitting us the
luxury of permanent ...
The Government's package to resolve the foreshore and seabed issue will have to make it clear that no new rights or
entitlements are being established for Maori, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today.
Top 10 signs Labour is worried about Don Brash
Amnesty International is calling on the Syrian authorities to immediately release and drop all charges against two men
due to stand trial on 22 February, and a third who has been detained for a year. All three are being held for expressing
their opinion ...
Housing Minister Steve Maharey is offering to take Muriel Newman to the state house she described this afternoon as a
state castle.
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 ...
Bank of New Zealand today announced that it is lowering its interest rate for its two-year fixed rate home loans by
0.20% to 6.79%. This is the second time in a week that Bank of New Zealand has cut its two-year fixed rate.
The Massey University study's finding, reported today, that most Kiwis are in favour of one law for all is extremely
heartening, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said today.
New information on the rental cost of some Housing NZ properties dispels any question of why some tenants are reluctant
to leave State housing - who wouldn't want to live in an $823,000 home for less than $60 a week? ACT New Zealand Housing
Spokesman Dr ...
63 million children to be immunized across 10 countries as Nigerian outbreak threatens African success story.
"It's never been tried before." "The Bible doesn't mention it." "Civilized people have never done things this way." "No
society in the 6000 years of the history of civilization since Gilgamesh has suggested such ...
Farming in some of New Zealand's most productive districts has been dealt a massive blow by flooding in the lower North
Island, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.
GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment is asking the government to prevent all products containing Canadian pig
meat from entering the country.
A board representing six iwi in a partnership with the privately-managed Auckland Central Remand Prison (ACRP) today
said the resignation of the prison’s General Manager was a huge loss for the country.
25: Desperate
"The Clark government is desperate when it thinks that lifting the minimum wage is going to save it," said Mr Prebble.
New Zealand's lowest paid workers will receive a 5.9% pay increase from 1 April, following changes to the minimum wage
announced today by Labour Minister Margaret Wilson. "These changes affect nearly 30,000 people who earn the lowest wages
...
National Party MP Judith Collins is raising more questions over the assurances given by the Government about the care
and protection of a Sri Lankan girl deported less than two weeks ago.
National Party leader Don Brash has welcomed the results of a study by Massey University showing that more than half of
Maori support Crown ownership of the beaches, foreshore and seabed.
“This will possibly surprise many people but I believe the Censor was right when he classified the controversial film
‘The Passion of Christ’ as R16,” said New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown.
''At what point do you stop relying on a party to be an opposition party and start asking what else needs to be done to
put some spine into Washington politics?'' So goes one of the FAQs on the votenader.org website, which just went up this
morning ...