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Cartoon by John Chuckman
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.
Zev Barkan the suspected Israeli Mossad agent on the run from New Zealand Police has been sighted in North Korea,
according to an Asian-based NGO closely linked to New Zealand intelligence networks.
Rt Hon Winston Peters says unlike Don Brash he walked in the rain to the rugby test between the All Blacks and Australia
in Wellington like thousands of other people and at no stage did he seek a ride in a motorcade.
• Chilean President Ricardo Lagos’ foreign and domestic policy is rapidly gaining his country a reputation as
Washington’s lap dog.
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand
goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters
Aragorn and Arwen.
National Party Treaty of Waitangi and Constitutional Issues spokesman Wayne Mapp is warning Maori and non-Maori alike
that the devil will be in the detail of Labour's apparent U-turn on time limits for historical Treaty of Waitangi
claims.
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency is planning to inspect remaining nuclear materials in Iraq this month to
ensure that they conform to the country’s safeguard obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Prime Minister Helen Clark's statement that she would rather be at home reading a book than attending a rugby test is
"disappointing but not surprising," according to the National Party spokesman on Sport, Murray McCully.
The Waikato Jewish Association wants the government to prevent infamous Holocaust-denier David Irving from visiting New
Zealand . This is both wrong and stupid. Irving should be treated the same as any other potential visitor; if the fact
that he has previously ...
Former Springbok wing Chester Williams caught up with All Black adversary Jeff Wilson at Murray Mexted's International
Rugby Academy of New Zealand ahead of the Tri Nations clash this weekend.
Proposals are being considered to streamline Treaty of Waitangi historic settlements, Treaty Negotiations Minister
Margaret Wilson says.
Early one morning about a month ago I was awakened from a sound sleep by the phone ringing. Quite groggy, I listened to
the voice of a stranger on the other end who identified herself and then insisted that I take down her address and phone
number.
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.
Migration statistics released today paint a worsening picture of skilled New Zealanders leaving the country
permanently, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Immigration Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today.
The latest Total Diet Survey reveals that pesticide contamination is endemic in our food supply, despite the efforts by
the New Zealand Food Safety Authority to convince us otherwise, Green MP Sue Kedgley said today.
Members of Congress Stress Concern Over East Timor-Australia Boundary Dispute During Australia Free Trade Debate
It is ironic that the only Parliamentary Party to have a Maori Caucus is doing less than any other to help ensure that
Maori children have a chance of a decent future, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel
Newman observed ...
I finally got around to downloading and watching watching Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. I had planned to take up the
offer of a ticket for tonight's New Zealand cinematic premiere, but I can't go...
United Future leader Peter Dunne today slammed the "pontificating, do-nothing arrogance" of the Local Government Forum
over its opposition to United Future's campaign to remove GST from rates.
Left, right, or center, Americans like to believe we have a mission, that ''the shining city on a hill'' - as Ronald
Reagan quoted our Pilgrim Fathers - stands as a universal beacon to the world.
A rift between an offshore Fonterra controlled enterprise and a Chilean diary producer's body is drawing to a head - the
clash is hampering not only this company's progress but also any chance of a Chile/New Zealand free trade agreement.
Wednesday July 21, 2004: Greenpeace today welcomed Prime Minister Helen Clark’s comments yesterday that climate change
is here to stay (1) and urges the Government to put its concerns into real action.
Floodwaters have entered the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, as well as the country's central districts,
and at least five million people have been affected, with floods covering half the country.
Today we heard that Toma Sik is dead - overrun by a tractor during a nightly walk home through the fields to his
newly-bought old farm somewhere in a forgotten part of Hungary which should have fulfilled his dream of establishing a
commune of organic-humanist ...
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that the Government front up
and admit that it is incapable of making decisions at the hard end of welfare, after new information showed that more
children than ...
Government plans to expand its paid parental leave scheme will further promote state dependency and stifle self reliance
and innovation, says Charlie Pedersen, Vice President of Federated Farmers of New Zealand (Inc).
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 ...
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today said it was good news that the Government was considering time limits for
lodging historical Treaty claims and tighter targets for settling claims.
[In the light of recent events Uri Avnery wrote a Part Two to last week's column "Marie and the Ghosts" (the links are
to Part One)]
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