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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.
1. Mayors Task Force for Jobs—Government Initiatives 2. Mâori Party—Public Service Resources 3. Economic Growth—Labour
Constraints Question No. 4 to Minister 4. Resignation—Community Employment Group Northern Regional Manager 5. Packaging
Accord—Effectiveness 6. Powerco—Sale
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.
I sat with a photographer from Reuters who had just returned from a six-month tour of Iraq. He had been tagging along
with the Kellogg Brown & Root operation, subsidiary of Halliburton, and saw everything there was to see.
''Pre-election period...pre-election plot...pre-election threats:'' These rolled off National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice's lips no less than seven times yesterday on CNN's Late Edition as she discussed the likely timing of a
terrorist attack. She ...
1. RODNEY HIDE to the Minister of Maori Affairs: What message, if any, has he sent to officials in Te Puni Kokiri about
their potential involvement in the Maori Party; if none, what involvement are they allowed?
Once again, the economic indicators continue to confound widespread predictions of gloom: this time, with some fairly
outstanding employment figures. Unemployment, down to 4%, is the lowest it's been in 17 years, and the second lowest in
the OECD...
The National Party's anti-climate change policy is an embarrassment to New Zealanders, who would be excused for
confusing National's policies with those of George Bush. In a world where climate change is already impacting real
people in real ways and ...
Note how the terror alerts relate to the news headlines of the days immediately prior to that very alert. I think it's
very easy to see a pattern recurring.
Speech to Australian Defence College - Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies; Intercontinental Hotel; Wellington;
Wednesday August 11, 2004.
ASB Bank grew its business at twice the average being achieved by other banks during the 12 months ended 30 June 2004,
and in the process lifted audited after tax operating profit by 14% to $317 million.
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter is working to exclude existing permanent residents from tough new citizenship
requirements proposed in the Identity (Citizenship and Travel Documents) Bill.
The United States of America is backing New Zealand in a push to have a UN-backed international ‘truth commission’
established to investigate an Indonesian massacre committed in East Timor in 1999.
Against Conservative Fundamentalism is organising a protest march to oppose the conservative agenda of Destiny Church’s
‘Enough is Enough’ rally. Previously the march was advertised as beginning in Civic Square at 11:30 am.
Libertarianz leader Bernard Darnton is appalled by the weasel-worded backsliding of Council for Civil Liberties
President Tony Ellis. Ellis suggested that holocaust-denier David Irving should be allowed to come to New Zealand but
that he shouldn't "indulge ...
Photo Essay: The Pacific Islands Forum has concluded in Samoa and post forum dialogue meetings are churning through
business. But out and about the island of Upolu a timeless Pacific rolls along. Scoop captures the contrasts.
Minister of Ethnic Affairs Chris Carter has identified a flaw on the Identity (Citizenship and Travel Documents) Bill
which was obvious from the beginning.
Today's ANZ Bank Job Ads report highlights how social gains like four weeks annual leave for workers also benefit the
economy as a whole, says Progressive MP Matt Robson.
Most New Zealanders would believe that a government should be focused on making the country a better place to live.
That is why it is so disappointing to realise that that is not the goal of this Labour Government. Instead we have a
government ...
FIFTEEN MONTHS before the 9/11 attack a 26-year old Moroccan man whose name and multiple aliases appear on numerous
terrorist watch lists started a company in Florida a man who is today the Chief Military Attaché for the Moroccan
Embassy in Washington, DC.
New Zealand First MP Dail Jones is trying to work out how Maori student leaders can reject the sovereignty of Parliament
yet make submissions to the select committee dealing with the foreshore and seabed legislation.
Isn’t it fitting that Jackson Diehl uses a baseball metaphor in his August 2 ''A Missile from the South,'' which savages
Venezuela’s President Chávez with surprising immoderacy.
For its own political purposes last year, the Bush Administration compromised a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame, by
revealing her name and job; outing a covert agent is a felony.
There must be something terribly wrong with their new election system, and Boulder County election officials are doing
everything in their power to keep it hidden from the public.
Note how the terror alerts relate to the news headlines of the days immediately prior to that very alert. I think it's
very easy to see a pattern recurring.
It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on September 11; during which time we, the people, have been
placed under a constant threat of terror and asked to exercise vigilance in our daily lives.
A United Nations team has visited Hinche, a now-isolated town northeast of the capital, to assess the security and
humanitarian situations in an area controlled by discharged Haitian military forces along the border with the Dominican
Republic, the country ...
"When John is president, we will listen to the wisdom of the September 11th Commission. We will build and lead strong
alliances and safeguard and secure weapons of mass destruction. We will strengthen our homeland security and protect our
ports, ...
We are separated from other species of animal by one thing. We are not the biggest, the fastest or the strongest. We
have the ability to think. Each of us has the ability to consider, to ponder, to imagine, the ability to reflect, to
believe, to judge. ...
"The lack of investment in skills training must be fixed", said Darel Hall Executive Director of the Industry Training
Federation.
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