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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. Housing New Zealand—Treaty of Waitangi 2. Career Planning—Economic and Social Policy 3. Accident Compensation
Corporation—Bold Perspectives, Shared Objectives Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Conference 4. Local
Government—Voting System ...
As well as receiving support from New Zealand First regarding the Seabed and Foreshore legislation it would seem Helen
Clark’s Government also has an ally in New Zealand First when it comes to the Government’s handling of detained refugee,
Ahmed Zaoui. ...
The one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's
report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick
Cheney.
Violence in Haiti: Colin Powell and Gerard Latortue Blame Aristide, When the Blame Lies With Them
1. HELEN DUNCAN to the Minister of Education: What progress has been made implementing the recommendations of the School
Staffing Review Group?
HOUSE PRICES -- THE WORST IS YET TO COME, SAYS INVESTOR AND TOP SELLING AUTHOR OLLY NEWLAND
The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31
deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion
passed, that would ...
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.
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
In this time of peace and reconciliation in local body Auckland, it would seem a little tacky to be in possession of the
infamous Hubbard-NBR PDFs, wouldn't it? Yet if you go to Aaron Bhatnagar's blog, click on the link marked My personal
photos, ...
"The only sense you get is we're basically in a full-scale air war against invisible people that we can't find, that we
have no intelligence about, so we bomb what we can see."
The NZQA should heed a warning by the State Services Commissioner and remove a politically charged press release from a
prominent position on its website, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English.
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson has today welcomed the completion of the third reading of the Electricity and Gas
Industries Bill.
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 ...
The rigid right-wing ideologues of Business New Zealand have lost the plot, United Future's Paul Adams said today.
Te Mana Akonga (National Maori Tertiary Students’ Association) and The Tertiary Women’s Focus Group (TWFG) of the New
Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) will today launch a te reo Maori ‘Thursdays in Black’ shirt to add to
the ‘Thursdays in ...
At the outset, I want to recognize the commitment and sacrifice Cuban Americans have made in service to this country.
Your sacrifices have helped to secure the freedoms and values that we all hold dear.
United Future leader, Peter Dunne, today called on Housing Minister Steve Maharey to instruct immediately his Housing
New Zealand officials to put an end to the ‘Treaty nonsense’ that surrounds the appointment of middle managers at the
State agency.
Cartoon by John Chuckman
Matt Robson, Progressive MP, sent this email to Dail Jones at eight o'clock last night in response to the NZ First MP's
media release .
It is my pleasure to address your 2004 Conference. The last year has been a momentous one for the New Zealand rail
industry, and this morning I would like to review what has been achieved, and the progress that is being made towards
making rail a pivotal ...
Scoop’s analysis found shows that - according to the polls - the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute
swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in
its effects ...
I Was Arrested but the Real Crime is the Corporate Hijacking of Our Democracy by David Cobb, Green Party presidential
nominee
MODERATOR: Good afternoon everyone. We are "on the record" today with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
First, the ground rules. We do have simultaneous translators, so when you come to ask a question, please give your name,
your organization, ...
New Zealand will contribute NZ$200,000 in disaster relief to the hurricane-plagued Caribbean, Aid Minister Marian Hobbs
announced today.
Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb is doing everything he can to make sure the American people hear more than
two frighteningly similar voices in this election.
Jonathan Eisen reveals that the now-famous "Norwegian parent vaccine" from which the New Zealand meningococcal vaccine
was "derived" and which has been used to justify claims of "safety" and "efficacy"... was not even released in Norway,
after scientists ...
It is my pleasure to open today’s seminar. I have made it one of the goals of my tenure as finance minister to
strengthen the trans-Tasman business relationship, which is of enormous significance to us in terms of trade and
investment.
Treasury papers released today confirm fears that the security of the electricity supply would be undermined, rather
than enhanced, if Genesis built its gas generator at Huntly, National's Energy spokesman, Roger Sowry, says.
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