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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.
Cullen - Attorney General (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Burton – Treaty Negotiations (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Hogson
– Commerce (vacated by Margaret Wilson) Benson-Pope – Picks up Associate education & mentioned in dispatches as a capable minister
An anti-bypass protestor with a d'lock attaches herself by the neck to a piece of earthmoving equipment on the site of
the new Wellington inner city bypass today. The protestor was later arrested by police after being cut free from the
digger.
Global Peace and Justice Auckland (GPJA) has written to the Minister of Finance Michael Cullen urging him to step in and
curb the activities of loan sharks operating in low income communities of New Zealand. ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly –
Yeah Right!
Rt. Hon Helen Clark 20 December 2004 Changes to Cabinet portfolios Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced changes to
ministerial portfolio allocations affecting all but four Cabinet ministers.
National Party Leader Don Brash has released the details of a letter which proves the 13 Rotorua lakes being signed over
to local Maori were legitimately sold to the Crown in 1922.
Police have become aware of a number of counterfeit NZ $50 notes being in circulation and they all have the same serial
number. Retailers should beware.
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark's reshuffle signals "more of the same ideological PC mumbo
jumbo that the Prime Minister's presided over for the past five years".
THE CABINET Portfolios Other responsibilities 1 Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister Minister for Arts, Culture and
Heritage Ministerial Services Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service Minister Responsible for the
GCSB 2 Hon Dr ...
The epic legal battle over Ohio's presidential vote count is back in the state Supreme Court, with an election challenge
claiming George W. Bush was wrongly declared the winner on Nov. 2 and seeking a court-ordered reversal of that victory.
Rt Hon Winston Peters says Helen Clark’s “new” cabinet has a tired and familiar look that reveals the serious talent
deficit in Labour’s pre-election cabinet.
ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said rural New Zealand deserved better than to have its future discussed
at the tail end of a Cabinet end-of-year wrap-up.
Following the issuance of a “please explain” letter sent to the office of Mayor Dick Hubbard three members of the GABA
executive, President Richard James, Johnny Givins and Gresham Bradley, attended a meeting with the Mayor on Thursday Dec
16th to discuss ...
The Green Party has learned that the first container load of irradiated mangoes, zapped with the equivalent of three
million chest x-rays, were air freighted to New Zealand over the weekend.
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 Welfare spokeswoman Katherine Rich is urging the person who'll be named to replace Steve Maharey as
Social Development Minister on Monday, to campaign against the weasel words infecting the department's reports.
In an effort to provide protection for some 140,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand and assist in any solution to the
decade-old problem, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and the Government have begun a massive five-month-long
operation ...
Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Jeanette Fitzsimons is warning that the owner of LumberBank, the timber importer
expelled from the New Zealand Timber Importers Association for illegally logging Papua New Guinea forests, is actively
involved ...
The Sunday Star Times quietly retreated yet further from its SIS story yesterday, with a page four story noting that
"Peter" - the man who claimed to have bugged iwi computers while masquerading as a maintenance man - had been
"challenged to explain ...
The governments of New Zealand and Austria have signed a co-operation arrangement on the implementation of emission
reduction projects and for the trading of Kyoto Protocol emissions units.
Many thanks for your work in reporting Statistics New Zealand data during the year. Here are some Christmas facts for
use in your work ...
Once upon a time Prince Neil Bush was making money hand-over-fist over in China and Taiwan and nobody even seemed to
notice.
The second year results for the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (NEECS) are released today. The
results to March 2003 show that energy efficiency has improved only one per cent over two years but that 20 per cent of
the renewable ...
The families of school children should be horrified at the elevation of David Benson-Pope to the Education portfolio,
says National's Education spokesman, Bill English.
On Monday, December 6, my wife Carrie and I, accompanied by a local ABC cameraman and a local radio talk show host,
attempted to deliver a letter to the Secretary of State of Ohio, J. Kenneth Blackwell.
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 government has given district health boards an additional $18m to fund residential care for older people, Associate
Health Minister Ruth Dyson said today. The new money will enable DHBs to offer a three per cent increase in their
contracts for aged residential ...
I’m having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit this year – and I don’t mean the brandy. It’s partly the weather. A
cold Christmas in the European winter is really enjoyable. A cold Christmas in what’s supposed to be the New Zealand
summer is not.
New Mexico Supreme Court Asked to Move Recount Forward Rally for the Recount Set for Sunday
The search for registered nurses to help with the meningococcal B vaccination programme in the Hawke’s Bay district has
started as the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board advances its strategy to combat the killer disease.
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