EMPLOYERS AND THE MILLENNIUM: The New Zealand Herald leads today with a report that employers are buckling under
pressure from staff demanding extra money for working during millennium celebrations, with payments of up to $500 a
shift.
ZOO CD: The front-page photo shows a monkey having a gander at a new CD Rom being produced by the Auckland Zoo as a
promotional/educational resource.
Also on the front page:
- INCIS: Prime Minister Jenny Shipley has stunned her colleagues by calling for an inquiry into the Government’s
disastrous Incis police computer project;
- FLU CRISIS: a report that Rotorua Hospital had to turn away patients needing emergency surgery during a five-day
crisis sparked by a flu epidemic;
- SOCCER WORLD CHAMPS: a report that soccer supremos have demanded that the New Zealand organisers of the world under 17
championship slash costs to the bone.
Inside Political Headlines:
- Capital gains tax off Alliance agenda – Anderton pushes for development ministry;
- Vetting not needed for firefighters – Organisers say existing checks adequate;
- Group calls for baby blood rules;
- Corruption inquiry called for;
- Taxpayer interests must come first: Upton.
TVNZ: The editorial discusses political interference in the decision to pull an Assignment documentary on Munchausen’s
disease by proxy and cot deaths.