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For those few who still think this is just a protest for bleating 'scumbag smokers', Joy Faulkner has a message for
you: "Wake up!! This march is," she says," about getting big brother government off our backs and out of our lives."
Scoop's Jonathan Hill looks at how Labour Party President Bob Harvey's comments on the CIA this week could be the much
needed start of a fresh new approach to Labour's election campaign.
New Zealand taxpayers have spent $100,000 funding a public relations front for genetic engineers, including the United
States food and chemical giant Monsanto, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today.
The sudden outburst of illness, bordering on epidemic proportions, among Ansett pilots is worrying Transport Minister
Maurice Williamson. He intends talking to his colleague the Minister of Immigration to discuss the possibility of
bringing in overseas pilots ...
Inside APEC Series - Aziz Choudry: he became a household name to us after the New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service
bungled its break in on his Christchurch home. On Scoop today, Choudry speaks of Spooks, APEC, foreign affairs, and
warns of the ...
Incorrect reports on genetic engineering are being circulated in the internet, which could be aimed at discrediting
anti-genetic engineering lobbyists, Green Party Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today.
An historic decision handed down by the South Australian Supreme Court over Australian Labour Party (ALP)
branch-stacking has caused chaos but could also have ramifications in New Zealand because it could be used as a
precedent. John Howard reports.
Auckland faces two threats. First, Labour's proposals to unleash industrial civil strife and second, the complete lack
of leadership on Auckland's growing transport crisis.
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The LTSA will today begin the process of sending out 235,000 driver licence upgrade packs to drivers who were born in
September. A new television advertisement, targeting Virgos, reminds drivers that it's time for them to upgrade.
In four months time we will know the immediate impact of the "Y2K" computer bug; the bug through which computers with
2-digit date fields cannot distinguish which century we are in, and which may cause computers to try to do things they
are ...
Hon Marie Hasler, Minister for Culture and Heritage, today announced three appointments to the Board of the Museum of
New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.
Suspensions Soar - Students Sue Police / Speaker - Dollar Drops - Pilots - Ansett - UN / Timor - Producer Boards -
National Low - Bentley - Wye Peace - World War 2 - Millennium
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"The PPTA union should have every right to choose who they buy airline tickets from", said Martin Poulsen, the National
Party candidate for Auckland Central.
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Dr Richard McGrath has a simple prescription for resolving the Lotteries Commission fiasco.
"Sack Geoff Thompson, and disband the monopoly," he says. "It is not the job of politicians to run charities. Mr
Thompson, a ...
The Alliance says the Government is planning to let private companies take over new roads, and New Zealanders will have
to pay tolls to overseas owned companies in order to drive on them.
National Library staff - `cynical, frustrated and disheartened' over their organisation's restructuring - are hopeful
the new Minister, Hon Marie Hasler will act "more responsibly in analysing the Library's `strategic plan' and listen to
the views of ...
How Pete Hodgson was granted leave to deliver a 5 minute speech on what Labour will do to the ECA during question time -
and what he said.
Next week's APEC leader's meetings must surely present the perfect opportunity for a collective resolution to pending
civil war in East Timor. If this opportunity is wasted, then APEC is the lame duck its critics say it is.