IMMIGRANTS: A new report shows immigrants suffer severe discrimination in the job market. Highly qualified and
immigrants who are fluent in English cannot gain positions of worth like they had overseas.
CLARK: The Labour leader Helen Clark says the Alliance tax policy will be considered in a tax revue after the election
but will not be adopted in the first term of a new government.
SHIPLEY: Jenny Shipley has reiterated her support for national testing of primary students.
FARMERS: Farmers seeking compensation following changes to the law regarding their leasehold land are being promised
relief by the ACT party in their rural policy launched today.
CRASH: The investigators of the EgyptAir crash concede they may have to pass control of the investigation on to another
agency such as the FBI.
TERMITES: The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are laying poison bait for a termite infestation in Otarahanga.
MAORI: Maori have been protesting outside a second hand store in Taumaranui because the owner is selling Goldy prints of
the protestors’ ancestors.
SLAVE: A young woman who was allegedly kept as a sex slave for nine years has been giving evidence in the Auckland High
Court today.
QUEENSTOWN: There are prediction that the Queenstown foreshore may flood today as heavy rain in the area is filling the
lake.
FIREARMS: A man charged with firearms charges in Christchurch was dragged from court in a choke hold after threatening
the judge.
PAVAROTTI: 25,000 people are expected to turn out for Pavarotti’s concert on Saturday. He is now in the country.
ASTRONOMERS: Thousands of astronomers saw Mercury skim across the sun for the first time today.