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• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 20.11.09 Parliament congratulates All Whites on qualifying for Football World Cup finals in South Africa, welcomes new Green MP David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement, and spends the week skirmishing around National's revised Emissions Trading Scheme ...
• (Bomber's Blog): Bomber's Blog: The War On News, Nov 20 2009 Bomber's Blog - The War On News Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury. Bomber's Blog - the war on news. Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 19.11.09 More criticism of Treasury's emissions trading scheme cost estimates, this time from their own minister, Bill English. Labour MPs take offence after Paula Bennett claims they are sick and tired of hearing about child abuse.

• (95bfm): 95bFM Audio: Deady & Hood On Coverage Of Nats ETS Scoop's Lyndon Hood cracks into the news coverage of the National government's revised ETS - is ANYONE getting the numbers right?
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 18.11.09 Finance minister Bill English and his Labour shadow, David Cunliffe, play dancing with the stars as TVNZ's controversial "Plain English" programme promotion gets hauled over the coals in the chamber and the committee rooms. John Key goes too far in his ...
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 17.11.09 Parliament resumes after a fortnight's adjournment, welcomes David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement for the Greens, congratulates the All Whites on beating Bahrain, and gets into a shouting match over the cost of the emissions trading scheme with ...
• (Scoop Audio): RDU Audio: Breakfast With Spanky – Russel Norman Breakfast With Spanky On Christchurch’s RDU 98.5FM. Russel Norman joined us on the show this morning to give his opinion on whether Hone should get the boot from the Maori Party. In some ways they’re not too different- the Greens and Hone - ...
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 17.11.09 Parliament resumes after a fortnight's adjournment, welcomes David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement for the Greens, congratulates the All Whites on beating Bahrain, and gets into a shouting match over the cost of the emissions trading scheme with ...
• (Scoop Audio): Radio Adelaide: Hone - Smells Like Nat-Whip Spirit Scoop's Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how pressure continues to mount on Maori Party MP Hone Harawira even after he apologised for the racial slur in a private email. Does this smell of Nat-Whip Spirit?
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament ending 13.11.09 The second week of adjournment saw only two Select Committees open to the public. The Finance and Expenditure Committee heard from Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard, who gave evidence to the Committee's inquiry into the Reserve Bank's Financial Stability ...
• (Scoop Audio): Scoop Audio: Turia & Sharples on Harawira's future Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said Hone Harawira is difficult to control and it does not look like he is going to change. The decision “to invite him to consider whether he would prefer to be independent” was made by the party a few days ago ...
• (Carolyn Meers): Bahraini Musicians Perform, Rally in Wellington A group of Bahraini musicians who arrived with the Bahrain football team last night performed in Midland Park this afternoon. Bahrain will compete with the New Zealand All Whites tomorrow, Saturday the 14th, in the FIFA World Cup qualifier at Westpac ...
• (Adrian Maidment): Cartoon: Rodney Hide at the Airport Rodney Hide at the Airport Cartoon comment from Adrian Maidment: Click for big version ENDS
• (Scoop Audio): Scoop Audio: Parliamentary Banking Enquiry Reports Labour’s David Cunliffe and the Green’s Russel Norman deliver the conclusions of the cross party banking enquiry.
• (Scoop Audio): Radio Waatea: Hone Harawira apologises for e-mail Maori Party MP Hone Harawira interviewed by Willie Jackson on radio Waatea about his trip to Paris, and the suggestion that his recent comments were racist.
• (Scoop Audio): Wallace & Manning: Real Cost Of Hide's Spend-Up KiwiFM: Manning & Wallace discuss why Hide's romantic junket is more offensive than Harawira's slur against Pakeha Kiwis. And what's the total amount of expenses charged to his ministerial credit card? What's the cost of the hotel bills, restaurant bills, ...
• (Scoop Audio): Radio Adelaide: Manning - Snouts & Sorries & Slurs Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Govt Minister Rodney Hide apologising for 'casual use' of tax payers' money. Will it get him off the hook? Also, Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is in hot water after using racist slurs against white NZers in an email. ...
• (Scoop Audio): Radio Fiji Audio Issued Of Australia Visa Officer Radio Fiji Releases Audio Of Australian Visa Officer Warning Officers Against Accepting Fiji Judicial Appointments...
• (Scoop Audio): PM’s Presser: Travel Perks + Foreshore and Seabed Audio on demand of Prime Minister John Key’s Post Cabinet Press Conference. The Foreshore and Seabed legislation will not be repealed until a decision has been made on its replacement, the Prime Minister said today. Key said his government has been ...
• (Scoop Audio): Wallace & Manning: MMP Woes + Oh My Dear Daffodil! Wallace Chapman & Selwyn Manning discuss how a NZ Herald Digipol showed 49 % of those surveyed want MMP to go. Is it fueled by dissatisfaction with politicians? Also, the 2009 Melbourne Cup is set to run tomorrow. NZ's favorite is a mare called Daffodil.
• (Scoop Audio): NZ PM Not Going To Copenhagen + MMP Under Pressure Radio Adelaide: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey discuss how NZ's PM John Key is not planning on heading to Copenhagen for the December climate change conference & appears to be dithering on climate change solutions. Also, MMP is under pressure!
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament Ending 30.10.09 Nick Smith finally gets his ACC bill off to a select committee, supported by the Maori Party for its first reading with ACT promising to go all the way. Government puts the House under urgency for sixth week in a row, but again fails to make the ...
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 29.10.09 Bill English stands in for John Key to answer questions from around the chamber about ACC, the foreshore and seabed, Crown debt and privatisation of water supplies which Local Government Minister, Rodney Hide, swears is not on the cards. Bill English ...
• (95bfm): bFM Audio: Turei on new bodily samples ammendment bFM’s Hamish interviews Metira Turei about her party's opposition to the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill
• (Scoop Audio): Scoop Audio: Launch of Police Assets Recovery Unit Police Commissioner Howard Broad and Police Minister Judith Collins answer questions about the launch of the Assets Recovery Unit, a police taskforce targeting the proceeds of crime.
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 28.10.09 MPs miss out on chance to debate their bills as Government puts House under urgency for sixth week in a row. Government blames media for delaying arrival of ministers in the chamber for Question Time. Opposition wants more information on TVNZ's use ...
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: Today In Parliament 27.10.09 National finally gets its ACC bill up for a first reading but only after third-ranked cabinet minister Gerry Brownlee has to answer a barrage of hostile questions about open ACC's workers account to competition.
• (Scoop Audio): Radio Adelaide: Bridgestone + Malaysia NZ FTA Kathryn Jensen and & Selwyn Manning discuss how Bridgestone in Adelaide and its site in Christchurch will lay off workers at Christmas, closing operations at the two plants. Also, NZ and Malaysia have signed a FTA...
• (Tom Frewen): Tom Frewen: The Week In Parliament 23.10.09 House under urgency for fifth sitting week in a row but still no sign of Government's ACC Bill. News of ACT's support for bill makes its inroduction likely next week to get it off to a select committee before Parliament starts a two-week adjournment ...
• (Scoop Audio): 95bFM: Paul Deady & Lyndon Hood – DHBs + Urgency! 95bFM Audio: Scoop's Lyndon Hood joins us this week with an outline of the changes to backroom functions at DHBs, and a whinge of the (5) weeks over the government's use of urgency.