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POLITICS
HEADLINES:
Brash Steps Down as National
Leader
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE
Scoop
Report and Photoessay: Tonga Faces
Crossroad
Health: Lab Testers Set To Boil
Over
Legislation: Union Welcomes
Probationary Employment Bill Being Made
Redundant
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Brash
Steps Down as National Leader
Listen To Don Brash's Press Conference & View
Pictures [1]
[2] National Party President Judy Kirk supports and respects
the decision by National Party Leader Don Brash to step down
as the party’s leader. “Dr Brash is an outstanding New
Zealander who has made an extraordinary contribution to this
country and to this party,” says Mrs Kirk. “On becoming
leader, 13 months after his election to Parliament, Dr Brash
rebuilt National’s support following the 2002 election.”
See... Statement
on Don Brash’s resignation [3]
SEE:
Scoop Audio and Images: [9] Brash
Resignation Press Conference
Scoop Audio and Report: [10] John Key
talks to media immediately after Dr Brash's resignation as
National Party Leader
Earlier:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00414.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00348.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00348.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00453.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00452.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00459.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00350.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00416.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00414.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00415.htm
[11]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00368.htm
[12]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00410.htm
[13]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00405.htm
SCOOP
IS IN THE HOUSE:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00448.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00431.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00402.htm
Scoop
Report and Photoessay: Tonga Faces
Crossroad
Twenty four hours after rioters tore through
Tonga's capital town looting and burning, leaving a sea of
blazing buildings in their wake, New Zealand's Helen Clark
said there were two futures on offer for the Pacific. "One
is poverty and conflict; the other is peace and
development." The comment accurately paints a crossroad for
Tonga, for Solomon Islands, Fiji, for Melanesia in general.
The comment acknowledges how accurate the United States'
most recent handle for the Pacific is: The Arc of
Uncertainty. See... Scoop
On Assignment: Tonga Faces Crossroad [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00412.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00432.htm
Health:
Lab Testers Set To Boil Over
District Health Boards
say talks with a mediator planned for Friday and Monday are
the best chance of preventing the week-long strike
threatened by laboratory workers. Lab workers at 15 DHBs
have threatened to strike for seven days from next Wednesday
in support of a claim for more than a 20% increase in pay
and conditions. The action will also affect three private
labs and the New Zealand Blood Service. See... Mediation
Scheduled For Lab Workers Talks [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00100.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00457.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00101.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00102.htm
Legislation: Union Welcomes Probationary Employment
Bill Being Made Redundant
The EPMU welcomed the
decision by Parliament to reject the National Party’s 90
No-Rights Bill and congratulates the four parties that voted
it down and the thousands of New Zealand workers who stood
against it. If passed, the Bill which would have stripped
workers of all employment rights for their first 90 days in
a new job. See... EPMU
welcomes defeat of No-Rights Bill [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00340.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00436.htm
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POLITICAL HEADLINES:
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[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00454.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00458.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00443.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00463.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00462.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00461.htm
POLITICAL
COLUMNS:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00453.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00346.htm
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