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Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 4:43 pm
Article: The Scoop Team

POLITICS HEADLINES:
Media: Greens Co-Leader Finds Hidden Cost Of Free Trade
Section 59: Govt Drops Urgency, Maori Party Shares Thinking
Environment: Greens Carbon Pricing Paper Reaction:
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES

Media: Greens Co-Leader Finds Hidden Cost Of Free Trade

Last night’s exclusion of an accredited journalist from a Beehive photo opportunity with Michael Cullen and the Deputy Premier of China Zeng Peiyan, because Chinese officials thought the journalist was a “problem”, shows that the Government is so desperate for a trade deal with China that it will sacrifice free speech in New Zealand to get it, says the Green Party. See... Labour sacrifices free speech for trade deal [1]
CHINA VICE-PREMIER VISIT:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00533.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00534.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00535.htm

Section 59: Govt Drops Urgency, Maori Party Shares Thinking

The Maori Party Caucus has previously opposed urgency... on the basis that such calls are usually called by the Government to satisfy their own interests in pushing through its legislative timetable. ... The four Maori Party Members intend to travel over the April recess, to create opportunities for people to share with them, their views about ‘the hot issues affecting their communities’. “We have no doubt that the types of strategies used by parents in their child-rearing responsibilities will be one of these hot issues” said Dr Sharples. See... Maori Party Maintains Line on Urgency Motion [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00551.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00540.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00352.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00231.htm

Environment: Greens Carbon Pricing Paper Reaction:

KiwiFM Audio: [1] KiwiFM's Wammo talks to Green MP Nandor Tanczos on the Green Party's new environment, climate change and carbon policy.
Scoop Audio: Greens Outline How To Save Planet And Money [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00478.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00456.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00459.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00353.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00471.htm

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00541.htm

MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00553.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00546.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00545.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00547.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00552.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00548.htm

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