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Friday, 13 April 2007, 4:38 pm
Article: The Scoop Team

POLITICS HEADLINES:
Section 59: Timaru Whip Lady Back In Court
Ahmed Zaoui: NZ's North African Affairs Specialist On Algerian Bombings
Election Funding: Govt Pressured To Open Up Reform Debate
Employment: Dole Figures Lead To Plenty Of Employment For Press Secretaries
Broadcasting: Charter Driven, Public Service TV Involved in Employee Cull
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES
POLITICAL COLUMNS

Section 59: Timaru Whip Lady Back In Court

Today the media reported that the Timaru mother acquitted, under Section 59, of using a riding crop on her son is back in court. “The reported evidence of serious assault on a teenager by a mother and step-father must cause all those who see no relationship between section 59 and child abuse to pause and reflect,” said Murray Edridge, Chief Executive of Barnardos New Zealand. See... Who said changing s59 won’t reduce child abuse? [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00162.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00232.htm
[3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD1Tvu206Nw
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00511.htm

Ahmed Zaoui: NZ's North African Affairs Specialist On Algerian Bombings

New Zealanders in London when the Rainbow Warrior was sunk may know something of what Ahmed Zaoui felt after the bombings in Algiers this week, that left over 30 people dead. Suddenly, the television screen carries images of home, but in a truly unsettling light. See... Zaoui on the Algiers bombings [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00204.htm

Election Funding: Govt Pressured To Open Up Reform Debate

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour should stop the "shadow boxing" and put its secret plans for election spending reform on the table. "For more than a week now, Labour has been shuffling its feet on what may or may not be in the bill which it says will be tabled in Parliament by June. If Labour is confident its proposals are 'fair and transparent' then it's time for them to come clean with the public. See... Secrecy on election laws anti-democratic [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00241.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00242.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00238.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00232.htm

Employment: Dole Figures Lead To Plenty Of Employment For Press Secretaries

"David Benson-Pope needs say whether it is him or his department that is misleading the public over the long promised work on 'beneficiary clusters'," says National's Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. Ms Collins is referring to a report in the Dominion Post which revealed that 'nearly a year after the Government promised a crackdown on clusters of beneficiary households, officials have admitted no reports or statistics were ever produced.- See...Benson-Pope fudges on 'clusters' [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00219.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00177.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00182.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00185.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00149.htm

Broadcasting: Charter Driven, Public Service TV Involved in Employee Cull

TVNZ's decision to make nearly sixty news and current affairs staff redundant is a short-sighted move that poses a major threat to New Zealand journalism, say the unions that represent journalists. The proposal includes the total closure of the news reference library, the closure of Wellington's 'Sunday' office and a serious reduction of camera operators in Wellington and Auckland, and smaller cuts across almost every other news and current affairs division. See... TVNZ proposes to gut NZ journalism [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00152.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00217.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00171.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00167.htm

MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00220.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00244.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00240.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00237.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00239.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00225.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00233.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00236.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00230.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00169.htm

POLITICAL COLUMNS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00238.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00234.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00232.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00224.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00419.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00654.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00656.htm

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