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Friday, 13 October 2006, 4:02 pm
Article: The Scoop Team

POLITICS HEADLINES
Auditor-General's Report : More Reaction
Transport News: Transit Unveils Auckland West Ring Road Plans
Children's Issues: NZ's shameful record of child abuse
Environment: Court Says Climate Change Can Be Considered In Consents
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES
TODAY'S POLITICAL COLUMNS
THIS WEEK'S PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS

Auditor-General's Report : More Reaction

It has always been the Green Party's position that it is committed to pay the spending identified as being outside the rules. "This is and always has been our position," Musterer Metiria Turei says. The amount will be divided between the six MPs and the Party. "We have been presented with a bill for $87,192 and that's what we're gearing up to pay. But obviously we don't have that kind of money to hand so we will be going out to our members and supporters to help us raise these funds," Mrs Turei says. See... Greens committed to paying [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00231.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00216.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00217.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00229.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00130.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00237.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00181.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00126.htm

Transport News: Transit Unveils Auckland West Ring Road Plans

Scoop publishes full detail, with maps and facts, of what Transit plans for Auckland. What is the Western Ring Route? The Western Ring Route is a long-planned motorway bypass of Auckland’s CBD. When completed, it will be a continuous, 48-km motorway between Manukau, Waitakere and the North Shore, bypassing the CBD, Spaghetti Junction and the Harbour Bridge. See... Transit West Ring Road Backgrounder [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00123.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00113.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00112.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00111.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00109.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00117.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00208.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00121.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00127.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00132.htm

Children's Issues: NZ's shameful record of child abuse

Today marks the release of the first United Nations international study on violence against children. The Study is a joint initiative, by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO)... David Kenkel, the advocacy manager for UNICEF New Zealand, says: “The violence in this report mirrors New Zealand, far too many of our own children experience it. We do not do well by our children; our recent record of child deaths by abuse is shameful.” See... Study Release: NZ shamed by our child abuse record [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00139.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00184.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00281.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00108.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00106.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00119.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00129.htm

Environment: Court Says Climate Change Can Be Considered In Consents

Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman today enthusiastically welcomed a High Court ruling that climate change factors can be considered during Greenpeace’s upcoming appeal against the proposed Marsden B power station. “This is a great decision for the people of Whangarei, for the New Zealand environment and for a planet struggling to cope with past and current levels of CO2 emissions,” Dr Norman says. See... Court affirms Greenpeace Marsden B rights [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00224.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00242.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00124.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00244.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00142.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00141.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00128.htm

MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00248.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00230.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00235.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00243.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00238.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00137.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00138.htm

TODAY'S COLUMNS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00241.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00233.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00236.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00134.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00226.htm

THIS WEEK'S PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00227.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00188.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00160.htm

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