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POLITICS
HEADLINES:
Scoop Audio: Despite Angry
Relations Pacific Forum Makes Progress
QUESTIONS
OF THE DAY
Economy: Reserve Bank Holds
Interest Rates
Politics: Select Committee
Suffers Power Outage
Food Standards: Better
Folate Than Never
MeNZB: Hodgson Concerned
Ryall's Attack On MeNZB Campaign Not Up To Usual
Standard
Politics: Former Act Staffer And
Weblog Keeper 'The Whig' Torments Govt Via
Cyberspace
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Scoop
Audio: Despite Angry Relations Pacific Forum Makes
Progress
New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark provides a wrap-up of the most
significant achievements at the Pacific Islands Forum in
Nadi, Fiji. She says the Forum was successful despite a
tense beginning highlighted with the clash between
Australia, Solomons, Papua New Guinea. To hear what was
achieved on a regionalised Pacific, NZ's labour scheme for
Pacific peoples, and security moves, see… Scoop Audio: Helen Clark
Summarises Pacific Forum 2006. [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00404.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0610/S00508.htm
QUESTIONS
OF THE DAY:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00488.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00479.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00450.htm
Economy:
Reserve Bank Holds Interest Rates
The Official Cash
Rate (OCR) will remain unchanged at 7.25 percent. Since our
September Monetary Policy Statement, there has been a
significant improvement to the near-term inflation outlook,
mainly as a result of the recent decline in oil prices. We
expect lower fuel prices, together with the recent rebound
in the exchange rate and Statistics New Zealand's
reweighting of the CPI, to give an unusually low December
quarter CPI increase. See... Reserve
Bank: OCR unchanged at 7.25 percent [1]
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00477.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00480.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00502.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00463.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00462.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00265.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0610/S00464.htm
Politics:
Select Committee Suffers Power Outage
United Future whip Gordon Copeland today called on the National Party caucus to discipline Rangitikei MP Simon Power for orchestrating the collapse of a select committee hearing yesterday even though submitters from all around the country were present to give evidence. See... Copeland: Nats must discipline Power [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00492.htm
Food
Standards: Better Folate Than Never
Consumers have
been given a reprieve with the announcement of a six-month
delay of a final decision on the fortification of all bread
with folic acid, Green Party Health and Safe Food
Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. See... Greens
welcome six-month folate reprieve [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00491.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00289.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00497.htm
MeNZB:
Hodgson Concerned Ryall's Attack On MeNZB Campaign Not Up To
Usual Standard
Tony Ryall's ill-informed attempts to
discredit the MeNZB campaign are unworthy of him, Health
Minister Pete Hodgson said today. "Mr Ryall's 'revelation'
that there have been 33 treatment injury claims associated
with MeNZB accepted by ACC since the beginning of 2005 is
entirely within anticipated outcomes. See... Ryall
panic merchant wrong on vaccine [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00471.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00480.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00485.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0610/S00505.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00100.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00098.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00091.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00089.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00078.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00257.htm
Politics: Former Act Staffer And Weblog Keeper 'The
Whig' Torments Govt Via Cyberspace
An online petition asking the Governor General to withhold the Royal Assent to the Government’s validating legislation has collected over 40,000 names in a week and become the world’s fastest-growing. Petition organiser Blair Mulholland formally “presented” the petition to Government House by an emailed link last Thursday. The petition will be left online indefinitely, and is still gathering signatures. See... Online Petition: Over 43,000 Names in Just 7 Days [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0610/S00284.htm
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