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Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 3:15 pm
Article: The Scoop Team

POLITICS HEADLINES:
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
Parliament: MPs Vote Today On Whether To Raise Drinking Age
Fireworks: Peter Dunne Explains That Prohibition Does Not Work
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES
POLITICAL COLUMNS
US Elections

QUESTIONS OF THE DAY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00143.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00139.htm

Parliament: MPs Vote Today On Whether To Raise Drinking Age

The Keep-it-18 campaign has pointed to figures from the Alcohol Liquor Advisory Council (ALAC) to show that the claims by promoters of raising the drinking age back to 20 that youth drinking is "out of control" are misleading and don’t focus on the real issues behind New Zealand's drinking problems. See... Alarmist Statements on Youth Drinking Misleading [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00099.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00102.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00103.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00087.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00083.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00084.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00106.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00146.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00033.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00116.htm

Fireworks: Peter Dunne Explains That Prohibition Does Not Work

United Future leader Peter Dunne says a total ban on fireworks sales to the public would be a step too far... "Only the naïve, or the killjoys in our community could seriously imagine that such a ban would work... Where will it end? Fireworks police doing snap raids on people's homes to check they are not illicitly holding fireworks?" See... Dunne: firework ban a step too far [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00138.htm

MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00147.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00134.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00142.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00140.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00133.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00137.htm

POLITICAL COLUMNS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00141.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00110.htm

US Elections:

*** Click here for Scoop US Election News*** [1]
NEWSFLASH: Exit Polls - Narrowly Democrat Senate [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/#USE
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00127.htm

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