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Friday, 23 March 2007, 4:28 pm
Article: The Scoop Team

POLITICS HEADLINES:
Scoop Report: DC. Impressions From Inside The Power House
QUESTIONS OF THE DAY
Politics: McCully Tackles Auckland Lab Fiasco and Terrorism -
Welfare: Getting A Benefit Could Be Harder Than Getting A Job -
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES
POLITICAL COLUMNS

Scoop Report: DC. Impressions From Inside The Power House

Scoop's Rosalea Barker writes: The buildings are all much smaller than they seem to be on the telly. The scale of the West Wing, at least, is really no bigger than that of a family home. The annex that links the White House to the West Wing contains the indoor swimming pool where JFK allegedly had his trysts with Marilyn Monroe. The pool has been covered over since those days, and the annex is now used as a break room for the media encampment that is permanently lined up along the driveway to the west wing. See... Stateside: Rosalea’s Big Day Out In D.C. [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00471.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00440.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00406.htm

Politics: McCully Tackles Auckland Lab Fiasco and Terrorism -

There are important lessons to be found in the judgment delivered by High Court Justice Raynor Asher this week in the case involving the three district health boards for the Auckland region. A $560 million contract to supply diagnostic laboratory services was found ultra vires and cancelled. And the Minister could offer no reassurance to 1.5 million Aucklanders that suitable laboratory services will be in place when the current contract expires. See... www.mccully.co.nz - 23 March 2007 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00488.htm

Welfare: Getting A Benefit Could Be Harder Than Getting A Job -

“Fundamental changes are being made to the purpose and principles of the Social Security Act and most people don’t even know it”, said sociologist Dr Louise Humpage, speaking at the Where to for Welfare? conference held on 21 March which discussed recent and proposed welfare reforms in New Zealand. Along with other members of the University of Auckland’s Public Policy. See... Fundamental social security changes: nobody knows [1]
ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00296.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00421.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00422.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00299.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00298.htm

MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00496.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00475.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00470.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00483.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00477.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00495.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00485.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00468.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00472.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00481.htm

POLITICAL COLUMNS:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00488.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00487.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00482.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00479.htm

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