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1: Statement
From NZ Post On High Court
Judgement
New Zealand Post Chief Executive Elmar Toime said the company appreciated the undertaking given by Mr Prebble not to release any further information relating to the business case for the new bank until 5.00pm Monday.
2:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 27 February
2
1. Rt Hon JENNY SHIPLEY to the Prime Minister: When she described the new social security agreement with Australia as a "win-win" deal, was she including the advice from official sources that it will "vastly increase the cost of welfare ...
3:
Scoop
Images: Cuba St. Carnival Parade
(1)
Images from Saturday's Cuba Street Carnival parade.
4:
Living
Allowances, A New Bank & A Round Of
Golf?
A Scandal Over Living Allowances, An 80 Million Dollar Bank, but a Round of Golf?
5:
Howard's
End: Character Counts
MP's alleged to be involved in rorts, public servants taking bribes, the stock exchange altering the rules, violent crime doubling in the last decade, these are just some examples of the New Zealand disease. Where have all the role models gone? John Howard ...
6:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - 27
February
Today's questions of the day concerned: Australian Welfare Agreement – Wellington Hospital Cleaners Strike – Kiwi Bank – DPB And Liable Parent Contributions – Australian Residency – Jury Reforms – NZ Post Vs Prebble – Regional Economic Development – Separate ...
7:
SHARP
LANGUAGE: A Literary Definition Of
F**K
This week's Times Literary Supplement reviews a number of new dictionaries in some detail. Included in the discussion is a particularly sharp passage discussing the word 'fuck', as follows:
8:
Scoop
Images: Cuba St. Carnival (2)
More images from Saturday's Cuba Street Carnival parade in Wellington.
9:
How
New Zealand Can Recover Its Place In The
World
I have chosen as my topic "10th by 2010" by which I mean how New Zealand could be 10th in the OECD ratings of per capita income by 2010.
10:
Greens
Welcome Reconsideration Of Skyhawks
Green Party MP Keith Locke today welcomed Prime Minister Helen Clark's comments that New Zealand should reconsider the need for the Skyhawk fleet.
11:
SHARP
LITERATURE: Unpublished Children's
Titles
A list of Sharp children’s book titles that have, for some reason, never quite made it to the retail shelves...
12:
Survey
shows New Zealanders support Green
policy
A new survey proves the Green Party's organics policy is a perfect fit for New Zealanders, says Green MP and organic farmer Ian Ewen-Street, said today.
13:
Shipley's
criticisms ridiculous and
bizarre
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that National leader Jenny Shipley's criticism of the new New Zealand-Australia social security agreement was simply ridiculous.
14:
Extremist
Green Party Shows Its Colours
Green Party MP Sue Bradford has confirmed the party's status as extremist by joining a picket line of cleaners at Wellington Hospital today, National's Industrial Relations spokesman Lockwood Smith says.
15:
Scoop
Images: John Howard Heads
Home
With a deal signed that will see New Zealanders in Australia unable to receive the dole, and will save New Zealand $150 million annually, Australian Prime Minister John Howard left New Zealand this afternoon.
Borneo, or Kalimantan, is in the news today. Indigenous Dayak people have declared war on immigrant Madurese people, and over 100 Madurese have been killed in the fighting, and many of them have lost their heads.
17:
Foreign
Policy Defeat Kills Kiwi Rights In
Aus
Helen Clark’s trans-Tasman agreement with Australia is the most significant foreign policy defeat ever suffered by a New Zealand prime minister, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.
18:
Dole
Deal Is To Soften Up
Aussies
"Helen Clark's deal on social welfare with Australia will have Aussie's laughing all the way to the bank" said Max Bradford National's spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and Bob Simcock, National's spokesperson on Social Welfare.
19:
HARD
NEWS 23/2/01 - Thus, The Sky Kissed
Goodbye
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and so the weekend signed itself off with a mad, outrageous sunset that filled the sky, flitting from one colour to another, blooming lighter and darker, hanging on like someone who couldn't bear to leave a good party.
20:
Maori
Education Idea Is Bureaucracy Gone
Mad
ACT Education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata said today that the idea of a full-blown Government department to oversee Maori education is bureaucracy gone mad.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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