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1: “Harry
Potter” Trailer Cinema Premiere
The theatrical trailer for the year’s most-anticipated family film - “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” will make its cinema screen debut in New Zealand for the first time on Thursday, April 5.
2:
Keith
Rankin: In Defence Of Equitable Home
Tax
The opprobrium heaped onto the 2001 Tax Review committee for suggesting a home ownership tax was so loud and so righteous that it pre-empted any reasonable public debate on both that issue and the other issues raised by the taskforce.
3:
Putting
A Rocket Up Local Arts
Next Friday at The Embassy Wellington band Ebb plan to put the proverbial rocket up the local arts scene with their multimedia extravaganza Plush Bomb... An all night party, in the divine purpose built party palace the Embassy movie theatre.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 28
June
Today's questions of the day concerned: Christine Rankin – Secondary School Leavers – Christine Rankin And The PM – Wellington Police Numbers – NZ Post – Police Cars – DHB Funding – Border Control Measures – Court Fees – Child Labour – Knowledge Economy ...
5:
Lindsay
Perigo: Self-Respect, Not
Self-Obsession
Yesterday I was a tad under the weather from staying up very late the night before, talking & quaffing with friends into the wee hours. It was one of those "meaning of life" conversations, with some good-natured sparring punctuating its more ...
6:
All
Blacks Will Win, Say Well-Known
Kiwis
The French have arrived in Wellington with a good recent test record against the All Blacks having won two of the last three clashes.
7:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 28 June
2001
1. Hon GEORGINA TE HEUHEU to the Minister of Social Services and Employment: When he said yesterday that "The Prime Minister does expect a great deal of her Ministers, and we do the best that we can to live up to it, although I have to say that at times ...
8:
GST
Changes For Electronic Commerce
Proposed
The Government is proposing changes to ensure GST does not unfairly disadvantage New Zealand service industries.
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 27
June
Today's questions of the day concerned: Christine Rankin And The PM – Industry Training – Christine Rankin And Maharey – NZ Schools Report – NZ Post Board - Regional Rail Services – NZ Post And South Africa – Rail Services – Otago Health Services – Oceans ...
10:
Kiwis
Are Six Million Hour
Surfers
Auckland – 28 June 2001 – Kiwis clocked up over six million hours of Internet surfing at home during May according to the latest statistics released by Nielsen//NetRatings.
11:
Greens
- 'Save Rail' By Keeping Out Of Koru
Clubs
"If Green MPs Sue Kedgley and Rod Donald really want to 'Save Rail,' they should get out of their Koru Club Lounges and use the rail services they want everyone else to pay for, rather than forcing others to pay for something they never use," ...
12:
Feedback:
Police Set Up Demonstrators for
Arrest
Internationally, journalists report that undercover police have been discovered at demonstrations throughout Europe smashing storefront windows and staging fights to incite protestors to riot. And that police have used this as the excuse to attack, ...
13:
Govt
Working On Passenger Rail In
Regions
The Government is ready to work in partnership with local authorities, communities and regions to secure the future of rail services where there is a prospect of making them viable, Industry and Regional Development Minister Jim Anderton told Parliament ...
14:
Energy
Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Latest
Data
The latest annual report on New Zealand's energy sector greenhouse gas emissions shows a 2 percent increase in gross carbon dioxide emissions between 1999 and 2000.
15:
Cannabis
(almost) on Energy Agenda
A two day conference on cleaner vehicle emmissions "New Zealand Road to Cleaner Air" commencing today may consider the implementation of horticulturally derived fuels such as bio-diesel made from cannabis-hemp.
16:
The
Dominion
Christine Rankin – Bigamist Bride – Helen’s Pick
17:
National
Radio Midday Report
Probation Officers Strike – Christine Rankin – Noel McKenzie – Primary Health – Flu - Federal Reserve – AIDS Conference – Milosevic – Railways – Missing Man – Childrens Commissioners – Horticultural Education - Executions
18:
Property
Boom In Virtual Real Estate
"In the future, many people will have what few have enjoyed in the past: a second address" says Robert Wiles CEO, Pdom. Wiles isn't talking about a cabin in the mountains or a house by the sea; but a place in cyberspace - a personal domain name ...
19:
User-Friendly
Guide And Cheque For RMA
Support
Fifty thousand dollars and a new 'easy to use' guide to the Resource Management Act were a good start to improving understanding of the RMA, the Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, said today.
20:
Leatherman
Potential In New Zealand
The Leatherman multi-tool is given credit for a range of amazing rescue and fix-it feats and now the American-based company that invented the tools is targeting New Zealand with the belief it can become one of its top markets.
21:
How
Can Overfishing Possibly Be
Sustainable?
Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today asked why the Hoki fishery needed a 20 per cent quota reduction just three months after it had been publicly launched and promoted as a sustainably managed fishery.
22:
New
'Human Wrongs' Commissar A Helengrad
Nanny
Libertarianz Leader Peter Cresswell expressed disgust today at the ignorance of the Chief Commissar of the Human Wrongs Commissariat, politically correct appointee Rosslyn Noonan, who claims: "Access to the telecommunications network is a human right."
23:
National
Radio 8am Bulletin
Christine Rankin – Abdurrahman Wahid – Probation Service Strike – Brain Drain – US Interest Rate Cut – Middle East Peace Process – Macedonia – Tasman Pacific Receivership – Rail Services
24:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 27 June
1. Hon RICHARD PREBBLE to the Prime Minister: Is it correct that she has not met Christine Rankin, the Chief Executive of the Department of Work and Income, in the eighteen months that she has been Prime Minister; if so, what assurance can she give ...
25:
The
Thalidomide Of Genetic
Engineering
By the end of the 1980s some millions of people, mostly in North America, were supplementing their diet with L-tryptophan, an essential amino-acid present in proteins of any normal diet.
26:
President
Appalled At Court Costs
"Waikato Federated Farmers is appalled at Environment Waikato's intention to recover costs from the farmers who took the Piako River rating case to the High Court" said John Vincent, President of Waikato Federated Farmers.
27:
Nicky
Hager Addresses The Echelon
Committee
The first question then which I want to discuss with you in detail is the question of what in this highly secretive subject your committee can reasonably believe and what you should doubt, that central issue when you are studying a highly secretive ...
28:
Child
Abuse Claims Misleading
"Merepeka Raukawa-Tait's claims that child abuse by women is increasing is extremely misleading. It is the recognition, and not the incidence, of such abuse that is rising", FARE spokesperson Darryl Ward said today. He was commenting on Raukawa-Tait's comments ...
29:
Court
of Christine Rankin cavorts at our
expense
Winz Chief Executive Christine Rankin starred in a Michael-Jackson type performance at a senior manager's conference, dressed in an extravagant costume and descending from the ceiling on a flying rig said Alliance spokesperson on Social Welfare, Grant ...
30:
Government
Meets With Prospective Rail
Owners
Transport Minister Mark Gosche and officials today met with representatives of West Coast Railway, the prospective owners of the Tranz Scenic network.
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