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1: Images:
Greens take the Positive Politics
Pledge
The ‘Green Team’ - the five Green Party candidates standing for local body seats in the Wellington area - today launched their "Positive Politics Pledge" campaign outside the Local Government New Zealand conference at the Michael Fowler Centre.
2:
Howard's
End: Beijing Doesn’t Qualify For
Olympics
The race is on to share in Beijing's billions now that China has won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Australia, who helped with Beijing's bid to the IOC, is set to get about $3 billion of it, according to Austrade. Maree Howard writes.
3:
Stateside
with Rosalea: Web Van Winkle
Last Sunday, the local Fox TV station led its 11 p.m. bulletin with live pictures of shadowy figures carrying plastic bags full of personal belongings from a shadowy building in the distance. No, it wasn't Washington and they weren't the police; it ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
HARD
NEWS 13/07/01 - Y Not?
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so the health system's running out of money, the seas are rising, Mobil's still a bunch of pricks and John Banks wants to be Mayor of Auckland. Oh well. At least the Christine Rankin trial's over.
"I was having to see an embarassingly large amount of breast exposed. I didn't like it." -Dr Mark Prebble
6:
Red
Bull Regrets Sad Events In Sweden
1. Red Bull„µ Energy Drink is currently sold in more than 50 countries world-wide. The product has been on sale in Europe for 14 years, and the formula for more than 30 years in Japan and Asia. It has been on sale in New Zealand for five years.
7:
Extremist
Smoking Proposal Must Be
Dismissed
Censoring smoking in movies is a ridiculous idea that highlights the extremism of antismoking zealots, ACT MP Penny Webster said today.
8:
“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.
Amnesty International voiced its outrage today at the reported stoning to death of an Iranian woman at Evin prison in Tehran.
10:
A
Racial Divide?
When my family immigrated to New Zealand in 1958, I believe there was no racial divide. As kids, our friends were Maori and Pakeha; we were all alike.
11:
$500,000
Waste Shows Contempt for
Taxpayers
Abhorrence at the Labour Government's waste of half a million dollars to protect Trevor Mallard, Steve Maharey and Helen Clark will not be abated by glib assurances that this is an 'in house cost', ACT MP Dr Muriel Newman said today.
12:
Internet
2: What Is It And Why Should You
Care?
A coalition of 170 US universities as well as research networks in Canada, Europe and Australia plus a few dozen corporations have been pooling their resources to build the Internet2 framework, which researchers are now using to develop a variety ...
13:
Tell
Your Sick Staff To Go Home
With some regions already suffering from the flu outbreak and others poised to be hit, employers are being reminded that sick staff are not good for business.
14:
Guy’s
World: Don’t Back Down,
Merepeka
You never know where you might end up during a spontaneous outburst of vivacity. You could find yourself surrounded by naked and beautiful women dangerously shaking their hips and performing powerful and graceful acrobatics on poles.
15:
National
Radio Midday Report
Mark Lundy – CPI Rise – Local Govt Reforms – Drug Bust - Timor Elections – Kashmir – Kyoto Protocol – Oz Elections – Lake Murder – Smoking Censorship – Albatross Chicks
16:
Govt
Appoints Greenhouse Agreement
Negotiator
The Government has appointed Brian Roche as its negotiator to begin developing Negotiated Greenhouse Agreements for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from major emitters.
17:
Warning
for NZ as the Chinese Hit the
Jackpot
Exciting innovations in salt-tolerant cropping techniques have been reported from Hainan University in China, ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff said today.
18:
P&G
Products to be Removed from Shelves
Wellington- Members of Wellington Animal Action will take Procter and Gamble products off supermarket shelves as part of a Global Day of Action against the intensive product testing that P&G conduct on animals. The protest is aimed at educating consumers ...
19:
Charles
Upham Sold For Peanuts
The Government's sale of army transport ship the Charles Upham has shown its incompetence on defence yet again, National's Defence spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
20:
Lee
Speech To LGNZ Annual
Conference
It is a pleasure to be with you at what will be seen as a milestone conference for all involved in local government, as you focus on the review of the Local Government Act 1974 and new legislation.
21:
Lemon
Ship Sold
"This vessel, which unfortunately was given the name of our most decorated war hero, has never carried out the sealift role for which it was originally acquired," Mark Burton said.
22:
Media
Flash - July 16, 2001
* JOHN ANDERSEN, senior Townsville Bulletin reporter, has had charges over interviewing three female prisoners without permission, dropped in Townsville Magistrates Court on Thursday. ANDERSEN, 48, was charged with three counts of interviewing inmates ...
23:
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Today?
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24:
Costings
Of Rankin Court Case
Acting State Services Minister Margaret Wilson, today released the costs to the Crown to date in defending the case in which the former chief executive of the Department of Work and Income, Christine Rankin, is suing the State Services Commissioner.
25:
Helen
Clark Speech To Auckland Rotary
It is now nineteen months since the Labour-Alliance Government came into office. Much has happened in that time. We came to office concerned about the path New Zealand was on and determined to change it.
26:
Big
Brother Bill Is Watching You
The world of computer espionage is hotting-up with French accusations that US secret agents worked with computer giant, Microsoft, to spy on worldwide communications. John Howard reports.
27:
First
Awards For Business
Incubators
Twelve business incubators around New Zealand will benefit from the first round of awards from the Government's new incubator support programme.
AUSTRALIA's world champion league team maintained their dominance with a convincing four try to two, 28-10 victory over the Kiwis at Wellington's WestpacTrust Stadium tonight.
29:
$11.5
Million Cutbacks Or 27% Fee Hike At Massey
$11.5 Million Cutbacks Or 27% Fee Hike At Massey University Students at Massey University are facing a 27% fee increase or service cutbacks of $11.5 million as a result of the Government's tertiary education funding policy, National's Tertiary Education ...
30:
MP’s
Efforts Won’t Solve Northland Housing
Problem
While MP Dover Samuels' attempts to improve substandard housing in Northland can be commended, the reality is that his efforts will not solve the problem, said ACT's Whangarei based housing spokesman Dr Muriel Newman.
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee