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1: HARD
NEWS 30/11/01 - Make It Stop
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... make it stop. Please. Not the Alliance infighting. Not Bathgate-gate. Not even the war. Just the year. It's been nice, 2001, but can't it just be Christmas already?
2:
Office
Furtivity: the New
Threat?
Auckland, 29 November 2001 – Does someone in your office work constantly at their PC but have little to show for it? Do they furtively attempt to cover their screen when you approach? Do they bypass water cooler chat in favour of the online variety?
3:
Open
Text Increases Presence In NZ With
gen-i
Sydney - November 30, 2001—Open Text™ Corporation, a worldwide leader in delivering collaborative commerce solutions, has expanded its presence in New Zealand with the appointment of gen-i as a value added distributor for its Livelink® collaborative ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
The
Greens, Parliament & The Prospect Of
Govt
Rod has given you some of our history, described the campaign for proportional representation and outlined some of the changes we would like to make to the processes of governance in the Parliament.
5:
Headlines
From The NZ Business Times Friday Nov
30
6:
Scoop
Links: What Really Happened At Qalai
Janghi?
The following are a series of links to recent reports on the “massacre at Qalai Janghi”. Considerably more detail of just what happened at the Northern Alliance prison compound has now emerged.
7:
Scoop
Images: Fire-breathing For Peace – Dec.
9th
For images of earlier work for peace by Crawshaw's Chilli Club see images below…and from April 2000: - All Fired Up For World Peace and - Scoop Images: "That no fighting shall take place"
8:
Ready,
Fire, AIM! - in Defence of New
Zealand
The role of a defence force is essentially to carry out the will of the country at home and abroad. Without such a force, the country becomes vulnerable to the will of other nations. If it doesn't happen to have caring neighbours then is even riper ...
9:
PC's
Opinion: Making the World Hum
In Auckland's Americas Cup Harbour are three new-ish buildings symbolising the best the west has to offer.
10:
Feedback:
SOS Campaign Hits Clayton's
Law
Sir, I listened with interest to Kim Hill's interview with Geoffrey Palmer this morning (Tuesday) about Justice Heron's curious decision to deny the Save Our Squadrons' Campaign bid to injunct the Government.
11:
WELLINGTON
JOINS GLOBAL PRO-CAPITALISM
RALLY
On 2nd December 2001, Wellington will join over 100 cities around the world in hosting "WalkForCapitalism" - the first annual Global Rally for Capitalism. Wellington's walkers will depart from Manners Mall at noon on Sunday and head towards our destination ...
12:
Breakthrough
set to cut cancer deaths in pets
Scientists have developed a new ‘super-food’ which could lead to dogs and cats living longer and healthier lives.
13:
Auckland
Joins Global Pro-Capitalism
Rally
Auckland will be one of over 100 cities around the world on December 2, 2001 to host the WalkForCapitalism - the first annual Global Rally for Capitalism.
14:
Children's
Minds
The Government's decision to target children's impressionable minds about climate change is a scandalous abuse of power, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. He was responding to the Government's announced consultation project on climate ...
All New Zealanders should be concerned that despite having been given the opportunity on at least 3 occasions, the Minister of Defence has so far refused to say outright whether he has confidence in the head of the New Zealand Army.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen today endorsed the appointment of John Palmer as Air New Zealand Chairman saying he had the right skills for the job.
17:
Labour
Employs Latest Txting
Technology
Wellington Mobile internet company, Synapse Group has secured a contract to provide txtc@st™, a web based text messaging system, to the Labour Caucus.
18:
Christchurch
Joins Global Pro-Capitalism
Rally
Christchurch will be one of over 100 cities around the world on December 2, 2001 to host the WalkForCapitalism - the first annual Global Rally for Capitalism.
19:
State
Dept. Daily Press Briefing November 28,
2001
AFGHANISTAN 5-7 Meetings in Bonn / UN Peacekeeping Force / Future Government 7-8 Humanitarian Aid
20:
Howard's
End: Flight 587 - Truth Will Out
Some media, including Scoop, is not convinced the explanations of the U.S. administration that American Airlines flight 587 out of JFK New York simply came apart and crashed over Long Island passes the smell test. Maree Howard writes.
21:
Labour
Party Targeted In Anti-War Day Of Action
Auckland's Anti War Coalition will take part in a national day of action against the US war this Saturday, 1 December.
22:
Appointment
of High Court
Judge
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson announced today the appointment of Rhys Harrison QC as a Judge of the High Court.
23:
Opposition
Playing with Peoples’ Lives
National’s opposition to road safety enforcement legislation could put lives at risk, Transport Minister Mark Gosche said today.
24:
To
Work Or Not To Work? - Don't Like The
Question
"Yesterday's outcry from the Wellington People's Resource Centre 'Govt told punishing sole parents not the answer' is indeed telling," says Lindsay Mitchell, petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB.
25:
Cullen
Calls Morality 'Silly'!
The world's silliest Finance Minister Michael Cullen this morning described the idea of tax breaks for those with private health insurance as "silly."
26:
Keith
Rankin: Whose Brain Drain?
When we think of the "Brain Drain" we tend only to think of the emigration of educated New Zealanders. (In the case of emigration to Australia, we include all New Zealanders. Even minimally educated New Zealanders, Sir Robert Muldoon once noted*, ...
27:
Leading
Edge Wireless Games
Telecom Mobile is bringing more entertainment to its customers by providing a suite of leading edge wireless games on its 027 mobile phones.
28:
On
The Death Of A CIA Officer In Afghanistan
STATEMENT BY GEORGE J. TENET, DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, ON THE DEATH OF A CIA OFFICER IN AFGHANISTAN
29:
Protestors
to target US Air Force base in
Chch.
Christchurch anti-war protestors plan to demonstrate outside the US Air Force base at Christchurch International Airport on Saturday December 1 as part of a National Day of Action against the war in Afghanistan.
30:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 30 August
Today's questions of the day concerned: Susan Bathgate – Anti-Terrorism Regulations – MG. Dodson And Ron Marks Records - Community Problem Solving – Christchurch Nurses Strike – Mental Health And Families – RMA Compliance Cost Improvements - Aquaculture ...