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1:
NEWSFLASH:
Text Of PM's July 27 Election
Statement
The following is the full text of Prime Minister Helen Clark's statement read to the Press Gallery in the Beehive Theatrette at 12pm today.
2:
News
Flash: Election Day July
27th
Election Day July 27th Parliament Adjourns 18th June Writ Day June 25th Nomination Day 2nd July
3:
Newsflash:
Election Date Expected After
Caucus
Prime Minister Helen Clark has confirmed the date for the general election will be discussed at the Labour caucus, underway now.
4:
Scoop
News Flash Images: Clark’s Big
Call
Images by Guy MacGibbon. Prime Minister Helen Clark Prepares To Speak. Prime Minister Helen Clark Announcing The Early Election For July 27th. Beehive Theatrette Audience (1) & (2)Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Anderton's
Welcome Back, Greens Off The Guest
List
Cabinet will have a place for the deputy prime minister and erstwhile Alliance leader Jim Anderton should Labour form the next government, but there will be no coalition with the Greens, if Prime Minister Helen Clark has her way.
6:
Poll
Watch: TV3/NFO Poll – Greens On
9%
A TV3 NFO poll was announced on TV tonight with the Greens best yet result in the crucial Party Vote. The poll was conducted over the past weekend, as Bill English boxed for life.
7:
No
Date, No Snap Election & No
Schnapps
Pleas for Prime Minister Helen Clark to put the country out of its misery and announce an election date went unanswered again today.
8:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 11 June
2002
1. DAVID BENSON-POPE to the Prime Minister: When does she intend to announce the date of the election?
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 11 June
Today’s questions concerned: Election Date – Boatpeople – PPTA Settlement Failure – Economic Development – Early Election (Constitutionally Speaking) – Boatpeople – PPTA – Tertiary Commission Appointments – PM on PPTA – Premature Businesses – Refugee ...
10:
Snap
Election Not Justified But Greens
Prepared
There is no good reason for the Government to call a snap election, Green Party co-leaders, Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald said today.
11:
Opinion:
A Testimony To Motherhood Or Simply A
Tit
So now, John, you can be photographed while you stand there and talk about guns and bombs and poisons without the breast appearing over your right shoulder, without that bodacious bosom bothering you, and we just wanted to tell you in the spirit ...
12:
C-Span
Chooses Not To Help Answer
Questions
Editor's note: An controversy is brewing over a decision by the public interest US news broadcaster C-Span's decision not to cover the Unanswered Questions press conference to be held today in Washington D.C, (7am Tuesday New Zealand Time).
13:
New
Zealanders Short-Changed
“New Zealanders will be short-changed if the Prime Minister announces an early election, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said.
14:
Alliance
Ready For Election
Alliance leader Laila Harré has welcomed news that the election will be held on July 27.
15:
Coalition
Seeks New Mandate
Jim Anderton says the early election is needed so that the government can get on with its progressive direction.
16:
ACT
To Campaign on Personal and Economic
Security
The ACT Party will fight the election on the issue of personal and economic security, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.
17:
Philip
Rappa:
Oh-Sum-Bodies-Been-Lying
One nightmare followed by yet another, 278th to be exact since September 11th. In my 277th, I'm dressed as Paul Revere, in full gallop atop a great steed racing through downtown, Saint Augustine, America's oldest city. I'm yelling at the top of my lungs, ...
18:
PI
Editorial, Mon June 10 - Et Tu,
Deborah!
She dropped in to see me a week or so ago. She looked absolutely beautiful, having lost weight from preposterous amounts of running. I looked at her, mock-askance, as she confessed to this medically correct activity, & for a moment the wicked ...
19:
Families
Missing From Election Equation
United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne, says yet again the New Zealand family is being ignored.
20:
Coalition
seeks new mandate - Jim Anderton
Speech
Helen Clark and I prepared for two years before we formed the Coalition Government in 1999.
21:
Poll
Watch: Greens Rising Rapidly In NBR/NZ
Herald
EDITOR’S NOTE: Scoop will be running “Poll Watch” as a new feature up till the election, whenever that is. As national poll results are announced we will report on the basic results and provide links to further resources.
22:
PM
announces election date
Today I am announcing that the general election will be held on Saturday 27 July.
23:
Government
Throws In The Towel
“As we predicted the Government has thrown in the towel as our economy and our exports turn sour,” New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters said.
24:
David
Miller: Has Yasser Arafat Had His
Time?
It is not surprising that the announcement made by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he has trimmed down his cabinet has been treated with scepticism. The Palestinian leadership is heralding the reduction, claiming that it paves the way for reform ...
25:
INVESTIGATION:
Sept 11th - Unanswered Questions
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan, anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the government’s ...
26:
District
Court Judge Appointed
11 June, 2002 Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of Louis Bidois of Rotorua as a District Court Judge. Judge Bidois, 42, will sit in New Plymouth.
27:
Upton-on-line
- Diaspora Edition 11th June
2002
In this issue: The alimentation of French political parties and why there are no fewer than 8,455 candidates at this weekend’s first round of the legislative elections
28:
The
Enron Pipeline Connection To
9/11
A highly reliable confidential client source who wishes to remain anonymous has promised to send me an FBI copy of a high-level Al Qaida report dating back to the embassy bombings in Africa several years ago. The email report was captured in Africa from ...
29:
Tertiary
Education Commissioners
Appointed
The eight members appointed to the Transition Tertiary Education Commission (TTEC) collectively possess all the skills and attributes the new body will need to achieve a quantum shift in the performance and connectedness of New Zealand’s tertiary education ...
30:
ACT
Advances List Selection
ACT New Zealand has advanced its list selection process and intends to finalise its list on 29 June, ACT President Catherine Judd said today.
ENDS
Alastair Thompson
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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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