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Scoop News: FULL COVERAGE: Corporal Willy Apiata VC Corporal Bill (Willy) Apiata, the first New Zealander to be awarded a Victoria Cross since WWII, was lost for words as he fronted a press conference held at NZ Defence HQ in Wellington. The Prime Minister, Helen Clark had earlier exited the weekly Cabinet meeting to announce the awarding of the VC to Corp. Apiata and Gallantry citations to three other members of the New Zealand SAS. More >>
International Relations: English Toff Denigrates Kiwi Lasses As 'Ham Faced' - The Alexander Turnbull Library has just acquired letters and photographs written by Edward Prince of Wales - in one letter he describes a dance he attended in NZ. "There wasn’t a single woman who had the least idea how to dance...tho we stuck it out like heroes until the supper & tried to lug those wads of ham faced women around."More >>
Fiji: NZ Govt Retaliates After High Commissioner's Expulsion - "Our view clear again that it is rather ironic to have the Fijian military that fully backed a coup by their Leader, in their own country, then seeking to bring peace to other troubled countries," explained the Prime Minister today when asked what good New Zealand's representations were doing regarding the United Nation's continuing to use Fijian soldiers for peacekeeping missions. More >>
Trade: NZ Recieves Positive Bogor Report - Goff welcomes positive APEC report on NZ “New Zealand has been given an extremely positive assessment by its APEC peers with respect to its trade policy settings following a review of New Zealand's progress towards meeting APEC's Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment," Trade Minister Phil Goff announced today. More >>
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Environment: NZ Least Galvanised Into Action By 'Inconvenient Truth' - Survey - Former US vice-president and recent environmental celebrity Al Gore has topped the list of most influential people to champion the cause of global warming in a 47-country Internet survey conducted by The Nielsen Company and Oxford University. Nearly one in five global consumers (18%) picked Al Gore... ahead of former United Nations head, Kofi Annan (15%), with Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton tying as third choice (14% each). More >>
Scoop News: US Rights Activist Calls For Abolition of Prisons Joseph Barratt Reports: Racism is an even more powerful force today than it was in the days of the civil rights movement says Angela Davis an iconic American civil rights activist and professor. More >>
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Scoop Exclusive: The Perils Of NZ's Military Assistance - Security analyst Paul Buchanan: "In a country where political headlines are grabbed by child-smacking and school meal debates, perhaps it is time for all of us to raise our game and argue about things relevant to the common defense and New Zealand’s international military role rather than our parochial interests." NZ Defence Image June 06: Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Peter Kelly, then Commanding Officer 1st NZSAS Group, receives the US Navy Presidential Unit Citation from US President George. W. Bush. More >>
Scoop Report: Anderton Calls An End To Party Pill Party - Jim Anderton, Associate Minister of Health and Leader of the Progressive Party, announced today that the cabinet had agreed to his recommendation to ban BZP and related party pills. After the legislation is passed, BZP will be classified as Class C1 and a six month amnesty for possession or personal use will go into effect. More >>
Education: More Dough Needed For Early Childhood Education - 20 hours of free Early Childhood Education per week for three and four year olds kicks in today but it is a pale reflection of what is needed says QPEC (the Quality Public Education Coalition ). More >>
Mental Health: Report of the Confidential Forum presented - The government today welcomed the report of the Confidential Forum for Former In-Patients of Psychiatric Hospitals, which has allowed former in-patients to discuss their experiences in an accessible, informal and confidential environment... The Confidential Forum was established in 2004 to provide an opportunity for former in-patients, their families and staff members to formally speak. More >>
Crime: Turia on Moral Panic and Gangs - Moral panic is most frequently seen in the way in which crime statistics are manipulated and misconstrued in a peculiar blend of media hype and political opportunism. In Aotearoa in the last few months, the gang culture has been targeted in the latest moral panic. More >>
Scoop Satire: Open Letter To Closed Parliament - Dear Mags, I hear you're banning satire. About time! The last thing we need is the Media arrogantly assuming the right to denigrate the institution of Parliament or make its members appear ridiculous. No! By long tradition, the power to make Politicians appear absurd in the eyes of the public rests entirely with the Politicians themselves. More >>
Parliament: Does the Housing Minister read what he signs? - Heatley: How is it that a person can be allocated a State house in Mangere, and, at the same time, own a holiday home in Russell? Carter: I would welcome further information about that case. Heatley: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask you to judge whether that is a fair answer, given that the Minister gave me that information yesterday with a cover letter. More >>
Scoop News: High Court Jurisdiction Bypassed Under Anti-Terror Bill - Joseph Barratt reports that the New Zealand High Court review process on who or what can be considered a terrorist or a terrorist group will be by-passed under a new law proposed by the Labour-led Government. More >>
Roger Awards 2007: May the Worst Man Win! Nominations are now open for this most prestigious and keenly contested annual Award. The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation which is 25% or more foreign-owned) that has the most negative impact on New Zealand. More >>
Privacy: Activist Groups Lay Complaint About Spies Three groups laid a complaint today with the Private Investigators Registrar, asking that the matter of the spies employed by private investigators Thompson and Clark be referred to the Police for a criminal investigation. More >>
Crime: Dunne Tackles 'Grand Theft Auto' Style Rampage - United Future leader Peter Dunne today broke the news in Parliament that one of the officers at the centre of the ‘Grand-Theft-Auto’ style rampage in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, is lucky to be alive. More >>
Scoop News: PM Indulges In Wide Ranging Discussion - The Prime Minister's post cabinet-press conference erupted into fireworks this afternoon and that was ten minutes before the PM had even arrived. Various sections of the media were in a right old lather over a press secretary fondling and lowering their beloved microphones. However, the stoush soon settled and the form of Helen Clark rose from behind a phalanx of half mast media mics to deliver detail of Cabinet's business. More >>
Maori: Waitangi Tribunal Central North Island Report - The Tribunal upheld the claimants' principal allegation that the root of all Treaty breaches in their rohe was the Crown's failure to give effect to the Treaty guarantees to Māori of tino rangatiratanga (autonomy) and of the same rights as were enjoyed by the settlers from the mid-19th century. More >>
Immigration: Turia And NZ First None Too Chuffed With Govt Policy - 'New Zealand's skills shortage is a fallacy and almost 40% of immigrants are low skilled,' says Maori Party Co-Leader Tariana Turia. Turia shot holes in Labour's immigration policy which is currently being overhauled. Earlier this year she was criticised for saying the number of immigrants settling in New Zealand was stopping the 'browning up of New Zealand'. Eye to Eye with Willie Jackson show on Immigration
Scoop News: McCarten Rules Out Run For Mayoralty, Backs Hubbard Report and Images by Joseph Barratt - Amidst growing expectations on the left of New Zealand politics, former Alliance president, Unite Union head, and political strategist Matt McCarten has ruled out campaigning for the Auckland mayoralty. More >>
Scoop Satire: What Has David Bain Done to Anger Helen Clark? - As dinner-party tables and blog fora around the country know, after almost a tenth of a century as Prime Minister Helen Clark has extendend her figurative tentacles into every facet of the state. Now, with the Crown Law knee-deep in the decision to prosecute David Bain, the logic is inescapable. There's just one thing the public of New Zealand must know: what did Bain do to make Helen Clark so mad? More >>
Reserve Bank: Peters Bringing Reserve Bank Act Rewrite to Parliament - With the New Zealand dollar reaching 22 year highs overnight, crippling our export sector and further eroding our economic potential, the time for hollow rhetoric is over and real action must be taken, says Winston Peters. "In light of this, New Zealand First will be bringing an amendment to the Reserve Bank Act, before the next adjustment to the Official Cash Rate on 26 July..." More >>
World Trade News: Doha Break-Down A Setback For WTO - Goff New Zealand Trade Minister Phil Goff said the break-down of trade talks in Potsdam was a serious setback for the WTO Doha negotiations. “We needed to see progress made by Brazil, EU, India and the United States on the issues between them that have been blocking movement towards concluding the round. However the G4 members have not moved far enough in their respective offers to allow a compromise to be reached and that makes it hard to pull together a deal in the foreseeable future." More >>
Private Members Bills: Bradford launches Bill to lower voting age to 16 -
Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced she will be putting forward a Bill - the Civics Education and Voting Age Bill - in the next Parliamentary private members ballot, to lower the voting age. "The main effect of the Bill would be to lower the voting age to 16 - and this change would go hand in hand with making civics education a compulsory part of the national education curriculum." More >>
Politics: First Turia, Now Locke - Will The PM Be The Next Speaker At ACT's Conference? Green Party MP Keith Locke has confirmed that he will speak at the ACT New Zealand Auckland South Regional Conference this coming weekend. Mr Locke will speak to ACT members about how parties with different world views are able to work together in a friendly and constructive way to achieve meaningful change. In this context he will look at similarities and differences between ACT and the Greens. More >>
Politics: Full Shane Jones Speech On Fay And Richwhite - Earlier this week Labour MP Shane Jones under parliamentary privilege accused expatriate businessmen Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite of plundering NZ and destroying NZ's rail transport industry. Mr Jones called for Sir Michael Fay to be stripped of his knighthood. Mr Jones was speaking in a special debate on the settlement of insider trading proceedings. More >>
Public Service: Department flouts rules on five contracts, $500,000 - National Party Associate Labour and Industrial Relations spokeswoman Paula Bennett says the Department of Labour has confirmed that it flouted the rules on five contracts worth more than $500,000. “The contracts should have been put to tender. They weren’t.” More >>
Fringe Lender Regs: Govt's Answer To Loan Shark Exploitation Analysed - Social lobby group, Global Peace and Justice says it's business as usual for New Zealand's thriving school of loan sharks after the government's proposed net turned out to have huge holes. More >>
Violence: Police Practice Guide For New Section 59 - Police today released a practice guide on the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act which comes into force this Friday... Mr Pope said the Commissioner's circular took into account Parliament's affirmation that for minor cases of assault against children, Police have discretion not to prosecute where the offence is considered to be so inconsequential that there is no public interest in a prosecution. More >>
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Open Letter to PM - In succumbing to diplomatic pressure from the Peoples Republic of China for you and your government not to meet and welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Zealand, you have compromised New Zealand’s sovereignty, and also alienated a very large number of New Zealanders who respected your judgement and your appreciation of human values in politics. More >>
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