BY PENNY BRIGHT 5 October 2008 Just before 5pm Friday 3 October 2008, I lodged a formal complaint with the Serious Fraud Office about National Party leader John Key’s failure to declare his pecuniary interest in Tranz Rail shares at a time it was an ‘Item of Business’ before Parliament. […]
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Is Chris Trotter good company? Not if we are to choose our friends on their looks. Foreword by Simon Taylor squarewhiteworld.com You might already have seen this. You might not have. Worth a read. Classic Trotter-waving – the sort the left are wary of these days. To the point of […]
IRREPRESSIBLE SPEECH MEETS INSURMOUNTABLE BARRIER 1 August 2008 Businessman and publisher Vince Siemer stands defiantly against what he claims is an unlawful order of the New Zealand High Court; a stance which today resulted in Justices Lester Chisholm and Warrick Gendall ordering an arrest warrant for Siemer and a six […]
25 June 2008, by Clare Swinney This week a brochure entitled: “Is your child safe? Information on vaccination” arrived inside one of the free newspapers in my region, in Northland. The 16-page booklet contained a number of graphic photos of children with disfiguring diseases and statements in coloured boxes, including: […]
Friday June 20, 02:28 PM https://nz.news.yahoo.com/080620/3/68n8.html Enlarge image The Hollow Men was a book, then a play and now its a film. Maggie Tait of NZPA talks the book’s author, the film’s maker and the reluctant star Don Brash. As election year heats up a documentary based on Nicky Hager’s […]
https://www.nznewsuk.co.uk/news/?ID=11856&StartRow=31 GENERAL NEWS: Prime Minister Helen Clark says the New Zealand and Australian governments will be holding discussions about the possibility of establishing an Asia Pacific Community. It is an initiative floated last week by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is thinking about a regional structure which could engage […]
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/9798/counterterrorism-exercises-city By Sarah Harvey on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 Rob Pope Helicopters, emergency vehicles and terrorism experts will be seen in central Dunedin this week in a counterterrorism exercise designed to prepare for a threat against national security.The exercise, which involves more than 300 people from police, fire, defence and […]
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10515640 5:00AM Wednesday June 11, 2008 By Craig Borley Pregnant women, children and fetuses may be at risk from mercury leaking from silver-coloured mercury amalgam dental fillings. But despite that announcement from the United States Food and Drug Administration last Wednesday, there were no plans in New Zealand yesterday to […]