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Coasters Vent Grievances At Meeting
Friday, 14 July 2000, 4:33 pm | John Howard
The Local Government and Environment Select-Committee was told by submissioners at its hearing in Hokitika yesterday that Government has no idea what is or isn't sustainable on the West Coast, because a publicly requested socio-economic impact study has been ... More >>
Howard's End: US Sets Trend For Privacy Issues
Wednesday, 12 July 2000, 4:12 pm | John Howard
Privacy issues are reaching the courts in growing numbers and are having a crippling effect on companies. On Monday yet another US company was sued for attempting to sell its customer information along with the rest of its assets. John Howard writes. More >>
Provisionally Unlawful Bank Fees In Oz
Tuesday, 11 July 2000, 6:42 pm | John Howard
A furore is breaking out in Australia after a consumer watch dog ruled yesterday that the way some bank fees were now set was "provisionally unlawful." John Howard reports. More >>
FBI Training Focuses On Holocaust
Saturday, 8 July 2000, 2:46 pm | John Howard
Trainee FBI agents in America are, for the first time, focusing on the role played by Hitler's police during the Holocaust as part of their training. John Howard reports. More >>
Whale Sanctuary Proposal Fails
Wednesday, 5 July 2000, 11:42 am | John Howard
New Zealand and Australia failed in their bid to establish a South Pacific whale sanctuary because they relied on emotional rhetoric and not science reports says a US Law Expert. John Howard writes. More >>
Candidate Al Gore Profits From Pollution?
Monday, 3 July 2000, 2:07 pm | John Howard
Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, bills himself as a champion for the environment making impassioned pleas for action in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance. But investigators are now accusing him of profiting from pollution. John Howard reports. More >>
A New Kind Of “Green-washing?”
Sunday, 2 July 2000, 7:32 pm | John Howard
The Amazon rainforests are not disappearing at an alarming rate, global warming claims are based on propaganda and pseudo-science and environmental groups are receiving tens of millions of dollars from business-backed foundations. In America, they're ... More >>
Howards End: The Global Village Unbalanced
Saturday, 1 July 2000, 3:53 pm | John Howard
New Zealand has entered a phase of economic doom and gloom with business confidence more depressed than at any time since the 1987 sharemarket crash. But the global economy is also unbalanced. John Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Drivers Licensing Dogs Breakfast
Friday, 30 June 2000, 1:24 pm | John Howard
The announcement today that Government is to review the photo driver licensing system is welcome news. Its administration and enforcement has been a dog's breakfast with not all people treated equally before the law. John Howard writes. More >>
Howard’s End: What About The Rule Of Law?
Thursday, 29 June 2000, 10:01 am | John Howard
Everyone is entitled to the observance of the principles of natural justice. So says the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990 - that's unless you are Dover Samuels or former Timberlands employee Kit Richards. John Howard writes. More >>
A New Aussie Bank For 2000
Wednesday, 28 June 2000, 10:59 am | John Howard
Australian rural stock and station agent, Elders Ltd, is to become Australia's first new bank of the 21st century after being granted a full banking licence yesterday. John Howard reports. More >>
Howard’s End: Behind The Fiji Coup
Tuesday, 27 June 2000, 1:53 pm | John Howard
An select group of right-leaning elites were behind, not one, but three coups against elected governments in Fiji. Scoop's John Howard looks at the evidence. More >>
TV1 News
Monday, 26 June 2000, 6:33 pm | John Howard
Iwi Kangaroo - Economy Booming But Slowing - Flesh-Eating Death - Police Under Attack - Mark Todd More >>
Insurance Company Racism In The US
Monday, 26 June 2000, 10:47 am | John Howard
A major discrimination scandal is breaking in America over the two-tier pricing policy of insurance companies. So far, US$204 million is to be returned to policy holders. John Howard reports. More >>
Elections Central American Style
Friday, 23 June 2000, 10:57 am | John Howard
If politicians in New Zealand have difficulty getting people to vote for them, spare a thought for Mexican politicians who have to give away TV's, tool sets, and washing machines. And observers say it's the cleanest election ever. John Howard reports. More >>
Scoop Opinion: Scoop Talks Coast Issues With Jim
Thursday, 22 June 2000, 1:00 pm | John Howard
At the signing of the Heads of Agreement in Greymouth yesterday to transfer $120 million to the West Coast, I had the opportunity to personally talk, for the first time, to Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Anderton. John Howard writes. More >>
High Oil Prices Become A US Election Issue
Thursday, 22 June 2000, 9:38 am | John Howard
High oil prices have suddenly become an issue in this years' US presidential campaign with oil companies now under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). John Howard reports. More >>
Anderton Looks For Backers On The West Coast
Wednesday, 21 June 2000, 3:24 pm | John Howard
Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Anderton said today he would be personally delighted if West Coast council's invested some of their $120 million in the Government's new peoples bank. Dr Cullen seemed to agree. John Howard reports. More >>
A Peoples Cop Needed
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 11:39 am | John Howard
New Commissioner of Police, Rob Robinson, was described by the Prime Minister yesterday as a "cop's cop" causing him to blush. But I hope he's a people's cop. John Howard writes. More >>
The End Of West Coast Rimu Logging
Wednesday, 14 June 2000, 1:08 pm | John Howard
The release Monday of 40 pages of Cabinet papers and minutes backgrounding Government's decisions to end the harvest of rimu timber and to extinguish the 1986 West Coast Accord, has failed to impress West Coast leaders. John Howard reports. More >>
