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South Australia Holds Parliamentary GE Inquiry

Friday, 7 April 2000, 9:38 am | John Howard

South Australia will be the first state in Australia to hold a Parliamentary inquiry into the effects of genetic engineering. John Howard reports. More >>

TV1 News

Thursday, 6 April 2000, 7:42 pm | John Howard

Rare PM Apology - GE Protests - Guilty Second Time - Oz DNA Tests - PANDAmonium - Lisa Blakie - Car Stickers More >>

Scoop Editorial: Reconciliation On The West Coast

Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 12:20 am | John Howard

Earlier this week Scoop editor, Alastair Thompson and myself, were exchanging emails about how to solve the terrible mess between the Government and the West Coast over the indigenous forest policies. It's time for reconciliation and dialogue. Scoop's ... More >>

TV3 6pm News (First Segment)

Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 7:35 pm | John Howard

Microsoft Guilty - Lisa Blakie - Queenstown Hero Funeral - Fishing Boat Fire - Search Called Off - Pigs Have Rights - Dick Hubbard More >>

Queen Mother Rejection For Oz Stamps Angers

Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 12:24 am | John Howard

Australia Post is in hot water because it is refusing to produce a special stamp to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Queen Mother. Other countries, including New Zealand, are producing special stamps. John Howard reports. More >>

Coasters Rally Against The End Of Native Logging

Saturday, 1 April 2000, 5:02 pm | John Howard

The gods seemed to be on the side of West Coasters today when heavy rain stopped as 5,000 people marched in Greymouth to protest over Government's indigenous forest policies, to call for Labour MP Damien O'Connor's resignation and to pass resolutions. ... More >>

Scoop Opinion: Iraq And The Price Of Oil

Friday, 31 March 2000, 3:02 pm | John Howard

The OPEC decision to increase oil production by 6% should have a dramatic effect on New Zealand's oil prices, but is OPEC now the dominant player in a dynamic global oil market? John Howard writes. More >>

Scoop Opinion: $100 million is not enough!

Friday, 31 March 2000, 7:58 am | John Howard

If any New Zealander truly thinks the West Coast is being treated fairly by this Government offering us a $100 million one-off cash offer, then this is a country I no longer want to live in. Scoop's West Coast correspondent John Howard writes. More >>

TV1 News

Thursday, 30 March 2000, 6:49 pm | John Howard

Cold War KGB - Ansett Crash Charges - Life After Logging? - Texas Tornado - Shakey Wellington More >>

Fiji’s Mahogany Forests Set For The Chop

Wednesday, 29 March 2000, 8:45 am | John Howard

Timberrrrr!!! - Fiji's plans to harvest part of its matured mahogany forests, claimed to be the largest in the world and worth billions of dollars in revenue, has been attacked by Fijians saying the Government is disposing of it at bargain prices. John ... More >>

Clean Air Dirty Water Petrol Additive Banned In US

Tuesday, 28 March 2000, 10:19 am | John Howard

The Clinton Administration has moved to ban the petrol additive MTBE, an octane booster that has helped clean air but has begun to contaminate water supplies around the US. John Howard reports. More >>

Scoop Feature: West Coast Mayors Prepare To Talk

Monday, 27 March 2000, 11:16 am | John Howard

West Coast Mayors are to meet Government ministers this Thursday to discuss a development package following decisions to end the harvest of beech timber on the West Coast. Trucker Tom Arnold wants the Mayors to take a message to ministers. Scoop's West ... More >>

Scoop Opinion: Carparking Tax Mooted

Monday, 27 March 2000, 8:58 am | John Howard

Transport Minister, Mark Gosche, is calling for more government funding for public transport and says he's determined to make it a priority. But why isn't government following the New South Wales example. John Howard writes. More >>

TV 1 News - First Segment

Friday, 24 March 2000, 7:34 am | John Howard

Alleged Racism - Tougher Sentences - Ferry Fury - Ecstasy Death - Aids in Houses More >>

Aussie Monarchists Take To The Net

Thursday, 23 March 2000, 7:43 am | John Howard

Mainstream media in Australia is taking a caning through the Internet over its treatment of what is now being accepted as one of the most popular Royal tours of Australia since 1954. John Howard reports. More >>

Are A Billion Oil Barrels Green As Timber?

Tuesday, 21 March 2000, 10:04 am | John Howard

The Government and the environmental movement are now faced with a huge dilemma and irony following the discovery of a potential half billion-barrel oil reserve - a non renewable resource - onshore at Hawera in Taranaki. John Howard reports. More >>

NZ And Its Royal Egalitarian Heritage

Tuesday, 21 March 2000, 8:56 am | John Howard

It's taken more than 70 years for politicians to convince New Zealanders they should get rid of royal titles and honours, but this coalition government finally looks set to do it. John Howard writes. More >>

The Queen Still Pulls A Crowd

Monday, 20 March 2000, 4:41 pm | John Howard

The Queen attracted three times as many people outside St Paul's Church in Canberra on Sunday than in 1988, when she last attended a service there. John Howard reports. More >>

Scoop Opinion: Is The Government Paranoid?

Friday, 17 March 2000, 2:02 pm | John Howard

What on earth is going on with this Government? Yesterday Dr Michael Cullen warned business to stop protesting against its policies and then Pete Hodgson says Kit Richards' consultancy to Timberlands is untenable, despite Government taking back Peter Doone ... More >>

German Greens Finding Governing A Big Ask

Friday, 17 March 2000, 1:59 pm | John Howard

The German Green Party, almost in free-fall at the polls, is being warned to start acting like a governing party in a modern democracy, more than the anarchic, pacifist, anti-nuclear militants they were when the party was founded. John Howard reports. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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