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Kevin List
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Was sentenced to 15 years working at Parliament. Now free and willing to pay for my crimes.
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PM's Presser - More Election Spending Plus 9/11
Monday, 11 September 2006, 5:08 pm | Kevin List
The issues surrounding the election and the way the Exclusive Brethren was able to kick in a million or so dollars to smear Labour and parties likely to support Labour (the Greens) just prior to the 2005 election dominated the the Prime Minister's regular ... More >>
NZ Workers Band Together Against Aussie Corporate
Friday, 8 September 2006, 4:00 pm | Kevin List
The crude use of the power of a corporate against vulnerable workers was how Ross Wilson, the Council of Trade Unions president described the battle between the locked out supermarket workers and their boss Progressive Enterprises – Progressive's ... More >>
National And Private Insurers Attacked In House
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 2:56 pm | Kevin List
This afternoon National and their alleged links with the private insurance industry were the targets of Government attacks. During the election campaign a document entitled 'Workplace Safety Wins Under National' was circulated by the Insurance Council of ... More >>
PM's Presser - A Feast Of Election Spending
Monday, 4 September 2006, 5:15 pm | Kevin List
This year consists of two stories – the goings on of former cabinet minister and now potentially gardening 'garden leave taking 'MP for Mangere Taito Philip Field and election spending. As last week's post cabinet press conference was devoted to ... More >>
No Need For Tasers At Parliament Taser Protest
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 4:17 pm | Kevin List
There was little need for either a Police presence or the administration of a tasering to any of the small crowd who turned up to protest the trial introduction of the electric stun gun into the Police's defence arsenal. More >>
Will AIDS Issue Become A Political Football?
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 2:59 pm | Kevin List
Health Minister Peter Hodgson pointed out to a media conference today that when dealing with AIDS he wasn't interested in playing politics. More >>
PM's Press Conference - A Feast Of Field
Monday, 28 August 2006, 5:51 pm | Kevin List
Should a bookmaker offer odds on embattled Labour MP Taito Philip Field making it back into cabinet while Helen Clark is Prime Minister it would be wise for even the most adventurous punter to keep hold of their cash. In fact after today's post cabinet ... More >>
Maori And Military Assist Satyanand Into G-G Role
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 2:07 pm | Kevin List
This morning Anand Satyanand was sworn in on the steps of Parliament as the first New Zealand Governor-General of Asian descent. Prior to the swearing in Mr Satyanand recieved garlands from the Asian community and he also received a traditional Maori ... More >>
Time Running Out For Overlander
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 9:16 am | Kevin List
The Overlander train service between Auckland and Wellington is to cease operating at the end of September. US owned Toll Holdings has cancelled the service – which has run for nearly a century – because it is allegedly no longer 'viable'. More >>
PM Ponders Issues 'Within the Beltway'
Monday, 14 August 2006, 7:00 pm | Kevin List
This afternoon's post cabinet press conference was a godsend for those interested in news the Prime Minister considers is of interest to only a select group of citizens – namely those citizens of Aotearoa that continue Question Time to be the hi-light ... More >>
'Ideological Burp' Back to Torment Civil Service
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 3:05 pm | Kevin List
When asked by Scoop if Treasury was one place where the public of New Zealand was being well served with policy advice National's Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee politely but firmly stated he was not going to answer the question. More >>
$200 Million Program Saves (Estimated) Three Lives
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 3:07 pm | Kevin List
Dr Richard Arnold, head of the Victoria University team which carried out an effectiveness study into the staggered roll-out of the MeNZB(TM) immunisation programme today told a media conference that an estimated two to three lives to date had been saved due ... More >>
Protest Against Israel's Actions In The Mid-East
Friday, 4 August 2006, 3:19 pm | Kevin List
Green MP Keith Locke told an enthusiastic and vocal crowd of protestors that Israel's actions in bombing Lebanon were war crimes. To loud cheers outside the Ministry of Foreigh Affairs and Trade (MFAT) HQ in Wellington Mr Locke said that one day the ... More >>
PM Talks Middle East, Peter's Illness 'n' Blogging
Monday, 31 July 2006, 6:22 pm | Kevin List
"It is hard to believe one is in the 21st Century when we see horror and carnage on this scale," was the Prime Minister's reaction to an Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana – which latest news reports state killed at least 54 civilians, ... More >>
NZ Says No To Funding Hugely Expensive Cancer Drug
Friday, 28 July 2006, 3:15 pm | Kevin List
Funding for the alleged cancer wonder drug Herceptin that was earlier this year the subject of intense media hoopla today ran into a brick wall. More >>
Nat MP Points Out Bill Fixes Non Existent Problem
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:46 pm | Kevin List
After advising NZ Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson of her concern regarding workers forced out of employment over health and safety issues NAtional MP paula Bennett then agreed with the CTU's submission that there were in fact very few cases ... More >>
Business Tax Cuts Will Lead To Spending Shortfalls
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 5:55 pm | Kevin List
This afternoon Finance Minister Michael Cullen told the media that while a Labour government will not cut existing spending or programs to pay for corporate tax cuts other projects may have to be deferred to compensate for the revenue that will be ... More >>
PM Pleads For Peace In Mid-East And Close To Home
Monday, 24 July 2006, 8:12 pm | Kevin List
After being questioned for some minutes by Newstalk ZB's Barry Soper regarding a spat Mr Soper was involved in with New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters the PM suggested that relations between some members of the press gallery and Mr ... More >>
Round Two: Peters Versus Soper 'n' TVNZ
Monday, 24 July 2006, 6:49 pm | Kevin List
If the Prime Minister had announced at her post cabinet press-conference the imminent dissolution of her government it seems likely senior reporters from NewstalkZB and TVNZ would still have decided to harangue her over a spat they were involved in with ... More >>
IV: Coffee And No Cigarettes With Maryan Street
Friday, 21 July 2006, 4:27 pm | Kevin List
New Labour MP Maryan Street – a woman who very definitely would not have been a NewLabour MP ******** More >>
