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When National Bill Gets It Wrong
Tuesday, 22 April 2003, 8:06 am | Maree Howard
Howard's End: Bill English, really seems to have thought he was on to something when he issued not one, but two, press releases alleging taxpayers money is being used to teach civil servants about Maori separatism. But has he got it all wrong? More >>
Promises Of Peace From a Starry Sky Tapestry
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 8:17 am | Maree Howard
It was 9.15 pm and together my husband and I stood gazing up into the black night sky filled with billions of stars. There was no moon and the Southern Cross blazed its glory across the night sky as it had done for millenia - an ancient sign for ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC’s Official Response Scrutinised
Monday, 31 March 2003, 8:59 am | Maree Howard
The Accident Compensation Corporation is yet again under public scrutiny over its official response to concerns expressed by claimants during a nationwide Day of Shame protest held on 18 March. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Military Receives Billions, Civilian's Only Crumbs
Thursday, 20 March 2003, 11:15 am | Maree Howard
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, Britain is spending hundreds of millions on the war with Iraq but has pledged only $1million in response to a desperate appeal for money to shelter an estimated 3.5 million Iraqi's predicted to be forced ... More >>
Howard’s End: Before The First Bomb Falls
Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 1:13 pm | Maree Howard
Even before the first bomb falls on Iraq Australia looks set to benefit from joining the "coalition of the willing" as American trade negotiators gather in Canberra today for talks over the most significant trade deal in Australia's history. Maree Howard ... More >>
Sad Commentary on Western Civilisation
Monday, 17 March 2003, 5:11 pm | Maree Howard
It took twenty-seven years from the time of the U.N. partition decision creating Israel in November 1947 before the Palestinians could return to the U.N. and be granted a full hearing. Make no mistake, the Palestinian "question" remains at the root of ... More >>
Howard's End: Why The UN Debate’s a Farce
Friday, 14 March 2003, 10:10 am | Maree Howard
A "diplomatic blunder" is how the The Wall Street Journal has declared the drive for a second UN resolution over Iraq and of Guinea it says; " The spectacle of the US Government begging that African nation for permission to sacrifice ... More >>
Howard's End: Day of ACC ‘Shame’ Looms
Friday, 7 March 2003, 11:03 am | Maree Howard
Demands for a Parliamentary inquiry into ACC over its alleged poor practices forms part of a list of grievances which claimants across the country are finalising for their nationwide "Day of Shame" on 18 March. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: WWIII Threat Faces Security Council
Thursday, 6 March 2003, 1:40 pm | Maree Howard
Firstly, it's about bullying by Washington and London of France Germany and Russia. But its also about the outrage felt by the US who sees itself as the lone superpower being told by the UN what to do. Because of bumbling and miscalcualtion this could ... More >>
Howard's End: Is Parliament The Master Of ACC?
Monday, 24 February 2003, 10:38 am | Maree Howard
Concerns about ACC continue to surface with fresh allegations over the weekend that a claimant has been told by the office of the ACC complaints investigator that, "case managers are not there to follow the act they are there to interpret it" which ... More >>
Howard’s End – World Protests Irrelevant Says Bush
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 11:41 pm | Maree Howard
Despite the UN and the Security Council resolutions, war with Iraq is definitely on because US President George Bush says the millions who protested globally last weekend were irrelevant to his duty to protect America, he is alluding more and more ... More >>
Howard's End: Peace Message Clear To World Govts
Monday, 17 February 2003, 8:27 am | Maree Howard
A million marched in Rome, 1.3 milion paraded in Barcelona, two million in Madrid, a half million in London, 250,000 in New York. From Canberra to Cape Town, from Karachi to Chicago, from Wellington to Warsaw, millions of stern, defiant, impassioned and ... More >>
Howard’s End: Beneath The Southern Cross
Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 10:54 am | Maree Howard
As we listen respectfully to the statement by the Prime Minister at the opening of Parliament today, we will likely be uninspired by dull, bland and predictable words such as "balanced budgets," "growth and innovation" and "economic transformation." ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC Day Of Shame March 18
Monday, 10 February 2003, 1:13 pm | Maree Howard
Small and medium business operators along with members of the general public, alarmed by increasing costs while ACC investments and surpluses grow, look set to join injured claimants who are planning a nation-wide "Day of Shame" protest on 18 March ... More >>
Howard’s End: Maori are Right, NZ's Media Flawed
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 2:08 pm | Maree Howard
Maori elders are right, mainstream media and politicians pay lip service to the Treaty of Waitangi with no-one asking the fundamental question - if the Magna Carta, an English Constitutional document, can be enshrined into our New Zealand law as recently ... More >>
Howard’s End: Is ACC a Vexatious Litigent?
Tuesday, 4 February 2003, 2:02 pm | Maree Howard
A prisoner at Paremoremo has developed a lively interest in litigation by representing himself in Court to the point where counsel of one of the defendants has written to the Solicitor-General seeking a declaration that the prisoner be declared a vexatious ... More >>
Howard’s End: Citing Mid-East Intelligence Sources
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 2:18 pm | Maree Howard
If Scoop's Mid-East intelligence reports are correct there will not be an invasion of Iraq until at least March 1 when Tony Blair delivers a promised dossier to Russia's President Putin over the whereabouts of Iraq's hidden locations of VX nerve agent ... More >>
Howard's End: Dumping Culture Must Be Changed
Friday, 24 January 2003, 12:14 am | Maree Howard
ACC Minister Ruth Dyson has confirmed that she has asked ACC to review its decision to dump Christchurch boy Ryan Becker from the ACC scheme next week. But there are others and it's the ACC dumping culture which the Government has signed-up to that ... More >>
ACC Cuts Loose Dog-Bashed-Boy
Thursday, 23 January 2003, 10:49 am | Maree Howard
Ryan Becker was savaged as a toddler by a german shepherd-rottweiller dog who bashed him unconscious against the walls and floor of a narrow hallway. He underwent extensive surgery requiring more than two hundred stitches to his face which was almost torn ... More >>
Howard’s End: Has the Rule of Law Been Abandoned
Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 9:59 am | Maree Howard
The rule of law has been abandoned when so-called "civilised"countries unlawfully invade another or, domestically, when a reviewer of ACC decisions believes that just because something is not authrorised in the legislation it "is of no relevance." ... More >>
