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Howard's End: Tax & Spend UK Budget
Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 9:19 am | Maree Howard
New Zealand will have to work much harder to keep its doctor's and nurses from travelling to Britain following the announcement of a massive $NZ 20 billion house-building program mostly aimed at housing key health workers. More >>
Howard's End: Writing On The Wall For Super Fund
Tuesday, 16 July 2002, 12:07 am | Maree Howard
While politicians in New Zealand want to create a superannuation fund which will invest some of the money in the off-shore money markets, the South Australian government fund faces long-term losses of half a billion dollars. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: World Financial Blowout Matters Here
Friday, 12 July 2002, 11:00 am | Maree Howard
While most of New Zealand seems to be satisfied with the smoke and mirrors of Paintergate, Corngate and political spin, some of us have been taking notice of the more mundane things in life - like New Zealand's economic survival in a global financial meltdown. ... More >>
Howard's End: New Research Reveals HRT Risks
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:05 am | Maree Howard
Women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are being advised to stop the treatment because of new research which shows life-threatening risks outweigh the benefits. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: International Laws That Bind
Friday, 5 July 2002, 11:28 am | Maree Howard
Watching the politicians outline their 10-year vision during the leaders debate on TV3 last night, you had to wonder whether New Zealand will even exist in the form we know today in 10 years, because there are over 40,000 international agreements ... More >>
Howard's End: ACC Case Management Audit
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 2:33 pm | Maree Howard
The Office of the Auditor-General has today confirmed to Scoop that it will conduct a study into the effectiveness and efficiency of ACC's case management processes and procedures. Agony and ACC create a private hell. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Detention Mandatory Pigeon-holing
Friday, 28 June 2002, 12:08 am | Maree Howard
Once again Hon Lianne Dalziel has embroiled the Government in controversy over policies which places people in mandatory stereo-typed pigeon holes. First, as lead ACC Minister, and now, as Immigration Minister. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Bank Says Gold Set To Go Ballistic
Monday, 24 June 2002, 2:22 pm | Maree Howard
If the U.S. economy is recovering why are stocks going down? If buying and holding stocks is such a smart idea why is the "smart money" deserting the U.S. dollar and buying into gold? Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Cleaning Up The Suites
Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 2:00 pm | Maree Howard
With the election date announced the political parties will likely be holding out their begging bowls to corporate New Zealand to help fund their election campaigns. But global business has recently been told to either clean up their act or everybody ... More >>
Chinese Coal Dumping Forcing Global Prices Down
Friday, 7 June 2002, 12:14 am | Maree Howard
Hard on the heels of the U.S. announcement of subsidies to its farmers comes more bad news for our commodity exporters as the Chinese Government revealed that it is paying $NZD 3 billion in subsidies to its coal producers who have flooded the market ... More >>
Howard's End : ACC Accused Of Misrepresentation
Tuesday, 4 June 2002, 2:01 pm | Maree Howard
Christchurch police have confirmed that long-term ACC claimants have lodged a complaint against the Accident Compensation Corporation alleging contravention of statute, misrepresentation and false representation under the Crimes Act 1961. Maree Howard ... More >>
Howard's End: The Squeeze On Gold
Friday, 31 May 2002, 12:06 am | Maree Howard
The price of gold and gold stocks is sky-rocketing with Central banks across the world coming in for severe criticism for the way they have sold official gold reserves, although in a disguised form. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: Representatives That Represent
Tuesday, 28 May 2002, 9:13 am | Maree Howard
Will she, won't she? The heck with all this irritating election grandstanding stuff! I've got a proposal to end elections altogether and I think the idea deserves examination. Maree Howard writes. More >>
Howard's End: No Substitute For Honest Numbers
Friday, 24 May 2002, 2:08 pm | Maree Howard
The Budget is forecasting growth at 3.1 per cent in each of the next two years but slowly falling after that, while the Government surplus is picked to reach $2.6 billion this year, $2.6 billion next year and $3 billion into the future. Oh really! Maree ... More >>
Howard's End: The Perfect Bomb
Friday, 17 May 2002, 12:58 am | Maree Howard
The increasing number of suicide belt-bombers and the diversity of their backgrounds is causing concern to global security experts who now fear the low-cost and difficult to detect bombing tactic could be used more often on buses, trains and in shopping ... More >>
Howard's End: Raising Revenue From Boy Racers
Thursday, 16 May 2002, 1:50 pm | Maree Howard
In a typical knee-jerk reaction to the problem of street racers, both local and central government politicians are all jumping on the bandwagon wanting to introduce yet another law, this time to be called the Land Transport (Street and Illegal Drag ... More >>
Howard's End: Sub-Continental Time Bomb Ticking
Monday, 13 May 2002, 8:50 am | Maree Howard
Thank God our cricketer's are home safe after the Karachi suicide bombing of their hotel, but Scoop's Maree Howard raises questions about whether they should have gone in the first place, and whether they were placed in danger by inadequate intelligence ... More >>
Howard's End: Too Much Bad Law
Friday, 10 May 2002, 11:06 am | Maree Howard
A few years ago the Law Commission made recommendations about what it considered were rough and ready laws which Parliament produced and nothing much changed. So will the politicians now take any notice of the latest Law Commission report over ... More >>
Howard's End: Courts Need Fixing Urgently
Thursday, 9 May 2002, 10:32 am | Maree Howard
The 89-page discussion document published yesterday by the Law Commission identifies a real mess over fairness and access to justice in our courts. More >>
Howard's End: Sth Oz Public Service Crackdown
Wednesday, 8 May 2002, 10:06 am | Maree Howard
The newly-elected Labour Government in South Australia is bringing in some of the toughest legislation ever and making changes to the law to sack directors of Government organisations including boards, public servants and even consultants if they don't ... More >>
