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State Company Targets Labour Party
Tuesday, 17 August 1999, 12:18 am | Unknown
For the last year the primary target of Timberlands’ PR campaign has been the Labour Party, owing to management fears that a change of government in November would lead to its native forest logging being stopped. The new book, Secrets and Lies, shows ... More >>
West Coasters Manipulated By PR Campaign
Tuesday, 17 August 1999, 12:14 am | Unknown
Leaked public relations documents show Timberlands West Coast manipulated West Coast people to drum up local support for its native forest logging plans. Through creating a front-group and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on local sponsorship ... More >>
Jenny Shipley Behind SOE's Political Lobbying
Tuesday, 17 August 1999, 12:13 am | Unknown
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley needs to explain why she and staff in her office supported and assisted Timberlands’ politically-motivated multi-million dollar anti-environmental PR campaign but in response to a question in Parliament in July denied there had ... More >>
State Company’s Dirty Tricks Exposed
Tuesday, 17 August 1999, 12:10 am | Unknown
A cynical campaign of deceit and manipulation of public opinion, conducted on behalf of and funded by a state owned enterprise, is exposed in a new book published today. More >>
ACC - Massive Support For Cycleway Extension
Monday, 16 August 1999, 8:13 pm | Unknown
Ninety-eight per cent of people, who made submissions on Auckland City Council's proposal to extend the North Western cycleway into the central city, supported the idea. More >>
Auckland City Rates Struck
Monday, 16 August 1999, 8:03 pm | Unknown
Your rates for 1999/2000 have been formulated after a rigorous Annual Plan consultation process throughout May. We received a total of 1,844 general submissions on our 1999/2000 Draft Annual Plan – a big increase on past years. We also received 14,315 form letters ... More >>
ACC Councillors Consider Metrowater's Future
Monday, 16 August 1999, 7:15 pm | Unknown
City Councillors devoted a great deal of time at their meeting on August 4 considering the future of Metrowater, the Council's Local Authority Trading Enterprise (LATE). More >>
Auckland Airport routes for APEC
Monday, 16 August 1999, 6:48 pm | Unknown
Next month's APEC leaders' meeting will affect traffic travelling across Auckland City, as well as in the central city area. More >>
Norml Report - Annual General Meeting
Monday, 16 August 1999, 6:30 pm | Unknown
NORML appoints Medical Marijuana Campaigner Danuiel Clark to the board and resolves to back law reform candidates this election. More >>
A Knowledge Economy Needed - New ACRI President
Monday, 16 August 1999, 5:23 pm | Unknown
There is an urgent need to develop a strategic path for New Zealand based on a combination of scientific knowledge, technical skills, and marketing, the newly-elected President of the Association of Crown Research Institutes Andrew West said today. More >>
A Knowledge Economy Needed - New ACRI President
Monday, 16 August 1999, 5:23 pm | Unknown
There is an urgent need to develop a strategic path for New Zealand based on a combination of scientific knowledge, technical skills, and marketing, the newly-elected President of the Association of Crown Research Institutes Andrew West said today. More >>
Taxpayer-funded APEC media junket tour slammed
Monday, 16 August 1999, 5:20 pm | Unknown
A recent week-long visit to New Zealand involving 23 overseas journalists is being held up as yet another desperate misuse of public money in selling APEC 99 and the failed New Zealand reforms to the world in preparation for next month’s APEC Leaders ... More >>
Deborah Menagh to leave CLEAR Communications
Monday, 16 August 1999, 4:25 pm | Unknown
After three and a half years at CLEAR, she said, it was time to move on. "I am considering a number of options but, for the time being, a sailing holiday is very high on the agenda." More >>
Ten Plutonium Cargoes A Year Go Via Cape Good Hope
Monday, 16 August 1999, 1:06 pm | Unknown
Ten deadly nuclear cargoes of weapons-usable plutonium fuel are to travel from Europe to Japan each year via South Africa, according to a Reuters’s story published today. In light of this information, Greenpeace urged all potential en route nations concerned ... More >>
Researchers Call In Overseas Agent
Monday, 16 August 1999, 10:17 am | Unknown
An overseas agent of the insect variety has been assisting researchers in attacking New Zealand’s wasp problem. More >>
Science May End Our Need For Airconditioning
Monday, 16 August 1999, 10:15 am | Unknown
Air conditioning may become a thing of the past, as researchers continue to study the use of natural ventilation in inner city buildings. More >>
Wool Industry Chaos - Christian Heritage
Monday, 16 August 1999, 9:28 am | Unknown
Leadership is desperately needed in the wool industry. Christian Heritage calls on the Minister for Fibre, John Luxton, to ensure that the promised referendum for wool growers includes the option ‘Wool Corp’. More >>
Lethal Injection World Leader Sets Deadly Example
Saturday, 14 August 1999, 4:30 pm | Unknown
The scheduled killings of eight people in the USA and Philippines during the next seven days are linked by a deadly connection extending beyond the calculated cruelty of executions and their affront to human dignity, Amnesty International said today. More >>
Mikhail Gorbachev - World Without Wars
Saturday, 14 August 1999, 3:00 am | Unknown
Throughout human history war has always been present as the greatest source of pain and suffering. More >>
"That the use of weapons ends, that wars stop..."
Saturday, 14 August 1999, 2:56 am | Unknown
War or peace? This is really the ongoing dilemma that has persisted throughout the entire history of humanity. Across the centuries, throughout the unlimited development of literature, millions of pages have been dedicated to the subject of peace, to ... More >>
