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Select Committee Business
Friday, 6 August 1999, 12:31 am | Unknown
Select Committee business from 30 July - 6 August 1999. More >>
ACCC Not To Oppose Mobil/Exxon Merger
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 8:13 pm | Unknown
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose the merger of the Australian interests of Mobil and Exxon, ACCC Chairman, Professor Allan Fels, said today. More >>
Transcript: Howard Interview
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 6:54 pm | Unknown
Subjects: Workers' entitlements, NZ Apples, sale of ADI Ltd, Republic Referendum, preamble More >>
Movement Of Prisoners Reveals Crisis - PSA
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:31 pm | Unknown
The disclosure that 30 North Island prisoners are to be flown to the Christchurch region tomorrow is a revealing and worrying development, the PSA said today. More >>
Govt and the non-prescription medicines industry
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:07 pm | Unknown
"The non-prescription medicines industry has played a strong part in fostering and developing a new and collaborative partnership," the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Aged Care, Senator Tambling, said today. More >>
Chatterbox Mussels Clam up in Face of Pollution
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:06 pm | Unknown
They may not have evolved language or consciousness but freshwater mussels are talking to scientists about the state of their environment. More >>
Launch Of New Internet Services
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:05 pm | Unknown
Tony Abbott, Minister for Employment Services today opened the fifth annual Australian Internet World conference. In his opening address Mr Abbott highlighted the major advances being made by the Government in the use of on-line services to support the ... More >>
Online vision for telecommunications
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:04 pm | Unknown
'Australians should find it easier and quicker to switch phone companies as a result of the telecommunications industry's decision to adopt electronic data processes,' the Minister for Communications, Senator Richard Alston, said today. More >>
NCA Success In Breaking Heroin Syndicate
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:03 pm | Unknown
Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Amanda Vanstone, today congratulated the National Crime Authority on its success in dismantling an alleged major international heroin syndicate. More >>
Study To Ensure Legal Aid Assists The Needy
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:02 pm | Unknown
Attorney General the Hon Daryl Williams AM QC MP and Minister for Finance and Administration the Hon John Fahey MP are pleased to release stage one of a study comparing privately funded and legally aided Family Law cases. More >>
Telecom To Exchange Phonecards
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 2:24 pm | Unknown
Telecom will exchange magnetic strip cards for special chip PhoneCards for customers with unused value in their magnetic cards. More >>
Rankin's Thursday Column: Democracy And The Media
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 2:13 pm | Unknown
A worrying theme is emerging in some recent studies; democracy is much less popular than died-in-the-wool democrats such as myself would wish it to be. Further, democracy seems to be less popular with young than with older New Zealanders More >>
Alternatives To The APEC Agenda Announced
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 1:54 pm | Unknown
The September Leaders Summit won’t be the only conference in Auckland to focus on APEC. The APEC Monitoring Group today announced details of its forum entitled Alternatives To The APEC Agenda to be held from September 10-12 in Auckland. More >>
Household Labour Force Survey - June 1999 quarter
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 1:30 pm | Unknown
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.0 per cent in the June 1999 quarter according to Statistics New Zealand's Household Labour Force Survey, the official measure of unemployment. This rate is the lowest since December 1997 and has decreased ... More >>
Why Republicans Oppose an Australian Republic
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 12:04 pm | Unknown
A foretaste of things to come in NZ? Simon Orme writes from Sydney on the question of a republic and how the debate is finally heating up. More >>
Why Do We Need A Republic At All?
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 10:49 am | Unknown
Our representative democracy is not working as it should and as sure as night follows day New Zealand will follow Australia and we'll be debating whether to become a republic. More >>
President Clinton On NATO
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 10:34 am | Unknown
I am very pleased that our NATO alliance has selected British Defense Secretary George Robertson to be NATO's next Secretary General. More >>
Office Classifies Keith Haring Artworks
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 8:32 am | Unknown
The Office of Film and Literature Classification has classified 18 works by the late American Artist Keith Haring, recently exhibited at the City Art Gallery, Wellington. More >>
Military Exercising With Indonesia Condemned
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 6:54 am | Unknown
The New Zealand Defence Force still maintains intimate training and exercise links with the Indonesian military despite its role in the militia terror in East Timor. More >>
Agreement in Fire Service New Recruits Dispute
Wednesday, 4 August 1999, 10:12 pm | Unknown
"An undertaking given by the Fire Service Commission in the Employment Court today has allowed the Firefighters Union to adjourn its application for an interim injunction to stop the Fire Service Commission recruiting new operational firefighters ... More >>
