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ABC Prime Time On Waco Misrepresents Facts

Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 10:52 am | Unknown

The Producer of the ABC Prime Time program, scheduled to air this evening, misrepresented the facts of how this program would play out. I was told that we would be allowed to ask an FBI representative any questions we'd like to ask. When the time came to ... More >>

New Appointment At The Auckland Cooking Academy

Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 12:37 am | Unknown

Millys of Ponsonby announces the appointment of Connie Clarkson as Administrator of the new Auckland Cooking Academy. More >>

AA Driver Education Foundation Conference

Thursday, 17 April 2003, 5:45 pm | Unknown

The LTSA estimate there will be 400 fatalities and nearly 6,000 hospitalisations from road crashes in 2004, with social costs of $3 billion. Road death fatalities before the Easter holiday break are already 20 more than the same time last year. ... More >>

Mandarins As Far As The 'Eye' Can See

Monday, 7 April 2003, 11:47 am | Unknown

Compac Sorting Equipment has just secured its biggest order ever, beating out large French, Dutch and American competitors, with the sale to the USA of more than half an acre of fruit sizing and packing equipment capable of processing 500 mandarins ... More >>

Trade Unionist to Apply For Higher Salaries Com.

Monday, 7 April 2003, 11:43 am | Unknown

Former Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), Ivan Finlayson has accepted a recommendation by a group of union officials to express an interest in a position on the Remuneration Authority, previously known as the Higher Salaries ... More >>

Anti-War Tax Initiative Launched Against Iraq War

Monday, 7 April 2003, 12:55 am | Unknown

Citing Henry David Thoreau and General Alexander Haig, a group opposing the war in Iraq has launched a petition drive to enlist support for persons who choose to withhold federal income taxes in protest against the war. Called "An Appeal to Conscience," ... More >>

Aus: ACT Chief Minister Condemns War In Iraq

Thursday, 3 April 2003, 4:03 pm | Unknown

Mr Stanhope delivered a Ministerial Statement to the ACT Legislative Assembly condemning the war against Iraq and calling for the withdrawal of the Australian armed forces. More >>

Software Streamlines International Ed. Management

Thursday, 27 March 2003, 5:16 pm | Unknown

A sophisticated yet easy to use locally-developed software package is revolutionising the management of international English language education in this country. More >>

Kiwi Journo Turns To Feature Filmmaking

Friday, 21 March 2003, 9:33 am | Unknown

A former New Zealand columnist Alan Lewin, now resident in the UK, had been named as co-producer for a feature film estimated to require a budget of US $96m. More >>

Drought has impact on Young Farmer contest

Monday, 17 March 2003, 2:14 pm | Unknown

The worst drought in 22 years has curtailed some of the tests that were due to be set for contestants in the Taranaki-Manawatu regional final of the Wrightson Agmardt Young Farmer Contest. More >>

Open Letter: Confidentiality Concerns Re ACC SCU

Monday, 17 March 2003, 9:32 am | Unknown

Recent discussions amongst ACC approved counsellors / psychotherapists / psychologists and supervisors in North Shore City, Auckland, have highlighted a number of concerns about new ACC SCU processes, the first we have addressed is CONFIDENTIALITY. More >>

Thoracic Society On Direct to Consumer Advertising

Monday, 17 March 2003, 9:16 am | Unknown

The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand is a professional body representing doctors, nurses and scientists whose primary focus is in the area of Respiratory Medicine. More >>

Unified Contract In Saudi Brings Legal Slavery

Thursday, 13 March 2003, 11:13 am | Unknown

The Saudi Arabia National Recruitment Committee Unified Contract (SANARCOM-UC) has again exhibited the propensity of the Labor Secretary and her office to divert the flak that her irresponsible moves have caused the OFWs in the Kingdom. More >>

Anti-War Anthem - Back It Up! – James Blundell

Thursday, 13 March 2003, 10:35 am | Unknown

Platinum selling Australian Icon, James Blundell is today releasing a song dedicated to one simple question the whole world is asking, "Do we want a war?" More >>

An Emergency Kit To Stop The War - U.N. Res. 377

Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 9:20 am | Unknown

Save a few precious minutes for something that can work - Uniting for Peace! Uniting for Peace (UN Resolution 377) empowers the General Assembly to call up peacekeeping troops when the Security Council is blocked - like it has been for months. The General ... More >>

Production Call is Killing Farming

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 2:17 pm | Unknown

The traditional call for continual increases in production to increase farm profits is killing the industry and putting young people off farming, according to farm business specialist Peter Floyd. More >>

GOP Chairman Resigns – Our Country Above Politics

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 10:47 am | Unknown

As the Bush administration moves toward certain war in the Middle East-a war which I believe nothing good will come from, a war which is unjust, unnecessary, and a war which will undoubtedly widen, perhaps even into world war, thereby placing our ... More >>

Intl. Law Provides Strong Opposition To The War!

Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 10:16 am | Unknown

As made clear in the appended Statement by Australian International Lawyers, Customary International Law (obligatory on all States) strongly bolsters attempts by the anti-war movement to stop the threatened war on Iraq. More >>

Tonga: CPJ Protests Over Times Of Tonga Ban

Thursday, 6 March 2003, 10:14 am | Unknown

NEW YORK (CPJ/Pacific Media Watch): The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has protested to King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga over the ban on Taimi 'o Tonga as lawyers prepare to contest the prohibition order in court. More >>

Campaign for Justice Not War in the Philippines

Monday, 3 March 2003, 9:54 am | Unknown

Sunday, Feb. 23, New York City--A new campaign was launched today to build opposition to U.S. military intervention and human rights abuses in the Philippines. Initiated by GABRIELA Network--NY/NJ and the Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines, ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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