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Glenn Says Cabinet-Offer Comment Light Hearted

A big financial backer of the Labour Party has sought to shut down growing confusion and controversy about whether Prime Minister Helen Clark suggested he enter politics to become transport minister.

Donnelly Quits Parliament For Diplomatic Job

NZ First leader Winston Peters has confirmed what has been an open secret in Wellington for months by announcing the appointment of the party’s fourth-ranked MP Brian Donnelly as the next High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.

Military Say No Need For Timor Reinforcements

New Zealand military in Timor-Leste believe they do not need reinforcements despite yesterday’s twin assassination attempt on the country’s leaders.

NZ Troops On Scene After Timor Assassination Attacks

New Zealand troops are guarding the homes of Timor-Leste’s leaders and more are on standby after President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao survived separate but simultaneous assassination attempts in Dili early today.

People Continue To Flock To KiwiSaver

People continue to flock to KiwiSaver, and are signing up at more than twice the rate of first projections.

Hopes Revive For US Free Trade Deal

Hopes for a free trade agreement with the United States have revived after the US said it would join talks over a deal on financial services among an existing trade group of four Pacific countries, including New Zealand.

Falling Water Quality Alert In Environment Report

A 10-year stocktake on the state of New Zealand’s environment has highlighted how intensive farming, especially the growth of dairying, is hurting water quality at a time other big industries have cleaned up their act.

Higher School Leaving Age Leads Labour's Skills Strategy

The school leaving age will be raised to 18 and apprenticeships schemes will be offered in all highschools under Labour’s latest push to lift workforce skills and living standards.

Anderton Starts Election Year With Student Debt Pledge

Labour’s coalition partner, the Progressive Party, will campaign to wipe the debt of students who stay in New Zealand to work, and to let families raise a home deposit from Working for Families payments.

Army-Style Camps Among Nats' Plan To Curb Youth Crime

Military-style training and compulsory parenting courses are part of measures National proposes to defuse the “unexploded human time-bombs” of hard-core youth crime if it becomes the Government.

Key Poised To Unveil Policy In Ellerslie Speech

National leader John Key is expected to get down to detail with some specific policy announcements when he gives his second state of the nation address in Auckland tomorrow.

EU Beefs Up ETS To Meet Climate Change Target

The European Commission is beefing up its Emissions Trading Scheme as part of a package of climate change measures designed to ensure the 27 countries of the European Union cut overall carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

Interest Rate Grip Unshaken By Turbulence

Turbulence on world markets has failed to shake the Reserve Bank from its view that the New Zealand economy will keep growing and the cost of borrowing must stay high to keep inflation at bay.

Clark Strikes Out Early On Agenda Setting

Voters are in for a double dose of prime ministerial agenda-setting as Helen Clark prepares to strike out early to seize the election year initiative from National leader John Key.

Clark Hails ‘Resilient’ NZ Economy

Prime Minister Helen Clark has extolled the resilience of the New Zealand economy as local stocks pulled out of a two-week losing spiral.

Thousands Line Streets To Farewell Sir Ed

Rain fell softly as the casket of Sir Edmund Hillary was carried from St Mary’s Church after a state funeral which drew thousands to the streets of Auckland to bid their last farewell to the mountaineering legend.

Antarctic Bell Tolls For Sir Ed

The tolling of a bell from the navy ship HMNZS Endeavour that carried Sir Edmund Hillary on his Antarctic expedition half a century ago marked the beginning of today’s State funeral for New Zealand’s greatest adventurer.

Mourners Gather For Sir Ed’s State Funeral

Mourners have arrived at Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral and neighbouring St Mary’s Church in Parnell for the State funeral for Sir Edmund Hillary.

Buildings Collapse in Gisborne After Quake

Emergency services in Gisborne say at least three buildings have collapsed in the central business district following a major earthquake but there are no reports of loss of life at this stage.

Logan Quits Ahead Of Inquiry Verdict

The Environment Ministry’s beleaguered chief executive Hugh Logan has resigned, a few hours before the State Services Commission delivers its verdict on how he handled the Clare Curran affair.

Power Project Plans Set On Short Route

The Government has acted on its intention to take the short route more often for applications for renewable energy projects, announcing it will intervene to bypass the normal process for two power projects in the North Island.

Kyoto Liability Climbs To Nearly $1 Billion

New Zealand’s Kyoto liability for breaching its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets has climbed a further $252 million to nearly $1 billion.

Electoral Finance Bill Survives Late Defection

Parliament has passed the Electoral Finance Bill despite the loss of a key supporter at the last hurdle who pronounced it a lost cause in the court of public opinion.

Dunne Pulls Support On Electoral Finance Bill

United Future has pulled its support for the Electoral Finance Bill at the eleventh hour.

Mallard Makes U-Turn Apology To Whistleblower

Environment Minister Trevor Mallard has had a change of heart and has made a belated apology to the former ministry communications contractor he accused of incompetence in Parliament.

Big Parties Rule Out Lifting Retirement Age

The idea of lifting the pension age has been emphatically ruled out by Finance Minister Michael Cullen, and National too is giving it the thumbs down.

Economic Outlook Stronger Says Treasury

New Zealand’s economic outlook has taken on a rosier glow, and even accounting for $1.5 billion of potential tax cuts, the Government’s run of healthy Budget surpluses will continue, according to the latest Treasury update.

Taxpayers Up For Eden Park Bill

Taxpayers are likely to meet the bulk of the cost of redeveloping Eden Park for the 2011 Rugby World after the Cabinet sanctioned a revised $240 million design.

DHB Given Four Month Deadline To Perform

The incoming board of Capital and Coast Health and its new chairman have been given four months to move the hospital out of crisis mode or risk the sack.

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