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Transfield deal to save jobs
Transfield Services has struck a new deal with Telecom, saving hundreds of telecommunications engineering jobs.Last month, the engineering company said 170 jobs had to go now and up to 1400 were threatened because it couldn't...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Transfield Services has struck a new deal with Telecom, saving hundreds of telecommunications engineering jobs.Last month, the engineering company said 170 jobs had to go now and up to 1400 were threatened because it couldn't...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Paula Oliver: Government can tickle various areas for election promises
There is not much money left to spend, but there are hints in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update of where Labour might be looking to make its election promises.Buried away in the document are what the Treasury labels...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
There is not much money left to spend, but there are hints in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update of where Labour might be looking to make its election promises.Buried away in the document are what the Treasury labels...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
No more safety in numbers for Cullen
After presiding over almost a decade of buoyant accounts, Finance Minister Michael Cullen has sailed into an international crisis that has changed the face of his numbers.International turmoil and the slowing domestic economy...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
After presiding over almost a decade of buoyant accounts, Finance Minister Michael Cullen has sailed into an international crisis that has changed the face of his numbers.International turmoil and the slowing domestic economy...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Rivals nearly cross paths on vote hunt
Two of the country's biggest political foes came with 50 metres of each other on the campaign trail in Tauranga yesterday, but were careful to avoid getting any closer.National leader John Key and New Zealand First leader Winston...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Two of the country's biggest political foes came with 50 metres of each other on the campaign trail in Tauranga yesterday, but were careful to avoid getting any closer.National leader John Key and New Zealand First leader Winston...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
National's parole policy just for show, says Goff
Corrections Minister Phil Goff says National's life-means-life parole policy for murderers is just "for show" and would pointlessly and expensively keep geriatric convicts in prison.Mr Goff said murderers who already had serious...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Corrections Minister Phil Goff says National's life-means-life parole policy for murderers is just "for show" and would pointlessly and expensively keep geriatric convicts in prison.Mr Goff said murderers who already had serious...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
John Armstrong: Bloodbath changes everything
It was only a few short weeks ago that Bill English was saying he wasn't going to be spooked by a little bit of red ink in the Government's accounts.The Treasury's pre-election fiscal update bleeds so much of the red stuff that...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
It was only a few short weeks ago that Bill English was saying he wasn't going to be spooked by a little bit of red ink in the Government's accounts.The Treasury's pre-election fiscal update bleeds so much of the red stuff that...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
PM wants to 'involve' Greens in next Govt and believes they will back her
Helen Clark thinks the Greens will say before the election that Labour would be the party they could work with in a post-election deal.The Prime Minister also said she would like to be able to involve the Greens in a government.The...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Helen Clark thinks the Greens will say before the election that Labour would be the party they could work with in a post-election deal.The Prime Minister also said she would like to be able to involve the Greens in a government.The...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Regional fuel tax to help fund Penlink
Whangaparaoa Peninsula will be promised a toll-free link road to Auckland's Northern Motorway from a regional fuel tax of up to 10c a litre likely to be announced today or tomorrow.Although two-thirds of the tax - starting at...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Whangaparaoa Peninsula will be promised a toll-free link road to Auckland's Northern Motorway from a regional fuel tax of up to 10c a litre likely to be announced today or tomorrow.Although two-thirds of the tax - starting at...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Samoan police 'traumatise' Kiwi lawyers
Auckland-based Samoan lawyer Olinda Woodroffe says she was "traumatised" when she had to seek refuge at the New Zealand High Commission office in Apia last week after being threatened with arrest.Mrs Woodroffe and her daughter,...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Auckland-based Samoan lawyer Olinda Woodroffe says she was "traumatised" when she had to seek refuge at the New Zealand High Commission office in Apia last week after being threatened with arrest.Mrs Woodroffe and her daughter,...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
Woman denies murdering partner
A Northland woman has denied murdering her partner with a steak knife.A jury in the High Court at Whangarei yesterday was told Rangi Marie Reti killed her partner and friend of eight years with a knife at their Kawakawa home on...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
A Northland woman has denied murdering her partner with a steak knife.A jury in the High Court at Whangarei yesterday was told Rangi Marie Reti killed her partner and friend of eight years with a knife at their Kawakawa home on...
New Zealand Herald – Oct 6, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
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