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	Leader of the Opposition (New Zealand) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand is the politician who, at least in theory, commands the support of the non-government bloc of members in the New Zealand Parliament.
		John Ballance, leader of the Liberals (and later Premier) is usually considered the first Leader of the Opposition in the modern sense.
		After this, the Leader of the Opposition would always be the parliamentary leader of the largest party in the House of Representatives that had not undertaken to support the Government of the day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(New_Zealand) (793 words)

	The Leader of Opposition's Post - Much to do About Nothing? Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji ...
		The President appoints as Leader of the Opposition the member of the House of Representatives whose appointment as Leader of the Opposition would, in the opinion of the President, be acceptable to the majority of the members in the House of the opposition party or parties.
		New Zealand is one such country, where a minority government rules now, and ruled during the last term.
		It is the quality of the people in the opposition, and the quality of the staff of the Leader of Opposition's office, which would determine the quality of responses of the Leader of the Opposition.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/05/26/Ganesh.html (1714 words)

	New Zealand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		New Zealand comprises the North Island and the South Island (the two principal islands), Stewart Island, and the Chatham Islands.
		Among the unusual animals native to New Zealand are the kiwi, certain species of parrot, the tuatara (survivor of a prehistoric order of reptiles), and various frogs and reptiles.
		New Zealand’s government consists of the governor-general (representing the British crown), a prime minister and cabinet (the effective executive), and a 120-seat unicameral parliament (the House of Representatives) whose members are elected for three-year terms.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ne/NewZlnd.html (1077 words)

	New Zealand
		The Maori people migrated to New Zealand about 1000 years ago, and they developed a system of tribes and sub-tribes with an even smaller group of families as the center of morals and life.
		New Zealand remained it’s own country, but it was under the protection and jurisdiction of the British crown.
		In 1993, New Zealand passed a bill prohibiting discrimination in the work, home, politics, and legal issues on the basis of gender, disability, racial background, economic status, age, and other factors that often are causes of discrimination.
	library.thinkquest.org /C001142/countries/newzealand.php (830 words)

	Radio Australia - News - New Zealand opposition defiant on anti nuclear policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party, Don Brash says the party could change the country's anti-nuclear policy without a referendum if it wins government.
		The government in New Zealand has yet to announce the date of elections, which must be held within the next twelve weeks.
		New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the two countries are talking but any dialogue will have to remain within the boundaries of New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1407455.htm (387 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Burugaa hits the New Zealand Courts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A New Zealand defence lawyer stated that his client would be disadvantaged if a Muslim woman did not lift her face veil when she testified against him in an Auckland court, in a case involving the alleged theft of a car and alleged insurance fraud.
		New Zealanders are required by law to owe their allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen.
		A Muslim New Zealander insisting on the covering of her face may infringe on the right of another New Zealander for a fair trial.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /editorial_burugaa_nz.shtml (1603 words)

	New Zealand opposition leader launches racist diatribe against immigrants
		In a major speech to the new parliament late last month, Winston Peters declared that the country’s indigenous Maori population was being treated in an inferior way to new migrants.
		They call it treason.” Peters went on to allege that “[h]alf of the refugees” entering New Zealand were “carrying HIV and all sorts of Third World diseases into our country”, and that “necrophiliacs and triple murderers” were being allowed in as a matter of course.
		Peters’ aim is to catapult New Zealand First ahead of the National Party as the main parliamentary opposition to Labor.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/sep2002/newz-s26.shtml (1168 words)

	Gifts of Speech - Jenny Shipley
		New Zealanders are paying a premium for having a leader of the Labour Party who has led a great leap backwards.
		New Zealand should be flying as we were when National left office.
		At the end of the year we are pleased that the public of New Zealand have commended us through their poll support, so that we are at least within the margin of error against the current government.
	gos.sbc.edu /s/shipley2.html (5745 words)

	New Zealand Tower Spared Crash, Man Steals Plane, Threatens Crash Into Landmark, Hits Sea Instead - CBS News
		New Zealand held national elections Saturday, and both Prime Minister Helen Clark and opposition National Party leader Don Brash were due to hold election rallies in Auckland later Saturday night.
		Clark's ruling Labour party edged slightly ahead in New Zealand's election Saturday, but the race was so close that no immediate decision on whether she would stay in power was expected for days.
		Earlier in the evening, New Zealand's opposition leader Don Brash, who supports dismantling the country's nuclear free laws and opposes special privileges for indigenous Maori people, was ahead in the count due to a big swing in support toward his party.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/17/world/main856313.shtml (584 words)

	When the ship Tampa on August 26, 2001 rescued foreigners headed for Australia by boat, the Coalition government ...
		Winston Peters, leader of the opposition New Zealand First party and an ethnic Maori, played on growing public hostility toward Asian immigration to help his party win 13 of the 120 parliamentary seats in July 2002 elections, and has continued to criticize New Zealand immigration policies.
		New Zealand has an annual target of 45,000 immigrants, but 53,000 arrived in the 12 months ending June 30, 2002; many New Zealand residents emigrate.
		The New Zealand economy expanded by 4.6 percent in 2002, in part because of the arrival of 38,180 migrants, most from China and India.
	www.migrationint.com.au /news/palau/jan_2003-17mn.html (1140 words)

	New Zealand Give Vote To Women
		New Zealand's Upper House, the Legislative Council, approved the Electoral Bill by 20 votes to 18 and it now only requires the signature of the new Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, to allow the historic legislation to pass into the law books.
		New Zealand, a state with less than half a million souls, has, by this measure, shown the way to the rest of the Western World.
		The New Zealand premier appointed known opponents of women's suffrage to the Legislative Council in an attempt to secure the Electoral Bill's defeat.
	www.dailypast.com /oceania/new-zealand-women-vote.shtml (711 words)

	CNN - New Zealand elections may result in swing to left - Oct. 12, 1996
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CNN) -- Early returns from New Zealand's general election Saturday showed the country's left-leaning parties on the verge of trumping the ruling conservative party which has led the country for the last six years.
		With 37 percent of the vote counted, New Zealand's TV3 network projected that the ruling National Party would win 44 of the 120 seats in parliament.
		The opposition Labor Party, nationalist party New Zealand First and left-wing Alliance party were expected to pick up a total of 68 seats, enough to topple the National Party if they form a coalition.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9610/12/new.zealand.elections (392 words)

	New Zealand injury treatment 'humiliating' - Selves and Others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		New Zealanders who injure themselves at work are being subjected to bizarre rehabilitation schemes that include being given nasal enemas, sitting cross-legged on the floor while humming, and watching the film
		The unorthodox treatments were highlighted by Winston Peters, leader of the opposition party New Zealand First who said that patients felt humiliated.
		One patient, Paul Miller, a former player with a leading rugby union team, the Chiefs, told New Zealand television that the treatment - which he received after rupturing a tendon in his foot - was "degrading".
	www.selvesandothers.org /breve505.html (753 words)

	New Zealand opposition leader quits
		New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash quit politics late last month in the wake of damaging speculation over his future, and days before the release of a book that alleged links between him and the Exclusive Brethren religious sect.
		The New Zealand Herald’s deputy editor Fran O’Sullivan, a former business commentator and persistent critic of Labour, triumphantly declared that he had proved himself “young and ruthless enough to be a challenge to Clark.”
		Revenue Minister Peter Dunne, leader of the minor NZ Future Party, initiated a review of corporate taxes, with a view of bringing them down from 33 cents to 30 cents in the dollar, in line with Australia.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/dec2006/newz-d15.shtml (1139 words)

	Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog: To New Zealand’s Don Brash: stop counting and start absorbing
		Regular readers know I have been critical of New Zealand’s Labour government, but at the same time I wrote to the Prime Minister around May 2005, foretelling her she would win a third term.
		But New Zealanders are still sore from the capitalist changes of the 1980s and 1990s, and in that context, Clark’s liberal leanings tend to feel more familiar, less inhuman.
		All I sense from the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Don Brash, is a series of mixed signals.
	www.jackyan.com /blog/2006/02/to-new-zealands-don-brash-stop.html (725 words)

	NZ Opposition leader caught in scandal \| The Courier-Mail
		EMBATTLED New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash said today he would not step down as head of the National Party despite his private life dominating headlines amid allegations of an affair.
		The scandal erupted during a feisty period in New Zealand politics with the Government under pressure following a report suggesting it had wrongly used taxpayer funds during part of its campaign for last year's general election.
		The opposition leader then took leave to be with his wife Je Lan after admitting there were problems, and returned to the public arena today saying his marriage was salvageable and he would not be stepping down from politics.
	www.news.com.au /couriermail/story/0,23739,20417543-401,00.html (418 words)

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		Police used teargas on Tuesday to disperse scores of opposition supporters who were outside parliament protesting against a ban on political or religious groups running radio stations.
		The leader of the opposition Seychelles National Party (SNP), Wavel Ramkalawan, was among four people injured, while a newspaper editor was also arrested.
		SNP secretary-general Roger Mancienne, who is also the editor of the opposition Regar weekly, was arrested and released on bail, Police Commissioner Gerard Waye-Hive told Reuters.
	www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/L04154290.htm (387 words)

	New Zealand opposition party elects new leader - World - theage.com.au
		New Zealand's conservative main opposition party today elected millionaire former foreign exchange executive John Key as its new leader.
		He was elected unopposed by National Party legislators after gaffe-prone leader Don Brash announced on Thursday he was stepping down after three years leading the centre-right party.
		In a deal designed to ensure unity in the New Zealand's dominant opposition party, former party leader Bill English was elected as deputy, replacing Gerry Brownlee.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/new-zealand-opposition-party-elects-new-leader/2006/11/27/1164476129961.html (369 words)

	New Zealand opposition leader quits \| Asian Tribune
		Leaders of the extreme right-wing cult—which forbids its own members to vote or participate in political activities—funded the nationwide distribution of unattributed pamphlets criticizing Labor and the Greens and urging a vote for National.
		The New Zealand Herald’s deputy editor Fran O’Sullivan, a former business commentator and persistent critic of Labor, triumphantly declared that he had proved himself "young and ruthless enough to be a challenge to Clark."
		But the frustration with Labor has continued to build in ruling circles, surfacing during the debate over the May 2006 budget with the demand for the projected surplus to be used to finance tax cuts.
	www.asiantribune.com /index.php?q=node/3684 (1316 words)

	New Zealand Ministers
		Co-Deputy Leader 1991-94, Leader 1994-95 and Deputy leader of the Alliance 1996-2001.
		As Chief Justice of New Zealand she is the first deputy of the Governor General and acts as Administrator of the Government in his/her place when he/she is abroad or otherwise incapacitated, and twice acted in the interregnum between two Governor Generals.
		She holds this post jointly with the other Co-Leader of the Green Party as part of the coalition-agreement, where the Greens were not part of the government and where the Leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters, became Foreign Minister outside the Cabinet, a construction never seen before anywhere in the world.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /New_Zealand.htm (1403 words)

	Leader of the Opposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government.
		The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.
		In many Commonwealth Realm monarchies, the full title is Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition (115 words)

	Secretary-General visits New Zealand
		Mark Burton, Minister of Defence of New Zealand, at the Parliament House in Wellington on February 24.
		Jenny Shipley MP, leader of the Opposition, at the Parliament House in Wellington on February 24.
		Seated, left to right, is Sir Frank Holmes, National President of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and Lady Rhyl Jansen, National President of the UNA of New Zealand.
	www.un.org /av/photo/sgtrips/sgnewzeal.htm (515 words)

	New Zealand opposition leader resigns 1 year after failing to win election - Asia - Pacific - International Herald ...
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand's main opposition National Party leader resigned Thursday, citing growing media speculation over his future as a key reason for stepping down.
		Favored to replace Brash is opposition finance spokesman John Key, a multimillionaire former investment banker who made his fortune in London capital markets.
		He reignited National as a political force with a controversial speech in January 2004 on race issues in New Zealand that lifted National ahead of the ruling Labour Party in popular support.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/11/23/asia/AS_POL_New_Zealand_Opposition_Leader_Resigns.php (631 words)

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