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  New Zealand general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election saw a strong recovery by National: it won 21 more seats than at the 2002 election, when it had suffered its worst result since it first fought a general election in 1938.
On 17 October, Clark announced a new coalition agreement that saw the return of her minority government coalition with the Progressive Party, with confidence-and-supply support from New Zealand First and from United Future.
New Zealand First's involvement in such a coalition would have run counter to Peters' promise to deal with the biggest party, and Turia and Sharples would have had difficulty in justifying supporting National after their supporters' overwhelming support for Labour in the party vote.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_2005   (1580 words)

  
 Elections in New Zealand - November 1999
November 1999 for New Zealand’s single-chamber parliament saw a big swing to the left and a clear majority of seats for a new coalition government to be formed by the two workers’ parties, Labour and the Alliance.
Apparently the new model for New Zealand to emulate is the Republic of Ireland.
The New Zealand Study of Values, which was published a year ago under the direction of Professor Alan Webster, a social psychologist, surveyed New Zealand social attitudes and values and correlated them with economic class and political preference.
www.newyouth.com /archives/asia/newzealand/elections_in_new_zealand.html   (4480 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 1987 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1987 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament.
The governing New Zealand Labour Party, led by Prime Minister David Lange, was re-elected for a second term, although the Opposition National Party made gains.
Of particular importance in the election were the economic reforms being undertaken by Roger Douglas, the Minister of Finance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election_1987   (916 words)

  
 Commanding Heights : New Zealand Overview | on PBS
New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations.
New Zealand expands its international contacts in Southeast Asia and enters a limited free-trade agreement with Australia.
Although he wins a fourth election in 1969, Holyoake loses support by 1970 as his government is perceived as care-worn and out of touch with the public.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/nz/nz_overview.html   (1250 words)

  
 ICL - New Zealand - Constitution Act 1986
(2) The Governor-General appointed by the Sovereign is the Sovereign's representative in New Zealand.
The House of Representatives shall, at its first meeting after any general election of its members, and immediately on its first meeting after any vacancy occurs in the office of Speaker, choose one of its members as its Speaker, and every such choice shall be effective on being confirmed by the Governor-General.
(2) The Parliament of New Zealand is the same body as that which before the commencement of this Act was called the General Assembly (as established by section 32 of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) and which consisted of the Governor-General and the House of Representatives.
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/nz00000_.html   (2468 words)

  
 New Zealand General Election (New Barker Blog)
New Zealand First was in coalition with National in 1996-98 after the first MMP election.
Asked in the final TV debate if Clarke, a very proud New Zealander who was born on a farm (which for a non-Maori is as Kiwi as it gets) Brash said she wasn't.
In New Zealand I've talked to people who think the best way of helping Labour is by voting Green, National by voting Act (presumably because their leader has no Hyding place) or helping the Greens by voting Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party.
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 Farming without subsidies in New Zealand
In 1982, Federated Farmers of New Zealand (New Zealand’s leading farmer organization) submitted to the government an economic position paper declaring that controlling inflation, rather than compensating farmers for the consequences of inflation, should be the national priority.
New Zealand has a strong interest in trumpeting subsidy-free agriculture, of course, since NZ farm exporters are at a disadvantage on the global market with respect to their subsidized counterparts in Europe and the US.
New Zealand was a founding member of the Cairns Group (named for Cairns, Australia, the location of the group’s organizing meeting), a consortium of agricultural trading nations that banded together in the mid-1980s to lobby for liberalization of trade rules on agricultural products.
www.newfarm.org /features/0303/newzealand_subsidies.shtml   (2528 words)

  
 Parliamentary Election Act of Denmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The mayor is chairman of the election committee.
If the election committee finds that a registration should be declared invalid on account of material deficiencies, the election committee shall inform the candidate or the voter stated in the registration form accordingly without delay.
Expenses defrayed by the constituency municipality in advance, shall be distributed by the chairman of the election committee among the municipalities of the nomination district in proportion to the latest published population figures.
www.folketinget.dk /BAGGRUND/00000048/00232622.htm   (14365 words)

  
 New Zealand
New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy, with executive authority vested in a 20-member cabinet led by the Prime Minister.
The Police Commissioner, appointed by the Governor General, is the chief executive of the police force and reports to the Minister of Police.
In the most recent general elections, held in July 2002, the Labor Party won 52 of 120 parliamentary seats and formed a minority government with the Progressive Coalition Party (2 seats), with support from the centrist United Future Party (8 seats); Helen Clark remained Prime Minister.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27783.htm   (6684 words)

  
 LLRX -- An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Legal Information 2002
Margaret Greville is the Law Librarian at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.
Butterworths Annotations of New Zealand Statutes (Wellington: Butterworths, 1929-).
Law students and young lawyers in New Zealand are usually encouraged to begin by looking first at commentary, especially a standard current textbook on the subject, or the relevant section in a legal encyclopaedia, before proceeding to primary sources.
www.llrx.com /features/newzealand.htm   (4824 words)

  
 New Zealand History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Father of the atom, Ernest Rutherford, is awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry and New Zealand’s population reaches one million.
The influenza epidemic killed an estimated 8,500 in New Zealand.
New Zealand Parliament adopts the Statute of Westminster recognising New Zealand as a fully independent state, although owing allegiance to the British King.
workmall.com /wfb2001/new_zealand/new_zealand_history_index.html   (1066 words)

  
 Preamble
The Governor-General appointed by the Sovereign is the Sovereign's representative in New Zealand.
The Parliament of New Zealand is the same body as that which before the commencement of this Act was called the General Assembly (as established by section 32 of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) and which consisted of the Governor-General and the House of Representatives.
The officer heretofore known as the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library shall be known, as from the commencement of this Act, as the Parliamentary Librarian.
www.cmseducation.org /wconsts/nz.html   (1905 words)

  
 New Zealand general election 1990 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 1990 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 43rd term.
Labour was re-elected in the 1987 elections by a slightly reduced margin, and the internal disputes continued.
The number of seats being contested was 97 — this was the same as in the previous election, which had the largest number of seats for any Parliament until that point.
new-zealand-general-election-1990.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (553 words)

  
 New Zealand Index
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New Zealand Office For The Community and Voluntary Sector
New Zealand Women In South Africa In 1971-72
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 Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
Ballot Access News index is a non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations of folks trying to put candidates on the ballot in the USA
General Elections in the Republic of Northern Cyprus, December 2003
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm   (1393 words)

  
 ASSDA - Studies - D0596: New Zealand election survey, 1987
According to the 1981 census, about 8 per cent of New Zealand households are without telephones, and therefore were excluded also.
Vowles, J. 'Nuclear free New Zealand and Rogernomics: the survival of a Labour government'.
Class and the 1987 election in New Zealand'.
assda.anu.edu.au /studies/D0596.html   (462 words)

  
 New Zealand general election, 1990 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This internal dissent was off-set somewhat by new social legislation and a strong stance against nuclear weapons.
Labour was re-elected in the 1987 election by a slightly reduced margin, and the internal disputes continued.
The date for the 1990 election was 27 October.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_general_election,_1990   (559 words)

  
 New Zealand Ministers
Until 1974 her title was Queen of the United Kingdom, New Zealand etc. She has been Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952.
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)

  
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New Zealand households listed in telephone directories in areas in and adjacent to, the following main centres: Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill.
According to the 1981 census, about 8 percent of New Zealand households are without telephones, and therefore were excluded also.
The number of interviews obtained from each section in each telephone directory was directly proportional to the percentage of the total NZ population living in the area covered by it.
www.massey.ac.nz /~nzsrda/nzsrda/study024.htm   (511 words)

  
 New Zealand Greens
In May 1990 the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed from a merger of the former Values party and new Green groups,  and contested the 1990 general election six months later, winning 7% of the total vote although it was not able to stand candidates in all electorates.
Rod has been a Green Party MP since 1996, and has been involved in green politics since the 1970s.  Among a number of  interesting occupations, Rod was the New Zealand co-ordinator of Trade Aid Importers.  He has years of community involvement  including being a current trustee of the organic garden city trust.
Sue is the Deputy Chairperson of the Health Select Committee in the New Zealand Parliament.
www.global.greens.org.au /new_zealand_greens.html   (851 words)

  
 GlobaLex - An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Sources of Legal Information Guide
Legal Research and Writing in New Zealand, 2d ed, by Margaret Greville, Scott Davidson and Richard Scragg, Wellington NZ, LexisNexis (NZ) 2004.
For general open access to the decisions of the courts there has been little progress since the 1st incarnation of this overview more than 5 years ago.
The New Zealand Government's web pages:  Navigation around these pages is generally straightforward, except that information about government departments is rather obscurely tucked away under a button labelled 'agency contacts'.
www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/New_Zealand.htm   (2584 words)

  
 Rex Honey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Rex Honey, "Federalism and Change," in R.J. Bennett, editor, Local Government in the New Europe in the 1990s (London: Belhaven press, 1993), pp.
Rex Honey and J. Ross Barnett, "Volatile Stabilaity: New Zealand's 1987 General Election," in R.J. Johnston, et al., editors, Developments in Electoral Geography, (London: Routledge, 1990), pp.
www.uiowa.edu /~geog/faculty/honey.htm   (736 words)

  
 Trip to New Zealand in 1987
There was a New Zealand AAA office contiguous with the back of the bakery, and the baker dragged me back there and said I could take all the maps I wanted.
My new friends were anxious to pick, since the previous day's rain had been preventing them from earning a living.
Charleston used to be one of New Zealand's biggest towns during the Gold rush days.
www.wholeo.net /Caroling/leo/leoNZfm.html   (15489 words)

  
 Political Science Journal - Articles on News Media | Victoria University of Wellington
Atkinson, Joe, 'Mass Communications, Economic Liberalisation and the New Mediators', 41:2 (1989), 85-108.
Leitch, S., 'Restructuring the Public Sector: A Case Study of the Discourse of the New Zealand News Media', 43:1 (1991), 20-29.
Rudd, Chris, 'Newspaper Coverage of the New Zealand 1987 General Election', 41:1 (1989), 35-47.
www.vuw.ac.nz /pols/Journals/political-science/political-science-newsmedia.aspx   (98 words)

  
 polling Report » 2005 New Zealand Election
Nick Anstead on Tracking the US Mid Term Elections
David Boothroyd on Tracking the US Mid Term Elections
The views expressed on UK Polling Report are those of the author alone, and do not reflect the views of YouGov plc
ukpollingreport.co.uk /blog/foreign-polls/2005-new-zealand-election   (104 words)

  
 Political Science Journal - Details of Back Issues | Victoria University of Wellington
Below, you will find details on back issues for volumes 39-47, covering the period of 1987 to 1995.
The Gender Gap and Women Party Activists in New Zealand'
Business Political Activism and the Emergence of the New Right in New Zealand, 1975 to 1987'
www.vuw.ac.nz /pols/Journals/political-science/political-science-back-issues.aspx   (658 words)

  
 Office of the Auditor-General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Auditor-General has 2 business units — the Office of the Auditor-General (this site), and Audit New Zealand.
Annual report for the year ending 30 June 2006
Advertising expenditure incurred by the Parliamentary Service in the three months before the 2005 General Election
www.oag.govt.nz   (67 words)

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