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	New Zealand general election 1984 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The election was also the only one in which the New Zealand Party, a protest party, played any substantial role.
		The New Zealand Party, founded by property tycoon Bob Jones, was launched primarily to oppose the Muldoon government (although it did not support Labour).
		The party was, however, placed second in the electorates of Remuera (an affluent part of Auckland), Kaimai (a region in the Bay of Plenty), and Tauranga.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/New_Zealand_general_election_1984 (1032 words)

	New Zealand general election 1996 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The 1996 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament.
		New Zealand First's position as "kingmaker", able to place either of the two major parties into government, was a significant election outcome.
		The Alliance and New Zealand First, both of which held two seats each in the old parliament, increased their representation to 13 and 17 seats, respectively, as a result of the change.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/New_Zealand_general_election_1996 (1771 words)

	New Zealand general election 1984 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The 1984 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament.
		The party did, however, place second in the electorates of Remuera (an affluent part of Auckland), Kaimai (a region in the Bay of Plenty), and Tauranga.
		In two of the Maori electorates, the Mana Maori Movement gained second place, but the party did not gain a substantial number of votes elsewhere.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_zealand_general_election_1984.html (1024 words)

	WYSIWYG NEWS - 19 April 2002
		Four New Zealand soldiers and a Nepalese soldier attached to the New Zealand Battalion Group have died in East Timor since the peacekeeping operation began in September 1999.
		New Zealand in turn is being accused of "wholly inappropriate" behaviour by the IRB, which praises Australia for its "outstanding" proposal, which "held an attraction, a professionalism and a logic which were irresistible.
		Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says New Zealand's present labelling system is weak enough as it is. She says most New Zealanders want to improve the rules, but there is a risk the US will want to remove GM labelling.
	www.mail-archive.com /nznews@nz.com/msg00018.html (10533 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
		Letting New Zealand's dollar trade freely allowed the country to run an independent monetary policy and develop its own inflation policy, said Brash, who was Reserve Bank governor from 1988 to 2002, when he quit for a career in politics.
		New Zealand's economy expanded 4.8 percent last year, while the jobless rate fell to a record low 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter.
		New Zealand's dollar, which bought 70.71 U.S. cents on Aug. 12, reached 74.66 cents on March 17, the highest since it began to trade freely.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=aLT76yYuDlEc (783 words)

	WYSIWYG NEWS - 3 September, 2005
		Her findings provide new information in understanding the role of specific genes in disease and the possibility of developing new drugs.
		Andy Knackstedt from Land Transport New Zealand says hundreds of people are maimed or killed by drunk drivers and the jailing sends a clear message to the community that it will not be tolerated.
		Dove is revealing a new campaign featuring women with a bit of shape following research showing 71 percent of New Zealand women claim the media and beauty advertising have the most negative impact on the way they feel about their looks.
	www.mail-archive.com /news@wysiwygnews.com/msg00069.html (6625 words)

	Beehive.govt.nz - Wise Up - Issue no #38
		It shows that by the time they were six, the new entrants in the study were reading and writing close to the levels achieved by six year olds across the country.
		New Zealand’s involvement with a major e-learning project for schools was discussed at a meeting of Australian and New Zealand Education Ministers in Auckland last week.
		New Zealand has joined the Australian Learning Federation Project, which is developing digital learning objects for schools in Australia and New Zealand.
	www.beehive.govt.nz /ViewNewsletter.aspx?DocumentID=14805 (854 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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		New Zealand Herald Political Editor John Armstrong calls the Treasonous Communist Witch on her snap election gambit.
		I realize the TV news media like TV3's red flag carrying political "analyst"-come-manipulator are the type of people that really determine the outcome of general elections as they tell people who to vote for through the repeated use of left-wing propaganda in their broadcasts.
		This is hardly news, middle New Zealand has long held contempt for tall poppies, and electing the type of government that has ruled for the past three years is a prime example of how it takes pleasure in cutting them down.
	www.bengoodger.com /weblog/archives/2002_06.shtml (2179 words)

	Informat.io on Margaret Pope
		He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history.
		Lange entered the New Zealand Parliament as the Labour MP for Mangere, a working-class Auckland electorate with a large Māori population, in 1977 in the Mangere by-election.
		After consultations with Australia and after negotiations with New Zealand broke down, the United States announced that it would suspend its treaty obligations to New Zealand until the re-admission of United States Navy ships to New Zealand ports, characterising New Zealand as "a friend, but not an ally".
	www.quaest.io /?title=Margaret_Pope (1916 words)

	OneSquared's Presentation of Brian Harmer's WYSIWYG New Zealand News: 13 January, 2002
		New South Wales fire authorities say at the moment they no longer need a second contingent of New Zealand firefighters to help battle bushfires in the state.
		New figures out today show nearly half of the 12,000 long term unemployed people placed in stable jobs in the last financial year are back on the dole.
		New Zealand agricultural workers who fancy a spell away from the southern hemisphere winter are being encouraged to take a look at a new Internet site which could get them work in the UK.
	wysiwygnews.com /2002_News/2002January13.html (7173 words)

	Liberating the wealthy : the legacy of New Zealand Labour leader David Lange
		Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange died from renal failure in Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital on August 13.
		A new breed of entrepreneurs, engaged by the government to advise on asset sales, plundered the public sector, seizing essential assets—telecommunications, railways, banks, a steel mill, forests—at bargain basement prices.
		New Labour, subsequently joined with three other minor “left” parties to form the Alliance, which collapsed in 2002 after supporting the Clark Labour government’s decision to dispatch New Zealand troops to Afghanistan.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/lang-s27_prn.shtml (2544 words)

	OneSquared's Presentation of Brian Harmer's WYSIWYG New Zealand News: Sun Dec the 5^th 1999
		He was clearly well regarded in his electorate, and alone of all the candidates in the Maori seats, he came close to preventing a Labour landslide.
		The instant anyone who is known to be in New Zealand falls for it and begins to promote such a scheme, they are reported to the Commerce Commission and a few successful prosecutions have resulted.
		The New Zealand defence of the America's Cup has run into controversy with revelations the socks for its red socks fundraising campaign were not made in New Zealand.
	wysiwygnews.com /1999_News/1999December4.html (3685 words)

	Scoop: Parliament
		Spending by international visitors to New Zealand has increased to a record $6.6 billion in the year to March 2006, up 8.2% on the previous year, Tourism Minister Damien O'Connor said today.
		News that residents of two upmarket Christchurch suburbs are campaigning against a proposed bus service through the area has disgusted Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
		The new medal replaces the British Polar Medal and continues the tradition begun in 1904 of recognising the significant contribution...
	www.scoop.co.nz /news/parliament.html (1888 words)

	pl.net exital 19-8-2003
		An exiled Burmese MP, Teddy Buri, arrived in New Zealand yesterday to seek this country's support for pressure on the Burmese military regime to release democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and restore democracy.
		He is in New Zealand for six days with Dr Myint Cho, who spent many years as a medical doctor in the liberated areas and refugee camps along the Burmese-Thai border and is now director of the NCUB's office in Sydney.
		New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff, who met with a delegation of Burmese refugees in Auckland in June, was among those pressing for action when he attended a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) in Cambodia later that month.
	www.pl.net /9.1notices/exital.htm (455 words)

	What was new on the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand website 2005
		New Zealand First has mostly voted against the ERA, reforms to ACC and most other related legislation, while United Future has been even worse.
		A new independent survey shows almost twice as many Aucklanders think public transport is the solution to congestion as think more roads are the answer, validating the Green Party's plan for Auckland transport problems.
		9 Jun: New Zealand is poised to outlaw the inhumane practice of allowing parents to beat their children after Sue Bradford's Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill was pulled from the ballot.
	www.greens.org.nz /office/whatsnew2005.asp (4086 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia
		Don Brash, National Party leader and former central bank governor, said Lange was ``a remarkable man who played a vital role in transforming New Zealand into an internationally competitive, vibrant economy,'' according to a statement e-mailed to Bloomberg News.
		Lange, who was also foreign minister, crafted anti-nuclear legislation that banned nuclear armed and powered warships and aircraft from New Zealand ports.
		Born in Otahuhu, Auckland, in 1942, Lange was educated at the local Fairburn Road primary school, Otara Intermediate and Otahuhu College.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aLT76yYuDlEc&refer=asia (785 words)

	Auckland machete killer now in Samoan cabinet - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
		One of those convicted of manslaughter was a 20-year-old apple picker then known as Pat Leota, who was in New Zealand on a three-month visitor permit.
		A party spokesman told the newspaper that they had not checked his background, leaving that to his electorate to do.
		He was outed last week when, in a letter to the editor, a correspondent wrote to the newspaper saying he was shocked to find that a convicted criminal deported from New Zealand was now in cabinet.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3727282a11,00.html (431 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		New Zealand uses a voting system called "MMP" (Mixed Member Proportional), a system that originated in Germany (I think) and was voted in via referendum in the 1993 election.
		Since they won an Electoral seat, they get a 5% allocation of the 120 seats however, which they can fill from their list (aside from the seat won by the electoral candidate, no matter where they appeared on the list)
		Thankfully, 15 years of right wing politics has left an indelible mark on New Zealand society, and some of the freedoms gained in the Revolution can never be taken away.
	www.bengoodger.com /weblog/archives/week_2002_06_16.shtml (1067 words)

	ACT News - The Letter
		If a voter lives in Otara, is aged 28, and gives their occupation as cleaner, they are likely to be a Labour voter.
		New Zealand society today is made up of a 60/40 split favouring socialism, therefore Labour will win every election until we get the next recession.
		Most of new immagrants vote Labour and after every election another tide of National/ ACT voters head overseas, mostly to Australia.
	www.act.org.nz /news-article.aspx?id=27261 (1372 words)

	Scoop: Peters - Who Will New Zealand First Go With?
		Meanwhile, New Zealanders are witnessing the sordid courtship of one or the other of the minority parties.
		Every New Zealander needs to know that a vote for New Zealand First is a vote for more secure borders and an immigration program in New Zealand ‘s interests.
		Every New Zealand household needs to know that a vote for New Zealand First is a vote for more secure homes, streets and communities.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0509/S00180.htm (3743 words)

	Signs of the Times - Murdetr, Racism, Homosexuality
		Fears in Germany that a new generation of right-wing extremists is being created by record unemployment and growing social divisions have been intensified by figures confirming a surge in violent incidents against foreigners and Jews.
		The number of New Zealand children contracting gonorrhoea after sexual abuse is increasing at an alarming rate, according to child health specialists.
		The new figures from Starship hospital are the latest in a shocking series of revelations in recent weeks about the affect of abuse on children.
	members.fortunecity.com /omegatimes/moral_old_14.htm (18713 words)

	Māori Television Newsletter
		As up-to-date results filter through, the special will be spliced with entertainment from some of New Zealand’s finest acts and interviews with well-known guests from the entertainment and sporting worlds.
		This Tongan powerhouse was picked up by a touring Balmain Tigers squad in New Zealand when playing for New Zealand under 16s and went on to claim a scholarship to the prestigious Keebra Park High School on the Gold Coast.
		This year, he was able to put any doubt aside as he played for New Zealand against Australia as one of the youngest league players ever to do so.
	www.maoritelevision.com /newsletter/issue79/index.htm (1211 words)

	ShareTrader - TAMA HAIRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Shane Jones of fisheries fame looks to be the new man to catch the Maori vote with a high list place.
		She drew back, quickly, whispered a sweet or sour nothing in his ear, and headed for the safety of the stage.
		Otara community worker Jim Sinclair approached Tamihere, pumped his hand, and said: "Congratulations for being so staunch!" Later, Sinclair said, "Well, John has got a perfect right to air his opinions.
	www.sharetrader.co.nz /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21601 (2242 words)

	Lewis chases Manukau East seat for Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It has 40 electorate candidates ready to contest the election.
		When I was in the force we had one car for all of Otara, and one covering Manukau and Howick — it’s not sufficient.”
		In his criticism of the government Lewis said: “It is simply not addressing organised crime and drugs — the next generation is wrecked.
	www.times.co.nz /cms/news/2005/03/printer_art10003666.php (370 words)

	Destiny NZ : Next Generation Minded
		Destiny New Zealand leader Richard Lewis says the party is upbeat and will take its time to consider its future following the recent General Election.
		Destiny New Zealand wishes to thank its members and supporters for their loyalty and commitment over the last 2 ½ years.
		At the time the Maori Party was using the venue to launch their election campaign and took exception to the Destiny New Zealand billboard.
	www.destinynz.org.nz /content.asp?cont=article&id=167 (621 words)

	Electorate information
		These are the candidates seeking your electorate vote.
		Advance voting is available for people who find it difficult to get to a polling place on election day.
		Otara Library, Otara Town Centre, cnr Baird Rd and Newbury Rd Opening days and hours are listed in the 2nd and 3rd columns below.
	www.elections.org.nz /electorate-information/electorate_24.html (406 words)

	The MP and the Tinnie House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pubdate: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 Source: Herald On Sunday (New Zealand) Copyright: 2006 New Zealand Herald Contact: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4035 Author: David Fisher THE MP AND THE TINNIE HOUSE A drug supermarket has been operating with almost total impunity next door to the electorate office of Labour MP Ross Robertson.
		The tinnie house has been open for at least six months and been subject to a string of complaints to police from people living nearby.
		Newly appointed Otara station commander senior sergeant Andrew Berry confirmed a drug-related arrest had been made at 5/4 Fulton Cres last month but would not comment specifically on the property.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v06/n451/a10.html?4742 (425 words)

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