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	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The population of New Zealand is mostly of European descent, with the indigenous Māori as the largest minority.
		Elizabeth II is the Queen of New Zealand and is represented in the country by a non-political Governor-General.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the then-colonies of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (4235 words)

	★ New Zealand Information. Information about NZ
		New Zealand is somewhat isolated in the ocean and consists of two main islands (prosaically known as the North Island and the South Island) and numerous smaller islands.
		New Zealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer, (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.
		New Zealand is world-famous among glider pilots for hosting the 1995 Gliding World Cup at Omarama in North Otago near the centre of the South Island.
	www.mkiwi.com /New+Zealand+information (2474 words)

	Democracy and Stability in New Zealand Politics
		New Zealanders are very confused about what they want from their system of governance.
		New Zealand has inherited an adversarial political culture; a culture in which political purity is maintained by doing deals with no-one, and by parties "nobly" stepping aside from government if they haven't got the numbers to "implement their manifesto".
		Tau Henare and the other MPs who left New Zealand First for the purpose of making a Government from this Parliament, and for the purpose of completing their own half-finished programmes, should be praised for taking responsibility where the major Opposition party will not.
	pl.net /~keithr/rf98_DemocracyStabilityNZ.html (1328 words)

	New Zealand First
		Some new aspirants are putting their hands up for a shot at the big time and some of the old players are trying to reinvent themselves.
		New Zealand First is the only party in Parliament that is not beholden to a specific interest or lobby group.
		New Zealand First stands alone as the only political party that can be forthright and blunt about what is best for New Zealand without fear of retribution from any particular lobby group.
	www.nzfirst.org.nz /content/display_item.php?t=1&i=1547 (2153 words)

	Political Jobs in New Zealand - Politics in New Zealand - Political Resources in New Zealand
		National people want a shared future for New Zealanders, where everyone enjoys the benefits of a modern economy, where effort is rewarded, entrepreneurs and innovators are championed and high education standards are the norm.
		ACT New Zealand is one of the many third parties in New Zealand.
		From the web-site: "ACT New Zealand is a modern liberal party that promotes an open, progressive and benevolent society in which individuals have inherent freedoms and responsibilities.
	www.politixgroup.com /nz.htm (623 words)

	Regional: Oceania: New Zealand: Government and Politics - Open Site
		New Zealand has a parliamentary system of government closely patterned on that of the United Kingdom and is a fully independent member of the Commonwealth.
		Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister, who is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties holding the majority of seats in parliament.
		New Zealand law has three principal sources--English common law, certain statutes of the UK Parliament enacted before 1947, and statutes of the New Zealand Parliament.
	open-site.org /Regional/Oceania/New_Zealand/Government_and_Politics (363 words)

	GN Online: Power politics in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I reply that New Zealand did have a revolution, but because we are a good-natured democracy the revolution was a peaceful one.
		New Zealand has low unemployment, low inflation, acceptable interest rates, good economic growth, a stunning financial surplus and debts are being paid down.
		This time the New Zealand First Party will decide who will be in the government as its leader, Winston Peters, a charismatic, conservative rebel who infuriatingly refuses to age, is commanding headlines with a campaign against immigrants, foreigners and refugees.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=170842 (834 words)

	Scoop: Parliament
		The new government is bad news for unions and bad news for New Zealand workers, Green Party Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford told the CTU Biennial Conference in Wellington this morning.
		New Zealand will finally tackle one of the most important health issues of our time -getting junk food out of schools and improving the nutrition and health of the next generation, Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says.
		New Zealand First says that despite all the hype, rhetoric and money directed at ‘closing the gaps’ between Maori and non-Maori, the depressing reality is that Maori are still languishing at the bottom of the heap, as shown in a new report.
	www.scoop.co.nz /news/parliament.html (1833 words)

	Politics in New Zealand, by Richard Mulgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An introduction to the academic study of New Zealand politics by a well-known and respected political scientist.
		Politics in New Zealand covers the main political institutions in the context of New Zealand society.
		Readers are introduced to the key concepts and academic controversies surrounding New Zealand politics as well as to various general theories of the state, including pluralism, public choice market liberalism and marxism.
	www.nzbooks.com /nzbooks/product.asp?sku=mulgan93 (157 words)

	Pot politics in New Zealand
		New Zealand is a pastoral dream, a vestige of colonialism, the Queen of England's gargantuan sheep ranch.
		Stories of cannabis in New Zealand reach to the unknown heart of Maori legends, hang in gossamer folds from the step where old Kuia, the elder women of the tribe, exhaled their pipefuls of pot to stream off through the palm and eucalyptus.
		New Zealand growers report mass rip-off artists, which seem to have developed into a subculture of their own, complete with trained dogs, and teams of foragers who scour the bush looking for other people's plantations to harvest.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/1330.html (5764 words)

	Weblogs New Zealand » Politics
		Is it Kiwis (all New Zealanders) or Iwi (15% of New Zealanders).
		New Zealand has a plan for world domination that is so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox.
		New Zealand was also one of the last places on earth to be inhabited and developed and as a result, we still have a lot of pristine nature left compared to other western countries.
	www.weblogs.co.nz /?cat=3 (2821 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Not since New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant its female citizens the vote in 1893 have competing perceptions of women loomed so large on the political landscape of this South Pacific nation of 3.7 million inhabitants.
		As the new prime minister and leader of the ruling conservative National Party, Shipley becomes the country's first-ever female premier, with New Zealand the only nation in the world right now where both major parliamentary parties are led by women.
		A former political science university lecturer from Auckland, the country's largest city, she chose not to have children in favor of pursuing personal political ambitions that were nurtured in the left-wing idealism of the early women's movement of the 1960s.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1997/11/07/intl/intl.1.html (870 words)

	New Zealand First
		It is an axiom of politics in a modern democracy that the centre of gravity of the electorate is found in the middle ground.
		New Zealanders are being left with nothing to hold in common — nothing to identify with.
		Because the Brash vision is for a New Zealand characterised by inequality and division and that is why ACT is disappearing from the political landscape.
	www.nzfirst.org.nz /content/display_item.php?t=1&i=1508 (1703 words)

	Oxford University Press - New Zealand Politics
		The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History is not a history of the Tribunal or the modern Treaty claims process; rather, it is concerned with the various conceptual and methodological issues that have shaped Tribunal narratives over the past two decades.
		Among the new issues to emerge is the inclusion of the Treaty in a large range of legislation, greater recognition by the Crown of its duty to recognise the Treaty, and the transformation of the claims process.
		Cultural and national identity have changed dramatically in New Zealand during the latter part of the twentieth century, with the emergence of policies on biculturalism, the development of new immigrant communities and the increased focus on the Treaty of Waitangi and the settlement of Treaty claims.
	www.oup.com.au /content/general.asp?ContentID=1074 (768 words)

	Traveling to New Zealand - Planning and Preparation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New Zealand is known for its awesome landscapes, lush forests, amazing wildlife, and pleasant climate.
		Because of New Zealand’s unique politics, people of all cultures are respected and listened to.
		Many people enjoy taking a tour of New Zealand, so that they make sure they see and do all the most important offerings the country boasts of.
	www.newzealandgetaways.com (228 words)

	Books New Zealand :: Politics
		Politically, racially, economically and morally the nation has found itself divided by a variety of issues — Maori property rights, the Treaty...
		In New Zealand, democracy means more than simply voting in a general election every three years.
		New Zealanders ended the 1990s by electing a Labour-Alliance government led by Prime Minister Helen Clark.
	www.books-newzealand.co.nz /xcart/home.php?cat=13&js=n (452 words)

	POLITICS: New Zealand Polls Stir up Maori Issues
		In that speech, Brash railed against ''the dangerous drift towards racial separatism'' and complained that there was a ''grievance industry'' exploiting concerns over the implementation of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Maori leaders and British colonisers, guaranteeing Maori ownership of their lands, forests and fisheries.
		While the seven seats in the New Zealand parliament, allocated to Maori people, have traditionally gone to the Labour Party, the fledgling party may now win three or four of the reserved seats.
		In early September, a brochure, authored by the previously unknown group, New Zealand Advocates for Timely Healthcare, was pushed into letter boxes around the country, attacked Labour's health policy and urged a vote against it.
	www.ipsnews.org /news.asp?idnews=30258 (1036 words)

	New Zealand Election Study - Books Based on NZES Data
		Based on the most extensive surveys of public opinion undertaken in New Zealand, it delves into the dynamics of an election campaign dominated by two closely-matched women leaders; the return of Maori voters to their historic Labour preference; the emergence of the Greens; and the developing foundations of the Labour-Alliance coalition.
		New Zealand's historic first MMP election was held on 12 October 1996.
		The date was also a political and constitutional turning point; for at the same time voters had rejected the first-past-the-post electoral system in favour of MMP, a form of proportional representation that would re-shape the structure of future party competition.
	www.nzes.org /exec/show/books (1962 words)

	New Zealand Election Study
		New Zealand's fourth election under MMP was held on September 17, 2005.
		New Zealand's third election under MMP was held on July 27, 2002.
		Voters' Veto: The 2002 Election in New Zealand and the Consolidation of Minority Government, edited by Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Susan Banducci, Jeffrey Karp, and Raymond Miller and published by Auckland University Press.
	www.nzes.org (462 words)

	Welcome to the Political Studies Department at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
		Welcome to the Political Studies Department at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
		As well as discussing leadership and the major institutions of government (parliament, prime minister, cabinet, the public service) the course considers the roles of political parties and interest groups, elections and voting, and the impact on the electoral and political systems of MMP (including coalition formation and government).
		The political significance of the Treaty of Waitangi and the place of Maori people within the political system are examined.
	www.arts.auckland.ac.nz /online/politics107 (355 words)

	Ancient Celtic New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sites name "Ancient Celtic New Zealand " is taken from the book by Martin Doutré whose work has provided the wellspring from which it began.
		In N E Brazil new finds indicate the presence of people from the African continent 50,000 years ago and more and more earthworks and circles are being discovered yearly in the USA.
		Everywhere, it would seem, apart from New Zealand the boundries of history are receding...
	www.celticnz.co.nz (455 words)

	Insert Page Title \| Victoria University of Wellington
		The New Zealand Politics Research Group was established in 1990 to encourage research and discussion on New Zealand politics.
		Members of the New Zealand Politics Research Group may also subscribe to the 'New Zealand Politics Research' electronic mailing list, set up at Waikato by Jack Vowles.
		A certain amount of political news, commentary and debate will be welcome, so long as it is interesting, well-considered and reasonably thoughtful.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /pols/Research/staff-research/nz-politics-research-group.aspx (305 words)

	NewsRoom
		Air NZ Shares - Shares in Air New Zealand fell 3 percent yesterday after the airline announced nearly a third of its engineering jobs may be lost.
		NewsRoom.co.nz is a powerful information tool designed to help subscribers keep track of the daily news agenda as it unfolds, and pinpoint information specifically related to their sphere of interest.
		If you are interested in general industry news, you can click on the "Industry" wire to browse the latest news.
	www.newsroom.co.nz (472 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Politics in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This revised edition of a classic introduction to the New Zealand political, constitutional, and electoral system covers recent elections and the constitutional and legal changes that have attracted the attention of the international community.
		Political parties and special-interest groups, the governmental hierarchy, and the public sector are discussed with information on how these different influences affect the political scene.
		Peter Aimer is a professor of political studies at the University of Auckland.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1869401719?v=glance (496 words)

	Race returns to haunt New Zealand politics. 02/03/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New Zealand's Maori, portrayed in the film Whale Rider as a warm, rural people living on a paradise-like beach, face a sharply contrasting reality as race returns to haunt the countries politics.
		A Polynesian race making up 14 per cent of New Zealand's four million people, Maori are being portrayed as enjoying special privileges and lacking a distinct racial identity.
		New Zealand is engaged in a passionate debate over ownership of the seabed and foreshore with the Labour Government planning to nationalise what, until now, had either been in Indigenous title or unclear title and ensure coastline access for all.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1057348.htm (646 words)

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