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Environment Canterbury (ECan) regional councillors voted last night to consider nuclear power as part of planned debates and workshops on energy options for the region.

“Nuclear power is an absolute no-brainer for Canterbury and New Zealand,” said Mr Donald.

“Even the prospect of a nuclear power plant will immediately undermine our clean green image, to the detriment of tourism industry and primary produce exports.

“It is particularly offensive for Labour Party member Dr Ian Robertson, the mover of the motion, to suggest that the Chernobyl disaster did not kill ‘a great number’ of people. Reputable independent studies show that eight thousand clean-up workers died within five years, that there has since been a 12-fold increase in thyroid cancer among Belorussian women and a marked increase in leukaemia across Europe among children who were in the womb at the time. In terms of casualties, Chernobyl was a bigger tragedy than September 11.

“I find it disturbing that otherwise intelligent councillors have voted to investigate nuclear power. It is particularly surprising that two Labour Party councillors who are seeking re-election, Richard Budd and Sir Kerry Burke, have supported this motion that contradicts their ‘2021’ coalition’s vision statement. Helen Clark will not be amused.

(2)An act falls within this subsection if it is intended to cause, in any 1 or more countries, 1 or more of the outcomes specified in subsection (3), and is carried out for the purpose of advancing an ideological, political, or religious cause, and with the following intention:


(a)to induce terror in a civilian population; or


(b)to unduly compel or to force a government or an international organisation to do or abstain from doing any act.

"The warning by a senior civil servant of the inevitability of civil war if this bill is enacted is not hyperbole," she said in a prepared statement. [Supporting Piripi's earlier threats].

When National MP Dr Wayne Mapp asked her if she seriously believed civil war was inevitable in Ngati Kahu's district if the bill was passed, she said: "I think that is clearly stated in this paper, which is authorised by Ngati Kahu."

Dr Mapp then asked what she meant by civil war. She said: "The sorts of things that I thought everybody knew about, that happen in Palestine and Israel.

MacMillan was sentenced to 14 years in prison after 17-year-old Jayne Maree McLellan's body was found face down in a stream in the Dunedin suburb of Abbotsford in November 1988.

She had extensive knife cuts to her face, neck and hands, her nipple was nearly bitten off, her lower face was shattered and her skull had multiple fractures from being hit with a concrete post. A river stone had been shoved down her throat to stop her screaming.

A blood-covered MacMillan, 38, was found hiding in nearby bushes. He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison, and was eligible for parole after 10 years.

A man who raped and killed a Dunedin teenager 15 years ago has won $1200 damages for being refused a copy of a letter that claimed he had lured a young girl into a world of perverted sex and bestiality while he was on parole.

“God is saying it is time to be a people of the Kingdom.”

At Destiny we have gone beyond church in the traditional sense – we are now churches who are powerfully influencing other churches and our communities for good.

Destiny is taking the church into the Kingdom mandate.

He concludes with some advice for the busybody zealots: "Leave peaceful adults alone. If they offend thee, then just go elsewhere!"

Anti-and Pro-Civil Unions marches on Parliament
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Staff who disagreed with Annan's educational or disciplinary policies complained that they were bullied or shifted to different positions. An auditor-general's report slammed as imprudent the purchase of life memberships of the Air New Zealand Koru Club for Annan and her husband. A $16,705 payment over three years for Annan's clothing and personal grooming was judged "inappropriate".

Then there was the fact that Annan and her husband, Ron, were major shareholders in Cambridge International College, a private institution offering a one-year programme to foreign, fee-paying students.

A conflict of interest, cried critics. Ron Annan was the director of Cambridge High's international students' programme and Alison regularly made trips overseas to scout for potential students for Cambridge.

When it was put to him that it might put potential investors off New Zealand, Dr Brash said he was just presenting a factual argument. "This government is damaging our prospects and it's important everybody knows that."

Asked if he thought it likely that his remarks would make someone who was thinking of expanding into New Zealand think again, Dr Brash responded: "I don't know."

"I think they would at least ask some questions of their advisers (about employment law and other problems). It's better to find out now than find out after they've made a commitment of money because that will make them very bitter and disillusioned."

Organised by ACT deputy leader Muriel Newman, the conference was about getting people off welfare into work, and Duff's brief was to speak on how welfare was destroying Maori.

But in an off-the-cuff speech that matched his strongest past outbursts against Maori leadership, Duff said the issue was not so much welfare reform as reform of Maori losers.

"You don't know how the blame is being shifted on to you," he said to the 100-strong audience. "By shifting the blame on to white people and on to anyone but themselves, their problems continue to worsen.

"Everyone's too afraid to say it's the Maoris that are the problem."

Duff said Maori radio stations carried "an endless parade of losers" blaming Pakeha for their problems.

The result was a ten-fold increase in welfare dependency in just 30 years – from fewer than 35,000 beneficiaries right up until the early 1970s, to over 350,000 today.

In 1973, 31 years ago, we had 12,000 sole parents. Today we have 112,000.

In 1983, 21 years ago, we had 8,000 on Sickness Benefits. Today we have 43,000 – over five times as many.

In 1983, 21 years ago, we had 18,000 Invalid beneficiaries. Today we have 72,000, four times as many.

If you believe Labour, you would think that unemployment is no longer a problem. Yet, in 1973 – 31 years ago – there were fewer than 2,000 people unemployed. Today there are more than 40 times as many.

Welfare reform is an issue I am passionate about – not only in an intellectual and political sense – but, because in the mid 1980’s, after 18 years of marriage, I found myself as a sole mother with two young children on welfare. I’ve lived the day-to-day existence. I’ve seen the wasted lives. And I’ve experienced the seductive grip of a system that begins by helping – but ends by destroying self-esteem, confidence and hope. I escaped; many others did not.

Piripi ".. think(s) it has significant implications for Maori public servants who come from communities who expect them to advocate for them."

9. RON MARK to the Minister of Police: Is he satisfied that police are sufficiently resourced in order to respond to all facets of crime?

11. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Police: Which police districts operate quotas or performance measures where officers are expected to issue a certain number of tickets every hour or day they are on traffic duty, and does he agree with this system?

'The sight of black shirted youth from Destiny Church marching through central
Auckland on Sat 7th against civil unions and other progressive law reforms is
appalling' says Des Smith of the Civil Union Bill Support Society


'It is disturbing to see these children being used by their bigoted and intolerant parents. How will they grow up in today's world? Will they be the future gay bashers? Should they discover that they themselves have a homosexual orientation will family pressures lead them to consider suicide? I hope not but the risk is there'

'The march is reminiscent of the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany. How ironic it is that they should be using the well known Martin Luther King slogan "Enough is Enough". King stood strongly for justice and equality and opposed intolerance'

'Is the Destiny rally at parliament later this month going to provide a further
opportunity for children to be misused?

If so it will be very evident that Destiny followers do not espouse the same wholesome family values as thousands of other heterosexual or gay and lesbian families throughout NZ'.

A judge has been accused of sending the wrong message to men who assault their spouses by throwing another lifeline to a wife-beating overstayer.

The allegation has been levelled at District Court Judge Philip Recordon after indications yesterday that he would consider letting Tuvaluan overstayer and kidney patient Senee Niusila walk free on charges of assault and threatening to kill his wife.

There has to be frank and open debate on what New Zealand is about, and on the futures we can share together. Partisan and sectional politics on these issues will get us nowhere. People who sand-bag themselves into die-hard positions will not be part of creative and positive solutions. (An easy and simple enough conclusion - but needed to be said)

Michael King was passionate about New Zealand and about the emergence of a unique New Zealand identity. He rightly pointed out that for most New Zealanders, regardless of their ethnicity, home is here, Aotearoa New Zealand.

He argued that just because one group has been here longer than another does not make its members more New Zealand than later arrivals, nor does it give them the right to exclude others from full participation in national life. (A bit of name dropping never hurts)

(And most particularly, this)The Treaty was open-ended, not a straitjacket. It was a preliminary agreement to an on-going relationship under the same law and government. The terms of that relationship have changed over the past 164 years.

The National Party has dug itself into a bunker and thinks there’s a race war going on. National is the North Korea of New Zealand politics. They're spreading fear by threatening to go nuclear on race relations. Such a party cannot create a New Zealand that is unified and at peace with itself.

"Maori people will never accept this action of the Crown as legitimate and we will fight against it creating a festering sore in New Zealand society,"
"This country could be brought to its knees by internal conflict and perhaps civil war over the coming decades as a direct result of this bill."