celebrate NZ Music Month in May 2006, Auckland City a musician or singer aged between 13 and 16 years, you have recording of your own original work. All musical genres are Panmure Community Library on Saturday, 26 May when the Computer programmers often leave 'Easter Eggs' in software - special features or surprises that can be revealed by some secret combination of events. Some early Unix systems, for example, responded to the command "make love" with "not war?
". More recently, the 1997 version of Excel contained a flight simulator. And then there's the 'Exploding Lara Croft' trick.
In honour of the recent holy season, I present the list of little-know local easter eggs. See..
. - Scoop Audio / Text / Images: The Premier of Niue has invited all Niueans living in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney to consider returning home. He encouraged them to do so, before family land they abandoned over the past 30 years is lost to them.
The call came this morning during an official welcome to the Governor-General of New Zealand and Niue, Anand Satyanand, who is currently visiting Niue. See..
. New Zealanders in London when the Rainbow Warrior was sunk may know something of what Ahmed Zaoui felt after the bombings in Algiers this week, that left over 30 people dead. Suddenly, the television screen carries images of home, but in a truly unsettling light.
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- National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour should stop the "shadow boxing" and put its secret plans for election spending reform on the table. "For more than a week now, Labour has been shuffling its feet on what may or may not be in the bill which it says will be tabled in Parliament by June. If Labour is confident its proposals are 'fair and transparent' then it's time for them to come clean with the public.
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"David Benson-Pope needs say whether it is him or his department that is misleading the public over the long promised work on 'beneficiary clusters'," says National's Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. Ms Collins is referring to a report in the Dominion Post which revealed that 'nearly a year after the Government promised a crackdown on clusters of beneficiary households, officials have admitted no reports or statistics were ever produced.- See.
.. TVNZ's decision to make nearly sixty news and current affairs staff redundant is a short-sighted move that poses a major threat to New Zealand journalism, say the unions that represent journalists.
The proposal includes the total closure of the news reference library, the closure of Wellington's 'Sunday' office and a serious reduction of camera operators in Wellington and Auckland, and smaller cuts across almost every other news and current affairs division. See..
. - ACC's $5 million "pat on the back" has come back to bite it with a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority being upheld and ACC required to pull its "Covered" television advertisements in their present form says ACT Deputy Leader Heather Roy. See.
.. - New Zealand Defence Force personnel have been patrolling the streets of Dili in an effort to help Timor Leste conduct its Presidential elections in peace and stability.
United Nations Police and Timorese security forces are providing a presence at polling booths throughout the country to ensure voting is conducted in a fair and orderly manner. See..
. - Minister Responsible for the Law Commission Mark Burton welcomed the Law Commission report, Reforming the Law of Sedition, which was tabled in Parliament today. "I commend and thank the Law Commission for its comprehensive report.
The report sets out the history of the common law relating to sedition; examines New Zealand sedition law; discusses sedition in other jurisdictions; and considers whether New Zealand still needs a law of sedition", Mark Burton said. See..
. Thomas Yadegary the Iranian chef who cooked for Bill Clinton and who the government locked up indefinitely awaiting his signature on papers that would see him deported back to Iran, has been released from prison. Mr Yadegary appeared in the Auckland High Court Thursday morning and was later released.
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ALSO: Global Peace and Justice Auckland - Thomas was released after a High Court decision was made late yesterday which resulted from a judicial review application heard in December. This judicial review was of an earlier District Court decision to keep Thomas incarcerated. See.
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Mr Teangauki Toma was trying to rescue family members when he was killed. High Commission officials in Honiara and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials in New Zealand have been liaising with family members and will continue to provide assistance to them. against a controversial bill that, if passed, will see official records of births, deaths, marriages locked away from public eyes – shifting this information out of reach of researchers, historians, many genealogists and others.
Journalist and author, Graeme Hunt (pictured), says this government bill encroaches on well established principles held sacred within open and free democracies. See..
. Significant attention is now focusing on what Australia, New Zealand and the United States are planning in an attempt to take the uncertainty and instability out of the Pacific region. Scoop today releases footage (from November 06)) of NZ prime minister Helen Clark, US assistant secretary of state Christopher Hill and others discussing Pacific security; NZ/US free trade; how the US can make diplomatic use of NZ's anti-nuclear laws; and a renewed commitment by the US to increase its presence in the Pacific.
Kate Gorgeous delivers her Best of the Week Interviews...
Featured this week are: Scoop's Kevin List on Govt Minister Steve Maharey saying the F*** word in Parliament; and Canty Uni's Dr Linda-Jean Kenix, about media's role in informing public debate. Wammo talks to Govt minister, Ruth Dyson about swearing in the debating chamber; Ruth's visit to the UN Disabilities Convention in New York; and the new minimum wage. Scoop's Kevin List joins KiwiFM's Wammo to deliver his weekly News Roundup.
Items discussed: Report into dodgy cops; and Christine Rankin… what was she famous for and does her opinion really count? Opposition is mounting against a controversial bill that would see official records of births, deaths, marriages and registrations locked away from public eyes. 95bFM interviews journalist and historian Graeme Hunt and Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker on this issue.
Wammo presents a feast of informative interviews from his morning show. So sit back and listen to the Wammonator quiz Russell Brown on whether musos are being bled to death by internet downloads; Gerry Brownlee on giving your kid a crack; and an Aussie doctor who says we are feeding our kids too much Ritalin.
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