high price tag of Herceptin. together in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch, their support for women with early HER2 + breast cancer. Liz Mitchell, a breast cancer survivor who has designed a Auckland businesswoman, registered nurse and mother of two Jacqueline Harrison.
Ms Harrison is determined to reduce the breast cancer. #x2018;It is too much to expect women coping with the debilitating effects of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments to organise fundraising as well, #x2019; she said. initiative.
#x2018;It is fantastic to see Jacqueline and her team supporting HER2+ women in this very practical way, #x2019; said Ms Burgess. #x2018;Skip for Life is another wonderful charitable status, presenting a unified voice to call for change, improvement and innovation on behalf of all New formed in November, 2004 when twelve New Zealand breast group. BCAC now has seventeen member organisations and is 1.
to ensure consistent, high quality detection and treatment of 2. to support the prompt and 3. to inform and 4.
to research and promote the provision of patients and their whanau, family, friends and supporters; - Green Party MP Sue Bradford today welcomed National Party leader John Key's offer to play a constructive role in the debate over her s59 repeal Bill, and is offering to attend the National party caucus to discuss any issues that Mr Key and his colleagues have with the proposed legislation. See..
. - Journalists from news organisations across the country have condemned proposals to cut editorial staff at TVNZ and APN at an industry meeting in Wellington. The meeting also called for a major summit this year to address the growing crisis in the New Zealand media.
.. Simon Collins, an EPMU delegate at the New Zealand Herald, says journalists are alarmed at the growing crisis in the New Zealand media.
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Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua has celebrated the end of another hugely successful Kiwi season. Over the course of the 2006/07 season, 112 kiwi eggs were successfully hatched and a further 18 chicks brought in to Kiwi Encounter from the wild, leaving the operation on track to release over 120 kiwis back into their natural environment. See.
.. - The New Zealand economy is at serious risk from the continued rise in the kiwi dollar, said Keith Kelly, chair of the meat and fibre section of Federated Farmers.
"Sheep farmers in particular are being crucified by the high value of the New Zealand dollar, which broke through 74 U.S. cents today and is poised to set a 23 year high.
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New Zealand School of Dance student Pedro Cassiano has won the prestigious Alana Haines Australasian Award. The nineteen year old has just returned from the Auckland-based competition, in which 155 dancers competed for the prize. Pedro also won the Audience Favourite award at the competition.
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The New Zealand Defence Force aircraft loading team which has worked to assist the Solomon Islands aid effort for the past week returned to New Zealand tonight. The eight person team, made up of six Air Force and two Army personnel, has been based in Honiara planning and loading aid supply pellets onto aircraft flying to the areas worst hit by the earthquake and tsunami of April 2. See.
.. - Justice Minister Mark Burton has given his clearest hint yet that the Government may be ready to back down on state funding of election campaigns.
State funding has been proposed as part of a Government package to reform election campaign laws. Greens Co-Leader Russell Norman confirmed Saturday on the TVOne programme “Agenda” that one of the proposals the Government had talked to his party about was paying two dollars for every vote parties gained at an election. See.
.. - The Arts Foundation of New Zealand is saddened by the passing of one of New Zealand’s greatest artists, Don Selwyn, who was selected as a 2007 recipient of the Foundation’s prestigious Icon Awards, which was to be announced at a ceremony later this year.
Image from Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti / The Maori Merchant of Venice. See..
. - As the publicity material puts it: "With his purple hair, green fingernails and daring playfulness schoolboy Jeff added his own colour to the Cuba Street milieu. Early on the morning of the 8th of May 1999, he was found beaten and close to death in a nearby side street.
He died the next day. The boot prints of his two killers remained on his scalp. Jeff was 14 years old.
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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.
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- 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.
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Scoop's Selwyn Manning KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss how Niue and New Zealand want the 20,000+ Ex-Pat Niueans to reconnect with their island and its 1600 people. What's it like on Niue, and can people visit as tourists? Yes!
Wammo and Selwyn Manning talk Niue issues before Selwyn heads off there with New Zealand's Governor-General and two Members of Parliament. 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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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.
.. 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...
(Image: Thomas Yadegary in happier days cooking for former US president Bill Clinton.) See..
. 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.
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.. 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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