This Sunday, communities nationwide will be tag of Herceptin. Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch, link arms and women with early HER2 + breast cancer. All funds raised in will be leading New Zealand fashion designer Liz Mitchell, a businesswoman, registered nurse and mother of two Jacqueline Harrison.

Ms Harrison is determined to reduce the stress on 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; Life #x2019;s initiative. #x2018;It is fantastic to see Jacqueline way, #x2019; said Ms Burgess.

#x2018;Skip for Life is another Life events will begin at 10am, Sunday April 22 in the - The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is considering launching legal action to stop APN from outsourcing its subediting - a decision confirmed today by the media giant. The EPMU believes APN has failed to properly consult the union and its members over its decision to centralise and outsource its subediting operations to Australian-owned contractor Pagemasters. See.

.. - Photography enthusiasts will be spoiled for choice when the 4th annual Auckland Festival of Photography opens from June 1 until June 24.

A record number of exhibitions will be on offer at this year’s festival. Pictured is the work of nine year old Willow Harfleet who is the youngest photographer in this year’s festival. See.

.. - The head of an international organisation researching learning disabilities has welcomed the Government’s announcement yesterday that it recognised dyslexia as a significant barrier to learning.

International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities president, Professor James Chapman says the change is overdue and will give a boost to New Zealand’s credibility in future research. See..

. - Simon Ingram, from the Elam School of Fine Arts Doctoral programme at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI), has been awarded a University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis. His thesis, Painting As Machine, is an inquiry into the conversation between art and contemporary technology.

.. It includes machines made from Lego robotics and generic constructional materials to paint autonomously in oil paint with a brush, and paintings that use cellular automata as a method to govern their decision making process.

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- Pacific media research and monitoring will gain a significant boost with the creation of a new Creative Industries Research Institute at AUT University. The institute features five major research initiatives, including the establishment of a Pacific Media Centre, which has several projects under way. See.

.. - Len Brown writes: Recent decisions on funding applications highlight how redundant this standalone committee is in the Manukau City Council.

Two groups, Crosspower and TYLA applied for funding to the committee. I strongly support both groups in the community. Crosspower did not receive funding on the basis it was already funded by Government.

TYLA was funded. Both groups are in fact funded by Government. See.

.. - Today in Wellington's Manners Mall, Oxfam New Zealand staged an uneven tug of war to symbolise unequal trade deals being imposed on Pacific nations.

A small crowd gathered a three-strong Pacific team battled six EU 'negotiators' over trade goods. As expected, the Pacfic squad had to be satisfied with a moral victory. Prior to the event Oxfam Executive Director Barry Coates met with EU and German officials to express Oxfam's concerns.

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- UK based public service management expert David Coats – from The Work Foundation - is in New Zealand for a little over two weeks as a guest of the Department of Labour (DOL) and the Public Service Association (PSA) to discuss his views on how to improve the public service. Scoop caught up with him at the PSA offices in Wellington this morning for a wide ranging interview on what is wrong and right with public service management and communication with the public. See.

.. Wammo interviews Daniel McSwain from and discovers thousands of web-radio people, orgs, and groups will be shafted out of business if the US Congress continues with its royalty burden policy.

95bFM Audio: Mikey Havoc talks to Nat leader John Key about an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act aimed at banning BZP + Key's relationship with Green MP Sue Bradford and the Section 59 bill! - 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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- 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. 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.

Scoop's Kevin List on Radio Active delivers his weekly New Zealand news roundup. This week, redundancies and promos… is TVNZ's left arm talking to its right? Scoop's Selwyn Manning 95bFM's Jose Barbosa discuss: Niue and New Zealand's relationship.

Also how the Virginia Tech tragedy reminds us here in NZ that after 10 years floating about Parliament, gun law reform (sparked by the Aramoana tragedy) has yet to be tightened? Wammo catches up with Scoop's Kevin List - Scoop moves office and Kevin List sits in an empty room; editorial staff at TVNZ and APN are cut; how naff is the new TV One branding?; Anthony Flannery is the new head of news at TVNZ; England is booted out of the long drawn out cricket world cup.

.. 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.