The first of the planned series of regional hui on the Government's fiscal envelope proposals, is due to take place in Rotorua tomorrow Local organisers have said they aren't expecting any trouble but one of the activists at the Waitangi Day events says he plans to go to go the Rotorua hui/BRONWEN EVANS
The Public Health Commission today released a blueprint for the future of Māori health, setting health targets for Māori into the next century/STEPHEN HEWSON Head of the team which produced the He Matariki strategic plan is Selwyn Katene/pre-rec by JONATHAN
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TODAY IN AUSTRALIA: MAIN ITEM: Fed Govt drops plan for carbon tax New Zealand doctor Stafford Burke and his wife working amongst the poor in Haiti/JUDY LESSING
Rain in Hawkes Bay but they still need more/Hawkes Bay Fed Farmers' Mark Warren/BRONWEN EVANS
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Multi party talks on employment have just begun in the Beehive with National, Labour and Alliance spokespeople meeting to examine how best to fight unemployment/MARTIN GIBSON
+ I/V with Minister of Employment, Wyatt Creech,
In the United States cheating hearts are also big business on Valentine's [illegible] MARIE CRESSWELL
Food prices stayed stable last month ...but that's because the falling price of meat balanced out the rising price of fruit and vegetables/BRONWEN EVANS
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Fiji's ruling Political Party reported to be in the middle of a power struggle, with Prime Minister Rabuka reported to be facing an unprecedented level of opposition from backbench MPs within his own party/BRUCE HILL of RNZI
Oscar Wilde finds his place in Westminster Abbey/KEITH CHALKLEY
WORLD UPDATE: Martin Gibson
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