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A preview of the Government’s economic package to be announced tomorrow.
Jim Anderton is one of the few Labour MPs who has suggested alternatives to Rogernomics. Anderton is interviewed. Speaker: Jim Anderton (Labour MP).
The final part of a three part series on the Cartwright Cervical Cancer Inquiry. The future of medical research in the wake of the enquiry is examined. Speakers: Prof Colin Mantell (National Women’s and Middlemore Hospital), Dr Robyn Briant (NZ Medical Council), David Wills (National Director, Nurses Society),
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Millionaire Sir Frank Renouf says he is facing financial ruin after separating from his wife of two years, Susan Renouf.
On the share market relentless selling sent the Barclays Index down even further today, it dropped 32 points.
More then twenty million dollars will be spent in the next two years trying to stop young people going on the dole. The Government has just released details of a package aimed a keeping youths in school until they have found jobs.
Ruth Richardson says the Government economic package to be announced tomorrow will include higher GST and lower income and corporation tax but she says that won’t be enough and revealed her own economic package. Speaker: Ruth Richardson (National Finance Spokeswoman).
The United Nations seems to have washed its hands of the latest chapter in the Rainbow Warrior affair and says it has no plans to intervene in the evacuation of Alain Marfart from Hao island.
In the United States Gary Hart says he is back in the presidential race.
The violence in the Israeli occupied Gaza Strip became worse today.
Four men, three of them Mongrel Mob members, were arrested in Parliament grounds today after being asked to leave by the Speaker. The men were trying to get prison access for Maori elders.
Worldwatch:
A report on Gary Hart re-entering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Speakers: Gary Hart (Candidate), Governor Mario Cuomo (New York Governor), Governor Bruce Babbit (Candidate), Rev Jesse Jackson (Candidate).
Iraqi jets today attacked another shipping target in the Persian Gulf shortly after an Iranian frigate attacked a Greek oil tanker leading to a dramatic rescue.
South Koreans went to the polls today.
Surgeons in Canada are using lasers in heart surgery. Speakers: Dr Wilbert Keon (Ottawa Heart Institute), Dr Alan Wasserman (George Washington Hospital).
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