Angela d’Audney presents the news. [Foreign news - weapons bound for Fiji found by Sydney customs agents are enough to start a small war] New Zealand has given Israel a diplomatic snub. Foreign Affairs Minister Russell Marshall has told our New Zealand ambassador to delay presenting his credentials. The move is aimed at showing New Zealand’s concern at the way Israel is handling Palestinian unrest in the occupied territories. [Foreign news - New Caledonia] Childcare workers around the country went on strike today for the first time, demanding a 15 percent wage rise. Government plans to sell off part of Air New Zealand have moved a step closer. Potential buyers made their bid for shares in the airline late today. Financial and sharemarket news.
Lindsay Perigo presents the issues of the day in depth. The Prime Minister’s department and Finance Minister Roger Douglas moved today to clear up any confusion over the future of the cuts in personal income tax due to take effect in October. At a press conference Mr Lange with what appeared to be a definitive challenge to union rights within the Labour Party. These are founded on the rights of affiliated unions to claim all members in their unions as votes in the Party conference. Unions should have to provide names and addresses of their members, and the delegates that represent them should actually be fully paid up members of the Party.
The Prime Minister gave some hints of this years budget. Rob Neale evaluates the likely shape of this year’s budget.
New Zealand’s eleven lighthouse keepers are to lose their jobs as their lighthouses are due to be automated. By the end of 1991, this country’s last lighthouse will be de-manned.
[World Watch]
Angela d’Audney presents the headlines and the weather.