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Hundreds to get taxpayer-funded stomach stapling  Dominion Post  Click>>>	P makes addicts human crime waves  Christchurch Press  Click>>>
Selling Our Kids Short  Muriel Newman  Click>>>	As you like it: a sexy census  Dominion Post  Click>>>	The benefit and the doubt  Waikato Times  Click>>>
Police close email investigation  NZ Police  Click>>>	Earth calling Hager - get a grip please  Fran O'Sullivan, Herald  Click>>>	Securing Our Nation's Safety  Dept Prime Minister & Cabinet  Click>>>
Fat chance of balanced view on obesity issue  John Roughan, Herald  Click>>>	The money pit that is the Mission-On website Bernard Hickey  Click>>>	Unsolicited Electronic Message Bill: Second Reading Rodney Hide  Click>>>
Defending the Front Line  Cameron Bagrie, ANZ Bank  Click>>>	Maori badges childish  Herald  Click>>>	Alarming figures on teenage crime  Herald  Click>>>
Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis  Prof Stephen Baskerville  Click>>>	Parliamentary Question Gordon Copeland  Click>>>	Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Balance  Robin Grieve  Click>>>
Emissions Trading  Charlie Pedersen  Click>>>	Emissions Trading Bill  NZ Government  Click>>>	NZ Emissions Profile  Ministry of the Environment Press  Click>>>
GDP: March 2008 Quarter  Statistics NZ  Click>>>	The Maori Seats in Parliament  Professor Philip A. Joseph  Click>>>	Rocky Ride &  Pounamu Stone flies first class to satisfy protocol Christchurch Press  Click>>>
Inflation Calculator Reserve Bank  Click>>>	NZ's Spending Binge Phil Rennie  Click>>>	2007 Annual Report Tertiary Education Commission  Click>>>
Polling Trends Good News for National Dr Therese Arseneau   Click>>>	Green Party Conference Co-Leader Speeches Russell Norman - click>>> Jeanette Fitzsimmons - click>>>	Neglect May Cost Labour Herald  Click>>>
June Monetary Policy Statement  Reserve Bank  Click>>>	NIWA Scientists have become propagandists  NZ Climate Science Coalition  Click>>>	Environmentalism as Religion Michael Crichton  Click>>>
Petition Project  OISM  Click>>>	Brr! The climate cools for reality-deniers  Melanie Phillips  Click>>>	35 Inconvenient Truths  Lord Christopher Monckton  Click>>>
400 Prominent Scientists Dispute Man-Made Global Warming Consensus  US Senate Report  Click>>>	UN Global Warming Forecast Violates Accepted Principles  NCPA  Click>>>	Global Warming: Experts’ Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts  Dr K Green, Prof S Armstong  Click>>>
Climate Panel on the Hot Seat  Dr Sterling Burnett  Click>>>	Committee Report on the ‘Hockey Stick’ Global Climate Reconstruction  Dr Edward Wegman  Click>>>	Testimony to Senate Committee  Dr Michael Crichton  Click>>>
Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment Ministry for Environment  Click>>>	Briefing to Incoming Government 2005  Treasury Click >>>	Budget 2008  Key Facts for Taxpayers Treasury  Click>>>
How UN structures were designed to prove human CO2 was causing global warming  Dr Tim Ball  Click>>>	Senate Testimony>>> Global Warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence Dr Richard Lindzen  Click>>>	NIPCC Report  Dr Frederick Seitz  Click>>>
35 Inconvenient Truths  Lord Christopher Monckton  Click>>>	Gore Financially Invested in Climate Change  CNS News  Click>>>	IPCC Wins Nobel Prize  Dr Vincent Gray  Click>>>
Emissions Trading Scheme Must Proceed  Parliamentary Commissioner for Environment  Click>>>	Kiwi Climatology  Wall St Journal  Click>>>	Politics in School on Trial  Dr Muriel Newman  Click>>>
Problems of Wind Power: Killing Birds  NCPA   Click>>>	Green v Green  The Guardian - the rejection of wind farms  Click>>>	The Biofuels Backlash Wall Street Journal  Click>>>
Impact Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme  NZIER  Click>>>	The Clean Energy Scam  Time Magazine  Click>>>	Global Warming Rage Lets Global Hunger Grow  Telegraph  Click>>>
Children in Poor Families: Does Source of Family Income Matter?  Ministry Social Development  Click>>>	Tribal Trouble  Time Magazine  Click>>>	Gangs in New Zealand  Ross Kemp  Click>>>
How Social Inequalities Damage NZ Children Child Poverty Action Group  Click>>>	Women's Participation in the Labour Force  NZ Treasury  Click>>>	Prevalence & Persistence of Low Income Among NZ Children   Ministry Social Development   Click>>>
2007 Crime Statistics  NZ Police & Statistics NZ  Click>>>	NZ Crime Statistics  NATION MASTER Website Click>>>	International Crime Victim Survey  Dutch Government  Click>>>
Local Government Repeal of Race Based Representation Bill Debate Hansard  Click>>>	Office of Treaty Settlements Website  Progress of claims Click>>>   Waikato River details Click>>>	OTS Website  Details landbanked properties  Click>>>
Seats "would ensure Maori role"  Herald  Click>>>	Consultation with Maori  Royal Commission Auckland Governance Click>>>	Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland Governance - SUBMISSIONS   Click>>>
Why Airport Decision is an Unaffordable Luxury  Bernard Hickey  Click>>>	Quarterly Business Confidence Survey  NZIER  Click>>>	Big, Not Better  CPS  Click>>>
Overseas Investment Act   NZ Legislation  Click>>>	Balance of Payment & International Investment Position  Statistics NZ  Click>>>	Germany Scraps Plan to Raise Ethanol Content For Cars  Bloomberg  Click>>>
Gore Raises $5 billion  for Investment Fund New York Times  Click>>>	How Should We Pay For Our Kyoto Liability?  Business NZ  Click>>>	Tax Calculator  NZIER  Click>>>
The Impact of Taxes on Economic Behaviour  Fraser Institute  Click>>>	Why is Australia So Much Richer than New Zealand? Phil Rennie CIS  Click>>>	Dismal Productivity Figures  Roger Kerr  Click>>>
The Struggle for a Free Economy & Society in Russia  Dr Yegor Gaidar  Click>>>	Emissions Trading Bill  Click>>>	An Inconvenient Price  George Will NEWSWEEK  Click>>>
Cullen's Insult Cause for Disquiet  Karl Du Fresne   Click>>>	Maori in Australia  Te Puni Kokiri  Click>>>	All Bets Are Off On Monaco Fran O'Sullivan HERALD   Click>>>
Who is Fascist?  Thomas Sowell   Click>>>	Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work?  Click>>>	Climate Change Bill Castalia   Click>>>
Fact Sheet re Ngati Porou Heads of Agreement   Click>>>	Summary of Ngati Porou Foreshore Agreement  Click>>>	Foreshore & Seabed Ministry of Justice Website   Click>>>
Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry Registered Master Builders Federation  Click>>>	Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry NZ Reserve Bank  Click>>>	2008 Demographia Survey Hugh Pavletich & Wendell Cox  Click>>>
The drug addled road to a child's abandonment Stephen Cook  Click>>>	Inter-Agency Plan for Conduct Disorder & Severe Antisocial Behaviour Ministry Social Development  Click>>>	Show Me The Child Listener  Click>>>
CO2: Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Time Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski  Click>>>	Is Climate Change Bad News & Should NZ Bother To Fight It? Richard Mead ISCR  Click>>>	Great Global Warming Debate - a bunch of hot air Garth George, Herald  Click>>>
Open Letter to Secretary General of the UN 100 Scientists  Click>>>	100 Scientists Full List  Click>>>	Jobs at Risk Greenhouse Policy Coalition  Click>>>
Housing for the Future Prime Minister  Click>>>	NZ Emissions Trading Scheme Castalia Strategic Advisors Click>>>	Rich has become a four-letter word John Roughan NZ Herald Click>>>
Affordable Housing Bill Introduced Minister of Housing  Click>>>	NZ Stuck as other Nations Prosper Dominion Post  Click>>>	Special Report: 24 hours in violent, angry NZ Sunday Star Times
Matching Family and Work Commitments OECD Report  Click>>>	Appropriations Bill Second Reading Debate  Click>>>	Electoral Finance Bill NZ Law Society  Click>>>
Electoral Finance Bill Report from Justice & Electoral Select Committee  Click>>>	Electoral Bill Still An Outrage NZ Herald Editorial  Click>>>	Changes to Electoral Finance Bill in Detail NZ Herald  Click>>>
Fire and Ice Business and Media Institute  Click>>>	Environmentalism as Religion Michael Crichton  Click>>>	I Was On The Global Warming Gravy Train David Evans  Click>>>
New School Curriculum Ministry of Education  Click>>>	Why Our Schools Are Failing - available on-line Dr Kevin Domnnelly  Click>>>	Talking Tough  TVNZ Sunday Documentary  Click>>>
NZIER Australia: Lucky Country for Kiwi Migrants  (& on-line wage calculator) Click>>>	Flat World, Flat Taxes Daniel Mitchell Click>>>	Tackling the Tax Myths Stephen Hickson Click>>>
United Nations  Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Click>>>	British High Court Judgement Stuart Dimmock vs the Secretary for Education Click>>>	Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Award for Albert Gore and IPCC Click>>>
MMP and Public Policy Graeme Hunt Click>>>	Maori Indpenedence Website Curriculum Resource Click>>>	Curriculum change shifts emphasis from 'what' to 'how' Sunday Star Times Click>>>
Interview with Al Gore Grist Magazine Click>>>	High Court Ruling: Inaccuracies in An Inconvenient Truth Click>>>	Failures in Retail Investment Markets:  Aust-NZ Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee  Click>>>
IPCC 4th Report 2007 Summary and Analysis Viscount Christopher Monckton Click>>>	Kyoto Protocol Loophole costs $6 billion New Scientist Click>>>	All Cost, No Benefit Competitive Enterprise Institute Click>>>
Prime of Helen Clark Colin Espiner, CC Press Click>>>	What's Next? Yellow Stars? Matthew Hooton  Click>>>	Sickness & Invalid Benefit Information MSD Website Click >>>
What Price Carbon? The Economist  Click >>>	To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager 3 years of pumping water by foot Times-on-line Click >>>	Nuclear Dawn The Economist  Click>>>
Heat Treatment By Simon Terry, Listener Click >>>	Kyoto Protocol  United Nations  Click >>>	Independent Inquiry into Local Government Rates  Click >>>
Widows Fury NZ Herald  Click >>>	Speech to the National Press Club John Key  Click >>>	English strategy a win-win John Armstrong NZ Herald  Click >>>
Liberalism v Islamism Melanie Phillips  Click >>>	Sharia-Compliant Investing  Tariq Ashraf  Click >>>	Youth Justice Statistics in New Zealand: 1992 to 2006 Ministry of Justice Report  Click >>>
Boy's 111 'parent assault' call unfounded  Eastern Courier Click >>>	Inquiry into the Future Monetary Policy Framework  by NZ Business Roundtable  Click >>>	Sandy Springs Incorporates, Inspires New Wave of 'Private' Cities in Georgia by Leonard Gilroy Click >>>
Hardship Report  by Ministry of Social Development Click >>>	The Impact of Welfare Reform  by Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation Click >>>	Breakthrough Britain  by Conservative Party Social Justice Commission Click >>>
From Happiness to Hell  NZ Herald Click >>>	Doctor Decries Staggering Level Child Abuse  Herald On Sunday Click >>>	To Stabilise & Protect  by John Howard Australian Prime Minister Click >>>
Vale hope in outback hellhole  by Noel Pearson Click >>>	From Hand Out to  Hand Up  by Noel Pearson Click >>>	Inquiry into Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse  by Anderson & Wild Click >>>
Cultural Conceptualisation of Child Abuse and Responses to It: An Aboriginal Perspective  by Dr Sue Gordon Click >>>	Children at increased death from maltreatment and strategies for prevention  by Child, Youth & Family Click >>>	Reserve Bank needs sharper focus  Brent Oliver, DomPost Click >>>
Where the Flat Tax Goes from Here  by Hoover Institute Click >>>	Housing Costs in  the CPI  Reserve Bank Click >>>	The Czech Republic  by Economist Click >>>
Cabinet Paper on Budget 2007 Click >>>	2005 Budget Speech Click >>>	The Great Global Warming Swindle by WagTV, UK Click >>>
Global Warming as Religion and not Science  by John Brignell. Click >>>	Freedom, Not Climate, is at Risk  by Vaclav Klaus Click >>>	Death by Disconnection, NBR Insight. Click >>>
Tracking the Obesity Epidemic. New Zealand 1977 - 2003. Click >>>	NZ Food NZ Children. Key results of the 2002 National Children's Nuitrition Survey. Click >>>	"Trial by Trickery"  Book Review by Steven Price NZ Law Society "Law Talk"  Click>>>
Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Conviction of Authur Allen Thomas  Click>>>	Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science US Dept of Justice  Click>>>	A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 Columbia University  Click>>>
The NZ Draft Curriculum  Ministry of Education 2006  Click>>>	System fatally Flawed   By Peter Joyce  Christchurch Press Click>>>	Britain's Cultural Revolution By Melanie Phillips Click>>>
Deaths in NZ Attributable to Second Hand Smoke Ministry of Health 2000  Click >>>