Immigration has had a very low profile in these elections, mainly because Labor and Liberal immigration policies are essentially bipartisan.
The ALP talks of a gross intake of around 80,000 per year, and the Liberals
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Despite predictions by the media pundits of "blood letting rivalry" on the conference floor, the first national Alliance conference of New Zealand's five alternative parties held in Mount Wellington was a tremendous success.
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fm48 = Immigration and the environment: is Australia overpopulated?The long-held image of Australia has been that of a sparsely populated country rich in resources. But in the context of a global ecological crisis,
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Sweet Honey In The RockThe music was sweet, dark, rich. I hadn't heard Sweet Honey live before, and I wasn't a great fan. But when I heard them live at the Convention Centre in Sydney, I came out dazed. I had never before
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The plunge in the Tokyo stock market has dealt the banking sector some of the hardest blows. Banks' stock prices have fallen roughly twice as much as the average. Bank shares have fallen 28% in April alone. Shares in the
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Japan has been the "economic miracle". Everywhere it turned, it conquered markets; its "recessions" would have been considered semi-booms by most of its competitors. From 1986 to 1990 it outgrew every other OECD nation every
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According to a December 6 New Zealand National Business Review poll, the alternative parties Alliance led by the NewLabour Party is now ahead of both the old Labour Party and the conservative National Party in the polls. The
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According to a recently published New Zealand National Business Review Insight poll, the Alliance of third parties, of which the NewLabour Party is a leading component, leads the National Party government in voter popularity.
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AUCKLAND — A new alliance is forming that could totally transform the character of New Zealand politics. Delegates to the NewLabour Party's second national conference, held here over the October 25-28 long weekend, voted
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"The reporters [used to] come to me and say 'What makes you so strong? You are alone, you're left with the children, you're in and out of jail. What makes you so strong?'. It's determination. It is knowing that
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In The Hidden Face of Eve, Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi cautions Western women against contrasting their situation with that of women in the Arab world and acquiring a "feeling of superior humanity, a glow of