... average farmer only $3000 a year for "agricultural methane and nitrous oxide" Key tells farmers to stop whinging disagrees there was too much political interference over Maori Television's (MTS) bid to broadcast the free-to-air Rugby World Cup games Key says the RWC farce is not political he will not meet ...

... ;For all intents and purposes New Zealanders will be able to see on a free to air basis those big matches including the All Blacks, the semis and finals and the opening ceremony." Maori Television, TVNZ and TV3 put in a joint bid, backed by the Government, to cover all the World Cup free to air matches. NZPA

... 5 December 2009 - After Friday's rain, the day dawned in Auckland with just a few light clouds. His Holiness started a busy day with an interview with Maori television presenter Mike King. After this he held an audience for the Mongolian community in New Zealand. Aproximately 70 members of Mongolian families received advice about the preservation ...

... Affairs Minister Pita Sharples to put the case for Maori to be given preferential rights to radio spectrum released by ... be freed up by the closure of analogue television between 2013 and 2015. The ministry is consulting on whether Maori should be given special rights to some of that spectrum, which is likely to be used to broadcast digital television and support new "4G" cellphone and ...

... all existing licence for frequencies used for radio broadcast, television broadcast, telecommunications, microwave links or any other service ... say Riyaz visited Streamcom after being made aware of the IT company by Maori TV. Streamcom maintained Pacific ... carry out a marketing campaign because people already have antennas and have their television sets tuned for the current frequency used by Fiji ...

Remember the coloured graphs on television before the last election? The ones that showed Labour with lots of friends – New Zealand First, the Greens, the Maori party and Jim Anderton; and National with just Act and Peter Dunne? ... Labour as a coalition partner. The options for 2011 look like National plus the Maori Party and/ or Act on one side or Labour and the Greens ...

... from publishers Mallinson Rendel website: Bub Bridger is part Maori, part English, half Irish. For over thirty years she has ... "A Christmas Wish". 'I'm part Maori, part English, half Irish. I don't know anything ... stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. She has also written for radio and television and acted on the stage. She was a member of the highly regarded women’s ...

... party. This past week or two the iwi leadership group has had more. Its lever is the Maori party’s votes Nick Smith needs for his revised ... so on. So expect more “greenwash” articles, television documentaries and social network chatter. A brand has to earn ... and Smith should stop “horse-trading” with the Maori party and join with ACT to repeal the ETS. He says National ...

... Orchestra (lineup unlisted and includes strings players), "Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song)", "There's Something About ... "Jamboree Jones" and "More" live for her CBS television series. The tracks will be released by Capitol Records on Garland' ... Ago Today In 1929 - Dick Clark, disc jockey, television host and producer, is born 1940 - Lucille Ball, motion ...

... ; This is really cemented by my explanation here of my initial dislike of BSG before watching the television show, which seems to be a common experience.  I think when it comes down to it, I’m happy to disregard the theme of a ... , Dixit, Endeavor, En Garde, Ghost Stories: Chuck No-Rice, Last Train to Wensleydale, Maori, Pack & Stack, Pandemic: On the Brink, Peloponnes, Poison, Ra: The ...

... I got to meet Mr. Creed's cats, visit a dragon's lair, appear on television, teach in school, celebrate Thanksgiving for the first time ever, and meet a whole lot of my ... I speak German like a native, French like a rusty fourth-year university student, and a little Maori and Latin. Oh yes, and I was homeschooled - or rather, as Cathi puts it, unschooled - and blame my writing craze on the ...

... . DAY-JOB OFFICE – MORNING Our WRITER is drafting a blog post about the state of his film and television watching when he looks up and -- -- Opposition Leader HON. PHIL GOFF walks through the door. WRITER (brightly) Kia ... Who. And gets to namedrop so. Mr Goff is leader of the Labour Party. And a hongi is a traditional Maori greeting done by pressing one’s nose to another’s.