TODAY’S BUDGET 2003 SCOOPS
BUDGET 2003: Dr Cullen’s
Speech
BUDGET 2003: Images
BUDGET
2003: Now You See It Now You Don't
NATIONAL:
GREEN PARTY:
NEW ZEALAND
FIRST:
UNITED FUTURE:
ACT:
PROGRESSIVE COALITION:
Non
Parliamentary Political Reaction:
Health Sector
Reaction:
Education Sector Reaction:
Business Sector Reaction:
Other
Reaction
Leading Statements
Education
Housing
Law, Order &
Security
Growth And Innovation
Framework
Economy
Art, Culture And
Sport
Other Stuff - Maori, Immigration, Local
Govt
OTHER SCOOPS
Foreign Takeover Offer
For Tranz Rail
Goff Explains NZ Backing For US
In WTO GM Suit Against EU
Hard News Is
There!
Ben Tripp: The Rise Of Fascism In The
USA
John Chuckman: Seeing What Is Not Through The
Fog
After The War, Refugees In Australia Still
Suffer
Scoop Was In The House
PR
Campaign Launched To Hijack The Question Mark
Katya Rivas's Crusade Of Love
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BUDGET
2003 - 36 Inches Of
Accountability
TODAY’S BUDGET 2003 SCOOPS
------------BUDGET 2003: Dr Cullen’s Speech
- Mr Speaker, this year’s Budget has been prepared amidst the most uncertain political and economic situation internationally for a very long time. See... Michael Cullen’s Budget Speech [1] CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE BUDGET PRESS RELEASES - CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE BUDGET REACTION
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00369.htm
BUDGET 2003: Images
- Images from today's Budget lock up… BUDGET IMAGES: 36 Inches Of Accountability [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00107.htm
BUDGET 2003: Now You See It Now You Don't
- If last year’s budget was boring, this years is practically invisible. Sure, it’s more than a foot thick, but nothing much to get your teeth into. Newspaper headline writers are thus going to have a hard time tomorrow. See... Sludge Report #150 - Budget! What Budget? [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00108.htm
NATIONAL: -
Newsletter - National Party - No Growth Budget 2003 [1] - Bill
English - Lights dim on Labour in 'do nothing' budget [2] -
Simon Power - Govt breaks credit card promise on student fees [3]
- Tony Ryall – Fifty new police will make no difference [4] - Lynda
Scott - No funding boost to health in Budget [5] - Don Brash
- No growth Budget squanders opportunities [6]
- Rod Donald - No confidence in a budget that steals our future [1]
- Tariana Turia & Sue Bradford - Community Internship programme extended [2] - Winston Peters - Immigration Econ Bubble Will Burst Warns Peters [1] -
Winston Peters - Budget Speech Rt Hon Winston Peters [2] - Brian
Donnelly - NZ First Takes Credit For NCEA Budget Funding [3]
- Marc Alexander - Alexander vows to press on with victims' rights [1]
- Peter Dunne - Dunne celebrates concrete Budget wins [2] - Bernie
Oglivy - Ogilvy applauds Budget NCEA funding [3] - Copeland -
Copeland: Tax reform opportunity lost [4] - Rodney Hide - Do Nothing, Go Nowhere Budget [1] - Other ACT - ACT Spokesmen Respond to the Budget [2] - Matt Robson - Continuing To Advocate For No Tertiary Fee Hikes [1]
- Christian
Heritage - Budget Ignores Basic Building Block Of Family Life [1]
- Public Health Association -
Budget lacks clear direction on housing and health [1]
- AUS -Little value placed on university education [1] -
AUSA - AUSA irate at Government’s betrayal of students [2] -
VUSA - Budget 2003 a disappointment for students [3] - OUSA
- Fees Maxima F*#ks Students [4] - NZUSA - Budget signals fee rises Labour’s broken promise [5]
- Wellington Teacher Trainee's Association - Budget will not solve crisis in teaching [6] - OPSA -
Otago Risks Becoming a Backwater Institution [7] -
OPSA - Budget Fails Students [8] - ATSA - Government risks destroying student good will [9] -
ATSA - Meeting the needs of Mâori in tertiary education [10]
- ATSA - Budget Must Match Tertiary Education Strategy [11] -
Education Forum - Tertiary education price controls: just say no! [12]
- Northern EMA - Ambition for NZ's economic success lost [1] -
Federated Farmers - Little in Budget for Farm Businesses [2] - PSA - Investment in public services critical [3] - CTU - Budget Too Cautious– CTU [4] - Auckland Chamber of
Commerce - Could The Surplus Have Created Certainty? [5] -
Federated Farmers - FFNZ Welcomes Budget Biosecurity Boost [6] -
Federated Farmers - FFNZ Welcomes Government Investment in Trade [7] -
Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce - Cullen’s Fourth Budget Deserves High Marks [8] -
Business Roundtable - . Budget Growth Forecasts Ring Alarm Bells [9] -
Business NZ - Steady As It Slows Doesn't Close the Gap [10] -
Auckland Chamber of Commerce -Successful Business – Successful New Zealand [11] -
Auckland Chamber of Commerce - Shifting Sme Costs …. [12] - SPARC - Budget Boost for Sport and Recreation [1] -
Finance Minister - A careful budget for uncertain times [1] - Budget delivers extra $715 million for education [1]
- Budget to boost literacy teaching [2] - Extra $78 million for education info-technology [3] -
Extra funding for quality early childhood ed. [4] -
Budget to lift Maori educational achievement [5]
- Extra $260 million for housing [1] - Third sector and local govt housing encouraged [2] -
Big boost for tenancy services [3] - More, bigger state houses [4] - Modernising state houses [5] - More community houses [6] - Funding for police meth lab cleanup teams [1] - Budget boosts Urban Search and Rescue teams [2] - More police, mobile DNA facility for Auckland [3] -
Security boosted to manage immigration impacts [4] -
Significant boost to New Zealand's border security [5]
- Whole-of-government approach to Economic Dev. [1] -
More support for business incubators [2] - Budget support for industry taskforce work [3] - Trade major economic development priority [4] - Tailored advice for SME businesses [5] - Government delivering big push for small business [6]
- Funding to strengthen state sector [1] - Budget makes big strides in superannuation [2] - SOEs in the “not for sale” era [3] - Boost for trade resources in the Budget [4]
- Budget 2003 - Sport and recreation funding [1] - Extra $40 million to boost Statistics [2] - $1 million extra for iwi radio [3] - Review of Statistics NZ [4] - Treaty of Waitangi settlements momentum [1] - Money for water work [2] - Immigration initiative to target key skills [3]
- RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE:
RRA), the world’s largest operator of short line and
regional freight railroads, today announced that its newly
established subsidiary Rail New Zealand intends to commence
a takeover offer for 100% of the equity securities of Tranz
Rail. See... RailAmerica Positions To Takeover Tranz Rail [1]
MORE: - Rail & Maritime Transport Union - “Rail Return To Foreign Ownership?” [2] - Rail
Freight Action Group - Restructure Of Rail Essential [3] New Zealand has decided to join a World Trade
Organisation disputes case because of our belief in the need
for a rules-based trade system based on transparency and
honest science, Acting Trade Minister Phil Goff said today.
See... New Zealand's position on genetic modification [1]
MORE: - GE Free NZ - NZ Govt’s Anti-EU Action Misguided [2] - GE Free NZ -
Support Grows for Govt to Withdraw from WTO case [3]
- United Future - Dunne: Green lunacy at work again [4] - Greens - GE action burns our European bridges [5] - U.S. WTO Challenge On EU Moratorium [6] -
Sustainability Council - NZ Govt backs US war on European consumers [7] -
Greens -New Zealand joins Washington's GE crusade [8]
- So rumours of the demise of
al-Qaeda have, clearly, been greatly exaggerated . Barely
has victory been claimed in Iraq than murderous millennial
terrorism is back on the agenda. See... Hard
News 14/05/03: Very Big Mess [1] for the latest
compendium of links to Public Addreess see… Hard News 14/05/03 - A Feast of Blogs [2] - You
could fill your lederhosen with razor blades and ride a
bicycle down some steps. You could administer yourself a
boiling-hot clyster of Drano and minced cactus. You could
irritate a pride of lions whilst bedecked in a ham
waistcoat. See... Ben Tripp: The Other 'F' Word [1] -
Everyone, not attached by threadbare ideology or plain old
war profiteering to President Bush's War on Terror, knows
that even on its own terms, it can only fail miserably in a
great waste of lives and substance. See... Policy Through Rose-Colored Pilot's Goggles [1] . See
also... Guest Opinion: The Devil In The Details [2] - "We
chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom",
Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre
wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March
14. See... GLW: Australia Abandons Victims Of Oppression, War [1]
– For yesterday’s question and
answer session See... Questions Of The Day Transcript - May 14 2003 [1] -
EARLIER Q&A - Tuesday's Transcript [2] - It
is growing massive. It has become newsworthy. It can be
devastating. And yet, it's so simple. - We, the people, have
chosen to hijack the question mark. See... Because Bush Won't Answer Questions: "Question W" [1]
- He who has entered
My fold can leave it, only if he opposes My Will. But if he
listens to My Words and delays in carrying them out, he is
not left out, because those who are outside the fold are
those who hurt Me with grave fault. See... Katya Rivas: Do the Things that Please My Father [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00421.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00405.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00400.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00420.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00418.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00412.htm
GREEN PARTY:
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00366.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00367.htm
NEW ZEALAND FIRST:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00386.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00410.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00363.htm
UNITED FUTURE:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00408.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00407.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00406.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00409.htm
ACT:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00402.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00417.htm
PROGRESSIVE COALITION:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00397.htm
Non Parliamentary Political Reaction:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00142.htm
Health Sector Reaction:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0305/S00061.htm
Education Sector Reaction:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00049.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00048.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00047.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00046.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00045.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00043.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00042.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00041.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00044.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00040.htm
[11]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00039.htm
[12]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0305/S00038.htm
Business Sector Reaction:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00146.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00192.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00144.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00143.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00138.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00190.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00189.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00188.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00187.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00186.htm
[11]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00185.htm
[12]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00184.htm
Other
Reaction
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00145.htm
Leading Statements
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00370.htm
Education
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00399.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00403.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00401.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00398.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00392.htm
Housing
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00389.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00396.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00394.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00393.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00391.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00390.htm
Law, Order & Security
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00388.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00380.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00379.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00375.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00413.htm
Growth And Innovation Framework
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00382.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00387.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00385.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00384.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00383.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00372.htm
Economy
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00374.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00373.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00371.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00419.htm
Art, Culture And Sport
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00352.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00416.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00415.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00414.htm
Other Stuff - Maori, Immigration, Local Govt
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00378.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00377.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00376.htmOTHER
SCOOPS
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Foreign Takeover
Offer For Tranz Rail
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00177.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00191.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0305/S00182.htm
Goff Explains NZ Backing For US In WTO GM Suit Against
EU
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00346.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00132.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0305/S00051.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00360.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00364.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00097.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0305/S00129.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00337.htm
Hard News Is There!
[1] -
http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post431
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00099.htm
Ben Tripp: The Rise Of Fascism In The USA
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00103.htm
John Chuckman: Seeing What Is Not Through The Fog
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00105.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00095.htm
After
The War, Refugees In Australia Still Suffer
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00104.htm
Scoop Was In The House
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00351.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0305/S00311.htm
PR
Campaign Launched To Hijack The Question Mark
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00098.htm
Katya Rivas's Crusade Of Love
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0305/S00102.htm