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Asset sales, National's campaign launch talking point : And so it was left to him to sell the party's policy to partially privatise state owned power companies and Air New Zealand although not everyone in the audience wanted to hear it. A small group of anti- poverty protestors had made it onto the guest ... 3News NZ

Sharples keen to give tribes veto over foreign buys : By Derek Cheng A minimum wage of $16 an hour, an iwi veto on foreign investment, and a policy for state assets to remain New Zealand -owned are among the Maori Party's wishlist this election. The party's election manifesto, released at the weekend, ...

Papua cases must be solved soon: PKS : Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) president Luthfi Hasan Ishak said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must solve recent cases in Papua quickly following deadly incidents in the country's easternmost province. "We are concerned about the cases," Luthfi ...

Indonesia police admit Freeport pays for Papua security : Police in Indonesia have admitted that they accepted millions of dollars from the US company Freeport Indonesia to provide security for the miner's operations in Papua . The national police chief General Timur Pradopo has told the Jakarta Globe that the ... Radio New Zealand International

The week in review: Papua spring in the making? : One big issue of concern is the on-and-off volatile condition in Papua and West Papua provinces, which has been triggered by the unequal treatment that Papuans have long endured and the unsatisfactory distribution of wealth in the two resource-rich ...

Fewer deaths due to cervical cancer : Ms Sturrock said the incidence of cervical cancer in this group was double that of non- indigenous Australians with death as a result five times more likely. The cervical cancer mortality rate more than halved between 1982 and 2007 , according to a. The Age

Commonwealth tackles forced marriage Activists have said the forced marriage of young girls takes place on a "shocking scale" in Commonwealth countries, trapping children in a cycle of poverty , illiteracy and ill health and violating their basic human rights. Plan International Australia ...

Beloved former Territorian dies aged 105 : ONE of the Territory's most beloved former residents has died after a life spent helping people including vulnerable part- Aboriginal children during the 1950s. Sister Eileen Heath was born in Fremantle, Western Australia , in 1905. ...