Auckland demonstration against cluster munitions

By georgedarroch

Organised by IWANZ ('Investment Watch' Coalition) and Auckland University Students Association. The action is timed to coincide with the April 19 "Global Day of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs" which takes place 1 month before the Dublin ...

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South Auckland PHOs tie the knot thanks to executive officer duo ...

ProCare Network Manukau (PNM) and Total Healthcare Otara (THO) are to work together to better serve the high needs population of south Auckland. ...

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Government stops Canada Pensions buying Airport

After more then a year of negotiations and months of controversy the government in the form of State Services Minister David Parker and Associate Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove overruled the foreign investment watchdog and blocked the Canada pension fund's takeover of Auckland International Airport.

The National Party and many commentators have panned the decision, while others are more sanguine.

Blogs and Analysis

Business Spectator - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia

The battle for control of Auckland Airport has kept Kiwi eyebrows in an almost permanent state of elevation these past few months, but the two thuds just ... Video at Interest.co.nz by Bernard Hickey

The 40 percent stake that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board recently won in its bid to increase shareholdings at Auckland International Airport Ltd. is a unique investment in its $140 billion portfolio, reports the Sunday Star Times.

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By Darren Rickard(Darren Rickard) State Services Minister David Parker and Associate Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove have vetoed the sale of Auckland International Airport[AIA] After over a year of negotiations by two prospective parties, The Canadian Pension Plan ...

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By Queen Bee(Queen Bee)

There is much speculation that today is the day for the decision on whether the Canadians are allowed to inject $1.8 billion in liquidity into the New Zealand market. We hope that the Government does the right thing for New Zealand and ...

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No Minister By Gooner(Psycho Milt) The Auckland International Airport was not being sold. It was impossible for a strategic asset of New Zealand to be sold here as Winston Peters and others would have you believe. Accordingly the decision to allow the Canadian Pension ...

Marketwire The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) today said it was disappointed in the outcome of its Overseas Investment Act application, which has been declined. ...

Anti-dismal By Paul Walker I have blogged on this earlier, but now its official, the government has blocked the sale of 40% of Auckland International Airport (AIAL) to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on the grounds that ...

News Items

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The aftermath Canadians give up on Auckland's Airport

TV3 News - Auckland,New Zealand A Canadian pension fund has given up its bid to buy a 40 per cent stake in Auckland International Airport. After being blocked by the government, ...

Bloomberg April 11 -- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board abandoned its year-long effort to buy a stake in Auckland ...

New Zealand shares close lower on rejection of Auckland Airport deal

Forbes - NY,USA 'The decision on Auckland Airport helped to lead the market down, and in general all our leaders have come down,' said ASB Securities broker Stephen Wright. ...

Stuff Market opens down as Auckland airport sheds 27c early

The Press - Christchurch,New Zealand The sharemarket was down early this morning after government ministers vetoed the Canadian Pension Plan's (CPP) bid to buy a stake in Auckland Airport. ...

What The Travel Blogs Say

Extracts from travel blogs over the last few days

Red fiery sunset - Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand A couple of days ago we were hanging out in our room when, like turning on the light, the whole room was bathed in a very bright orange glow. Either we had just been tango'd, or there was a mean sunset to ...

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Curiouser and curiouser

Replace the Queen with Helen Clark and Alice with the hapless Auckland International Airport shareholders and this quotation from Lewis Carroll's Through ...

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School community reeling after tragedy

A small Auckland school and its community is reeling following the deaths of six students and a teacher on an outdoor education trip in the central North ...

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Twins' mother told off father for missing hospital turnoff

Macsyna King, 31, a painting contractor, is giving evidence for the second day in the High Court at Auckland at the trial of Chris Kahui who is charged with ...

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New Auckland City proposal unveiled

The Auckland Regional Council has unveiled its proposal for a new Auckland that it will put to the royal commission looking into governance, ...

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Air New Zealand To Open Beijing To Auckland Route

Air New Zealand will open a new route from Beijing to Auckland on July 18. This is the second nonstop route between China and New Zealand following the ...

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Big Paws Out

By magenta Lucid3 front woman Victoria Girling-Butcher, Ragamuffin Children, Daniel Munro and Flip Grater will entertain concert goers at the Big Paws Out Free Concert and Walk for the Animals, hosted by Surburban Mayhem actress Emily Barclay.

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Back-room deals or the voter's choice?

By Aaron Bhatnagar(Aaron Bhatnagar) In this morning's Herald, City Vision councillor Glenda Fryer decries the prospect of an Auckland Regional Mayor being elected at large by the voter. Instead, she favours the selection of a Mayor from the ranks of the council ...

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Bolt of lightning strikes down hunt rider and horse

By Beck Vass Lightning bolts strike downtown Auckland as the storm lashes the city yesterday afternoon. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey A 61-year-old man and his ...

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Cycleways That Ate Auckland

Jan Corbett whinges as she is both unwilling to get out of her car and onto a bike and dislikes the delays being in a car induces.

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Summer's end claims at least six lives

At least six people are dead this morning and three missing, including pupils from an Auckland school, as the weather turned nasty after months of a lazy ...

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Kahui 'careful, loving' father, court told

By Edward Gay Macsyna King told the jury in the Auckland High Court she took her twins to the family doctor after learning that baby Cru had stopped ...

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Society of Biblical Literature Meeting in Auckland

The Program for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) International Meeting in Auckland is now up and available for perusal. There are no definite times but the basic outline of what's happening is available and it looks very interesting. Will you be attending? ...

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Regional council wants one Auckland authority

Auckland Regional Council wants to see a single authority run the region, though its chairman denies the proposal is an attempted takeover. ...

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Five teens reported dead in flooded New Zealand river

Earthtimes - The students, aged 16 and 17, were part of a group of 40 from Elim Christian College in Howick, Auckland, attending a week-long course at the Sir Edmund ...

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Wife got to say goodbye to man hit by lightning

The unnamed man, reported to be 61 and from Auckland, died after a direct hit in a electrical storm near Dargaville, which also killed his horse. ...

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