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Thanks to the Green Party a new employment right to request flexible working arrangements coming into effect on 1 July 2008. It was created by the passage last year of Sue Kedgley’s private members bill, the Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Act 2007. Read this factsheet about your new rights.

Gemma McGrath, with support from environmental and music organisations, has produced the beautiful CD "Music 4 Mauis: Songs to save a species". The CD features all NZ artists including Fur Patrol, Pitch Black Sola Rosa, the Black Seeds, Ragamuffin Children, Don McGlashan, Gasoline Cowboy, The Bads, Flip Grater and Ariana Tikao. You can find more detail here: http://ourdolphins.wordpress.com/ or email info@music4mauis.org. The cd can be bought from most record shops around town.

See Metiria discuss this in Parliament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVDSAxFL2w

Some of you who saw the Great Global Warming Swindle might be wondering what to think. In short, it's a very biased documentary which presents the views of a very small minority as some kind of big controversy. We've presented some answers to the main points of the documentary in an FAQ.

China's poor environmental record has been widely reported by environmental NGOs, the World Bank, the OECD, and the UNDP, among others.

New Zealand manufacturing has been hit hard by free trade agenda of the last two decades. Manufacturers endured a rapid increase in imported goods and reduced tariffs.

If you care about sovereignty, the environment, workers rights, public health, or the public good in general, then perhaps the most worrying part of the trade deal between New Zealand and China is the section covering investments.

Human Rights - is this the kind of regime we want to get closer to?