Archive for November 23rd, 2006

Don’s gone - but not before lunchtime

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

National Party Leader Don Brash is gone. For those of you who have missed the news, just after lunchtime - at 1pm today - Don announced he would step down from the party’s leadership.
Did he jump - or was he pushed?
It was something he’d been thinking about for a couple of weeks, he claimed. And […]

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Solar Water Heating Programme launched

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Jeanette and Energy and Climate Change Minister David Parker launched the government solar water heating programme secured by the Greens as part of the confidence and supply agreement after the last election at Parliament today.

The goal is to double the number of solar water heaters being installed in New Zealand by 2010. This has the […]

Posted in Environment & Resource Management, Health & Wellbeing, Parliament | 87 Comments »