1Up to 500-jobs are to be cut from administration by the Ministry of Health over two years. The Minister of Health Tony Ryall, has announced the details of a major shake up saying the money saved from a more efficient system will be put back into health services such as heart bypass operations.

2Up to 500-jobs are to be cut from administration by the Ministry of Health over two years. The Minister of Health Tony Ryall, has announced the details of a major shake up saying the money saved from a more efficient system will be put back into health services such as heart bypass operations. The Public Service Association meanwhile is describing the 500-job-losses as an outrage.

3The Greens were the only party to object to the new law allowing the police to seize and crush cars, partly on the grounds it's not in keeping with the spirit of recycling. The Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Act was passed by parliament under urgency this morning.

4Dozens of mines set up years ago under outdated rules could be as dangerous as the toxic site at Mapua near Nelson and the mercury-contaminated Tui mine site in Waikato - that's according to Jan Wright, the parliamentary commissioner for the environment.

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6The Prime Minister has held out an olive branch to the union movement, saying it and the National-led Government have a lot in common. This was made clear after John Key presented at the Council of Trade Unions' biennial conference this morning in Wellington.

7Banning cars from Auckland's busy waterfront road, Tamaki Drive, was just one of the dozens of suggestions raised at a council meeting today aimed at making the cyclist black-spot safer.

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9The union for senior hospital doctors is relieved a major government shake up of the health bureaucracy has not included gutting the Ministry of Health. The Minister of Health Tony Ryall announced today up to 500-jobs are to be cut from administration by the Ministry of Health over two years.

10The Minister of Local Government and ACT Party leader Rodney Hide is being accused of rorting people over a breakfast fundraiser costing $45 a head.

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12Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just returned from Indonesia after securing a deal with his Indonesian counterpart over the fate of 78-Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

13The Prime Minister has released Treasury analysis looking into the opening up of Accident Compensation Corporation's work account to competition.

14The mysterious appearance of various pieces of playground equipment across Dunedin have been revealed as the work of a guerrilla artist and were not an act of protest, as first suspected.

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16The Government is to spend up to $10-million on a major shake-up of the administration of public health. It's been claimed the service is underperforming and not delivering services as efficiently as it could be. A new national health board is to be setup within the Ministry and back office services centralised.

17The number of people moving to New Zealand to stay, is at its highest in five years. The annual net-gain for the year to September was 17-thousand.

18The population of Australia is expanding at its fastest rate in forty years, fuelled at least in part by immigration. It is set to rise from 21-million to 35-million in four decades.

19Questions are being asked about the Christchurch City Council Chief Executive Tony Marriott's 22-percent pay increase for the past year, in the wake of the recession.

20The Australian Defence Force is defending its use of live ammunition during training, after a soldier was accidentally shot dead.

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22Two Department of Conservation workers have been fined $3-thousand for chopping dead branches off a protected Rata tree on Pigeon Island earlier this year.

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24News from China, including: ethnic Wega still being held at Guantanamo Bay;

25All the officials who were complicit in Afghanistan's fraudulent presidential election will be replaced, United Nations Secretary General, Ban ki Moon is pledging. There will be a second run-off election.

26Israel and the United States will tonight begin a joint military exercise. Over two weeks members of the American and Israeli military will simulate defence against a massive co-ordinated missile attack on Israel.

27In Britain, a row between the far right British National Party and a group of retired army generals has escalated. The Generals have accused the group of being at odds with the British military.

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