1Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon has addressed an audience of 350 businessmen at a Melbourne Chamber of Commerce lunch. His main focus for the speech was the Closer Economic Relations (CER) Agreement between New Zealand and Australia.

2Social Credit launched its election campaign in Hamilton last night with a plea for voters to help rid New Zealand of a two-party Government. Social Credit also released its agriculture policy today advocating an immediate permanent ban on logging in all remaining North Island permanent forests and a ten year moratorium on logging virgin forests on the South Island's West Coast.

3Labour's agricultural policy is to promote farming as a cornerstone of the New Zealand economy and encourage further processing of farm products.

4The New Zealand Party has unveiled its law and order policy by declaring war on crime.

5A report by the Human Rights Commissioner on the Marsden Point legislation has upset Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon.

6Nominations for candidates for the general election closed today with 465 people registered to contest the 95 seats at the next election.

7The row over the Broadcasting Corporation's allocation of free air time for party political broadcasts on television on radio is continuing with Social Credit launching a formal complaint with the NZBC, saying it is being treated undemocratically. The New Zealand Party has also complained and is threatening legal action. The Values Party has written to the Broadcasting Tribunal claiming it is not being treated democratically, and Mana Motuhake has lodged a complaint with the Race Relations Conciliator.

8The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) predicts mixed fortunes for the New Zealand economy over the next eighteen months.

9New Zealand could soon become a major exporter of water from Deep Cove in Fiordland to the United States and Hong Kong if Government approval is given within two months.