1The Budget debate has opened in earnest at Parliament, with Opposition leader Sir Robert Muldoon blaming Treasury for many of the measures announced in the Budget, which he dismissed as "taxbook nonsense". However, Prime Minister David Lange hit back, describing Muldoon as "the principal architect of New Zealand's misfortune".

2Minister of Finance Roger Douglas has been trying to sell his Budget to the Bankers' Association.

3Australian Prime Minister Bob hawke has unveiled his election manifesto.

4Both the Government and the Opposition have claimed credit for the continuing decline in the number of unemployed in New Zealand.

5New Zealand's in-shore fishing industry is to undergo a major reorganisation.

6Nicaragua is on a war footing tonight with the armed forces on full alert, ahead of what they believe will be an American invasion.

7British Police believe a sinister new hand is directing miners in the latest, and most vicious confrontations of the eight month old coal miners' strike. Police are being attacked with petrol bombs, steel bolts and rocks.

8Surgeons caring for Baby Fae have ordered a human heart, in case the baby's body rejects the baboon heart she received a fortnight ago.

9Captain Mark Phillips arrived in Auckland this evening to participate in a prestigious horse trial event.

10Finance Undersecretary Trevor De Cleene has told farmers that the party is over and they must accept that times have changed. Farmers feel that last week's Budget treated them exceptionally harshly.

11Child abduction is a serious crime, yet authorities have difficulty dealing with it when one of the parents is the abductor. When a child is removed from New Zealand, the problem of finding them and returning them to the rightful parent becomes even more difficult. A detailed look at a case of child abduction in Christchurch.