1Public Service Finance Minister Roger Douglas has introduced measures which he believes will streamline the public service by asking them to become more cost effective by making better use of resources, providing better customer service and being more accountable to users. While greater efficiency in the public services sounds like it will be beneficial to New Zealanders, what will the effects be on costs to users if Government departments and State services suddenly have to start turning a profit? Discussion and viewer talkback with the acting President of the Public Service Association (PSA).

2Up to thirty million people throughout the world answered Sport Aid's call to Run For Africa, making it the biggest charity fun run ever held. However, in the United States, more effort went into Hands Across America, a human chain across the Continent, to raise money for America's homeless and hungry.

3A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

4Two British airmen were killed when two vintage Royal Air Force (RAF) jets crashed at an air show in Suffolk.

5British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has called on Israel to give more power to Palestinians in the occupied areas, following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

6Public Service Finance Minister Roger Douglas has introduced measures which he believes will streamline the public service by asking them to become more cost effective by making better use of resources, providing better customer service and being more accountable to users. While greater efficiency in the public services sounds like it will be beneficial to New Zealanders, what will the effects be on costs to users if Government departments and State services suddenly have to start turning a profit? Discussion and viewer talkback with the acting President of the Public Service Association (PSA).

7A brief listing of the New Zealand and international news headlines.

8Finance Minister Roger Douglas has introduced measures which he believes will streamline the public service by asking them to become more cost effective by making better use of resources, providing better customer service and being more accountable to users. While greater efficiency in the public services sounds like it will be beneficial to New Zealanders, what will the effects be on costs to users if Government departments and State services suddenly have to start turning a profit? Discussion and viewer talkback with the acting President of the Public Service Association (PSA).

9A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

10It is now three months since the Philippine People's Revolution ousted President Ferdinand Marcos in favour of Corazon Aquino. Aquino has used the occasion to rally her supporters and announce the establishment of a working party to draft a new Constitution.

11Up to thirty million people throughout the world answered Sport Aid's call to Run For Africa, making it the biggest charity fun run ever held. At last count, around $280 million had been pledged towards African famine relief. New Zealand's contribution is expected to top $2 million. However, in the United States, more effort went into Hands Across America, a human chain across the Continent, to raise money for America's homeless and hungry.

12Yelena Bonner, the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, is on her way home to the Soviet Union after surgery in the United States.

13Dutch tulip growers have managed to grow the long-desired Black Tulip, and the flower is fast becoming a national treasure.