1This week French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac called the Rainbow Warrior bombing "a criminal outrage". However, public opinion in France appeared to fully support the freeing of agents Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart from prison in New Zealand to remote Hau Island. However what do New Zealanders think? Analysis if the results of a Heylen poll testing public reaction to the controversy over the Rainbow Warrior settlement.
2This week, after sixteen tortuous months in Parliament, the Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed through Parliament by 49 votes to 44. The Bill legalises homosexuual acts between consenting males aged sixteen or over. Interview with one of the Bill's strongest critics, Whangarei MP John Banks followed by an interview with the Bill's promoter, Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde.