1The Parliamentary career of former ACT MP Donna Awatere-Huata is over. Speaker of the House Jonathan Hunt has declared her seat vacant after a Supreme Court ruling that the ACT Party can indeed invoke the Electoral Integrity Act to have Ms. Huata removed from Parliament.
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3A recent study has found that the National Cervical Cancer Screening Programme is failing to adequately reach low-income and Maori women.
4Several Maori activists have warned of beach occupations in protest at the recently-passed Seabed and Foreshore Act.
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6Auckland ratepayers will have to stump up with another $3.5 million if the proposed V8 Supercar race goes ahead. A final decision on the race will take place next week.
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8In Fallujah, US troops have found what they think might have been the former hiding place of al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Musaab Al-Zarkawi.
9A new UN report says Afghanistan is well on its way to becoming a 'narco-state', its economy fuelled by opium production.
10The British House of Commons has voted to ban fox-hunting.
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12The Bill Clinton Presidential Library has opened in Little Rock, Arkansas.
13The Week in Politics: the removal from Parliament of former ACT MP Donna Awatere-Huata; the passing of the Seabed and Foreshore Act.
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