News Room Archive

Sunday Star Times
15 Jul 2006
New Zealand's aid contribution is still causing arguments a week after Bob Geldof condemned it. Who is right? Anthony Hubbard reports. Sir Bob popped his ferret in the chookhouse and the squawking hasn't stopped. The government, accused of a "pathetic and disgraceful" aid effort, seems to be taking it personally.

Geldof right to slam government on aid levels
14 Jul 2006
"It's time the government stopped sitting on its hands and set a timetable for reaching its commitments on international aid," says Rae Julian Executive Director of the Council for International Development.