1Opposition leader Sir Robert Muldoon today released the advice given to him by Treasury and the Reserve Bank about the pressure on the currency in the first days after the snap election was called. His decision to release the advice has caused consternation as advice given to Government has been conventionally treated as confidential.

2The Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) is predicting a healthy spin-off from devaluation.

3Minister of Justice Geoffrey Palmer says the Government has no evidence on which to base extradition proceedings against bankrupt former MP John Kirk, who is now in the United States.

4The manager of the Dairy Board believes a Bill passing through the American legislative system may show whether New Zealand's trade prospects will be harmed by the ban on nuclear ships. The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) has been at the forefront of the news this week - but what exactly is the ANZUS treaty?

5Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has made a bitter attack on the United States, accusing it of blocking virtually all roads to normal relations with the USSR.

6Thousands of picketing coal miners in Yorkshire were almost matched in numbers with a huge Police presence, attempting to quell increasingly violent demonstrations.

7More than four hundred protesters were arrested in London during a demonstration against British firms in the international arms trade.

8British defence officials believe they will soon know who laid the underwater mines in the Gulf of Suez which have damaged dozens on mined over the past three months.

9Six journalists representing American, British, South African and local news media have been arrested in Zimbabwe as they watched Opposition leader Joshua Nkomo being evicted from his ranch.

10The Health Department has released fifty thousand pamphlets designed to educate parents about the dangers of glue sniffing and other solvent abuse.

11Two North Island doctors believe they have uncovered some of the causes of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) otherwise known as Tapanui Flu.

12The Law Society has accepted the need for lawyers to be able to advertise their services and practices.

13Petrocorp has decided to go it alone with further studies into stage two of the Think Big energy projects.

14A row has broken out in Auckland over the use of a female bus driver's uniform by an actress appearing in a stage comedy. The Auckland Regional Authority (ARA) loaned the uniform for the production, but there is concern that it is worn while depicting the character drinking gin and smoking marijuana while off-duty.