1The Government inquiry into the telecommunications industry has promised better service and more widespread access to internet services.
2Other news.
3Alliance Minister Phillida Bunkle will give up her Ministerial Apartment in Wellington.
4Women's Refuge is to receive an extra $900000.
5Canterbury University has apologised to Jews for awarding a Masters Degree to a student whose thesis claimed the Nazis didn't use gas to exterminate Jews during WW2.
6The Race Relations Office says the number of complaints received has jumped 57% in the past year and that people claim Government policies are inciting racial disharmony.
7Other news.
8US President Elect George W Bush has met with Al Gore however the atmosphere between the two of them was neither especially convivial nor lengthy.