Free trade
Have we lost our conscience? Green MP Keith Locke seems to think
so. Hes labelled the Government's move to sign a free trade deal
with China as immoral, given the Chinese troops take a hardline
with dissenters in Tibet. A few years ago you wouldn't be surprised
to find Phil Goff or Helen Clark at the front of a protest over
issues they believed in. Principle before profit was the message,
with little room for compromise. So what's changed? Close Up took a
retrospective look back and then debated the issue with Locke and
Minister of Trade Goff.
Life swap
Christine Fernyhough is a name well known in well-to-do Auckland
circles. Maybe not so when you go South of the Bombays, but that's
changing, helped by her best selling book, "A road to Castle Hill."
It is the story about Christine herself, a wealthy widow who sheds
the high life in Auckland for the hard life on Castle Hill - a high
country sheep station. Learning from the ground up Christine
Fernyhough has made Castle Hill her own and been changed in the
process.
Cancer
Michelle Walker is the brave young mum of three whose been
diagnosed with terminal cancer. We first met Michelle last year, as
she wrestled with how to break the news to her family. Since then,
we've seen her beat all the odds, surviving beyond her doctors
wildest predictions. But this month, Michelle had some devastating
news - a scan showed her tumours had doubled in number.
Kiwi chick
Hupai - the kiwi chick we saw hatched last month is now a month old
and the thousandth chick to be released. Hupai is being released in
Bushy Park, 100 hectares of predator proof and fenced forest near
Wanganui. After a few months Hupai will be returned to the
Waimarino area near Mount Ruhapue where the little kiwi was removed
as an egg.
