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HON SANDRA LEE RETIRED FROM PARLIAMENT AFTER THE JULY 2002 GENERAL ELECTION.

The Conservation Minister highlights aspects of the vexed issue of Genetic Modification, from an Alliance perspective.

Thank you for inviting me to speak to you this morning.There have been huge changes in our world during the past two weeks, in the wake of the terror attacks in the United States.

Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee has paid tribute to veteran trade union leader Frank Barnard whose funeral will be held in Auckland tomorrow (eds: 10.30am, Thursday 19 July, Saint Matthew-in-the-city, Auckland city).

Alliance Deputy Leader Sandra Lee, expressed "deep sorrow" today at the loss of a friend and role model, Betty Wark.

"The current attacks on my personal life are being driven by some who want to discredit me politically," said Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee today.

Acting Women's Affairs Minister Sandra Lee says New Zealand welcomes the launch of the Millennium Peace Prize for Women, the first award of its kind to honour women for peace-building, to mark International Women's Day today.

Deputy Alliance leader Sandra Lee has marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1951 Lockout today (Thursday) with a call for the business community to support "local people for local jobs" when all other hiring factors balance out.

Speech notes: New Zealand and the Singapore CEP—Sandra LeeParliamentary debate on Government Notice of Motion Number 1:1. Hon.

The Alliance has long campaigned on the principle that Parliament's views on international treaties should be paramount because of the significance of domestic law and domestic arrangements of those treaties.

"I note that a District Court Judge has now ruled in a reserved decision that Moana Sinclair was not an unlicensed driver, and that there was no power for the Police to do what they did in removing her from her vehicle at Foxton, in February, " Cabinet

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Cabinet Minister Sandra Lee, in one of her first acts as Conservation Minister, today declared New Zealand’s only native dolphin a threatened species under the provisions of the Marine Mammals Protection Act.