This month started with the NZAMI AGM followed the next day with the NZAMI Seminar in Auckland. Thanks to the orgainsation commitee of the Seminar all went smoothly. It proved to be an interesting day with many features; speeches from the Minister of Immigration the Hon Clayton Cossgrove and from his counter part Hon Dr Lockwood Smith. A very interesting speech about migration and immigration from Professor Jacques Poot from the University of Waikato followed by a presentation from Lincoln Tan, a senior reporter with the New Zealand Herald.

The month of August may also be renamed this year to "Winston Peter's" month. It is quite amasing what is happening in this area and the news coverage it attracts. The only question and remark I would like to make is this one; who is speaking the truth?

It appears that politicians, the whole wide world over, are not bound by the truth. Why is that? Are our standards as a community, or country, all over the world, lowered or slipping because we allow politicians to get away with it? Is it because of money or power and, if so, has money or power become soo important that we do whatever it takes to obtain a slice of it or to hold on to it?