Accordingly, since March 2004, the state has funded Māori Television, broadcast partly in Māori.

The Supreme Court of New Zealand ( in Māori: Te Kōti Matua o Aotearoa ) is the highest court and the court of last resort in New Zealand, having formally come into existence on 1 January 2004.

On 27 January 2004 Brash delivered his first Orewa speech on " Nationhood " at the Orewa Rotary Club, north of Auckland, expressing opposition to perceived " Māori racial separatism " in New Zealand:

Māori Television was launched on 28 March 2004 and attracted a cumulative audience of 300, 000 in its first month on air ( April 2004 ).

It was also agreed to review the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 and to consider Māori representation in a wider constitutional review which began in 2010.

On January the 27th 2004, National Party leader Don Brash delivered a speech at Orewa that was highly critical of the government's policy towards Māori.

Māori Television Headquarters has been located in a building at the edge of Newmarket and Parnell since 2004.

The Māori Party, a political party in New Zealand, was formed on 7 July 2004.

In 2004, New Zealand were invited, being represented by the New Zealand Māori men's team and the women's representative team, the Black Ferns.

A development of particular interest to Māori came in 2004 with the resignation of Tariana Turia from her ministerial position in the Labour-dominated coalition and from her Te Tai Hauāuru parliamentary seat.

In the resulting by-election on 10 July 2004, standing under the banner of the newly formed Māori Party, she received over 90 % of the 7, 000-plus votes cast.

A Marae-Digipoll survey of Māori-rollvoters in November 2004 gave it hope: 35. 7 % said they would vote for a Māori Party candidate, 26. 3 % opted for Labour, and five of the seven electorates appeared ready to fall to the new party.

He served as Minister of Small Business, Minister of Youth Affairs, Minister of Statistics, and Minister for Land Information, as well as functioning as Horomia's deputy as Associate Minister of Māori Affairs until 2004.

The foreshore and seabed controversy of 2004 – 05 put considerable strain on the Labour Party's Māori MPs, with many showing dissatisfaction with the party's policy.

This eventually became launched on 7 July 2004 as the Māori Party, of which Sharples became co-leader.

The Māori team has participated in the Pacific Cup ( since 1974 ), Super League's 1997 Oceania Cup, Papua New Guinea 50th Anniversary ( 1998 ), 2000 World Cup, World Sevens Qualification ( 2003 ) and Pacific Rim ( 2004 ) competitions.

The Māori Television network produced a TV documentary on the subject, using his thesis as a starting point, which aired in 2004.

The first in 2003 saw England A take the cup and the second, in 2004, saw England A losing to the New Zealand Māori in extra time.

He was a member of the England Saxons squad for the 2004 Churchill Cup, that played Canada and the New Zealand Māori.

The teams that participated in the 2004 Pacific Rim competition were: Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand Māori, Niue, Samoa and the Cook Islands.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

The point is already made by Hume, but see Mary Mothersill, " Beauty and the Critic ’ s Judgment ", in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004.

In 2004 – 05 season Roma made a net income of € 10, 091, 689 and followed by € 804, 285 in 2005 – 06 season.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

The contract was the first made by Libya since 2004, and was negotiated with MBDA, a subsidiary of EADS.

Yoji Yamada, director of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, made a trilogy of acclaimed revisionist samurai films, 2002's Twilight Samurai, followed by The Hidden Blade in 2004 and Love and Honor in 2006.

The shut down did not affect FrostWire, a fork of LimeWire made in 2004 that excluded blocking code and adware.

Haiti's services sector made up 52 percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2004 and employed 25 percent of the labor force.

Sabotage, poor maintenance and the overthrown of Aristide in 2004 had severely undermine the effort, in 2006 at the return of Preval in power another effort was made to recover the majority of the bus left, and a Gift of 300 new bus from Taiwan an effort to bring back Service Plus in association of the drivers.

The interpretation of the NPCSC to Annex I and II of the Basic Law, promulgated on 6 April 2004, made it clear that the National People's Congress ' support is required over proposals to amend the electoral system under Basic Law.

Holding made a profit of € 328 million in 2004.

The team made some minor uniform adjustments before the start of the 2004 season, including reverting from blue to the traditional gray face masks, darkening their blue colors from a royal blue to speed blue, as well as adding two white stripes to the socks.

As of 2004, 60 to 70 % of all curling stones in use were made from granite from the island.