Scoop: Just Politics

Thursday, 7 September 2000, 4:30 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

JUST POLITICS
Dairy Board Warned
Grocery Economics
Who Gets Which Fish
Get It Right At Home First, Says Shipley
PM Says Shipley Is Making Things Up Again
Mallard Upbeat On The Trade Deficit
Dover Samuels Affair
Greens On The H-Word
Maori Constituency Empowering Bill

TOP SCOOPS
Sludge Report: Blood Red Justice At Mangaroa
Scoop Is In The House - Questions
The Massacre Of Atambua
Scoop Oopinion: Eco-Economy – Alchemic Economics
Scoop Opinion: Rankin – Tarania Taken Seriously

JUST POLITICS

Dairy Board Warned

- With all the uncertainty in the dairy industry at the moment farmers should be wary of the dairy companies and dairy board investing their money offshore, said ACT MP and dairy farmer Penny Webster. See... ACT Urges Caution In Overseas Dairy Investments [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00114.htm

Grocery Economics

- Families' grocery bills are sky-rocketing under the Labour-Alliance Government, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today. Families' grocery bills sky-rocket under Labour [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00113.htm

Who Gets Which Fish

- Minister of Fisheries Pete Hodgson today announced fisheries management changes for the new fishing year beginning on 1 October 2000. See... Fisheries sustainability decisions for 2000-2001 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00112.htm

Get It Right At Home First, Says Shipley

- It is extraordinary for the Prime Minister to attack Australia for its handling of indigenous people when she is handling race relations so poorly at home, Opposition leader Jenny Shipley said today. See... Keep your eye on New Zealand, Helen [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00084.htm

PM Says Shipley Is Making Things Up Again

- Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that Mrs Shipley’s claim that she had attacked Australia on its handling of indigenous people is simply bizarre. See... Shipley making things up [1] $13 Million Flood Compensation Package Unveiled - The Government and Contact Energy today signed a Deed formalising joint contributions to address flood problems in Alexandra and surrounding areas. See... Govt and Contact sign Alexandra flood Deed [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00109.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00106.htm

Mallard Upbeat On The Trade Deficit

- The continued steady reduction in the trade deficit was welcomed today by acting Finance Minister Trevor Mallard. See... Reduction in trade deficit welcome [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00105.htm

Dover Samuels Affair

- “I believe Parliament should move on. I reluctantly issue a press statement to refute the personal attacks that have been made on me, said ACT Leader, Hon Richard Prebble. See... Dover Samuels Affair [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00085.htm

Greens On The H-Word

- “Has the Minister seen the comments on the Waitangi Tribunal report on the Taranaki claim, which first used the word “holocaust,” by the Hon. John Luxton, National Minister of Maori Affairs and the Hon. Doug Graham… See... Jeanette Fitzsimmons "H" Word Question [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00089.htm

Maori Constituency Empowering Bill

- Mr Speaker I move, that the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Maori Constituency Empowering) Bill be now read a first time. See... Bay of Plenty Regional Council Bill [1] MORE NZ FIRST - Separatist Homelands To Be Set Up In Northland [2] ACT - Racial roll: wrong answer to the right question [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00082.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00080.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00086.htm

POLITICS FROM TOP SCOOPS

Sludge Report: Blood Red Justice At Mangaroa

- In Today's Edition: Evening Post At It Again - Mobsters Receive Nine Rapes Worth Of Justice For a Few Bruises See... Sludge Report #27 - Nine Rapes Worth Of Justice? [1] see also... Crown apology for incidents at Mangaroa [2] for the Crown apology for the Mangaroa assaults.

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00032.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00107.htm

Scoop Is In The House

- Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm. See... Questions For Oral Answer - Thursday, 7 September [1] see also... Yesterday's Questions and Answers [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00102.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00027.htm

The Massacre Of Atambua

- 6 September -- Militia opposed to independence of East Timor attacked today the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in West Timor, killing at least three relief workers. See…Three UN aid workers killed in militia attack [1] and ETAN Calls UN Deaths In West Timor Preventable [2] FULL COVERAGE: - NZ GOVT- PM and Wahid discuss West Timor killings [3] - NZ GOVT - International praise for NZ rescue mission [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00039.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00043.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00110.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00108.htm

Scoop Oopinion: Eco-Economy – Alchemic Economics

- Scoop readers are invited to guess the source of this quote from the Book, New Zealand 2001 , published in 1981…. See... Eco- Economy: Alchemists should depart the stage [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00031.htm

Scoop Opinion: Rankin – Tarania Taken Seriously

- Tariana Turia's controversial comments about Maori being victims of “post-colonial traumatic stress disorder” and her analogy between the holocaust and the fate of Taranaki Maori raise a number of issues and deserve to be taken seriously. See... Rankin: Conquest and Trauma in our Archipelago [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00030.htm

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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