Around 6000 Wellingtonians turned out today for a march
against war in Iraq. The demonstration is thought to have
been around the largest in the capital over the last couple
of decades.
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.