TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
BUDGET 2001: Over-cautious, Spendthrift - Sludge
BUDGET 2001: Summary
For the complete BUDGET 2001 PRESS KIT and full coverage
BUDGET 2001: Early Reaction
BUDGET 2001: The Green Budget
Keith Rankin: A Just Tax Cut
Middle East Peace Special: Giving Ariel The Benefit Of The Doubt
The ICC Report Into Cricket Corruption
One Law For All – Steven Wallace Killing Report
Republicans To Lose Senate Control

TOP SCOOPS

BUDGET 2001: Over-cautious, Spendthrift - Sludge

- Today’s budget is definitely not made from the cloth of socialist revolutions. This budget is prudent, conservative, responsible and spend thrift. It is in short an ultra-careful as-she-goes, lets-get-ourselves-re-elected-by-centrist-voters in 2002 budget. See... Sludge Report #71 – Old Mother Hubbard’s Budget [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00150.htm

BUDGET 2001: Summary

- Spending is at its lowest level as a proportion of gross domestic product since 1977. See... BUDGET SUMMARY – Highlights and key points [1] - BUDGET SUMMARY – Economic Transformation [2] - BUDGET SUMMARY – Investing in people [3] - BUDGET SUMMARY - Protecting New Zealand [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00489.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00490.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00488.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00487.htm

For the complete BUDGET 2001 PRESS KIT and full coverage

- For live coverage of reaction to today’s budget see - SCOOP BUDGET 2001 – FULL COVERAGE [1] . Background: BUDGET 2000 SPECIAL [2]

[1] - http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=budget2001
[2] - http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=budget

BUDGET 2001: Reaction

- Barnardos - Budget Contains Welcome News [1] - NZUSA - Government Offer Enough To Freeze Fees [2] - ARCC - Company Tax – The Budget’s Achilles Heel [3] - United Future - Budget Will Do Little For Social Cohesion [4] - PSA - PSA Welcomes Extra Funding For CYF [5] - MORST - What's In The BUDGET For Research And Innovation? [6]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0105/S00110.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0105/S00048.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0105/S00207.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00509.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0105/S00108.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0105/S00107.htm

BUDGET 2001: The Green Budget

- Green Party co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald said today that the Greens and the Government are pioneering a new political relationship in agreeing Green initiatives for the 2001/2002 budget. See… Green Budget: Funding For Green Initiatives [1] MORE: - Green Budget: Green Party Initiatives [2] - Green Budget: Three Key Projects [3] - Green Budget: Environmental Legal Aid Funding [4] - Green Budget: Funding For Quit Smoking Programme [5] - Green Budget: Roll-Over Funding [6] - Green Budget: Biosecurity Measures Rolled Over [7] - Green Budget: Energy Efficiency Funding [8] - Green Budget: Summary of 2001 Initiatives [9]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00491.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00504.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00502.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00501.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00499.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00496.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00494.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00493.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00492.htm

Keith Rankin: A Just Tax Cut

- Nobody really cares that the Government has spent slightly more than it planned to spend this financial year (to June 2001). Indeed there appears to be widespread if understated support for an expansionary fiscal policy to be outlined in today's budget. See... Keith Rankin: Business Handouts [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00147.htm

Middle East Peace Special: Giving Ariel The Benefit Of The Doubt

- Israel’s leader Ariel Sharon has now – according to reports [1] - ordered his troops to stop firing – except where it is necessary to protect human life. The Palestinians, unsurprisingly, do not believe him. Sludge however, for the sake of hope, is prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for now. See... Sludge Report #70 – Hope's Chance - Ariel's Ask [2] EARLIER: Sludge Report #68 – Who Is Terrorising Who? [3] And ...May twenty-first... Scene... a CIA office somewhere in the Middle East See... Sludge Report #69 – Nightmare on N. Street [4] MORE: - Kofi Annan - Mitchell Commission report release offers hope [5] - U.S. State Dept - Powell on the Sharm el Sheikh Fact-Finding [6] - Phil Goff - NZ Calls For End To Middle East Violence [7] - Gush Shalom - A Just Peace: The Only Way Out [8]

[1] - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010522/ts/israel_palestinians.html
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00146.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00129.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00135.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00033.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00030.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0105/S00437.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00029.htm

The ICC Report Into Cricket Corruption

- Allegations have been made in relation to matches played in the ICC knockout tournament in Nairobi in October 2000 and more recently in relation to the New Zealand v Pakistan series in 2001. These allegations are being reviewed and full investigations will take place, if justified. See... Report On Corruption In International Cricket [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00039.htm

One Law For All – Steven Wallace Killing Report

- The background contents of this report titled 'One law for all' was compiled by Advantage Advocacy and also appears at http://advantageadvocacy.co.nz [1] on the Internet. The report's author is DERMOT GREGORY NOTTINGHAM. See... One Law For All - The Steven Wallace Killing [2] and Justice Campaigner Complains Re: Steven Wallace [3] MORE: - Scoop Link - UK Shooting Mirrors Wallace Case [4] - Sludge - Sludge Report #66 – Steven Wallace’s Last Words [5] - Sludge Report #65 – Killing The Silence

[1] - http://www.advantageadvocacy.co.nz/docs/report.html
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00140.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0105/S00101.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0105/S00040.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00122.htm

Republicans To Lose Senate Control

- U.S. Republican Senator, James Jeffords, 67, of Vermont looks set to make history in a party switch from the Republicans which would strip the GOP of its Senate control and curtail President Bush's ability to pass legislation and place conservative judges on the bench. See... Senator Switches Teams, Undermines Republicans [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0105/S00149.htm

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