LEAD
STORY
Immigration
Scandal:Department Welcomes Kick Up Backside From
SSC
NZ
POLITICS
Scoop
Satire:News You May Have Missed During The Peters
Saga
Pre
Election Coalitions: Is National Touting For Maori Party
Votes?
Crime:
Farm Animals Go On The Lam
Back
Pockets Of Hard-Working Kiwis: Taxes Cut
Medical
Workforce: Would Training More Doctors Help?
Bylaws:
Wellington Council Clarifies On Beach
Nudity
BUSINESS
SCIENCE & TECH
Consumption: Xmas Coming Early For Dairy
Lovers
Clean
Streams: Streams Not Cleaned
Company Results: Solid Energy Spy With Their Little Eye
A Whopping Profit
Electricity
Market: Contact Has Power To Hike Prices
Employment: Tough Times Mean Tough CV's
Seafood:
Industry Not Cutting Up Rough Over Fishy
Decision
COMMENT
Gordon
Campbell: On Key And Clark Refusing To Debate
Suzan
Mazur: Ex NASA Astrobiology Institute Chief Bruce
Runnegar
Allen L Roland: Could 2008 Be Another 2004 Stolen
Election?
Ernest
Partridge: The “Hero” Who Runs From The
Battlefield
Ohio 2008 opens with a subpoena, a surge and calls for
election protection
Bernard
Weiner: Political Jabs, Sarah Sinking, & The Bailout
Opera
Martha
Rosenberg: Pharma Attacks Drug Warnings as
Antidepressant Sales Fall
Cynthia
Boaz: Welcome To Gilead, Governor Palin
Bev
Harris: Partisan Contractors To Count Nov. Election
Votes in Illinois, Colorado and Kentucky
LIFESTYLE
Artistic Movement: School of Dance Students Scoop
National Award
Thespianism:
Acquire a taste of Hollywood at Downstage!
Charity: Touch of Humour to Serious Health Issue
Visual Aesthetics: Enjoy Some Simple Zen Like
Art
Beauty
Competitions: Model Mum A Double Winner
Big
Day Out: Young Headliner For Not-So-Young
Punters
Cultural Treats: Film Archive Presents Films To Mullah
Over
WORLD
Scoop
Military and Defence Issues: Rocket-Firing UN
Helicopters Attack Rebels In DRC
Scoop
World News: UN Delivers Food For Over Half A Million In
Haiti
Scoop
Environment and Conservation: Online List Tracks
"Pirate" Fishing Vessels
World
News: UN Seeks Comment On Curbing Harmful Alcohol
Use
Scoop
World News: UN Food Convoy Reaches Displaced Sri
Lankans
Scoop
World News: Georgia: UN To Assess Plight Of Displaced
Citizens
Scoop
World News: Honduras’ Zelaya: Making
Waves
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LEAD STORY
------------Immigration
Scandal:Department Welcomes Kick Up Backside From
SSC
Department of Labour Chief Executive
Christopher Blake is welcoming the findings of the State
Services Commission report into the Department’s handling
of matters relating to the family of the former head of
Immigration New Zealand, Mary Anne Thompson. “The State
Services Commissioner has summarised the report’s outcomes
well,” Mr Blake says. “There was inappropriate behaviour
which was dealt with ineffectively, partly because Ms
Thompson herself was not forthcoming about the extent of her
involvement in her family’s immigration activities.
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00039.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00072.htm [2]
NZ POLITICS
------------Scoop
Satire:News You May Have Missed During The Peters
Saga
Lyndon Hood writes: It has come
to my attention that other things were happening while
Winston Peters' various donations were dominating the news.
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00036.htm
Pre
Election Coalitions: Is National Touting For Maori Party
Votes?
New Zealand First has called on National
and the Maori Party to come clean about their plans for
trying to sort out a coalition deal. Leader Rt Hon Winston
Peters says the National candidate for Mana, Hekia Parata,
is openly touting for party votes for the Maori Party and he
says she would not be doing this without the approval of the
National leadership. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00046.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00029.htm [2]
Crime:
Farm Animals Go On The Lam
Animal rights
activists have liberated two lambs, two broiler chickens and
ten battery hens from pastoral and factory farms to mark
both world vegetarian day (Oct 1st) and world farm animals
day (Oct 2nd). More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00021.htm
Back
Pockets Of Hard-Working Kiwis: Taxes Cut
The
first phase of the government's personal tax cut package
will deliver tax cuts of between $12 and $28 a week for
full-time workers, delivering some relief for households
hurt by skyrocketing global commodity prices this year, says
Finance Minister Michael Cullen. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00003.htm
ALSO:
- Stop Stealing Our Thunder Says Peters [2]
- Labour delivers on 1 October promises [3]
- Making a difference for Pacific peoples on 1 Oct [4]
- Clark & Cullen can't be trusted on tax [5]
- Cullen puts any future Labour tax cuts in doubt [6]
- NZ-China Free Trade Agreement to enter into force [7]
- Older workers to benefit from ACC law change [8]
- Day of the Older Person - free off peak travel [9]
- Alternative Tax spend idea takes to the street [10]
- No votes for Labour in tomorrow’s tax cuts [11]
- Tax cut 101: What you need to know [12]
- John Key: There is no borrowing in National's tax package [13]
- Labour continues to fail too many of our youth [14]
- Nearly 10,000 More Crimes Resolved By Police [15]
- Recorded Crime Drops In Wellington Police District [16]
- Canterbury Crime Statistics Show Minimal Increase [17]
- Policing Act 2008 Commences [18]
- High Bravery Honours For Two Policemen [19]
- Burglary Operation Shows Results [20]
- Cellblock Footage Will Lead To "Trial By Media" [21]
- Police Assoc shouldn't justify excessive violence [22]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00023.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00001.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00004.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00018.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00668.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00002.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00005.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00010.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00443.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0809/S00598.htm [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/13669.html [12]
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/13672.html [13]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00035.htm [14]
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0810/S00002.htm [15]
[16] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0810/S00006.htm [16]
[17] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0810/S00005.htm [17]
[18] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00450.htm [18]
[19] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00455.htm [19]
[20] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0809/S00341.htm [20]
[21] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00436.htm [21]
[22] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00678.htm [22]
Medical
Workforce: Would Training More Doctors
Help?
New Zealand should be training more doctors
as part of a wider approach to meeting the changing and
growing needs of our health system. The Medical Training
Board is suggesting medical schools create an extra 100
places over the next four years... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0809/S00179.htm
ALSO:
- Training board report critical to future [2]
- Govt announces new directions for health workforce [3]
- More smart solutions to health workforce crisis [4]
- Nat’s put populism over policy again [5]
- NZMA Welcomes Medical Training Board (MTB) Reports [6]
- Pharmacists are part of the health workforce too [7]
- Paramedics Protest at Failing Service [8]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00680.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00011.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00674.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00009.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0809/S00177.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00001.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0809/S00176.htm [8]
Bylaws:
Wellington Council Clarifies On Beach
Nudity
Nudity is really not an issue on beaches
in Wellington City - and we're not expecting a sudden
rampant increase in nudity as a result of the withdrawal of
the bylaw. Generally, for example, people do not go fully
nude on Oriental Bay beach. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0809/S00354.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0809/S00345.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00034.htm [3]
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Consumption: Xmas Coming Early For Dairy
Lovers
Fonterra Brands New Zealand confirmed
today that it will lower the price of its dairy products in
the coming months. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00073.htm
Clean
Streams: Streams Not Cleaned
Waterways in
many areas are more polluted than they were five years ago
when the voluntary Clean Streams Accord was set up,
according to a report released today by Forest & Bird and
Fish & Game New Zealand. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00026.htm
ALSO:
- Clean Streams sham shows need for dairy shift [2]
- Accord Is Achieving What It Set Out To Do [3]
- Lake tests seem to confirm sewage pond leaching [4]
- Goodbye pollution, hello clean water [5]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00022.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00057.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00047.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00054.htm [5]
Company Results: Solid Energy Spy With Their Little Eye
A Whopping Profit
Energy producer Solid Energy
New Zealand Ltd has reported an after-tax profit of $34.4
million (2007: $96.4 million) for the year ended 30 June
2008. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00046.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0810/S00001.htm [2]
Electricity
Market: Contact Has Power To Hike Prices
The
'alarming' power price rises announced by Contact Energy for
South Island customers will be put under the microscope by
government, Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel and Energy
Minister David Parker said today. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00671.htm
ALSO:
- "Competition" benefits suppliers not consumers [2]
- The Government Giveth and Contact Taketh Away [3]
- Contact's shocker power surge needs short circuit [4]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00447.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00437.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00457.htm [4]
Employment: Tough Times Mean Tough CV's
Now
specialist recruiter Robert Half has released a podcast with
winning tips for great CVs aimed not just at new entrants to
the job market, but also more senior candidates who need to
refresh their resumes. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0809/S00590.htm
Seafood:
Industry Not Cutting Up Rough Over Fishy
Decision
The Minister of Fisheries’ catch limit
reductions for orange roughy on the East and South Chatham
Rise announced yesterday are the result of a long term plan,
said George Clement, chief executive, The Deepwater Group
Ltd (DWG). More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0809/S00585.htm
COMMENT
------------Gordon
Campbell: On Key And Clark Refusing To
Debate
The debate about the television debates
rages on. In the television election debates this year, it
seems that Helen Clark and John Key will only be presented
in a one-on- one format by TV3 and TVNZ. More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-on-key-and-clark-refusing-to-debate/
Suzan
Mazur: Ex NASA Astrobiology Institute Chief Bruce
Runnegar
I've been having bits and pieces of
communication with former NASA Astrobiology Institute chief
Bruce Runnegar in recent weeks in between his field trips to
Australia -- sometimes via his wife Maria, a biochemist at
the University of Southern California. Runnegar ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00035.htm
Allen L Roland: Could 2008 Be Another 2004 Stolen
Election?
It does not take too many states to
hijack an election as witnessed in 2004 when four crucial
GOP targeted states showed Kerry leading substantially in
polls on election day ~ only to have the states flip to
Bush. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00029.htm
Ernest
Partridge: The “Hero” Who Runs From The
Battlefield
The McCain campaign has carelessly
served a fat pitch down the middle, and if Barack Obama
doesn’t hit it out of the park, perhaps he doesn’t
deserve to win the election. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00039.htm
Ohio 2008 opens with a subpoena, a surge and calls for
election protection
Ohio 2008 has opened with a
surge of first-time voters and the subpoena of a shadowy
Bush electronic operative who may have helped steal the
White House, a subpoena that may be followed by one for Karl
Rove. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00022.htm
Bernard
Weiner: Political Jabs, Sarah Sinking, & The Bailout
Opera
There's been so much happening politically
-- the daily scandals, flippity-floppities, hypocrisies,
lies -- that it's hard to know where to begin. Let's start
with quick reactions to Obama vs McCain, Round 1, then move
on to the upcoming Palin-Biden debate... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00006.htm
Martha
Rosenberg: Pharma Attacks Drug Warnings as
Antidepressant Sales Fall
In April, Dr. Catherine
DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA), wrote that pharma's influence on
medicine ''is so blatant now you'd have to be deaf... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00003.htm
Cynthia
Boaz: Welcome To Gilead, Governor Palin
If
you've ever read Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, ''The
Handmaid's Tale,'' you will recall the key role that was
played by the women assigned to be the ''Aunts.'' The story
revolves around a futuristic American society in which
fundamentalist Christians ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00008.htm
Bev
Harris: Partisan Contractors To Count Nov. Election
Votes in Illinois, Colorado and Kentucky
A
recent article details information about the pending
subpeona of (GOP computer technician) Mike Connell in
connection with a transfer of the Ohio election results
server to a partisan server in 2004... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00009.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Artistic Movement: School of Dance Students Scoop
National Award
New Zealand School of Dance
student Katherine Grange has been awarded first place in the
National Ballet Award. Her fellow NZSD student Kase Craig
was placed second. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00032.htm
Thespianism:
Acquire a taste of Hollywood at
Downstage!
Mitchell Green has a problem. He's the
beloved Hollywood hero all the ladies want to be with and
all the men want to be (and maybe be with as well). But he
isn't who he says he is. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00022.htm
Charity: Touch of Humour to Serious Health Issue
Over 100 women attended the Silver Ribbon
Foundation's inaugural event 'Silver Lining' to support New
Zealand women living with a gynaecological cancer. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0810/S00014.htm
Visual Aesthetics: Enjoy Some Simple Zen Like
Art
Currently transforming the Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery's front window space is the elegant work of John
Ward Knox. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00008.htm
Beauty
Competitions: Model Mum A Double
Winner
Auckland’s Leonie Nicolaou-Purdie is a
model mother even before her twin babies arrive. After a
six week search the 31-year old from Orakei has been chosen
as the most beautiful mum-to-be in the 2008 EGG Model
Search. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0810/S00001.htm
Big
Day Out: Young Headliner For Not-So-Young
Punters
With the global economy on the brink of
collapse, what better time to ask people to hand over their
hard earned money to escape the world for a day. And who
better to prove to you that investing in music is safer and
returns much more than banks any day: the man who has seen
it all, Neil Young. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0809/S00403.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/13642.html [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/13645.html [3]
Cultural Treats: Film Archive Presents Films To Mullah
Over
In a special collaboration between the
Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran and the Wellington City
Council, the New Zealand Film Archive is pleased to present
a selection of outstanding films produced in Iran in recent
years. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0809/S00409.htm
WORLD
------------Scoop
Military and Defence Issues: Rocket-Firing UN
Helicopters Attack Rebels In DRC
United Nations
attack helicopters firing rockets went into action in the
eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today after
rebels attempting to advance against the Government opened
fire on UN reconnaissance planes. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00070.htm
Scoop
World News: UN Delivers Food For Over Half A Million In
Haiti
The UN World Food Programme is expanding
its relief operations across hurricane-devastated Haiti,
supplying enough stocks of food to reach 500,000 people as
the Caribbean country tries to recover from the recent
series of deadly storms. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00072.htm
Scoop
Environment and Conservation: Online List Tracks
"Pirate" Fishing Vessels
Greenpeace today
launched an online database of fishing vessels involved in
illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, and the
companies that own them. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00066.htm
World
News: UN Seeks Comment On Curbing Harmful Alcohol
Use
With more than two million people dying from
alcohol-related causes annually, the United Nations World
Health Organization (WHO) is launching a month-long online
forum to give a voice to the public on how to curb harmful
consumption. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00061.htm
Scoop
World News: UN Food Convoy Reaches Displaced Sri
Lankans
A UN food convoy today crossed into the
Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka, the scene of recent
clashes between Government forces and rebel Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to offer a lifeline to an estimated
200,000 displaced civilians. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00060.htm
Scoop
World News: Georgia: UN To Assess Plight Of Displaced
Citizens
An independent United Nations human
rights expert today began a four-day visit to assess the
current situation of those displaced by last month’s
conflict in Georgia, which uprooted some 192,000 people from
their homes. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00038.htm
Scoop
World News: Honduras’ Zelaya: Making
Waves
On November 27, 2005, in the tightest
presidential election in the Central American country’s
history, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya of the center-left Partido
Liberal (PL) party was elected president of Honduras. Zelaya
was able to take office by a 4 percent ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00026.htm
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