Top Scoop Stories September 7th, 2009 News Summary

Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:28 pm
Column: The Scoop Editor

LEAD STORY

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Werewolf: Changing The Law On Rape
Catriona MacLennan: In the United Kingdom, research established that, after allowing for withdrawn cases, 21 per cent of reported rape offences went to court, and only 12 per cent of those resulted in convictions. By contrast, in South Africa, where specialist sexual offences’ courts have been established, the conviction rate for sexual offences is more than 80 per cent. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/changing-the-law-on-rape/

ALSO:

Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe on The Media, Celebrities and Privacy [2]

How Green Is Your Landlord ? [3]

The Complicatist: When Good Hymns Are Sung By Bad People [4]

Iran: Paranoid, But With Real Enemies [5]

Travelling Light: Doing the Manhattan Walk of Death [6]

Badger's Parting Gifts (1984) by Susan Varley [7]

Cartoon Alley [8]

And much more... [9]

[2] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/the-media-celebrities-and-privacy/ [2]

[3] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/how-green-is-your-landlord/ [3]

[4] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/the-complicatist-when-good-hymns-are-sung-by-bad-people/ [4]

[5] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/iran-paranoid-but-with-real-enemies/ [5]

[6] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/travelling-light-doing-the-manhattan-walk-of-death/ [6]

[7] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/badgers-parting-gifts-1984-by-susan-varley/ [7]

[8] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/cartoon-alley/ [8]

[9] - http://werewolf.co.nz/ [9]

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NZ POLITICS

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TV3 Video: Cabinet To Hold A Referendum On The Electoral System
Cabinet has been discussing a referendum on the electoral system, which would ask voters whether they want to change from MMP to another system. National made a campaign pledge to hold a referendum before or at the same time as the 2011 general election. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/26594.html

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Urban Tree Protection - Is The Govt Listening? [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00072.htm [2]

Super City: Auckland Gets The Bill
Full Scoop Coverage and Rection: The Auckland Governance Select Committee has released its report, with recommendation for the bill setting up the structure of the Auckland super city. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00344.htm

Wouldn't Cover His Question: Baldock Announces Plan For Meta-Referendum
... the wording of the question would focus on the issue of whether Citizens initiated referenda seeking the repeal or amendment of any law passed by parliament should be binding. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00064.htm

ALSO:

Key ‘Softening Ground’ For Smacking Amendment [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00068.htm [2]

Interest: Aussie Banks Stay away From Enquiry
“The big Australian banks would have helped themselves more if they had openly fronted up to questions at the multi-party inquiry on banking,” Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. This week ANZ National Bank released its financial results for the last nine months, and prepared a paper on the impact of the credit crunch on New Zealand Banks... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0909/S00049.htm

ALSO:

Oral submissions conclude at Banking Inquiry [2]

regulation of international capital movts needed [3]

Farmers keep heat on banks [4]

We need a public inquiry into banking operations [5]

ASB Homeowners’ Floating Mortgage Rate 40 Year Low [6]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0909/S00044.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00039.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0909/S00074.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00025.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0909/S00139.htm [6]

Public Health Conference: But They're Only Trying To Help ...
The Public Health Association conference has been told today that public health initiatives to protect populations from the risks of the tobacco, alcohol and food industries have increasingly been labelled as nanny state. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00043.htm

ALSO:

Radical new plans to control tobacco supply [2]

Lack of focus on health in poor countries imperils entire globe [3]

Schools audited on sun protection as country warms [4]

Call for “green” architects to design for health [5]

New approach to cervical screening encourages pacific women [6]

Maori team produce new ethical research guidelines [7]

Community collaboration leads to smokefree success [8]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00024.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00012.htm [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00021.htm [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00015.htm [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00020.htm [6]

[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00016.htm [7]

[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0909/S00026.htm [8]

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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH

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Veges: New Book Tackles Potato Chemistry
A new book brings together for the first time leading research on the chemistry and technology of the potato. Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology is edited by Massey University and Riddet Institute scientists Dr Jaspreet Singh and Dr Lovedeep Kaur. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0909/S00018.htm

ALSO:

NZ property values improve for 4th straight month [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0909/S00157.htm [2]

It's Official: Fonterra Will Not List On Exchange
Federated Farmers has welcomed Fonterra’s decision to scrap plans to list New Zealand’s most important company as being a major step forward for the Cooperative. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0909/S00156.htm

Scoop Business: NZ Dollar Headed For Second Straight Weekly Loss
The New Zealand dollar is headed for its second straight weekly loss as investors eschew higher yields amid more uncertainty about the speed of the global economic recovery. More »[1]

[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/09/04/nz-dollar-headed-for-second-straight-weekly-loss/

ALSO:

Climate change defence threat facing military [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0909/S00028.htm [2]

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COMMENT

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Jose Barbosa: Portugal makes the de-criminalisation of drugs work
Earlier this year a white paper pulling together data on Portugal’s drug policy caused a minor sensation among those interested in such things. Written by author and Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald for the Cato Institute... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/living-sensibly-with-drugs/

‘Mad Dog’ Qaddafi: The Eternal Trickster
Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s rule has matured to a ripe 40 years, sealed by blood and firm revolutionary credentials. The ‘mad dog’ continues to bark from Tripoli, though noises of aggression are muzzled these days by concessions to the West and ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00030.htm

February 2013: New Zealand Prime Minister Arrested For Aggression?
12 February 2013 (Reuters) In a dramatic first test of landmark legislation, New Zealand’s Prime Minister was arrested this morning by New Zealand’s Attorney-General and charged with aggression. There was near-chaos on the steps of Parliament as a cordon of... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00029.htm

Changing The Law On Rape: Can rape victims get a better deal?
New Zealanders like to think that we live in a relatively egalitarian society, in which everyone has at least some chance of a good life. Unfortunately, that is not in fact the reality. For some New Zealanders, life is nothing short of brutal... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/changing-the-law-on-rape/

From the Hood: Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
So now it turns out (who knew?) you can get into trouble for making indirect threats on the Internet. Not that I want to turn these columns into a series of disclaimers, but I feel I should clarify some of the things I’ve said about Larry Baldock. More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/from-the-hood-3/

Denis O’Reilly: Locking up gang members makes them stronger
I cracked up when I heard Wainuiomata indigene Trevor Mallard complain that the people involved in his kainga’s misconceived ‘makutu lifting’ tragedy weren’t going to jail after... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/looking-after-our-patch/

Gordon Campbell: Iran - Paranoid, But With Real Enemies
In the words of one Middle East analyst, Iran looks these days as if it is suffering from a type of auto-immune disorder, in which all its limbs are attacking each other. The internal conflict between... More »[1]

[1] - http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/09/iran-paranoid-but-with-real-enemies/

Martin LeFevre: Obama’s Vietnam?
A decision Barack Obama is about to make will determine whether he begins to lead America out of its morass, or becomes a failed, one-term president. And if he fails, God knows what rough beast slouches toward Washington to be born. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00028.htm

Video Shows Price of Cheap Eggs: Chicks Ground Up Alive
The ''food units'' cascading down the conveyor in the video are sorted like apples, fine grade, rejects. ww.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery Except that the kinetic yellow balls--an undulating fuzzy mass-- are not pears or peppers but newborn chicks... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00024.htm

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LIFESTYLE

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Retail: Consumer's Supermarket Price Survey
Pak'n Save is once again the country's cheapest supermarket and in the North Island well ahead of it nearest rivals New World and Countdown, Consumer NZ said today. This is the 10th year in a row that Pak'n Save has come out cheapest, Consumer NZ Deputy Chief Executive David Naulls says. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0909/S00154.htm

Wellie Gig: The Jewel School Presents Grooveman Spot
The Jewel School and Radio Active 89FM proudly present, for the first time in New Zealand, acclaimed Japanese DJ, musician and producer Grooveman Spot. On a break from recording his second album, Grooveman Spot hits Aotearoa on a rare international sojourn... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0909/S00058.htm

The Spanish Example Of Fixing Public Television: But is it too late to save TVNZ?
Jane Reeve’s documentary about her father Sir Paul Reeves made engrossing viewing on Maori Television the other night. A reminder, not that it’s needed, that Maori Television has become New Zealand’s public television channel. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0909/S00016.htm

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WORLD

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UN Report: Afghan Opium Market Hit Hard
New York, Sep 2 2009 1:10PM Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has slumped for the second year, according to a United Nations report released today, which warns that huge, hidden stashes of the illicit drug are a “ticking bomb”. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00041.htm

Java: Deadly Earthquake Strikes Indonesia
New York, Sep 2 2009 1:11PM United Nations agencies are preparing to take part in an emergency assessment mission on the Indonesian island of Java, where a massive earthquake struck today, killing at least 15 people and causing widespread damage ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00042.htm

Asia: Last Chance To Save Saola From Extinction
One of the world’s most enigmatic mammals, the Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), is on the brink of extinction, according to a group of experts who held an emergency meeting in Lao PDR to try to save the animal. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00051.htm

Global Warming: WWF Calls On Kiwi Government To Think Global
Warming in the Arctic could lead to flooding affecting one quarter of the world*s population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools, and extreme global weather changes, according to a new WWF report. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00052.htm

Indigenous Rights: ‘No Oil Drilling Without Tribes’ Consent’
The call was made in a statement by the UN’s Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), published on Monday. Delegations from Peru’s government and several Peruvian organisations have appeared before CERD in recent weeks. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00048.htm

No Justice: Pakistan: A Political Hanging From A Tree
Mr. Rasool Bux Mengal, joint secretary of Baloch Nationalist Movement (BNM), was abducted on August 23, 2009 by plain-clothed men on a double cabin and had since been missing. On August 31, Mr. Mengal’s body, with his identity card. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00032.htm

United States: COHA Kennedy Tribute
Thirty-five Years of Being at the Senate’s Vital Center When it Came to U.S.-Latin America Relations: COHA’s Historic Ties to the Senator Who Did More for the Hemisphere than Any Other Legislator of his Time (COHA’s Tribute to Senator Kennedy. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0909/S00036.htm

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