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The top 20 rating items at the weekend on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: HARD
NEWS 01/12/00 - This Little Prick Won't
Hurt
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... whatever its challenges this year, the coalition has frequently allowed us to forget that it is a minority government. But that fact became all too clear this week as the new district health boards legislation reached its reckoning.
3:
Media
Being Taken For A Ride Over Taxi
Chits
The Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First, today said that Rodney Hide MP did not tell the media the real story behind his losing taxi chits and facilitating a restaurant staff free for all at the taxpayers’ expense.
4:
Union
website changes name under
pressure
Last week Finsec, the union for bank employees, set up a website for workers at the ASB. The ASB lawyers threatened to take action unless the name was changed. “We've changed the name, because it makes no difference to us and because the ASB Bank is ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Scoop
Archive: Sludgegate: "Neighbours from
Hell!"
Witnesses in the Sludgegate trial today described Auckland City Council as 'out of control' on Waiheke, and likened them to the TV programme 'Neighbours From Hell.'http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/77/4d/200011292207.ebccbfc2.html
6:
Personal
Explanation--Lost Taxi Chits:
Allegations
RODNEY HIDE (ACT NZ): I wish to make a personal explanation regarding the claim in the House yesterday that someone should explain to the House the story about an MP who lost a book of taxi chits. In the House yesterday Mr Peters said that an MP had ...
7:
NORML
Issues Health Warning About Toxic
Marijuana
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws today issued a health warning that marijuana sprayed by the Police with a deadly poison is being sold in Auckland.
Upton-on-line returns after a brief time in Washington where he learnt about the distinction between ‘dimpled’ and ‘pregnant’ chads (he rather favoured the ‘swinging’ variety); and The Hague, where he was able to dispense bonhomie and bandages to Pete ...
9:
Sludgegate
News Flash: Stolen Document
Revealed
An important trial document has just been made available to this reporter, in which council Utilities Manager Mike McQuillan makes it clear he wanted "to dump sludge - even only one truck load on [the] Golf Course."
10:
Commission
Workshops In Southland & Otago
Wellington - 30 November 2000: The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification will be conducting workshops in Southland and Otago next week as part of its Maori consultation programme.
Pharmac marks World AIDS Day With New Funding - Bureaucratic Monster To Gobble Health Resources - Keep Tabs On Petrol Prices Online - Record Number Of Apple Exports Going It Alone - Canterbury Youth Employment Strategy Launched - Franks Calls For An Explanation ...
13:
Keith
Rankin: Autistic Economics?
In June this year, a group of economics students at one of France's leading tertiary institutes, the École Normale Supérieure, revolted. They were objecting to the obsession with abstract mathematical modelling that dominates economics education worldwide. ...
14:
Scoop
Images: Flag Raising At Indonesian
Embassy
A Morning Star Flag raising ceremony was held this morning outside the Indonesian Embassy in Kelburn by Green Party activists and including Green Party MP Keith Locke. The action was held in solidarity with West Papuan independence activists who are ...
15:
Intellectual
Lion Challenging Churches
One of Australia’s most thought-provoking religious scholars will be in New Zealand next week to challenge current thinking on the church’s relationship with the free market and democracy.
16:
New
Intel Router Secures Broadband
Connections
AUCKLAND, Dec 1, 2000 – Intel New Zealand today announced the Intel® Express 8205 VPN Broadband Router, a device that helps protect the security of small office and home office (SOHO) users with “always on” broadband Internet connections.
17:
Symantec
Introduces Norton Systemworks For
Mac
The first integrated utility suite for Macintosh users provides industry-leading anti-virus protection and complete problem-solving tools in one easy-to-use solution
The country’s new generation rural supplies and services business RD1.COM enters a new phase of its development with around 10,000 dairy farmers gaining access to its web site.
20:
Petrol
Price Monitoring Good News For
Consumers
Associate Energy Minister Paul Swain has launched a new web page within the MED website where people can compare international petrol and diesel price movements with changes in retail petrol prices in New Zealand.
25:
Scoop
Archive: Maori '2000' - Private
2001?
"What's up with the 2000 school certificate mathematics examination?" wonders Libertarianz spokesman for the deregulation of education, Warrick Brown. "It is appalling," he says, "that yet another generation of New Zealanders ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5a/d1/200011301049.4cc47cf9.html
27:
Newman
to Stand for Whangarei Electorate
Again
ACT list MP and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman will later today become the party’s first candidate for the next general election when she is selected to stand again in the Whangarei seat.
28:
Goff
Leads NZ Tour Of The Pacific
Foreign Minister Phil Goff and Conservation Minister Sandra Lee leave for a week-long tour of the Pacific on Sunday accompanied by a delegation of seven MPs.
HOBBIT
STORIES...
2: Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
12: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
18: Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer House?
21: Scoop
Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (1)
22: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
23: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
24: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
26: Scoop
Images: Helms Deep Press Conference
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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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