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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
(First the bottom 15, not influenced by heavy page views from the Department of Labour.)
15: Scoop
Images: Jonah Lomu Running The
Brumbies
Hurricanes wing Jonah Lomu during tonight's victory for the home side over the top of the table Brumbies at Wellington's WestpacTrust stadium. The Hurricane's won 34 points to 19. Photographs by Mark Graham
16:
Scoop
Images: David Holwell Try PHOTO
SEQUENCE
Hurricanes first five David Holwell pops one under the post during tonight's victory for the home side over the top of the table Brumbies at Wellington's WestpacTrust stadium. The Hurricane's won 34 points to 19. Photographs by Mark Graham
17:
Warner
Bros. Launched “Harry Potter” Website
Warner Bros. Have launched the official “Harry Potter” Web site, www.harrypotter.com (www.harrypotter.co.uk in the United Kingdom). The much-anticipated site offers a rich, dynamic environment that will evolve and grow over time as exclusive features ...
18:
BRUMBIES
HORSE-WHIPPED BY HURRICANES
A CAPACITY crowd was stirred to a passionate standing ovation of roaring adulation by 40 minutes of pure rugby magic Friday night when the Hurricanes played fabulous football to fashion a 20 point halftime lead that was the foundation for an emphatic ...
19:
Subaru's
WRX Tries On A Suit For Size
It's been years since Subaru launched the WRX and the latest all-new version has been eagerly anticipated. But all would agree, it is a very different car from its predecessor. The big question is - will the punters buy it?
20:
Scoop
Images: Jason Spice Weaves Some
Magic
Hurricanes half back Jason Spice weaves, scores and is congratulated by the master himself during tonight's victory for the home side over the top of the table Brumbies at Wellington's WestpacTrust stadium. The Hurricane's won 34 points to 19. Photographs ...
21:
Cabinet
Committees: Terms Of Reference And
Members
Today the PM announced the Cabinet Committees, their membership and areas of responsibility.
22:
Nelson
City GE Decision – Emotion Over
Reason
The decision of Nelson City to go GE Free poses serious problems for citizens, which the City Council has obviously failed to think through, the Chairman of the Life Sciences Network, Dr William Rolleston, said today.
23:
National
Radio Midday Report
China Crisis – Oncology Crisis – Cervical Screening Report – Expensive Logs – Grass Skirt Death – Bus Death – Educated Mums – Maori Arts Clash – Jennings Guilty Of Defamation – Retirement Savings – Easter Trading – Manurewa Prisons – Scalding – Kursk Nuclear ...
24:
Correctives:
Christianity vs Consumerism
"The Corrective Party sees that Density Television is protesting at not being able to sell its product on Television New Zealand. Well, we think that the problem is that Pasta Tuarikidelamere has a particular approach to Christianity that is the ...
25:
Nelson
First City To Become GE Free
Zone
Tonight’s vote by Nelson City Council to make Nelson city a GE Free zone makes Nelson the first GE Free and Nuclear Free city to be established in New Zealand (possibly the world).
26:
Stop
Singing God Defend NZ
TVNZ’s intention to axe Destiny Television as part of the infomercial, evangalical ‘clean up’ on TV One and Two “Is arrogant and ill-advised” said Pastor Brian Tamaki of Destiny Television.
27:
Palestinian
homes destroyed all over the West
Bank
While visibly to the world helicopter gunships are bombing Gaza, another wave of destruction goes on nearly unnoticed.
Scoop Subversive Art #1 George W. Bush Priceless, sent from Washington D.C.
29:
Lindsay
Perigo: Portrait Of The Artist As A
Con
- Lindsay Perigo's editorial can be heard at noon weekdays on his 'Politically Incorrect Show' on Radio Pacific
30:
Conservation
Minister Lets Money Rot
ACT Conservation Spokesman MP Gerry Eckhoff today condemned Minister Sandra Lee’s refusal to allow salvage logging of windblown trees near Haast on the West Coast.
(Second...The
top 15 - which appear to have been distorted by a very high
quota of page views from the Department of
Labour...)
1: Scoop
Images: The Southern Lights
These stunning pictures of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, were captured by Andrew Busst - bussty@ezynet.co.nz in the deep South last Saturday evening. Andrew has high-resolution images available.
2:
Tranz
Rail Wins Roger Award
By now, you will have realised by elimination that the winner must be Tranz Rail, the first TNC to have the ignominy of winning this award twice. It was selected because it scored badly on so many criteria.
3:
Supermarket
Prices At The Service Station
The days will soon be gone of paying premium prices for doing your grocery shopping when you buy your petrol. But only if you fill up at Gull.
4:
Upton
Online: Tourism, Global Warming And
PR
In this issue… Some reflections on New Zealand tourism (with all the benefit of distance), climate change (political rather than meteorological) and proportional representation with style – the French way…
5:
Introduction
to Defence Forum - Grant Tyrrell
Defence in New Zealand sits at a cross-roads and I would suggest that the current government, with little or no debate, is shunting us down the dark and narrow path of isolationism. Supported by ideologues such as Keith Locke - a man weaned on the ...
6:
Scoop
Images: Phillida Bunkle
Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle today finds out whether she will regain her ministerial portfolios, after an inconclusive report by the Registrar of Electors into the validity of her enrolment in Wellington Central left it to The Prime Minister and her deputy ...
7:
Begging
The Question: What future for Kiwis in
Oz?
It’s now a month since New Zealanders ceased to be de facto Australians, free to attain the status of “permanent residents” simply by setting foot across the Tasman and doing time. In his debut Scoop column Jimmy Solen rings the changes.
8:
Big
News: You May Now Kiss.. Um, Um… Each
Other
Marriage is now no longer just a union between one man and one woman – at least in the Netherlands anyway. Two do not necessarily become one in a country where marriage is a man-made civil right for some people instead of a God–ordained sacrament. Other ...
9:
Human
Wrongs Commissioner Named
Ella Henry's appointment to the position of Human Rights Commissioner leaves Libertarianz spokesman Andrew Bates bemused. "How can the government expect anyone to take them and their Commissariat seriously when they appoint an opponent of rights to ...
10:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 5
April
Today's questions of the day concerned: Historic Places Trust Confidences – Community Social Services – Win Win Agreement’s With Oz – School Trustee Eligibility – Auckland Cancer Treatment – Phil Goff In D.C. – Gisborne Cancer Inquiry Report – Compliance ...
11:
Dame
Silvia Cartwright At Her Swearing-in
Ceremony
The Honourable Dame Silvia Cartwright PCNZM, DBE Governor-General of New Zealand at her Swearing-in Ceremony Parliament House Wellington, 4 April 2001
12:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 3 April
2001
1. Rt Hon JENNY SHIPLEY to the Prime Minister: What reasons does she have for not supporting the call by two former Secretaries of Defence and four former chiefs of the defence forces to publish drafts of the Government's defence reviews so they ...
14:
Red
Ink Across The Board – Stock Turmoil Goes
On
While stock market woes have not been making headlines this morning in New Zealand - perhaps because they have become all too typical - the red ink has been flowing freely again in New York overnight at the beginning of the trading week. At the close ...
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
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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