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The weekend’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
2:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
3:
Reigniting
Reform in Australia and New
Zealand
Delivered at 7.30pm 20 February, 2004 to the New Zealand Business Roundtable Annual Retreat
4:
Greens
support call to bring Sri Lanka girl
back
Green MP Keith Locke says the government should show some compassion and allow the Sri Lankan girl deported last week back into New Zealand. The Green Spokesperson on Human Rights is supporting the deported 16-year-old's lawyers as they make an ...
5:
Public
Address 23/04/03 - Discussions
It generally takes something pretty substantial to drag our media around from the day-to-day focus on personalities and press releases and towards coverage of an issue in depth, but our sudden swelling of public feeling on race is clearly such a thing...
6:
Answers
needed on mysterious handling of letter
National Party Leader Don Brash says the public needs answers about the role of the Prime Minister's electorate office in the 'leaks and lies' scandal that's led to the sacking of Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel.
7:
New
Minister can right past wrongs
The Green Party is calling for the incoming Immigration Minister to take a fresh look at the country's two most contentious refugee cases.
8:
Al
Giordano: State Dept Heavy Dispatched to
Brazil
Days after Brazil's Congress approved a bill to decriminalize drug users, a heavy hitter from Foggy Bottom was dispatched to Brazil to discuss, among other matters, ''security concerns including terrorism and narcotrafficking,'' according to this ...
9:
Juken
Nissho Winner Of Roger Award For Worst
Corp
Juken Nissho Winner Of Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation In New Zealand In 2003
10:
ACT's
The Letter - Monday 23 February
2004
Lianne complains she is not the first minister to leak a paper and then deny knowledge. The ninth floor has made it an art form. Like Nixon in the Watergate scandal, Clark has fired her minister to hide her own role. The PM’s electorate office leaked the ...
11:
Martin
LeFevre: America Loves War
Way back in the '80's, during the frozen depths of the Cold War, there was a promising movement in America called ''Beyond War.'' It seems rather quaint now, since America has found an enemy that will never fail it, permitting us the luxury of permanent ...
12:
Dunne:
No new entitlements for Maori
The Government's package to resolve the foreshore and seabed issue will have to make it clear that no new rights or entitlements are being established for Maori, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today.
13:
St
Molesworth: Top 10 Signs Labour Is Worried
Top 10 signs Labour is worried about Don Brash
14:
Syria:
Release three prisoners of
conscience
Amnesty International is calling on the Syrian authorities to immediately release and drop all charges against two men due to stand trial on 22 February, and a third who has been detained for a year. All three are being held for expressing their opinion ...
15:
Maharey
offers Newman a tour of ‘state
castle’
Housing Minister Steve Maharey is offering to take Muriel Newman to the state house she described this afternoon as a state castle.
16:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
17:
BNZ
Cuts Two-Year Home Loan Rate
Again
Bank of New Zealand today announced that it is lowering its interest rate for its two-year fixed rate home loans by 0.20% to 6.79%. This is the second time in a week that Bank of New Zealand has cut its two-year fixed rate.
18:
Massey
Finding Raises Race Relations
Hope
The Massey University study's finding, reported today, that most Kiwis are in favour of one law for all is extremely heartening, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said today.
19:
State
Houses, Or State Castles?
New information on the rental cost of some Housing NZ properties dispels any question of why some tenants are reluctant to leave State housing - who wouldn't want to live in an $823,000 home for less than $60 a week? ACT New Zealand Housing Spokesman Dr ...
20:
West
Africa mobilizes final assault against
polio
63 million children to be immunized across 10 countries as Nigerian outbreak threatens African success story.
21:
Thom
Hartmann: Gay Marriage? Blame It On
Jefferson
"It's never been tried before." "The Bible doesn't mention it." "Civilized people have never done things this way." "No society in the 6000 years of the history of civilization since Gilgamesh has suggested such ...
Farming in some of New Zealand's most productive districts has been dealt a massive blow by flooding in the lower North Island, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.
23:
GE
Piggies Go to Market in Quebec
GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment is asking the government to prevent all products containing Canadian pig meat from entering the country.
24:
Politics
forces top prison manager’s resignation
A board representing six iwi in a partnership with the privately-managed Auckland Central Remand Prison (ACRP) today said the resignation of the prison’s General Manager was a huge loss for the country.
25:
Desperate
"The Clark government is desperate when it thinks that lifting the minimum wage is going to save it," said Mr Prebble.
New Zealand's lowest paid workers will receive a 5.9% pay increase from 1 April, following changes to the minimum wage announced today by Labour Minister Margaret Wilson. "These changes affect nearly 30,000 people who earn the lowest wages ...
27:
More
questions in Sri Lankan case
National Party MP Judith Collins is raising more questions over the assurances given by the Government about the care and protection of a Sri Lankan girl deported less than two weeks ago.
28:
Brash welcomes foreshore
support
National Party leader Don Brash has welcomed the results of a study by Massey University showing that more than half of Maori support Crown ownership of the beaches, foreshore and seabed.
29:
The
Censor Is Right This Time
“This will possibly surprise many people but I believe the Censor was right when he classified the controversial film ‘The Passion of Christ’ as R16,” said New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown.
''At what point do you stop relying on a party to be an opposition party and start asking what else needs to be done to put some spine into Washington politics?'' So goes one of the FAQs on the votenader.org website, which just went up this morning ...
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