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Scoop Ratings – Weekend Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend were...
1: Soapbox:
Zen And The Art Of Computer Projects
In the aftermath of the failure of the Police's Incis computer project, Matthew Thomas points out that it would actually have been a miracle if the project had succeeded.
2:
Scoop
Links: Gorbachev's Peace Plan A
Gem
The controversy over the attendance of 60 New Zealand Defence personnel at a "Masters of Business" seminar in Auckland featuring Mikhail Gorbachev and Stormin Norm "Desert Storm" Swartzkopf contains some sweet irony.
3:
Changes
To Loan Scheme Announced By
Shipley
In a speech titled Good Policy Good Government today, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley announced two changes to the student loan scheme. The extract of her speech outlining these changes follows.
4:
Weekend
Column: Petrol Price Ripoff?
Like it or not, higher costs across the board will be the likely outcome of the rise in petrol prices by an average 9c a litre within the last month. John Howard reports.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Rankin
Column: The Crown's Ownership
Interest
On Monday, Simon Upton, in a Herald opinion piece defending the post-reform public service culture, noted: "If there is a criticism that can be made it is that ministers" have "underemphasised . the Crown's ownership interests".
6:
Internal
Affairs Bites Back At NBR
The Department of Internal Affairs has hit back at the National Business Review over a "mischevious piece of writing" concerning some restructuring within the Department.
7:
Scoop's
Questions For Tomorrow's RNZ Staff
Meeting
Scoop would like to be a fly on the wall at tomorrow's (Friday) meeting in Wellington between representatives of Radio New Zealand's board and its staff.
8:
Lava
Magazine: The Scoop On
Scoop
Article republished with the kind permission of Lava magazine...
9:
Fact
Sheet On Student Loan Scheme With
Amendments
The Prime Minister's talk of changes to the student loan scheme today surprised a few people. Here is a fact sheet on the loan scheme - from the PMs office - which also documents the changes that were decided upon in December 1998.
10:
Scoop
Ratings - The Week's Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop this week were...
11:
National
too cowardly to stand by its own
smears
Advertisements attacking the Alliance and Labour in Sunday newspapers are paid for by the National Party, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.
12:
Will
Australia's President be a
Poodle?
Australian Democrats yesterday backed down over the republic referendum question, leaving voters with the prospect of choosing between the present constitutional monarchy, or a republic that few favour - a politicians' republic. Scoop's Simon Orme reports.
13:
Big
Bang Machine Could Destroy
Earth
John Howard reports on a breaking news story that new experiments in the US could destroy the Earth.
14:
Lethal
Injection World Leader Sets Deadly
Example
The scheduled killings of eight people in the USA and Philippines during the next seven days are linked by a deadly connection extending beyond the calculated cruelty of executions and their affront to human dignity, Amnesty International said today.
15:
NZ
Approves Purchase Of $30m Helicopter For
Navy
The new helicopter, which will operate from the New Zealand Navy's two new ANZAC frigates and the Leander class frigate HMNZS Canterbury, will be provided under a contract to be valued at an estimated $30 million, including spares, support equipment ...
16:
Scoop
Ratings - Today's Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop today are...
"The Green Party co-leader Rod Donald has fabricated the truth and got it wrong again", Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.
18:
Re-launch
No. 7 doomed to failure
"The much-hyped "Five Steps" programme the Government will announce on Wednesday is National's seventh desperate attempt to re-launch itself since Jenny Shipley took over as Prime Minister and will flop just like all the others did," ...
19:
Shipley
Speech - Good Policy Good
Government
It sometimes seems much longer, but tomorrow marks a year since the fateful Cabinet meeting that sparked the end of the Coalition and the beginning of Minority Government.
20:
No
Need For Apology Over Revealing Wasted
Money
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald said today he would not be apologising to Defence Minister Max Bradford after revealing that taxpayer money was wasted on a glitzy conference.
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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