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Scoop Ratings - Yesterday's Top 20

The Top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...

1: Nats Losing Support to Labour, NZ First, Greens

The tide continues to turn against the National Party. Their Bright Future announcement has failed to translate into votes while the Winebox victory of Winston Peters immediately puts New Zealand First right back in the picture.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00085.htm


2: Student Loan Changes Widely Misunderstood

Government changes to the student loan scheme announced in November last year - and then again last week - are perhaps one of the most poorly communicated government announcements in recent times. Scoop's Jonathan Hill reports.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00088.htm


3: No Prime Minister: The Buck Stops With You

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley's frustration at evidence of a worsening health status for south Auckland children is a mere red herring, a smoke-screen designed to cloud the Government's role in this order of social shame.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK9908/S00114.htm


4: Police Say On Your Way To Sex Workers

Police are cracking down on Auckland’s homeless, street-kids, and sex workers in the run up to the APEC leader’s summit meetings next month.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK9908/S00117.htm


5: The Week Ahead: Secrets, Lies, Liquor, Prod Boards

Scoop is anticipating a big week in Parliament this week with mounting pressure on the government and particularly the Prime Minister, as the opposition mounts an offensive on the Secrets and Lies revelations made by Nicky Hager last week.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00081.htm


6: New Zealand – World Peace Capital

If Sino - US diplomatic efforts are successful, next month's APEC conference in Auckland could see New Zealand become the new peace capital of the world, establishing an entirely new industry in the process. John Howard reports.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00087.htm


7: Bleak Day For Rainforest Conservation

Conservationists have today condemned the Government's decision to begin a major beech logging programme in 100,000 hectares of publicly owned West Coast lowland rainforest.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO9908/S00078.htm


8: Questions For Oral Answer Tuesday, 24 August 1999

Todays questions for oral answer..

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9908/S00396.htm


9: Diana's Death - Unanswered Questions Remain

John Howard reports that on the second anniversary of Princess Diana's death there remain a number of unanswered questions.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00080.htm


10: Questions Of The Day (1-4)

South Auckland Health - Timberlands - Winebox - Winebox

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00090.htm


11: Beech Scheme Think Big Disaster Of New Millennium

The Green Party has slammed the National Government's decision to proceed with a massive beech forest logging scheme on the West Coast just prior to the election.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9908/S00397.htm


12: National Radio Midday Bulletin

Virus - Timberlands - Banks - Quake - Winebox - Degrees of Murder - Y2K - Unions And APEC - Cricket

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/NM9908/S00156.htm


13: Scoop Ratings – Yesterday’s Top 20

The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were…

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/NM9908/S00154.htm


14: Peters' nuclear "sell-out" claim inaccurate

Winston Peters’ claim last week that the Government is giving North Korea $4 million to build nuclear reactors is wildly inaccurate in every respect, Finance Minister Sir William Birch said today.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9908/S00390.htm


15: Questions of the Day (9-12)

Ryall on Timberlands - INCIS - Economic Growth - Tau Henare's Behaviour

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00092.htm


16: Birch Not Fit To Be Revenue Minister - Peters

New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, today said that Revenue Minister Sir William Birch either does not understand the law or he has contempt for the law. Either way Mr Birch is not fit to be Minister of Revenue.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9908/S00380.htm


17: Questions of the Day (5-8)

Timberlands - ACC - Knowledge Economy - Immunisation Database

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00091.htm


18: The Sporting Scoop: NZ Win Cricket Series

An unabashed supporter of British sport reports on a historic victory for NZ cricket and an ignominious defeat for England

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9908/S00079.htm


19: Abundant Support For Cosgrove Candidacy

"The selection of Clayton Cosgrove as Labour's candidate for the Waimakariri Electorate has been welcomed by Labour activists throughout the country," said Labour's Manurewa Electorate campaign manager Daniel Newman.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO9908/S00076.htm


20: Why New Zealand is so violent

New Zealand will keep its place as the most violent country in the developed world after South Africa until we get full employment, a victim-centred justice system and a vastly improved mental health system, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9908/S00367.htm


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