TOP SCOOPS
Growth Down For June Quarter
Speak For Yourself, Tariana
Peter B. Lewis Named
As Drug Smuggling Billionaire
Scoop Opinion:
Petrol Prices Just Part Of The Ebb & Flow
Strong
Opposition To GE Pines
Drug Running Yacht For
Sale
Scoop Education: Teachers Taking On
Parents’ Roles
Scoop World: Petrol Protests In
France
Scoop Link: Sydney Indymedia – Independent
Olympic Coverage
Scoop World: Clinton’s Failed
Colombian Journey
Scoop Business: Insurance
Associations Fail To Merge
So Long,
Spot
Scoop Arts: Rap Innovators De La Soul Are
Back
Scoop IT: Aus Government On Target For
E-Goals
Scoop Business: Driver Training To Lower
Fleet Costs
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TOP SCOOPS
Growth Down For June Quarter
- “The cooling of growth in the June quarter, indicated by the latest National Bank Regional Trends Survey, is not unexpected and should be taken in context,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today. See... Cooling in growth over June quarter expected [1] in the Parliament wire. MORE ON THE ECONOMY - CULLEN - Dr Michael Cullen Speech To The Export Institue [2] - ANDERTON - Govt priority is improved opportunity for all [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0008/S00591.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0008/S00588.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0008/S00589.htm
Speak For Yourself, Tariana
- Finance Minister Michael Cullen said that a speech yesterday by Tariana Turia in which she linked “colonisation” of Maori and family violence was a personal view that did not represent government policy. See... 'Colonisation' comments not government policy [1] in the Parliament wire. MORE ON POST COLONIAL STRESS DISORDER - PEACE MOVEMENT AOTEAROA - Denial Of The Effects Of Colonisation ? [2] - CHRISTIAN HERITAGE - Maori Violence [3] - MILD GREENS - Matrix of Dysfunction linked to "Home Invasion" [4] - TURIA'S SPEECH - Psychological Society Conference - Tariana Turia [5] - NATIONAL - Pull yourself together Tariana [6] and Is Tariana Turia Speaking For The Govt? [7] - ACT - Re: Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Disorder [8] - NZ FIRST - Peters Slams Turia For Psycho-Babble [9]
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0008/S00571.htm
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Peter B. Lewis Named As Drug Smuggling Billionaire
- The name of the billionaire released without conviction for importing drugs into New Zealand at the beginning of the year is Peter B Lewis a 66-year-old American insurance mogul. See... Drug Importing Billionaire A “Functioning Pothead” [1] in the Headlines wire.
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00166.htm
Scoop Opinion: Petrol Prices Just Part Of The Ebb &
Flow
- Retail petrol prices are up 50% since around this time last year. It's just one issue behind the malaise that's going round. It seems such a pity to waste the year 2000 - the millennium year - worrying about the kinds of price change that represent no ... See... Keith Rankin's Thursday Column: Shocking Prices? [1] in the Headlines wire.
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00168.htm
Strong Opposition To GE Pines
- Strong Opposition Against GE Pine Trees In New Zealand Up to 700 submissions on GE pine trees were put forward to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) through an internet web site over the last three weeks. See... Strong Opposition Against GE Pine Trees In NZ [1] in the Politics wire.
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0008/S00189.htm
Drug Running Yacht For Sale
- The yacht seized by New
Zealand Customs after suspicions it was involved in a drug
run from South America this year will be auctioned, Customs
Minister Phillida Bunkle announced today. See... Seized Yacht To Be Auctioned in the
Parliament wire. - “Teachers and schools
cannot possibly be expected to keep on taking over more and
more social, family and parent type responsibilities,” Roger
McClay, Commissioner for Children told the
Nelson/Marlborough Assistant Deputy Principals professional
development day in Blenheim. See... "Investing In Tomorrow’s Society" [1]
in the Education wire. - Government
inquiries over high fuel prices are underway in Australia
and the United States while in France, taxi drivers will
Friday join widening fuel price protests. John Howard
reports. See... French
Protest Petrol Prices [1] in the Headlines
wire. - Sydney Indymedia is a collective of
activists, media-makers, groups and individuals offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage of struggles, actions and
issues around the 2000 Olympics. Everyone is a witness.
Everyone is a journalist. See... NBC Versus the Internet ? [1] in the
International wire. -
President Clinton's day-long trip to Colombia was preceded
by his fateful decision to waive congressional human rights
constraints placed on U.S. weapon's aid to that country's
already darkly controversial armed forces. See... Clinton's Failed Colombia Journey [1]
in the International wire. MORE INTERNATIONAL
STORIES - UNITED STATES - Detroit Police Kill Deaf-mute Man--30 Aug.
2000 [2] - EAST TIMOR - A Year Later, East Timor Still Needs
Justice [3] and UN Urged to Create Timor International
Tribunal [4] - FIJI - Fiji: Closed Police Chief Inquiry
'Shocking' [5] and Fiji Information Minister Defends
Kotobalavu [6] - AUSTRALIA - New cooperative agreement for mapping
Australia [7] and Diseased asparagus stopped at Melbourne
airport [8] - MIDDLE EAST - Dennis Ross Update On Middle East Peace
Process [9] - MEXICO - Environmentalist prisoners of conscience
convicted [10] - In
an historic vote at their joint conference last week, and
after two years of merger talks, members of the two industry
associations representing insurance brokers in New Zealand
failed to get enough votes to join forces and become one
body. See... Broker Bodies Fail To Merge [1] in the
Business wire. - Spot, the Jack Russell Terrier who
starred in Telecom advertising through the 90s, has died.
See... Telecom Pays Tribute To Spot [1] in the
Art and Culture wire. -
Since introducing the globe to a new style of speak with the
“verbal confetti” and “naughty noise” of its classic 1988
debut single, “Plug Tunin',” De La Soul has perpetually
proven itself to be at the forefront of rap music
innovation. ... See... De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence
[1] in the Art and Culture wire. - The
first of five surveys to be conducted over the next 18
months provides an overview of agencies' progress in meeting
the Prime Minister's 1997 Investing for Growth statement-to
provide all appropriate services online by 2001. See... Australia on target for e-Government
[1] in the Business wire.
- A pilot program was launched today aimed at lowering costs
and reducing emissions of the 1.3 million cars and light
commercial vehicles used for business in Australia. See...
Energy program targets business vehicle
fleets [1] in the Business wire.
Scoop Education: Teachers
Taking On Parents’ Roles
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0008/S00061.htm
Scoop World: Petrol Protests In France
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0008/S00171.htm
Scoop Link: Sydney Indymedia – Independent Olympic
Coverage
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0008/S00206.htm
Scoop World: Clinton’s Failed Colombian Journey
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0008/S00203.htm
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Scoop
Business: Insurance Associations Fail To Merge
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0008/S00242.htm
So Long, Spot
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0008/S00053.htm
Scoop Arts: Rap Innovators De La Soul Are Back
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0008/S00052.htm
Scoop IT: Aus Government On Target For E-Goals
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0008/S00238.htm
Scoop Business: Driver Training To Lower Fleet Costs
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0008/S00237.htm