Scoop: Top Scoops

Wednesday, 1 November 2000, 4:20 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TOP SCOOPS
Dyson Defenders Send NZ Mixed Messages
DYSON DIC FULL COVERAGE
Swain Welcomes Over 500 Businesses To E-Commerce Summit
Howard’s End: Power Of One With New Zealand
Fashion And Culture Week Hinges On Last Minute Sponsor
Behind The Smiles And Saffron Robes
The Trick’s On Junk Food Fed Kids
OIC Exposed On Sealord Sale
Get Your MP To Demand A Kiwi Bank
Rain Dance Works A Little Too Well
Survey Shows Global Kiwis Emerging Breed
Life Without A Race Relations Conciliator – Wilson Wants Discussion
Strange Sect Marriages Must Be Stopped
ALRANZ Tell CHP To Stick To What They Know

TOP SCOOPS

Dyson Defenders Send NZ Mixed Messages

- “The reaction from Labour MPs to the Ruth Dyson drunk-driving incident has been disappointing,” National's ACC spokesman Gerry Brownlee said today. See... Dyson Defenders Have Questions To Answer [1] and Late-Night Ministerial Decisions Need Reviewing [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00011.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00010.htm

DYSON DIC FULL COVERAGE

- RUTH DYSON - Resignation of ministerial portfolios - Dyson [1] - HELEN CLARKResignation of Ruth Dyson - PM [2] - MICHAEL CULLEN - Ruth's ACC contribution will be missed - Cullen [3] - JIM ANDERTON - Resignation of Hon Ruth Dyson [4] - WYATT CREECH - Government strain taking its toll [5] - ANNETTE KING - Resignation of Ruth Dyson [6] - PETER DUNNE - Dunne Applauds Dyson's Honourable Decision [7] - RICHARD PREBBLE - Prime Minister Had To Accept Dyson Resignation [8] - TARIANA TURIA - Ruth Dyson [9]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00551.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00552.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00567.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00562.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00561.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00559.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00555.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00554.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00553.htm

Swain Welcomes Over 500 Businesses To E-Commerce Summit

- Minister for Information Technology Paul Swain has welcomed more than 500 businesses to the government's e-commerce summit in Auckland, and challenged them to think about the future. See... Swain opens E-commerce Summit [1] and Swain opening address to E-commerce Summit [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00004.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00003.htm

Howard’s End: Power Of One With New Zealand

- There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come - and the time has come for our government to offer New Zealand as an independent and impartial forum for the brokerage of peace between peoples' and countries at war. See... Howard's End: NZ Could Be Peace Broker [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00004.htm

Fashion And Culture Week Hinges On Last Minute Sponsor

- New Zealand Fashion and Culture Week will be cancelled without a last minute $300,000 reprieve from a sponsor. See... Fashion Week future bleak, but not weak [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00005.htm

Behind The Smiles And Saffron Robes

- BANGKOK, Thailand -- Buddhist monks who allegedly murdered people, enjoyed sex with women and, in a macabre ritual, roasted a dead baby have wreaked hell on Thai society and its saffron-robed clergy. See... Buddhist Crimes [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00003.htm

The Trick’s On Junk Food Fed Kids

- On Hallowe'en, news of a real-life trick-or-treat nightmare: a generation of children so fat and unfit that their brittle bones are breaking when they run, play, walk or even stand. See... How Market Treats Trick New Zealand's Children [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00001.htm

OIC Exposed On Sealord Sale

- In May 2000, no less than six applications were refused by the Overseas Investment Com-mission (OIC). Most details, other than that they were in the “Marine Fisheries” industry were suppressed. All turned out to be the applications of three unidentified ... See... Sealord Sale: OIC Exposed [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0011/S00002.htm

Get Your MP To Demand A Kiwi Bank

- Communities needing better banking facilities should be leaning on their local MP to get in behind the kiwi bank, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said. See... Get Your MP To Demand A Kiwi Bank [1] and Front-Up With The Answers, Jim [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00014.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0011/S00019.htm

Rain Dance Works A Little Too Well

- An aboriginal group did a rain dance last night and sure enough, it's raining. In fact, on Tuesday there may be no performances 'cause its soaking wet. But hey, the rain dance was cool! Report #4 from LOOP correspondent Sarah Hunter, at the Pacific Festival of Arts. See... Rain, good food and some grumbles [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0010/S00093.htm

Survey Shows Global Kiwis Emerging Breed

- A new group of New Zealanders, the Global Citizen, is rapidly emerging according to a survey just released. See... Global Citizen NZ's Fastest-Growing New Breed [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0011/S00003.htm

Life Without A Race Relations Conciliator – Wilson Wants Discussion

- A new Human Rights Institution for New Zealand is proposed in a paper prepared for the Associate Justice Minister Margaret Wilson. See... A New Human Rights Institution [1] RELATED: - PANSY WONG - Treading on dangerous ground over Race Office [2] - RICHARD PREBBLE - “Dump Human Rights Commission Instead” – Prebble [3] - PETER DUNNE - Dunne Attacks Plan To Scrap Race Relations Office [4] - TONY RYALL - Race Relations Office Doomed [5]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00568.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00565.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00563.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00550.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0010/S00548.htm

Strange Sect Marriages Must Be Stopped

- “The Corrective Party wants to stop this immorality in Parliament once and for all. The voters of this country never meant for MMP to mean Multiple Member Perversions - yet that is what happened during the first MMP Parliament!!!” said Sister Obiteria, legal spokesnun for the Corrective Party. See... Correctives: Stop Strange-Sect Marriages!!! [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0011/S00006.htm

ALRANZ Tell CHP To Stick To What They Know

- “ALRANZ regards the recent Christian Heritage Party media statement on the ‘True Love Waits’ fear-based sexuality ‘education’ seminars as interference in matters that do not concern their organisation.” See... CHP Bereft of Sexual Health Expertise [1] and Chastity Programme Gets Thumbs Up [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0011/S00003.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0010/S00100.htm

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