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Monday, 19 February 2001, 4:32 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Scoop Exclusive: Full Text Of Dioxin Report Published
Kiwi Bank: Shipley Accuses Govt Of Soviet Style Information Control
Disarmament Minister Condemns US/British Air Strike On Iraq
Howard’s End: Judges Can't Be Independent From Voice Of The Public
Rosalea Barker: Berkeley’s CITRIS Could Be a Lemon
Scoop Images: Aussie Footballers Airborne In Wellington
Flotilla Departs To Protest Nuclear Fuel Transports
Fiji: Future Of Post-Speight Govt To Be Decided This Week
Constructions Could Heal Like We Do
Catching The Knowledge Wave

TOP SCOOPS

Scoop Exclusive: Full Text Of Dioxin Report Published

- Scoop today publishes for the first time the full text of the confidential Dioxin report prepared for the Ministry For the Environment leaked last week to the New Zealand Herald newspaper. See... Scoop Publishes "Leaked" MFE Dioxin Report [1] . The Ministry For the Environment responded to the publication of extracts from the report last week with the following press release. See... Dioxin report not secret – MFE [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00092.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0102/S00024.htm

Kiwi Bank: Shipley Accuses Govt Of Soviet Style Information Control

- Deceptive and diversionary tactics cannot hide the fact that Ross Armstrong, Helen Clark and Jim Anderton are trying to conceal vital information about the Peoples Bank proposal, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said. See... Government guilty of Soviet style control of info [1] FULL COVERAGE: - NATS - Anderton's security claims ill-founded, alarmist [2] - GOVT - Release of security info goes too far [3] - NATS - Jenny Shipley: Letter to NZ Post Lawyers [4] - NATS - Jenny Shipley: Letter to Prime Minister [5] - GOVT - Shipley not fit for office [6] - NATS - 'MyBank' is huge Anderton ego trip [7] - GREENS - Greens reject Shipley's cheap shots at 'Kiwi Bank' [8] More on the Just Politics page. [9]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00266.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00273.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00270.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00268.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00267.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00260.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00257.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00254.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=justpolitics

Disarmament Minister Condemns US/British Air Strike On Iraq

- Yesterday's bombing of Baghdad by the United States and Great Britain is a setback for world peace initiatives and the moves to lift the sanctions against Iraq, says Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control Matt Robson. See... Attack On Iraq Sets Back World Peace Initiatives [1] and Locke Supports Robson's Criticism Of Raid On Iraq [2] MORE - PHIL GOFF - Air Strike Against Iraq [3] - AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE - U.S./British Warplanes Hit Iraqi Military Sites [4] - BACKGROUND 1998 - The Security Situation In Iraq (2) [5] - The Security Situation In Iraq (1) [6]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00274.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00275.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0102/S00272.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0102/S00127.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/c4/3a/199812170916.478582.html
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/65/55/199812170913.32cb08.html

Howard’s End: Judges Can't Be Independent From Voice Of The Public

- When the courts deal, as ours do, with great public questions, the only protection against unwise decisions, and even judicial usurpation, is careful scrutiny of their actions and fearless comment upon it. Judicial and political criticism of the public and the media at Mark Middleton's sentencing is misguided. See... Howard's End: Say Something, Be Something [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00087.htm

Rosalea Barker: Berkeley’s CITRIS Could Be a Lemon

- The Berkeley campus of the University of California sports what must surely be the most aromatic monuments to ill-informed decision-making that you could find anywhere in the world. The early planners of the campus decided to plant copious trees that could be used for construction timber and looked about for a fast-growing, tall, straight-trunked candidate that would fit the bill. The one they decided on was an import from one of their Pacific neighbours. It was the Australian gum tree. See... Stateside: Lemon Tree Very Pretty [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00088.htm

Scoop Images: Aussie Footballers Airborne In Wellington

- AFL teams Adelaide Crows vs Brisbane Lions at Wellington's WestpacTrust Stadium, 17th February 2001. Photographs by Mark Graham . See... Scoop Images: Flying High With The AFL [1] - Scoop Images: Flying High With The AFL (2) [2] - Scoop Images: Flying High With The AFL (3) [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00086.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00089.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00090.htm

Flotilla Departs To Protest Nuclear Fuel Transports

- A flotilla of seven yachts from Australia and New Zealand left port today to sail to the north-west Tasman Sea where they will protest the use of the Tasman and the Pacific Ocean as a nuclear highway for plutonium ships. See... Nuclear-Free Tasman Flotilla Departs [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0102/S00129.htm

Fiji: Future Of Post-Speight Govt To Be Decided This Week

- SUVA (Pasifik Nius): The stage is set for the Court of Appeal sitting this week that will decide the future of Fiji in the wake of failed businessman George Speight's attempted coup last May. See... Fiji: Stage set for Appeal Court ruling [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0102/S00126.htm

Constructions Could Heal Like We Do

- Imagine if a crack in things such as a bridge support or an aircraft could self-repair itself much the same way as our own skin does. The race is on in scientific circles to develop a material to do just that. John Howard reports. See... Race Is On For Self Healing Building Materials [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0102/S00091.htm

Catching The Knowledge Wave

- A significant initiative to seek new and widely agreed paths for New Zealand’s social and economic development will take place this year, culminating in a major international conference in Auckland at the beginning of August, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, announced Friday night. See... PM Launches Catching The Knowledge Wave Project [1] . See also... Catching The Knowledge Wave Project - Background [2] , Why Catch The Knowledge Wave? – Article By Dr Christopher Tremewan [3] , Catching the Knowledge Wave Project – Vice-Chancellor Hood Speech [4] and Scoop Images: Catching The Knowledge Wave [5]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0102/S00058.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0102/S00059.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0102/S00060.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0102/S00061.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0102/S00062.htm

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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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