Scoop: Top Scoops

Thursday, 14 June 2001, 3:49 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Scoop Is In The House – Today’s Q&A
Keith Rankin: Messing With The UK Election Figures
Sludge: Alternative Prostitution Law Reform Plan
Lindsay Perigo: Global Warming News You Don’t hear
Time For Politicking On Super Passed – Peters
King Abuses Power With Effective Gagging Order
“Death Squad” Accusation Inappropriate & Disproportionate
Wind Power Would Save Electricity Crises In Dry Years
Only Mobil Needs To Be Convinced Over Low Sulphur Diesel
Fiji: Speight’s Bogus Lawyer Facing Charges
Scoop World: Bush Protestors Arrested

TOP SCOOPS

Scoop Is In The House – Today’s Q&A

- Today's questions of the day concerned: CYFS New Directions – NCEA Training – Early Childhood Education – Uni Fee Freeze – Technology NZ – Hospital Funding – Australia’s Hijacking Of ANZFA – Student Loan Abuse – Dental Health – Ruapehu Lahar Protection – New Prison – Electricity Prices. See... SCP HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 14 June [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00081.htm

Keith Rankin: Messing With The UK Election Figures

- Last week I suggested that the result of the British election would be closer than most people expected. I was right, the gap between Labour and the Conservatives was only nine percentage points. What I did not realise, however, is just how much the first-past-the-post system distorts British elections. So I did some sums, tried out the BBC's "Virtual Vote" tool, and made some comparisons with New Zealand. See... Keith Rankin: A Minuscule Landslide [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00077.htm

Sludge: Alternative Prostitution Law Reform Plan

- When prostitution is considered as a human rights issue, involved primarily with emancipation, as opposed to an issue of commercial regulation, then the path law reform ought to take becomes far clearer. See... Sludge Report #87 – Human Rights And Selling Sex [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00079.htm

Lindsay Perigo: Global Warming News You Don’t hear

- The American president is in Europe, being demonstrated against by sundry statist scum, foot-soldiers in the “anti-industrial revolution” as Ayn Rand called it. See... Lindsay Perigo: Warming Up The Kyoto Science [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0106/S00080.htm

Time For Politicking On Super Passed – Peters

- The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today said the continued politicking of Bill English and the National Party on superannuation only serves to highlight the type of destructive political games that the public have had to put up with for years on this issue. See... National Shows True Colours with Super Politicking [1] and Winston throws in the towel in fight for accounts [2] MORE: - Green - NZ First, Alliance back National, sell out support [3] - NZ First - Super Meeting Positive And Constructive--Peters [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00182.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00180.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00178.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00175.htm

King Abuses Power With Effective Gagging Order

- Health Minister Annette King’s decree that only Health Board Chairs may speak to the public is a dictatorial move to tighten political domination of health news, ACT Health Spokesman Ken Shirley said today. See... Health Minister Abuses Power [1] MORE: - Sowry - King can't define her censorship [2] - Stand over tactics to gag boards [3] - King - Sowry talking through hole in his leak [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00179.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00176.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00148.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00152.htm

“Death Squad” Accusation Inappropriate & Disproportionate

- "It appears that the Christian Heritage Party has no sense of shame, irony or proportion, given its recent accusation that our President, Doctor Margaret Sparrow, is leader of a "death squad." Craig Young, Research Officer of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand said today. See... "Christian" Hypocrites Party? [1] and More Aid For Death Squad - CHP [2] EARLIER: - ALRANZ - Reproductive Choice is the Mark of A Civil Society [3] - CHP - Cries In Support Of A Civilised Society [4] - ALRANZ - More Sex Education and Contraceptive Subsidies [5] and More Abortions in 2000 [6]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0106/S00055.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0106/S00050.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0106/S00047.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0106/S00039.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/ma son/stories/PO0106/S00035.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00085.htm

Wind Power Would Save Electricity Crises In Dry Years

- The present high prices for wholesale electricity, brought on by low lake levels, highlight an advantage of wind power: it will reduce price hikes during dry years. See... Wind Power Offers Price Stability [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0106/S00123.htm

Only Mobil Needs To Be Convinced Over Low Sulphur Diesel

- The Auckland Regional Council and Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited have held top level talks in an attempt to end their stand off over lower sulphur diesel for the Auckland region. See... ARC and Mobil hold talks [1] . See also... Mobil, Come On Board Over Low Sulphur [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0106/S00023.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0106/S00142.htm

Fiji: Speight’s Bogus Lawyer Facing Charges

- Terrorist George Speight's lawyer Navin Naidu has been charged with 3 criminal counts and will be appearing in Suva Magistrate's Court today. See... Terrorist's Lawyer Charged [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00052.htm

Scoop World: Bush Protestors Arrested

- Brussels, 13 June 2001. Thirty Greenpeace activists from 12 countries have now been arrested after carrying out a series of protests to US President George W. Bush's plans to deploy a star wars missile system and that government's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. See... Greenpeace activists arrested on Bush arrival [1] and Greenpeace blocks airport as Bush arrives [2] MORE: - US President Remarks At Open Of NATO Meeting [3] - US President And NATO SG Press Conference [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00045.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00044.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00050.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0106/S00049.htm

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