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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Personal
Reflections Of South Auckland’s
Statesman
Memorial Feature On David Lange: Selwyn Manning reflects back on what this remarkable New Zealander meant to the people of south Auckland, what difference he made to NZ, and what it was like to be in his presence.
2:
Red
wine consumption decreases risk of
cataract
That is the conclusion of researchers in the Reykjavik Eye Study who have followed the health and diet of a group of over 55 year olds for a period of five years. The study examined the progression of age-related eye disease in Iceland and was mainly ...
3:
Website
attacked from all sides in inaugural
week
The creators of keepleftnz have vowed to stand firm in the face of attacks over its most recent video - called “deceitful” and “dishonest” - and after its challenge to political newsletter Molesworth and Featherston was met with a defensive, high-profile ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Lyndon
Hood: Trying to think up a fiancee
policy
Satire: I'm planning on getting married. That's, if she says yes. At the moment, the woman in question, her name's New Zealand ("Enzed" for short), says she's 38.5% sure she likes me.
5:
David
Lange Passes Away After Long
Illness
Former Prime Minister David Lange died at 10pm last night at Middlemore Hospital in south Auckland. His brother Peter and son Roy were at his side. David Lange had been in hospital receiving dialysis after his kidneys had failed due to complications ...
6:
Coalition
blues ahead, warns Dunne
Coalition blues lie ahead unless United Future is the main support for the next government, United Future leader Peter Dunne told Rotary Club of Wellington members this afternoon.
7:
Public
Address 12/08: No Debate
Small children howled as my car sprayed them with gravel on its headlong, desperate dash to Christchurch Airport. Their mothers held them tight, faces frozen in in rictuses of fear, and burly rugby players blanched and sobbed like silly little girls...
8:
A
Week of It: Democracy 'n' Media
Special
Kevin List's A Week Of It this week... Media Freedom Fighter Flees From Foreign Ownership Question - TV3 News Boss Takes Issue With Head Office Statement - Party Brimming With Compassionate Conservatives Releases Tough Immigration Policy Released - Advertising ...
The economist . . . keeps the motivations of human beings pure, simple and hard-headed, and not messed up by such things as goodwill or moral sentiments... [T]here is ... something quite extraordinary in the fact that economics has in fact evolved in this ...
MetService meteorologists report that it now looks as though New Zealand has gone through the coldest part of the year.
11:
Audio:
Scoop & RadioLive on David Lange’s
Legacy
Scoop Audio: Sunday, Radio Live’s media pack host Matt Mollgaard and Scoop’s Selwyn Manning discussed the passing of former New Zealand prime minister, David Lange’s passing and the legacy that he has left.
12:
Death
of Rt Hon David Lange
Prime Minister Helen Clark today paid tribute to Rt Hon David Lange, who passed away last evening.
The incomparable Raw Story website is publishing a letter it acquired on Tuesday, Aug 9, from 16 Democratic Representatives (whose number has now burgeoned to 38) urging George Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was slain in Iraq ...
14:
Rare
Twins Born at Wellington Zoo
A rare set of Day Gecko twins and a third baby Gecko are the latest native births at Wellington Zoo.
15:
ACT's
The Letter 15 August 2005
The election campaign has started. Brash has stumbled. The Greens go from extreme to preferred and National's hopes now ride on their tax policy.
16:
David
Lange - mourning a truly great
NZer
It is fitting that the nation mourns the passing of a truly great New Zealander.
17:
Maori
Party Acknowledges Rt. Hon David
Lange
14 August 2005 The Maori Party today acknowledges the momentous contribution Right Honourable David Lange gave to this country, and mourns the loss of a great leader. “We were greatly saddened by the passing of former Prime Minister and distinguished ...
18:
Lange's
Legacy Will Live On - Peters
David Lange led New Zealand during one of its most turbulent periods of economic and social change. He had a unique combination of wit, intelligence and warmth which marked him apart from other political leaders, says Rt Hon Winston Peters.
19:
DC
Protest - What's Everybody Mad
About?
Approving and marketing lethal drugs, while concealing the results of studies that reveal deadly side affects, should be a jailable offense. This conduct is not due to mistakes, it is representative of by now an all too familiar pattern of criminal ...
20:
Authors
Challenge State's Relationship with
Mäori
Is it possible to recognise the equally legitimate, often contradictory, claims of indigenous peoples and their colonisers?
21:
Commissioner's
Comments Validate NZ First Stance
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters has welcomed the Police Commissioner Rob Robinson’s validation that there are a number of people currently living in New Zealand with sympathies for overseas terrorist organisations.
22:
Labour
encouraging separatist agenda
News that fisheries officers are being told to stop enforcement north of Tolaga Bay on the East Coast should come as no surprise to Labour.
23:
Deep
Stream Power for 3,100
Homes
TrustPower's new Deep Stream enhancement of its Waipori power scheme will be providing power for 3,100 homes by Winter 2007.
Destiny New Zealand has been involved in an ongoing battle with TVNZ’s Marae programme to be included in the live debates that it has been running profiling candidates standing in the respective Maori electorates.
25:
South
African Archbishop faces new
challenge
“Poverty is the new apartheid,” The Archbishop of Capetown, The Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane, told parishioners at St Matthew-in-the-City in central Auckland on Sunday.
26:
chips
sum total of Brownlee's fisheries
knowledge
The National Party's Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee should stick to eating fish and chips because his knowledge of important fisheries issues is otherwise nil, says Fisheries Minister David Benson-Pope.
27:
Cullen
given the cold shoulder by business
National Party Finance spokesman John Key says a growing majority of business leaders are coming to understand how much damage Labour's 'tax and spend policies' are doing to our economy.
28:
Is
Hell Too Good For Bush?
The Head Demons at Hell Pizza think that might be the case. Hell’s latest billboard featuring President Bush and the words “Hell – Too good for some evil bastards” have caused quite a stir internationally over the last two weeks.
29:
Brash
pays tribute to Lange
National Party Leader Don Brash this morning paid tribute to former Prime Minister David Lange, describing him as “a remarkable man who played a vital role in transforming New Zealand into an internationally competitive, vibrant economy.” “Mr Lange was ...
30:
NBC
Supported Rainbow Warrior
Bombing
Greenpeace USA has sought an apology and the sacking of a NBC commentator after he stating on air that he supported France for blowing up the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in 1985.
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee