Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 16 April 2007

Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 8:43 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Scoop Review: Corner of 4am and Cuba

Scoop Review

Corner 4am and Cuba was devised based research from court transcripts, media reports and interviews, some reproduced verbatim. It is presented in a series of short scenes in a range of styles, mixed in with music. That kind of presentation is common to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00236.htm

Media Statement

Iconic former All Black and Wellington Hurricanes Captain, Mark 'Bull' Allen, will officiate the mass gathering at Parliament Grounds planned for Wednesday 2nd May at 12.30pm. The gathering is being organised to maintain public opposition to the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00192.htm

TelstraClear

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TelstraClear's pilot wireless network in Tauranga is to be shut down because of a deliberate last minute change by Vodafone that meant the service would be uncompetitive.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00215.htm

New Zealand Government

National finance spokesman Bill English's one track fixation with government spending underlines how keen he is to slash essential public services, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00275.htm

Agenda

Justice Minister Mark Burton has given his clearest hint yet that the Government may be ready to back down on state funding of election campaigns.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00239.htm

The Scoop Team

Agenda: Govt Ready To Back Down On Taxpayer Election Funding; Economics: Dollar High - English Blames State Spending; Satire: Computer Software Meets Parliamentary Press Releases Leading To Humour; MORE POLITICS HEADLINES; POLITICAL COLUMNS
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00243.htm

UNITEC

Unitec New Zealand’s CEO and President Dr John Webster announced today that he will retire at the end of 2007.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0704/S00041.htm

The Scoop Team

Letter From Lebanon: No Help For the Injured And Displaced - Agenda: Govt Ready To Back Down On Taxpayer Election Funding - Satire: Computer Software Meets Parliamentary Press Releases Leading To Humour - Section 59: Timaru Whip Lady Back In Court - Pacific ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00242.htm

International Trade Union Confederation

Cambodia: Sentencing of two innocent men for murder of trade unionist a "double travesty of justice"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0704/S00217.htm

Speights

Speight's announces the Speight's Great Beer Delivery Salvation on its way to desperate kiwis in the UK... via Samoa, Panama, the Bahamas and NYC
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00227.htm

Council of Trade Unions

“It is irresponsible for the climate change sceptics to suggest that there is no climate change threat,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. “Its time they got real.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00193.htm

Green Party

"Cases like that of Cheyenne Tonihi - who had her four day old baby taken from her- highlight the barbarism of a justice system which separates babies from their mothers and prefers to see the mother receive grief counselling and antidepressants rather ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00269.htm

NZEI

The country's largest education union, the New Zealand Educational Institute, mourns the loss of Dame Marie Clay, a world renowned reading expert. Dame Marie passed away in Auckland on Friday, April 13, aged 81.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0704/S00040.htm

New Zealand Government

The Minister of Trade, Phil Goff, yesterday formally launched a pilot ‘Waste to Energy’ project in Landhi, near Karachi, Pakistan. The project, which turns animal waste into energy and fertilizer was designed by New Zealand firm Empower Consultants ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00276.htm

Wastesaver

“New Zealanders should ready themselves that their household rubbish will one day soon produce electricity without any form of environmental impact” says Wastesaver NZ Chief Executive John Fistonich.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00229.htm

CMC Markets

CMC Markets, New Zealand’s leading CFD (Contract for Difference) provider, welcomes the Securities Commission review into CFD regulation. CFDs, a derivative product, are one of the fastest growing financial tools on world markets and fast gaining ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00224.htm

New Zealand National Party

National is calling on the Government to come clean and admit it has backtracked on giving foresters the benefit of carbon credits, following the release today of further Cabinet papers, says National's Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00279.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00237.htm

Government Accountability Project

(Washington, D.C.) – A news story broken using documents obtained by the Government Accountability Project (GAP) showing that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’ girlfriend, also a Bank staffer, received salary raises far in excess of what Bank ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0704/S00221.htm

New Zealand National Party

Labour should hang their heads in shame at the disparate treatment given to women with breast cancer, says National’s Associate Health spokeswoman, Dr Jackie Blue.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00258.htm

Auckland International Airport

The timely completion of the Manukau Harbour Crossing Project was strongly advocated by Auckland Airport at a joint Council hearing for the project today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00228.htm

The Black Star Project

There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of Black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0704/S00206.htm

Scoop Audio

KiwiFM Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning & KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss how Niue and New Zealand want the 20,000+ Ex-Pat Niueans to reconnect with their island and its 1600 people. What's it like on Niue, and can people visit as tourists? Yes!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00238.htm

Media Statement

On Wednesday 2nd May at 12.30pm at Parliament Grounds in Wellington, a mass gathering is being organised to maintain public opposition to the passage of the anti smacking bill currently before parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00191.htm

New Zealand National Party

The National Party is saddened by the news that Dame Marie Clay has died. National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich says, “She is a giant of education sector and her contribution to education, and particular the study of literacy, within New ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00247.htm

Emirates Team New Zealand

The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honourable Helen Clark, will be onboard Emirates Team New Zealand for the first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup next Monday April 16.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00136.htm

Victoria University of Wellington

A conference on the Rt Hon Jim Bolger’s tenure as Prime Minister later this month will play host to a number of distinguished current and former parliamentarians.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00190.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour’s tawdry attempt to railroad plans for state funding of political parties now hinges on the Greens.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00251.htm

Federated Farmers

The New Zealand economy is at serious risk from the continued rise in the kiwi dollar, said Keith Kelly, chair of the meat and fibre section of Federated Farmers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0704/S00226.htm

Playmarket

In his mihi at the beginning of He Reo Hou: Five Plays by Maori Playwrights, published by Playmarket in 1991, Don Selwyn commented “without the writer we have no theatre – no film – no vehicle for a wider range of creative talents to contribute”. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0704/S00154.htm

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