Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 March 2008

Thursday, 13 March 2008, 9:03 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Key sinks to new depths

New Zealand Government

National's leader John Key needs to explain to rural and business people why he wants to take $700 million of Government funding off them, Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00210.htm

Jason Leopold

On paper, Lieutenant Commander Brian K. Waite, a United States Navy chaplain, appears to be one of the nation's foremost scholars on a wide-range of topics such as traumatology, theology, and Biblical history.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00181.htm

New Zealand Government

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John Key’s attack on public servants is just the latest example of slippery politics from the National Party Leader, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00207.htm

LawFuel

When the New Zealand Police decided to use a “wiki” to collect ideas for the rewriting of their own Act, they had little idea that it would lead to worldwide interest and the decision by several countries and agencies, like the US Department ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00115.htm

United Future NZ Party

UnitedFuture Leader Peter Dunne is calling for the Prime Minister to meet urgently with the Afghani Ambassador over the impending execution of student Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh in Afghanistan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00217.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. JOHN KEY to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her response, when asked whether her Government got many of its ideas from the New Zealand Public Service, “No. It is a very blunt answer but it is true. We generate the ideas.”; if not, why ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00202.htm

Auckland University Students Association

Auckland students called on the New Zealand government to uphold fundamental human rights, by pressuring the Afghanistan government to overturn a death sentence handed down to a student who exercised his rights to freedom of opinion and expression.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00114.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Leader John Key says a National Government will halt the growth of the Government’s core bureaucracy. “My commitment to New Zealanders is this – in the first term of a National Government, we will not grow the size of the core ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00203.htm

New Zealand National Party

Ladies and gentlemen. Every week brings news of worsening economic conditions. Throughout New Zealand, individuals and businesses are feeling the pinch from higher interest rates and increased costs for everyday essentials like food and petrol.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00204.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley has revealed that Housing New Zealand tenants paying market rentals are under no obligation to declare whether they have bought an investment property or a holiday home.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00214.htm

Transpower

Transpower New Zealand announced today that the mitigations needed to return a half pole 1 of the HVDC inter island link to service will be completed prior to winter.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00198.htm

Hudson

Companies who correctly invest in attracting and retaining staff are at a distinct advantage - Research confirms significant gaps between what job seekers want and what’s offered - Employers selling themselves short; job ads leaving candidates ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00194.htm

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

“National leader John Key’s policy announcement today on the public service shows just how inexperienced he is in this area of important public policy,” CTU president Helen Kelly said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00113.htm

New Zealand Government

Health Minister David Cunliffe today launched extensive delegations to a strong team of Associate Health Ministers giving them a wide scope for action.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00193.htm

New Zealand National Party

It is astonishing that Inland Revenue is reluctant to use its powers to apply for arrest warrants to nab fleeing child support defaulters, says National's Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00219.htm

Public Service Association

“The PSA has major concerns about National’s public services policy,” says Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA which has 55,000 members working in the state sector.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00116.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. JOHN KEY (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Finance; if so, why?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00198.htm

Oxfam

Virisila Buadromo, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand programme partners, Fiji Women's Rights Movement, has won an International Women of Courage Award. The award was given yesterday in Washington by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0803/S00116.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Leader John Key says National will make a significant increase in funding for agricultural research and development, but it does not support the model announced by Labour today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00183.htm

Global Intelligence Solutions

Global Intelligence Solutions Ltd a New Zealand based company has been invited by Professor Taylor from the USA to be part of a team of experts to analyse imagery that may indicate the presence of an anomaly that could turn out to be, Noah’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0803/S00027.htm

New Zealand Government

“John Key calling the $700 million NZ Fast Forward Fund for research, development, and innovation in the primary sector a ‘gimmick’ betrays an appalling lack of judgement,” Minister for Economic Development Pete Hodgson said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00190.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced that the Labour-Progressive Government is committing $700 million to a new research, development, and innovation plan for the future in New Zealand's pastoral and food industries.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00172.htm

Liberal Party

Lord Ashdown the former leader of the British Liberal Democrats and European Union High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina today welcomed the launch of the New Zealand Liberal Party.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00105.htm

New Zealand International Arts Festival

Lively, spirited and fiercely written, Where We Once Belonged is a starkly honest, sometimes brutal, yet often wildly funny coming-of-age story is co-produced by the Festival and Auckland Theatre Company during March. Written by Sia Figiel and adapted ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0803/S00101.htm

The Maori Party

“A very constructive meeting was held with members of the Maori Party in Ikaroa Rawhiti tonight” said Professor Winiata.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00167.htm

Anonymous

As Project Chanology continues, thousands of people worldwide will stage a protest on March 15th against the Church of Scientology's corruption, and abuse of its members and critics. The group Anonymous, will picket at local Church of Scientology centers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0803/S00099.htm

Child Cancer Foundation

On Friday March 14th the parent support group for families of children with cancer - the Child Cancer Foundation of Tonga will be launched in Nukualofa, Tonga. Tonga will be the first Pacific Island country to have such a support group. The launch ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0803/S00045.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

As last week's diplomatic crisis between Venezuela & Colombia demonstrates, Chávez has once again sought to appropriate historical symbols in an effort to score political points. "Some day Colombia will be freed from the hand of the (U.S.) empire.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0803/S00117.htm

New Zealand Government

Minister of Health David Cunliffe has dismissed claims by some former Hawke’s Bay DHB members that he could breach the Bill of Rights. “Clearly claims that I would breach the Bill of Rights Act are an act of desperation,” Mr Cunliffe said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00218.htm

Libertarianz Party

Primitive superstition meets contemporary vacuousness in the revised list of mortal sins issued by the Vatican, observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00112.htm

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