Today's Top Scoops - 19 May 2008
Energy: Greenpeace Slams Nats As Weak Against 'Anti-Climate' Business Lobby + More delay is the last thing we need + John Key fails leadership test on climate change + Gutless National risk billions
Budget: Dunne Dispenses Money For Prescriptions System + Gung Ho: Iroquois Support Police On Cook Strait Exercise + General Politics: ACT Reveals 20-Point Pledge Card + Etymology: Stop Calling Burma Myanmar Says McCully + Housing Equity: $35m Shared Equity Pilot Funded In Budget 2008
Retail: You Are Being Served Less + Technology: Community Opposition To Telecom 3G Masts Grows
Fiji: "Journalists Acting Like Political Activists" + Tectonics: Scientists Identified Earthquake Faults In Sichuan, China + Bush In Middle East: President Bush At The World Economic Forum, Egypt + Burma: UK'S Gordon Brown Condemns Inhuman Burmese Regime
Walter Brasch: President Bush's Week-Long Adventure + Foreign Affairs: Auckland Gathering Condemns Burma'S Military Junta + Uri Avnery: With Friends Like These... + Ramzy Baroud: 60 Years of Denial
Fairy Tales: Rodney Hide Acts As Bumbling Dwarf Butterbur + Current Affairs: In Conversation with Noel Cheer + Political Theatre: North American Play Parallel's Tuhoe Raids + Arts Ed: Black Friars, Strike Percussion Launch "Artists in Schools"
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LEAD STORY
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Energy: Greenpeace Slams Nats As Weak
Against 'Anti-Climate' Business Lobby -
Greenpeace has fired a stinging attack against the National
Party and its leader John Key, stating the party is weak in
the face of pressure from an "anti-climate" business lobby
group. Greenpeace says National's attempt to delay the
emissions trading scheme (ETS) and undermine a partial ban
on thermal power stations is unacceptable, and a strong
indication the party puts big business backers ahead of
tackling climate change. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- National - National won't cut corners on ETS [2]
- National - John Key Speech To Regional Conference Wellington [3]
- Greens - More delay is the last thing we need [4]
- NZ Govt - John Key fails leadership test on climate change [5]
- NZ Govt - Gutless National risk billions [6]
- NZ Climate Science Coalition - NZCSC Challenges Greenpeace To Front With Evidence [7]
- Climate Science Coalition - Greens "away with the fairies" [8]
- Environmental Defence Society - National's Response Really, Really Disappointing [9]
MORE:
- Kyoto Forestry Association - KFA Supports Key Call For Reopening Of Submissions [10]
- Business Council for Sustainable Development - Leadership Not Delay Is What NZ Needs On ETS Bill [11]
- NZ Forest Owners Association - Key needs to come clean on trees [12]
- Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce - Time to Start Again on Climate Change Legislation [13]
- TV3 Video - National calls for a delay to Emissions Trading Scheme [14]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00267.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00314.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00316.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00322.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00320.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00326.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00272.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00274.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00273.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0805/S00341.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00278.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0805/S00353.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0805/S00354.htm
[14]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/8187.html
NZ POLITICS
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Budget:
Dunne Dispenses Money For Prescriptions System
- Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne today announced
an $8.8 million investment in the development and ongoing
maintenance of a national electronic medicines formulary
over the next four years. "Improving the way we use
medicines has the potential to significantly improve
outcomes for New Zealanders," said Mr Dunne. More
>> [1]
ALSO IN HEALTH BUDGET:
- NZ Govt - 1000s more patients to receive elective services [2]
- NZ Govt - Cunliffe: Elective Services - investing in heath [3]
- ACT - Election Bribe Two: Small Health Injection [4]
- District Health Boards - Increase in Elective Services Funding [5]
- College of General Practitioners - Delays should be cut by primary care moves [6]
- Health Funds Association of NZ - Private elective contribution needs recognition [7]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00325.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00318.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00300.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00323.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0805/S00090.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0805/S00091.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0805/S00092.htm
Gung
Ho: Iroquois Support Police On Cook Strait Exercise
- The 10.00am sailing of the Interislander
ferry from Picton to Wellington on Friday 16 May set the
scene for a combined police Special Tactics Group (STG) and
RNZAF Number 3 Squadron counter-terrorism training exercise.
More >> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00283.htm
General
Politics: ACT Reveals 20-Point Pledge Card
- ACT Leader Rodney Hide, and ACT founder and candidate Sir
Roger Douglas, today released the ACT Pledge Card - a
'20-Point Plan' that will take the New Zealand economy
forward to beat Australia. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- ACT - ACT leader Rodney Hide's Pledge Speech [2]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00319.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00321.htm
Etymology:
Stop Calling Burma Myanmar Says McCully - Day
after day over the past week, New Zealanders have been
forcibly reminded of the appalling destruction wreaked by
Cyclone Nargis at the top of each media bulletin. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00297.htm
Housing
Equity: $35m Shared Equity Pilot Funded In Budget
2008 - The Government has announced
its Housing Equity policy stating that Budget 2008 will fund
a two year Shared Equity pilot to assist up to 700
households into starter homes, Housing Minister Maryan
Street announced today. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- National - Recycled policy gets reheated - again [2]
- TV3 Video - Govt to spend $35 million on shared equity housing pilot scheme [3]
- Pre-Budget08 - Business + Economy + Market News [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00280.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00287.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/8128.html
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/sections/bizscitech.html
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Retail: You Are Being Served Less -
Activity in the service sector has stalled for the first
time in a year, according to the Bank of New Zealand -
Business NZ Performance of Services Index (PSI). More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0805/S00346.htm
Technology:
Community Opposition To Telecom 3G Masts Grows
- Local residents in Nelson, who organized to block
Telecom's proposed 22 meter, 3G phone mast above a
play-centre and pre-school, want to kick-start a national
dialogue on the safety, standards, placements and even the
need for the proliferation of telecommunications equipment
in New Zealand. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00271.htm
WORLD
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Fiji:
"Journalists Acting Like Political Activists" -
''This is a civilian interim government with every branch of
the machinery of government operating normally - the public
service, the judiciary, the security forces, agriculture and
industry, health, education, airports, revenue collections
etc.'' More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00240.htm
Tectonics:
Scientists Identified Earthquake Faults In Sichuan,
China - The recent earthquake in Sichuan
occurred under some of the steepest and most rugged
mountains in the world, the Longmen Shan: the Dragon's Gate
Mountains. This dramatic range, steeper than the Himalayas,
is the upturned rim of the eastern edge of Tibet. More
>> [1]
ALSO
- China Quake: EU Fast-Tracks €2m Relief Funding Aid [2]
- UNICEF Rushes Relief To Quake Victims In China [3]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00233.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00231.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00236.htm
Bush
In Middle East: President Bush At The World Economic
Forum, Egypt - ''Every peaceful nation in the
region has an interest in opposing Iran's nuclear weapons
ambitions. To allow the world's leading sponsor of terror to
gain the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable
betrayal of future generations.'' -- George Bush. More
>> [1]
EARLIER
- President George Bush Addresses Members Of The Israeli Knesset [2]
- Bush Honors 60th Anniversary of State of Israel [3]
- President Bush In Jerusalem [4]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00243.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00219.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00216.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00202.htm
Burma:
UK'S Gordon Brown Condemns Inhuman Burmese
Regime - In an interview broadcast by the BBC
World Service, Mr Brown said the country's military rulers
were guilty of the ''neglect and inhuman treatment'' of the
Burmese people. They would be held accountable for their
actions, he added. More
>> [1]
RECENTLY
- UK Announces Extra £12m For Burma Cyclone Victims [2]
- Burma Cyclone Now A "Man-Made Catastrophe" - British PM [3]
- UN - Much Bigger Aid Effort Needed For Myanmar [4]
- Myanmar: Without More Aid, Burma Faces Second Catastrophe [5]
- Burma: British PM Demands Aid Access To Cyclone Victims [6]
- UK Govt - First UK Aid Flight Off To Burma, More On Standby [7]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00237.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00218.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00199.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0805/S00160.htm
COMMENT
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Walter Brasch: President Bush's Week-Long
Adventure - President Bush is in Egypt today to
meet with President Hosni Mubarak. It is Bush's last day of
a week-long adventure into the Middle East, where he also
met with the leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the
Palestinian Authority, and Afghanistan... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00246.htm
Foreign
Affairs: Auckland Gathering Condemns Burma'S Military
Junta - AUT's Keira Stephenson reports that
about 50 Burmese refugees, monks and representatives from
Muslim and Christian churches gathered outside Aotea Square
on Saturday to ask for help for their cyclone devastated
country. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00243.htm
Uri Avnery: With Friends Like These... -
LATELY WE are flooded with friends. The Great of the Earth,
past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to
grovel at our feet. "God, save me from my friends, my
enemies I can deal with myself!" says an old prayer. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00244.htm
Ramzy Baroud: 60 Years of Denial - Don't
ask for what you never had,' is the underlying message made
by supporters of Israel when they claim Palestine was never
a state to begin with. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00232.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Fairy
Tales: Rodney Hide Acts As Bumbling Dwarf
Butterbur - ACT leader Rodney Hide has gone
from the dancefloor to wearing tights in Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs. Rodney will play Butterburr - a bumbling dwarf
who never gets it right More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00187.htm
Current Affairs: In Conversation with Noel Cheer
- Broadcast on Tuesday evenings on Triangle
Television Wellington (8:00pm), Triangle Television Auckland
(8:30pm) and on Stratos Television on Freeview Channel 21
and Sky Digital Channel 89 (8:30pm). More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00182.htm
Political Theatre: North American Play Parallel's Tuhoe
Raids - A play about FBI raids into a North
American Indian reservation draws similarities with the
recent police "terror" raids into Tuhoe. The play Annie
Mae's Movement is one of three at a festival of indigenous
plays. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00177.htm
Arts
Ed: Black Friars, Strike Percussion Launch "Artists in
Schools" - New Zealand artists from drama,
music, dance and visual arts will give students a first-hand
experience of their art under the new "Artists in Schools"
programme, Education Minister Chris Carter and Associate
Minister for Arts, Culture & Heritage Judith Tizard
announced today. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Downstage Theatre - Blazing energy and virtuosity warms Downstage [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0805/S00295.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00174.htm
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