Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings March 9 2009

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Resources In Place As Cyclone Hamish Heads South

Queensland State Government

Additional Emergency Management Queensland personnel and thousands of sandbags and tarps are now in place in major centres between Mackay and Hervey Bay as Tropical Cyclone Hamish continues to move south parallel to the Queensland coast.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00182.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key has announced that titles are to be reinstated in the New Zealand Honours system.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00110.htm

The Queen - Elizabeth R

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This year the Commonwealth commemorates its foundation sixty years ago. The London Declaration of 1949 was the start of a new era in which our member countries committed themselves to work together, in partnership and as equals, towards a shared future. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00181.htm

Hyundai

The Hyundai i30 has been judged the Supreme Winner in the 2009 AA Motoring Excellence Awards. The i30 Diesel Elite swept the field of 52 vehicles to be named both the winner of the compact car class as well as the best car overall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0903/S00178.htm

Commonwealth Secretary General

In 2009, we celebrate the fact that the modern Commonwealth is 60 years old. Its antecedence is much longer, stretching back to the 1870s. Its future can be longer still, if it is true to its theme for 2009: thecommonwealth@60 – serving a new ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00180.htm

New Zealand Government

ACC Minister Nick Smith today announced the appointment of former Ernst & Young Chief Executive John Judge as the new chair of the board of ACC replacing Ross Wilson. “ACC needs a fresh start. John Judge brings a strong background in financial management ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00122.htm

The Scoop Editor

LEAD STORY Compo: Minister Arranges 'Accident' For ACC Chair NZ POLITICS Corrections: Private Prisons are A Jail House Flop Funny Word: NZ To Reinstates Titular Honours Letters To The PM: Re: Genesis Power Station
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00120.htm

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

Anonymous government spokespeople are deliberately undermining ACC while it appears that the Board Chair has been stopped by the Minister from making any public comment, CTU Secretary Peter Conway said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00078.htm

Businesswire

March 9 – Ross Wilson was dumped as chairman of ACC and replaced by former Ernst & Young chief executive John Judge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00121.htm

Gordon Campbell

These days, much of our foreign aid should be being directed into providing a safety net for the poor. If you count the oil price rise in 2007 and the large hike in world food prices, the current financial meltdown is the third crisis in a row to hit poorer ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00110.htm

Lyndon Hood

As well as providing a little more detail on the Government's legislative programme, the Prime Minister discussed changes to the ACC board, the continuing employment of Corrections CEO Barry Matthews and the possibility of private competition for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00119.htm

Green Party

"We should celebrate outstanding New Zealanders as New Zealanders rather than as part of an outgrown relationship with the British Empire," said Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00114.htm

Scoop Audio

Audio: Selwyn Manning discusses on Radio Adelaide how the new National Govt has done a royalist U-Turn and reinstated Sir and Dame title in the New Zealand Honours system… Does this mean the pace of change toward an independent republic was too fast?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00109.htm

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand will fly a demonstration Tailored Arrival into Los Angeles International Airport tomorrow morning as part of a trial to prove the viability of the procedure into one of the world’s busiest airports.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0903/S00015.htm

Ron Callari

From the start of his campaign, Barack Obama has distinguished himself as the articulate, tech-savvy candidate who utilized social networking to his advantage. As a direct result, he generated wide support from the online digerati, who collectively comment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00115.htm

Progressive Party

The delay in trade talks with the US is partly a result of the Foreign Affairs minister taking his eye off the ball, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. He says the government has been slow to respond to news that talks on a trans-Pacific trade deal ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00118.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour appalled as Health Minister causes surgery cancellation Reports that Health Minister Tony Ryall is directly responsible for the West Coast District Health Board cancelling patients’ elective surgery are deeply concerning, Labour Health spokesperson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00111.htm

Singapore Airlines

Singapore Airlines Cargo has commenced flights to the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, Quito in Ecuador, and Bogota in Colombia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0903/S00179.htm

Public Service Association

“By sacking Ross Wilson as chair of the ACC board the government is opening the way for it to privatise accident compensation,” says Public Service Association National Secretary Richard Wagstaff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00095.htm

Massey University

Massey University has shown its commitment to having a world-leading aviation school with the announcement of an $8 million agreement to buy 14 new aircraft for its School of Aviation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0903/S00028.htm

United Nations

New York, Mar 6 2009 6:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States President Barack Obama will meet next week in Washington to discuss a host of issues, including the global economic crisis, Sudan, Afghanistan and the Middle East, it was announced ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00158.htm

Duncan Graham

Opponents of the National Government’s boot camp policy usually draw on problems in the US, a nation with a completely different set of law-and-order values. Consequently comparisons are flawed. The critics don’t need to go so far: The idea was tried ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00116.htm

Elizabeth Ferrari

Andy Worthington, a London-based journalist, is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison , and has written over 300 articles about Guantánamo in the last two years, for publications including ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00107.htm

ina

An updated Ethnicity report released in conjunction with the AIDS Epidemiology 2008 report on 2nd March by the Ministry of Health raise significant concerns for Māori, Indigenous and Pasifika people.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0903/S00041.htm

Arena

New Zealand research and education network ARENA today welcomed news that the United States has postponed trade negotiations with New Zealand pending an overall review of US trade policy, and says that the New Zealand government should follow suit.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00075.htm

Massey University

Massey University has expressed sincere condolences to the family and friends of Catherine Mary Peters, an 18-year-old first-year student who died last night after an accident at the Ballance Bridge in the Manawatu Gorge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0903/S00022.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Corrections Minister Judith Collins and Prime Minister John Key are both being forced to eat a massive dose of humble pie now that the Corrections Department chief executive and senior managers have been cleared by a State Services Commission report, says ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00119.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

The Government’s besmirching of ACC board members is unjustified and it should come clean on the real political motives behind its decision to sack them, says Labour ACC spokesman David Parker.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00124.htm

Public Service Association

“Why is the government planning to have private companies run our prisons when all the evidence shows this will cost taxpayers more and provide a worse service?” asks Public Service Association National Secretary Richard Wagstaff
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00093.htm

IPENZ Engineers NZ

The very unfortunate fatal accident at the Ballance Bridge in the Manawatu Gorge on Saturday highlights an issue with the regulation of some adventure-type activities in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00090.htm

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