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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 26 November 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 26 November 2009
1:
Israeli-Palestinian
Peace Moves Breaking Down
United NationsWith no Israeli-Palestinian negotiations underway, no agreed terms of reference for such talks, and Israel’s refusal to freeze settlements posing a key challenge, a senior United Nations official today called for “immediate actions on the ground” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00784.htm
2:
Network
against Repression and for Solidarity
Network against Repression and for SolidarityLa Brigada de Observación de la Red contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad (The Observation Brigade of the Network against Repression and for Solidarity) formed by different groups and organizations reaffirm their support and sympathy for the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00786.htm
3:
Commonwealth
Should Reconsider Rwanda Membership
Heather CollisterAt the 2009 CHOGM Heads of Government will make a decision on whether to admit Rwanda to the Commonwealth. The criteria for membership of the Commonwealth derive from the establishment at the 2005 CHOGM in Malta of a Committee on Commonwealth membership. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0911/S00785.htm
4:
NIWA
“adjusts” records to show warming
Climate ConversationNew Zealand may have its own “Climategate”, including manipulation of temperature readings, according to a combined research project undertaken by members of the Climate Conversation Group and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. The researchers ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00282.htm
5:
Goff:
Grey Power Palmerston North
New Zealand Labour PartyWe can celebrate the rich tapestry of our heritage and use it to move forwards as a nation; or re-open wounds and divisions where there can be healing. I want to talk about some of these issues today, and the choices that the Government is making this ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00407.htm
6:
While
you were sleeping: Dubai default risk
BusinesswireNov. 26 (BusinessWire) – Stocks rose on Wall Street after stronger-than-expected U.S. consumer spending and new home sales, and fewer claims for jobless benefits reassured investors the world’s biggest economy will pick up pace.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00775.htm
7:
Brochures
Embarrass British Health Service
Martha Rosenberg"Your medicine is called Olanzapine. Pronounced 'o-lan-za-peen,'" says the lime green kids' brochure for the antipsychotic Zyprexa, published by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). "Many children, teenagers and young people need to take medicines ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00303.htm
8:
Tom
Frewen: Today In Parliament 26.11.09
Tom FrewenWith his emissions trading scheme now safely passed into law with the support of the Maori Party, climate change issues minister, Nick Smith, still faces hostile questions about it from Green and Labour MPs. They also want to know why the prime ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00304.htm
9:
Top
Scoop Stories November 26th 2009 News
Summary
The Scoop EditorLEAD STORY Race Relations: Goff Gives Speech To Orewa Rotary Club Grey Power Palmerston North NZ POLITICS Urgency: Legislate-Fest Continues The first secret bill Today In Parliament 24.11.09 World-Class Pollution: Manawatu Water Quality Needs Government ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00302.htm
10:
Residential
care home firm hoarding public cash
New Zealand Council of Trade UnionsThe Government’s own unfair wage policies on the low paid are spreading to the private aged care sector, said the CTU today, in support of the New Zealand Nurses Association and Service and Food Workers Union dispute with employer Presbyterian ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00301.htm
11:
Saving
the 'wurld' one drop at a time
Wurld‘wurld’ is a new brand of bottled water with a difference - 100% of the profit funds clean water projects in the developing world. The company’s vision is to be much more than just a bottled water company. “’wurld’ offers consumers the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00805.htm
12:
Rental
costs paint grim picture for
have-nots
New Zealand Council of Trade UnionsFigures released today in the Household Economic Survey (Income) show that despite rising average incomes, accommodation costs are still really hurting low and middle-income families. “A particular reason for this is rent,” said CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00300.htm
13:
ACC
figures drop the Minister in it .
Again.
Bikers Rights Organisation NZOn November 17th the BIKEOI made it clear to ACC Minister Nick Smith that New Zealand motorcyclists would not submit to being forced off the roads. The Minister's response has been to state that motorcycle ACC claims have massively increased between 1998 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00303.htm
14:
Speech:
Jones - Maori Party support for ETS
New Zealand Labour PartyThere is a famous story in Te Ao Māori. It is about a kahawai, not unlike the Māori Party, and the great white shark. The great white shark said to the kahawai “Let’s learn to live together, let’s swim in a common current, and get a feel for the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00424.htm
15:
Questions
and Answers - 25 Nov 2009
Office of the ClerkHealth Care—Policy; Corrections, Department—Confidence; Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart—Number of Houses Insulated; Tertiary Education, Minister—Decisions; Summer Research Scholarships—Progress
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00394.htm
16:
Breaking
ground in real estate
GoodGround Real EstateA new independent real estate company – GoodGround – has officially opened its doors from its home base in Waipu.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00767.htm
17:
South
Canterbury CEO, Lachie McLeod,
resigns
BusinesswireNov. 26 (BusinessWire) – Lachie McLeod, the chief executive of South Canterbury Finance Ltd, the finance company controlled by Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard, will resign at the end of the month, SCF announced today. Neil Gormack, a partner ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00820.htm
18:
Private
prisons cost more & provide worse
service
Public Service Association“Why does the government continue to ignore all the evidence that private prisons cost more and provide a worse service?” asks PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff The government has this morning passed legislation enabling private companies to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00290.htm
19:
Top
Scoop Stories November 25th 2009 News
Summary
The Scoop EditorLEAD STORY Gordon Campbell: Using Kids As Guinea Pigs(+ Hone, ETS) NZ POLITICS Criminal Arithmetic: Collin Uses Shonky Figures To Justify Private Prisons Crying Over Spilt Blood: Govt & Fonterra Must Condemn "San Lu" Executions Nothing To See Here: No Maori ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0911/S00294.htm
20:
AFFCO
profit more than halved - tough times
ahead
BusinesswireAFFCO profit more than halved - tough times ahead Nov. 26 (BusinessWire) - AFFCO Holdings Ltd, the meat processing company, has reported a 57.9% drop in net profit to $25.37 million for the year to September 30 and is cancelling its final dividend ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00822.htm
21:
Labour’s
attack on iwi is an attack on whanau
The Maori PartyThe Maori Party says whanau and iwi can’t be divided and the Labour Opposition’s attempt to attack iwi is an attack on thousands of whanau. “Without whanau there is no iwi and it is low of the Labour Party to hit out at iwi especially when those ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00421.htm
22:
ARTA
pleased stability returned to bus
customers
Auckland Regional Transport AuthorityThe Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) says it is very pleased that stability and certainty has been returned to Auckland’s bus passengers today with notification that agreement has now been reached between NZ Bus and the Auckland Combined Unions. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00451.htm
23:
No
place for Labour Party’s race division
tactics
The Maori PartyThe Maori Party is calling on the public not to fall into the scaremongering trap that Labour Party leader Phil Goff has tried to set in his version of another racially divisive Orewa type speech made in Palmerston North today. “Mr Goff is doing his ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00409.htm
24:
Climate
Change Accelerating Beyond
Expectations
The Copenhagen DiagnosisGlobal ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0911/S00052.htm
25:
Too
many children falling behind peers
Office of the Children's CommissionerThe age-old claim that New Zealand is a great place to bring up children and be a child is not what the facts show for about 20 percent of them, Children’s Commissioner Dr John Angus said today. “The Children’s Social Health Monitor launched yesterday ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00302.htm
The Maori PartyMaori Party education spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell has commended Kataraina Faiers and Jamaika Anderson for being awarded the 2009 dux at St Joseph's Maori Girls College. “It makes me so proud to see our rangatahi achieving in education and I take my ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00419.htm
27:
Law
change allows private prison
management
New Zealand GovernmentPrivate sector management of prisons will bring greater innovation, efficiency and cost effectiveness to the corrections system, Corrections Minister Judith Collins said. The Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Bill 2009 passed into law ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00391.htm
28:
Temporary
road closures Christmas Spectacular
Hutt City CouncilHutt City Council advises the following road closures and no stopping restrictions have been approved for streets surrounding Fraser Park for the Brother Christmas Spectacular event on Saturday 5 December 2009 from 2 to 11pm. Road closures • Percy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00453.htm
29:
Te
Ohu Kaimoana Chair Welcomed by SeaFIC
Seafood Industry CouncilThe New Zealand Seafood Industry Council congratulates Ngahiwi Tomoana on his appointment as the Chairman of Te Ohu Kaimoana. Owen Symmans, New Zealand Seafood Industry Council chief executive said he welcomes the appointment and offers his congratulations to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0911/S00817.htm
30:
Summer
Set To Sizzle With Top Kiwi Music
Hutt City CouncilTop New Zealand musicians are tuning up for Hutt City’s free Pelorus Trust Music in Parks summer concert series, taking place over three Sundays in February 2010.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0911/S00447.htm
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