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The most read items on The Scoop yesterday were:
One: More glitz from WINZ
WINZ approved an extravagant $64,180 budget for a one and a half day hui which achieved nothing and "served only as a time for meeting people and renewing friendships," according to information supplied anonymously by a hui participant to Invercargill MP Mark Peck.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00370.
Two:
Telecom Suffer At Hands Of Saturn On Kapiti
Coast
Over half of the people on the Kapiti Coast
with access to Saturn Communications have switched from
Telecom and signed up with the new and cheaper
telecommunications
company.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9907/S00083.
Three:
Court of Christine Rankin cavorts at our
expense
Winz Chief Executive Christine Rankin
starred in a Michael-Jackson type performance at a senior
manager's conference, dressed in an extravagant costume and
descending from the ceiling on a flying rig said Alliance
spokesperson on Social Welfare, Grant
Gillon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00355
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
Binoy Kampmark: Censorship Wars, Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content
Gordon Campbell: On The Public Sector Carnage, And Misogyny As Terrorism
Ramzy Baroud: NATO’s Never-ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering