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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
It is indeed a scary moment when Trade Unionists have something to smile about. But they could all easily play the Cheshire Cat if Alice in Wonderland were to hold auditions right now. The Employment Relations Bill has been let loose onto society, and it's ...
2:
Act
casts off shackles from National
bind
Act has turned its back on its former ally and admitted embarrassment at having supported National in Government.
3:
Newsflash:
Government Ditches F-16 Deal
The Prime Minster has announced the Government would proceed with its plans to terminate the F-16 deal saying spending on the air-force was not an important priority for New Zealand defence.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Opinion: Is The Government
Paranoid?
What on earth is going on with this Government? Yesterday Dr Michael Cullen warned business to stop protesting against its policies and then Pete Hodgson says Kit Richards' consultancy to Timberlands is untenable, despite Government taking back Peter Doone ...
5:
Quigley
recommends keeping some
F-16s
Derek Quigley has told the Government what the Opposition has said all along - that cancellation of the F-16 contract would be a dramatic departure for New Zealand's defence policy with far-reaching implications, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said ...
6:
HARD
NEWS: The Thrusting Organ of
Investigation
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... memo to the Employers Federation, the Business Roundtable and various other interests: We will soon have industrial relations laws that conform to basic international standards. Get over it, stop whining and get on with it.
7:
On The Left - Relations, not contracts
It's been inevitable ever since May 15th, 1991, when the Employment Contracts Act was passed. The labour movement reeled at the attack on its power. Workers suffered abusive contracts, expulsion of their unions from workplaces, attacks on wages and ...
8:
Two
Weeks From E-Day Putin’s Web Begins To
Fray
Two weeks out from his day of reckoning the man who would be the next President of the great Russian Republic, Vladimir Putin, is putting his best foot forward.
9:
Whistle-Blower
Journalists Speaking
Tomorrow
Green MP Sue Kedgley tomorrow hosts a visit from two American journalists at the centre of an international scandal involving Fox TV, Monsanto and the use of a genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH).
10:
F-16
Cabinet Decision Due Today
The Prime Minister is expected to announce the Government’s decision to scrap the F-16 fighter deal at a press conference today.
11:
Prime
Ministerial Statement On F16
Decision
Cabinet has received the Hon Derek Quigley’s independent report on the F-16 lease agreement. We are grateful to Mr Quigley for his very thorough report which works its way through the question of the F-16 arrangement and sets it in the broader context ...
12:
Weekly
news from the Select Committee
Office
select committee business 10 March 2000 to 17 March 2000 From the Office of the Clerk of the House
13:
Scoop
Images: Mountaintop
Percussion
Strike perform "Cube" to huge crowd at summit of Mt Victoria. New Zealand percussionists, Festival 2000 - Photos Tori Buttle.
14:
The
Confession Of St Patrick
Today is St Patrick's Day commemorating the Saint who rid the fair Isle of Eire of its snakes. This autobiographical confession was written by Patrick himself, in Latin, around the year 450. It offers a unique record of life in the British Isles ...
15:
Decision
on F16s
The Government announced today that it would not proceed with the arrangements to lease and purchase 28 F16 fighter aircraft entered into by the previous government.
16:
Arrested
Students Tell Stories Of Police
Brutality
One of the students arrested during Thursday’s protest, an Auckland University commerce student Brian Biggs, took the opportunity to tell his story via a megaphone to the crowd of students protesting outside the central police station yesterday.
17:
Scoop
Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
18:
German
Greens Finding Governing A Big
Ask
The German Green Party, almost in free-fall at the polls, is being warned to start acting like a governing party in a modern democracy, more than the anarchic, pacifist, anti-nuclear militants they were when the party was founded. John Howard reports.
19:
Students
Protest Targets Police
Auckland students protested outside the central police station yesterday claiming police brutality when 18 students were arrested the day before during a protest about student loan delays.
20:
TV3
News
Horror Smash - Charges In Police Crash - Chathams Emergency - Meat Works Close - F16 Retaliation? - Lucky Chopper Crash - Kit Richards - WINZ Protests - Leonardo D'Caprio - Pakistan Killer
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