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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: TV1
And TV3 Polls Show Divergent
Trends
TV1 and TV3 poll results, both broadcast tonight, show different trends. TV1’s poll shows what could be an end to the rise and rise in the Labour Party’s fortunes since polling day, while TV3’s poll shows the rise continuing ever upward.
2:
Scoop
Images: Protestors Expose Flesh For The
Poor
Protestors outside a GAP clothing store undress to protest the exploitation of poorly paid workers by the successful retail outlet - images from http://indymedia.org .
One of New Zealand’s smallest breweries walked off with the big prize at the second NZ Hop Marketing Board International Beer Awards last weekend. Neil McInnes reports.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Images: A16 - Pics/Reports From Washington
News and images from the A16 Washinton DC protests. Whose America? - Young Arrestee - Police Line - Puppet Mike Moore - Clash Outside Treasury Building.... and The Black Bloc Rides Again...
5:
PM expects Flak From Greens
The gap between the minority Labour-Alliance Coalition Government and their allies the Green Party appears to be widening, with two key areas of disagreement to the fore at today’s post-Cabinet press conference - genetic engineering and party-hopping.
6:
ZFREE
– the Internet is free
ZFREE, powered by CLEAR, today launched a web site through which all New Zealanders can access the Internet for free.
7:
NEWSFLASH:
US Share Markets Bounce Back
Monday
US share markets have bounced back strongly this morning (Monday in the US).
8:
NEWSFLASH:
NZ Shares Bounce Back (With
Links)
NZ stocks have bounced back strongly this morning following a remarkable recovery on Wall Street sharemarket overnight.
9:
Scoop
Archive: Helen Most Popular Jenny Has "Nice
Personality"
Prime Minister Helen Clark will be straining to hold back her trade-mark gloat, two recent polls show voters have continued their honeymoon with her and the Labour Party, conversely while National's support is holding, the only good thing voters ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/32/5a/200002291025.134bb41d.html
10:
Royal
Commission On Genetic
Modification
A four-person Royal Commission headed by former Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, will inquire into genetic modification, the Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, announced today.
11:
Scoop
Images: A17 - More Protests More
Arrests
Another day on the streets of Washington DC this morning began with reports of a police crackdown, and rain.
12:
The
Third Way Or The Wrong Way For
Clark?
Helen Clark will have to be a political contortionist to convince Tony Blair she has signed up to his third way, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
13:
Government
will meet challenge of tertiary fees
The previous government left the tertiary education sector in a 'dismal' state, and this government has inherited the mess and is committed to cleaning it up, the Alliance’s education spokesperson has told a public meeting in Porirua.
14:
Scoop
Images: Lord Of The Rings Preview
Highlights
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
The Government’s party hopping bill is so full of loopholes that you could drive a busload of MPs through it, says National’s Justice spokesman Tony Ryall.
16:
CLEAR
introduces ZFREE - free Internet access
The new service is being offered by CLEAR as a means of encouraging as many New Zealanders as possible to go online, by eliminating the barriers to Internet access.
17:
HARD
NEWS 14/4/00 - No Laughing
Matter
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results over the span ...
18:
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.
19:
Judge
of the High Court – Dr. Susan
Glazebrook
The Attorney-General, Hon Margaret Wilson, announced today the appointment of Dr Susan Glazebrook as a Judge of the High Court.
20:
Who’s
To Blame? Jim Anderton Is!
The Reserve Bank will have to raise interest rates now if it wants to retain its international credibility, and Alliance leader Jim Anderton is the man homeowners should blame, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.
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