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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were....
1: Media
Site's Exclusive: Fiji Coup Live
* FIJILIVE.COM - staffed by just eight people led by Editor YASHWANT GAUNDLER - kept the world informed of undischarged bankrupt and Australian resident GEORGE SPEIGHT'S coup of MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY'S Fiji Government on Friday.
2:
Fiji
Coup Editorial Response - Pattrick
Smellie
I don't want to seem rude, and I accept much of what Himona says about the way Maori issues are reported. However, I am confused by his column on Fiji.
3:
Perigo
- To Coutts & Buterworth, the Freerad
Award
PI Show May 23, 2000 (First broadcast on Radio Pacific's Politically Incorrect Show, noon Tues May 23)Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
D.O.C.
Closes West Coast Tracks And
Huts
As West Coasters debate this week whether to accept Government's $120 million offer, the Department of Conservation says because of lack of public use, it is closing West Coast walkways, downgrading tracks and closing back country huts. Scoop's West ...
5:
Te
Karere Ipurangi - Fiji
Editorial
Two things this morning. Firstly, in their interviews over the weekend and this morning, the media have featured overwhelmingly the views of Fijian Indians, and have disregarded any indigenous Fijian viewpoint. Hardly a balanced response.
6:
On
The Left: Feral? Or Just Being
Silly?
West Coasters, on one view are now not happy about the Government. In fact, this could perhaps be seen as something of an understatement. Certainly if one was to believe everything that the Coastal Action Network has to say, no Government MP should ...
7:
Sludge
Report #6 – Counter-Revolutionary
Revolts
Fiji Coup: Counter Revolutionary Expert Revolts - Dollar Down But Not Out - Meanwhile Sludge Is Sorry But.. - Turning Our Children Into Drug Users, Dealers and Abusers
8:
A
Week Of It: Rule Zealandia?
Images of Helen Clark are everywhere at the moment. Two days running last week her toothy grin has graced the front cover of the Dominion – first, at the launching of her “Joan of Arc” doppleganger tribute at the Backbencher Bar - on Friday she ...
9:
Free
Speech? Gone In a Puff of
Smoke!
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath says New Zealander who values free speech should be alarmed at the intimidation of a private company who has been told by the Ministry of Health to block New Zealand access to its website.
10:
Matrimonial
Property Bill to be referred
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson is proposing to call for the Matrimonial Property Bill and proposed amendments to be referred to the Justice and Electoral Select Committee.
11:
Wegtn
Council wise to question roading
project
The Wellington City Council is right to question the wisdom of proceeding with Transmission Gully, Wellington Green MP Sue Kedgley said today.
12:
An
analysis of the political crisis in
Fiji
An analysis of the current political crisis in Fiji By Teresia Teaiwa, Lecturer in Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
13:
The
coup leader with a 'fanatical
streak'
SUVA: The leader of the kidnappers holding the Fiji Islands government captive in Parliament has been branded as a terrorist by both the Pacific country's president and the leading daily newspaper Fiji Times.
14:
PM
Condemns Hostage Takers As
Thugs
Prime Minister Helen Clark has hit out at the Fijian hostage takers over their treatment of Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his Cabinet calling their behaviour “brutal and thuggish.”
15:
Shock
For State Tenants In Government’s Fine
Print
The fine print of Labour’s Bill to restore income related rents will come as a shock to State Housing tenants who all expected to be paying no more than 25% of their income in rent.
16:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - May
23rd
Today's questions concerned the subjects of: Brain Drain - Fiji Crisis - Current Account Deficit - NZers Caught In Fiji Crisis - Canterbury Business Confidence - Copyright In Schools - Brain Drain - ERB x 2 - Income Related Rents - Matrimonial ...
17:
QUESTIONS
FOR ORAL ANSWER - Tuesday, 23 May
2000
1. Hon. Richard Prebble to the Minister for Economic Development: Is he concerned that in April on average 217 New Zealanders left New Zealand permanently every day, and what does this mean in relation to his "job machine"?
18:
Problems
ahead with good faith bargaining
A Canadian labour law specialist currently visiting New Zealand says problems lie ahead in regulating good faith bargaining, a major feature of the Employment Relations Bill.
19:
Prime
Minster's Statement on Fiji
Crisis
It is now three days since a gang of armed men, led by George Speight, took hostage Prime Minister Chaudhry, members of his Cabinet and government politicians. Cabinet today received an update on the situation from Mr Goff, including the implications ...
20:
Income
Related Rents Restored
"From 1 December low-income Housing New Zealand tenants will pay no more than 25 % of their income in rent," the Minister of Housing Mark Gosche confirmed today.