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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbit's excluded) were...
1: The
Sludge Report #12 – Rodney’s Trip To
Fiji
C.D. Sludge has now caught up with the MP who made a trip to Fiji last year to attend a seminar of Investors International, the principal of which, Rudolf van Lin, was later arrested and charged in the US with Securities fraud. And an organisation which ...
2:
Sludge
Report #11 – More Evidence In Money
Mystery
What follows is a transcript of conversations recorded with leading figures in the Free Money for Greedy Mystery described in Sludge Report #10.
HOBBIT
STORIES...
3: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
4: Scoop
Image: Where The Hobbits Are
5: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
6: Sludge
Report #10 - Free Money For Greedy
Mystery
Today's Sludge Report relates a strange tale involving the visit of a NZ MP to Fiji on a speaking trip, free money for the secretive and greedy, and a so called "financial freedom" movement which promotes tax avoidance, offshore trusts and VERY high yield ...
7:
Eco-Economy:
There is No Alternative
The Reserve Bank will want to raise interest rates yet again. Inflation is lurking everywhere and our over-heating economy will be in need of the wet blanket again. Governor Don Brash will stand at the podium and announce seven percent interest, ...
8:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 13 June
2000
Today’s Questions Concerned: R&D Taxation – Economic Indicators – Independent Contractors and the ERB – Budget Projections And ERB – Home Detention – Victims Package – Rural Hospitals – Northland Mental Health – Export Credit Guarantees – Electricity ...
9:
Bizarre
Life In A Siege City
SUVA: It's an irony of this bizarre insurrection in Fiji, now in its fourth week, that the country has been "celebrating" two public holidays in two successive weeks: Today Fiji, which is on the verge of becoming a Commonwealth pariah, is celebrating ...
10:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 14 June
2000
Today's Questions concern: Truth In Sentencing - School Zoning And Balloting- Budget Growth Forecasts - Immigrant Doctors - Maori Spectrum And Quest Communications - Bulk Funding - Government Procurement - R&D Taxation - Highway Patrol - ILO Conventions ...
11:
Simon
Orme: Mainstreaming - NZ Electricity
Inquiry
The NZ electricity inquiry report (1), released this week, is a move toward the international mainstream in electricity regulation, which is not a surprise given the Australian and British leanings of the inquiry panel. Simon Orme writes from Sydney.
12:
Knight
Completes Remarkable Merino Story
Bologna, Italy. 13 June 2000. - Software entrepreneur Sir Gil Simpson tonight closes the loop on a remarkable supply chain that started under the gaze of Aoraki/Mt Cook and finished in front of European business and political leaders.
13:
The
End Of West Coast Rimu Logging
The release Monday of 40 pages of Cabinet papers and minutes backgrounding Government's decisions to end the harvest of rimu timber and to extinguish the 1986 West Coast Accord, has failed to impress West Coast leaders. John Howard reports.
14:
Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
Movie star Liv Tyler takes a break from a hectic schedule of filming for the Lord of the Rings trilogy earlier this year for a spot of shopping on Wellington's Willis St - photo Kevin Stent of the Sunday Star Times.
15:
Government
Spy Agency Watchdog A
Waste
Government Spy Agency Watchdog “complete waste of time and taxpayers’ money” – Complainants call for abolition or radical overhaul
16:
Scoop
Images: Peter Jackson And The Olympic
Flame
Courtesy of http://theonering.net and photographer Karen Tucker - Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson with the Olympic Flame in Wellington's Civic Square yesterday.
17:
Questions
For Oral Answer Wednesday, 14 June
2000
Answers to the questions will be published shortley after 3pm this afternoon.
18:
Promising
outlook blurred by interest,
confidence
The latest analysis of prospects for NZ from independent economists BERL contain a cautiously optimistic message.
19:
Road
Safety 2000
The government's reduced tolerances announced in last week's road safety package is designed to save lives and prevent injuries on New Zealand roads and highways, the Minister of Transport Mark Gosche said today.
20:
Minister
gives performance centre green light
A major new facility for the performing arts in Christchurch will become a reality following Government approval to the construction of the Aurora Centre.
21:
"Just
bloody regulate it" say drug
reformers
Drug law reformers say that Parliament's Health Committee should expeditiously review the legal status of cannabis - "and quick smart", because the committee is already sitting on drug scheduling legislation, the Misuse of Drugs Amendment ...
22:
PM
wishes Leader of the Opposition speedy
recovery
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today she was very sorry to learn that the Leader of the Opposition Jenny Shipley had been admitted to hospital last night.
23:
Turning
The Charm On Businesses
Prime Minister Helen Clark is turning on the charm on businesses, sending a letter to over 10,000 small companies promising to review the government’s proposed employment law.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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