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Helen Clark has just held a press conference announcing she is sacking Minister of Maori Affairs Dover Samuels.
I am today advising the Governor General to withdraw the ministerial warrants of Dover Samuels.
8:
NEWSFLASH:
Clark Expected To Sack
Samuels
Prime Minister Helen Clark is expected to sack Maori Affairs Minister Dover Samuels this morning according to reports circulating in Parliament.
Two hours of meeting with the PM Helen Clark last night was not enough to convince Maori Affairs Minister Dover Samuels to resign from his position as Maori Affairs Minister.
10:
Sludge
Report #18 – Who Shrunk The
Economy!
In This Issue: Honey! Who Shrunk The Economy! - Rupert’s Holidays For Hardworking Hacks - Richard Long Fails To Front For Todd Debate.
11:
SCP
HOUSE: House May Rise Early
Today
Parliament is not expected to have a members day today, or questions, as a result of a filibuster by the opposition on the Fisheries Amendment Bill.
12:
What
Does Helen Clark Now Know...
?
What Does Helen Clark Now Know That She Should Have Known Since Becoming Labour Leader? - Peters
13:
HARD NEWS 23/6/00 - Uncomfortably
Shagged
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, I was getting sick of weeks of patting the business community on the head and taking its temperature - and, lo, along came a whole new agenda.
14:
Clark
Fails To Tell The Dover Story
Straight
Helen Clark has today come up with a new version of her involvement in the Dover Samuels affair, Acting National leader Wyatt Creech said today.
The Prime Minister’s action in sacking Dover Samuels is inappropriate, ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today.
16:
Why
Gender/Race Relations Stories Run On And
On
Berkeley - Why do some stories, like the O.J. Simpson trial, the Thomas/Hill hearings or the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal, run on for months and even years, while other, ostensibly more important stories hardly get noticed by the news media?
17:
Howard’s
End: Behind The Fiji Coup
An select group of right-leaning elites were behind, not one, but three coups against elected governments in Fiji. Scoop's John Howard looks at the evidence.
18:
Scoop
Images: Big Hits A Big Hit In
Napier
Photos of some of the action in the Magpies V Scotland night match last night at Mc Lean Park, Napier 27th June. Scotland won 24-7. Images from IMAGE TIME .
19:
Scoop
Images: Farewell Dover Press
Conference
Prime Minister Helen Clark and deputy Labour Leader Michael Cullen at today's press conference in the Beehive to announce the sacking of Maori Affair's Minister Dover Samuels.
20:
Clark's
indecision has made crisis
Helen Clark has created a crisis for herself by switching ground and undermining the Minister of Maori Affairs, but failing to deliver with his resignation, Acting Leader of the Opposition Wyatt Creech said today.
21:
Sludge
Report #17 – Dover! – Reader
Reaction
In response to…. Sludge Report #16 - Dover, Dover, Dover! … From Christchurch – Congratulations… And The Kennedy Precedent… From an old reporter's notebook: The Moyle Muldoon and Carmen
22:
Billionaire’s
Name Suppression Overturned
New Zealanders could soon know the identity of the American billionaire caught smuggling marijuana into Auckland airport after the Herald newspaper won their appeal against his name suppression yesterday.
23:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - 27
June
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of:. Kyoto Protocol – Clark On Dover Samuels – Immigration Consultants – Children’s Trusts – Whale Sanctuary – Phillida Bunkle On John Howard – Airways Coup – ERB – Biodiversity – TEAC – Public Transport – Northland ...
24:
PM Got It Wrong From The
Start
"Today's sacking is an admission from the Prime Minister that she made the wrong call from the start," Acting Leader of the Opposition Wyatt Creech said today.
Dover’s Early End ? Growth Up - Army Deserter - Ccormick Off Air - Murderous Attack – Chandra-Hills Death - Child Abuse Reporting – Sex Harresment - Pyschiatric Patient Battle - Rings Piracy
Hobbit
Stories:
1: Scoop
Images: The Guardian of Helms Deep...
2: Scoop
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Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
4: Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
5: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was
Stirring
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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