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The weekend's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: HARD
NEWS 21/7/00 - Test Metaphor
Football
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The All Blacks, up three tries and 24 points to nil after eight minutes of a painfully important test match. Then, the All Blacks, shuffling around, missing tackles, while ...
2:
Martial
Law 'May Be Reimposed'
SUVA: The French News Agency AFP says the Fiji military is on the verge of sacking the new president and reimposing martial law in a bid to fill a worsening political vacuum, Radio New Zealand International reported today.
3:
Scoop
Images: Wellington's Blood Red
Moon
The following image of Sunday night's total lunar eclipse was supplied by Christopher Picking.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Today - Lots Of News Fast
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Hobbit
Pictures...
5: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
13: Scoop
Images: Dom's Stale Hobbit Photos Are
Fake!
15: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
6: CPJ
condemns violence against journalists in
Fiji
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned recent attacks by forces under the control of rebel leader George Speight and called on the coup leader to respect the right of the press to work freely. The press in Fiji has been operating without ...
7:
Free'd
billioniare reveals arbitrary
injustice
Cannabis law reformers have mixed feelings over the recent "non-criminal" importation of marijuana and hashish by an American billioniare.
Hard News Is Here - Stabber Needed More Treatment - Report - Fiji: Military Starts Over Again? - Reaction To The Universal Benefit Idea - GE Trees Should Be Stopped – Greens - Scoop Arts: LOOP, Poetry Day, Matterhorn - Scoop World: Greenpeace Head ...
9:
Bode
to Step Down as Head of Greenpeace
World
Bode to Step Down as Head of Greenpeace International, Significant Challenges Ahead Greenpeace USA struggles to raise funds to pay debt 18 JULY 2000
10:
Sludge
Report #23 – Glimmers Of Hope
NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can be contacted at sludge@scoop.co.nz. ...
11:
On
The Right: Who Is The Worst
Minister?
Last year, while in opposition, the Alliance website ran a poll asking us who the worst Minister in the Government was. In the unlikely event they ran the same poll now, my answer would be, without a doubt, Matt Robson.
12:
Scoop
Images: The Blood Red
Moon...Again
14:
Scoop
Archive: HARD NEWS: Budget, Business and
Bum-Tickle
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Labour Finance Minister in boring Budget shock! Well, not quite ... Michael Cullen's maiden Budget was plenty interesting - not least in its disarming fiscal prudence.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/81/b6/200006161328.22b73d4e.html
16:
Marian,
Don’t Make Moratorium A
Mockery
Greenpeace today called on Environment Minister Marian Hobbs to put a stop to the field trial application for genetically engineered trees, currently being considered by ERMA (Environmental Risk Management Authority). This request was stated in a letter ...
17:
Hikoi
braves rain and wind and storms council
The Hikoi organised to protest EnviroWaste's plans for a huge MegaDump near Meremere braved rain and wind, marching 50 kilometres from the proposed site at Huntly Downs valley all the way to Ngarawhahia Council chambers.
18:
Hobbs
Overlooked Importance Of Agricultural
Sector
The Government's cop-out on bee mites last week appears to have stemmed from the Minister of Biosecurity's preoccupation with greenie issues, National's Gavan Herlihy said today.
19:
Another Fumble From Bumbling
Minister
Marian Hobbs' new found enthusiasm for instant fines for biosecurity infringements demonstrates, yet again, that she is out of touch with her portfolio, National's Biosecurity spokesperson David Carter said today.
20:
Minority
Government must think again on
trade
The Green Party is urging the minority Labour led Government to reconsider its endorsement of the former National Government's trade liberalisation stance.
21:
ACT
Caucus Retreat Press
Conference
Leader of the ACT Party, Hon Richard Prebble, and ACT Party President, Sir Roger Douglas, will hold a joint press conference tomorrow at the completion of the three day Caucus ACTion Retreat. They will be providing commentary and answering questions ...
“Vague indications by the Minister of Social Services and Employment, Steve Maharey, of a move to a universal benefit are doomed, and will cost hundreds of millions of dollars’’ says ACT Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman.
23:
Keith
Rankin's Thursday Column: Generic
Benefits
Labour's plan to introduce a "universal benefit" is a rehash of their 1990 policy. The change is largely semantic. Further the semantics are wrong; this is no more than a step towards a universal benefit. There will still be groups of people ...
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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