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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: US
Embargo Against NZ Sweatshops
You can just imagine the scene: The young, fervent idealists arrive in the hall at dusk, after a hard day's work on campus. The co-leader leads them in a rousing rendition of the Internationale then, suitably energised with sympathy for the oppressed workers ...
2:
Correctives
Welcome New Ministers of Maori
Affairs
"Helen Clark is to be commended for taking the Maori Affairs portfolio so seriously that she has appointed two Maori MPs to occupy the role, given that Parekura Horomia is a large-boned Labour MP, or MPs.
3:
HARD
NEWS 28/7/00 - Flashes of
Lucidity
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... or might I say, let us operationalise the morning in a win-win way. Yes, it turns out that the new Minister of Maori Affairs is a native speaker of bureaucratese.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Act’s
Deplorable Breach Of Privilege
New Zealand First Industrial Relations Spokesperson, Peter Brown MP, has accused the ACT Leader, Richard Prebble of breaching parliamentary privilege over the Employment Relations Bill as a stunt to revive his flagging political career.
5:
RICHARD
PREBBLE’S - Letter from
Wellington
The Employment Relations Bill will dominate Parliamentary politics for the next three weeks. The Bill should have returned from select committee today after a mammoth session, which included a record number of submissions. More than 400 oral submissions ...
6:
Scoop
Images: Memorial Service in East
Timor
A memorial service was held at 1100 am today at the New Zealand Battalion Headquarters in Suai, East Timor to honor Private Leonard Manning. Images From the NZ Defence Force.
7:
Does
protest need a vision?
Very soon, you will hear more of the anti-corporate protest movement that first came to British attention in the "Stop the City" protest on 18 June last year and to world attention on the streets of Seattle last November.
8:
Obituary
for Private Leonard
Manning
Written by his friends in Bravo Company, 2nd 1st Battalion. A997234 Pte Leonard William Manning 15 August 1975 – 24 July 2000 (aged 24 years)
9:
Eco-Economy:
An Appeal to our Bankers.
This is an appeal to New Zealand Bankers, not those "big market" bankers, those international elitist bankers. I appeal to the corner banker, who probably lost his job when an ATM was installed. By Dr Finlay Thompson.
10:
Upton-on-line:
Treaty Troubles
The Treaty of Waitangi is 160 years young and only beginning to hit its straps in terms of its ability to influence our national destiny in ways entirely unforeseen by its reckless early Victorian signatories. Their foresight of developments at the ...
11:
Eco-Economy:
Looking back - with sadness
It is well said, those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat the same mistakes. Writes Bob Anderson. ECO-ECONOMY IS A FREE SCOOP EMAILER CANVASSING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC VIEWPOINTS...
12:
Irish
Eyes: Ireland Is Not Disneyland
Of course the weather in Disneyland is perfect. It goes without saying that the sun shines brilliantly and the rain only falls in a delightful arc from sprinklers on the bright flowers and not on the happy people queuing.
13:
Re:
Employment Relations Bill - Report
Back
This letter is to record that the Employment and Accident Insurance select committee unanimously agreed that the Employment Relations Bill be reported back by today; Friday 28 July.
14:
Govt.
mucks business around again with ERB
shamble
"The shambles over the tabling of the select committee report on the Employment Relations Bill sends another message to businesses that they aren't important to this Government," National's Industrial Relations spokesperson Max Bradford ...
15:
Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
16:
Scoop
Images: Falling Down Mt
Victoria
Thanks are due to Theonering.net for forwarding us the following shot (from EMPIRE MAGAZINE) of several Lords of the Rings stars falling down what appears to be... our very own Mt Victoria....but then again it could be anywhere...
17:
Report
on underpayment of beneficiaries shocks
NZACAB is shocked at the findings of a recent report showing that Department of Work (DWI) & Income owes almost one billion dollars to low-income families and beneficiaries in backpayments, and that currently over 176,000 New Zealand households ...
18:
FIJI:
Rebels held on island prison
SUVA: From kings to prisoners, Fiji's rebel leader George Speight and seven of his ringleaders got a taste of their own medicine when they were transported to Nukulau Island before dawn yesterday, the Sunday Post reports.
"The tax inquiry is intended to be architectural in nature. It will examine how the tax structure meets New Zealand's current and future needs," Revenue Minister Michael Cullen said today.
20:
Comment
on Downtown Community Ministry
report
Two reports published by the Downtown Community Ministry and the Wellington People's Centre underline the importance of simplifying New Zealand's welfare system and clarifying the rights and obligations of beneficiaries and the Government, says Social Services ...