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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
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HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 17 August
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Steven Wallace x 2 – School Funding – TPK Report On Wallace Shooting - Code of Good Faith – MPS and ERB – Competition Amendments - Roading Funding - Huts and Tracks – Ministerial Staff Conflicts Of Interest ...
Police Minister George Hawkins has a read of the Evening Post – which is in the dogbox for publishing a picture of a member not speaking . (In case you were wondering Scoop has obtained Mr Hawkins permission to publish this shot.) Images from Mark Graham ...
8:
Keith
Rankin's Thursday Column: Fair
Shares
Yesterday, to the relief of just about everyone, Reserve Bank Governor did not raise the Official Cash Rate, the interest rate that 'tells' financial markets what interest rates should be. Also, and to the relief of many, the Employment Relations Bill was ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
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Scoop
Images: When Jenny
Attacks
Opposition leader Jenny Shipley's moment of truth today in the house confronting the PM over the Dover Samuels dirt digging allegations...Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
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Police
Complaints Authority endorses
Murder
Justifying the killing of Steven Wallace by police as an act of self-defense, and in the name of protecting property is not acceptable in the eyes of Wellington group, Aotearoa Educators.
15:
Bill
for students & beneficiaries defeated by
Govt
A Green Party bill that would have reinstated the Community Wage for students over the summer break was voted down by the Government on its first reading this evening.
16:
Scoop
Archive: On The Right: Things The OUSA Gave To
Me
Well hopefully by now the whole Employment Relations Bill saga is over, and we can get on with the business of repealing it. However I have other things on my mind this week, and chief among them is the activities of my Student Union in Otago.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/f1/cc/200008150915.1fa38b94.html
17:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 16
August
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Tax And Crime – Doctors Strike – Whooping Cough – Singapore Free Trade And TOW – QC Appointment – Rodney Council – Singapore Free Trade – Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Treaty – Dover Samuels – Electricity ...
20:
Government
Maori Caucus Pushes For Change
The Minister of Maori Affairs, Parekura Horomia, and Government Maori MPs today extended their aroha to the family of Stephen Wallace, in the wake of the outcome of the police investigation into the tragedy at Waitara.
23:
So-called
scientists and physicians show colours
“Anti-genetic modification activists have shown their true colours while trying to hide behind a very flimsy front organisation,” the Chairman of the New Zealand Life Sciences Network (Inc), Dr William Rolleston, said today.
24:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 17 August
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Paraphrased answers to these questions will be posted in the Headlines wire shortly after 3pm.
26:
Blame
The Offender Not Young Women - Rape
Crisis
Rape Crisis said today that perpetrators of sexual assaults should be blamed rather than young women, and that comments made by a Palmerston North CIB detective could deter women from reporting to police.
28:
Resourcing
For The Future – Facts @ A
Glance
Trevor Mallard Who's affected? All state and integrated school – they'll know what funding they'll receive next year. How much will they get? ...
29:
Name
Sex Offenders Before "Cutting It
Off"
Before Titiwhai Harawira considers “cutting it off” she should name perpetrators as one solution to dealing with the disturbing increase in the number of Maori sex offenders, ACT Maori Affairs and Education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata said ...
30:
Scoop
Images: Uncle Sam Wants You To Turn
Green!
Images from a protest held today in Auckland by GreenPeace against the US Food And Drug Administration. See also... Uncle Franken-Sam Wants YOU To Eat His GE Food for the press release which accompanied this pictures.
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Images: A Mountaintop Hobbit Retreat?
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Archive: When The Wizard Gets It
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Archive: Scoop Images: The Guardian of Helms
Deep...
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Archive: Hook Line And Sinker - Dominion Ring
Winked
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Archive: Are These For Real?
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Archive: Lords Of The Rings Six Minutes @
ShoWEST
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Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
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Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits
Are
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Archive: Scoop Images: Liv Meets Some Smokin'
Ringwraiths
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Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
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Archive: Scoop Images: More LOTR Pics From
Ruapehu
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Archive: Scoop Images: Gandalf's Two Exploding
Trees
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Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
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Archive: Scoop Images: A Misty Ruapehu Film
Set
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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