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The top 20 rating items over the weekend (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: Eco-Economy:
A Culture Change is Required.
Free market idealism has had its day. Proponents and supporters of New Zealand's fifteen year excursion into pure free market economic theory need to acknowledge that the experiment has been a failure. The current account deficit is one very good ...
3:
SCOOP
Olympic Update, Friday 22 Sept,
2000
EXHIBITING superb sailing skills in tortuous light conditions on Sydney harbour board-sailing queen, Barbarba Kendall, ensured she will win a medal by winning the 10th race of the 11 race series.
4:
HARD
NEWS 22/9/00 - Flaming
Olympics
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ...day eight and still no medals. If the Olympic Games really is all a corporate bread-and-circuses plot to distract us from the economic system and further etch a handful giant global brands on our punchdrunk psyches, then I ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
Here are some of the classic questions that were actually asked of the Sydney Olympic Committee via their Web site, and the Aussie answers that go with them.
6:
SCOOP
Olympic Update, Friday, Sept 22,
2000
NEW ZEALAND has at last tasted Olympic glory with double gold medalist and 'horseman of the century' Mark Todd overcoming a difficult preparation and a personal smear campaign to win a bronze medal, riding Eyespy II, in the individual three day event.
7:
Guy’s
World: Zoo And Rock Double
Feature
3:45 – feeding time for the Malayan Sun Bears! I’d been warned by Meredith, animal lover and taxidermist, that I had left the zoo trip too late. All the animals would be having siestas, she said.
9:
SCOOP
Olympic Update, Saturday, 23 Sept,
2000
A GOLD MEDAL has been hung around the neck of world-champion rower Rob Waddell who earned the title of New Zealand's first Olympic champion at Sydney 2000 with an awesome display of power to decimate his opponents in today's single sculls at Penrith Lakes.
10:
Upton-on-line:
Earthquake Dislodges
Fossil
Readers will be aware that yesterday upton-on-line – or at least his non-cyber double – announced his intention to retire from Parliament early in the New Year to take up a position with the OECD in Paris.
11:
Howard’s
End: Fight Ahead For West Coast Gondola
Environmentalists and tourism operators are on a collision course over two unrelated plans to build a tourist gondola link between Queenstown and Milford Sound and the opening of the Haast/Hollyford road linking the West Coast and Milford. The world ...
12:
RANFURLY
SHIELD and NPC rugby CANTY v
WAIKATO
RANFURLY Shield and NPC rugby, Waikato v Canterbury Saturday, 23 Sept, 2000, Rugby Park, Hamilton Article:Mathew Loh
13:
“Special
Dividends” Equals Cooking The
Books
Revelations today that the Government plans to raid State Owned Enterprises for cash to fund their social programs is further proof Government’s should stay out of business, said ACT Leader and SOE architect, Hon Richard Prebble.
15:
Phil
Goff Speech - Fiji / NZ Business
Councils
Thank you for the invitation to meet with you today. I want to share some of my thoughts with you today primarily on economic issues relating to the Pacific, first looking at Fiji and Papua New Guinea and then looking more broadly at trade with the region. ...
16:
Sludge
Report #30 – Things Fall Apart
IN TODAY’S EDITION: Sludge Gets Serious About The Disintegrating World Economy
18:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 21
September
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Aussie Views On Overstayers – Singapore Trade Agreement – Bunkle On Inflation - Maori Child Welfare And The Treaty – Closing The Gaps – ERA Reaction – Bob Simcock’s Child Abuse Conference – Tony O’Reilly – ...
19:
Voluntary
Student Membership Vote - Auk
Uni
The Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) has collected the necessary number of signatures to request the Univesity Council to hold another referendum on the future status of AUSA.
Young Nationals' Chair Daniel Gordon today expressed regret on Simon Upton's announcement yesterday that he will retire from New Zealand Politics in the New Year.
21:
Housing
Appointment Correction
Mr Michael Cashin has been chair of Housing Corporation since 1992 and chair of Housing New Zealand since 1997.
23:
Prague
Authorities Outlaw Protests On
S26
This obvious abuse of power probably won't stop the thousands of activists gearing up to disrupt the IMF/World Bank meetings next week.
24:
SCOOP
Olympic Update, Sunday 24 Sept,
2000
BOARD-sailing wonder woman Barbara Kendall has etched her name in Olympic legend as one of the greatest New Zealand athletes in history by earning her third consecutive medal by winning bronze at Sydney 2000.
25:
More
of same makes economic crisis
worse
Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald today said the Government had to wake up and recognise that 15 years of chasing free trade and globalisation has devastated the New Zealand economy.
26:
Northland
Rescue PC Row Warning Of Things To
Come
The row over Northland's rescue helicopter services and ACC shows how silly the political correctness and cultural safety argument has become, and is a dire warning of things to come, says United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne.
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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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