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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Howard’s
End: NZ, Seventh State Of
Australia
Earlier this week I wrote on Scoop that we should drop the charade about monetary union with Australia and focus of the real debate - New Zealand the seventh State of Australia. The column created widespread public and media interest - so let's ...
2:
Scoop
Images: An Awesome Fire Picture From
Montana
This awesome picture was taken in Bitteroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000. The photographer, John McColgan, is a Fire Behavior Analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska. He took the picture with a digital camera. A once-in-a-lifetime shot this ...
3:
Newsflash:
Dollar Plunges To New Low
The New Zealand dollar hit a new record low of US 40.3 cents this afternoon, following comments by Reserve Bank head Don Brash at the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee this afternoon, warning of a possible return to stagflation, the combination of high ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
The
NZDF And UN Peacekeeping In The 21st
Century
One of the decisions to arise from Helen Clark’s recent visit to East Timor is that the government is to look at extending the New Zealand deployment in the former Portuguese colony until after elections there in November.
5:
Minister
Panics Over Brain Drain
There is a note of desperation creeping into the Labour Government's Immigration policy in a vain attempt to stop the brain drain, National Immigration Spokesperson Marie Hasler said today.
6:
Correctives
Were Right About Olympics!!!
"The Corrective Party was right about the sordid and lewd spectacle of the Olympics. According to an Australian newspaper report, athletes were incited to sex due to the heaving bodies in skintight shameful lycra around them!!! And what was more, ...
7:
Insensitive
Politics From Hide Over Hercules
“Perhaps the most blatant, insensitive attempt at political mileage I have ever seen,” said Stuart Jordan, Southern Regional Chair of the Young Nationals. He was responding to ACT MP Rodney Hide’s attack on the use of an Air Force Hercules to ...
8:
Sorry
Too Simplistic, Christian Leaders
Warn
1 October 2000 (Newsroom) -- Two weeks after Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic cauldron in Sydney and sparked the hope of Australia's Aborigines for reconciliation, a popular rock band performing in Sunday's closing ceremonies supplied the word that many Australians ...
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 4 October
Today's Questions concerned the subjects of: Unemployment Rises – Closing The Gaps – Double Jeopardy – Food Banks – Electricity Regulation –Consumer Confidence - Telecommunication Regulation – Auckland Transport Woes – Road Safety –Mangaroa Compensation – East ...
10:
Telecommunications
Inquiry Report
Released
Communications Minister Paul Swain has today released the report from the ministerial inquiry into telecommunications.
11:
No
Apologies Over Air Force
Incident
Dunedin based National MP Katherine Rich has confirmed that it was her request which lead to a Government decision to divert an Air Force Hercules aircraft back to Apia in Samoa to pick up a civilian.
12:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 3 October
Today's Questions concerned the subjects of: East Timor – Economic Growth Or Not – ERMA Maori Committee – Lower Dollar And Grocery Prices - Poverty – Samoan RNZAF Transport Incident - Superannuation – ERA Launch Party – Medical Professionals - ...
13:
Scoop
Images: Wairaka Sentinel Against A
Storm
Wairaka Rock at Pukerua Bay stands sentinel against a northerly storm that has brought big seas and high rainfall to the Kapiti Coast.
14:
Anne
Else: The Future Of Adoption
At long last, an official report on adoption law reform has grasped most of the biggest problems with this 45-year-old legislation, and put forward some reasonably sound remedies. But when the Law Commission's report came out last week, it made few headlines. ...
15:
Labour
Panics Over Closing the Gaps
Policy
Labour poll results are behind the blatantly transparent attempt by Social Services Minister, Steve Maharey, to re-launch the GovernmentÆs Maori/ Pacific Island æClosing the GapsÆ policy, ACT Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman, said today.
16:
22
Businesses Receive Industry NZ Enterprise
Award
Twenty two innovative small businesses from all over New Zealand have been offered the Government’s first Enterprise Awards, Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton announced today.
17:
Labour Minister offends employers
again
The Labour Minister has dropped herself in it with employers - once again," National's Industrial Relations spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
18:
Possible
Disaster For Greenpeace
A major US health foods manufacturer has predicted Greenpeace and other eco-groups may not survive their battle against genetic modification.
19:
Battle
Of Oamaru Confirmed, Declaration Of
War
Keith Locke, Nandor Tanczos and Rod Donald, the leaders of the Green Republicans, will receive a “Declaration of War” from Lieutenant Carl Layton and his Loyal supporters on the steps of parliament at 1pm today. The Declaration is attached.
20:
NZ
Speed Limit Already One Of
Lowest
A Proposal to cut open-road speed limits, flies in the face of overseas experience, ACT Transport Spokesman Penny Webster said today.
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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