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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Real
Young New Zealander campaign gathers pace
"A positive start," is how Jordan Carter is characterising the response to a counter-campaign to the "Young New Zealanders" who placed advertisements in last week’s daily newspapers.
2:
Howard’s
End: You Can't Call Me
stupid!
Over the last ten days or so, newspapers, TV and radio have really started to beat the drums about our economy and the so-called brain-drain. Headlines such as "slippery slope" and " crisis" abound. But I smell a rat - you can call me old, ...
3:
Media
Statement From Generation Lost Ad
Organiser
Having come back from visiting my friends overseas, their message to me was that they were never coming home. They said ‘Why would we?’Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Sludge
Report #32 – Resolving A Family
Feud
IN THIS EDITION: Middle East Situation Report – A Question – A Couple Of Answers – Sludge’s Answers – Application Of The Theory
5:
Scoop
Images: A Mountaintop Hobbit
Retreat?
Yet another picture of a Lord of the Rings set has been supplied to Scoop by a friendly Hobbit. This time it appears to show a mountaintop fortress guarded by an eagle statue.
6:
Mike
Heine: Ghost Of Milosovic Enters PM's
Body
Isn’t it funny how at the same time Yugoslavia overthrows its crazy dictator, Helen Clark decides to become even more autocratic? Has the ghost of Milosevic entered Clark’s body?
7:
PM’s
Presser: Clark Plays Down Brain
Drain
"I will never discourage young people from looking for opportunities overseas, because I believe most will come back," said Prime Minister Helen Clark today, in response to scare-mongering over the brain drain during the past week.
8:
PM
Says She Sees Irony In Brash's Pay
Rise
Some may see some irony in Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash’s $11,000 pay rise, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today. “I certainly do,” she added.
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 10 October
Today's Questions concern: Jim Vs Jenny On The Kiwi Dollar - Auckland Cardiac Surgery (Where Is Ruth?) – Business Forum – Brain Drain – Cardiac Surgery – Stress At Work – TUF President’s Faith – TranzRail Network – Christopher Truscott – Buddle Finlay’s ...
10:
Scoop
Feedback: "A Generation Lost?"
I am grateful for the ongoing debate regarding the advertisement entitled “A Generation Lost?”. Not for exposing discussion on the politics that may or may not have been used to present the issue. Not for the level of debate it has caused. What it has ...
11:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 10 October
Paraphrased answers will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
12:
David
Miller Online: Struggling For
Medals
You could almost feel the pride swelling in the chests of all Australians when IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch bestowed the ‘best ever’ label on the Sydney Olympics.
13:
An
Enduring Solution To Funding New Zealand
Super'
"The proposed New Zealand Superannuation Fund offers an important opportunity to introduce stability and security into retirement income," Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
14:
At
The Edge - Vision For New
Zealand
AT THE EDGE VISION FOR NEW ZEALAND Speech by Kevin Roberts CEO Worldwide Saatchi & Saatchi Co-founder The New Zealand Edge to the New Zealand Resource Law Management Conference Auckland Friday 6 October 2000.
15:
Richard
Prebble's Letter from Wellington
9/10/00
Richard Poole's full page advertisement has resulted in frenzied coalition attacks. Labour's polling says that the loss of skilled New Zealanders is an issue deeply worrying the electorate. Helen Clark has adopted her usual crisis management strategy: ...
16:
Dangers
of second-smoke
demonstrated
Health Minister Annette King says new research findings confirms the need for stronger measures to protect people from exposure to second-hand smoke.
17:
PM
double standards over pay
rates
Helen Clark lashes out against top pay rates when it's politically convenient and hopes the public will ignore big pay deals of her own doing, National's Industrial Relations spokesperson Max Bradford said today.
18:
Scoop
Cartoon: NZ's Coup (On
Target)
Cartoon from Paul McDonald of http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/
19:
English
lazy
National's Finance spokesman Bill English revealed his own laziness today when he accused the Labour-Alliance Government of spending undertaken by his own National colleagues Housing Minister Mark Gosche said today.
20:
Franks
- Hotene Report Touchy-Feely
Psychobabble
The Ministry of Corrections report on Taffy Hotene is touchy-feely psychobabble, said ACT Justice spokesman, Stephen Franks.
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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