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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
2: London
Based Kiwi Launches Brain Drain
Website
The ‘Brain Drain’ debate has ignited again. London based New Zealander, Jeremy Punnett, has launched a website attacking the recent campaigns of John Carr and Richard Poole. “I am disgusted that people now see fit to conduct debate by buying full page newspaper ...
7:
Keith
Rankin: Super Solution. What's the
Problem?
Michael Cullen's public superannuation scheme is a bit of a worry. Like the self-regulating free-market economy it's an elegant, indeed clever, solution. One problem, though, is that an elegant solution imposed upon an inelegant world becomes a straightjacket. ...
More Christchurch roads have been closed because of flooding. They are the Port Levy-Purau Road, Palatine Terrace, Torlesse Street, Portsmouth and Hampshire (from Lyndhurst) streets. The Causeway, McCormicks Bay, is marginal. The Sumner Library has closed, ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
11:
The
Thalidomide Of Genetic
Engineering
By the end of the 1980s some millions of people, mostly in North America, were supplementing their diet with L-tryptophan, an essential amino-acid present in proteins of any normal diet. Amino-acids such as tryptophan are routinely produced in micro-breweries ...
Listening to fears being expressed by those with sufficient courage to face the Commissioners - notably the women folk - I began to wonder if they were justified.
15:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 12 October
Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
18:
Te
Puke Pensioner A Victim Of Drug War
Insanity
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath asks exactly who pensioner George Edwards was harming when he grew some cannabis and sold it to other consenting adults.
20:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –12 October
Today’s questions concerned the subjects of: Ministerial Staff Costs – Buddle Finlay’s Bills – Dawn Raids - Homework Centres – Telecom Share Price – Telecom Herald Advert – Export Growth – Takeovers Code – NCEA – Youth Workers – Tranz Rail and Auckland ...
22:
Overstayer
removals: the facts
Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel has reiterated that in future overstayer removals would not occur before 7 am.
24:
Scoop
Images: Wairarapa Flooding
Images of Wairarapa flooding from http://www.horizons.govt.nz Mangatainoka River south of Pahiatua Mangatainoka River at Pahiatua town bridge
25:
Flood
Precautions Urged For Christchurch
Residents
People living in low-lying areas of Christchurch, particularly along the Heathcote River, should take precautions against flooding.
27:
More
Gobbledegook From Hawkins
Police Minister George Hawkins' outburst at the Police Association annual conference and his comments to a reporter afterwards can only be described as gobbledegook and he should apologise to the police executive, National Police spokesperson Brian Neeson ...
29:
Te
Puke Cannabis Pensioner to Have His Reward
Te Puke pensioner George Edwards says he was selling cannabis to pay for his driveway to be completed. "Now that his cannabis income has been stopped," says Libertarianz Tauranga Candidate Russell Watkins, "we'll finish his driveway ...
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