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2: Cookie
Time Biscuit Bucket Doppelganger
I understand you noted from the Court list in Auckland that we are involved in a dispute with Griffins. Further to your request, here is some factual information you asked for regarding our upcoming court case with Griffins:
3:
Keith
Rankin: Premature
Congratulation?
Who'll be inaugurated as president of the United States in January? Should we care? George Bush junior was congratulated as the winner more than a week ago. But it may be a while yet before we can be sure, given the time that the American legal system ...
4:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 16 November
Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
New
Café society's bean roasted by
research
If you're sitting in a cafe enjoying a coffee thinking you're part of a new, urbane, chic "Cafe Culture", well you're not, you're in fact doing something your grandparents did.
6:
Scoop
Cartoon: National Goes
Rural
Cartoon from Paul McDonald of http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/ POLITICAL-CARTOONS.CO.NZ
There is no other news. If Brunei was hoping for a surge in American tourists on the back of hosting the APEC conference it had better stick to oil-drilling, because the television networks here have made scant made reference to Clinton's 'trip to ...
8:
Turia
bad host for race
relations
National MP Tony Ryall says that Tariana Turia has yet again displayed the sort of ideology that no one thought they would get under a Labour Government.
9:
Scoop
Images: Wellington's New Tree Of
Peace
An olive tree of peace in remembrance of former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was today planted on the fringes of Wellington's Civic Square.
10:
Sludge
Report #41 – A Festering Scab Of A
Bill
IN THIS EDITION: A Festering Scab Of A Bill - Margaret Wilson Gifts Youth Vote To Opposition - A Peace Gift For Wellington From Ariel Sharon? - Mass Confusion In Florida Lacks Credibility
13:
Are
There Any Winners Under A Socialist
Govt?
Thank you for the invitation, and even more, thank you for the topic "Are there any winners under a socialist government?” The answer to this question is the reason I'm no longer a Labour voter.
16:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 16
November
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: ACC Costs To Employers – Strikes – ERA And Waterfront Work – Immigration Personal Grievances – Internet Spy Snooping Bill – Northland Probation Service – Super Policies – Food Bank Demand – Tertiary ...
17:
Texas
set to execute mentally disabled man
Another chilling milestone in the ugly history of US judicial killing is looming, Amnesty International warned, as it released a letter sent to Governor George W. Bush yesterday. The letter calls on him to prevent the execution of a severely mentally ...
18:
United
Future Heralds A New Era For
Politics
The announcement today of the formation of United Future New Zealand to represent mainstream values that promote inclusiveness instead of division, security not division, celebration of our diversity rather than negative emphasis on our differences and ...
19:
Address
to the Launch of United Future New
Zealand
We have had enough of the disillusionment, the political double-talk, the broken promises, the character assassination and the lack of core values, that have driven politics for too long.
22:
'Sorry’
Is Just Not Good Enough
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters today claimed as hopelessly inadequate, the absolute apology given to Mr & Mrs Willis, whose lives were wrecked by the excesses of the Inland Revenue Department.
23:
Opposition
Praise For Economy Welcomed
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton is encouraged by an Opposition report on the state of the economy.
24:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 15
November
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Child Abuse – Bill English’s Optimistic Economic Report – People’s Bank – Airways Travel Expenditure – Food Banks And Food Prices – Business Confidence – Tribal Hosts And Guests – Employment Outlook – Cancer ...
25:
Howard’s
End: Much Ado About Driving
After discussions at four public meetings over four months, one publicly excluded meeting and a legal opinion, there will now be a sixth meeting of the Westland District Council on the West Coast to decide whether the Mayor should be provided with a car ...
26:
ACC
& IRD To Split Compensation For Willis
Trauma
Revenue and Accident Insurance Minister Michael Cullen has instructed ACC and IRD to work out the level of appropriate compensation to be paid to an Auckland couple - after an ACC dispute that dragged on for 14 years.
27:
NZ
removes tariffs on imports from the poorest
From July 2001 all of the least developed countries of the world will have duty-free access to New Zealand for all their imports, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today at the APEC leaders’ meeting in Brunei.
1:
Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
11: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
12: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
14: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits
Are
15: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
20: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
21: Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer
House?
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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