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The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend (Hobbits excluded) were...
1: PSA
Delegates Conference - Trevor
Mallard
I'm going to start off by re-iterating our objectives for a strong state sector that responds to the groups and individuals which it serves and to those who serve in it.
2:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 22
November
Paraphrased answers to today's questions will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
4:
Attorney-General
Should Step Aside From
Wine-box
The Editor of Investigate magazine is calling on Attorney-General Margaret Wilson to step aside from any further role in the Winebox controversy, after discovering what he alleges is a potentially major conflict of interest.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
HARD
NEWS 24/11/00 - Genoa? No, Not At All
...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... no, I am not on my way to Italy. I will see the All Blacks play from my couch and not the grandstand in Genoa. I'm now off to Europe in February. All very last-minute. It's a long story ...
7:
Sludge Report #42 – Democracy Gives Way To
Dinner
INSIDE THIS EDITION: Dubya'ed - Dubya’s Thanksgiving - An Overseas Perspective of Presidential Elections
8:
English-on-line
November 24th
English-on-line knows something is going on when Tainui can’t agree among themselves to accept $13m from the Government. We can fairly conclude that while people do fight over money, this must be a fight over something far more important than money.
11:
Scoop
Image: The Skink That Got Away
DOC has confirmed that no kiwi were injured or killed during a fire on the edge of the Okarito Kiwi Reserve earlier this week. A 1-km fire front devastated a tinder-dry pakahi swamp on the edge of the sanctuary on Sunday night (November 19).
12:
Notice
Of Revocation Of Independence
In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
14:
Property
Rights Buried By A Sea Of
Sludge
In this country you can wake up one morning to read in your daily paper that a 7,500 square meter raw sewage dump is to be built against your boundary fence that afternoon. Such was the story Adrian Chisholm told on Day Four of his Sludgegate trial against ...
15:
Keith
Rankin: Demand Versus
Supply
Labour MP Georgina Beyer said in Parliament a couple of weeks ago that "prostitution is a demand-driven activity". She's wrong. Sure, all goods and services that are freely sold have a demand. But a demand-driven industry is one that expands when ...
16:
Media
Flash - Aussie Media News And Jobs
23/10
Flash Points a.. COWLEY BLASTS SHARE ACTIVIST: PMP Chairman Hits at Mayne b.. JOHN B. FAIRFAX: 'Olympics Was Like January' c.. $1.5 MIL. 'MISSING' AT ISIS: Plus $5 Mil. Lost On Sponsorship d.. OLYMPICS - NEWSPAPER STYLE: Worth The Bother? e.. WANTED: ...
17:
NORML
Issues Health Warning About Toxic
Marijuana
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws today issued a health warning that marijuana sprayed by the Police with a deadly poison is being sold in Auckland.
18:
Media
Flash - Media News & Job
Directory
a.. AUSTRALIA MEDIA'S BEST-EVER AD DEAL: Just $250 For A Year b.. COUNCIL CHAOS: Adelaide Locals Skittle Local Government c.. SEVEN HITS AT 3AW: Touch Times As Ratings Plummet d.. 'OUR LAUREN BURNS': Suburban's Sense Of Identity e.. TAMARA TONITE: Brisbane's ...
21:
Thai
Prison Escapees Gunned
Down
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Security forces shot dead nine prisoners and freed their kidnapped victims Thursday (November 23) ending the latest attempt by Burmese to seize hostages in Thailand, much to the dismay of anti-terrorist specialists, Burmese democracy ...
22:
Scoop
Feedback: Keith Rankin Demand Versus
Supply
Concerning the latest Keith Rankin column, Demand Versus Supply, the interesting description of the economics of prostitution seems marred somewhat by the following passage: "An efficient economy was an economy in which supply was responsive ...
23:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 23
November
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Super Scheme – Forestry Jobs – RMA – Socio-Economic Disparities – Auditing Closing The Gaps – E-Government Consumption – Closing The Gaps At CYFS – Cop Cash Crisis – Charging Police Recruits – Consumer ...
24:
Our
Prosperity, Our People, Our Future -
Shipley
One year on, Labour is demanding that voters give them another two or three terms.
The Minister of Transport Mark Gosche has scotched a suggestion that British owned airline Virgin Blue could benefit from the new open skies agreement between New Zealand and Australia.
Hard News Is Not In Genoa - Sludge: No Democracy Today Sorry, We’re Hungry - Rosalea Barker: Bizzare Circle Of Law - English-On-Line - Thai Prison Breakout Ends In Hail Of Bullets - Scoop Feedback: Editing NZ’s Economic History
28:
TV3
News
Masterton Death Investigation – Food Labelling – Cookie Wars – Asbestos Epidemic – US Elections – Fewer Sick People - Tuaman
3:
Scoop
Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (1)
6: Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
9: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
10: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
13: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
19: Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer House?
20: Scoop
Images: Helms Deep Press Conference (2)
26: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
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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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