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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
2: Keith
Rankin: Home Expensive Home
The OECD report on the New Zealand economy released last Thursday suggested, among other things, that the New Zealand government should tax the imputed income on owner occupied housing. Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen, promptly dismissed the ...
5:
Simon
Upton Speech: What Sort of a Nation is
NZ?
What Sort of a Nation is New Zealand and Who Does it Belong To? Rt Hon Simon Upton MP
6:
Guest
Opinion: Impeach GW Bush!
Now that it seems all but certain a Bush coup has succeeded in seizing the US Presidency, I want to be the first to announce it: Impeach GW Bush!
7:
XTRA
Outage - Deadline Passed - Still No
Email
Untold thousands of customers of New Zealand’s largest ISP, Telecom-owned Xtra, are gnashing their teeth at an extended outage to email services today and last night lasting 22 hours so far.
8:
Howard's
End: Old Name, Old Money, Old
Influence
Without the backing of George Bush Snr and his network of big business and eastern financial "establishment" interests it was highly unlikely that George W. Jnr would have a show of becoming US President. The familiar brand-name "the ...
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 7
December
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Super Scheme – ENZA Court Action – Labour Market Outlook – Rural Doctor Shortages – School Accountability – Selling State Houses - Tourism Forecasts – Regional Development – Auditing Closing The Gaps ...
10:
Friendship
impacts on race relations
The identity "New Zealander" is often used to hide differences under a veneer of similarity a Victoria University researcher says.
11:
Pigs
Point To Presence Of Tb
Possums
Landcare Research has just completed an Animal Health Board funded pilot trial which shows that deliberately released pigs can be used to detect bovine Tb in possums, and are likely to be effective indicators of the presence and persistence of the ...
12:
Scoop
Images: Annette King In The
House
Annette King: Minister of Health and Minister for Racing. Photographs by Mark Graham
13:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 7 December
2
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Finance: What advice has he received on whether his partial pre-funding proposal will secure future levels of superannuation?
14:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 6
December
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Reserve Bank MPS x 2 – E-Government – Apple Grower Protests – Northland Helicopter Ambulance Services – Police Cellphones - US Chocolate Blockade – Gisborne Rail Link - Positive Discrimination In Apprenticeship ...
15:
'The
Community' vs Adrian Chisholm
Council's legal team made their opening submissions in defence of their actions in the Sludgegate saga, and in particular the decision to build an enormous sludge dump on Adrian Chisholm's boundary. They told the court that "we stand by the ...
16:
Old-Style
Unions - Old-Style Tactics
The Carter Holt Harvey-Waterfront Workers Union dispute has revealed an alarming practice of old-style unions reverting to the destructive tactics they used in the 1970s and 80s to protect their patch, National Industrial Relations spokesperson ...
17:
Internet
Expert Appointed To Brave New World
AUCKLAND – 6 December, 2000 – Andrew Larkin, is the newly appointed Senior Technical Internet Consultant for Brave New World, New Zealand’s largest integrated marketing solutions company.
18:
Kapka
Kassabova Long-Listed For Literary Award
Kapka Kassabova has been long-listed for the prestigious 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her first novel Reconnaissance, the only New Zealander selected. At 100,000 Irish pounds, the award remains the world’s richest literary ...
19:
Sludge
Report #46 – Presidential
Pentathlon
In this edition: Florida Legislature Fails To Agree On Presidential Pentathlon
21:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
GM Commission – Lamb Tariffs – Petrol Price Drops – Drug Advertising – Baby Food Withdrawn – Waste Dumping – Port Chalmers Protest – Fiji Coup Men Bailed – US Spy Gets 20 Years – US Election Highway Patrol – Bad Teachers – Nice Meeting – British ...
22:
WTO
Decision Welcomed But Not The End Of Matter
The World Trade Organisation disputes panel's final ruling in favour of New Zealand's case against tariffs on lamb imports into the United States was welcome, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
23:
Major
New Attraction Planned For Auck
Waterfront
One of New Zealand’s leading fishing companies, Sanford Limited, has unveiled plans for a major new attraction near Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.
24:
One
Year In: Keeping Our
Promises
CONTENTS: Editorial: One fantastic year - review Income related rents come back National's leadership turmoil continues Accountable government delivers on its promises Website of the Week
25:
MAF
Investigates Illegal Release Of Parrots
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is advising people who have obtained certain exotic parrot species that such birds may have been illegally released from quarantine in 1997.
HOBBIT
STORY...
20: Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another
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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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