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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
4: Australia
– ‘Tis the Season for Kiwi Bashing
Kiwi bashing has broken out in Australia in the lead up to Christmas, culminating in the revelation of a new deal between Canberra and Wellington, under which Kiwis moving to Australia need to meet the standard Australian immigration criteria to ...
5:
Meeting
Tonight: Are the Banks ripping you
off?
Explanatory Note: Two of the speakers at this meeting Deidre Kent and Finlay Thompson have been columnists for Scoop since June writing the Eco-Economy column, earlier they formed New Zealand Banking Reform, a group calling for reform of the financial ...
6:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Questions to
Ministers
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Finance: What is the purpose of clause 73(3) of the New Zealand Superannuation Bill?Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
7:
NZ
FilmVertical Limits Tops US Box
Office
The release of the wholly made in New Zealand film "Vertical Limits" has been an instant success topping the US weekend box office receipts in grossing $5.01 million. It knocked Dr Suess - the Grinch Who Stole Christmas into second place at ...
8:
NZPA
report recklessly irresponsible
Prime Minister Helen Clark said tonight that a New Zealand Press Association report alleging that New Zealanders will no longer get automatic residency in Australia is completely and utterly false.
9:
Rosalea
Barker: One Shot Deal Don't
Matter
The superstitious among us say things come in threes, so I wonder if Al Gore is at home in the VP mansion listening to his Van Morrison collection, trying to choose a soundtrack for his concession speech. Russell Crowe and Don Johnson both searched ...
10:
Howard's
End: Lessons From The US For Local
Govt.
New unfunded mandates from central government will likely force district and regional councils to spend more ratepayer's money in social and environmental areas as part of two central government reviews of laws governing them. And Local Government Minister, ...
11:
Migration
Speech Extract Hon Richard
Prebble
The Australian government has decided that New Zealand is a liability and not an asset. It was revealed yesterday that the Government is preparing to let Australia cut permanent residency rights for New Zealanders, meaning we would be treated the ...
12:
Vertical
Limit Pipped For Box Office Top
Placing
Latest box office figures from the US show the New Zealand-made film Vertical Limit has just been pipped at the post for first place by Dr Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
13:
Richard
Prebble's Letter From Wellington
#42
ACT has received tremendous feedback from New Zealanders wanting their say on accident compensation. ACC spokesman Ken Shirley has been overwhelmed with responses. If you would like to view the discussion document, or enrol in an ACC discussion e-group ...
14:
Upton-on-line
December 8th
Today’s issue is devoted in its entirety to some ruminations upton-on-line offered to some Wellington-based upton-on-line readers at a function hosted by Wellington’s Mayor, Mark Blumsky and sponsored by Sue Wood & Associates. It was on the (overly ...
15:
Guy’s
World: Culturally Appropriate, With a
D.A.
“You guys looked just like a couple of Elvises,” he said. If I’d been feeling pedantic I would have corrected him - the correct plural of Elvis is, of course, Elvi .
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17:
Closing
the Gaps leaves departments in a
spin
Helen Clark's new spin on Closing the Gaps leaves Govt. departments in a spin
18:
ACT
– The Party With Policies To Bring NZ
Home
Two hundred New Zealanders left Mangere International Airport today, for good, the equivalent of a full Boeing 767. Nothing unusual about today, the same number leave every day.
19:
Scoop
Images: NZ's New Southern Film Star -
Aoraki
Latest box office figures from the US show the New Zealand-made film Vertical Limit, starring Aoraki Mt Cook (pictured above) has just been pipped at the post for first place by Dr Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
20:
Sludgegate:
Surprising things happen on Waiheke
"Surprising things happen on Waiheke and the air is rarely thin." Thus spoke Bruce Bissett in the Sludgegate trial today, and the courtroom air itself later became thick with argument - legal and otherwise.
21:
It's
Official: Student Debt = Brain
Drain
The Auckland University Medical Students' Association (AUMSA) will today present evidence to the Education and Science Select Committee which shows that student debt is forcing young doctors to leave New Zealand.
22:
National
Radio Midday Report
Files Found – Middle East Talks – Terms Of trade – US Election – Telstra Saturn Expansion Held Up – Wairarapa Toddler – Unsupervised Children – Sawmillers Refuse To Work – GM Commission – Peace Prize – Flash Flood – Man Shot – Christmas Tree
23:
Political
Update Fri 8 Dec 2000 (No.
39/00)
Union breaches ERA Actions by the Waterfront Workers’ Union appear to be in breach of the Employment Relations Act, says NZEF’s Anne Knowles. She says picket action by the union in southern ports to try and prevent members of another union from loading ...
24:
Pharmac
Savings Made At Women's
Expense
"The Health Minister must step in and stop Pharmac from turning the funding of the contraceptive pill upside down," National Associate Health spokesperson Lynda Scott said today.