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The top 20 rating items on Scoop over the weekend were...
1: HARD
NEWS 16/2/01 - The Weather Turns
Wicked
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES .. and what an exciting week it's been and promises to be. The world's fastest fast bowlers have turned up just as the weather has turned wicked for fast bowling, the first secrets of the human genome have been revealed - and ...
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton says National Leader Jenny Shipley is unfit for leadership after her release of elements of the NZ Post business case for the proposed kiwi bank today.
3:
Anti-Bases
Campaign Webpage
The Anti-Bases Campaign is pleased to announce that we (at long last) have our own Webpage.
4:
Lindsay
Perigo: Stuff the Census
Stickybeaks
Nanny State's soft-soap advertising campaign for her forthcoming exercise in coercion, the Census, is in full swing. The brutal reality of this exercise belies the saccherine advertising - a $500 fine if you don't supply Nanny with the information she's demanding, ...
5:
Kiwi
Web Directory Adds 10,000 Listings
Kiwi web directory NZSearch has reached a major milestone in providing over 10,000 free website listings in just over six months.
MAF Release Details Of Pay Offer To Vets - The Week In Select Committee - Police Minister Finds His Opposite A Dithering Lightweight - National Announce Rural Policy - Catchy Gaps Slogan Gone, Policy Remains “Clear And Unambiguous” - Dalziel Fudging ...
7:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton Bridge
Scoop's Hobbit strikes yet again. Hobbiton bridge is revealed in all its glory….enjoy.
8:
A
Fern With A Fondness For Gobbling Up
Poison
With dioxins and other poison wastes recently highlighted in New Zealand US scientists report they have come across a fern that sucks up arsenic from contaminated soil. John Howard reports.
9:
New
Book Shatters Myths Of Waterfront
History
Fifty years ago in New Zealand the waterfront dispute of 1951 had just begun. Echoes of this event resound today in the current conflicts in South Island ports. A timely new book takes the long view, looking at the history of the waterfront from early ...
10:
Government
kicks for touch with latest rail
shunt
The Government's constant pushing out of the timetable on the Auckland rail deal is testing the patience of Aucklanders. Auckland's been given deadlines before, this time the Government's got to deliver, National's Transport spokesperson Belinda Vernon ...
11:
Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another
View
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. Yet another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing the other side of the millhouse pictured in an earlier shot, in the sun, before it was burned down. Hobbit houses can be seen across the ...
12:
Waterfront
Dispute Is Potentially More Serious
“The breakdown in the mediation talks is both alarming and predictable,” said ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble.
13:
SHARP
ADVICE: How To Appear
Hardworking
Some sharp tips for 'working hard' from George Costanza....
14:
ACT
Seeks Assurances From Minister Over Hero
Parad
ACT Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Ken Shirley is seeking the assurance of the Minister of Police that he will not condone gay police marching in uniform as an exhibit in the Hero Parade this weekend.
15:
Animal
rights activists smash 50 windows in
Auck.
The meat trade is under attack in Auckland. Animal rights activists have smashed dozens of windows at butcher shops and other meat related businesses recently.
16:
Scoop
Images: CatchingThe Knowledge
Wave
CREATING KIWI PROSPERITY: The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, and the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland, Dr John Hood, at tonight's launch of the "Catching the Knowledge Wave" project, a major collaboration between the government, the ...
17:
'MyBank'
is huge Anderton ego trip
"The proposed MyBank branding demonstrates the extent to which Jim Anderton will use $80 of taxpayer money to promote his own political interest. New Zealanders will be appalled to know that $4 million will be spent on spin as the MyBank concept ...
18:
Greens
reject Shipley's cheap shots at 'Kiwi
Bank'
Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said he is still waiting to see a letter from Jenny Shipley which is rumoured to outline her revelations over the 'Kiwi Bank'.
19:
Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG
END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
20:
Sue
Bradford Speech - PM's Statement
Debate
On Tuesday the Prime Minister gave us a speech full of hopeful messages and promises, many of which I'd love to see fulfilled over the coming year. However, as we all know, fine words are never enough.
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.
Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee