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1: SHARP
CONSPIRACY: May The Force Be With
You
A sharp suggestion for filling in this week’s census form has been circulating like wild-fire on the Internet in New Zealand over the past week. Then this morning in the Sharp Stories inbox is some legal advice concerning the census email. Could merely ...
2:
Media
Flash - Mar. 5, 2001 - Mail Batch No.
057
Media Flash and Australian Media Job Directory Australia's Media Independent Weekly E-Newspaper Monday, March 5, 2001
3:
What
do we want our taxes to pay for? -
Knowles
Employers' Federation chief executive Anne Knowles says there is widespread misunderstanding about parental leave benefits in New Zealand, with many seeming to think that New Zealand is somehow behind other countries.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Howard's
End: One Size Does Not fit All
In the face of the biggest crisis for agriculture coming from the outbreaks of BSE and foot and mouth disease, the European Commissioner for Agriculture has admitted publicly for the first time that its Common Agricultural Policy, founded in 1962, ...
5:
Scoop
Images: Who Was That Tall
Girl!
Kiwi-born and Amsterdam based stilt walker Emily Buttle wowing crowds last weekend at the Cuba St Festival. Buttle has been on a flying visit to the capital.
6:
900
Mountain Bikers Ride Giant Karapoti
Classic
Nine hundred riders will compete in the 16th annual Giant Karapoti Classic mountain bike race on Sunday, north of Upper Hutt.
7:
Scoop
Rugby Images: Oo! Ah! Jonah!
Hurricane winger Jonah Lomu walks through a few Bulls on his way to score during tonight's victory for the home side at Wellington's WestpacTrust stadium. Photographs by Mark Graham - 52@clear.net.nz .
8:
HARD
NEWS 2/3/01 - From Dubious to Dangerous
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... anybody else found themselves saying a quiet thanks they don't live in Europe right now? As foot and mouth disease courses around the British Isles, putting paid to the ebb and flow of national life, living in the world's most ...
9:
University
women demand more rights for
women
Women students are calling on the government to take action on paid parental leave and pay equity this week. University women will be marking International Working Women's Day with various activities to draw attention to these issues this Thursday ...
10:
Government
Agency Wastes $22 Million
A Government agency squandered $22 million of road users’ money, ACT Transport Spokesman Penny Webster said today.
11:
Conference
targeted by animal rights
activists
Radical animal rights activists have threatened to attack and disrupt a large conference to be held in Christchurch in August. Activists say the World Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), featuring some of the worlds most notorious ...
12:
Stateside
With Rosalea: Lucky For Some
Last Sunday afternoon, sitting in my kitchen upstairs in an old two-storey building in the East Bay I felt like I was back in Wellington again: the floor and furniture were moving - and kept moving for at least 10 seconds - in that side-to-side motion ...
13:
Howard's
End: Britain's Awful Luck
Britons and Europeans are starting to ask that they've done to offend the heavens as a catalogue of dire warnings and a plague of Biblical proportions seems to have descended upon them. I'm glad I live in paradise. John Howard writes.
14:
Paid
Parental Leave Could Have Adverse
Impact
A system of compulsory paid parental leave could lead to increased discrimination against women in the workforce, ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said.
15:
Howard's
End: Trans-Tasman Private Prison
Problems
Australasian Correctional Management, the company which runs the Auckland Central Remand Centre is now involved in investigating allegations of assault and intimidation against its staff. Meanwhile across the ditch the same company has been slammed by ...
16:
National
Radio 8am Bulletin
Fiji – Israel – IRA – Fletcher Energy – Power Lines – Foot and Mouth – Environment Legal Aid – Fire Hero - Search
17:
SCOOP
SPECIAL: Katya Rivas’s Messages From
God
EDITOR’S NOTE: Starting today, the first week of the Lent, Scoop is beginning publication of a series of daily reflections on spiritual matters from Bolivian author Katya Rivas. Rivas, pictured above, has received an official imprimatur from the Catholic ...
18:
Presidential
Pardons and Constitutional
Authority
Washington -- When former President Bill Clinton signed 140 pardons and 36 commutations of sentence -- several of them controversial -- on his last day in office, he was following a procedure that dates back to the earliest days of the Republic.
19:
National
Radio Midday Report
Christopher Simpson – Housing Project – Fletcher Energy Shareholders – Prison Assault – Real IRA – Samoan Elections – Thai Plane Fire – Meat Exports – Electricity Cancer Risk – Global Warming Strategy – Lillybing Trial Youth Health – Head Injuries – Tertiary ...
20:
2,500
waiting for state house waiting
list
National's Housing spokesperson David Carter today released figures that show there were 2,572 people waiting to be assessed to go on the already burgeoning state house waiting list at the end of December 2000.
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Scoop Publisher
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