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Yesterday’s top 20 rating items on Scoop were…
1: New
Zealander’s find their
Soapbox
David Buckingham and Patrick Quinn-Graham last month launched Soapbox.co.nz, a new website set-up as a content exchange for the opinion columns of New Zealanders.
The Ski Season You've Been Waiting For
3:
SHARP
LANGUAGE: Employee Performance
Evaluations
The following extremely sharp quotations were allegedly taken form actual employee performance evaluations…
4:
Howard's
End: Rethinking Climate Change
United States President, George Bush, is meeting a barrage of criticism over his decision to back away from regulating carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But he was only hastening the inevitable, so now its back to the ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Supercomputer
Weather: When The Rain Comes
Light rain is now falling in Wellington as a low pressure system moves onto the country bringing much needed rains throughout the North Island.
6:
Benefits
and super rise, work-for-dole
abolished
Increased payments for beneficiaries, student allowance recipients, superannuiants and veterans and the abolition of the work-for-the dole scheme take effect from today.
7:
The
Ski Season You've Been Waiting For
The snow gods are smiling on Mt Ruapehu - early snow falls indicate this year is shaping to be a great ski season.
8:
Stateside
With Rosalea: Special Interests
My favourite cartoon this week showed POTUS standing bestride a small planet - one foot planted in Germany, the other in Japan - his combat skirt made of tyre retreads, and a hubcap serving for a breastplate. Speared on his sword is the Kyoto Protocol. ...
9:
HARD
NEWS 30/3/01 - Hit by a Train from the
Past
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so we skittle Pakistan for 104, both our openers get centuries and it's all on for young and old - and the drought breaks over Hamilton. Bugger.
10:
Official
Information Act: An Agency Level Survey
Requests made under the Official Information Act 1982: a survey at the agency level.
11:
Scoop
Interactive: MPs, Picture Yourself On
Scoop
Isn’t technology an amazing thing… Attention all MPs, their advisors and media minders… Have you seen a picture of yourself, or your MP, in one of the Scoop panorama photographs from the house, from Scoop house photographer Mark Graham yet?
12:
1,500
People Disappear From HNZ List
The reason for the disappearance of more than 1,500 people off the state house waiting list is a mystery. One thing's for sure the Government hasn't found them a home, National Housing spokesperson David Carter said today.
13:
National
Climate Summary: The Big Dry
Continues
Virtually no March rainfall occurred in many areas of the South Island from Golden Bay across to Nelson, and Marlborough to Southland. Many sites in Canterbury and Otago measured totals of 5 mm or less.
14:
New
Zealanders Part Of The Problem: Sutton
More than 40 per cent of all people entering New Zealand with undeclared food and other risk goods are New Zealanders, Biosecurity Minister Jim Sutton said today.
15:
National
Radio Midday Report
China/US Air Collision - Multiple Murder Trial - Bus Driver On Trial - Taranaki Treaty Claim - Milosevic Charges - Bunkle Decision – Meat Prices – Murder Trial – Air Bag Safety – Jet Ski Safety – Kyoto Protocol - Inclement Weather – Contact To ...
16:
When
In Doubt, Form A Committee
Health Minister Annette King's response to alarming growth in health professional shortages is to form a committee. "Typical!" says Libertarianz Spokesman Sally O'Brien. The Workforce Advisory Committee was supposed to came into effect ...
"ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said he was not surprised at the decision by the Registrar of Electors to take no action against Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle, as I know of no case in this country where the Registrar has ever referred a wrongful ...
18:
Pete
Hodgson: A Crayfish At My Table
I am very much in favour of the theme of this gathering. Sharing knowledge is critically important for sustainable management of fisheries.
19:
More
Machinations From Minister
Maharey
"Clearly Steve Maharey has forgotten whose money it is that he is doling out with gay abandon," says Lindsay Mitchell, Libertarianz Spokesman. "We know this, because he has the temerity to turn around and tell us 'we should be thankful' ...
20:
CRICKETING
IMMORTALITY for world-beating
McMillan
CRAIG DOUGLAS MCMILLAN earned immortality this afternoon with a once-in-a-lifetime display of scintillating shot-making that saw him score a world record 26 runs in one over that he smashed out of the ordinary and into the annals of cricketing legend.
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 bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Binoy Kampmark: Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Peter Dunne: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Binoy Kampmark: Warring Against Encryption, Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Gordon Campbell: On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
Binoy Kampmark: Censorship Wars, Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content