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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
1: MPs
“Chicken” Over Cannabis Law Review
The Mild Green faction of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is losing patience with unaccounted delays in NZ’s promised cannabis law review. They say the Labour-led government is courting punishment in the polls for chickening out on the marijuana ...
2:
Scoop
Feature: Out Of The Loop
The folding of Wellington magazine Loop this week is a 'travesty' says the chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide.
3:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday 9th May
2001
1. DAVID BENSON-POPE to the Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education): What initiatives are being undertaken to promote an innovative tertiary education system?
4:
Guy’s
World: The Real Slim Sludgy
Like a cornered racoon, my new pen pal, libertarian Michael Gordge, accused me of being Sludge, took me for a dirty communist, set me straight on a thing or two about libertarianism, and asked me to come out and fight like a man.
5:
“Harry
Potter” Trailer Cinema Premiere
The theatrical trailer for the year’s most-anticipated family film - “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” will make its cinema screen debut in New Zealand for the first time on Thursday, April 5.
6:
Minister
Pleased With Response to Gaming
Review
The Minister of Internal Affairs, George Hawkins, says he is pleased that over 1000 submissions have been received in response to the discussion document which was released as part of the Government's Gaming Review. Submissions on the Review closed yesterday.
7:
MS
New Zealand Refutes Greens
Dr Tom Miller, Research Director of MS New Zealand today refuted Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimon’s claim that the real purpose of genetically modified cattle research has nothing to do with MS.
8:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 9
May
Today's questions of the day concerned: National’s Tertiary Education Policy – Budget Blow Out – Business Incubators - Budget Blow Out – Child Abuse Reporting By GPs – Air Combat Training For Army – Maori Health - Sir Geoffrey Palmer Judge? – New Plymouth ...
The call by the Green Party for the killing of cows involved in a genetic modification experiment at Ruakura is yet another example of putting unreasoned prejudice ahead of human welfare, according to Terry Dunleavy, national convener of Bluegreens, an ...
10:
A
Modern Defence Force For New Zealand's
Needs
The government today announced a comprehensive plan to build a modern, efficient and high quality defence force to meet New Zealand's strategic needs and enable New Zealand to contribute usefully to international operations in which it engages.
11:
2001
Computerworld Excellence Awards Finalists
Overall Excellence in the Use of IT category -Scoop!!!!! - South Auckland Health - Yakka Apparel Solutions Ltd
12:
Big
News: Cloneliness Is Next To Godliness,
Right?
The news that 30 babies were born in the US through “genetic modification” has revived an ethical debate as to whether humans should be genetically modified or cloned. The revolutionary fertility treatment has been criticised as it used the genes of ...
13:
David
Miller: The Realities of Life as a
Student
As someone who continues to borrow sizable amounts of cash from Her Majesty’s New Zealand Government so I can further my education, I am always interested when I hear calls in the media for fee freezes, interest write offs and increased funding to ...
14:
GCSB
Bill - Rod Donald First Reading Speech
Notes
Yesterday The Right Honourable Helen Clark, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party welcomed the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Johannas Rau, to New Zealand at a State Luncheon with these words:
15:
TheOneRing.net
Takes Scoop To Cannes
Scoop is pleased to report that our content partner http://theonering.net has been invited by NewLine Cinema to Peter Jackson’s publicity fest for his Lord of The Rings trilogy in Cannes, France.
Party Leader Graham Capill is calling on the public to boycott Pizza Hut after their sponsorship of the R18 show, Big Brother, last night on TV2.
17:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The
Water
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. This time the furry fellow with a flair for photography has produced another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing it in the sun, before it was burned down. It looks like it was a tranquil and magical ...
18:
Resource
Management Amendment Bill
The Local Government and Environment Committee has presented its report on the Resource Management Amendment Bill. The committee recommends, by majority, that the bill be passed with amendments.
19:
God
Defend NZ – The Government Sees No
Need
Party Leader Graham Capill said that today’s announcement is “an initiative at the behest of the United Nations, not in the interests of national security.
20:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton Bridge
Scoop's Hobbit strikes yet again. Hobbiton bridge is revealed in all its glory….enjoy.
21:
National
committed to restoring air strike
National has utterly condemned the Government's decision to axe New Zealand's air strike capability. "It is not overstating the case to say that New Zealand soldiers may end up paying for Labour's decision with their lives," National's Defence ...
22:
Resignation
Sends Warning Signal
The Government’s desire to build a New Zealand knowledge economy is seriously at risk. The fragile state of confidence in the future of science in New Zealand was shown by yesterday’s decision by a highly skilled molecular biologist to resign from ...
23:
Sludge
Report #60 – Free Tiger Woods
NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging, and occasionally finely balanced. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can ...
24:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 8
May
Today's questions of the day concerned: Budget Blow Out – Special Benefits – GE Cow Research – NCEA –Budget Blow Out – Cell Phones In Prisons – Community Services Card – Employment In Fishing – Violent Crime Statistics - Rural Policy – West Coast ...
25:
Changes
to Resource Management Bill
Supported
The environmental coalition, ECO, today welcomed the recommendations of the Local Government and Environment Committee on the Resource Management Amendment Bill.
26:
Government
Communications Security Bureau
Bill
The aim of this Bill is to define the functions of the Government Communications Security Bureau - the GCSB - and to make legislative provision for its administration and for the conduct of its operational activities.
27:
National
Radio Midday Report
Conservation Funding – Warranty GST – Wrongful Dismissal – Doctor Bill – Stabbing - Jet Sale – Boat – Sealord Assets – UK Elections – Pinochet – Sexual Assault Trial – Spidermen – Tribunal Bias – Starving Baby Seals
28:
Scoop
Images: Nick Smith MP
Images of National MP Nick Smith in the house taken by Scoop photographer Mark Graham.
29:
Heavy-Handed
Political Interference In
TVNZ
Comments attributed to TVNZ chair Ross Armstrong in this morning's Independent Business Weekly effectively confirm a pattern of heavy-handed political interference in the company's news and current affairs, according to National MP Murray McCully.
30:
Computer
Saboteurs Caught By Keyghost
Hidden 'hardware' keylogger is deterring fraudsters and revealing internal saboteurs of valuable corporate data and computer systems. The new KeyGhost device logs and encrypts every keystroke made during unauthorised computer activity. It can't be ...
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.
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