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2: Native
Plants Have Moa Defences -
Scientists
A Landcare Research ecologist and a South African botany professor have used emus and ostriches to show that New Zealand native plants have adapted to protect themselves from the ravages of hungry moa. Their findings could have significant conservation ...
3:
Keith
Rankin: The Shipley Bill
Jenny Shipley's Electoral Options Referenda Bill has been drawn from the private members' ballot. Tilting at windmills, Mrs Shipley wants, or claims to want, "the people" to decide whether to fix an electoral system that ain't broke. Certainly ...
4:
Helen
Clark Has No More Excuses To Avoid
Questions
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says Helen Clark has run out of excuses to avoid talking about her key role in the sham merger of the Department of Work and Income and the Ministry of Social Policy.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Helen
Clark Ordered Rankin’s Sacking
The ACT Party believes the real reason the Prime Minister is refusing to answer questions on the merger of WINZ and the Ministry of Social Policy - and other Ministers are covering up for her - is because it’s the Prime Minister who ordered that Mrs ...
6:
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.
7:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 10 May
2001
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Was she made aware of the Minister of Finance's concerns about exceeding the fiscal cap at the time of the December Economic and Fiscal Update; if so, did she advise him to keep that information from the rest ...
8:
“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.
9:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 10
May
Today's questions of the day concerned: Budget Blow Out – Sealord Fishing Boats – Ross Armstrong And TVNZ News – Unemployment – Air Force Redundancies – Thermal Power Stations – Army Air Combat Training – Indonesia – DHB Budgets – NZ Music – ...
10:
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.
11:
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 ...
12:
Sludge
#62: Tino-Rangitiratanga = Maori
Rates
Sludge has long been a critic of the Treaty Settlement programme. Not because it is “separatist” or “racist” as critics from the right currently damning moves in the Bay of Plenty to establish Maori council seats would assert, but because it is ...
13:
Towing
Companies To Become A Target For
Attention
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters, today applauded the efforts of entertainer Gary McCormick for standing up to the Wellington Towing Company which removed and impounded his car recently, following an unfortunate mechanical breakdown on a busy ...
14:
Problems
With Environmental Law Remain
Unfixed
“After two years of extensive review, the Resource Management Amendment Bill fails to deliver what it promised”, says Chapman Tripp environmental lawyer John Hassan.
15:
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 ...
16:
2001
Computerworld Excellence Awards Finalists
Overall Excellence in the Use of IT category -Scoop!!!!! - South Auckland Health - Yakka Apparel Solutions Ltd
17:
An
Open Letter Of Apology To John
Howard
It is my sad duty to offer the sincerest apologies of the New Zealand Young Nationals for our Country's disgraceful lack of commitment to regional security.
18:
Correctives:
Half-Baked Turkeys And Bad
Brands!!!
"The Corrective Party today confirmed its suspicions about who or what is sponsoring the Christian Haemorrhoids when we noted that the party in question attacked Pizza Hut, a fast-food brand." Sister Vomitoria SM, diet nun, today revealed.
19:
Supercomputer
Weather: Much Rain, But Where &
Why?
Depending on which Supercomputer weather model you look at, rain presently headed south over the country, may bring a few more precious millimetres of rain to the South Island’s parched East Coast. Or it might not. Meanwhile Auckland and most of ...
20:
Transit
Must Reconsider 'Bypass' After Review
Green Transport Spokesperson and former Wellington City Councillor Sue Kedgley today welcomed the release of an independent review of the proposed inner-city 'bypass' and called on the Government to put the $25 million cost of this project into public ...
21:
PM
misleads in attempt to justify Skyhawk
decision
The Prime Minister has misled New Zealanders in an attempt to justify why she is scrapping New Zealand's air-strike capability, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
Prime Minister Helen Clark is spinning misleading banter to the public about the reasons behind her government stripping down our air force and navy, National's Defence spokesman Max Bradford said today
23:
National
Radio Midday Report
Unemployment Down – Stadium Stampede – TVNZ Comments – Wine Raves - Tyler Stevens Trial – Northland Flooding – Hit And Run – Stabbing – Stock Exchange Membership – Maori health – Cheating Charges – Gaza Violence – FBI List
24:
More
Spin Covering The Facts
Once again the Coalition Government has put a spin on its announcements - this time trying to dupe New Zealanders into believing that it is increasing defence spending, ACT Defence Spokesman Owen Jennings said today.
25:
Binding
Public Referendum Needed On Maori
Seats
Central Government should not be forcing racially based representation on local and regional councils.
Breaking News Mumia Abu-Jamal Developments are moving quickly. There's a summary and links below. Please forward this email!!! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!
27:
Committee’s
Changes To Resource Management Bill
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society welcomes many of the changes to the Resource Management Act Bill made by a select committee. Provisions in the original Bill were widely opposed by environmental and community organisations.
28:
Ngai
Tahu Presentation, Grand Hall -
Horomia
I am honoured to host this function, which has brought the entire board of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu back to Parliament for the first time since the settlement of the Ngai Tahu Claim.
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.
30:
Defence
Spending
Increased spending on defence over the next ten years is so high that it will need to be reviewed by a future government, Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said today.
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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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