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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Sludge
Report #71 – Old Mother Hubbard’s
Budget
Question: Why are we spending more on new computers for the Department of Work and Income than we are on protecting our children by implementing the Judge Mick Brown report?
2:
One
Law For All - The Steven Wallace
Killing
The background contents of this report titled 'One law for all' was compiled by Advantage Advocacy and appears at http://www.advantageadvocacy.co.nz/docs/report.html on the Internet. The reports author is DERMOT GREGORY NOTTINGHAM. The report was ...
3:
BUDGET
SUMMARY – Highlights and key
points
- Spending is at its lowest level as a proportion of gross domestic product since 1977.
4:
Keith
Rankin: Business Handouts
Nobody really cares that the Government has spent slightly more than it planned to spend this financial year (to June 2001). Indeed there appears to be widespread if understated support for an expansionary fiscal policy to be outlined in today's budget. ...
An unashamedly erotic ‘Sexpo’ opening in Auckland this weekend is likely to increase the already appalling level of sexual abuse in this country. The first of its kind in New Zealand, the R18 ‘Sexpo’ is attempting to change the sex ‘industry’ image ...
7:
Senator
Switches Teams, Undermines
Republicans
U.S. Republican Senator, James Jeffords, 67, of Vermont looks step to make history in a party switch from the Republicans which would strip the GOP of its Senate control and curtail President Bush's ability to pass legislation and place conservative judges ...
8:
Big
News: Demilitarisation Of The Sally Army
Well, there’s the old joke: how many Salvation Army Officers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: change, what’s change?
9:
BUDGET
SUMMARY – Investing in people
Education - $30 million over four years for an early childhood education equity funding initiatives and $18 million to improve adult literacy.
10:
DOC’s
Kaikoura Disaster - No Law For
DOC
DOC’s Kaikoura Disaster Demonstrates One Law For Fishermen And No Law For The Department
11:
“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.
12:
ACT
Wishes Warehouse-Westpac Well – Slams
Anderton
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that it was great news that The Warehouse is forming a joint financial services venture with WestpacTrust Bank to provide retail financial services through The Warehouse’s 74 stores nation-wide.
13:
Sludge
Report #70 – Hope's Chance - Ariel's
Ask
Israel’s leader Ariel Sharon has now – according to reports (See above link) - ordered his troops to stop firing – except where it is necessary to protect human life. The Palestinians, unsurprisingly, do not believe him.
14:
Sludge
Report #68 – Who Is Terrorising Who?
Is it more terrifying to be killed by a suicide bomber or by a tank-shell, or by a bomb, or by a bullet as you drive your car to work? Does any means of violent death make you more dead than the other?
15:
BUDGET
SUMMARY – Economic
Transformation
- $100 million seed capital investment fund in partnership with the private sector to assist the development of innovative high-tech businesses and increase of $11.6 million in direct research funding.
16:
BUDGET
SUMMARY - Protecting New
Zealand
Justice and Corrections - $22 million over four years to begin implementation of the new sentencing and parole regime. - $7 million over four years on treating alcohol and substance abuse and on programmes aimed at repeat disqualified drivers. - $500,000 ...
17:
'State
Theft Finished In Five Years,' Say
Libz
Consistent with their work ethic, Libertarianz have released their alternative budget exactly one day ahead of Michael Cullen. "But unlike Michael's budget," points out Libertarianz Finance Spokesman Tim Sturm, "ours shows that we can ...
18:
What's
In The BUDGET For Research And
Innovation?
The Government has announced its 2001/02 Budget today. It includes some significant new investments in research, science and technology.
19:
Greens
Show Naivete On Broadcasting
The Green Party's opposition to splitting BCL from TVNZ shows naivete, ACT Broadcasting Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today.
20:
Scoop:
Just Politics (Budget 2001
Special)
New Law “Significant Milestone” In Local Govt Reform - Warehouse Bank: Shame On Jim For Attacking Private Enterprise - TVNZ/BCL Split – Creating A Climate For Political Interference - One Law For Fishermen And No Law For DOC - Farmers Losing Confidence ...
21:
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 ...
Jeanette Fitzsimons tonight abandoned her electorate's wish by voting with the Government and ensuring the Whitianga Waterways problem won't be quickly resolved, National's Caretaker MP for the Coromandel Lindsay Tisch said.
23:
Local
Authority Electoral Laws Changes
Local Government Minister Sandra Lee says Parliament has approved important changes today to local authority electoral laws, so some of the provisions can take effect in time for this year's local body elections.
24:
For
Police, Call 'None None
None'
Today's Budget will do little to address understaffing and low morale in the New Zealand Police Force, National's Police spokesman Tony Ryall said.
25:
Government
Offer Enough To Freeze Fees
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today calling on tertiary institutions to accept the funding increase offered in the government budget.
26:
Company
Tax – The Budget’s Achilles
Heel
The one message business should have heard in today’s Budget was a signal for a cut in company tax to match our competitors.
27:
Sludge
Report #66 – Steven Wallace’s Last
Words
Depending on whether you follow the Police version of events, or those of other eye-witnesses to the shooting of Waitara youth Steven Wallace on April 30th 2000, there are variant versions of just what Steven Wallace’s final words were.
28:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day –23 May
Today's questions of the day concerned: Celia Lashlie – Yelashgate – Usury – Yelashgate – Foot and Mouth – Yelashgate – Sunday Star Times Gets It Wrong – Australian Budget – Tibet – Tertiary Funding – Northland – Poverty.
29:
Greens
Oppose BCL Split-Off
The Green Party will not support any moves to separate off TVNZ's profitable arm BCL and other revenue generating commercial operations, and believes it is time for the Government to do a complete re-think of its broadcasting policy, Green party ...
30:
Scoop:
Top Scoops (Budget 2001 Special)
BUDGET 2001: Over-cautious, Spendthrift - Sludge - BUDGET 2001: Summary - For the complete BUDGET 2001 PRESS KIT and full coverage - BUDGET 2001: Early Reaction - BUDGET 2001: The Green Budget - Keith Rankin: A Just Tax Cut
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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