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1: Well-Known
Kiwis Pick Melbourne Cup
Winner
The people’s favourite Ethereal is tipped by the Prime Minister and leading businessman Eric Watson to win Australasia’s richest race – the 2001 Tooheys New Melbourne Cup tomorrow.
2:
BBC
Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden
Statement
Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite television channel
3:
Link: Denis Dutton & The Death Of Lingua
Franca
November 5, 2001 — The death, two weeks ago, of Lingua Franca, the great magazine about intellectual and literary life in the academy, was not only sad news for the magazine's followers and admirers — it was a shock.
4:
Advance
Australia Fair? - Aziz Choudry on
Racism
A few weeks back I was on Gadigal land. Unceded Aboriginal land. Sydney, Australia. If it had been a couple of hundred years ago and the stickers had been put up by Aboriginal people, I might have agreed with their message... I ripped down the few ...
The 2000/01 Household Economic Survey results from Statistics New Zealand showed that since 1997/98 average household spending has risen 2.5 percent to $758 per week.
Below is the text of an advert which will be going in the NZ Herald together with a list of groups and names of people who support it. The advert is being organised by the Peace Foundation - if you wish to have your name or group added to the list ...
7:
New
Zealand art shows in top Australian
galleries
In a major first for New Zealand art, works by the late, internationally renowned artist Len Lye will tour major Australian art museums over the next year.
8:
How
To Lose Friends & Alienate
People
I wanted to let you know that How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, my book about the five years I spent trying to "take" Manhattan, has just been published by Little Brown. It charts my rapid descent down the New York food chain, ...
9:
Scoop
Feedback: The Tale Of A Dog Called
'Kapital'
In This Edition: Feedback For Gerry Eckhoff - Taliban + ISI + CIA = Disaster - Communist Propaganda Of The Shoddiest Kind
10:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 7 November
1. JUDY KEALL to the Minister for Industry and Regional Development: What reports has he received on the state of New Zealand's clothing and textile industry?
11:
Turia's
Actions Should Not Surprise
United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne, says Associate Corrections Minister Tariana Turia's actions in lobbying for family friends and associates to be transferred around from various prisons should not surprise anyone.
12:
Richard
Prebble’s Letter From Wellington –
29/10
It's been reported to the Letter that Michael Cullen said of the McLeod tax review: "I've spent $985,000 of taxpayers' money proving ACT's tax policies". We think it's money well spent.
13:
Muslims
& others should not be misled by bin
Laden
UN NEWS HEADLINES: - Annan steps in to boost negotiations on anti-terror conventions - Annan says Muslims and others should not be misled by bin Laden's statements - In Iran, Brahimi says Afghans must determine their own future
14:
Deputy
Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with
BBC
BBC: I was reading your fascinating October 3rd and 4th Joint Armed Services Committee presentation. We presumed it was all written in the three weeks preceding the presentation. It was just fascinating.
15:
Indymedia
Images: More Anti-War Art
2000+ March for PEACE in Dublin Protesters demanded an end to the Bombing in Afghanistan. Dublin city centre was transformed to to ‘a carnival against war’ despite Government attempts in Recent weeks to crush Anti-War Anti Capitalist demonstrations (26 Arrested ...
16:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 7 November
Today's questions of the day concerned: (Should Tariana Turia Answer Questions? – Point Of Order) - Textile Industry – Tariana Turia And The Prison Service – Sow Crates - Tariana Turia – Paid Parental Leave – Tax Review – Cancer Treatment In Oz ...
17:
Fairytale
finish as $6.5 million bet on
Cup
New Zealanders bet a total of $6.5 million on the Melbourne Cup, the third highest total ever, as sensational Kiwi mare Ethereal raced into Cup history. The win makes Cambridge trainer Sheila Laxon the first woman to train a Melbourne Cup winner.
18:
Guest
Opinion: A Muslim American
Nightmare
It has been almost two months since the nightmare began. A nightmare for almost everyone I know. A nightmare for thousands of innocent lives lost; now they dream no more.
19:
Scoop
Images: New Fellowship Of The Ring Poster
Scoop’s content partner theonering.net has kindly provided us with the following exclusive preview of the latest Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring) publicity poster. Expect to see it on a street corner near you shortly…
20:
How
Can NZ Be Opposed And Not Opposed?
New Zealand should leave the International Whaling Commission following public statements from its Commissioner, Jim McLay, that New Zealand is “adamantly opposed to commercial whaling, anywhere and at any time[1]”.
21:
Behind
The Veil: Who Really Attacked The
WTC?
Many people here in the Middle East believe that behind the acts of hijacking and building destructions and the murdering of innocents were non-Muslim encouragement or assistance.
22:
Paid
Parental Leave – A Great
Start
From July 1 2002 20,000 working women a year will qualify for 12 weeks paid parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child, Labour Minister Margaret Wilson and Associate Labour Minister Laila Harré announced today.
23:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 6 November
Today's questions of the day concerned: Paid Parental Leave – Afghanistan Aid - Bathgate-gate – Recession Roading Plans – Breast Cancer Treatment – Health Information (IT) Management – Substandard Policing – Refugee Interviewing – Carol Moseley Braun’s ...
24:
The
Green Lantern Wants You! - To Resist GE
Calling all super-heroes! super-citizens! and super-spandex wearers! Converge on Cuba Mall- Wellington- and resist GE - November 9th - 3pm
25:
Mobile
V8 International At Pukekohe
Motor racing fans are guaranteed three days of petrol head heaven when the V8 SUPERCARS cross the Tasman in November this year.
26:
Intergalactic
Callout To Resist GE! -
POSTER
Calling all super-heroes! super-citizens! and super-spandex wearers! Converge on Cuba Mall- Wellington- and resist GE - November 9th - 3pm
27:
Representations
To The Corrections
Department
Prime Minister Helen Clark said tonight that the Minister of Corrections has made it clear to his department that representations received from ministers and MPs are to be given the same weight as are representations from members of the public.
28:
NZ
Remains In Top 3 Clean In Corruption
Countries
NZ has been ranked as 3rd cleanest country in terms of corruption again by Transparency International.
29:
Ministerial
Interference Means Turia Must
Go
The gross interference by the Associate Minister of Corrections in a number of cases involving prison inmates is extremely serious and raises questions about Tariana Turia's fitness to hold a Ministerial Warrant, National MP Tony Ryall said today.
30:
New
guide book to NZ battlefields
invaluable
The newly published guide to New Zealand battlefields in France and Belgium would prove an invaluable guide for visitors to a region where New Zealanders played a significant military role in World War One, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, ...
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.
Binoy Kampmark: The Syrian Civil War - New Phases, Old Lies
Keith Rankin: Bidenomics And Luxonomics
Gordon Campbell: On The Royal Commission’s Fine-tuning Of Vaccine Mandates And Lockdowns
Ramzy Baroud: Israel And The West’s War On Itself - The True Meaning Of ICC Arrest Warrants
Binoy Kampmark: Gallic Stubbornness - France, Netanyahu And The ICC Arrest Warrants
Ramzy Baroud: ‘Genocide’ vs ‘Bigger Genocide’ in Gaza - Time to Decolonize Our Minds