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Scoop Ratings - Rugby, Loopy Taxes and Eftpos
The top 20 rating items on Scoop as of 3.20pm today were…
1: Scottish
Ref A Serious Threat To Cup
Hopes
Taking nothing away from the Wallabies victory - they played very well and the All Blacks poorly - but there are lessons for World Cup contenders, fans and organisers in the refereeing of tonight's Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney.
2:
Column:
International Studies Of Transaction
Tax
Late this week treasurer, Bill English and Act's Rodney Hide came out swinging against the Alliance proposal for a financial transaction tax to replace GST, calling it "a loopy and failed idea." But the international community is presently ...
3:
Banks
stop declining but charge extra
fees
The Alliance has revealed that banks are charging customers $15 if they exceed their EFTPOS limit rather than declining their transactions and says that Banks should display bank charges at the point of sale. A new system has been installed that instead ...
4:
Green
Party Launches Party List
The Green Party is one of the first parliamentary parties to issue its complete party-list of candidates for this year's general election.
5:
The
Week Ahead: Playing The
Numbers
With five sitting days till the house rises the Beehive's best and brightest are engaged in a game they became well accustomed to last year as the government sat on a knife edge- counting the numbers.
6:
Minister
Confirms Plans To Privatise Timberlands
Speaking at the annual ECO conference held over the weekend, the Minister of Conservation, Dr Nick Smith confirmed that the government plans to privatise Timberlands West Coast Ltd - with the feeble reassurance that this wouldn't happen "before the election".
7:
Inside
APEC Exclusive - Canada's "Highest
Threat"
His tale reads like a scene out of the Frederick Forsyth book "The ODESSA File". But while what you read here is clock and dagger, it is not fiction. Published on Scoop for the first time in New Zealand is Jaggi Singh's account of what Canada's ...
8:
New
Zealand Lotteries Commission Annual
Results
"I am very disappointed at Green MP Rod Donald's interpretation of the New Zealand Lotteries Commission's work" Presiding Member Geoff Thompson said in response to criticism of the salary paid to the Lotteries Commission Chief Executive.
9:
Email
Espionage At Wellington City
Council?
Allegations of blackmail and espionage at Wellington City Council? Sounds ridiculous, perhaps, but there appears to be some substance behind the latest contretemps between the spurned independent councillors and the Labour-Wellington Alive coalition.
10:
Employers
Federation Clarifies Misleading
Comments
Following a series of misleading statements quoted in both written and electronic media, the Employers' Federation has today forwarded the attached two communications to the Labour Party.
11:
Auck
Councillor's Un-Censored APEC Column
Revealed
Here, courtesy of Auckland's 95Bfm is Auckland councillor, Maire Leadbeater's "Lost Column". AUCKLAND CITY COUNCILLOR Maire Leadbeater refused to edit her column for this week's edition of the council's PR rag to the public, "City Scene". Instead, ...
12:
Scoop
Ratings - Weekend Top 20
The Top 20 rating items at the weekend were…
13:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
East Timor - Scott Watson Trial - Wages Of Lotto - Oil Companies In Court - Defence Report - Sexual Harassment - Kirsty Bentley - Israeli Peace - Combined School Boards - Fire Concerns
14:
$400,000
salary for lotto boss raises
questions
The revelation that State Services boss Michael Wintringham didn't blow the whistle on Lotteries boss David Bale's $400,000 plus salary package raises serious questions about who guards the guardians.
15:
What
can we expect on
Superannuation
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you this morning. I value the opportunity to talk to you about our plans for superannuation and to hear your comments.
16:
Only
Indonesia Can Save East Timor
Now
As violence threatens to take still more lives in East Timor there are probably only three people capable of making any difference in East Timor: The President of Indonesia B.J. Habibe, leader of the largest opposition party Megawati Sukarnoputri, and ABRI ...
17:
Govt
Should Get Out Of Gambling -
Prebble
ACT Leader Richard Prebble says the row over the excessive salary paid to the Lotteries Commission head was inevitable and indicates what should be done.
18:
Three
Auckland candidates in Greens' top
seven
Three well-known Aucklanders, Sue Bradford, Nandor Tanczos and Keith Locke have been placed in the top seven places on the Green Party list for this year's general election.
19:
Scoop
Ratings - Week's Top 20
The Top 20 rating items on Scoop this week were…
20:
The
Lasting Lessons Of WACO
If you were near a television set on April 19, 1993, you will never forget the sight of the Mt. Carmel religious community in Waco, Texas, going up in flames. What precisely had these people done to justify the Fed's surrounding them with tanks? With reluctance, ...
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