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1: Labour
And The West Coast - A Coast
Perspective
"You're on my turf now," Labour Deputy Leader Michael Cullen is alleged to have said to West Coasters during an angry meeting in Parliament yesterday over Labour's plans to end sustainable logging. Scoop’s West Coast correspondent John ...
2:
Scoop
Photo Feature: Coast Action Network
protest
Scoop’s Fraser Rolfe attended yesterday’s Coast Action Network protest in favour of native logging in Wellington and filed this photo feature report.
3:
Labour
Leader Turns Back On Voters
"If the overwhelming majority of citizens vote for a particular course of action it is arrogant to ignore it," Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech said today in condemning Helen Clark's statement that she would not act on a referendum to reduce ...
4:
Questions
Of The Day (7-12)
Polls On The ECA – Student Loan Interest – GE Food – Road Toll – Tomorrow’s Schools - Mental Health FundingAdvertisement - scroll to continue reading
PM Comments and Rising Poverty – Housing Retort – Shrinking Economy Explained – Whakatane Hospital Discrimination? – Death Of Mrs Heenan (not asked) – Govt View On Anti-defection Legislation
6:
Pictures
Family Planning Didn’t Want Women To
See
In a controversial move, Graham Capill, the leader of the Christian Heritage Party, has shot another broadside across the bow of the Family Planning Association with the unveiling of a large billboard showing a 12 week old foetus in down-town Auckland.
7:
Scoop
House: House Of 1996-99, Final
Days
A roundup of the programme for the final days of this Parliamentary session - list and timing of valedictories and FULL TEXT of URGENCY MOTION.
8:
Henare
Supports Elder's Retirement
"Mauri Pacific fully understands Jack Elder's decision to step down at this year's election," its Leader, Hon Tau Henare, said today.
9:
Upton-On-Line
Launched - First Article On
MMP
Cabinet Minister Simon Upton today dispensed with the industrial age reliance on broadsheets and the wireless with the launch of his daily Internet column, upton-on-line.
10:
Telecom
One New Zealand Challenge
New Zealand’s leading broadcaster and New Zealand’s leading telecommunications company have joined together in a programme designed to put every New Zealander on screen for the Millennium.
11:
Registry
occupation continues at Canterbury
Uni
Scoop's Matthew Thomas reports on the occupation of the registry building at Canterbury University in opposition to proposed $1800 a year increases in fees.
12:
Scoop
Today - Your Daily Wired News
Fix
Just a small sampling of the news on Scoop today...
13:
Vodafone
Doubles Customer Base In Less Than A
Year
The Vodafone mobile phone network in New Zealand has recently celebrated signing its 290,000th customer.
14:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
Train Crash - Sanctuary - War Crimes - Shipley - Debt - Mental Health - Inquest - O'Connor - Jade Access - Canoe
15:
Union
Advertisements “Employer Bashing”
A union advert suggesting that employers sack their workers rather than let a parent care for their sick kids, is self-serving employer bashing, Employers’ Federation CEO said today.
16:
Kevin
Roberts - Honk If You Love
Toyota!
What's driving the future of automotive brands? Address to the Toyota Australia dealers conference Sydney, 23 September 1999
17:
McCully
insults industry and the truth
ACC Minister Murray McCully insulted the convenors and participants at the International Forest Industry Safety Conference today by lying about Labour's ACC policy and the National Government's ACC "reforms", Labour ACC spokesperson Ruth Dyson ...
18:
Legal Appeal Is The Only Appeal Lolita Should
Get
Christian Heritage intends to file an appeal against a decision of the Film and Literature Board to essentially uphold the R18 certificate given to Lolita by the Classification Office. A proforma appeal was filed in the High Court in Wellington today.
19:
The
Dominion
Tower Shares - Crash - Cardno Charge - About The House - Photo - Soldiers - Treasury - Coasters - Henare
20:
Cullen
loses rag with West Coasters
"Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen treated a West Coast delegation to a shocking display of behaviour today, by swearing at them, causing one of the group to cry, and then storming out of the meeting Labour had organised to hear West Coast concerns," ...
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Scoop Publisher
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