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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20
Scoop's Top 20 rating items yesterday were...
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:
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.
4:
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.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
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.
6:
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 ...
7:
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.
8:
Questions
Of The Day (7-12)
Polls On The ECA – Student Loan Interest – GE Food – Road Toll – Tomorrow’s Schools - Mental Health Funding
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
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:
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.
12:
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.
13:
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.
14:
Bradford
Speech: Massey University , Albany
Campus
Let me start by saying that I believe the future of New Zealand depends to a large degree on the quality and focus of our tertiary institutions.
15:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
Train Crash - Sanctuary - War Crimes - Shipley - Debt - Mental Health - Inquest - O'Connor - Jade Access - Canoe
16:
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.
17:
Clark:
election crucial for tertiary
education
Labour Leader Helen Clark told Victoria University students today that this year’s election presented a chance for students to vote for a Labour government to rebuild tertiary education.
18:
Scoop
Today - Your Daily Wired News
Fix
Just a small sampling of the news on Scoop today...
19:
“Come
Clean Labour And Alliance”
New Zealand First has called on Labour and the Alliance to release their coalition agreement before the election, so voters can see their joint policies.
20:
Call
for VCs spending to be brought to
Account
"Students are being ripped off by the University of Canterbury’s Vice Chancellor Daryl Le Grew’s spending. I have asked Max Bradford the Minister of Tertiary Education to call for an investigation into the expenditure," National’s Youth Vice President ...
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.
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