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Yesterday's Top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Scoop
Images: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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2:
Scoop
Puzzle: Is This An Aussie? What Is He Up
To?
We received the above image yesterday via e-mail. It appears to show a soldier carrying a Steyr rifle with an Australian imprint the word “Humps” and various things written in Indonesian on it.
3:
On
the real significance of November's
election
Every election is, of course, of vital interest to politicians and those who earn their living either helping or hindering them. The world beyond the Ngauranga interchange (which for the benefit of non-Wellingtonians is where the bumpy old Hutt Motorway ...
4:
National
considers clumsy bribe to
students
Labour Leader Helen Clark today said that it was a sign of the level of desperation in National's ranks that the government is now considering eleventh hour changes to the student loans system.
5:
Steyr
Butt Writings Translated
It looks as though an Aussie soldier has written the Indonesian for "Halt, hands up!" on his rifle."
6:
NZ's
political leanings - Left, Right or
Both?
When New Zealanders place themselves on the political spectrum the majority opt for centre-left according to the New Zealand Values Study but when it comes to specific ideology we are much more confused.
7:
Keith
Rankin Column: MMP Commonsense
The coming election gives us renewed opportunity to interpret everything that politicians say and do with cynicism. It would be nice if we can rise above such a self-imposed stupor. We did it with APEC.
8:
Values
study: electorate prepared to spend
more
National and Act may have misjudged the mood of the electorate according to the New Zealand Study of Values which shows a willingness by people to spend more on certain social services.
9:
Public
cynical – voter turnout must be in
doubt
Just how many voters will exercise their democratic right come election day and vote is in doubt with the New Zealand Study of Values showing a general lack of confidence in government and politics.
10:
Cullen
on the public sector and the SSC
The present framework for the public sector - notably the State Sector Act and the Public Finance Act - is the creation of the Fourth Labour Government.
11:
Rebel
Lecturer Apologises For
Strike
While Victoria University of Wellington's academics went on strike today there were signs that the industrial action was not supported by even the half of Victoria's staff that belong to their union.
12:
NEWSFLASH:
Police threaten to evict
students
In the past hour, police have called students occupying the Registry building at the University of Canterbury, to warn them that they are about to evict the students.
13:
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 ...
14:
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.
15:
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.
16:
City
Voice: Arts for whose sake?
As a preview to next week’s City Voice Arts Forum (see… note at end of story for details) City Voice Newspaper's Simon Vita takes a look at issues surrounding the arts and culture debate.
17:
Max
Bradford - AIT Announcement
Tomorrow
The Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford will visit the Auckland Institute of Technology tomorrow morning to make an announcement.
18:
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.
19:
First
Moves Against Giant IMF/World Bank Rip
Off
The first charges have been laid in the US over what has been described as the biggest money laundering scandal in history. The Fed's say US$7 billion was illegally funnelled from Russia to America. Scoop’s West Coast Correspondent John Howard reports.
20:
Bradford
Rejects Fee Excuse
Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford has rejected a claim by the Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury University that substantial student fee increases are the fault of the Government.
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: AI Will Liberate Us From Thought Or Completely Enslave Us To It
Binoy Kampmark: Warmonger Confessions - More Frankness On AUKUS
Binoy Kampmark: Apologists For Rape - The Sde Teiman Protests
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Before The Bubble Bursts And The Wave Breaks
Ramzy Baroud: Prolonging Genocide As A Smokescreen - On Israel’s Other War In The West Bank
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Luxon's Tough Talk One-sided