Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 5:40 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Scoop Is In The House
LEAD STORY:
Professor Kelsey Reports From Cancun On WTO Negotiations
World Vision Highlights WTO Agreement Concerns
National ‘Disappointed’ Ardern Charged Over Tractor Protest
NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Annan Sets Date For Ministerial Meeting On Iraq (Sept 14)

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News Asks What's Up With Gambling Bill?
Meditations (Political):Land Of The Free On Bended Knee
Dennis Hans: What Is ''Assessed Intelligence''>
Remembering 911: Public Address's Jolisa Gracewood
Remembering 911: John Chuckman
Nicaragua The Neo Banana Republic
Daily Katya Rivas

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
MAdGE House Protest Heats Up GE Debate
Gambling Industry Untrustworthy - Greens
Rotorua Lake Investigation Welcomed
Energy Statistics Updated
World Suicide Prevention Day
ACCC Right About Air NZ - Prebble

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World Vision Highlights WTO Agreement Concerns

Scoop Is In The House

- For today's questions see... Questions for Oral Answer - Wednesday, 10 Sept. [1] . See also… Tuesday's Questions and Answers [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00203.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00189.htm

LEAD STORY:
Professor Kelsey Reports From Cancun On WTO Negotiations

- The symbolism of a World Trade Organisation under siege intensified as the security cordon around the venue for the WTO’s fifth ministerial meeting began tightening today. See... Jane Kelsey: Erecting Defences Around The WTO [1] and Jane Kelsey: Peasants Farmers Mobilise In Cancun [2] MORE: - Aziz Choudry: Trade Talk - Speaking in Tongues [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00088.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00080.htm
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World Vision Highlights WTO Agreement Concerns

- The WTO's 'development round' trade talks get started in Cancun this week, looking for agreement on a number of issues that could impact on the lives of millions in some of the World's poorest countries. See... World Vision: Is Cancun Kicking Away The Ladder? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0309/S00055.htm

National ‘Disappointed’ Ardern Charged Over Tractor Protest

- National Party Deputy Leader Roger Sowry says the Party is surprised that a decision has been made to prosecute Taranaki - King Country MP Shane Ardern for disorderly behaviour. See... Ardern charged with disorderly behaviour [1] and ACT... Prebble Stunned by MP's Prosecution [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00202.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00207.htm

NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

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Annan Sets Date For Ministerial Meeting On Iraq (Sept 14)

- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told reporters September 8 that he would meet that day in his conference room with members of the U.N. Security Council in search of a solution to the issues of Iraq, and that he hoped to meet on the same ... See... Annan Planning Ministers Iraq Meeting in Geneva [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0309/S00114.htm

INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES:

Asia Pacific

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STORY OF THE WEEK - THE FIGHT ON THE BEACHES

Govt. Backdown Ahead – English On Beaches - "The Government risks losing control of the beaches and seabed issue, allowing it to be driven by activists fuelled by talk of a looming Labour back down," says National Party Leader Bill English. See... Beaches issue spirals out of Govt control [1] - For more on the Story Of The Week CLICK HERE..

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00194.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Hard News Asks What's Up With Gambling Bill?

- What kind of family-friendly party uses its limited political leverage to procure changes in gambling laws that will, without a shadow of a doubt, destroy a few more families? United Future, apparently. The new Gambling Bill, which passed another ... See... The Moral Lottery [1] or Hard News 10/09/03 - Vices [2] MORE: - C.D. Sludge - Sludge Report 158: Who's Driving the Gambling Bill? [3]

[1] - http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post665
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00089.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00078.htm

Meditations (Political):Land Of The Free On Bended Knee

- The self-appointed President of the World spoke to the mostly sleeping-walking citizens of America last night. See... Martin LeFevre: Crawling Back to the UN [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00087.htm

Dennis Hans: What Is ''Assessed Intelligence''>

- The question arises in conjunction with the crisis of credibility engulfing British Prime Minister Tony Blair. See... Dennis Hans: What Is ''Assessed Intelligence''? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00086.htm

Remembering 911: Public Address's Jolisa Gracewood

- It's Tuesday, warm and mild, the first leaves drifting off the gingko trees under a cloudless sky of vivid autumnal blue. According to the calendar, the anniversary falls on a Thursday. But Tuesday is the day that feels like the day it happened, the true anniversary. See… Busytown: Déjà vu all over again [1]

[1] - http://publicaddress.net/default,busytown.sm#post664

Remembering 911: John Chuckman

- The press recently ran stories about Americans reliving the horrors of 9/11 through released emergency-call transcripts that include the last gasps of doomed souls. Am I the only one struck by the extremely odd nature of this story? See... John Chuckman: The First Two Years Of Insanity [1] MORE REMEMBERING 911: - Guest Opinion - The World Before and After [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00084.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00072.htm

Nicaragua The Neo Banana Republic

- When US-backed candidate Violeta Chamorro won the most observed election ever in Nicaragua in 1990, she promised Nicaraguans that US government aid would quickly put the country back on its feet. After a decade of war, exhausted Nicaraguans took ... See... Neo-liberal Nicaragua: Neo Banana Republic [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00085.htm

Daily Katya Rivas

- My Heart keenly desires the salvation of the world. See... Katya Rivas: Salvation Is in the Eucharist [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0309/S00083.htm

MAdGE House Protest Heats Up GE Debate

- Women from the group MAdGE (Mothers Against GE in Food and the Environment) this afternoon tore off their tops exposing hot pink and black bras and waved GE Free flags to astonished MPs during question time in the house. See... Mothers Lift Tops To Stop GE Moratorium Lifting [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0309/S00058.htm

Gambling Industry Untrustworthy - Greens

- Green MP Sue Bradford has rejected claims by the Government and United Future that the gambling industry can be trusted to distribute gambling funds to charity in a fair and transparent manner. See... Can the gambling industry be trusted, really? [1] MORE: - NZ First - Labour's Great Contribution To Maoridom - Gambling [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00205.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00206.htm

Rotorua Lake Investigation Welcomed

- National Environment Spokesperson Nick Smith today welcomed the decision of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to undertake a formal investigation into the Rotorua Lakes pollution crisis. See... Investigation into Rotorua Lakes pollution crisis [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00204.htm

Energy Statistics Updated

- Energy Minister Pete Hodgson today released latest edition of the Ministry of Economic Development's Energy Data File, a comprehensive biannual volume of energy statistics. See... Latest energy statistics from MED [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00199.htm

World Suicide Prevention Day

- Associate Health Minister, Jim Anderton, said today that the prevention of suicide and suicide attempts has been a priority for New Zealand for some time and it is helpful for international attention to be focussed on the issue. See... World Suicide Prevention Day Time To Reflect [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00197.htm

ACCC Right About Air NZ - Prebble

- ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that the Australian Commerce Commission was both right in law and in rationale in declining the Air New Zealand/Qantas merger. See... Aussies are Right [1] - EPMU - Union calls for govt action on air alliance [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0309/S00190.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0309/S00057.htm

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