Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 5:07 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Asthma Awareness Week
Police 'Sick' Culture Inquiry Head Steps Down
Charges Laid In Historic Rotorua Rape Investigation
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
SCOOP NEWS REPORTS:
UN War Crimes Tribunal Hands Down Final Charges
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Dog Biting Men: Tim Selwyn Goes To Court For Sedition
Jim Peron On His 15 Minutes Of Fame
Martin LeFevre: A Surreal Contrast Found In The Hills
Scoop Feedback: Mormons And Mental Health
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
National Desperate To Find Economic Failure
Brash Slams New Zealand Brain Drain
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LEAD STORY:
Asthma Awareness Week

[1] - Would anyone allow a bucket of water to be poured into their home every day of the year? The average Kiwi home produces around 10 litres of moisture every day - 3,650 litres a year. Moisture leads to common asthma triggers like mould, with up to 50% of New Zealand homes having serious mould, and many homes being cold and well under World Health Organisation recommended warmth levels. See…Cuba St Bucket Fountain - Asthma Awareness Week [2] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0503/S00071.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0503/S00071.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0503/S00053.htm

Police 'Sick' Culture Inquiry Head Steps Down

- The Police Inspector leading the investigation into the Counties Manukau culture has stood aside from the assignment. Inspector Pieter Roozendaal today requested to stand down from the task after media inquiries recalling an incident in the late 1980s where alleged inappropriate humour was involved. See... Inspector Stands Aside From Culture Investigation [1] ALSO: Police Culture Investigation: Submissions Called [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00140.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00139.htm

Charges Laid In Historic Rotorua Rape Investigation

- Police arrested three men today for historical sexual offences against two women in Rotorua in the early 1980s. See... Three arrests for historical sexual offences [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00144.htm

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00336.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00322.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00142.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00135.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0503/S00191.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0503/S00070.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0503/S00189.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0503/S00049.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0503/S00048.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00137.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0503/S00103.htm

SCOOP NEWS REPORTS:

Scoop Report: Spread Of Disease Linked To Global Warming [1] - Marietta Gross reports that global warming and changes to the earth's environment are accelerating the spread of diseases. These facts have been revealed in the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). yearbook. “In the nineteen seventies the disease dengue fever was prevalent in nine countries. Today it is found in about 100 countries”, said Marion Cheatle, one of the authors of the yearbook. See... Climate Change Advances Rapid Spread Of Diseases [2] ALSO: Scoop Report: WWF Fears Deglaciation Of Himalaya-Glaciers [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00134.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00134.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00135.htm

UN War Crimes Tribunal Hands Down Final Charges

- The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today handed down its final indictments, charging an ex-Interior Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and a police officer with war crimes that included murder… See... Yugoslavia: WarCrimes Tribunal Releases Indictment [1] More:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00262.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00252.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00251.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00266.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00256.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00254.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00265.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00267.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Dog Biting Men: Tim Selwyn Goes To Court For Sedition

- On 18 November [1] an axe was lodged in the window of Prime Minister Helen Clark’s Sandringham Road electorate office. After an anonymous tip-off to a radio station, flyers were found on the corner of Ponsonby Road which purported to explain the attack. See... Dog Biting Men: Wedge Politics [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0411/S00230.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00149.htm

Jim Peron On His 15 Minutes Of Fame

- Andy Warhol once said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I don’t recommend it. See... 15 minutes of fame by Jim Peron [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00136.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00082.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/mp3s/pound,peron-2005-03-10.m3u
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00086.htm

Martin LeFevre: A Surreal Contrast Found In The Hills

- The verdant slopes beyond the gorge are adorned with thousands of brilliant orange poppies and deep blue lupines. The swollen creek is over a hundred meters directly below. It wends its way around dark volcanic rocks that look as if they just hardened from their molten state. Above, a procession of clouds of every shape skate across an azure sky. Meditations: A Stark Contrast [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00147.htm

Scoop Feedback: Mormons And Mental Health

- I am writing you with regard to the posting: Suzan Mazur: Bush And The Mormons [1] . There are quite a few discrepancies and misleading statements in the above noted posting and I would like to address a few of those here. See... Scoop Feedback: Mormons & Mentally Ill Kids [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0410/S00296.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00139.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00138.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00148.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00146.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00145.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00143.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00142.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00141.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00140.htm

National Desperate To Find Economic Failure

- National Party Finance spokesman John Key says Labour’s economic legacy is now starting to become blindingly obvious to all New Zealanders. “Today the Reserve Bank delivered another set of warnings about the likely slowdown in growth. What we really need is productivity-driven growth not inflation-driven growth. See... Labour’s economic legacy takes hold [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00348.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00343.htm

Brash Slams New Zealand Brain Drain

- That was the front-page headline on last Saturday's Weekend Herald. The article which followed made the point that 24.2% of all New Zealand-born people with a tertiary education now live overseas - and noted that that represents the biggest exodus of ... See... Don Brash Writes: 1/4 Of NZ's Brightest Are Gone [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00342.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00347.htm

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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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