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Friday, 15 April 2005, 9:57 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: Scoop Report: Potluck and Sunshine for Ahmed Zaoui in Wellington
QPEC Says Govt Special Needs Funding Less Than 2 Percent Per Year
Number Of Unemployed People Drops By 27% In One Year
SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Aid Watch Claims Australia Lied On Aid Funding Increase
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Molesworth and Featherston’s Latest Inside Oil
Hard News From Russell Brown & More Is Here!
Indira Singh - Heroic Wall St 9/11 Whistleblower
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Govt Details Expectations To Electricity Commission
Brash Details Nat Ed Policy In Speech
MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

LEAD STORY:
Scoop Report: Potluck and Sunshine for Ahmed Zaoui in Wellington

[1] - Kevin List writes that the last time Ahmed Zaoui flew on a plane, he got nabbed at the airport, whisked off to a jail cell and interviewed without a lawyer present by the Police and members of the NZ Security Intelligence Service. See... Kevin List: Mr Zaoui Comes To Wellington [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00123.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00123.htm

QPEC Says Govt Special Needs Funding Less Than 2 Percent Per Year

- QPEC states that the Government's announcement by the Associate Minister of Education David Benson-Pope of an increase of $30.7 million in government funding for special education is welcome but is still deeply disappointing in terms of the quantum needed for children with special education needs to become effective learners in the classroom. This money is to be spread over 4 years and amounts to an overall increase of less than 2% per year in special education funding over this time. See… Special Ed Announcement Deeply Disappointing [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00057.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00313.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00314.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00044.htm

Number Of Unemployed People Drops By 27% In One Year

- Unemployment down by a quarter in one year DPB below 100,000 for first time in a decade. Quarterly figures released today show the number of working-aged New Zealanders on the Unemployment Benefit dropped by a record 27 per cent in one year and the number of sole parents on the DPB fell below 100,000 for the first time since 1995. See... Unemployment down by a quarter in one year [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00326.htm

SCOOP IS IN THE HOUSE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00339.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00297.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00259.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0504/S00165.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0504/S00089.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0504/S00088.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00046.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0504/S00085.htm

Aid Watch Claims Australia Lied On Aid Funding Increase

Figures from the OECD today blew out of the water the Foreign Ministers suggestion of a 9.9% increase in Australian aid, according to AID/WATCH, Australia’s leading aid watchdog. See... Australian Government caught out on aid generosity [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00219.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00214.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00209.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00208.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00207.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0504/S00205.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Molesworth and Featherston’s Latest Inside Oil

- John Tamihere gets a reprieve for now, but we think he’s more or less done as a Labour MP now. Treasury tells ministers the economy has peaked, but doesn’t seem to have a care in the world about the current account monster in the closet. Our new aid ... See... Molesworth & Featherston (Lobby Edition) – 14/4/05 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00131.htm

Hard News From Russell Brown & More Is Here!

- Having kicked off the psychedelic revolution in 1954 with The Doors of Perception, a still-entrancing account of a maiden mescalin trip, Aldous Huxley subsequently fell out with Timothy Leary on the matter of who should really get access to this ... See... Public Address 14/04/05 - Drugs Special [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00128.htm

Indira Singh - Heroic Wall St 9/11 Whistleblower

- In this special report, Michael Kane recounts the personal story of JP Morgan IT professional, Indira Singh, a heroic 9/11 whistleblower who was fired, harrassed, and physically threatened for exposing the Saudi/terrorist-linked origins of one of the government's most pervasive software systems, and thereby offering the 9/11 Commission more truth than it ever wanted to know. - 911truth.org [1] Editor See... UQ Wire: Journey of a Wall Street Whistleblower [2]

[1] - http://911truth.org
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00124.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00130.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00129.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00127.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00126.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00125.htm

Govt Details Expectations To Electricity Commission

- Energy Minister Trevor Mallard has today formally written to the Electricity Commission to set out and confirm the government's expectations that the commission will undertake an independent and wide consultative process when considering Transpower's proposed ... See... Independent assessment of proposed grid upgrade [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00283.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00285.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0504/S00161.htm

Brash Details Nat Ed Policy In Speech

- "It is bizarre that in the 21st century we should manage our education system as a public monopoly, dominated by two powerful trade unions and a rapidly expanding Education Ministry bureaucracy, with one pay scale from early childhood to secondary school. In this structure, principals and boards on the one hand, and parents and children on the other, are mere pawns in a bigger game, where the bureaucracy and the trade unions share operational control of the enterprise of educating our young." See... Brash Speech: Excellence In Education [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00286.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00287.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00296.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00293.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00047.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00045.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00043.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00042.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00039.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0504/S00037.htm

MORE POLITICAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00301.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00298.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00318.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00317.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00316.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00310.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00309.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00319.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00311.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00320.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00305.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00308.htm
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00303.htm
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00302.htm
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00307.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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