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Monday, 2 May 2005, 5:10 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
LEAD STORY: PM Backs Decision To Revoke Saddam Official’s Visa
Paul Buchanan Discusses NZ's Defence Needs
Scholastic Expectations Not Matched By Savings -
Stony Broke Students Get Greens Support
Dangers Of Mining Re-inforced By Memorial Service -
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Oz Deports And Illegally Detains 30+ Of Own Citizens
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Images: Civil Unions Launched With Rainbow Parade
Stateside: Where Rosalea Goes East
The Inside Oil From Molesworth & Featherston
If Synlait Is The Apex – Where Is Dairy Going?
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
SFO Assigned Criminal Asset Seizure Responsibility
Greens Back Presbyterian Sexual Abuse Complainants
Carter Unimpressed With Rehashed Defence Spendup
National Says May Day No Gay Day For Business
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LEAD STORY:
PM Backs Decision To Revoke Saddam Official’s Visa

The Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the Iraqi man who has had his visitor’s visa revoked has not broken any laws but that the Immigration Minister and Labour Department’s decision to revoke his visa was correct. See... PM Backs Decision To Revoke Saddam Official’s Visa [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00020.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00016.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00018.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00304.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00572.htm

Paul Buchanan Discusses NZ's Defence Needs

- It is absurd to compare a small country like New Zealand with behemoths like the US and UK, or even Australia (a country-continent with neo-imperial ambitions). That is like comparing pumpkins and cherries. The more apt comparison should be with other small democracies, such as Portugal, Uruguay, Norway, Denmark and Costa Rica. See... Paul Buchanan: On the Issue of NZ's Defence [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0504/S00305.htm

Scholastic Expectations Not Matched By Savings -

Three out of four parents want their children to have as good or better an education than they had - but only half are saving for it. See... New School Term Begins And Parents Not Saving [1] More:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0505/S00001.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00015.htm

Stony Broke Students Get Greens Support

- The fact that far fewer students are getting allowances is a damning indictment on the Government's tertiary education policy, the Green Party says. See... Govt Cannot Dodge Plummeting Student Allowance [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00010.htm
[2] - http://www.publicaddress.net/default,2072.sm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0505/S00006.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00019.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00025.htm

Dangers Of Mining Re-inforced By Memorial Service -

The service, at the Spring Creek mine, will see miners unveil a plaque in memory of four men who died in industrial accidents. See... Miners gather to remember fallen comrades [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0505/S00001.htm

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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0505/S00010.htm
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[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00015.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00013.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00005.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0505/S00001.htm

Oz Deports And Illegally Detains 30+ Of Own Citizens

- "The admission by Acting Immigration Minister Peter McGauran that Australian citizens and residents have been snatched and grabbed and deported away from Australia confirms serious concerns refugee advocates have held and tried to make public for a considerable time," WA Refugee lobby group Project SafeCom said today. See... Curtail DIMIA powers after deportations [1] MORE FROM SAFECOM:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00032.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00029.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00033.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00031.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00030.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00040.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00036.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00041.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00038.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00037.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00027.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00026.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00024.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00020.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00018.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00015.htm
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00013.htm

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Images: Civil Unions Launched With Rainbow Parade

- The parade for the first Public Civil Union celebrated outside the Wellington Town Hall, across Civic Square and the City-to-Sea Bridge, and around the lagoon at around 4.30pm yesterday, May Day. Images submitted by Dylan Packman. See... Scoop Images: Civil Unionists Celebrate May Day [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00019.htm

Stateside: Where Rosalea Goes East

- When I told friends that I was going to Boise, Idaho, the response I got was illuminating. "They're all survivalists up there." "White supremacist country. Beware." Coupled with my inkling that Boise (pronounced boys-ee) is the States' fun-time equivalent of Eketahuna, I didn't expect much as I set off on my trip last week. See... Stateside Images: Boise, Idaho [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00018.htm

The Inside Oil From Molesworth & Featherston

- Molesworth & Featherston comes to you delayed this week by the shortened ANZAC week, though it was a quiet week. The Reserve Bank held interest rates. We investigated how seriously to take reports of falling business confidence and list our top near-term concerns about our economy. We worry things aren’t going so well in the ANZAC relationship and we update media tattle. See... Molesworth & Featherston (Lobby Edition) – 29/4/05 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00010.htm

If Synlait Is The Apex – Where Is Dairy Going?

- Last week, Alex Sundakov argued that the arrival of Synlait – an ambitious new Canterbury dairy company – “closes the debate” on the 2001 reforms and “completes the evolution of the dairy sector”. If Synlait’s birth is the industry’s apex, it has some serious problems. See... Tony Baldwin: NZ Dairy - Sylait The Saviour? [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00008.htm

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[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00001.htm
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SFO Assigned Criminal Asset Seizure Responsibility

- The Serious Fraud Office will handle asset recovery work under new Proceeds of Crime legislation to be introduced by the government, Justice Minister Phil Goff announced today. See... SFO to handle criminal asset seizures [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00020.htm

Greens Back Presbyterian Sexual Abuse Complainants

- It is appalling that Presbyterian Support Services should be re-victimising sexual abuse victims by refusing to talk with them if they have tried to fight for recognition of their claims, Green Social Services Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. See... Presbyterian Group Should Not Ignore Claims [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00012.htm

Carter Unimpressed With Rehashed Defence Spendup

- National’s Defence spokesman, John Carter, says Labour’s reported $3 billion spend-up on defence is just a re-hash of what they have previously announced. See... Labour’s defence spend a con job [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00011.htm

National Says May Day No Gay Day For Business

- National Party Industrial Relations spokesman Wayne Mapp says the Labour Government has nothing to celebrate this May Day. See... Not so much a Mayday from business but an SOS [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0505/S00008.htm

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