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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings - 5 September 2005

Published: Tue 6 Sep 2005 11:12 AM
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: PSA Strike Ends in Tonga
The Tongan Advisory Council of New Zealand wishes to congratulate the striking workers and the Tongan Government for arriving at a peaceful resolution to the recent industrial dispute.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00050.htm
2: Relief Activities Related to Hurricane Katrina
SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. On behalf of the employees of the State Department, our hearts and prayers go out to every citizen who has been affected by Katrina. I want every American to know that their government is doing everything it can to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00051.htm
3: Anne Else: Brash in Charge - Here is the News
1 November 2005: The new National Government today took urgency to pass legislation abolishing the Maori seats in Parliament, together with all the government agencies "specifically set up to deal exclusively with Maori or with Maori issues". The new ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00039.htm
4: While Bodies Rot, Bush Couldn’t Care Less
As the unmitigated horror in New Orleans and environs unfolds and the type of immediate, massive government assistance that was needed from the earliest moments of Katrina’s landfall Monday scandalously and unforgivably fails to materialize, it is impossible ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00049.htm
5: Castro Reiterates Aid Offer To Katrina Victims
Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00049.htm
6: National to reintroduce market rents
National's plans to reintroduce market rents for state house tenants and sell off the state housing stock is another sign that the hard-right faction within the party is winning the policy battle, Housing Minister Steve Maharey said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00114.htm
7: Scoop Pollwatch - One News: Lab 38%, Nat 46%
National 46% Labour 38% Maori 2% ACT 1% NZ First 5% United Future 1% Green 6%
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00018.htm
8: Unitec Lecturer Challenges Accuracy Opinion Piece
Sione claims that 'Unitec is a University Wannabe'. Well yes and no. As Keith Rankin pointed out in his earlier piece, Unitec's argument was based on the need for dual-sector institutions which address a range of learning needs, from vocational trades through ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00017.htm
9: Halliburton Illegalities, Bush Busts Whistleblower
In October, 2004, Bunnatine Greenhouse, a top military official responsible for making sure the Army Corps of Engineers complies with contracting rules, came forward and revealed that top Pentagon officials showed improper favoritism to Halliburton ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00272.htm
10: Anti-Greens Smear Campaign Delivered Nationwide
Scoop Video: The Green Party is calling on all other parties to state categorically that they have nothing to do with a dirty tricks campaign which has just been launched on the Greens. An attack leaflet headlined "The Green Delusion", containing significant ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00016.htm
11: Labour Displays Critique Of Nats Tax Cut Plan
Finance Minister Michael Cullen called a press conference today to present a detailed PowerPoint display that critiques National's tax cut policy. More information will follow this evening.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00057.htm
12: Poll a mistake not a trend
The latest Colmar Brunton poll, showing National eight points ahead of Labour, is almost certainly wrong according to Labour's campaign spokesman Pete Hodgson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00090.htm
13: National's plan for Auckland roads
National Party Leader Don Brash says the next National Government will put roading in Auckland on the fast track with a comprehensive plan to get the city moving again.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00091.htm
14: Turia Backs Candidate's Comments to Brash
"I stand strongly in support of the statement Te Ururoa Flavell made to Dr Brash in Rotorua today" stated Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00128.htm
15: The Letter
National surges ahead of Labour. Winston faces defeat in Tauranga and in the country. Rodney's ahead in Epsom. ACT's polling is rising. Will the Greens make it? Spirallng fuel prices must affect the economy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00110.htm
16: Scoop Link: Memo – Brash Advised To Buy Election
The memo was written by one of Don Brash's closest advisers, Bryan Sinclair, and suggests National leader Don Brash buys his way to power. A year ago Sinclair told Brash: "Election winning behaviour requires you to slosh those funds around and buy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00060.htm
17: A Week Of It: Brash's Leaking Office Special Ed.
IN THIS EDITION: - Dr Brash email Leaker to Herald on Sunday Pinpointed. - The Need For Public Service Radio Is Made Abundantly Clear - There's A Hole In My Party - Political Gossip Sheets Play Find The Leak - Act Holds Garage Sale - The Best Democracy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00013.htm
18: Poll Watch - Fairfax/ACN, 3 Sept: Nat 44%, Lab 41%
Nat 44% Lab 41% Greens 5% NZ First 4% United F 2% ACT 1% Maori 1%
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00019.htm
19: Transcript: Maori Seats To Go Under National-UF
Last week United Future's leader Peter Dunne took the time to explain to Scoop what his parties bottom lines will be in post election co-alition talks. Whilst uneasy about National's plans to scrap the Maori seats should they become the next Government ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00055.htm
20: Complaint laid over smear campaign
The Green Party has lodged a complaint today with the Chief Electoral Officer over a pamphlet that appears to be part of a smear campaign.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00076.htm
21: Dirty tricks pamphlet author won't front
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is disappointed that the author of a pamphlet designed to smear the Greens would not front up when she went to visit him at his Auckland home this afternoon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00077.htm
22: Dunne calls all ACT voters on board
United Future leader Peter Dunne today issued a clarion call to ACT supporters to move across to United Future so their votes won't be wasted.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00108.htm
23: Clark's leader's fund paid for red pledge card
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks has written to the Auditor General seeking an investigation of the use of parliamentary funds for Labour's red election pledge card.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00122.htm
24: Hu, Putin Hail Wartime Friendship
Chinese President Hu Jintao held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Saturday night, a press release from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00066.htm
25: New Zealand? Or the new Australia?
I have now spent some time reading Don Brash's speech from Monday, and have reluctantly come to the conclusion that Don Brash doesn't actually understand what he is talking about.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00003.htm
26: John Roughan: A Creeping Disaster?
'Rapid' disasters--tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, even cyclones--come suddenly and most go away almost as quickly. All disasters, however, change people's lives, alter their way of thinking but most of the time, those affected by nature's power ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00051.htm
27: Smear campaign not so Christian
The scale of a smear campaign against the Greens and Labour became more apparent today with the discovery of a third pamphlet seemingly from hard-line Christians hell-bent on making Don Brash Prime minister by whatever means necessary.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00117.htm
28: Maori Party disgusted Labour's lack of knowledge
The Maori Party is today appalled that the Prime Minister of this country, was unable to answer a simple question about the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, in the television programme ‘Eye to Eye’.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0509/S00092.htm
29: Paul Holmes Vs Mike Hosking?
Prime Television is delighted to announce its new half-hour current affairs quiz show, Out of The Question. This fresh, feisty and topical debate will feature teams led by Mike Hosking and Paul Holmes and will screen on the network later this year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0509/S00023.htm
30: Stateside with Rosalea: When The Levee Breaks
When I moved to this poor part of Oakland last year, one of the things I noticed first about it was the amount of subsidence and number of potholes in the streets.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00276.htm
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