Top Scoops

Contact

Scoop

Network

Scoop Top Scoops

Photo Essay: At The Opening Of The Pacific Forum

Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 1:22 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

Scoop Foreign Correspondent:
Photo Essay: The Opening Of The 36th Pacific Island Forum

Images by Jason Dorday

ENDS

Advertisement - scroll to continue reading

Alastair Thompson

Scoop Publisher

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.

Contact Alastair Thompson

Top Scoops Headlines

COMMENT

Ian Powell: ‘If You Don’t Have Hope, You Can’t Have A Strategy’

Ian Powell discusses how our health system got into the mess it presently finds itself in and how it might get out of it.

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Religious Experiencing Without Religion

What matters is what one puts first: scriptures, or seeing for oneself; belief, or actual experiencing; insight, or the accretions of theology? If one opts to remain in a religious tradition, one has to hold it lightly, mining for insight while being mindful that texts and traditions are never the truth, but at best an echo of the truth.

Gordon Campbell: On Why So Many Young Males Like Donald Trump

Some clues to the allure of Trumpism can be found in the gender gap of unprecedented size that has opened up between those in the 18-29 age group.

Binoy Kampmark: Virtuous, Smug And Venal - British Electoral Interference In The US

US politics remain a matter of enormous importance to the UK. Interfering in US elections is a habit that dies hardest of all.

Ramzy Baroud: ‘Gaza Is Ours, Forever’ - Israel’s Extremists Have A Plan For The Day After The Genocide

Israel is a settler-colonial society, which has linked its colonial expansion to religious diktats and prophecies. So the forced departure from Gaza, to most of these settlers, must have appeared to represent both national treason and a sacrilegious act.

Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Volunteers Run Our Emergency Services

In many ways, volunteer firefighters typify community life in New Zealand. It has been often said that the two best ways to get known in a new community are to join the local volunteer fire brigade, or the school committee. Our volunteers come from all walks of life, and backgrounds. The resilience of the UFBA over the last almost 150 years stems from this.

Join Scoop Pro

Submit News

Become a Member

Community Scoop

More RSS News Alerts

Wellington Scoop