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The weekend's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Steve Irwin
Australian Government
I was saddened and shocked to learn today of the death of Steve Irwin. Steve was a great Australian and a great
Australian tourism icon who contributed enormously to our nation.
Green Party
Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei expressed her shock and dismay at the accidental death yesterday of
Australian wildlife champion Steve Irwin.
3: Steve Irwin
Australia Zoo
At 11am today, 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a stingray barb to his heart while filming a
sequence on Batt Reef off Port Douglas for a new TV series.
Official New Zealand Music Chart
Bob Dylan debuts atop the Albums Chart this week with Modern Times, the third time the 65-year-old has scored a New
Zealand #1 set. Dylan had the very first #1 album on the Official New Zealand Music Chart when it was launched back in
May 1975 - thirty-one ...
Doreen Virtue
She’s a glamorous blonde American psychologist whose dramatic career change came as the result of a violent car-jacking
incident in 1996.
US State Department
QUESTION: Thank you for doing this for Essence. SECRETARY RICE: Oh, glad to do it. QUESTION: We're so excited. We're
just so excited. So, you've talked to so many different people so we decided to also ask just regular readers, you know,
some questions.
The Kiwi Herald
News too good to be true from the chronicle of Moenui - proud holder of the 'Northern Region Best Kept Grass Verge
Award'
Zero Waste New Zealand
The Zero Waste New Zealand Trust views with some alarm the indication that government is to proceed with its plans to
use whey and tallow for the production of biodiesel and ethanol. The Zero Waste Trust believes that the inefficient use
of these valuable ...
Office of the Clerk
1. Savings—Support Mechanisms 2. Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 3.
Transport Network—Government Policy 4. Immigration Intelligence Unit—Ministerial Briefings 5. Members of
Parliament—Payment for ...
Jason Leopold
Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, may be syndicated columnist Robert Novak's primary source who
told him on July 8, 2003, that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. But that doesn't
change the fact ...
Kevin List
This afternoon National and their alleged links with the private insurance industry were the targets of Government
attacks. During the election campaign a document entitled 'Workplace Safety Wins Under National' was circulated by the
Insurance Council of ...
Sherwood Ross
If you think President Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller “The Sorrows of
Empire” by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books).
Norman Solomon
When Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, invited President Bush to engage in a "direct television debate" a few days
ago, the White House predictably responded by calling the offer "a diversion." But even though this debate will never
happen, ...
Sherwood Ross
It’s not easy to create a situation where life is better under a dictatorship than in a democracy, but George Bush has
succeeded in achieving the impossible by invading Iraq.
Sherwood Ross
At least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government
employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East, published reports and legal
documents indicate.
Green Party
Shoppers are being urged by the Green Party to boycott Progressive Enterprises supermarkets where possible until
locked-out employees are allowed to negotiate a national collective agreement.
Auckland City Council
Auckland Zoo expresses their sorrow and shock over the death of Steve Irwin. Auckland Zoo curator, Brooke Noonan states,
“Steve Irwin’s death has left us all shocked. He was a passionate ambassador for wildlife conservation and set a
benchmark for ...
William Fisher
I was serving in the Kennedy administration on May 25, 1961, when, just like millions of other Americans, I heard JFK
tell the world, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
landing a man ...
US State Department
Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Remarks to the media following a Security
Council Stakeout New York City August 31, 2006
US State Department
Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Remarks to the media following a Security
Council Stakeout New York City September 1, 2006
Green Party
News that residents of two upmarket Christchurch suburbs are campaigning against a proposed bus service through the area
has disgusted Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons.
New Zealand Labour Party
The National Party needs to come clean on their role in encouraging the Exclusive Brethren to pull out all the stops to
ensure their $1.2 million pro-Brash campaign could be counted as separate from National's 2005 election spend up, Labour
strategist ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Humanitarian Appeal
The humanitarian organization TRO protested the freezing of its accounts in Sri Lanka Sunday, saying the Colombo
government had made no communication with the NGO, which has been registered as a charity there since 1985. Warning that
“the current humanitarian ...
US State Department
MR. BEAMAN: Well, Madame Secretary, as you know, we're coming up on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. And for so many
people, it was a trauma not only in the sense of what happened to the nation and how it engulfed us in a global war on
terror, but there was a personal ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour strategist Pete Hodgson has today referred to the Auditor General a National Party pledge pamphlet from the 2002
election which was paid for from Parliamentary Services funding.
Rosalea Barker
It’s Labor Day holiday here today, and it happens that in the early hours of this morning I was answering email and
chanced to look over at Google News, where I learned that Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, had died. The Age news
story at the top of ...
CAFCA
The Roger Award is for The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006 Nominations are now
open for the annual Roger Award, which is organised by the Christchurch-based groups Campaign Against Foreign Control of
Aotearoa (CAFCA) ...
Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush made an extraordinary statement at his unexpected news conference on August 21st. He said: “the
consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done…[is that] we will have lost our soul as a nation.” The Nazis used
that kind of rhetorical ...
IFEX
1. Australia: Anti-Terrorism Laws Threaten to Muzzle Press 2. Bahrain: Rights Groups Criticise Anti-Terrorism Law 3. The
Gambia: Media Repression Means Elections Won't be Fair 4. Indonesia: Majority of Journalists Vastly Underpaid: AJI
Survey 5. MFWA ...
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