Today's Top Scoops - 22 April 2008
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Scoop Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat On The Prez - Video + Audio of NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark's post Cabinet press conference for Parliamentary press gallery journalists held this afternoon. The cabinet readout was followed by Q beginning with the latest verbal gaffes from Labour Party President Mike Williams... More >> [1]
ALSO:AGENDA - Mike Williams Interview [2]
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NZ POLITICS------------
Broadband: Key Plans $1.5bn For Open Fibre To The Home - National Party Leader John Key today announced a National Government will invest up to $1.5 billion to drive the
roll-out of a "fibre to the home" ultra-fast broadband network in New Zealand. "This investment will help deliver the
economic step change that New Zealand needs to significantly lift average incomes over time. It will truly future-proof
New Zealand. More >> [1]
ALSO:National - Key: Better Broadband for New Zealand [2]
Hollow Men: Driver Thinks Up Some New Questions For Hager - How Hollow are the Hollow Men? With the play in Auckland last week, Oliver Driver talks to Nicky Hager about THAT
book and what the media didn't talk about. More >> [1]
Scoop Announcement: Election08 Launched - Edited By Gordon Campbell - Dear Scoop Audience, Scoop is delighted and very proud today to launch a section of Scoop devoted to coverage of this
year's election, and which will be edited (and mostly written) by Gordon Campbell. It is called Election08 [1] . More >> [2]
ALSO:Election 08 - Gordon Campbell Interviews Tariana Turia [3] Election 08 - Afghanistan: Fight For Your Right To PRT [4] Election 08 - Beijing Ka-Ching! An Analysis of the FTA [5] Election 08 - Mike Williams: Looking For Labour's Laggards [6]
Military: Anzac Day TO Be Remembered In NZ And Around The World - New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel will be spread from Northland to Invercargill on Friday 25 April providing
support to a wide variety of commemorative activities to mark one of New Zealand's most significant days, Anzac Day. More >> [1]
ALSO:NZ Govt - Peters to start European trip at Gallipoli [2] Maori TV - ANZAC Coverage For All New Zealanders [3] Maori TV - The Story Of A NZ War Hero On Maori Television [4] NZ Red Cross - Fond Memories Of Red Cross For ANZAC Day [5] Ministry For Culture And Heritage - Anzac Day Resources [6]
Health: NZ First On Doctors' Side - The junior doctors' strike which starts today is a last resort by health professionals who feel that they are
seriously overworked and undervalued, says New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. "Both sides in this
conflict are as far apart as they ever were." More >> [1]
ALSO:District Health Boards - Here we go again - again! [2] National - Big hospital wind down underway [3] District Health Boards - Patients and public deserve better [4] SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists - Time to Euthanise Die-While-You-Wait Health System [5] Southland DHB - Preparation for Junior Doctors' Strike Continues [6] Hawkes Bay DHB - HB Hospital preparing for junior doctors' strike [7]
Conservation: PSA Seeks Extra DOC Funding As 56 Jobs Cut - The PSA is very concerned about a proposal to cut jobs at the Department of Conservation and says the Government
needs to address the department's budget shortfall. More >> [1]
ALSO:Greens - Call for public release of DoC staff cuts report [2] Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society - DOC job losses concern for conservation [3]
Grey Power AGM: Peters Reveals SeniorGold Budget Perks - Budget 2008 will contain funding which will ensure that SuperGold Card holders will travel free - that's right, free,
during off peak times! But we have not stopped there. We have also secured a significant funding boost to ensure greater
access to hearing aids in this year's budget. More >> [1]
Scoop Satire: Sit-Down Toilets In Our Prisons! - Just days after the National Party revealed that prisoners were able to play petanque and golf on a strip of grass
with tin cans as holes, a Scoop investigation has found that prisoners are using sit down toilets. More >> [1]
ALSO:National - John Key: Speech To Sensible Sentencing Conference [2] Sensible Sentencing Trust - Victims Conference Empowers Victims [3] Rethinking Crime and Punishment - Victim involvement needed in conferences [4] Public Address - 21/04/08 - Not all victims equal [5]
Immigration: Confidence In Thompson Not Forthcoming - National Party Immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith is asking how the public can have faith in the head of the
Immigration Service when Helen Clark won't express confidence in that senior official. More >> [1]
ALSO:National - PM's move on immigration claims curious [2]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Culinary Magic: NZ's Cooking Heritage Celebrated - New Zealand's cooking heritage will be celebrated in a variety of levels at the Regal Opening of Savour New Zealand
on Thursday 1st May. More >> [1]
International Goodness: Scientists Seek Better Spud - Scientists from Crop and Food Lincoln are cooperating with research organisations in Christchurch's Friendship city
of Wuhan, China. More >> [1]
Women In Business: Sari Sailing Through Boundaries - The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world personified the setting at AUT Business School for the launch of the
book 'Sari: Indian women at work in New Zealand'. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
King Hit: Female Monarchs Now Welcome To Throne Of England - The compulsory 'male succession' law in the UK is being abolished under new equality legislation, giving women equal
rights to succeed the throne, and ending the rule of primogeniture set down under the provisions of the 1701 Act of
Settlement. The Single Equality Bill will bring together existing laws on discrimination by sex, race, age, sexual
orientation, disability or religion. More >> [1]
Strange Bedfellows: Cuba Denounces Bush's Complicity With Posada Carriles - This May 8 marks one year since the definitive liberation of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles - the U.S. government has
not charged Posada for his acts of terrorism even though it has all the evidence based on its longstanding relationship
with him. More >> [1]
China Hand: Unisys Helps Beijing Airport Prepare For Olympics - The Terminal 3 expansion will provide critical transportation infrastructure needed by Beijing to host the 2008
Olympic Summer Games and targeted to handle 76 million passengers, 580,000 flights per year with peak hour handling of
124 flights an hour by 2015. Unisys was responsible for a number of key deliverables to ensure that the airport's
operations were supported by efficient, flexible technology. More >> [1]
Zimbabwe: Secretary-General Meets With Zimbabwean Opposition Leader Over Election Crisis - Mr. Ban and Mr. Tsvangirai met for half an hour in Accra, Ghana, at the request of the opposition figure. Mr.
Tsvangirai complained about the deadlock in Zimbabwe, where the results of the presidential poll held on 29 March have
still not been released, and the deterioration of the country's humanitarian and political situation. More >> [1]
Deadlines: UNESCO Calls For Better Protection Of Journalists After Gaza Killing - The head of UNESCO has called for improved protection of journalists, after a Palestinian cameraman working for the
Reuters news agency in Gaza was killed when a missile hit his vehicle. The vehicle is reported to have been clearly
marked with the word "Press". More >> [1]
Mixing It Up: Thousands Gather As Annual Indigenous Forum Kicks Off At UN Headquarters - "Indigenous peoples live in many of the world's most biologically diverse areas. As custodians of these lands, they
have accumulated deep, first-hand knowledge about the impacts of environmental degradation, including climate change.
They know the economic and social consequences, and they can and should play a role in the global response." More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Cyberspace: ANZAC Day Gets Comprehensive Internet Presence - Two Ministry for Culture and Heritage websites, www.NZHistory.net.nz and www.Anzac.govt.nz are a comprehensive guide
to both the history of Anzac Day and its remembrance in 2008. More >> [1]
Pageantry: Horowhenua Gets All The Power In the Universe - Paraparaumu-born Samantha Powell, 20, representing Horowhenua, is the newly crowned Miss Universe New Zealand 2008 in
a ceremony at the Novotel Ellerslie, near Auckland City. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 22 April 2008
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