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Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning considers why Labour's party list vote has failed to fire. Was this due to a seeping
unease shown by it losing votes, bleeding support from the provinces to National way back in 2005? If National pitches
itself well this week, especially in the provinces, all electorates south of Manurewa to New Plymouth could turn blue –
the closest exception to this being Hamilton West. Anyway, here are the predictions! More »[1]
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Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance
on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that
the law and order ‘debate’ tends to be the killing floor of the election campaign. More »[1]
On Saturday evening 1 November 2008, a 15 year old girl was reported missing in Kerikeri. Her disappearance was out of
character. The missing girl and her parents had recently moved from Kerikeri to Auckland. She was visiting friends in
Kerikeri for the weekend. More »[1]
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Rt Hon Winston Peters says New Zealand First has used helicopters for travel during two election campaigns – but not for
campaigning itself. “We used a helicopter to travel and I do not deny that, but to suggest that I somehow stood at the
door of a flying helicopter shouting at voters is preposterous. More »[1]
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Opposition from United Future and NZ First helped block vital amendments to fisheries laws to protect fish stocks,
Progressive MP Jim Anderton says. More »[1]
"I think there's a strong case for entrenchment. In 2001 the select committee on MMP considered that among other issues,
and a majority of parliament made up of the Labour Party the Alliance Party and the Green Party all agreed with the
principle of entrenchment." More »[1]
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The Crown has issued an indictment today against 18 people arrested in the police raids of October 15th 2007 in Ruatoki,
Auckland, Hamilton, Whakatane, Palmerston North, Wellington and elsewhere. Five of the 18 people have been charged with
participation in a criminal gang under section 98A of the Crimes Act. Image: From More »[1]
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Everyone who loses their job deserves support, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. "In the
face of likely recession and increasing layoffs and redundancies it is vital that people receive assistance to help tide
them over." More »[1]
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The Labour Party president, half the Cabinet and the entire taxpayer-funded Labour research unit have devoted the most
important week of the whole election campaign to digging around Australia for material with which to conduct one last
smear campaign against John Key. More »[1]
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Rather than sell fireworks, Progressive Enterprises is teaming up with the New Zealand Fire Service to improve fire
awareness. This follows on from a decision taken after last year’s Guy Fawkes Day by Progressive Managing Director Peter
Smith. More »[1]
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Following the announcement by the Minister of Finance that the Crown will offer a wholesale funding guarantee facility
to investment-grade financial institutions in New Zealand, the Treasury and the Reserve Bank have released further
details of the facility. More »[1]
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Westlake Girl’ High School student Paris Kirby, aged 17, was announced the winner of the inaugural Newmarket Young
Designer Award during a full blown fashion show. More »[1]
MediaWorks Radio has enjoyed nationwide share growth for its key network brands across New Zealand in the latest
Research International commercial radio survey. More »[1]
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The attack involves Facebook messages that trick users into watching an online video, usually via click through to
another site like Google Reader or Picasa. The videoclip is actually an attack, and prompts the user to install an
upgrade to allow them to view the video. More »[1]
Results from the EPMU Work Rights Survey show a clear division between the political parties that support Kiwi workers
and those that want to take their rights away, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More »[1]
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Capacity on New Zealand's rail network has now increased thanks to the addition of 100 new generation rail wagons that
have come into commission with KiwiRail this week. More »[1]
Building consent statistics for the month of September 2008 show the trend for the number of new housing units has been
falling since mid-2007, Statistics New Zealand said today. The trend has fallen 41 percent since then, and is at its
lowest level since January 1983. More »[1]
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Cuba's Ambassador to New Zealand discusses the UN General Assembly vote to lift the US embargo against Cuba. The vote,
Thursday NZ Time, was passed 185 votes to 3 with only the US, Israel and Palau voting against. More »[1]
(Wash. DC) Did you know that 2004 was not a ''red versus blue'' election? Did any analysis that you heard or read
mention that the very red rural voting segment went from 23% of the vote total in 2000 to 16% in 2004? How about the 2.4
million fewer votes Bush... More »[1]
Judging by the polls, the Republicans’ best chance of victory looks like it will require them to screw around with the
machinery of voting. They’re very good at it. Given the near certainty of record turnouts in next week’s election... More »[1]
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Paul G. Buchanan writes: Heading into the homestretch of the 2008 US presidential elections, there's an elephant in the
room few want to speak about... The possibility of political assassination of Barack Obama. Let us discuss it here. More »[1]
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It’s not every night in the U.S. that you see what looks like the back row of a Tongan rugby team standing in the bed of
a pick-up truck—one wearing a pair of novelty glasses with fluorescent green whirly lights—jumping up and down, waving
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With exquisite grace, a dozen Canadian geese glide silently to a soft landing on the calm Michigan bay. In the last
seconds of their flight, during which their wings are held in curved motionlessness, time itself seems to stand still. More »[1]
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Circa’s fabulous Christmas panto is back! The team that brought you Cinderella, Aladdin, and Jack & the Beanstalk returns with one of those great stories that everybody knows and loves. Roger Hall’s Red Riding Hood. More »[1]
This Labour weekend marked a pilgrimage to Hamilton gardens for many people with Dutch roots or with an interest in
culture from the Netherlands. More »[1]
Ace Scoop photo contributor Karim Sahai recently captured Diwali and the celebrations of the Indian new year. More »[1]
Diwali is by far the most enthusiastically enjoyed festival for all Indians.It is sad to note that this occasion has not
received any TV Media coverage from our national networks that it deserves. More »[1]
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Nepal’s leaders to forge ahead with rehabilitating thousands of Maoist
ex-fighters as part of the ongoing peace process, as he wrapped up his visit to the South Asian nation. More »[1]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been heavily engaged in discussions with leaders in Africa, the European Union and the
United States in an effort to stabilize the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. More »[1]
The sexual exploitation of children is a matter for concern in Latvia despite the low number of reported cases, an
independent United Nations human rights expert said today, warning that continued vigilance is needed. More »[1]
Six months after deadly Cyclone Nargis swept through Myanmar, leaving around 140,000 dead or missing and some 800,000
homeless, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported that emergency relief efforts are on track. More »[1]
It has been called one of the most serious attacks on press freedom in years in the entire South East European region,
one that could seriously damage Croatia's bid to join the European Union: two journalists were killed in a car bombing
in Croatia, ... More »[1]
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks that struck the north-eastern Indian state of
Assam today, reportedly killing at least 60 people and wounding several hundred more. More »[1]
UN Messenger of Peace and award-winning actor George Clooney has called on the international community to step up its
efforts to resolve the worsening conflict currently engulfing the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More »[1]
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