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Top Scoop Stories - 8 November 2008 News Summary
Election 08: Gordon Campbell Counts Down To The Poll
Wellington:
Proposed Pigeon Cull Called Off
Secret
Taper: Greens None Too Happy With 'Mischief' Making
National Blogger
Retrospectives:
Lyndon Hood's Campaign In Pictures
Obama
Victory: New Zealand Reaction
Statistics:
Media Coverage Of 2008 NZ Election Campaign
Careless
Whispers: Should Bill Have Known Better?
Trifecta:
Police Clear NZ First
Disasters:
Project On Risk From Volcanoes In Auckland
Weather: Election Day Also A Good Day For
Cricket
Agriculture:
Farmers Not Sheepish About Goals For Future
Finance
Guarantees: We Can Do It For You Wholesale
Stylish
Retail: Newmarket Business Association Launches
Fashionista
Tuatara
News: Mainland Invasion of Living
Fossil
Guess
Saturday's Result! - Scoop 2008 Election Sweepstake
Opens
John
Chuckman: We Have Hope, But Real Change In America
Represents An Immense Task
Post
US Election: Gay Marriage Rent Asunder
Sherwood
Ross: Will Obama Cleanse America?
Cashing the Obama Check: Will It Come Back Marked
“Insufficient Funds?”
Gordon
Campbell: Obama Hailed As President Elect Of The US
Freedom
Rider: Bush Crimes Continue
Immigrant Sport: Come And Make A Right Paddy Of
Yourself
Mellow Samba: Enjoy A Brazilian Sunset For A Fiver
Theatre:
Creative NZ Decides On Downstage Annual Funding
Fashion:
AUT Rookie Designers In Top Form At NZFW Catwalk
Big
Bad Wolf News: Red Hiding Hood And Granny In
Danger
Scoop
World News: Gaza: Israeli Army Endangers Lives Of US
Nationals
Scoop
World News: Cameroon Kidnap Of 10 Crewmen 'A Gangster
Act'
Conservation:
Ban: Protect The Environment In Times Of Conflict
Finance
Crisis: Food Prices High Despite Record Cereal
Crop
Scoop
Ceasefire Breaks: Renewed Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
Alarms Ban
New
Era: Ban Congratulates Obama On Election As
President
Scoop
World News: UN Human Rights Expert Addresses Scourge Of
Racism
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LEAD STORY
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Election
08: Gordon Campbell Counts Down To The
Poll
Helen Clark and a few diehards on the centre
left still talk hopefully about the chances of a centre left
grouping of Labour, Jim Anderton and the Greens being able
to entice the Maori Party over to their side. Plus Winston
Peters if he makes it back. Theoretically, such a grouping
is possible. The problem is, such an outcome would kill MMP.
More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/campbell-nzs-non-election-comes-to-a-close/
ALSO:
- Nats 42% Lab 34.5% [2]
- The Campaign In Pictures [3]
- Where Is English In The last Week Of Campaign? [4]
- Sharples takes issue with media advice on voting [5]
- Party reports further electoral irregularities [6]
- Fitzsimons visits the future at campaign's end [7]
- Why Vote Libertarianz? [8]
- Sunny And On The Cool Side For Election Day [9]
- Wammo & Helen Clark & David Slack: On The Eve... [10]
- Key greeted by scuffles in Palmerston North [11]
- Politicians make final efforts to convince voters [12]
- Winston Peters appears to have given up on Tauranga [13]
- Final pre-election interview with minor party leaders [14]
- Final pre-election interview with Helen Clark [15]
- Final pre-election interview with John Key [16]
- Kamikaze candidates up against party heavyweights [17]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00104.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00100.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00138.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00142.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00145.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00147.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00133.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00013.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00101.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15158.html [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15157.html [12]
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15124.html [13]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15150.html [14]
[15] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15146.html [15]
[16] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15144.html [16]
[17] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15128.html [17]
NZ POLITICS
------------Wellington:
Proposed Pigeon Cull Called Off
"Quite a few
people were upset by the proposal, and Council staff have
also decided that the significant cost of an ongoing culling
operation - and the prospect that it would not effectively
reduce pigeon numbers - means it's not worthwhile. The best
answer is for people to stop feeding them." More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0811/S00045.htm
Secret
Taper: Greens None Too Happy With 'Mischief' Making
National Blogger
The Green Party says National
Party blogger David Farrar is mischief-making over his
attempts to link the Greens to the cocktail party
recordings. "While it is true that the man who admits to
having made the recordings is related to a Green Party staff
member, no one in the office, including the taper's
relative, was aware of his plans to make the tape
recordings," Co-Leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel
Norman say. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00136.htm
Retrospectives:
Lyndon Hood's Campaign In Pictures
Selected Scoop
editorial images from the 2008 New Zealand election campaign
by Lyndon Hood - from late 2007 to the present. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00100.htm
Obama
Victory: New Zealand Reaction
Gordon
Campbell: 8.20pm Ok, time to wrap this up for the night
But first a recap, and then some consideration of the
parallels to New Zealand. First, George Bush made it nigh on
impossible for John McCain to win this election.
Essentially, McCain was faced with trying to get a mandate
for a third term of Dubynomics - ie, Cronyism for Dummies -
and for his failed foreign policy adventures... More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbells-live-blogs-the-us-election/
ALSO:
- From the frontline of the US presidential race [2]
- Change We Can Believe In [3]
- PM on US election result [4]
- Obama's win is a rejection of rightwing politics [5]
- Senator Barack Obama's win [6]
- Full Text Of Barack Obama's Victory Speech [7]
- Google Mapmash: 2008 United States Electoral Map [8]
- Gordon Campbell: How To Watch A US Election [9]
- Dunne: Vote for brains, not backbones, jackboots [10]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0811/S00018.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00112.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00108.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00109.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00113.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00087.htm [7]
[8] - http://mapmash.googlepages.com/election_map.html" target="_blank [8]
[9] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbell-how-to-watch-a-us-election/ [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00116.htm [10]
Statistics:
Media Coverage Of 2008 NZ Election
Campaign
1.1 Media Coverage of Leading
Parties
• Labour led National 37% to 35% in media
coverage devoted to parties
• Maori Party led Greens 9%
to 8% amongst smaller parties
1.2 Tone of Party Media
Coverage
• National received the most negative
coverage at 43% of their total coverage, followed by Labour
at 35%
• Green Party received the most positive media
coverage at 32% of their total coverage, followed by the
Maori Party at 29%
More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00096.htm
Careless
Whispers: Should Bill Have Known Better?
Bill
English’s recorded comments on TV3 tonight once again
reveal the true face of National, rather than the one their
spin doctors have told them to show to the public, Defence
Minister Phil Goff said today. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00081.htm
ALSO:
- No Right Turn: The war party [2]
- Linda Clark reviews latest secret tape [3]
- Ali reviews the last 24 hours in NZ politics [4]
- Key responds to latest secret tape allegations [5]
[2] - http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2008/11/war-party.html" target="_blank [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15071.html [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15069.html [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15082.html [5]
Trifecta:
Police Clear NZ First
"Police have completed
enquiries into the circumstances of the New Zealand First
return of party donations for 2007 lodged on 16 May 2008.
Having assessed a range of information from various sources,
and having considered the elements of the offence contained
in s214G, Police are satisfied that no offence was
committed." More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00076.htm
ALSO:
- Hide - Police Time Waster [2]
- Independent parliamentary investigator [3]
- Peters ambushes Key's Tauranga campaigning [4]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00082.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00099.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/politics/15070.html [4]
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
------------Disasters:
Project On Risk From Volcanoes In Auckland
A
major research project is underway to improve the
understanding of the vulnerability of the Auckland region to
volcanic eruptions. The aim of the seven-year, $5 million
project is to better define Auckland’s volcanic risk using
the latest geological techniques and sophisticated computer
modelling. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00014.htm
Weather: Election Day Also A Good Day For Cricket
MetService meteorologists are forecasting sunny conditions, with slowly rising temperatures, over most of the country for Election Day. More »[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00013.htm
Agriculture:
Farmers Not Sheepish About Goals For Future
"All
New Zealanders, city and rural, have to work together if we
are to make progress as a nation and remain a first world
country," Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson, said
today at the Federation's Manifesto launch. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00033.htm
ALSO:
- Science, agriculture and New Zealand's future [2]
- Labour supports strong, sustainable agriculture [3]
- Farmer bulldozes through RMA and native forest [4]
- Will Nats support Feds' rural feudalism [5]
- National welcomes Fed Farmers Manifesto [6]
- The Future Of Farming? [7]
- Fed Farmers bites the hand that feeds [8]
- Federated Farmers support dangerous old Socialist [9]
- ACT says Federated Farmers misguided on ETS [10]
- Fed Farmers counters ACT Party on ETS [11]
- Green Party in climate change denial [12]
- Alcohol Healthwatch sees double standard [13]
- Chilly Change Before Guy Fawkes [14]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00047.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00052.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00057.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00069.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00059.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00032.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00040.htm [8]
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00024.htm [9]
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00023.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00032.htm [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00079.htm [12]
[13] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0811/S00002.htm [13]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0811/S00006.htm [14]
Finance
Guarantees: We Can Do It For You
Wholesale
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]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00003.htm
ALSO:
- NZ Wholesale Funding Guarantee Facility [2]
- Cullen: Wholesale funding guarantee facility [3]
- Support for distressed mortgage borrowers [4]
- Key welcomes wholesale guarantee security [5]
- National reminds banks of quid pro quo [6]
- Nats finally wake up to banks' responsibilities [7]
- John Key too soft on banks [8]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0811/S00004.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00005.htm [3]
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00010.htm [4]
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00007.htm [5]
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00690.htm [6]
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00698.htm [7]
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00545.htm [8]
Stylish
Retail: Newmarket Business Association Launches
Fashionista
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]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0810/S00650.htm
Tuatara
News: Mainland Invasion of Living
Fossil
Conservation staff at Wellington’s
world-first Karori Sanctuary have found what is almost
certainly the first confirmed tuatara nest on mainland New
Zealand in over 200 years. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0810/S00057.htm
COMMENT
------------Guess
Saturday's Result! - Scoop 2008 Election Sweepstake
Opens
--> More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00032.htm
John
Chuckman: We Have Hope, But Real Change In America
Represents An Immense Task
Already in the press
there have been stories of plans to dampen the public’s
expectations of Obama. The expectations are undoubtedly
beyond being satisfied by any human being. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00111.htm
Post
US Election: Gay Marriage Rent Asunder
Hope
you enjoyed Scoop’s blogging on the US elections
yesterday. Sure was fun to do. In the aftermath of the
victory of Barack Obama, the passing in California of
Proposition 8 that bans gay marriage ( and puts current gay
civil unions in limbo) ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gay-marriage-rent-asunder-and-more-post-us-election-news/
Sherwood
Ross: Will Obama Cleanse America?
November 4,
2008, will be remembered as the night Americans cried for
joy. It was not only the hundred thousand partisan
Chicagoans gathered in Grant Park that were moved to
rapture. Good people across the nation wept with gratitude
that America ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00079.htm
Cashing the Obama Check: Will It Come Back Marked
“Insufficient Funds?”
Election night 2008 was
over by 11 PM eastern time. Only two hours after the polls
closed on the west coast, pundits called it for Barack
Obama. Now that we know a black boy can indeed grow up to
be... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00086.htm
Gordon
Campbell: Obama Hailed As President Elect Of The US
Ok, time to wrap this up for the night But first
a recap, and then some consideration of the parallels to New
Zealand. First, George Bush made it nigh on impossible for
John McCain to win this election. More
»[1]
[1] - http://election08.scoop.co.nz/gordon-campbells-live-blogs-the-us-election/
Freedom
Rider: Bush Crimes Continue
George W. Bush
famously said, ''They misunderestimated me.'' His
ungrammatical statements induce sneers and snickers, but
convey powerful truths. After stealing the 2000 election,
violating international law, trampling on the Constitution,
and emptying the treasury ... More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0811/S00085.htm
LIFESTYLE
------------
Immigrant Sport: Come And Make A Right Paddy Of
Yourself
Wellington's fastest growing sport's '7
a side summer competition' is starting on Wednesday the 12th
November. Wellington Gaelic Football Club have launched
today, Thursday 7 November, their inaugural mixed 7 a side
fun Gaelic football competition. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00058.htm
ALSO:
- WOMAD 2009 Featured Artist: Bedouin Jerry Can Band [2]
- Backgrounder: World of Music Art and Dance Festival 2009 [3]
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00052.htm [2]
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00050.htm [3]
Mellow Samba: Enjoy A Brazilian Sunset For A Fiver
"Noites de Bossa" is a proposal of the most
exquisite selection on Brazil's known music, promising to
transport you to Ipanema's magnificent warm sunsets along
the beach. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00047.htm
Theatre:
Creative NZ Decides On Downstage Annual
Funding
Creative New Zealand will cease recurrent
funding of Downstage Theatre from 30 June 2009. Creative New
Zealand has been concerned about the downward trend of
audiences at Downstage over time, a trend which the ‘new
Downstage’ vision intends to reverse. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0811/S00055.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0811/S00144.htm [2]
Fashion:
AUT Rookie Designers In Top Form At NZFW
Catwalk
New Zealand’s fashion future is in safe
hands judging by the design talent on display at AUT’s
Rookie show last Friday night. Twenty one young designers in
their final year of AUT University’s Bachelor of Design
(Fashion) were selected to show their debut collections in
front of a packed fashion crowd at Auckland’s St Paul’s
Church. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00016.htm
Big
Bad Wolf News: Red Hiding Hood And Granny In
Danger
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]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0811/S00002.htm
WORLD
------------Scoop
World News: Gaza: Israeli Army Endangers Lives Of US
Nationals
Currently today (6th November),
citizens of Britain, America and Italy are being fired upon
in Khuza'a, close to Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, who are
partaking in the picking of olives on Palestinian land close
to the Green Line. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00102.htm
Scoop
World News: Cameroon Kidnap Of 10 Crewmen 'A Gangster
Act'
The ITF is joining its Cameroonian and
French member unions in condemning the kidnapping of 10 crew
members of the Bourbon Sagitta and is offering any help it
can to secure the men’s release. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00101.htm
Conservation:
Ban: Protect The Environment In Times Of
Conflict
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called
for preventing the exploitation of the environment in times
of conflict, stressing that protecting nature can help
countries promote development and avoid a relapse into
hostilities. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00095.htm
Finance
Crisis: Food Prices High Despite Record Cereal
Crop
Though global cereal production is expected
to hit a new record this year, the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization is cautioning that the impact of the current
financial crisis on agriculture could mean a surge in food
prices. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00096.htm
Scoop
Ceasefire Breaks: Renewed Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
Alarms Ban
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has
voiced deep concern at fresh fighting in the
violence-wracked North Kivu province of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00099.htm
New
Era: Ban Congratulates Obama On Election As
President
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today
extended his congratulations to United States
President-Elect Barack Obama, voicing hope that his election
will usher in a new era of multilateralism and enhanced
partnership with the United Nations. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00080.htm
ALSO:
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00084.htm [2]
Scoop
World News: UN Human Rights Expert Addresses Scourge Of
Racism
The relationship between racism and
migration, ethnic conflicts and poverty will all be under
the spotlight of the new United Nations independent expert
on racism during his time in office, he told journalists
today. More
»[1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0811/S00077.htm
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