Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings March 6 2009

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Stepping Back In Time On The Main Trunk Line

Patrizia Sigg

Travel Feature: Switzerland's Patrizia Sigg writes of her travels while in New Zealand traveling from Wellington to Auckland by rail along the main trunk line. She writes: "If you ever take the Overlander, you had better make sure you get a window seat."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00097.htm

Democracy For America

A USA Today/Gallup poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans want an investigation of potential wrongdoing by the Bush administration. But Republican Senators and some Democrats are preparing to stop the creation of a Congressional Truth Commission ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00129.htm

Tamil Women's Organisation

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Background Sri Lanka is an island shared by two major ethnic nations: the Sinhalese and the Tamils. Yet, the Sinhalese forming the majority with about 70% of the population have always enjoyed state power under a governance structure based on parliamentary ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00131.htm

Save The Children

The Save the Children Alliance, which represents 27 independent Save the Children agencies operating in more than 120 countries worldwide, issued the following statement today on recent developments in Sudan.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00130.htm

Office of the Clerk

Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour) to the Minister for ACC: Will the Government support an urgent law change to extend the date for full funding of ACC accounts? Hon Dr NICK SMITH (Minister for ACC) : Yesterday I stated my intention to introduce legislation ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00094.htm

Tom Frewen

Tom Frewen presents The Week In Parliament. This week Speaker Of The House Lockwood Smith continued his campaign to get ministers to answer the questions they are asked. ACC and a bill to ban gang insignia also get a brief mention
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00098.htm

Scoop Audio

Audio: Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how the NZ Government is looking to dissolve NZAID inside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Also, PM John Key has reportedly said he believes climate change is a myth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00078.htm

Nelson Media Agency

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd today announced a restructuring of its production operations in response to difficult market conditions resulting from the worldwide financial crisis.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0903/S00115.htm

The Scoop Editor

Top Scoop Stories 5th March, 2009 News Summary LEAD STORY Foreign Affairs: Clark Responds To Commonwealth Fiji Statement NZ POLITICS Electoral Commission Releases 08 Party Election Expenses Media: New Political Show With Espiner, Holmes & Arseneau ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00099.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has axed a $1.95 million a year Pacific aid programme, in advance of his plans to disestablish the government development agency NZAID and end its focus on poverty elimination, says Labour’s Associate Spokesperson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00087.htm

Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The porcine blowhard Rush Limbaugh, dressed and acting like a deranged gangster, gave the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on February 28. Rush looked like a latter-day Mussolini, and talked like a man preparing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00088.htm

NZ On Air

Two brand new comedy series have the go ahead thanks to NZ On Air funding. Funding will also go to a new one-off drama, which is set to be a blast.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0903/S00111.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Rt Hon Helen Clark, Labour Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the support of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) for the position on Fiji taken by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders in Port Moresby in January.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00093.htm

Undernews

It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00089.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

The Mexican economy and many of its national institutional structures may be on the brink of collapse. While drug war violence has dominated the recent news about the possible irreversible status as a society beyond remediation, the topic of immigration ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00128.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour environment spokesperson Nanaia Mahuta says the Maori Party must speak out urgently against the planned scrapping of the Bioethics Council which is likely to happen on Monday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00099.htm

J. Sri Raman

Terrorism in South Asia may take a long time to prompt formation of a regional task force against the threat, as officially proposed by Bangladesh. But it has already yielded many mystery thrillers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00093.htm

TVNZ

TV ONE’s new Sunday morning political show, Q & A will be presented by TVNZ’s political editor, Guyon Espiner; political analyst, Therese Arseneau and the country’s most popular broadcaster, Paul Holmes.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00050.htm

Canterbury District Health Board

South Island DHBs have come together to plan long-term, viable health services across the mainland. The new initiative is called the South Island Health Services Plan. It aims to keep health services close to where people live, while also making sure ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0903/S00028.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Immigration Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman today released the Ernst and Young Department of Labour Pacific Division report, exactly three months after it was completed, and chose to misrepresent its findings, Labour Immigration spokesperson Pete Hodgson ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00091.htm

Green Party

The next time Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman holds a press conference he should look the reporters and camera-people of TVNZ in the eye and apologise for putting their jobs on the line, said Green Party Broadcasting Spokesperson Sue Kedgley.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00096.htm

ACT New Zealand

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00107.htm

Denellandia Peace Foundation

Recent news reports say that according to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Israel feels an urgent need to act against the progress being made by Iran in its nuclear programme. Will we soon see another conflict erupting? What ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00127.htm

Green Party

A proposal to withhold a tiny portion of the milk payout payments from polluters shows that Fonterra is still not serious about promoting responsible farming and cleaning up rivers, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00100.htm

Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union

The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union released a short film today to educate members and the wider public about the causes of the current recession and how working people can respond to it.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00060.htm

schapelle.net

The global protest in support of imprisoned Australian Schapelle Corby arrived at the United Nations this morning. Photographs of people demonstrating by holding "Free Schapelle" cards in cities throughout North America, Europe, Australasia and even ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0903/S00084.htm

The Leprosy Mission NZ

I invite him to visit with me an indigenous Ethiopian organisation with a membership of more than 15,000 leprosy-affected people partnered by The Leprosy Mission New Zealand with NZAID KOHA funds. He will see for himself that these people, most of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00053.htm

National Council of Women

Prostitution is not the economic answer for women in this current recession is the message that the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) is sending this International Women’s Day (8 March).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0903/S00067.htm

Careerforce

Careerforce, the Community Support Services Industry Training Organisation, has just commenced its inaugural Future Skills and Training Needs Scan. The web based survey, which is being sent to health and disability workplaces and stakeholders right across ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0903/S00035.htm

Martin Doyle

Cartoon: Love behind bars Cartoon comment from Martin Doyle: Love behind bars. Click to enlarge ENDS
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00095.htm

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