Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 24 October 2009
Oxfam
Today, Pacific Islanders waded out into the sea and hung 350 T-shirts, each printed with the name of a different island,
on a series of giant washing lines to highlight the insufficient action being taken to combat climate change. ‘350
Islands for ...
Government Of The Cook Islands
The Government has engaged a Queen’s Counsel to examine the entire state of affairs surrounding TOA Petroleum and the
Government’s position and provide advice on the best way forward for the country.
Citizens Constitutional Forum
The Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF) expresses concern that a Decree gazetted on 20 July 2009 has given superior
powers to the Chief Registrar, making that office more powerful than the highest court of Fiji.
The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Education Policy: Key Launches National Standards NZ POLITICS 350 Parts Per Million: International Day Of
Climate Action Saturday Administration: Labour vs Hayes On Pacific ACT Support: Competition For ACC Work Account
Public Address
Here's an irony: in the same month that it becomes clear that educational funding will be diverted from arts and
sciences into the narrow curriculum embodied in the government's national standards policy, we can read a major report
that doesn't merely ...
Scoop Daily Ratings
1: State Of Affairs Surrounding TOA Petroleum Government Of The Cook Islands The Government has engaged a Queen’s
Counsel to examine the entire state of affairs surrounding TOA Petroleum and the Government’s position and provide
advice on the ...
EPMU
Laid-off workers at Bridgestone Firestone can take some comfort in the fact they have a generous union-negotiated
redundancy package say the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Bridgestone Rubberworkers Union.
NZ Bloodstock
Breeze-up clips for New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds (17 November) are now online.
Securities Commission
Recent research has found that issuers using the trans-Tasman mutual recognition of securities offerings regime have
saved on compliance costs for offering securities in the host country by up to 95 percent in some cases.
New Zealand Government
Hon Heather Roy speech to Malayan Veterans' Association 21st Reunion; Manurewa RSA, Auckland; Friday, October 23 2009.
Anglican Church in Aotearoa
The Archbishops of the Anglican Church here are relaxed about the Vatican’s moves to ease the way for some
traditionalist Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church.
The Maori Party
The Maori Party today offered warm congratulations to Sandi Morrison of Tainui and Te Arawa on being the first-ever New
Zealander to be inducted into the International Adult and Community Education Hall of Fame.
Ragamuffin Festival
We are pleased to announce that local acts Katchafire, Sola Rosa & Iva Lamkum, Pacific Herbs and Sweet & Irie that will join Wyclef Jean (the Fugees), Shaggy, Steel Pulse, Julian Marley, Sly & Robbie and Sean Kingston for the Raggamuffin ...
Speight's Coast to Coast
The Speight’s Coast to Coast continues to defy the recession with a bigger prize pool than ever before for the 2010
race.
New Zealand Association of Counsellors
As part of their new, and final, “Clinical Pathway” for Sexual Abuse claims, published on Monday, ACC is forcing
survivors of sexual abuse to consult with Psychiatrists or Clinical Psychologists in order to be given a psychiatric
diagnosis. This flies ...
Bomber's Blog
Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury. Bomber's Blog - the war on news. Weekly TV show on Triangle/Stratos. Bomber also posts on the
Tumeke! blog: www.tumeke.blogspot.com
Street Dance New Zealand
Street Dance New Zealand (SDNZ) is presenting an evening showcase to honour some of Aotearoa's and the world's best
street dancers and legends.
PPTA
The minister of education’s insistence on a limited three R’s focus for the so-called “national standards” will
jeopardise students’ achievement in NCEA, PPTA president Kate Gainsford says.
350 Wellington
How many of us does it take to make a giant kiwi? How many of us does it take to show that we care? On 24 October
Wellingtonians are declaring that they are willing to change so the climate does not have to and that they want New
Zealand leaders ...
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU wants to know why the National Government wants to privatise ACC when every informed party is telling them that
they don’t want it and it wouldn’t deliver better value for money or outcomes for accident victims than the publicly
owned scheme ...
350 Aotearoa
Kiwis are coming out in force to celebrate human resilience and creativity on the 350 International Day of Climate
Action this Saturday. Over 130 actions in New Zealand have been officially registered for the 350 International Day of
Action on October ...
New Zealand National Party
I had fun this morning meeting the children at Glen Taylor School in Auckland with Education Minister Anne Tolley. We
were there to launch National Education Standards in reading, writing, and maths.
350 Aotearoa
In Auckland, hundreds of cyclists of every persuasion are expected to attend the 350 Big Bike Ride to promote safe and
sustainable transport and to call on world leaders to take bold and immediate steps to address climate change and reduce
carbon ...
New Zealand Government
Good morning ladies and gentleman, and thank you Margaret for your warm welcome. As Associate Minister of Education, it
is a pleasure to be here today. Together the Narrative Assessment: A Guide for Teachers and The New Zealand Curriculum
Exemplars ...
Science Media Centre
PM dishes up $1 million in prizes; The future of the science system; Folic acid research shows low risk; Three ‘R’s
approach draws fire
New Zealand Government
The Government is to introduce an improved auditor regulation which will apply to statutory audits in New Zealand,
Commerce Minister Simon Power said today. Under the regulation, the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants will
be required ...
ACT New Zealand
It’s a tragedy that, just two years after rallying together in my ‘March For Democracy’ against the Government’s
Electoral Finance Act, New Zealanders are now forced to ‘March For Democracy’ against a new Government that blatantly
refuses ...
Ministry of Education
With the publication today of the National Standards in reading, writing and mathematics, the Ministry of Education will
now focus on supporting schools to implement the curriculum and standards, and on the details of how the Ministry and
schools will work together ...
Family First Lobby.
Family First NZ is supporting a protest in Hamilton this afternoon against Family Planning applying to the Abortion
Supervisory Committee for a license to use the abortion pill RU486 to perform abortions. “This will mean that Family
Planning ...
New Zealand Labour Party
The attack on the Governments of three Pacific territories associated with New Zealand by a senior National MP is
unprecedented and must be condemned by John Key, Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Chris Carter said today.