Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 05 November 2009
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12:15 I’ll be interviewing Consumer New Zealand chief executive Sue Chetwin to discuss an investigation and damning
critique of our financial advice industry. Consumer NZ has slammed companies that offer financial direction on
investments and pre-retirement ...
Carolyn Meers
Niki Caro's new film, The Vintner's Luck is much like a wine in its successes and shortcomings; it looks beautiful as it
unfolds, has great visual promise and boasts a lovely rich colour but, unfortunately, lacks deeper supporting flavours.
Though ...
MediaPasifika.com
TONGA — RUSTBUCKET ENQUIRY. MV Princess Ashika was a disaster waiting to happen, rotten with rust, with deck vents
blocked so water couldn't run off. She sank at midnight on August 5 with loss of 72 souls. Now a Royal Commission of
Inquiry is ...
ACT New Zealand
I would like to apologise to the Prime Minister and my Cabinet colleagues for the comments reported in the media from a
breakfast function in Christchurch. This was light-hearted banter at an ACT party function and taken out of context", Mr
Hide ...
America.gov
Washington - A major international climate conference that begins December 7 in Copenhagen presents an opportunity for
the United States and the world to show a firm commitment to meeting the challenge that climate change presents, a
senior U.S. ...
America.gov
Washington - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will spend millions of dollars during the next three
to five years to combat emerging pandemic threats (EPT) worldwide. Details of the program were announced by the agency
November 3.USAID ...
America.gov
Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated that the Obama administration does not accept the
legitimacy of Israeli West Bank settlements and wants to see the establishment of a Palestinian state with borders based
on territory that Israel ...
Environment Canterbury
Metro is providing extra bus services to and from the New Brighton fireworks event on Thursday, November 5. The extra
services are in response to the increasing number of people attending the event and will ease traffic congestion
throughout New Brighton ...
Sherwood Ross
Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or
“strategic blunder,” it is, in fact, a “major crime” designed to enable America to control the Middle East oil reserves.
New Zealand Government
Associate Minister of Health, Tariana Turia, has expressed her great sadness at the tragic loss of Sir Don Beaven,
Emeritus Professor of the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Canterbury.
The Maori Party
Co-leader of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia, is recommending the 5th November become a day to commemorate the unique
legacy of passive resistance associated with Parihaka. “It has always been rather bizarre, the way we celebrate the
historic association ...
Penny Hulse
The Minister of Local Government’s reported comments that 700 people could be axed and $66 million saved by ramming
through Auckland’s “Super City” are nothing short of “sinister”, says Waitakere deputy mayor Penny Hulse. Rodney Hide
has ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson today paid tribute to the enormous talent and dedication of diabetes expert Sir
Don Beaven who is assumed to have passed away tragically in a house fire.
Oxfam
International negotiators are meeting in Barcelona this week for the last time before the crucial Copenhagen climate
change conference in December. The amount of funding that industrialised countries will provide to deal with the crisis
they have caused ...
Greenwire
Meat-hungry and short on animal feed, European nations have relied for years on protein imports, such as the ground meal
of soybeans from the United States, to sustain their cattle and pig farms. While this complex chain of trade has worked
reasonably well, ...
US State Department
QUESTION: First of all, on behalf of the Moroccan viewers, Madame Secretary of State, I would like to thank you very
much, despite a busy week and a very heavy schedule. My first question is during the past 10 years, His Majesty the King
Mohammed VI has ...
Jim Miles
The thrift in me allowed me to wait until Michael Moore’s “Capitalism - A Love Story” came out on second run theatres -
it was well worth the wait. The powerful effect that Moore has on his audience derives from the personal stories he
relates ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Taxpayer money is being scandalously wasted on newspaper ads that don't tell the real story about the reasons behind
huge ACC fee rises, Labour’s ACC spokesperson David Parker says. “The large display ads in major dailies today claims
‘motorcyclists ...
Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Kedgley today paid tribute to Sir Don Beavan for his outstanding work on diabetes treatment and
prevention. Sir Don Beavan died tragically in a house fire in Canterbury yesterday. “Don earned respect worldwide for
his outstanding ...
Run The Red
Run The Red, New Zealand’s leader in mobile marketing and solutions has provided TVNZ On Demand with the SMS
functionality to drive the new format interactive web drama Reservoir Hill. This first of its kind in NZ was a story
that users of the ...
New Zealand Police
Kaitaia Police are continuing their investigations into the death of a Kaitaia woman. Police launched a homicide inquiry
after the body of 70-year-old Barbara Catherine Julian was discovered at her home in Matthews Avenue early yesterday
evening. A 17-year-old ...
New Zealand Labour Party
A major new international study shows that Government proposals to delay the entry date of agriculture into the
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) should not proceed, the Labour Party says. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
New York has just ...
New Zealand Government
Legislation allowing New Zealanders returning home from Australia to bring their retirement savings with them will be
introduced to Parliament in about two weeks, Finance Minister Bill English says. Providing the necessary law changes are
made ...
Green Party
National must start investing in job creation rather than following the extremist job slashing policies of their
coalition partner ACT, Green Party Co-Leader Metiria Turei said today. Figures out today show that the number of people
unemployed is ...
Hutt City Council
Upper Hutt City Council’s Recreation Services team received two awards for outstanding contributions to the parks and
recreation industry at the annual New Zealand Recreation Association (NZRA) conference on Tuesday 3 November 2009. H2O
Xtream’s TeenBoard ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Today’s Household Labour Force Survey statistics provide a damning indictment of the Government’s hands-off approach to
helping hard-working New Zealanders keep their jobs, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. “The Government is
...
The Scoop Editor
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Australian, NZ Envoys ...
Department Of Internal Affairs
For the second time in a week a man has been jailed for 20 months after trading child sexual abuse images on the
Internet.
The Maori Party
Last month I was up in Europe as part of a parliamentary delegation to the European parliament, and while there decided
to take the opportunity to skip away to Paris for a day. Now it seems like everyone back here is all in a tizz about it
- so here’s ...
Environment Bay of Plenty
Environment Court Judge Jeff Smith is expected to deliver a decision within a week on a contentious legal issue, which
has been raised in a case that Environment Bay of Plenty has brought against New Zealand’s largest forestry management
consultancy, ...