Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 14 November 2009
Alastair Thompson
A group of New Zealand websites has decided to get together and encourage discussion of the positive side to climate
change mitigation. Afterall - how many of us really believe that the way the world is currently run is optimal - both
for our personal ...
Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 13 November 2009 - An international team of Greenpeace activists, in the heart of Indonesia's threatened
rainforests, has called on United States President Barack Obama to take urgent action on climate change. The call has
been made as Obama ...
Karim Sahai
Scoop photographer Karim Sahai is on the sideline for tonight's epic clash between New Zealand and Bahrain at
Wellington's caketin. Photos will be posted below shortly after the game concludes and possibly at half-time.
Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Hide and seek: the truth about Rodney and Roger Anne Else There's a wonderful column by Rosemary McLeod in the
Dom-Post this morning (12 November). She skewers the grotesqueries of Rodney Hide's apparently bizarre behaviour
beautifully. But ...
UNICEF
PORT VILA, 12 November 2009 – Under-nutrition is both a consequence and a cause of poverty. Childhood under-nutrition
makes learning more difficult and ill health more likely, which hinders a child’s capacity to secure a job as an adult,
and ...
Citizens Electoral Council
American statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche on 11th November addressed an international webcast audience,
on the landmark Russia-China economic cooperation agreement, and its potential to rescue the collapsing world economy,
but only if ...
New Zealand Government
Can I start by acknowledging the Chair of the Organising Committee for this Summit, Ms Chong Siak Ching, as well as my
fellow panelists:
Public Address
It's tempting to see the confrontation between the entertainment industry and the Internet as some kind of moral issue;
a clash of the heavyweights with only one possible outcome: a triumph of good over evil. In the red corner we have the
people who bring ...
New Zealand Government
This hui has been inspired by the aspirations of Mrs Tawai Te Rangi, a kuia of Ngāti Kāpo ki Te Upoko o te Ika ropu.
AUT Business Faculty
Auckland can never be the growth engine people expect – or that the country requires – as long as its export economy
remains as one of the lowest in New Zealand, a senior economist warns.
United Nations
The top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men
and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be
prostitution or violence.
AJPR and Events
Introducing WATER IN A BOX, a clever new 10 litre water box designed by Aquaceuticals as part of a refreshingly new
water brand. Just in time for summer, WATER IN A BOX fits in your fridge, is easy to handle and designed to travel,
making it perfect ...
New Zealand Government
The Minister of Māori Affairs, Dr Pita Sharples, today announced the re-appointment of Mrs Keita Walker, Mr John Baird,
Sir Hirini Mead, Professor Ranginui Walker and Dr Angela Ballara to the Waitangi Tribunal, each for a term of three
years.
New Zealand Government
Māori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples welcomes the Inquiry into the operation of the Māori Community Development Act
1962, and the Terms of Reference recently released by the Māori Affairs Select Committee.
New Zealand Labour Party
Excitement is building as the All Whites prepare to do the country proud in the winner take all World Cup qualifier
tomorrow in Wellington, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Sport and Recreation spokesperson Chris Hipkins said today.
Positively Wellington
Positively Wellington Tourism is urging locals and visitors alike to answer the call from Wellington Phoenix supporters
club, Yellow Fever, for a ‘whiteout’ at Saturday’s historic All Whites match. Rated by New Zealand sports fans as the
best venue in ...
Wellington City Council
Big screen to broadcast All Whites game Wellington City Council has secured rights to Saturday’s All Whites vs Bahrain
game and will broadcast it live on a big screen at Queens Wharf. If the All Whites win the game, which kicks off at 8pm
at Westpac ...
Python User Group
What do 150 software developers, a 2 day conference, and a programming language called Python add up to? Kiwi PyCon
2009, which was held in Christchurch this past weekend. PyCons are held annually throughout the world but this was the
first time the event ...
Meat And Wool New Zealand
Meat & Wool New Zealand and the Meat Industry Association have welcomed the latest Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Hong Kong
and say it completes another important strand in the network of bilateral FTA’s in the growing Asian region.
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
“David Garrett’s claims that the western countries are starting to accept that punitive penal policies have the
potential to reduce violent offending is demonstrably untrue,” says Kim Workman, Director, Rethinking Crime and
Punishment. “In fact, ...
Nick Squires
A UN Food Summit Aimed At Helping The One Billion People Worldwide Suffering From Hunger Has Been Declared A Failure A
Week Before It Has Even Begun.
Binoy Kampmark
Sixteen-year old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is predictably impressionable. Intelligence and the odd cutting remark might
equip her for the classroom joust and parents in suburban Twickenham. But she has much growing up to do, something which
is given ...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing
number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world’s most biologically
diverse ...
Businesswire
Nov 13 (BusinessWire) - As a cub reporter on the Manukau Courier back in 1983, it was my duty to report the monthly
deliberations of the Papatoetoe City Council.
Te Papa
Thirty-three Mäori ancestral remains will be repatriated by Te Papa from five museums and institutions in Wales,
Scotland, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland between 16 November and 28 November. The largest repatriation took place in
2007 when 45 kōiwi ...
New Zealand Police
A police investigation into the death of a man found dead at a house in Taumarunui on Wednesday afternoon (11 November)
is complete and the death is not being treated as suspicious. 45-year-old Moses Moi Akarana was found dead at a house in
Ngatai ...
New Zealand Government
Three of the Army’s Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAVs) and their crews are to be deployed to Afghanistan, Defence Minister
Wayne Mapp announced today.
Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation is increasing the frequency of possum control in the Tararua Forest Park to better
protect native birds and forest canopy.
XTRA
New Zealand feature film HOPES & DREAMS, now shooting in Howick, Auckland, has four award-winning actors in lead roles. Australian William McInnes
(Unfinished Sky, Look Both Ways, Seachange) joins Robyn Malcolm (Outrageous Fortune, Boogeyman), Joel Tobeck ...
Te Tohu Taakaro o Aotearoa Charitable Trust
Rugby league and netball stars Benji Marshall and Temepara George lead a world-class field of finalists at the 2009
MAORI SPORTS AWARDS screening on Maori Television on Sunday December 6 at 9.00 PM.