Top Scoop Stories November 20th 2009 News Summary
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The Local Government Commission presented its proposals on the boundaries and representation arrangements for the new
Auckland Council today. Under the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, the Commission is required to determine
boundaries for the new Auckland Council, wards and local boards, ward and board names and the number of members per
local board. More »[1]
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"When New Zealand's sink forests are harvested in the 2020s, as is likely, all that carbon will return to the atmosphere. The government of New Zealand responded with some irritation to my column last week ... " More »[1]
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If you drive from Auckland to Hamilton you pass through some of the richest farmland in the world… virtually everything
you see in all directions is confiscated land. More »[1]
Initial results from the National Needle Exchange Blood-borne Virus Seroprevalence Survey 2009 show New Zealand
continues to have the lowest rate of HIV amongst its intravenous drug users compared to other countries, and that a
significant reduction in hepatitis B and C among injecting users has been achieved over the last five years. More »[1]
“We’re thrilled to have such awesome talent as Yulia and Lapi Mariner make themselves available to lead us in the
national anthem and to perform other items before and after the march,” says organiser Colin Craig. More »[1]
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[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00220.htm [10]
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0911/S00289.htm [11]
[12] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0911/S00223.htm [12]
[14] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00138.htm [14]
Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott, has confirmed that at just after 9 am, in the Waiouru Training
Area, an unexpected explosion occurred, causing instant and fatal injuries to Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster. A second
Air Force Sergeant received minor injuries. More »[1]
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For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should
therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing
fairly with crime, and punishment. More »[1]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Communications Minister Steven Joyce has granted Telecom Corp. nine months to cut down potential information-sharing
among its units as part of the company’s government-enforced operational separation. More »[1]
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The ideal is a stable and competitive exchange rate. But our Reserve Bank policy targets are not well designed to
produce a stable and competitive exchange rate, nor to keep interest rates as low as possible. More »[1]
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1000 Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Solid Energy’s four main mines have voted to return to
work at 6am Saturday morning. More »[1]
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global
temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. More »[1]
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“Hath not a farmer eyes? Hath not a farmer hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same
winter and summer as townies?” More »[1]
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[4] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/18/fonterra%e2%80%99s-farmers-agree-to-raise-share-cap/ [4]
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For years, human rights advocates have argued that terrorism is essentially criminal behaviour, and terrorists should
therefore be tried under the rules of due process that democratic states have developed over centuries for dealing
fairly with crime... More »[1]
A Word From Afar: Paul Buchanan writes: One of the axioms of counter-terrorism is that the nastiness of the atrocity is
inversely proportional to the terrorist’s chances of success. That is to say, the worse the act, then less likely that
terrorist... More »[1]
The struggle for justice is not a contest between Indonesians and non-Indonesians. Rather, it is a contest between those
around the world who want to justice to prevail and those who want to see impunity prevail... More »[1]
[1] - http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2009/11/east-timor-the-role-of-journalists-in-the-freedom-struggle/
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and
desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the popular music video
channel, MTV. ... More »[1]
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the
military will doom him to be a single-term president. More »[1]
During his trip to Asia, President Obama called for the government of Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi, a noted
dissident who has spent years under house arrest. It made headlines, a fact which tells us more about the role of media
as an outlet for government ... More »[1]
President Obama has provided positive answers to a number of questions about New Zealand. Scoop's White House reporter,
Connie Lawn, posed the questions a few weeks ago. She had been hoping to get an interview with the President, before... More »[1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
C4 and Telecom have joined forces to deliver a New Zealand first. On Sunday 6th December a collection of New Zealand’s
hottest musicians will get together to perform a mammoth 12 hour gig - streamed live, and non-stop, on the internet. The
only way to see this concert will be online at www.c4tv.co.nz/thenonstopgig. More »[1]
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Accidents with the city’s buses have led on to discussions about city politics this week. There’s been a lot of sadness
about the two accidents, one of them fatal, involving buses and pedestrians... More »[1]
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New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera is to purchase the remaining warehouse stock of the novel The Trowenna Sea from his
publisher Penguin Group (NZ). At the same time Penguin has announced that it is offering to take back stock from any
bookseller who wishes to return the book. More »[1]
This December, Wellington will once again play host to some of Hollywood’s biggest names at the premiere of Peter
Jackson’s latest film The Lovely Bones. More »[1]
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WORLD------------
Washington - To establish a global foundation for growth and avert future economic crises, Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner says, the major advanced economies must rebalance global demand. More »[1]
''The Prime Minister should be subject to a Senate Inquiry over his handling of the various asylum boat debacles of the
last month, which include reports that the Oceanic Viking was directed away from Australian waters after rescuing asylum
seekers in ... More »[1]
In comparison to other countries in Latin America, Chile boasts relatively stable political institutions, particularly
free and fair elections, and a substantial middle class. More »[1]
President Yudhoyono (Indonesia) has a chance to show Papuans before the December 1 anniversary that Indonesia is a
rights-respecting country that upholds free expression. Yudhoyono should have these men freed without delay. More »[1]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplored the Israeli Government's decision today to expand Jerusalem’s Gilo settlement,
stressing that it was built on Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. More »[1]
Royal Australian Air Force personnel will play an important role as fighter jets take to the skies for the East Coast
Air Defence Exercise (ECADEX 09), to be conducted off the coast of New South Wales. More »[1]
One of the most intriguing new business models for newspapers -- an individualised newspaper in Germany composed of
selected pages and sections from other papers, delivered each morning to one's door -- will be examined when the world's
press gathers. More »[1]
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