Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 4 December 2009
Australian Defence Force
Joint Afghan and Australian operations in Afghanistan are having a significant impact on the Taliban’s weapons and
ammunition reserves with the discovery of 44 caches in the past two months.
World Association of Newspapers
The newspaper industry's representative association made an impassioned defense of copyright to Google's chief attorney
on Thursday, calling for "a more rigorous and unambiguous acceptance" of publishers' rights to decide how their content
is used.
World Association of Newspapers
Many of the world's religious leaders in attendance at the Parliament of World Religions taking place in Melbourne,
Australia, are in partial mourning for the dream of a new world that President Obama promised, and decisively torpedoed
in his announcement ...
New Zealand Police
Police are currently at the scene of a fatal shooting in Warkworth. Preliminary information from the scene advises that
a female is deceased at the scene and Police are speaking with a male.
Binoy Kampmark
President Obama’s decision to deploy a further 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan looks like, on the surface, a chance to
people more cemeteries. Politically, it has the effect of reaching out across the spectrum of political attitudes,
hoping to, as ...
The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Gordon Campbell: Public Funding For Rugby World Cup Few Can Afford To Attend NZ POLITICS Public Service: SSC
Wants Teachers Under Code Of Conduct Balancing Env' Resp's w. Econ' Opp's: PM To Go To Copenhagen Key off to Copenhagen
Standards: ...
Bomber's Blog
Bomber's Blog - The War On News 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
United Future NZ Party
UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne has called on the Government to release details of the recent international negotiations
on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. “There is a lot of conjecture about the contents of ACTA and what it will
mean ...
Hugh Pavletich
On November 20th 2009 information was leaked from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia , casting
serious doubt on climate research carried out within this institution and other institutions around the world. While the
vintage ...
Imagining 2020
I was very pessimistic until last year about our prospects of weaning off fossil fuels before reaching an irreversible
tipping point. Some positive feedback loop would kick in, like higher temperatures releasing trapped methane from arctic
permafrost ...
NIWA
Solarview, a free web-based tool from NIWA, helps you get the most out of your house. NIWA have designed and built a
do-it-yourself tool that tells you how much sunlight your home receives at different times of the year. This helps you
work out whether ...
Foreign Policy Initiative
FPI is pleased to offer the Afternoon Roundup, a daily compendium of essential foreign policy news and analysis, to FPI
Overnight Brief subscribers. The Afternoon Roundup will be sent each day Monday through Friday in the late afternoon.
Businesswire
Commercial oil and gas have flowed for the first time from the Kupe gas field today, 23 years after the field was first
discovered.
New Zealand Plunket Society
Plunket and the National Poisons Centre are urging families to have fun but be safe in the outdoors this summer. Summer
is a wonderful time to get involved with young children outside, and there are lots of new things to learn about and
explore together ...
Nicky Chapman - Kiwis for 350
The ‘Kiwis for 350’ petition, organised by Dunedin mother and writer Nicky Chapman has gathered over 3,000 signatures in
just three weeks. ‘This shows Kiwis are concerned about climate change, they want to act positively, and they want their
Government ...
New Zealand Labour Party
The Government's third super city bill leaves Aucklanders in the dark over the power of local boards, says Labour's
Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford.
Wellington City Council
Wellington City Councillors will decide next week whether to proceed with plans that would provide a quicker, more
direct bus route through what is now Manners Mall and see a new shared public space created in lower Cuba Street. The
Council’s Strategy ...
Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury strongly supports the Christchurch City Council’s planned bus lanes and other public transport
improvements on the Colombo Street south route, says Cr Carole Evans, who chairs the regional council’s public passenger
transport ...
Federated Farmers
While the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme remains in flux, the formation of the Australian-led Wool Carbon Alliance
is intriguing New Zealand’s fibre farmers. “The Australians may be clutching at wool on the issue of wool carbon but we
need ...
New Zealand Government
The Minister of Broadcasting announced today the appointment of Peter Radich as the chair of the Broadcasting Standards
Authority and Leigh Pearson as a board member. Peter Radich is a partner in Radich Law and has been a solicitor of the
High Court ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Continuing strong investment performances by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and ACC prove yet again how
short-sighted Government policies are, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. David Cunliffe said Finance
Minister Bill English’s ...
Rotorua District Council
Organisers of next weekend’s Let’s GO Rotorua! Lakefront Air Show are searching for a replacement aircraft after the
show’s WWII Spitfighter fighter crashed on landing at Ardmore Airport in Auckland yesterday, damaging its propeller and
undercarriage. ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Every year on 3 December we celebrate World Disability Day, and this year’s celebrations were a fitting acknowledgment
of all disabled New Zealanders, Labour’s Disability spokesperson Lynne Pillay says. “World Disability Day is about
acknowledging and ...
Science Media Centre
This week Breast Cancer UK called for a Government ban on use of Bisphenol A in the production of baby bottles. Breast
Cancer UK says there is "clear and compelling scientific evidence" that links BPA, an organic chemical compound used for
the ...
Living Cell Technologies
· In response to overwhelming public queries, clinician investigator reports progress on Living Cell Technologies’
(LCT’s) Diabetes Trial in New Zealand
Save the Advance Centre
John Key and his Ministers have turned a Deaf ear to the plight of students who use the services of the Advance Centre.
The Advance Centre provides essential services to Deaf and hearing impaired tertiary students in the Auckland region,
but found ...
getparticipants.com
Lack of participants means around 75% of medical research in New Zealand is delayed, slowing down the development of new
treatments and medical advancements. Now, in an innovative programme developed by local entrepreneur Jamie Mannion, New
Zealanders ...
Julie Webb-Pullman
Itś official - Pepe Lobo of the National Party won 56% of the vote. The fact that this represents 56% of the lowest
turnout ever, is a fact being glossed over by the majoprity of the international corporate media, in their indecent
haste to present ...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
For another consecutive year in its controversial certification process, the State Department has found that the
Colombian government and its armed forces are meeting statutory criteria related to enforcement of human rights
standards. This certification ...
New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Jacinda Ardern says the Regulations Review Committee’s decision on three complaints about increased
Environment Court filing fees backs Labour’s fears that Kiwis might be denied access to the Court. “Labour always
believed the increased ...