Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 December 2009
Sony New Zealand Limited
Cape Town, South Africa: Sony Corporation and FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) today announced
an agreement for selected media rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in 3D. FIFA is to produce the world’s first FIFA
World ...
US Department of State - Background Note
Geography Area: 582,000 sq. km. (224,710 sq. mi.), about the size of Texas. Cities (2001 census): Capital --Gaborone
(pronounced ha-bo-ro-neh), pop. 186,007. Other towns --Francistown (83,023), Selebi-Phikwe (49,849), Molepolole
(54,561), Kanye ...
Green Party
New Zealand is on the brink of introducing factory farming of dairy cows, the Green Party said today. Consent
applications were recently lodged with Environment Canterbury for factory-style dairy farms in the Mackenzie Basin.
Three companies plan to establish ...
US Department of State - Background Note
Geography Area: 118,484 sq. km. (45,747 sq. mi.); land the size of Pennsylvania, with a lake the size of Vermont.
Cities: Capital --Lilongwe. Other cities --Blantyre (the commercial capital), Zomba, Mzuzu. Terrain: Plateaus,
highlands, and valleys. ...
Scoop Audio
Audio: Wallace Chapman and Scoop's Selwyn Manning discuss whether confidence in Labour leader Phil Goff was eroded by
the party's president Andrew Little. They say the issue is a media beat-up. Really? Well, let's look at the facts,
quotes, and context.
Scoop Audio
Psychologist Nigel Latta and Prime Minister John Key announced the findings of a cross agency review of law changes
relating to child discipline. Latta said he was personally reassured the repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act - taking
away the ...
Scoop Audio
Audio from Prime Minister John Key’s Post Cabinet Press Conference Today the PM discussed his government’s response to
the drug ‘P’, unemployment figures, factory dairy farming, tax changes, the foreshore and seabed, Melissa Lee, and
Copenhagen ...
CAFCA
The nine finalists for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand
are (in alphabetical order): ANZ, BNZ, Infratil, Newmont, Rio Tinto Aluminium NZ, Rymans, Telecom, Transpacific and
Westpac. There ...
United Nations
The security situation in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur has deteriorated in the wake of attacks that claimed
the lives of five peacekeepers, the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in the area (UNAMID)
reported today.
Trans Tasman
Trans Tasman’s 2009 Roll Call has elevated Speaker of the House, Lockwood Smith to top of its rankings this year. Each
year Trans Tasman’s Editors rank all MPs on the basis of their performance in Caucus, Cabinet, Committee, the House and
Electorate ...
Scoop Link
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial.
We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
New Zealand Labour Party
Following a report in today’s edition of the New Zealand Herald, some may have gained the impression that I was not
supportive of the views expressed in Phil Goff’s recent speech.
Chugg Entertainment
Break out the diary, cancel your late February plans, and surprise your loved one(s) with tickets to something truly
wonderful and intimate: the one and only Rufus Wainwright is returning to New Zealand for a very special evening
featuring our prodigious wunderkind ...
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key today welcomed the final report of a review into the policies and procedures used by the New
Zealand Police and Child, Youth and Family around the issue of smacking.
New Zealand Captive Insurance Association
New insurance legislation set for first reading tomorrow in Parliament would create an unregulated insurance industry in
New Zealand, says the New Zealand Captive Insurance Association (NZCIA).
Green Party
The response today from Federated Farmers’ leadership to the spectre of factory-farm dairying contradicts the line they
took just six months ago, said Green Party co-leader Russel Norman.
Malcolm Evans
Scoop presents a selection of cartoon on the Copenhagen climate negotiations from notable New Zealand cartoonist Malcolm
Evans.
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
The draft treaty (AWGLCA/2009/INF.2) prepared by the UNFCC secretariat for the Copenhagen conference calls for some
emissions reduction by all countries, and larger reductions by developed countries. There is a general consensus around
this principle. The dissension ...
New Zealand Police
At approximately 2.45pm on Monday 7 December 2009 the University Branch of the ANZ Bank was robbed.
Rosalea Barker
When California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, travels to Copenhagen this week to participate in Subnational Day at
the UN Climate Change Conference, he and his support staff may be doing so at the expense of a wealthy business owner
who contributes ...
Star Publicity
Snapper Services Ltd moved today to clear up apparent confusion about emerging competition to introduce electronic
ticketing for public transport in Auckland, with the objective of having integrated ticketing on most Auckland public
transport by the Rugby World ...
Families Commission
The Families Commission welcomes the results of the review of the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act,
announced by the Prime Minister today, and says it is time for New Zealanders to put the smacking debate behind them and
concentrate on ...
The Kiwi Party
Kiwi Party leader and Anti-smacking referendum organiser Larry Baldock called on the Prime Minister to stop wasting
taxpayers money defending the indefensible! “Let’s understand what John Key is saying,” said Mr Baldock. “He is advising
parents ...
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
From the very first moment man became a thinking being, the predators among us wrinkled their noses in arousal when they
observed how even the best among men became easy prey to superstition when confronted with an utter lack of evidence in
explaining ...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Since the initial election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, Iran has become one of Venezuela’s most durable allies. But
as this self-described “Axis of Unity” has developed, a predictable group of detractors has emerged. In a widely noted
September ...
Commerce Commission
Telecom New Zealand Limited has pleaded guilty to 17 charges of breaching the Fair Trading Act over claims made in 2006
when promoting Xtra’s Go Large broadband plan. Telecom has been fined $500,000 in the Auckland District Court today.
Sharon Ellis
An Adagio Christmas at Downstage is like a set of traditional Christmas cards and it is a Christmas party too. Everybody
shows off, does their customary clever tricks and tells their naughty stories with actions. And they seem to do it not
just because ...
Businesswire
NZ dollar gains after failing to break through 70.80 cts on downbeat Bernanke comments
Family First
Family First NZ is dismissing yet another report on the anti-smacking law which fails to address the real issues and
concerns over the law change.
Businesswire
(Business Wire) - Shares on Wall Street were little changed ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
In his speech, which began a short time ago, Bernanke said the US economy would need more time to recover.