Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 29 2010

Friday, 30 April 2010, 8:52 am
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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 29 2010

1: Scoop Audio - Keep It 18 Convenes

Rory MacKinnon

If there’s one thing student politicians will cross the party line for, it’s the right to party. That was the message Thursday as the youth wings of Young Labour, Young Nationals, Young Greens and ACT On Campus banded together to protest raising ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00216.htm

2: Prime Minister’s Concession Allows For Reform

Government of Tonga

The Prime Minister, on Tuesday (20 April), conceded by withdrawing the Cabinet’s submission on constituency boundaries in order to allow for the smooth passage through the Legislative Assembly of legislation to allow the general elections to take place.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00544.htm

3: Early childhood funding cuts untenable

NZ Childcare Association

Bill English’s recent statement claiming an over-investment in early childhood education should be a major concern for all parents who want the best possible start to their children’s education, says NZCA Chief Executive Nancy Bell.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1004/S00093.htm

4: Belarus Violating Workers’ Rights

International Trade Union Confederation

Although the government of Belarus is continuing to engage in widespread and significant violations of workers’ rights, that has not stopped it organising a high-profile event with the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00539.htm

5: Bream Bay ‘Oil Spill’ to Test Authorities

Northland Regional Council

A fictional spill that sends tonnes of oil from a ship on to Bream Bay’s sandy beaches will form the basis of the latest regional oil spill exercise next month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00303.htm

6: The Carter code cracked

Green Party

Minister of Agriculture David Carter has finally come clean over why Environment Canterbury was sacked, and his explanation has frightening implications for local democracy throughout New Zealand, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00396.htm

7: 95bFM: Polls - Manning On National's Tipping Point

Scoop Audio

Audio: Selwyn Manning & Paul Deady discuss whether National's unpalatable policies (commercial whaling compromise, mining conservation land, increase to GST) are edging it toward tipping point, eroding its support-base? Is there a trend appearing?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00214.htm

8: Official’s ‘fiddling’ is killing families

AKILLA Sleep Safety Educational Campaign

The ACC Motor Vehicle Account liabilities for 2009 set a new record high at $6,845,108,000 together with the ACC Motor Vehicle Account annual payout for 2009 a record high of $452 , 000,000.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00385.htm

9: Barry Brill's Open Letter to Professor Gluckman

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition

In your address at NIWA on 22 April, you worried that controversies in the field of climate change may be changing the way the public perceives science and scientists.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1004/S00067.htm

10: Missing 16 year old male

New Zealand Police

Counties Manukau Police are concerned about the whereabouts of a 16 year old Chinese male, Chunji Gao.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00310.htm

11: Expenses claimed by Ministers and MPs, Jan-Mar '10

Parliamentary Services

Expenses claimed by members of Parliament and Ministers for the three months from 1 January 2010 to 31 March 2010 are available on http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/Expenses and by Ministers on www.dia.govt.nz/ministers_expenses
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00405.htm

12: The pizza must get through

New Zealand Police

In a case of dedication 'above and beyond' Hamilton Police are amazed at the determination of a victim of a car theft who ensured the pizzas got through.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00311.htm

13: Carter’s Warning – Watch Out Democracy

Council Watch

The Agriculture Minister’s recent comments to farmers that the removal of the rights of Canterbury region’s voters to select regional council representation was designed as a “signal” to the local Government sector is cause for alarm, says local democracy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00387.htm

14: Alcohol reforms don’t get to heart of the issue

Vision Network of NZ

New Zealand Christian Network ( vision network), who made a submission to the Law Commission on alcohol reform, supports the general direction of the Law Commission’s recommendations just released, but says they don’t address the root cause of our ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1004/S00365.htm

15: “Sunset Looms For Global Warming Industry”

Carbon Sense Coalition

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for Sunset Clauses to be inserted in all past and future Global Warming legislation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00574.htm

16: Young Greens Statement for Keep it 18

Keep It 18 Campaign

Firstly, I'd like to start by acknowledging the work done by the Law Commission on their report. >From what I have had time to read it is a very thorough document and takes seriously the huge problems with alcohol we have in New Zealand. It takes a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00374.htm

17: Tobacco Products Amendment Bill – Second Reading

The Maori Party

Mr Speaker, when Minister Turia began this debate under extraordinary urgency, she said that “there are only a few matters before this House that one could stand, with hand on heart, and declare this was a life and death debate”.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00392.htm

18: Lake Level Update 4pm 29/4/10

Queenstown Lakes District Council

The Queenstown Lakes and Otago Regional Councils have advised Queenstown retailers in the central business flood zone to prepare for flooding overnight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00316.htm

19: Environment Canterbury Council in exile

Environment Canterbury

The dismissed Canterbury regional councillors have been asked to reconvene, as a publicly-mandated but unofficial 'council in exile'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00358.htm

20: Smith’s spin allows rape victims to be misled

New Zealand Labour Party

Nick Smith has clearly deliberately misled his colleagues into telling rape victims that the Government is increasing support for them, Labour’s Victims Rights spokesperson Lynne Pillay says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00419.htm

21: Prisoner’s threats to child picked up via phone

Department Of Corrections

The sentencing of man housed in Wanganui Prison to a further one year and three months in jail on Monday has closed the chapter on the harassment of a 13 year old girl by the prisoner, who is already serving time for violent offending.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00296.htm

22: New $9.7 million Auckland school set to open

New Zealand Government

Plans for a new $9.7 million school at Papakura in Auckland are making great progress following the appointment of an establishment Board of Trustees, says Education Minister Anne Tolley.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1004/S00103.htm

23: Funeral Service for Three Airmen at Ohakea

New Zealand Defence Force

A full military funeral service for Flight Lieutenant Hayden Madsen, Flying Officer Daniel Gregory and Corporal Benjamin Carson was held at 1.30pm today at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00312.htm

24: DoC to be applauded for Mokihinui appeal

Department of Conservation

United Future leader Peter Dunne has applauded the Department of Conservation for its ‘courageous’ appeal of the decision to grant resource consent for the Mokihinui Hydro Dam.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00416.htm

25: Auckland Zoo’s NZ development secures full funding

Auckland Zoo

Thanks to a $2.69m grant from the Lottery Significant Projects Fund, all the funding is now in place for the construction of Auckland Zoo’s upcoming New Zealand development, Te Wao Nui.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00293.htm

26: Girl Geek Dinners Challenge IT Perception

Girl Geeks

Many still assume that information technology is a male-dominated bastion filled with inscrutable math gurus and hermit-crab programmers. Local girl Jodie Thorne has challenged this with the overwhelming success of Tauranga’s Girl Geek Dinners. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00313.htm

27: Snow Ball Blind Time – An enduring companion

Govett Brewster Gallery

The Govett-Brewster is proud to announce the release of the highly anticipated publication Peter Robinson: Snow Ball Blind Time , a beautiful and enduring companion to the landmark exhibition of the same name, commissioned by and presented at the Gallery ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1004/S00377.htm

28: Council dilutes Metrowater’s obligations to planet

City Vision

At today’s Auckland City Council Finance & Strategy Committee, the Citizen’s & Ratepayers (C&R) councillors cut out vital environmental protection and water quality requirements for Metrowater, a Council Controlled Organisation (CCO).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00389.htm

29: Don’t stop at tobacco tax say Sallies.

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army applauds Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia’s efforts to pass into law a bill to raise tax on tobacco, saving hundreds of lives, and hopes the Government will have the courage to do the same for alcohol.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00377.htm

30: Gluckman: Institute of Director’s Auckland branch

Prime Ministers Science Advisory Committee

Clearly there is a more intense focus on the role of science in New Zealand’s development than there has been for two decades. There is a shift in thinking and in particular a growing realisation in Government that science expenditure must be seen as an investment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1004/S00066.htm

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