Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For June 26 2010

Monday, 28 June 2010, 10:18 am
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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For June 26 2010

1: RNZFB Celebrates Helen Keller Day

Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind

On Sunday 27 June people all over the world will honour Helen Keller, an inspirational deafblind woman who has touched the hearts of people from all walks of life, and notably deafblind people.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1006/S00106.htm

2: Australia Gets New Prime Minister

ACT New Zealand

I have often heard it said that the only guarantee in politics is that there are no guarantees - and it is one of the realities of being a politician that you can be popular one minute, and unpopular the next.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00424.htm

3: FoMA Welcomes Value For Money Report

Federation Of Maori Authorities

The Federation of Maori Authorities Chair, Traci Houpapa said today that she and the Executive welcomed the release of the Value for Money Report on the Tekau Plus Maori Agribusiness Project.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00762.htm

4: New Zealand Can Treat Tourists Better

New Zealand Labour Party

The Government needs to do more to address the damage violence against tourists is having on our international reputation, Labour Tourism spokesperson Kelvin Davis says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00426.htm

5: Powerball Player Scores $13.8 Million Prize

New Zealand Lotteries

As the All Whites finish their dream run at the Football World Cup, a lucky Powerball player who bought a ticket in North Shore City will have all their dreams come true after scoring $13.8 million with Lotto and Powerball First Division this week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00302.htm

6: Q+A’s Guyon Espiner Interviews Rodney Hide

Television New Zealand

Can we focus first on the impact on consumers of the Emissions Trading Scheme. The government says $3.17 a week. I mean in terms of New Zealanders doing their bit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it's not much of an imposition is it?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00276.htm

7: Suspicious Death Investigation In Hamilton's CBD

New Zealand Police

Hamilton Police have launched an inquiry into a suspicious death following the discovery of a man's body outside a building in the City's central business district this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00304.htm

8: National Cuts Four Frontline Services A Month

New Zealand Labour Party

A conservative stock take of health services shows that 80 frontline patient services have been cut by the National Government since it came into office, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00425.htm

9: Q+A’s Paul Holmes Interviews Bruce Hawker

Television New Zealand

Not too long at all I think, the collapse in the vote for Labor actually started to happen just a couple of months ago. Up until then the Prime Minister had been running at stratospheric levels.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00275.htm

10: Smokefreerockquest Nelson-Marlborough Results

Smokefreerockquest

Four cousins and a friend are in with a chance at kiwi music success after winning this year’s regional Smokefreerockquest title on Saturday night at the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00349.htm

11: Hurunui: Diverse Water Management Group

Hurunui District Council

A university professor, a director of Horticulture NZ, the chair of Hurunui Water, an award winning environmentally friendly farmer, and an employee of Fish and Game are among the seven community appointees to the fledgling Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00300.htm

12: 'The Nation': Tony Ryall Interviewed By Parker

TV3

This week the British Chancellor Osborne unveiled a 40 billion dollar pound package of spending cuts and tax increases which included a two year public sector wage freeze.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00274.htm

13: Tragic Day For Humpback Whales

World Society for the Protection of Animals

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) today buckled under pressure from Denmark when it narrowly approved a proposal for Greenland to hunt nine humpback whales each year for the next three years, supposedly for subsistence use.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00545.htm

14: Hungary: Reform Package Threatening Press Freedom

SEEMO

Hungary's parliament is due to vote in less than a week on proposed media reform legislation which opposition parties and journalists have warned constitutes a throwback to the dark days of free media repression in the former Soviet satellite state.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00541.htm

15: Progressive Party Update

Progressive Party

The Progressive Party has been re-registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission after proving that it has a minimum of five hundred paying members.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00279.htm

16: Police Believe Woman's Stabbing Avoidable

New Zealand Police

Hamilton Police believe knife wounds suffered by a woman in a domestic violence incident could have been avoided had partygoers cooperated with officers called twice to a Frankton address overnight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00303.htm

17: All Whites Audience On TV One

Television New Zealand

NZ vs Paraguay (2am kickoff): 293,180. Previously released: NZ vs Italy (2am kickoff): 239,030. NZ vs Slovakia (11:30pm kickoff) : 353,800
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00348.htm

18: Darfur: Blue Helmets Turn To Music As Peace Tool

United Nations

The joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur has helped local civil society groups collect thousands of books through a music festival designed to highlight Sudanese culture and its role in maintaining peace in the war-torn area.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00546.htm

19: Q+A’s Holmes With Peter Blake Medal Recipients

Television New Zealand

Friday night Ray Avery received this year's Peter Blake Medal for Leadership, NZ's premier leadership honour. He's in excellent company because last year's winner was Dr John Hood, former Vice Chancellor of Auckland and more laterally Oxford Universities.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00277.htm

20: 'The Nation' With Tony Ryall

TV3

Our guest this morning is State Services Minister Tony Ryall, and I'm joined by our panellists. Tony I just want to follow up on a quick question from your comments earlier. You mentioned that several hundred more jobs may go from the state sector.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00273.htm

21: NZ’s Favourite Beer Breaks Billboard Tradition

Tui Brewery

Tui, New Zealand’s favourite beer brand, has broken a 16-year-long tradition by changing the look of its trademark ‘Yeah Right’ billboards to celebrate the All Whites incredible feat at the FIFA World Cup.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00760.htm

22: Chip Group Chipper About Awards Win

The Chip Group

The Chip Group, which was set up to improve the nutrition of hot chips, was officially recognised for its work when it was presented with an Excellence Award by the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology last night .
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00761.htm

23: TV One Screens Big Game Of Fifa Second Round

Television New Zealand

TV ONE has just announced it will be screening the big game of the FIFA World Cup second round, England v Germany LIVE on Monday morning. Martin Devlin presents LIVE coverage of the match that will see two of football’s fiercest rivals face-off ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00347.htm

24: Ban Urges Fighting Drugs While Fighting Poverty

United Nations

Drug abuse and illicit trafficking hold back achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and should be fought as part of an overall policy to wipe out social ills, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00543.htm

25: Commerce Commission On Transpower

Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission has today published the fourth in a series of papers important to the development of input methodologies for regulated industries under Part 4 of the Commerce Act.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00759.htm

26: NFD Astonished At ACC $2b Surplus

National Foundation for the Deaf

The National Foundation for the Deaf is astonished ACC is on track to post a $2 billion surplus while it is slashing services to people with work-related sound-damaged hearing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00278.htm

27: Council Spend-Ups Insult To Ratepayers

No More Rates

For councils to propose spending thousands of dollars on farewell parties, while at the same time warning of big rate increases under Super City, is an insult to ratepayers whose money that are spending.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00299.htm

28: Torture Remains Prevalent In Too Many Countries

United Nations

Too many countries are still practising or tolerating "cruel, degrading and illegal" acts of torture, top United Nations officials said today as they pledged the UN's solidarity with the millions of torture victims worldwide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00544.htm

29: US: Fragile Ratings Of The Micro And Macro Economy

Democracy Corps

The monthly tracking on the state of the macro and micro economy makes it even harder to build a short–term economic narrative predicated on national economic progress. That may be possible in years ahead, but difficult in the next four months.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00540.htm

30: Robbery: Saint Albans

New Zealand Police

At approximately 12.26pm on Saturday 26 June 2010 the NZ Post Shop, Edgeware Road, Saint Albans, Christchurch was robbed. Two males entered the shop carrying firearms and demanded cash from shop staff.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00301.htm

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