The Scoop’s Top Three
The most read items on The Scoop yesterday were:
One:
Jeanette's Energy Efficiency Bill to
Proceed
Thames-based MP Jeanette Fitzsimons has had a major success in gaining cross-party support for her Energy Efficiency Bill, New Zealand's first Green Party legislation to do so well in Parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00309.htm
Two:
Scoop Analysis: Student Loans And The Brain
Drain
The relationship between the $3 billion
student loan debt and record numbers of young New Zealanders
who are leaving this country has become an issue which the
government is being pressed increasingly hard to deal with -
not the least by their own
rhetoric.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9907/S00069
Three: Winz lavishes $1.3 million on 'Api' ads
Labour social welfare spokesperson Steve
Maharey says the $1.3 million being spent on advertisements
by Work and Income NZ would be far better spent on practical
job creation programmes for the
unemployed.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00304
Over the weekend the most read item was:
NZ First Leader's Conference Speech
As we meet on the 6th birthday of this party the biggest challenge facing us is the reestablishment of some fundamental truths for our country. The mass membership of the old political parties has crumbled...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9907/S00307