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A meeting held last night by Waterfront Watch in the Old Town Hall to oppose the council’s plans for the Wellington
Waterfront was attended by an unusually large crowd. The hall quickly filled to capacity and again – as happened last
Thursday ...
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some
scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
Native Forest Action (NFA) yesterday admitted making a blunder by accusing ACT leader Ken Shirley of making a fool of
himself by publicising a leaked email, says a West-Coast newspaper.
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Headlines Wire or the General wire. The Mayday 2000 global action is being organised on the internet in a decentralised
fashion and follows ...
"Peter Jackson suggested a droopier moustache. I suddenly looked like a double for the Beatles' Maharishi", actor Ian
McKellen on his transformation into the mage Gandolf - a Lord Of The Rings snapshot.
In the interests of informing the public Scoop has taken a number of photographs which show plans for massive building
development on the Wellington Waterfront.
Ms Fitsimmons and the Green party of New Zealand are happy to know that we will now be able to force through new
legislation in Parliment that will exile all Scientists to a small uninhabited island in the Pacific following the
Montreal commisson findings.
PERTH, West Australia (JP): How well did the Australian media cover the East Timor debacle in recent months?
Two New Zealanders who helped sail a yacht full of Colombian cocaine from New Zealand to Australia were caught by Sydney
Customs police, in Australia's largest cocaine haul.
Saturday's landmark Montreal Biosafety Protocol which regulates trade in genetically modified organisms establishes a
framework for countries to use when making decisions about genetically modified crops. But there are a couple of
fish-hooks in it. John ...
New Zealand Young National’s Policy Chair Grant Tyrrell commented, yesterday, on the ineptitude of the new government in
dealing with state owned enterprises.
The Minister of Social Services and Employment, Steve Maharey, announced today that an external WINZ Advisory Board was
being disestablished as he moved to effect a culture change within the department.
“We’re interested in getting the truth out- not political gain.” said Dr Brendan Moyle, a senior lecturer with
experience in conservation and sustainable use. “Opposition to the new Government is coming from conservation ecologists
and professional scientists."
"Stop the War on the West," is the battle cry, not just on the West Coast of New Zealand, but now on the West Coast of
the US. John Howard reports.
Today we have news that Indonesian Armed Forces Chief and Cabinet Minister General Wiranto has been asked to resign by
the new democratically elected Indonesian President Abdurrachman Wahid.
The Ernst and Young analysis of electricity distribution companies released today underscores both the failure of the
previous Government's electricity reforms and the need for an inquiry into the electricity sector, says Minister of
Energy Pete ...
AmeicaOne has caught up with Prada in the finals series of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series.
ACT local government spokesman Owen Jennings says new powers given to local authorities today are worrying.
"The Governor General sought my formal advice last year on an application for a pardon and a Royal Commission of
Inquiry on behalf of Mr Ellis.
The Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) is making a plea to Government to take more time to study the
implications of the change proposed for ACC.