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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
What on earth is going on at the Auckland City Council when it uses ratepayers money to hire private investigators to
spy on a ratepayer. John Howard writes.
Today's questions concern: Maori Affairs Minster's Performance - Tertiary Student Participation - Chancellor Gate -
Echelon Spying - Brian Edwards Contract - Telecommunications Competition - Criminal Records - INCIS - Infrastructure
Auckland - Election Report ...
The Corrective Party, New Zealand's only corporal punishment party, welcomes Thingsway School's decision to ban Pokemon
cards on the basis that they are covert tools of the Giant Lesbian Parenting Welfare Dependency Morris Dancing Opponent
of Spanking ...
Near flawless sailing by the New Zealanders coupled with some disasters for the Italian crew saw Prada lose the second
race of the America’s Cup by a whopping 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
Relief will be breaking out in the murkier corners of the new Ministry in the light of the Speaker's latest ruling on
the accountability of Associate Ministers.
Scoop’s anonymous Hobbit photographer has been busy again snapping away at Lord of The Rings sets, this time at the most
photographed set of them all, the Haywards Hill (Dry Creek) quarry. Filming at the site is now fully underway with
scenes of ...
The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who arrives in Wellington on 22 February, will be the first important overseas
visitor to NZ since the change of government. Terrence O'Brien previews the visit.
Today's questions concern: Fringe Benefit Tax - TVNZ Jack Ups - East Timor Development - Victoria's Vice Chancellor
Payout - Trade Prospects - Infrastructure Auckland - WINZ Accountability - INCIS - ACC and Accredited Employers -
Departmental Accountability ...
Following today's Beehive press conference with the world's leading diplomat Scoop can now report that UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan's softly spoken voice sounds almost identical in person as it does on CNN.
Overdoing stress in the workplace is very expensive because of all the negative things that flow from it, says Dr Alison
Drewry, a senior lecturer in occupational medicine at Auckland University and Surgeon Commander of the Royal New Zealand
Navy at Devonport.
The international context has materially altered since New Zealand last reviewed that context as part of a substantive
reassessment of defence policy, back in 1991. The Cold War had just ended and the full implications of that seismic
event had yet ...
A former employee of Canada's security agency has charged that Canadian spies once managed to overhear the American
ambassador to Canada discussing a pending trade deal with China on a mobile telephone and used that information to
undercut the Americans ...
New Zealand First Deputy Leader, Peter Brown, today expressed his outrage at the absurd assertions of a member of the
Green Party.
"Do as I say, not as I do, seems to be the way this Government intends to operate" says Hon Roger Sowry, Shadow Leader
of the House.
His Excellency The Governor-General has advised that Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the retention of
the title "The Honourable" by:
[July 19th, San Francisco] The CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) publicly challenges Microsoft Corporation to voluntarily
recall all copies of its Systems Management Server network software. In addition, cDc calls for the antivirus industry
to respond with signature ...
The International Jury will hold a hearing at 18:00 hours on Tuesday to rule on whether a communications system on board
Team New Zealand is in full compliance with America’s Cup Match Condition 19.1.
The Prime Minister has released the schedule of responsibilities that has been drawn up for the myriad Associate
Ministers that this government has spawned. There are no fewer than 18 different ministers (out of an Executive of 26)
running around associating ...
In excess of 100,000 people visited the American Express New Zealand Cup Village over the weekend. This amounted to a
record crowd, with thousands gathering to see Team New Zealand and Prada when they left the marina in the morning, and
then when ...
Conditions were very shifty approaching race time, after a short squall crossed over the Hauraki Gulf. Race Director
Harold Bennett postponed the start for 40 minutes to allow the wind to settle, and racing started at 13:55 in 14-16
knots of Southerly ...