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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
TV1 and TV3 poll results, both broadcast tonight, show different trends. TV1’s poll shows what could be an end to the
rise and rise in the Labour Party’s fortunes since polling day, while TV3’s poll shows the rise continuing ever upward.
Protestors outside a GAP clothing store undress to protest the exploitation of poorly paid workers by the successful
retail outlet - images from http://indymedia.org .
One of New Zealand’s smallest breweries walked off with the big prize at the second NZ Hop Marketing Board International
Beer Awards last weekend. Neil McInnes reports.
News and images from the A16 Washinton DC protests. Whose America? - Young Arrestee - Police Line - Puppet Mike Moore -
Clash Outside Treasury Building.... and The Black Bloc Rides Again...
The gap between the minority Labour-Alliance Coalition Government and their allies the Green Party appears to be
widening, with two key areas of disagreement to the fore at today’s post-Cabinet press conference - genetic engineering
and party-hopping.
ZFREE, powered by CLEAR, today launched a web site through which all New Zealanders can access the Internet for free.
US share markets have bounced back strongly this morning (Monday in the US).
NZ stocks have bounced back strongly this morning following a remarkable recovery on Wall Street sharemarket overnight.
Prime Minister Helen Clark will be straining to hold back her trade-mark gloat, two recent polls show voters have
continued their honeymoon with her and the Labour Party, conversely while National's support is holding, the only good
thing voters ...
A four-person Royal Commission headed by former Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, will inquire into genetic
modification, the Minister for the Environment, Marian Hobbs, announced today.
Another day on the streets of Washington DC this morning began with reports of a police crackdown, and rain.
Helen Clark will have to be a political contortionist to convince Tony Blair she has signed up to his third way,
Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
The previous government left the tertiary education sector in a 'dismal' state, and this government has inherited the
mess and is committed to cleaning it up, the Alliance’s education spokesperson has told a public meeting in Porirua.
At the weekend the official LOTR website http://lordoftherings.net broadcast a two minute preview from the movie. The
preview is attracting unprecedented internet attention.
The Government’s party hopping bill is so full of loopholes that you could drive a busload of MPs through it, says
National’s Justice spokesman Tony Ryall.
The new service is being offered by CLEAR as a means of encouraging as many New Zealanders as possible to go online, by
eliminating the barriers to Internet access.
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in
the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results
over the span ...
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.
The Attorney-General, Hon Margaret Wilson, announced today the appointment of Dr Susan Glazebrook as a Judge of the High
Court.
The Reserve Bank will have to raise interest rates now if it wants to retain its international credibility, and Alliance
leader Jim Anderton is the man homeowners should blame, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today.