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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
The Government will move this afternoon to shut out the public from having any input on its radical moves to include de
facto and same sex couples in marriage law effectively marrying thousands of unsuspecting New Zealanders.
As I intimated in this column (9 March), Muriel Newman's "Shared-Parenting" Bill has met with a political response. The
government, in the form of Laila Harre (Minister of Women's Affairs), and the New Zealand Law Society, have used
standard ...
Police Minister George Hawkins has taken a swipe at the Prime Minister over her comments on the Waitara Shooting, says
Opposition Police Spokesman Brian Neeson.
CONTENTS Editorial: Watch Out! It's 'Radical Conservatism'! The First day of the Fifth Month of the Year Speed-wobbles??
- Nah. News Web site of the Week
Waitara police say Steven Wallace had repeatedly threatened to kill the police officer who fatally shot him.
Today's questions concerned the subjects of: Ill Treatment Of Children - Vote IRD - Greens And Mugabe - Foreign
Ownership Of Fishing Quota - Anderton On Monetary Policy - Iraq Sanctions - GE Inquiry - Orion Upgrade - Heather Simpson
- Plunketline - Margaret ...
Scoop is pleased to present a series of images of Lord of The Rings Filming from its content partner
http://theonering.net . They show filming underway in Happy Valley at Whakapapa skifield on Mt Ruapehu.
Could you please broadcast this to the widest group possible. I want the stakeholders and decision makers to have the
following seven basic facts during this debate.
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen; President Page; President-elect Dillon; distinguished guests. I am
really happy to be here. Happy to be reunited at long last with the White House Press Corps. (Laughter.) If I may, let
me direct ...
Today's questions of the day concerned: Compliance Costs For Employers - Cullen's Skeletons - West Coast Logging And
Mugabe - Nuclear Non-proliferation - Lump Sum ACC Compensation - GE Labelling - Cancer Inquiry - Honeywell Prison
Contracts - Fingerprinting ...
Today's questions for oral answer by Ministers....
AUCKLAND - May 2, 2000 - For the first time, New Zealand companies have reliable information about how kiwis use the
Internet. The first full month of New Zealand Internet usage data was released today by Nielsen//NetRatings, the global
Internet ...
Faith and Hope, two Siamese twins sharing heart and lungs were born face to face at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital
yesterday morning.
Minister of Police Hon. George Hawkins will not be making any comment regarding the Waitara fatal shooting while a
Police homicide inquiry and Police Complaints Authority inquiry are underway.
A call for the reopening of resource consent hearings of the aborted Timberlands proposals for the selective logging of
rimu in part of the West Coast forests, has been made by Terry Dunleavy, national convener of Bluegreens, the
organisation which ...
If you're ever wondering about your place in the world, we have an announcement today that should make life a little
easier for you.
I am aware that there is tremendous interest from your industry in the fund that the Labour Party is promoting as the
best way of meeting the future cost of New Zealand Superannuation. I have to report that we are still in discussion with
our Coalition ...
Company director and former Cabinet Minister Barry Brill, OBE, JP, LLM (Hons) has graduated again, twice.
In the final phase of today’s Wellington May Day protests protestors moved up to the Business Round Table offices on the
Terrace and burnt some money. Photos Miles Thompson.
State Services Minister Trevor Mallard has been challenged to apply the new e-government vision he announced this week
to informing New Zealanders about the proceedings of the forthcoming Royal Commission on Genetic Modification.