Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
we have been forwarded the following newpaper article from South Asians Against Nukes, which indicates that both
Pakistan and India may be about to detonate nuclear weapons tests. This alert is in three parts : 1) the article from
The Hindu; 2) who you can ...
DEBUNKING THE ELIAN MYTH: There's More at Stake than Just Elian Propagating Myths Can Lead to Disaster. Remember Waco?
IN THIS ISSUE: Poll Shocker For Alliance - Bring On Harre And Robson - Clear and Telecom Kiss And Make Up - But It Won't
Save Telecom - Sludge Supports NBR On Naming Issue - Timberlands Resolution Expected This Arvo - Sort Of
Radio New Zealand News has learned from a key source that three key Airways Corp staff were to be “sold” to an
international consortium planning to buy Britain's national air-traffic control system.
General Matters - Timberlands West Coast Settlement - Sierra Leone- Airways Corporation - Defence Radio Deal - Pm On
Rimu Logging - Cultural Affairs Package - Social Welfare & Winz After The Hunn - Treasury Report To Erb Stifled
It’s doldrums time for the Alliance with the most recent One News Colmar Brunton Polls showing the junior coalition
partner is languishing below the margin of error.
The government has introduced legislation limiting the number of universities to eight, the Associate Education Minister
(Tertiary Education) Steve Maharey announced today.
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: West Coast Logging – Economic Growth - Returning Resident’s Visas –
Contractors And The ERB – Teachers Wages – Maori And The ERB – Public Good Science Fund – Union “Utu” – Airways
Corporation – Regional ...
An appeal has been made to Prime Minister Helen Clark to be consistent in her responses to management practices of two
State Owned Enterprises, Airways Corporation and Timberlands West Coast.
New Zealand First Leader and Tauranga MP, Rt Hon Winston Peters, is mounting a campaign to prevent the export of New
Zealand dogs to some Asian countries where they are slaughtered and eaten.
"The next official release of GDP statistics is scheduled for 26 June. I will be presenting the Budget on 15 June, so I
run the risk of errors in estimating contemporary economic trends."
The Employment Contracts Act, which came into effect nine years ago today, has played a key part in New Zealand's poor
international competitiveness, and increased rates of under-employment and joblessness through the 1990s, says Labour
Minister Margaret ...
“Once again it appears the only groups to benefit from arts funding are those frequented by Helen Clark and her cultural
elite,” said ACT Arts and Culture spokesman Penny Webster. Mrs Webster was responding to Helen Clark’s pre Budget
announcement today ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, it's finally happened. Like so many of the great and good, and like the Prime Minister
herself, I'm to be sent off for "media skills" training.
So the Chathams has its own currency. Next it could be the West Coast. If the West Coast used a combination of local
currencies, Mondragon-model cooperatives and Grameen Bank model microcredit schemes, combined with existing NZ trade
barter schemes, then ...
Internet users will not pay a two-cents per minute charge for non-0867 Internet calls, under a comprehensive three and
a half-month agreement between Telecom and CLEAR.
IN THIS ISSUE: Face The Nation Begins With Wet Bus-ticket Slapping Show - Radio New Zealand Miffed - FBI Spin Reversal
On Love Bug - Hillary Looks A Sitter For New York Seat In Senate - South Asian Spin - New Internationalism In Sierra
Leone
Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton has Telecom and petrol companies in his sights following a
landmark court decision.
When Parliament resumes tomorrow it will be time for Jim Anderton to step up to the podium and launch the detail of his
Regional Development programme.
The proposal to end native timber logging on Crown-managed land by 31 March 2002 would achieve a significant
conservation gain while minimising the risk of job losses, the shareholding ministers of Timberlands West Coast Ltd said
today.