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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were....
* FIJILIVE.COM - staffed by just eight people led by Editor YASHWANT GAUNDLER - kept the world informed of undischarged
bankrupt and Australian resident GEORGE SPEIGHT'S coup of MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY'S Fiji Government on Friday.
I don't want to seem rude, and I accept much of what Himona says about the way Maori issues are reported. However, I am
confused by his column on Fiji.
PI Show May 23, 2000 (First broadcast on Radio Pacific's Politically Incorrect Show, noon Tues May 23)
As West Coasters debate this week whether to accept Government's $120 million offer, the Department of Conservation says
because of lack of public use, it is closing West Coast walkways, downgrading tracks and closing back country huts.
Scoop's West ...
Two things this morning. Firstly, in their interviews over the weekend and this morning, the media have featured
overwhelmingly the views of Fijian Indians, and have disregarded any indigenous Fijian viewpoint. Hardly a balanced
response.
West Coasters, on one view are now not happy about the Government. In fact, this could perhaps be seen as something of
an understatement. Certainly if one was to believe everything that the Coastal Action Network has to say, no Government
MP should ...
Fiji Coup: Counter Revolutionary Expert Revolts - Dollar Down But Not Out - Meanwhile Sludge Is Sorry But.. - Turning
Our Children Into Drug Users, Dealers and Abusers
Images of Helen Clark are everywhere at the moment. Two days running last week her toothy grin has graced the front
cover of the Dominion – first, at the launching of her “Joan of Arc” doppleganger tribute at the Backbencher Bar - on
Friday she ...
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath says New Zealander who values free speech should be alarmed at the
intimidation of a private company who has been told by the Ministry of Health to block New Zealand access to its
website.
Labour Minister Margaret Wilson is proposing to call for the Matrimonial Property Bill and proposed amendments to be
referred to the Justice and Electoral Select Committee.
The Wellington City Council is right to question the wisdom of proceeding with Transmission Gully, Wellington Green MP
Sue Kedgley said today.
An analysis of the current political crisis in Fiji By Teresia Teaiwa, Lecturer in Pacific Studies, Victoria University
of Wellington.
SUVA: The leader of the kidnappers holding the Fiji Islands government captive in Parliament has been branded as a
terrorist by both the Pacific country's president and the leading daily newspaper Fiji Times.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has hit out at the Fijian hostage takers over their treatment of Fijian Prime Minister
Mahendra Chaudhry and his Cabinet calling their behaviour “brutal and thuggish.”
The fine print of Labour’s Bill to restore income related rents will come as a shock to State Housing tenants who all
expected to be paying no more than 25% of their income in rent.
Today's questions concerned the subjects of: Brain Drain - Fiji Crisis - Current Account Deficit - NZers Caught In Fiji
Crisis - Canterbury Business Confidence - Copyright In Schools - Brain Drain - ERB x 2 - Income Related Rents -
Matrimonial ...
1. Hon. Richard Prebble to the Minister for Economic Development: Is he concerned that in April on average 217 New
Zealanders left New Zealand permanently every day, and what does this mean in relation to his "job machine"?
A Canadian labour law specialist currently visiting New Zealand says problems lie ahead in regulating good faith
bargaining, a major feature of the Employment Relations Bill.
It is now three days since a gang of armed men, led by George Speight, took hostage Prime Minister Chaudhry, members of
his Cabinet and government politicians. Cabinet today received an update on the situation from Mr Goff, including the
implications ...
"From 1 December low-income Housing New Zealand tenants will pay no more than 25 % of their income in rent," the
Minister of Housing Mark Gosche confirmed today.