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1: Scoop
Images: All Blacks Vs Wallabies
#3
First set of images from the Bledisloe Cup Rugby Test at Wellington's new WestpacTrust stadium. The All Blacks lost. Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
2:
Record
Fuel Costs Push Petrol Prices
Up
Soaring refined (ready-to-go) petrol costs and the weak NZ dollar have forced BP to lift its petrol and diesel prices by three cents a litre at its company-owned service stations with immediate effect.
An unashamedly erotic ‘Sexpo’ opening in Auckland this weekend is likely to increase the already appalling level of sexual abuse in this country. The first of its kind in New Zealand, the R18 ‘Sexpo’ is attempting to change the sex ‘industry’ image ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Free
Software Good News For Kiwi
Developers
A groundbreaking free software service launching next Monday is set to unleash New Zealand developers onto the global market.
5:
Scoop
Images: From the Philly
IMC
Following are photos from what is perhaps the most sophisticated political protest site existing to-date, The Philadelphia Independent Media Center . According to the site it was formed to “...provide an alternative to the inevitably and unavoidably ...
6:
Wallabies
Win With “Almost Scripted”
Penalty
CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS John Eales kicked a penalty in the final second to complete an astonishing world Wallaby comeback to give the world champions the Bledisloe Cup 24-23 in a fantastic test at Wellington's Westpac Stadium on Saturday.
7:
Minister
rejects "factually incorrect"
outburst
"Murray McCully's outburst regarding Carol Stigley and the Government's relations with Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), while predictable, is factually incorrect," Local Government Minister Sandra Lee responded tonight.
8:
Scoop
Images: All Blacks Vs Wallabies
#1
First set of images from the Bledisloe Cup Rugby Test at Wellington's new WestpacTrust stadium. The All Blacks lost. Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
9:
HARD
NEWS 4/8/00 - Good Faith and Going
Without
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and so, the great shepherd reached out to his flock and said: "Alright, there's a bit of a price spike on - but I can ignore it if you do."
10:
Richard
Prebble's Letter From
Wellington
The coalition, with the support of the Greens, will dominate Parliament this week as they ram the Employment Relations Bill through under urgency. The Bill, as reported back, is now 250 pages.
11:
Socialist
International Meeting In
Wellington
The Socialist International Asia Pacific Committee will meet in Wellington, New Zealand on 7-8th August 2000, hosted by the New Zealand Labour Party
12:
Gross
interference leads to golden
handshake
"A scandalous degree of interference from the highest levels of Cabinet has caused a complete breakdown in the much lauded 'partnership' between the Government and Local Government New Zealand," National's Murray McCully said today.
13:
Anti-GMO
advocates should have special status
“The New Zealand Life Sciences Network (Inc) is concerned that anti-GMO organisations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth may have difficulty in establishing they have an interest greater than that of the general public when it comes to applications ...
14:
Scoop
Images: All Blacks Vs Wallabies
#2
First set of images from the Bledisloe Cup Rugby Test at Wellington's new WestpacTrust stadium. The All Blacks lost. Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
15:
Scoop
Images: All Blacks Vs Wallabies
#4
First set of images from the Bledisloe Cup Rugby Test at Wellington's new WestpacTrust stadium. The All Blacks lost. Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
16:
Chaudhry
Interview - Iron Man of
Fiji
Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's deposed prime minister seems weaker physically but not scared. He is a free man today but his life is still remains under threat. Interview and pictures by Rohit Kumar ‘Happy’.
17:
Brutal
Treatment Of Philadelphia
Protestors
A young man handcuffed crucifixion style to a cell door. The screams and moans of young women echoing through the cell block C. Another young woman dragged naked, bloody through a garbage strewn prison hall. Hunger strikers denied access to water ...
18:
Open
letter to the Director of the NZ
SIS
Mr Richard Woods Director of Security New Zealand Security Intelligence Service PO Box 600 WELLINGTON
19:
ACT
NZ Central Divisional Conference -
Prebble
I am pleased to report to this divisional conference of the ACT Party that the ACT MPs are the most effective opposition to the Alliance/Labour coalition.
20:
Scoop
Images: Mahendra Chaudhry After His
Release
Pictures of Deposed Fijian PM Mahendra Chaudhry from Rohit Kumar 'Happy' who interviewed him shortly after his release. See also... Chaudhry Interview - Iron Man of Fiji .
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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