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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Steven Wallace x 2 – School Funding – TPK Report On Wallace Shooting -
Code of Good Faith – MPS and ERB – Competition Amendments - Roading Funding - Huts and Tracks – Ministerial Staff
Conflicts Of Interest ...
Police Minister George Hawkins has a read of the Evening Post – which is in the dogbox for publishing a picture of a
member not speaking . (In case you were wondering Scoop has obtained Mr Hawkins permission to publish this shot.) Images
from Mark Graham ...
Yesterday, to the relief of just about everyone, Reserve Bank Governor did not raise the Official Cash Rate, the
interest rate that 'tells' financial markets what interest rates should be. Also, and to the relief of many, the
Employment Relations Bill was ...
Opposition leader Jenny Shipley's moment of truth today in the house confronting the PM over the Dover Samuels dirt
digging allegations...Images from Mark Graham - IMAGE TIME .
Justifying the killing of Steven Wallace by police as an act of self-defense, and in the name of protecting property is
not acceptable in the eyes of Wellington group, Aotearoa Educators.
A Green Party bill that would have reinstated the Community Wage for students over the summer break was voted down by
the Government on its first reading this evening.
Well hopefully by now the whole Employment Relations Bill saga is over, and we can get on with the business of repealing
it. However I have other things on my mind this week, and chief among them is the activities of my Student Union in
Otago.
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Tax And Crime – Doctors Strike – Whooping Cough – Singapore Free Trade And
TOW – QC Appointment – Rodney Council – Singapore Free Trade – Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Treaty – Dover Samuels
– Electricity ...
The Minister of Maori Affairs, Parekura Horomia, and Government Maori MPs today extended their aroha to the family of
Stephen Wallace, in the wake of the outcome of the police investigation into the tragedy at Waitara.
“Anti-genetic modification activists have shown their true colours while trying to hide behind a very flimsy front
organisation,” the Chairman of the New Zealand Life Sciences Network (Inc), Dr William Rolleston, said today.
Paraphrased answers to these questions will be posted in the Headlines wire shortly after 3pm.
Rape Crisis said today that perpetrators of sexual assaults should be blamed rather than young women, and that comments
made by a Palmerston North CIB detective could deter women from reporting to police.
Trevor Mallard Who's affected? All state and integrated school – they'll know what funding they'll receive next
year. How much will they get? ...
Before Titiwhai Harawira considers “cutting it off” she should name perpetrators as one solution to dealing with the
disturbing increase in the number of Maori sex offenders, ACT Maori Affairs and Education spokesperson Donna Awatere
Huata said ...
Images from a protest held today in Auckland by GreenPeace against the US Food And Drug Administration. See also...
Uncle Franken-Sam Wants YOU To Eat His GE Food for the press release which accompanied this pictures.
HOBBIT STORIES...