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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on scoop (Hobbits excluded) were...
The ‘Brain Drain’ debate has ignited again. London based New Zealander, Jeremy Punnett, has launched a website attacking
the recent campaigns of John Carr and Richard Poole. “I am disgusted that people now see fit to conduct debate by buying
full page newspaper ...
Listening to fears being expressed by those with sufficient courage to face the Commissioners - notably the women folk -
I began to wonder if they were justified.
"A positive start," is how Jordan Carter is characterising the response to a counter-campaign to the "Young New
Zealanders" who placed advertisements in last week’s daily newspapers.
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath asks exactly who pensioner George Edwards was harming when he grew some
cannabis and sold it to other consenting adults.
Two threats to national self-confidence coincided, merged, coalesced and multiplied themselves in the aftermath of the
Sydney Olympics. They were, of course, the sad performance of our athletes and the alleged increase in the 'brain
drain'. As one ...
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: Ruling: Who Should Answer Questions– Super – Airways Bid For UK Air
Traffic Control – Super x 3 – School Zoning – Tranz Rail – Dawn Raid Mistakes – Student Loan Interest Writeoffs –
Inflation – Special ...
The speed of the economic downturn caused by the Socialist policies of the present government surprised everyone. We all
knew it would happen. What we didn’t know was just how quickly the economy would be sunk.
By the end of the 1980s some millions of people, mostly in North America, were supplementing their diet with
L-tryptophan, an essential amino-acid present in proteins of any normal diet. Amino-acids such as tryptophan are
routinely produced in micro-breweries ...
10: "It's Started"
Just a week after the introduction of the Employment Relations Act, unions are already disrupting workplaces and
intimidating employers, ACT Employment spokesman Muriel Newman said today.
Cartoon By Paul McDonald Click on the image to move to http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/
The following is a link to: Dairies of Despair – “The Secret History of Pig-to-Primate Organ Transplants” - the contents
of a website containing confidential Novartis papers which have been protected against publication in the UK by a court
order.
National is going to give New Zealanders the chance to vote for or against MMP once and for all.
Isn’t it funny how at the same time Yugoslavia overthrows its crazy dictator, Helen Clark decides to become even more
autocratic? Has the ghost of Milosevic entered Clark’s body?
Professor Alan MacDiarmid, a pioneering research chemist and Victoria University graduate, is to receive an Honorary
Doctorate of Science at the University’s last graduation ceremony of the century.
Paraphrased answers to today's questions for oral answer will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
Today's Questions concern: Jim Vs Jenny On The Kiwi Dollar - Auckland Cardiac Surgery (Where Is Ruth?) – Business Forum
– Brain Drain – Cardiac Surgery – Stress At Work – TUF President’s Faith – TranzRail Network – Christopher Truscott –
Buddle Finlay’s ...
A raft of new measures, which includes waiving all new building and resource management consent application fees for
the next six months, will be introduced if a committee of the Westland District Council on the West Coast gets its way.
John Howard reports.
The Minister of Maori Affairs, the Hon Parekura Horomia, formally announced two new appointments to the bench of the
Maori Land Court.
Tranz Rail's plans to divest a large part of their rail services while still retaining monopoly control over the railway
lines should ring loud warning bells, Green Party transport spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today.
“Abysmal” first-year university enrolments from low-decile schools is a good reason for the Government to again consider
introducing a Targeted Individual Entitlement scheme, ACT Education spokeswoman Donna Awatere Huata said today.
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