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The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend (Hobbit's excluded) were...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... unemployment drops below 6% for the first time in 12 years. 22,000 new jobs. More full-time
jobs than there have ever been in the history of the country. Welcome to the bad-news-good-news economy.
It is fascinating that last week’s speech about the C grade contribution of the media to our national life has not, to
upton-on-line’s knowledge, received a shred of coverage (save passing reference in Frank Haden’s Sunday column).
Upton-on-line had vacillated ...
Ruth Dyson said today that a drug-related conviction from her youth had been declared on every Labour Party nomination
form she had filled in.
Soldiers loyal to the Commander have reportedly surrounded the gullies separating the army barracks and the Namadi
Heights residential area.
Enough cocaine to knock out a drug-sniffing dog has been found in smears taken from the walls of the German Parliament
according to the German television investigative programme, Akte 2000. John Howard reports.
It seems that every week is collection week for something. Today Aotea College students are collecting donations for the
educational programme "Hugs not Drugs".
The military continues to be faced with internal dissent. While the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit, which led the
takeover of the military barrack in Suva yesterday are on the run, internally the military still seems to be thoroughly
divided.
For Saturn customers Wellington television is off the airwaves. Last weekend Saturn TV stopped airing it own local
channel ONTV and Wellington’s free-to-air Channel 7.
"National deputy 'Dubya' Creech wants Wairarapa voters to figure out what his party stands for now, or so must be the
reason for the survey he has sent Wairarapa voters," concludes Libertarianz spokesman Daniel Charlton. "Instead of ...
SUVA: Loyalist Fiji troops were early today searching bush areas in the suburbs of the capital of Suva for renegade
special force soldiers who failed to kidnap the military commander in yesterday's mutiny in the main barracks.
The National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws today issued a health warning that marijuana sprayed by the
Police with a deadly poison is being sold in Auckland.
An old venue will be opening with a new look and new opportunities thanks to input from local music promotor Stephen
Upton.
16: TV3 News
Taiwan Plane Crash – Fiji – Israel – US Elections – Mums Get Older – Cancer Smears – ACC Decision Outrages – Rankin’s
Earrings – Tua Man
In this edition: Operation Brain Storm
"The Crown Financial Statements to September showing the surplus running at more than twice budget forecasts cap a week
of good economic news," Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
There is a real risk in placing too much trust in the polls, however this week definite and consistent trends suggest
New Zealand is preparing to vote for a new government. Jonathan Hill writes.
ACT Leader, Hon Richard Prebble, said after a three day caucus retreat that ACT had determined to concentrate on ACT
brand issues.
The closure of the Nestle plant in Oamaru was a sad day for the North Otago Town, ACT MP and Otago resident, Gerry
Eckhoff said today.
G. Mintrom, (28/7/99) asks how the "pro-cannabis brigade" propose to grow, harvest, distribute, warehouse, sell & advertise marijauna - and who will profit.
Local theatres say the demise in ticket sales is a global phenomenon, resulting from a lower number of blockbuster hits
this year compared to previous years.
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton says claims that a kiwi bank couldn't make a profit are looking increasingly
desperate after WestpacTrust announced its profit result today.