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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
Kiwi bashing has broken out in Australia in the lead up to Christmas, culminating in the revelation of a new deal
between Canberra and Wellington, under which Kiwis moving to Australia need to meet the standard Australian immigration
criteria to ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Famed "killing fields" combat photographer Al Rockoff says Al Gore lied and snatched his photos
in 1971 during their military service in Vietnam, but revenge was achieved by Rockoff's Florida vote for George W. Bush.
Australia plans to reverse its own brain drain by introducing policies to keep its best and brightest at home and it
will change its immigration policies to become more attractive to bright people from around the world. John Howard
writes.
Judgement in the Communications Trumps - Rural News defamation case was released today with Rural News found liable for
defaming Communications Trumps.
Around 60 people turned up to the inaugural meeting/debate of New Zealand Banking Reform held at Connelly Hall in Hill
St, Wellington, yesterday. Pictures from the evening follow...
Earlier this month, the Guardian newspaper in London openly criticised the position of the British monarchy in the
political and social structure of the United Kingdom. Upon publishing the results of a poll it conducted regarding the
attitude of the ...
Today's Questions concerned: Tertiary Sector Crisis – Australian Welfare Negotiations – LATE Responsibility Changes –
Closing The Gaps – Health Strategy – TVNZ Charter – Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement - Closing The Gaps And Jim Anderton
– US Lamb Tariffs ...
1. DAVID BENSON-POPE to the Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education): What advice has he received on reform
of the tertiary education sector?
Prime Minister Helen Clark said tonight that a New Zealand Press Association report alleging that New Zealanders will
no longer get automatic residency in Australia is completely and utterly false.
Auckland, 11 December– For many employers traditional time off for staff to attend to Christmas shopping may run longer
than they had bargained on this year, as workers surf the web searching for gifts from the office PC.
Prime Minister Helen Clark says she doesn’t use the phrase “Closing the Gaps” anymore, because of the baggage that has
become associated with it.
Explanatory Note: Two of the speakers at this meeting Deidre Kent and Finlay Thompson have been columnists for Scoop
since June writing the Eco-Economy column, earlier they formed New Zealand Banking Reform, a group calling for reform of
the financial ...
Cabinet has agreed in principle to across-the-board pay increases for the military, Defence minister Mark Burton said
today.
Split Enz¹ legendary first album, ŒMental Notes¹ has been voted the number one New Zealand album of all time, in the
inaugural Rip It Up NZ Top 100 Album Countdown.
Latest box office figures from the US show the New Zealand-made film Vertical Limit has just been pipped at the post for
first place by Dr Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Latest box office figures from the US show the New Zealand-made film Vertical Limit, starring Aoraki Mt Cook (pictured
above) has just been pipped at the post for first place by Dr Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Shannon Pakura is to be Child, Youth and Family’s new chief social worker. Ms Pakura, 45, will take over from Mike
Doolan when he retires from the role in February next year. The department’s chief executive Jackie Brown says: “Shannon
will bring a wealth ...
“You guys looked just like a couple of Elvises,” he said. If I’d been feeling pedantic I would have corrected him - the
correct plural of Elvis is, of course, Elvi .
The release of the wholly made in New Zealand film "Vertical Limits" has been an instant success topping the US weekend
box office receipts in grossing $5.01 million. It knocked Dr Suess - the Grinch Who Stole Christmas into second place at
...
The superstitious among us say things come in threes, so I wonder if Al Gore is at home in the VP mansion listening to
his Van Morrison collection, trying to choose a soundtrack for his concession speech. Russell Crowe and Don Johnson both
searched ...