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Yesterday’s top 29 rating items on Scoop were…
A Landcare Research ecologist and a South African botany professor have used emus and ostriches to show that New Zealand
native plants have adapted to protect themselves from the ravages of hungry moa. Their findings could have significant
conservation ...
Jenny Shipley's Electoral Options Referenda Bill has been drawn from the private members' ballot. Tilting at windmills,
Mrs Shipley wants, or claims to want, "the people" to decide whether to fix an electoral system that ain't broke.
Certainly ...
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says Helen Clark has run out of excuses to avoid talking about her key
role in the sham merger of the Department of Work and Income and the Ministry of Social Policy.
The ACT Party believes the real reason the Prime Minister is refusing to answer questions on the merger of WINZ and the
Ministry of Social Policy - and other Ministers are covering up for her - is because it’s the Prime Minister who ordered
that Mrs ...
Like a cornered racoon, my new pen pal, libertarian Michael Gordge, accused me of being Sludge, took me for a dirty
communist, set me straight on a thing or two about libertarianism, and asked me to come out and fight like a man.
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Was she made aware of the Minister of Finance's concerns about exceeding the
fiscal cap at the time of the December Economic and Fiscal Update; if so, did she advise him to keep that information
from the rest ...
The theatrical trailer for the year’s most-anticipated family film - “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” will make its cinema screen debut in New Zealand for the first time on Thursday, April 5.
Today's questions of the day concerned: Budget Blow Out – Sealord Fishing Boats – Ross Armstrong And TVNZ News –
Unemployment – Air Force Redundancies – Thermal Power Stations – Army Air Combat Training – Indonesia – DHB Budgets – NZ
Music – ...
The folding of Wellington magazine Loop this week is a 'travesty' says the chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi
Worldwide.
Today's questions of the day concerned: National’s Tertiary Education Policy – Budget Blow Out – Business Incubators -
Budget Blow Out – Child Abuse Reporting By GPs – Air Combat Training For Army – Maori Health - Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Judge? – New Plymouth ...
Sludge has long been a critic of the Treaty Settlement programme. Not because it is “separatist” or “racist” as critics
from the right currently damning moves in the Bay of Plenty to establish Maori council seats would assert, but because
it is ...
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters, today applauded the efforts of entertainer Gary McCormick for standing
up to the Wellington Towing Company which removed and impounded his car recently, following an unfortunate mechanical
breakdown on a busy ...
“After two years of extensive review, the Resource Management Amendment Bill fails to deliver what it promised”, says
Chapman Tripp environmental lawyer John Hassan.
The Mild Green faction of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is losing patience with unaccounted delays in NZ’s
promised cannabis law review. They say the Labour-led government is courting punishment in the polls for chickening out
on the marijuana ...
Overall Excellence in the Use of IT category -Scoop!!!!! - South Auckland Health - Yakka Apparel Solutions Ltd
It is my sad duty to offer the sincerest apologies of the New Zealand Young Nationals for our Country's disgraceful lack
of commitment to regional security.
"The Corrective Party today confirmed its suspicions about who or what is sponsoring the Christian Haemorrhoids when we
noted that the party in question attacked Pizza Hut, a fast-food brand." Sister Vomitoria SM, diet nun, today revealed.
Depending on which Supercomputer weather model you look at, rain presently headed south over the country, may bring a
few more precious millimetres of rain to the South Island’s parched East Coast. Or it might not. Meanwhile Auckland and
most of ...
Green Transport Spokesperson and former Wellington City Councillor Sue Kedgley today welcomed the release of an
independent review of the proposed inner-city 'bypass' and called on the Government to put the $25 million cost of this
project into public ...
The Prime Minister has misled New Zealanders in an attempt to justify why she is scrapping New Zealand's air-strike
capability, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
Prime Minister Helen Clark is spinning misleading banter to the public about the reasons behind her government stripping
down our air force and navy, National's Defence spokesman Max Bradford said today
Unemployment Down – Stadium Stampede – TVNZ Comments – Wine Raves - Tyler Stevens Trial – Northland Flooding – Hit And
Run – Stabbing – Stock Exchange Membership – Maori health – Cheating Charges – Gaza Violence – FBI List
Once again the Coalition Government has put a spin on its announcements - this time trying to dupe New Zealanders into
believing that it is increasing defence spending, ACT Defence Spokesman Owen Jennings said today.
Central Government should not be forcing racially based representation on local and regional councils.
Breaking News Mumia Abu-Jamal Developments are moving quickly. There's a summary and links below. Please forward this
email!!! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society welcomes many of the changes to the Resource Management Act Bill made by a
select committee. Provisions in the original Bill were widely opposed by environmental and community organisations.
I am honoured to host this function, which has brought the entire board of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu back to Parliament
for the first time since the settlement of the Ngai Tahu Claim.
Party Leader Graham Capill is calling on the public to boycott Pizza Hut after their sponsorship of the R18 show, Big
Brother, last night on TV2.
30: Defence Spending
Increased spending on defence over the next ten years is so high that it will need to be reviewed by a future
government, Alliance leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton said today.