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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... 20 years ago, when I was a cub reporter, a bunch of us were shown around the local Air Force
base, in a tour which took in a couple of Skyhawks. They were the pride of the force. "But aren't they just expensive
tokenism?" asked ...
I woke up 3 times in the middle of the night just to be sure I would not miss my train. After all, there was no way in
heck I was going to miss the Lord of the Rings press footage and a chance to talk with the cast members.
Its official! "Paid Parental Leave takes effect from April 1 2002, and Laila Harre tells us she is already corresponding
with women who want to know when they should get pregnant," says a horrified Lindsay Mitchell, Libertarianz Spokesman.
...
Reaction to the Public Relations Institute decision on the professional conduct of Klaus Sorensen and Rob McGregor of
Shandwick New Zealand Ltd in the Timberlands PR campaign
"You are what you eat" has been the catch-cry of some health professionals for decades. But now, more and more
scientists are saying that we all need to know more about the food we eat because some foods can effect behaviour and we
could be ...
Why do politicians, welfare agencies and social advocacy groups stubbornly continue to ignore the devastating effects of
the Domestic Purposes Benefit? Barnados made a startling claim last week that 284,266 New Zealand children are living in
households ...
Today is Mother’s Day, and the message that Helen Clark has sent to every mother in the country is plain and simple:
have daughters, or else.
Researchers in the US have discovered bacteria in soil and groundwater beneath farms are acquiring genes from bacteria
originating in pigs' guts, they fear this could provide a route for potentially dangerous bugs to reach people and the
wider environment.
Here is the first installment of our cast interviews. These interviews were conducted in a round table format with about
9 other reporters, including Harry from AintitCool. While my analog tape of this interview turned out pretty poor, I'm
hopeful Harry ...
Auckland: 11 May 2001 – News that Telecom’s xtra.co.nz portal is to combine with Microsoft’s msn.com portal heralds a
new super-heavyweight in the New Zealand internet space, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Trying to make sense of California's energy 'crisis' is like putting your hand in a bucket of eels. Just when you think
you've got hold of something substantial to hang onto it slips away.
ARENA (Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) has organised Wellington and Christchurch public meetings on
the proposed New Zealand - Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement.
The range of possible solutions to Auckland's passenger transportation dilemma has expanded with the introduction of an
innovative new system known as SkyCabs.
I've Sniffed Your Flowers, I've Eaten Your Chocolates. Now I Want Some Commitment.
Weber Shandwick Worldwide, New Zealand, is pleased to have been vindicated for the communications work carried out on
behalf of State Owned Enterprise, Timberlands West Coast Ltd. This comes some 18 months after ethics complaints were
laid against ...
* JOHN B. FAIRFAX, head of Rural Press, says the group's regional publications are finding sales difficult to attain in
softened economic times. He says earnings could be 10 per cent down in the second half of the financial year. This
announcement came ...
Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré and Minister of Finance Michael Cullen clarify timetable for finalising Paid
Parental Leave details.
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. This time the furry fellow with a flair for photography has produced another - never seen
before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing it in the sun, before it was burned down. It looks like it was a
tranquil and magical ...
The folding of Wellington magazine Loop this week is a 'travesty' says the chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi
Worldwide.
Green Party Veterans Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke today rejected the British Defence Minister's claims that soldiers
consented to being exposed to nuclear test fallout in the early 1950s.
Finally a NZ web-site dedicated to classical music on CD opens in New Zealand.
Global Issues – New Challenges, New Approaches (SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – WELLINGTON CLUB, WELLINGTON)
Nuclear Experiments – Graham Parry – Ambulance Self Defence – Southern Flights – Murder Charge – Italian Elections – Oz
Immigrant Riots – Macedonian Elections – Dash-8 – Chubb Robbery – Youth Drug Centre – Sleepy Drivers – Marlborough Rain
– Northland ...
United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne, is warning the Government against rushing its proposed parental leave scheme,
saying a rushed scheme will inevitably be a botched scheme.
ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley is drafting a private members’ bill which would put mechanisms in place for a referendum
into race-based seats in both local government and central government.
The entire country faces longer waiting lists, cuts in services, and threats to quality and safety because of
significant widespread cuts in health funding, National's Health spokesperson Roger Sowry said today.
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 ...
"Deliberate police action to choke the supply of a popular consumer item has only served to make it more scarce and
drive prices up," said Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath, noting a recent incident where Lower Hutt police stole
hydroponic ...
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.
The Government will legislate to clarify the pre-1999 application of gst to services contracted for outside New Zealand
by non-New Zealand residents but consumed here.