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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
1. Hon KEN SHIRLEY to the Minister of Conservation: How does she explain her rejection of GRD Macraes Limited mining
expansion near Reefton when neither she nor her department appealed the resource consents that were granted after an
extensive process of hearings ...
Land Rover New Zealand announced today the restructuring of its Auckland distribution network. Following the closure of
Rover City in Parnell, a new site is being developed and will open mid-September.
The following images were taken at last night’s debate on banking at the Victoria University Memorial Theatre attended
by around 300 interested members of the public including a party of seventh form economics students.
Speaking at a luncheon for Guys With More Money Than God, Curdled called for the current calendar system, last reformed
by Gregory XIII in the sixteenth century, to be abolished, and a system introduced that numbered the days of the year in
chronological ...
The Government has no desire to get involved in Air New Zealand’s commercial affairs, Prime Minister Helen Clark says.
It is as if the biggest kid on the block has told the police to back off in an increasingly brutal street fight – but
wishes to somehow assert that it is not itself taking sides.
"Damien O'Connor supports the job-destroying Resource Management Act, and the people of the West Coast should throw him
off their protest march," suggested Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath today.
Today's questions of the day concerned: Gold Mine (Sandra Lee) – Regional Employment – Gold Mine (PM) – Sri-Lankan
Dairy Export Glitch – Gold Mine (Lee) – New Principals – Gold Mine (Anderton) – ACC Levies – Defence Policy – People’s
Bank Promotion Row ...
Hey Sister! today announced it has signed Big Brother star Jemma Gawned to be the face of its brand. Jemma, too modest
to shower without lingerie on the “real-time” television programme, was featured wearing a Hey Sister! Polka Dot
lingerie set on ...
New global domain name company www.pdom.com is ensuring celebrity babies Liam Flockhart, Alexandria Bowie, Iris Law,
Paris Brosnan, Homer Gere and Owen Sussman won't miss out on their slice of cyberspace by gifting dot com domain names
to this select group ...
Someone in the Puzzle Palace in Wellington has decided in their wisdom to charge a $200 deposit for candidates putting
themselves up for election to local councils and district health boards. Are the clowns now in charge of the circus?
Maree Howard ...
A public rally will be held in Parliament Grounds tomorrow, Tuesday, 28 August, from 1pm to support Conservation
Minister, Sandra Lee, and her decision not to approve the proposed GRD Macraes' Reefton goldmine. Messages of support
for the Minister ...
Green Party Coromandel MP Jeanette Fitzsimons today said people who believed mining was good for local communities
should take a look at the poverty, deprivation and high unemployment of the mining town Waihi on the Coromandel
Peninsula.
Goldmine Protests – Asylum Seekers – Middle East – Burton Trial – Simpson Trial – Racism Accusation – Card Fraud –
Trampers Safe – New Fish – Immigration Lawyers – East Timor Election – Macedonia – Racism Conference
It is utterly unacceptable that the Prime Minister sat on information regarding the Ella Henry debacle, rather than
requiring her resignation immediately, National Leader Jenny Shipley said today.
New Zealand’s commodity prices are likely to struggle over the next year or more as world growth continues to slow and
the New Zealand dollar regains some momentum, according to Agribiz, WestpacTrust’s quarterly rural publication released
today.
After a week of bad weather, Mt Ruapehu awoke to clear blue skies on Sunday morning and the best snow cover since the
1995 eruptions.
IN THIS EDITION - FIJI COUP SPECIAL: How Do You Negotiate With A Psycopath? - If This Was A Telemovie - We Haven't Yet
Got To The Bottom Of Who Is Behind This! - Conclusions
Scoop readers know that I stand for justice and fairness and that includes for the people where I live in on West
Coast. For a moment, let's forget about mining, logging and the other extractive industries and focus on words like
discrimination, marginalisation, ...
The Mobilization for Global Justice - a broad coalition of social justice, environmental, labor, human rights and
student groups and activists organizing massive demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
(IMF) next month - will unveil ...
* University studies in Europe prove that altered DNA in food eaten by pregnant animals is found in the tissues and
organs of their babies
"True devolution of power to citizens and their communities and an end to coercion against them" is how Libertarianz
leader and Coromandel candidate Peter Cresswell proudly described the positive local government policy proposals in the
Libertarianz ...
“The Human Rights Commission unequivocally condemns any use of violence or threats of violence. There is no place for
them in New Zealand today and they can not ever be condoned or justified” said Chief Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn
Noonan.
Actual daily electricity savings for the past week are shown below. This data shows exactly what the country saved each
day. This data has been seasonally adjusted.
“France’s appeal court’s recent decision establishing a right not to be born, has sent shock waves round the world,”
Graham Capill, Christian Heritage Party Leader, says. “The Nazi ‘master-race’ concept, it would seem, is alive and
well.” he says.
Telecom Mobile is offering its customers a way to survive the long cold winter - the chance to win a dream holiday by
watching a new TV2 reality show with a difference screened on Sundays.
The realisation by government of the strength of feeling amongst New Zealanders against experiments outside the lab has
triggered a stay for the voluntary moratorium and a proposed extension for 2-5 years on commercial growing. After the
ailing biotech ...
Whichever party or candidate wins office can claim to have done so through the means of democracy. Although this may be
welcomed in countries such as New Zealand, whether it is accepted in Fiji is another matter entirely.
New Zealand's leading conservation and environmental organisations today expressed their confidence in Conservation
Minister, Sandra Lee and support for her decision on GRD Macraes' proposed Reefton goldmine.
ARENA (Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) has complained to the Office of the Ombudsmen about the
refusal of Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton to release a copy of the negotiators’ report to Cabinet on the July
2001 negotiations ...