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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune are all lining up from east to west in a celestial curve in our
daytime sky – unfortunately for New Zealanders they all except for Jupiter sneak over the western horizon as night
falls. The celestial ...
I have joined the ranks of the conspiracy theorists. Evidence of the conspiracy of which I speak is incontrovertible & irresistible. It is the conspiracy of the bland, the touchy-feely & the shades of gray.
A rose by any other name is still a rose. A syndicate, by any other name, may just be a consortium.
1. RODNEY HIDE to the Minister of Defence: Did selling the 4.03 hectares of land at Hobsonville Airbase for $465,000
plus GST maximise the return to the taxpayer and can he assure us that the current owner of this land has not profited
to the ...
Economic development minister Jim Anderton is concerned that ACT Party MP Rodney Hide is attacking business and
investment for political gain.
Young Nationals today released another chapter in the "Paintergate" saga having unearthed more "Helen Clark pictures."
What’s it like to be a man? No really, what is it like? Short of putting one into therapy for 10 years and extracting
marrow from bone we may never know. Not because we don’t want to or because men are aliens but because men don’t seem to
know themselves.
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
My heart bleeds when I read the newspapers and articles on the internet nowadays. All over the world people are
accusing Israel, the country I live in currently, of being “the most vile, terrorist-laden, diabolical and fascist state
ever created ...
Conservation Minister Sandra Lee, commenting from an international conservation conference at The Hague, said she was
"astounded" at Green MP Ian Ewen-Street's attack on New Zealand's launch of an Island Alien Species Initiative.
Today’s questions concerned: Coalition Stability – Income Tax Cuts – PM’s Art Controversy (1)- Local Govt Bill And The
Treaty – Zimbabwe - – PM’s Art Controversy (2) – Internet Support For Principals - Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill
- Overseas Investment ...
Today’s questions concerned: Sovereign Yachts (1) – Middle East - Sovereign Yachts (2) - Tourism Strategy 2010 –
Teachers’ Strike - Maori Land Court – Waka Jumping – US Free Trade Deal – Prisoners Understanding Of The Law - Resource
Management Act ...
Welcoming a high water mark of selections of young candidates for the 2002 General Election, Young Labour President
Jordan Carter today firmly rejected suggestions by Paul Foster (National's Dunedin South candidate) that Labour has, in
his words, ...
Or perhaps I should say, "Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal that's waiting to happen?" Because it
has been almost unreported in the Western media that the US government shipped - and continues to ship - millions of
Islamist (that's ...
"Monotony" is the name of the new designer drug that is sweeping through New Zealand. We were able to interview a former
addict, on the condition we did not identify him- we told DR Don Brash that this was fine by us.
"This is because the Electoral Commission has used the constituency quota to the limit, to keep electoral boundaries
unchanged," Mr Prebble said.
The “loneliness of the long distance runner” syndrome is a prescription for an early drop-off of involvement in fitness
programmes, according to Lincoln University doctoral researcher Kim Sinclair.
The Prime Minister, in response to a question in the House (16 April) asking "Why does she think that accusing every
other MP of art forgery will make her own less deceitful than it was?" responded with "I am making no such allegation
...
When trying to analyze the middle-east conflict one encounters the same pictures and words over and over again.
"Terrorism" cry the frustrated and frightened Israelis, "occupation" say angry Palestinians raising their clenched
fists. ...
Like any good Catholic boy, I love funerals. The hats, the flowers, the clenched jaws, and the creeping realisation
you’ll eventually die yourself it’s all good. Add the fabulously dysfunctional Royal Family farewelling their
gin-swilling queen ...
Peaceful Elections Favour Gusmao - East Timor is set to become the first country to come into existence in the new
millennium when the UN's transitional authority hands over power on 20 May to a democratically elected government. With
virtually ...
Monday 8 April 11.30 pm The Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, recently endorsed a Japanese film called Visitor Q on Auckland
University student radio - Radio 95 bFM. It contains graphic depictions of necrophilia (sex with a female corpse) in
association with ...
A funeral service was held at the New Zealand Battalion headquarters in Suai yesterday afternoon to farewell Private
Peadar Flaherty, an Irish soldier serving with the Battalion in East Timor.
The doubling of the number of work stoppages last year, is a matter of concern, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
Following today’s announcement of the final electorate boundaries for this year’s general election, Laila Harré has
confirmed that she will be seeking the Alliance nomination for the new West Auckland electorate of Waitakere.
I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry.
(Outraged?) Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the "brutal repression of the
Palestinians"; ...
MARIA is an exhibition of the sculptural sacred artwork of Italian artist Guido Dettoni della Grazia. After visiting
several cathedrals and churches in Europe, since January 2002 it has been permanently installed in the 16th Century
Church of Santa Maria ...
"Claims in Parliament yesterday by the Finance Minister that tax reductions are not good for growth are blatantly
wrong," says National Finance spokesman David Carter.
Break open your piggy banks because it is nearly film festival time, when the incredibly strange, wonderfully weird and
R-rated sex films are shown to film buffs. But this year is a little different. Public standards watchdog, the Society
for the Promotion ...
A Waikato man with Parkinson’s disease who completed the Flora London Marathon on Sunday says it was a dream come true
and hopes it will raise awareness of Parkinson’s in New Zealand. ‘It was the best yet, I couldn’t believe it, it was sad
to finish’ ...