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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Photos taken by Chloe Heffernan at the Auckland Museum Sunday - a prayer (written by a Christian, Muslim and Jew ) was
offered at the Palestine (West wall) and to the beat of a drum (from Hebron in Palestine) those present walked to an
olive tree ...
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc. applied to the Film and Literature Board of Review on May 7,
2002, for an interim restriction order to be imposed on the R18 film “Bully” which was screening as part of the Beck’s
Incredible ...
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 ...
A desperate phone-call to the Parliamentary Electoral Office by outcast Reliance leader Jim ‘Jim’ Anderton has increased
concerns for his safety as his whereabouts remain unknown this evening.
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: When did she or her staff become aware that there was no Crown Law Office
opinion reportedly clearing her of art fraud, and what actions did she or her staff take when they found out?
Today’s questions concerned: Crown Law Paintergate Opinion – Workforce Skills – Maori Television Service (MTS) – Time
Limited Benefits – SSC Report On MTS – Racism And Drug Prosecutions – Teacher Pay Negotiations – Mental Health Blueprint
Report ...
Fears that used car importers would be forced out of business by new frontal impact rules have proved to be completely
groundless, based on a near-record 11,929 used cars imported in April, the first month that the new standard came into
operation.
The following useful set of precis and links highlights publications which shed useful light on questions raised by
recent revelations that the White House was warned in August last year about Al Qaeda hijacking plans.
These reports are fundamentally flawed because the investigators were told by Millennium People (MPL) that MPL held
relevant information of a written and verbal nature which it was likely they had not received. However, Ernst & Young did not speak to ...
EU SUPPRESSES STUDY SHOWING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS ADD HIGH COSTS FOR ALL FARMERS AND THREATEN ORGANIC
The State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, announced today the appointment of Simon Murdoch as Chief
Executive and Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr Murdoch is presently New Zealand's High
Commissioner to Australia, ...
The Government should have consulted with the Opposition before making such a significant reappointment as the head of
the Serious Fraud Office so close to an election, says National Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
A report released today indicates that the marginal cost of electricity generation is about 5 cents a standard unit.
First, the good news. Dr Cullen has adopted ACT's policy of a 19.5% tax rate for business. The new rate is in the
Taxation (Annual Rates, Maori Organisations, Taxpayer Compliance and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill introduced to
Parliament last week ...
The South Island, or should I say Christchurch, is once again in the grip of rugby fever. The Super 12 final is less
than four days away and Christchurch is hosting the final for the first time. The only other New Zealand side in the
semi finals ...
Labour has reached an all time low when it actually puts its own members in prison for trying to attend the Party
conference. However at this weekend’s Labour conference this is exactly what happened.
Millennium People director Wayne Ball said today, the company was pleased to have been vindicated by the State Services
Commission report which investigated a) the engagement process for Millennium People Ltd to provide recruitment services
to the ...
Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton says he expects to have a role in a future Labour-led government, despite intimations
at the weekend’s Labour Party congress that the senior coalition partner could govern alone.
In an article entitled “Film festival censorship simply fascist”, Scott Wilson, Spokesman on Free Speech for the
Libertarianz Party, bemoans “the banning” of the films Visitor Q, Baise Moi, and Bully, calling it “a jackbooted attempt
by book-burning busybodies ...
"According to newly released 2001 Census figures from Statistics New Zealand, the unemployment rate on Census night was
8.4%" says Lindsay Mitchell, Libertarianz spokesman for the deregulation of welfare.
Is Arafat a terrorist or simply a powerless politician who has no control over the 9 Palestinian terrorist groups on an
international list of 17 terrorist organizations? If indeed he has no power to reign in suicide killers, why keep a
powerless leader ...
The State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, announced today the reappointment of Mr David Bradshaw as the
Chief Executive and Director of the Serious Fraud Office for a further term of five years.
Good story; but what has long, to me, been more surprising in the light of the considerable ( and entirely justified)
publicity given to East Timor, is that the even more blatant and longstanding Indonesian grab of West Irian has almost
no opposing champions at ...
The Chairman of the Maori Television Service, Derek Fox, today welcomed reports from accounting firm Ernst & Young and the State Services Commission dealing with the performance of former CEO John Davy and executive recruitment
firm Millenium ...
Not since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 has a sitting or former U.S. president visited the island of Cuba. However,
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, with a personal invitation from Cuban President Fidel Castro, has made a five-day
visit to the island ...
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 ...
International Paper (IP) has selected Oxygen Business Solutions to implement SAP enterprise software throughout four
beverage packing businesses located in China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and in the IP Asia Head Office in Hong Kong.
ACT leader Richard Prebble says his party strongly opposes the government's proposal that Maori authorities and trusts
pay only 19.5 percent tax, rather than the 33 percent rate that applies to all other businesses and trusts.
This was the text of the leaflet I wasn't allowed to take into the Labour conference:
"Only yesterday I questioned Steve Maharey's competency in handling the huge problem that welfare has become for this
country," says Lindsay Mitchell, petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB.