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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Cannabis should be legalised for medical use if - and only if - there are compelling arguments put forward by the
medical and scientific communities.
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
A One News-Colmar Brunton poll now records Labour leading national in the popularity stakes. Labour has gained five
points to 44 percent and National has dropped three points to settle on 40 percent.
African Union: Member states should urge Nigeria to surrender Charles Taylor to the Special Court on Sierra Leone
There are four oil fields in the world which produce over one million barrels per day. Ghawar, which produces 4.5
million barrels per day, Cantarell in Mexico, which produces nearly 2 million barrels per day, Burgan in Kuwait which
produces 1 million ...
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand
goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters
Aragorn and Arwen.
A photo essay from the Welfare Symposium held by ACT Deputy Leader Muriel Newman in the Beehive Theatrette on Saturday.
The One News Colmar Brunton poll will have been the one that Labour was sweating on. Through some vagary of polling
method, it is traditionally the unkindest poll for the centre-left. It was also the poll that confirmed the Brash
backlash earlier ...
Zev Barkan the suspected Israeli Mossad agent on the run from New Zealand Police has been sighted in North Korea,
according to an Asian-based NGO closely linked to New Zealand intelligence networks.
Racing is underway for the entire New Zealand sailing team at the Olympic Games in Athens. Seasoned Olympic medallist
Barbara Kendall won her first race and sits in 3rd place after her first day of sailing.
In a few weeks I will be heading off to get married. People will travel great distances to see us. People we see every
day and people we don't see for years will be there.
Green MP Nandor Tanczos says the doubling of hospitalisations of 10 to 14-year-olds for alcohol poisoning is very
distressing but insists the blame does not rest with 18 and 19-year-olds.
The chief social role of business is to produce the goods and services that people need in their daily lives. By making
better and cheaper products, and creating new ones, firms raise living standards and countries grow richer. Business is
the wealth-creating ...
Commentators keep insisting the world is running out of oil but oil would have to reach US $100 a barrel to be at the
peak price of the 1970s’ oil crisis. And while we’re debunking stories we are reminded that David Bellamy has written
that it is ...
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today warned Maori throughout the country that, while Maori are
wailing about foreshore they've never owned, Labour is preparing to steal their riverbanks.
I've been interviewing all of the candidates from the local Sheriff to the national candidates on my television show,
The Norma Sherry Show. On August 6th, my guest was Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for president.
The Drug Foundation welcomes the second chance Parliament has to return the drinking age to 20.
Emirates is moving up a gear in Christchurch ? from tomorrow (Tuesday) the Dubai-based international airline doubles the
frequency of its services from the South Island gateway.
Green MP Metiria Turei today slammed the Government's plan to ignore the provinces when hearing submissions on the
Foreshore and Seabed Bill.
In the autumn of 1999 Dick Cheney expressed concern that in the coming years world demand for oil was projected to rise
at the rate of 2% per annum:
Telecom has agreed with ihug and Orcon to take part in a one month trial of Telecom’s Unbundled Bitstream Service
(UBS), which will be commercially launched in mid September.
At first I thought the $16,395 ($14,573.33 plus GST) Polaris Ranger TM was neither fish, flesh nor fowl. It's clearly
not an ATV as we know it. Equally clearly it's not a normal ute. But it combines some of the more useful attributes of
both, as ...
Microsoft New Zealand today confirmed that Windows(r) XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies has been
released to manufacturing over the weekend. The easiest way for most customers to ensure they receive Windows XP Service
Pack 2 is through ...
Wow! What other word can be used to describe the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens? Is it just me, or was the final
part of the ceremony very sort of clitoral-vulvic, if not downright G-spot?
Much of my job in Parliament revolves around the passing of laws that curb extreme human nature. In the case of those
who desecrated the Jewish gravestones in Wellington, their humanity is debateable.
Muriel Newman Speech to Symposium on Welfare Reform; Saturday August 14, 2004; Beehive Theatre, Wellington
Ewa Jasiewicz, Journalist and human rights activist from Great Britain has been barred from entering Israel and was
detained yesterday at Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport by security authorities. An injunction on her deportation was
obtained and a judge ...
Rod Stewart – One Night Only at the Mission Estate Winery Concert – It’s All Rod and It’s All Night!
Independent commissioners today waved a yellow flag at the Auckland V8 International resource consent hearing when they
called for more information from the applicants.
One year ago today, the lights went out. Even when the Big Blackout ended, the power pirates who have us by the bulbs
kept us in the dark, fibbing, fabricating and faking their way through a series of bogus excuses for a disaster created
by greed overload.
ENDS