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Scoop Ratings - Weekend Top 20
Scoop's top 20 rating items at the weekend were...
1:
Five
Steps Ahead Policy Launch
The Government's Five Steps Ahead programme will be launched simultaneously in five centres on August 18, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford announced today.
2:
Death
Penalty For Samoan Assassin
A 34 year old Samoan man has been sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to the murder of Public Works Minister Luagalau Levaula Kamu.
3:
SCP
Ratings: The Week's Top 20
Scoops
The top rating items for the week ending August 6 on the Scoop Website were…
4:
The
Sporting Scoop - Rugby And
Cricket
From Pretoria to Old Trafford, a look at some of the weekend's sporting action.
5:
Tough
Drug Laws 'No Deterrent'
Tough anti-cannabis laws fail to deter most offenders from using the drug again and can often have serious long-term social costs, including relationship breakdowns and loss of employment, a study has found.
6:
Soapbox:
The Cancer Of Ideas
Matthew Thomas finds that the evolutionary theory of memes, or `viruses of the mind', can be used to explain recent media coverage of cancer treatments.
7:
Speech:
Shanghai Nation Relief Foundation
Dinner
It is a great privilege and an honour for me to be here tonight to address you and to further develop the excellent relations that exist between the People's Republic of China and New Zealand.
8:
Students
See Debt As Key Election Issue
Students from the seven Tertiary Institutes in Christchurch and Otago gathered yesterday to form DEBTiE - Determined to Elect Better Tertiary Education. DEBTiE aims to campaign in the lead up to the General Election against the oppressive tertiary policies which ...
9:
Delamere
Sucks Up To Tyrants
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath says his stomach churned as he read the speech given by John Delamare in China last night. "I am disgusted to find a representative of our semi-free country offering moral support to the bloodthirsty ...
10:
Greens
ask board which genes added to
cows
The Dairy Board must give more public detail of its big shift towards genetic engineering, including whether human genes are to be added to cows, Green Party Agriculture Spokesperson Ian Ewen-Street said today.
11:
Kevin
Roberts: Take Tonga to the world
I love the idea of the Kingdom of Tonga. A unique, proud and independent nation, the only Monarchy left in the Pacific. It has never been colonised. It is bound together by an inspiring Christian faith and a strong church. And it produces incredible rugby ...
12:
The
Sporting Scoop: Brits Hope For
Rain
Ian Little, an unrepentant British sports fan, reports on the second day of the third test with G and T in hand and the TV turned on.
13:
Censor
Censured Over R-16 For South
Park
"It this is Bill Hastings's image of New Zealand the way he wants it, he can get himself another job. New Zealanders are not interested in promoting the pornographic perversity and incessant obscenities and blasphemies contained, in what must be, ...
14:
Knife
Wielding Man Seriously Injured
A knife wielding man shot by Police in Greenhithe near Auckland is in a serious condition at North Shore Hospital.
Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
16:
Improving
Young Men's Sexual Health
"The Ministry of Youth Affairs will investigate publicising child support payment obligations as a way to make young men sit up and take notice of the safe sex message", Youth Affairs Minister, Tony Ryall, said today.
17:
Tax
Debate Puts Middle NZ On Horns Of Dilemma
Struggling middle income New Zealanders are genuinely scared a Labour/Alliance government will raise their taxes, says United New Zealand leader, Hon Peter Dunne.
New Zealand's wool industry will better understand the value-adding chain, extending from the sheep to the consumer, if the aims of a new Wool Research Organisation project are achieved.
19:
Reject
The Reptiles, Says Libertarianz
Deputy
Confidence in democratic government has crashed, according to ongoing research by the New Zealand Study of Values. "The electorate is beginning to awaken," said Libertarianz Deputy Leader Dr Richard McGrath yesterday." They are beginning ...
20:
Irradiation
- Is it Safe And Do We Need
It?
Scoop's Jonathan Hill takes a look at the pros and cons of the decision to allow irradiated foods into New Zealand and asks what it means for our nuclear-free stance.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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