The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend were...
In the aftermath of the failure of the Police's Incis computer project, Matthew Thomas points out that it would actually
have been a miracle if the project had succeeded.
The controversy over the attendance of 60 New Zealand Defence personnel at a "Masters of Business" seminar in Auckland
featuring Mikhail Gorbachev and Stormin Norm "Desert Storm" Swartzkopf contains some sweet irony.
In a speech titled Good Policy Good Government today, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley announced two changes to the student
loan scheme. The extract of her speech outlining these changes follows.
Like it or not, higher costs across the board will be the likely outcome of the rise in petrol prices by an average 9c
a litre within the last month. John Howard reports.
On Monday, Simon Upton, in a Herald opinion piece defending the post-reform public service culture, noted: "If there is
a criticism that can be made it is that ministers" have "underemphasised . the Crown's ownership interests".
The Department of Internal Affairs has hit back at the National Business Review over a "mischevious piece of writing"
concerning some restructuring within the Department.
Scoop would like to be a fly on the wall at tomorrow's (Friday) meeting in Wellington between representatives of Radio
New Zealand's board and its staff.
Article republished with the kind permission of Lava magazine...
The Prime Minister's talk of changes to the student loan scheme today surprised a few people. Here is a fact sheet on
the loan scheme - from the PMs office - which also documents the changes that were decided upon in December 1998.
The top 20 rating items on Scoop this week were...
Advertisements attacking the Alliance and Labour in Sunday newspapers are paid for by the National Party, Alliance
leader Jim Anderton says.
Australian Democrats yesterday backed down over the republic referendum question, leaving voters with the prospect of
choosing between the present constitutional monarchy, or a republic that few favour - a politicians' republic. Scoop's
Simon Orme reports.
John Howard reports on a breaking news story that new experiments in the US could destroy the Earth.
The scheduled killings of eight people in the USA and Philippines during the next seven days are linked by a deadly
connection extending beyond the calculated cruelty of executions and their affront to human dignity, Amnesty
International said today.
The new helicopter, which will operate from the New Zealand Navy's two new ANZAC frigates and the Leander class frigate
HMNZS Canterbury, will be provided under a contract to be valued at an estimated $30 million, including spares, support
equipment ...
The top 20 rating items on Scoop today are...
"The Green Party co-leader Rod Donald has fabricated the truth and got it wrong again", Defence Minister Max Bradford
said today.
"The much-hyped "Five Steps" programme the Government will announce on Wednesday is National's seventh desperate
attempt to re-launch itself since Jenny Shipley took over as Prime Minister and will flop just like all the others did,"
...
It sometimes seems much longer, but tomorrow marks a year since the fateful Cabinet meeting that sparked the end of the
Coalition and the beginning of Minority Government.
Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald said today he would not be apologising to Defence Minister Max Bradford after revealing
that taxpayer money was wasted on a glitzy conference.