The Top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were…
A book launched today using a package of documents from Timberlands’ West Coast’s public relations company may prove
damaging to the government, especially the Prime Minister.
The Crown issued legal proceedings today against IBM NZ and IBM Corporation in relation to the INCIS contract, Finance
Minister Sir William Birch announced today.
I delivered it in Manila. What an amazing experience to be in the Philippines! Typhoons and the 50th anniversary of Ace
Saatchi & Saatchi. The Philippines business community were an optimistic and receptive audience for the speech, and the media
were buzzing ...
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath is neither impressed nor surprised by Jenny Shipley's decision to subsidise
Plunketline from the public trough.
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley needs to explain why she and staff in her office supported and assisted Timberlands’
politically-motivated multi-million dollar anti-environmental PR campaign but in response to a question in Parliament in
July denied there had ...
Scoop is heading for a very high rating day today - the top 20 so far - 2.30pm today...
Apart from the events of this morning on National Radio, Timberlands West Coast Ltd has not read and does not know the
content of Nicky Hager’s book and, therefore, cannot comment on its accuracy or sentiments.
A poll of the Coromandel electorate, a seat held at present by National MP Murray McLean, shows Green Party Co-Leader
Jeanette Fitzsimons ahead.
The main priority of the Timberlands public relations campaign was to “neutralise” the effect of the environmental
groups that threatened its logging plans. The book Secrets and Lies, released today, reveals the anti-environmental
agenda behind Timberlands’ ...
Nicky Hager is best known in New Zealand for his role as a researcher and critic on public issues such as nuclear and
military policy and intelligence. However his main work, for the last decade, has been as a writer. In 1998 he was
judged fourth ...
For the last year the primary target of Timberlands’ PR campaign has been the Labour Party, owing to management fears
that a change of government in November would lead to its native forest logging being stopped. The new book, Secrets and
Lies, shows ...
The Green Party is calling on State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall to initiate an investigation into Timberlands
following accusations made today by author Nicky Hager in his new book Secrets and Lies.
A cynical campaign of deceit and manipulation of public opinion, conducted on behalf of and funded by a state owned
enterprise, is exposed in a new book published today.
Minister of Youth Affairs, Tony Ryall, said today that he was disappointed at Labour's pledge to review New Zealand's
cannabis laws.
Leaked public relations documents show Timberlands West Coast manipulated West Coast people to drum up local support for
its native forest logging plans. Through creating a front-group and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on local
sponsorship ...
Since I was elected in 1978, Parliament has been evolving rapidly. At that time it was very much under the control of
the Minister in charge of the Legislative Department, usually the Prime Minister. So much so that one of my predecessors
had to go to the ...
Native Forest Action is shocked by the revelations in Secrets and Lies by Nicky Hager and Bob Burton, and says that
Timberlands has lost all right to have control of public native forests.
Already over 40 cases of the disease have been reported this year compared to a total of 80 over the past five years.
In the Auckland High Court last week it was revealed that since 1969 heel-prick blood samples have been taken at birth
from all babies and stored without informed consent. John Howard speculates on a hypothetical example of just what
identification ...
A long and costly court battle can be expected following the Government's decision to initiate legal proceedings against
IBM over the collapsed INCIS contract, Labour police spokesperson George Hawkins said today.