The top 20 rating items on Scoop as of 3.20pm today were…
Taking nothing away from the Wallabies victory - they played very well and the All Blacks poorly - but there are lessons
for World Cup contenders, fans and organisers in the refereeing of tonight's Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney.
Late this week treasurer, Bill English and Act's Rodney Hide came out swinging against the Alliance proposal for a
financial transaction tax to replace GST, calling it "a loopy and failed idea." But the international community is
presently ...
The Alliance has revealed that banks are charging customers $15 if they exceed their EFTPOS limit rather than declining
their transactions and says that Banks should display bank charges at the point of sale. A new system has been installed
that instead ...
The Green Party is one of the first parliamentary parties to issue its complete party-list of candidates for this year's
general election.
With five sitting days till the house rises the Beehive's best and brightest are engaged in a game they became well
accustomed to last year as the government sat on a knife edge- counting the numbers.
Speaking at the annual ECO conference held over the weekend, the Minister of Conservation, Dr Nick Smith confirmed that
the government plans to privatise Timberlands West Coast Ltd - with the feeble reassurance that this wouldn't happen
"before the election".
His tale reads like a scene out of the Frederick Forsyth book "The ODESSA File". But while what you read here is clock
and dagger, it is not fiction. Published on Scoop for the first time in New Zealand is Jaggi Singh's account of what
Canada's ...
"I am very disappointed at Green MP Rod Donald's interpretation of the New Zealand Lotteries Commission's work"
Presiding Member Geoff Thompson said in response to criticism of the salary paid to the Lotteries Commission Chief
Executive.
Allegations of blackmail and espionage at Wellington City Council? Sounds ridiculous, perhaps, but there appears to be
some substance behind the latest contretemps between the spurned independent councillors and the Labour-Wellington Alive
coalition.
Following a series of misleading statements quoted in both written and electronic media, the Employers' Federation has
today forwarded the attached two communications to the Labour Party.
Here, courtesy of Auckland's 95Bfm is Auckland councillor, Maire Leadbeater's "Lost Column". AUCKLAND CITY COUNCILLOR
Maire Leadbeater refused to edit her column for this week's edition of the council's PR rag to the public, "City Scene".
Instead, ...
The Top 20 rating items at the weekend were…
East Timor - Scott Watson Trial - Wages Of Lotto - Oil Companies In Court - Defence Report - Sexual Harassment - Kirsty
Bentley - Israeli Peace - Combined School Boards - Fire Concerns
The revelation that State Services boss Michael Wintringham didn't blow the whistle on Lotteries boss David Bale's
$400,000 plus salary package raises serious questions about who guards the guardians.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you this morning. I value the opportunity to talk to you about our plans for
superannuation and to hear your comments.
As violence threatens to take still more lives in East Timor there are probably only three people capable of making any
difference in East Timor: The President of Indonesia B.J. Habibe, leader of the largest opposition party Megawati
Sukarnoputri, and ABRI ...
ACT Leader Richard Prebble says the row over the excessive salary paid to the Lotteries Commission head was inevitable
and indicates what should be done.
Three well-known Aucklanders, Sue Bradford, Nandor Tanczos and Keith Locke have been placed in the top seven places on
the Green Party list for this year's general election.
The Top 20 rating items on Scoop this week were…
If you were near a television set on April 19, 1993, you will never forget the sight of the Mt. Carmel religious
community in Waco, Texas, going up in flames. What precisely had these people done to justify the Fed's surrounding them
with tanks? With reluctance, ...