Yesterday's Top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
Scoop's Jonathan Hill looks at how Labour Party President Bob Harvey's comments on the CIA this week could be the much
needed start of a fresh new approach to Labour's election campaign.
How Pete Hodgson was granted leave to deliver a 5 minute speech on what Labour will do to the ECA during question time -
and what he said.
In four months time we will know the immediate impact of the "Y2K" computer bug; the bug through which computers with
2-digit date fields cannot distinguish which century we are in, and which may cause computers to try to do things they
are ...
Hon Marie Hasler, Minister for Culture and Heritage, today announced three appointments to the Board of the Museum of
New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.
5: Bingo!
All five appointed members of the Lotteries Commission are current or former National Party officials or candidates,
Green MP Rod Donald has discovered.
The Australian wine industry has emerged as huge winner from a generous $A30 million tax break negotiated between the
Government and the Australian Democrats. John Howard reports.
"Bill English seems incapable of debating any issue on the facts. Instead he always resorts to distortion and untruth,"
Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today.
Immigrant Employment - ECA Row (continued) - Maori Reserve Land - Pilot Strikes - State House Sales - Defence 2000
Report
Lotto Commissioners - Labour Productivity - Tax Cuts - Northland Prison - Lotto Commissioners - Asbestos Contamination
For those few who still think this is just a protest for bleating 'scumbag smokers', Joy Faulkner has a message for
you: "Wake up!! This march is," she says," about getting big brother government off our backs and out of our lives."
The NZ National Party is concerned that two websites are purporting to be a National Party and Young Nationals website
by using the National Party name and logo. The logo is registered under the Electoral Act to National and any use of it
by any other ...
. Unlike other businesses, more business for the Lotteries Commission is not a necessarily a good thing." Said National
MP Annabel Young today. "The Commission will have to rethink its view of its role if it thinks that it is there to push
gambling."
The LTSA will today begin the process of sending out 235,000 driver licence upgrade packs to drivers who were born in
September. A new television advertisement, targeting Virgos, reminds drivers that it's time for them to upgrade.
Labour Leader Helen Clark said today that the Prime Minister's failure to stitch up a deal over tax cuts with Mauri
Pacific had driven a final nail into the government's coffin by revealing the limits of the naked expediency which had
characterised her ...
APEC - Tauranga Nurses Strike - CIA and Norman Kirk - PMs Mistakes - ACC Premiums - Human Capital In IT Sector
Ministry Of Fisheries Travel Claims - Tax Cuts -Housing - Asbestos - Tertiary Education Funding
Controversial SOE Timberlands West Coast Ltd have again announced they will not be paying a dividend to the government
for logging publicly-owned native rainforests and pine plantations. The decision is published in Timberlands annual
report tabled ...
Banks in Asia are still in serious trouble and could spark further financial turmoil in the region, according to an
international banking authority. John Howard reports.
Janet Mackey has been hung out to dry by Labour on the Paid Parental Leave issue. Her views on this issue are recorded
in an article in the Gisborne Herald dated April 16 1999.
The government is planning to push through three significant bills reforming the Kiwifruit, Apple and Pear and Dairy
boards over the next four sitting days, however the passage of the legislation is not expected to plain sailing.