The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...
With an almost identical support base, the biggest head to head party clash in the coming election promises to be
between New Zealand First and the Alliance. Early signs show the Alliance suffering as the Peters campaign takes hold.
Jonathan Hill ...
Why do MPs get bigger percentage pay increases than ordinary workers? Why does Christine Rankin, CEO of WINZ, get paid
$50,000, more than the Prime Minister's $200,000? And why does the Governor of the Reserve Bank (Don Brash) receive
$500,000 per annum, ...
Richard Prebble's admission that he's finally taken up residence in Wellington poses more questions about the embattled
Act leader's fixed abode.
They show what appear to be Indonesian troops gunning down a youth in the street's of East Timor as he runs away.
The drum of commuter traffic has once again restored Auckland to its gridlocked best. And smiles beam involuntary as the
media team clear out of the Aotea Centre for foreign shores.
Aceh - never heard of it? We may be hearing the name more frequently, however, because many Indonesian's feel much more
strongly about the potential loss of Aceh province than they do about East Timor. Aceh looks likely to become a second
national tragedy. ...
New Zealander Mike Moore has become the Director-General of the WTO in controversial circumstances. Who is he? This
view comes from a New Zealander, Bill Rosenberg, who researches and writes on foreign investment and New Zealand’s
economic relationship ...
ACT Leader and Wellington Central MP Hon Richard Prebble today said that if Mr Daniel Newman of Manurewa had done any
homework at all before putting out a personal attack on behalf of Marion Hobbs he would have known the answer to his own
question.
Scoop understands that some filming for the massive trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is to take place in the countryside
West of Masterton.
Labour Leader Helen Clark and MP Phil Goff this evening met with President Bill Clinton.
Neither Prebble nor Hobbs are true Wellington residents so they should give up arguing who is more of a Wellingtonian,
says Phillida Bunkle’s Electorate Representative James Palmer.
Recently declassified documents from the US Commerce Department reveal the Clinton White House intelligence report on
Indonesian President, B.J. Habibie. In the CIA’s opinion Habibe is "the type of official needed today in developing
countries." ...
"Richard Prebble should get real and come clean about where he lives and who his neighbours are," said Labour's Manurewa
Electorate campaign manager, Daniel Newman.
Internal Affairs Minister Jack Elder deserves congratulations for stopping casino control authority members from taking
spouses on a trip to the Bahamas and Las Vegas, Green MP Rod Donald says.
Indonesia's international reputation has suffered terribly as a result of the human tragedy in East Timor. The daily
barrage of news about our country and people portrays us as a nation that loves to kill and torture. Friends and
associates abroad report ...
Information that Casino Control Authority Members and CEO and their spouses planned overseas trips paid for by levies on
individual casino licensees shows the Authority is fatally compromised. The Authority does not have the moral authority
to supervise ...
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath wonders where our country's leading news reporters have disappeared to. "We
obviously had the B-team in action during Bill Clinton's state visit," he suggests. "I have never seen such a tame ...
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The Government's Electronic Commerce web site was launched today by Information Technology Minister Maurice Williamson.
Labour has utterly rejected claims that furniture companies would not be able to access rimu as a result of Labour's
announcement to end logging of indigenous trees in Crown-managed forests.