As a journalist working extremely hard to produce a service that I want to be the best of its kind I am angered and
astounded that the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions seems set on trying to undermine Scoop Media.
They show what appear to be Indonesian troops gunning down a youth in the street's of East Timor as he runs away.
Speech Notes from an Address by the Rt Hon Winston Peters to a Public Meeting at 2:30 pm on Sunday 19th September 1999
at Mount Albert Grammar School, 36 Alberton Avenue, Mount Albert, AUCKLAND.
What is really going on in East Timor and Jakarta? Scoop's Alastair Thompson surveys the limited sources of information
currently available and attempts to reconcile what is clearly a very complicated crisis.
A front-page New York Times article about the precarious situation in East Timor (9/12/99) began by reporting that
Indonesian "Gen. Wiranto, conceded Saturday that he had lost control of elements of his military" that were operating on
...
The annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington next week will discuss whether commercial banks and
private investors should play a bigger role in bailing out troubled national economies. Scoop’s West Coast correspondent
John Howard writes ...
Scoop understands that some filming for the massive trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is to take place in the countryside
West of Masterton.
PRESS RELEASE ACT New Zealand Party List 19 September 1999 Position Surname First Name 1 Prebble Richard 2 Shirley Ken 3
Franks Stephen 4 Awatere Huata Donna 5 Hide Rodney 6 Jennings Owen 7 Newman Muriel 8 Webster Penny 9 Eckhoff Gerry 10
Roy Heather ...
"We have myriad business interests in Indonesia," said US State Department spokesperson, Jaine Rubin, when explaining
his government's reluctant involvement in East Timor. John Howard reports.
Mice that glow in the dark are to be used for medical experiments in New Zealand, Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette
Fitzsimons revealed today.
Wellington students were concerned last week at Labour deputy-leader Michael Cullen's flippant attitude towards
employment. At a public meeting, local student and Young National Brendan Pallesen raised concerns over job losses on
the West Coast with ...
Troops In Timor - Stent - Tax - Alliance Tax - Investigation - PTU - Christchurch Coal - Shooting - New Bank - Trampers
Missing - Plants Dying
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today she will announce the date of the 1999 general election following a special
caucus to be held in Auckland on Sunday 26 September.
United Party Leader Peter Dunne's speech in the debate on sending peacekeepers to East Timor was in the form of a story
about a small island nation...
Prebble's Rebels New Zealand President Clint Heine is delighted with the results of the Victoria University Students
Association (VUWSA) student elections.
Libertarianz Defence Spokesman Robert Winefield deplores the cross-party decision to send troops to East Timor, where
peacekeeping will essentially mean providing human shields to the Timorese populous. "This is a mission ill-suited to
trained ...
Richard Prebble's admission that he's finally taken up residence in Wellington poses more questions about the embattled
Act leader's fixed abode.
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today announced that ACT MP and Justice Spokesman Patricia Schnauer will retire from
Parliament at the election.
University of Canterbury Students’ Association President, Darel Hall, will make the following comment in Canta magazine
this week. Darel Hall was a territorial soldier for five years, and has led the UCSA in laying wreaths at Anzac day for
the last ...
The Alliance Party’s promises to students promise higher taxes for the rest of New Zealand, Minister for Tertiary
Education Max Bradford said today.