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1: Scoop
Images: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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2:
On
the real significance of November's
election
Every election is, of course, of vital interest to politicians and those who earn their living either helping or hindering them. The world beyond the Ngauranga interchange (which for the benefit of non-Wellingtonians is where the bumpy old Hutt Motorway ...
3:
National
considers clumsy bribe to
students
Labour Leader Helen Clark today said that it was a sign of the level of desperation in National's ranks that the government is now considering eleventh hour changes to the student loans system.
4:
NZ's
political leanings - Left, Right or
Both?
When New Zealanders place themselves on the political spectrum the majority opt for centre-left according to the New Zealand Values Study but when it comes to specific ideology we are much more confused.
5:
Values
study: electorate prepared to spend
more
National and Act may have misjudged the mood of the electorate according to the New Zealand Study of Values which shows a willingness by people to spend more on certain social services.
6:
Scoop
Puzzle: Is This An Aussie? What Is He Up
To?
We received the above image yesterday via e-mail. It appears to show a soldier carrying a Steyr rifle with an Australian imprint the word “Humps” and various things written in Indonesian on it.
7:
Public
cynical – voter turnout must be in
doubt
Just how many voters will exercise their democratic right come election day and vote is in doubt with the New Zealand Study of Values showing a general lack of confidence in government and politics.
8:
Cullen
on the public sector and the SSC
The present framework for the public sector - notably the State Sector Act and the Public Finance Act - is the creation of the Fourth Labour Government.
9:
Scoop
House: House Of 1996-99, Final
Days
A roundup of the programme for the final days of this Parliamentary session - list and timing of valedictories and FULL TEXT of URGENCY MOTION.
10:
Labour
And The West Coast - A Coast
Perspective
"You're on my turf now," Labour Deputy Leader Michael Cullen is alleged to have said to West Coasters during an angry meeting in Parliament yesterday over Labour's plans to end sustainable logging. Scoop’s West Coast correspondent John ...
11:
Scoop
Photo Feature: Coast Action Network
protest
Scoop’s Fraser Rolfe attended yesterday’s Coast Action Network protest in favour of native logging in Wellington and filed this photo feature report.
12:
Max
Bradford - AIT Announcement
Tomorrow
The Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford will visit the Auckland Institute of Technology tomorrow morning to make an announcement.
13:
NEWSFLASH:
Police threaten to evict
students
In the past hour, police have called students occupying the Registry building at the University of Canterbury, to warn them that they are about to evict the students.
14:
Upton-On-Line
Launched - First Article On
MMP
Cabinet Minister Simon Upton today dispensed with the industrial age reliance on broadsheets and the wireless with the launch of his daily Internet column, upton-on-line.
15:
Bradford
Rejects Fee Excuse
Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford has rejected a claim by the Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury University that substantial student fee increases are the fault of the Government.
16:
Steyr
Butt Writings Translated
It looks as though an Aussie soldier has written the Indonesian for "Halt, hands up!" on his rifle."
17:
Tau's
cultural window dressing
Labour Maori affairs spokesperson Dover Samuels today condemned Maori Affairs Minister Tau Henare's proposal for all public servants to learn Maori language as being unworkable.
18:
Once
more, In English this time, Mr
Cullen
Once more, In English this time, Mr Cullen The New Zealand First Leader, Winston Peters, is asking Labour’s Public Sector Spokesperson, Michael Cullen, to explain Labour’s public sector reform programme, in English, instead of bureaucratic double-speak.
19:
Privatised
ACC: fully-funded or not?
Reported comments from the chief executive of the Insurance Council have raised serious concerns about the funding practices of companies that have entered the newly privatised workplace injury market, Labour ACC spokesperson Ruth Dyson said today.
20:
Keith
Rankin Column: MMP Commonsense
The coming election gives us renewed opportunity to interpret everything that politicians say and do with cynicism. It would be nice if we can rise above such a self-imposed stupor. We did it with APEC.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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