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Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes delivered a stinging defeat to Paul Cayard's AmericaOne on a white-capped Hauraki Gulf today as one boat in
each of four other matches retired with gear problems.
Today, Scoop welcomes Barb Sumner to our columnist fold. Barb is a freelance writer, a regular in "Grace" and "Metro"
and occasionally in the NZ Herald. She warns: some consider her works "too extreme". You be the judge.
There is a real risk in placing too much trust in the polls, however this week definite and consistent trends suggest
New Zealand is preparing to vote for a new government. Jonathan Hill writes.
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house
…enjoy.
If there is one thing you can say of the Green Party in this election, it is that they have run the cleanest campaign.
Despite barbs and ridicule from every main political party, including those who may eventually depend on their support
to form a government, ...
The Rt Hon Winston Peters MP, Leader of New Zealand First, today responded to the NBR story (19/11/99) alleging an
outstanding New Zealand First debt.
In a fit of pique, upset that his Green counterpart is getting more publicity, Bernard Darnton, Libertarianz spokesman
for law and order and leader of Wild Libz - The New Freeland Liberation Army, today announced his plan to burn down the
houses of his ...
The latest TV3 CM Research Poll shows the left breaking away from the right, with Labour able to form a government
without the help of Winston Peters.
The New Zealand First Leader, Rt Hon Winston Peters, said today that the Christchurch Press is using dirty tricks and
sheer malice to malign the local candidate, Dr Andrew Gin.
How much longer do we have to endure the shame of having asylum seekers hunger striking while locked up inside Mt Eden
Prison? A long time yet if today’s media release from Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere is anything to go by.
Frankly the minister’s ...
The latest National Business Review-Compaq opinion poll, taken by UMR Insight from November 11-16 on a sample of 750
people, gives Labour-Alliance a theoretical 10-seat majority over a National-led coalition in a general election. The
poll gives Labour ...
Officials in New Zealand want to capture and kill, as illegal pests, imported Australian frogs, while in South Australia
doctor's have discovered frogs may be the key to curing a wide-range of human ills. It's a strange world. John Howard
reports.
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
This morning’s (Friday) Herald DigiPoll shows the Greens breaking the five per cent threshold for the first time this
campaign.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched "Echelon Watch" a website designed to prompt worldwide
governmental investigations into the global electronic surveillance system called Echelon. John Howard reports.
Mr Prebble told One Network News last night: "I've got employers in my electorate who've had people who've turned up,
worked for two days, and they have then had to pay them $4000 just because they didn't like the job."
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's
Hauraki Gulf.
42 BELOW, New Zealand's first full strength premium vodka will be launched tonight at a special 'exhibition' for invited
guests at Wellington's 'infamous' Brava restaurant.
The National Party's condemnations this week of cannabis decriminalisation are in stark contrast to comments made by
their Police Minister Clem Simich, the Green Party says.