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Alastair Thompson
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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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Sludge #153 - Was Ashraf Pushed Or Did He Fall
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 3:59 pm | C.D. Sludge
Listener Political Editor Jane Clifton this afternoon on 95BFm essentially confirmed observations made by Judith Collins MP concerning Prime Ministerial pressure and influence over Ashraf Choudry MP – NZ's first Muslim MP – and Winnie Laban MP , a ... More >>
NewsFlash: Prostitution Decriminalised By Parlt.
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 8:56 pm | Alastair Thompson
MP Tim Barnett’s Prostitution Reform Bill has passed by the thinnest possible margin, decriminalising soliciting, pimping and brothel keeping in New Zealand. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:43 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Hard News Analysis Of Prostitution Reform(**MUST READ**) - Prostitution Reform Bill Heads Towards The Wire - Stateside: Watching The Whale Watchers - Inside Iraq With James Addis: The Palace Of The Poor - Saving Air NZ: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 3:53 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Winston Peters Sent To The Sin Bin - Prostitution Reform Bill Heads Towards The Wire War Is Not The Answer – Slaughtergate - Trans-Atlantic Relativity On The Value Of Death - Between The Lines: Is It Vietnam Yet? (1) - Firas ... More >>
Winston Peters Ejected From House And Named
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 2:15 pm | Alastair Thompson
During Parliamentary question time moments ago Winston Peters was "named" by Speaker Jonathan Hunt for refusing to follow a direction from the chair to leave the house. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 23 June 2003, 4:43 pm | Alastair Thompson
STORY OF THE WEEK: Prostitution Law Reform - Peace Roadmap Maneuvers Made For Television - Stateside On Election 2004 - Scoop Links: Galloway Bribery Accusations Withdrawn By CSM – Telegraph Sticks To Guns - Dennis Hans: David Brinkley Remembered - Cartoon: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 20 June 2003, 3:56 pm | Alastair Thompson
Disturbance Abounds In Lead-Up To EU/US Summit - UQ Wire: The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill - St Molesworth - Bryce Edwards: Did Circumstances Push ACT Into Bending The Rules - Naked In Nuhaka: Matariki In Wairoa - Howard's End: ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 4:23 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Power Crisis Advertising Ends – But Don't Stop Saving ! - Hard News Is There And Here - Eco-Economy: Why The US Economy Is Like Argentina's - Scoop Images: Heavenly Skies Over Ohau - Henry Waxman's Letter To Condi Rice On ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 4:09 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Sludge Report: Don't Mention The Holocaust George! - Harley Sorensen: The WMD's That Aren't - Stateside: Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair - Streets of London: Manic In London - Matthew Riemer: Making The World More ... More >>
Sludge Report #152: George W's Revisionist History
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 11:20 am | C.D. Sludge
In This Edition: Just Whose Revisionist History Is That George? - Revisionist History Is Code For Holocaust Denial - And Does George Really Want To Remind Us About The Holocaust? - Why Then Would Bush Risk Such An Association? More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 3:17 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Anti-Whaling Nations Pull Off A Conservation Coup - David Miller Online: A Troubled Roadmap To Peace - Hard News Is Here & There! - Phillip J. Rappa : The Ill-Begotten - Americans Believe It's No Longer Important To Tell ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 16 June 2003, 3:39 pm | Alastair Thompson
The WMD's That Can't Be Found - ALP's Simon Crean Lives To Fight Another Day - Bush's Diary Reveals Views On His Impeachment - ZZZZZzzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback - Uri Avnery: Militarism In Israel - Aziz Choudry: Free Trade By Stealth - Stateside Election Watch: ... More >>
Crean Remains Leader Of Australian Labor Party
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:06 pm | Alastair Thompson
Australian Labour Party Leader Simon Crean has been re-elected leader of the Labour Party in a meeting of the party's 92 strong parliamentary caucus this morning. More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 13 June 2003, 3:37 pm | Alastair Thompson
Peacekeepers Exempt From War-Crimes For 1 More Year - Howard's End: The Mobster Who Deserves Care - Hard News Is There - Rachel Goldsmith: Refusing To Teach Young Nazis - Scoop Images: When The Rain Comes - St Molesworth's Top Ten - The Peacemaker ... More >>
Scoop Images: The End Of The Dry Weather
Friday, 13 June 2003, 1:31 pm | Alastair Thompson
News that the Australian drought is now officially over has prompted the publication of a series of recent snapshots from the Victorian hinterland, recently visited by Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson, where rain was more often than not the order of the ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 4:06 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Roadmap In Tatters As Bloodletting Escalates - Babylon Express: The Shortfalls Of Shortage - The Shrub's Big Chance To Become A Tree - How The Bush Admin Silenced The Truth About WMDs - Islam & Iraq (1): What Are The US Plans? - ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 3:08 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - Roadblock To Peace - FULL COVERAGE - Howard's End: TV News Discovers ACC Iceberg - Stateside With Rosalea: Supermarket Etiquette - Chris Sanders: Killer Pork And Market Manipulation - Did Saddam and His WMDs Take Refuge at Augusta? ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 4:13 pm | Alastair Thompson
Scoop Is In The House - NZ Deploys To Iraq/Afghanistan - Full Coverage - Hard News Was Here! (Wellington) - Leopold: Powell's WMD Denials Fail To Convince - Perceptions Of Imperial America - Satire: Wellington Faces New Crisis - St Molesworth's To 10 ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Monday, 9 June 2003, 4:25 pm | Alastair Thompson
PM Details NZ’s Role In Rebuilding Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom - Seven Scientists Killed In Plane Crash - What Polish Newsweek Readers Know About Bush & The Nazis - ZZZZzzzzzt Scoop Has Feedback - Scoop Verse: Aung San Suu Kyi Writes About Her ... More >>
Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics
Friday, 6 June 2003, 3:00 pm | Alastair Thompson
Burma Takes Hardline Against U.S. Sanction Threat - Howard’s End: Anti-ACC Telethon Raises Action Fund - Ask Not For Whom The Vortex Sucks… - Scoop Stringer Bids Farewell To Streets Of London - AWOL: Bolting Off Into The Never Never - Let U.S. Shower You ... More >>
