Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Guest Opinion for InfoPages here.
Guest Opinion - Latest News [Page 18]
Ewan Morris: The Waitangi Tribunal And History
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 11:11 am | Guest Opinion
New Zealand Herald columnist John Roughan has written some sensible, level-headed columns recently about the so-called ‘race debate’ launched by Don Brash’s Orewa speech. Unfortunately, these qualities were not evident in Roughan’s column in the ... More >>
No Consensus On Social Justice For The Poor
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 11:42 am | Guest Opinion
While at a national level the New Zealand Labour Government is projecting itself as a government concerned for the poor at an international level that concern is not so evident. More >>
Scoop Poem: In Memory of Sheik Yassin
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 10:13 am | Guest Opinion
How many spiritual leaders must be annihilated, before they realize God will keep sending them? More >>
Poem: We Shoot Children Too, Don't We
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 1:06 pm | Guest Opinion
The following is an excerpt from a poem that caused a sensation when it was read at a Tel Aviv event marking the first year of the Intifada. The poet is an Israeli professor of Hebrew literature and he is famous throughout Occupied Palestine as ... More >>
Health System Funding Already 'Needs Based'
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 12:58 am | Guest Opinion
Need and ethnicity are already co-habiting in our health funding system. 'Socioeconomic deprivation' and 'ethnicity' feature as two of the five main factors that dictate need and how health dollars are currently spent. More >>
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat: The Intelligence Business
Monday, 8 March 2004, 1:07 pm | Guest Opinion
Had ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ not gone sour, had the oil begun to flow to expectations for the ‘oil majors’ and Afghanistan not in disarray and near anarchy, it is doubtful if the kind of uncomfortable and noisy debate that is reflected in the media, would ... More >>
Avi Rubin: My Experience As An Election Judge
Monday, 8 March 2004, 12:55 am | Guest Opinion
It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this morning. Today, I served as an election judge in the primary election, and I am writing down my experience now, despite being extremely tired, as everything is fresh in my mind, and this was ... More >>
Cult Moves To Silence Australian Journalist
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:29 am | Guest Opinion
Yesterday a four-month gag order on NSW journalist John Macgregor was lifted, and he can now talk about the below events. More >>
The Farmed Salmon Debate - Economic Terrorism?
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 11:43 am | Guest Opinion
In my role as the editor of the Growfish Aquaculture Portal, I have been closely following the unfolding events concerning the levels of PCB's and Dioxins allegedly present in Farmed Salmon. More >>
Sonia Nettnin: Teens Organize for Peace and Justic
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 12:46 am | Guest Opinion
A growing number of teens who live in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Occupied Territories are in organizations that promote peace, justice and self-empowerment. Seeds of Peace, Pyalara, Shministim, and Dheisheh-Ibdaa.net are some examples of these youth movements ... More >>
Michael St. Jacques: Lead By Example
Monday, 1 March 2004, 12:58 am | Guest Opinion
There is one question that can solve the mass confusion surrounding the recent conduct of the United States of America in regards to appalling Human Rights Violations. More >>
Gest Opinion: Not a Chance to Withdraw! Heck, No
Friday, 27 February 2004, 2:05 pm | Guest Opinion
A Dennis Kucinich Pittsburgh Coordinator’s report on delegates and alternate petitions - By C. Wheeler, inexperienced writer, Pittsburgh, PA. More >>
Ross Kennedy: What You Don't Know You Don't Know..
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 6:12 pm | Guest Opinion
During my many years as a house owner, I have developed a love of DIY home projects and, along the way, have accumulated a fair range of DIY skills. More >>
Patricia L Johnson: Was GWB Licensed To Fly?
Friday, 20 February 2004, 3:00 pm | Guest Opinion
We all remember the photo of George W. Bush, Commander-In-Chief, waving from the co-pilot's seat of what was dubbed "Navy One' on May 1, 2003. More >>
Ropeworks – He Taura Whiri - Joan Metge DBE
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 12:42 am | Guest Opinion
Editor's Note: The following is the address referred to in Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright's Waitangi Day Address . More >>
Guest Opinion: The Sickness in Public Health
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 2:37 pm | Guest Opinion
There are myriad strange events occurring within New Zealand’s Public Health delivery. District Health Boards in both Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki have decided to close rural maternity units, ostensibly because rural people are no longer prodigiously reproductive. ... More >>
Environmental Collapse - Sooner Not Later
Monday, 9 February 2004, 10:53 am | Guest Opinion
There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House is not. The ... More >>
Comms. Competition Becoming An Endangered Species
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 12:48 am | Guest Opinion
It will be interesting to see if Vodafone is going to challenge the Commissioner in New Zealand regarding the TSO (Telecommunications Service Obligations) under which, this year, it will have to hand over NZ$13 million to its rival, Telecom New Zealand. More >>
Robert Rabbin: Voting Our Values
Monday, 2 February 2004, 12:29 am | Guest Opinion
Many things in our country are bent and breaking, if not already broken, and I don't like it. The simple truth is that I am pissed off. Millions of people are suffering, hungry, and hopeless, living in mean and fearful places where people should not live. More >>
Guest Opinion: Arab Community Has Much At Stake
Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 2:06 pm | Guest Opinion
Truthfully, I was surprised by the poll results reported by James J. Zogby in his article, ''How Arab Americans will vote in 2004.'' More >>
