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Kevin List
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Was sentenced to 15 years working at Parliament. Now free and willing to pay for my crimes.
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Parties Positions On Sacking Of Air NZ Workers
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 3:02 pm | Kevin List
Air New Zealand announced this week that it was proceeding with its plan to outsource wide body aircraft heavy maintenance. Around 507 ANZES positions will be made redundant on top of the 110 announced in December, when the decision was made to outsource ... More >>
NZ MPs Prove Very Quiet On Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:18 pm | Kevin List
As far as Scoop can ascertain only two MP's have expressed any great fuss regarding the United States prison at Guantanamo bay – Keith Locke and Matt Robson. This is surprising considering the international opprobrium that has been heaped on the united ... More >>
Will Herceptin Media Blitz Help Or Harm Patients?
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 5:50 pm | Kevin List
A powerful media campaign has pushed for a new cancer drug Herceptin be made available. Editorials attacked Pharmac stating 'tight fisted holders of the Pharmac purse' are responsible for sufferers being forced to beg for money. But is the drug safe? More >>
Scoop IV: Brownlee On Labour's Election Spending
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 9:41 am | Kevin List
Last week, in a surprise twist to the ongoing saga of Election 2005, the Electoral Commission referred the New Zealand Labour Party to the police as it believes the party has overspent its election expense limit and committed an offence under the ... More >>
Labour Outspends National By More Than $500,000
Friday, 10 February 2006, 12:15 am | Kevin List
In a surprise twist to the ongoing saga of Election 2005 Labour look to have spent well in excess of National in election advertising. According to the Election Commission not only did Labour spend more than National on election advertising they spent more ... More >>
Post HRC Meeting: Khan Audio, Pankhurst Transcript
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 10:48 am | Kevin List
Yesterday, media representatives who had published cartoons offensive to Muslims got around the boardroom table at the Human Rights Commission to discuss the issue with representatives from the Muslim Community as well as Catholic and Jewish religious ... More >>
Scoop IV: Key Defends 'Staying At Home' Fraser
Friday, 3 February 2006, 12:18 am | Kevin List
Today news broke that former TVNZ Chief Executive Ian Fraser would not be representing TVNZ at a Commonwealth Broadcasters conference being held in Delhi, India, this month. According to the NZ Herald Mr Fraser considers he has been penalised by TVNZ for ... More >>
Dapper SIS Head Seeks More Relaxing Times
Friday, 27 January 2006, 12:17 am | Kevin List
Come 31 October 2006 dapper public servant Richard Woods will be able to really get stuck into enjoying classical music, skiiing and spending quality time with his wife and Labrador dog who have both travelled the world with him. The Brahms loving son ... More >>
What Are Those Ex MPs Up To Now?
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 2:01 pm | Kevin List
During the movie Dead Poet's Society the inspiring teacher character, played by one time cocaine snorting funnyman Robin Williams, gets his class to listen to the voices of the past emanating from the old black and photos of former students hanging in ... More >>
Brownlee Explains National Vs Greens Scrap
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 12:30 am | Kevin List
Over the last few weeks parliamentary duels have been thin on the ground. However Nationals' Deputy leader Gerry Brownlee has not spent all holidays enjoying the warm Canterbury sun – he's been hounding the Government and the Green Party over arrangements ... More >>
National Pushes Limits Of Campaign Spending
Monday, 9 January 2006, 4:29 pm | Kevin List
In the battle for the hearts and minds of the New Zealand voter in 2005 National spent more than two million dollars in order to get their message across. According to figures that have just become available at the Electoral Commission National spent ... More >>
Level Playing Field For Candidates Disappears
Wednesday, 21 December 2005, 1:33 pm | Kevin List
The level playing field regarding electorate candidates' campaign spending no longer exists according to Auckland University political scientist Raymond Miller. More >>
Ian Fraser Unleashes On His Own Company
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 4:00 pm | Kevin List
After his shock resignation - which included a number of press releases attempting to justify why he was bailing out of the TVNZ Chief Executive's role - Ian Fraser this morning had the chance to explain himself to a parliamentary inquiry into TVNZ's ... More >>
MPs Keen For Bill Ralston's Presence At Parliament
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 5:46 pm | Kevin List
This morning TVNZ's media competitors turned up in full force at Parliament to observe the finance and fxpenditure committee members give TVNZ its yearly once over. Sadly, for many of the watchful media TVNZ's news boss Bill Ralston was not able to answer ... More >>
Cyprus Crops Up On Turkish PM's Visit
Monday, 5 December 2005, 6:05 pm | Kevin List
Today the Prime Minister Helen Clark held a joint press conference with her Turkish counterpart the Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A large Turkish media contingent seemed to want to traverse the vexed subject of divided Cyprus. More >>
A Week Of It: Media Blasts From The Past
Friday, 25 November 2005, 1:52 pm | Kevin List
A Week of It had a chinwag with ACT leader Rodney Hide recently and shot the breeze on the topic of broadcasting. This week an inquiry regarding TVNZ begins in no small part thanks to Mr Hide's urgings. Sadly, Mr Hide's own forays into broadcasting remained ... More >>
National Sends Mixed Messages Over Kenneth Keith
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 11:13 am | Kevin List
New National MP John Hayes hit out in his maiden speech at foreign affairs expenditure and in particular the expenditure involved in securing Sir Kenneth Keith's position to the International Court of Justice – a position that National's justice spokespeople ... More >>
Audio: Scoop Tackles Rodney Hide Regarding TVNZ
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 12:59 am | Kevin List
ACT leader Rodney Hide's, call for an inquiry into Television New Zealand, was successful this week when the powerful finance and expenditure committee voted to give TVNZ some extra public scrutiny. Scoop caught up with Mr Hide following this decision ... More >>
Scoop Audio: PM's Presser November 14, 2005
Monday, 14 November 2005, 4:50 pm | Kevin List
The Prime Minister commenced today's Post Cabinet press conference with a brief readout on what came up in Cabinet today and then a fairly lengthy description of issues she expects to arise during her upcoming trips to APEC and CHOGM. The Prime Minister ... More >>
Neptune Gets More Military Hardware
Monday, 14 November 2005, 10:32 am | Kevin List
The cruel sea off Wellington's South Coast acted as the knackers yard for the once mighty and proud HMNZS Wellington. Thousands of Wellingtonians trooped out to see their city's naval namesake make its final downward journey. More >>
