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Labour Hold Comfortably, Mana Beat Maori Party
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 9:08 pm | The Scoop Team
Labour’s Meka Whaitiri has comfortably won the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election with a majority of 1,761 on 4,368 votes and a very low turnout. More >>
Ikaroa-Rawhiti – Labour With Early Lead
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 7:20 pm | The Scoop Team
Early votes cast in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election put Labour’s Meka Whaitiri on 842 votes a majority of 223 over Mana’s Te Hāmua Nikora with 619 votes. The Maori Party’s Na Rongowhakaata Raihania was a distant third with 365. More >>
Internet NZ Council 2013 Elections - Voting 24 June - 6 July
Monday, 24 June 2013, 12:04 pm | The Scoop Editor
[ SCOOP EDITOR'S NOTE: Scoop Founder and General Manager Alastair Thompson has been nominated for election as an InternetNZ Councillor. Voting for four positions to council will start later today. Voting is electronic and members of InternetNZ are ... More >>
Dunne and The GCSB Bill
Monday, 10 June 2013, 4:45 pm | The Scoop Team
Reports of Peter Dunne’s political demise are premature. Ohariu’s fence-sitter can still play the Joker, the card representing the one vote that John Key must have to get his Stazi Bill passed. More >>
Text: Henry Report into Leak of Kitteridge GCSB Report
Friday, 7 June 2013, 3:52 pm | The Scoop Team
The following is an automated scan to text of David Henry's report into the Kitteridge report into the GCSB's legal compliance (PDF) . More >>
Annotated 2013 Bilderberg Attendee List
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 1:09 pm | Scoop Blogwatch
The Good News from Bilderberg 2013 is that Bassma Kodmani, Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs for Syrian National Council, was not invited back. That Free Syrian Armt has been a real disaster of late for NATO. More >>
PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference – 27 May 2013
Monday, 27 May 2013, 6:15 pm | The Scoop Team
Today's post-Cabinet press conference was dominated by discussion of the Food in Schools programme. Prime Minister John Key says the government's food in schools programme will be comprehensive, but that it's primarily the responsibility of parents ... More >>
Scoop Coverage of Budget Day 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 4:24 pm | The Scoop Team
As always and especially after the managerial mishaps of the past few weeks and months, (e.g. Aaron Gilmore, the Mighty River Power share float, the GCSB mishaps) Budget Day 2013 was always going to be a pageant of reassurance. A promise that austerity ... More >>
PM and Steven Joyce Press Conference - 13 May 2013
Monday, 13 May 2013, 7:27 pm | The Scoop Team
Steven Joyce joined John Key at today's post-Cabinet press conference to discuss the SkyCity Casino deal. SkyCity will receive a 27-year extension to its Auckland casino license, along with permission to add 230 extra slot machines and 40 gaming ... More >>
MBIE Releases Aaron Gilmore Emails – Text Version
Friday, 10 May 2013, 3:37 pm | The Scoop Team
The Ministry Of Business Innovation and Employment has released details of a 2012 email exchange [PDF] involving Aaron Gilmore, who was working for the Ministry as a senior policy analyst. More >>
Scoop Comedy Festival Ticket Giveaway - 7 Tickets Must Go!
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 1:26 pm | The Scoop Team
Scoop has seven tickets to giveaway this afternoon to Comedy Festival events on tonight in the coolest little capital in the World (i.e. Zombieville aka Wellington). More >>
Boston Bombings: Charges, Affidavit And Hearing Transcript
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 1:08 pm | The Scoop Team
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death. More >>
NZ Power: New Labour-Green Electricity Proposal
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 5:03 pm | The Scoop Team
Today Labour and the Greens unveiled a joint proposal to for electricity market regulation. Labour's and the Greens' proposal involves the creation of a single buyer agency called NZ Power, which will purchase all electricity at a price based on the cost ... More >>
Video: Explosions At Boston Marathon
Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 10:29 am | The Scoop Team
Raw video of the explosions at the 2013 Boston Marathon. At the time of writing there are reports of at least two deaths and dozens of injuries. Two blast went off near the marathon finish line. A third device was later found and subject to controlled ... More >>
PM on GCSB Legislation Changes
Monday, 15 April 2013, 8:11 pm | The Scoop Team
In the post-cabinet press conference at the Beehive on Monday, April 15, Prime Minister announced proposed legislative changes to remedy “inadequacies” in the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Act. More >>
Pacific Scoop Internship and Scoop Foundation launch
Monday, 8 April 2013, 10:08 am | The Scoop Team
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 16:45 - 18:00 Scoop Media is launching the Pacific Scoop Internship and Scoop Foundation journalism initiatives at the Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, AUT University, this week. Pacific Scoop was established ... More >>
Kim Dotcom Part Two
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 3:01 pm | The Scoop Team
John Key shoulder-tapped his boyhood friend Ian Fletcher about the vacancy at the top of the secret spy agency, the GCSB, as police were planning their raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion on January 20 2012. More >>
Powers of the proposed Communications Tribunal
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 12:07 pm | Scoop Blogwatch
The Law Commission has proposed the creation of a Communications Tribunal that will be able to respond to complaints about internet speech and provide "speedy, efficient and cheap access to remedies such as takeown orders and cease & desist notices." More >>
Kim Dotcom And The GCSB's Illegal Spying: Court Documents
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 1:29 pm | Scoop News
Full affidavits relating to surveillance of Kim Dotcom and others by the New Zealand GCSB, conducted prior to the police raid on Dotcom's home, part of international action to shut down Dotcom's Megaupload website. More >>
PM Press Conference: Rio Tinto at Tiwai Point
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 7:11 pm | The Scoop Team
The Prime Minister began today's press conference with a brief overview of the priorities of Budget 2013. The government will be focused on four key areas: a return to surplus and reducing debt, creating a more competitive and productive economy, driving better ... More >>
