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Scoop Links: Forbes Ranks NZ #2 For Business
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 12:59 pm | Scoop Link
Over the past 20 years the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy dependent on concessionary British market access to a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. More >>
5AA Australia: Manning & Godfrey - Tokelau Runs Out Of Water
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 9:22 am | Scoop Audio
Scoop's Selwyn Manning and 5AA Australia's Peter Godfrey discuss how the Tokelau group of atolls north of Samoa have only one week's water supply left. Also, the Rugby World Cup quarter finals kick off this weekend. These games should be fabulous... More >>
Scoop Audio: Goff & Chauvel On Video Surveillance Bill
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:05 am | Scoop Audio
Labour Leader Phil Goff and Justice spokesperson Charles Chauvel held a press conference this morning focussing on the changes made to the Video Camera Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill... More >>
Phil Goff 3/10/11: Poor Polls and Video Surveillance
Monday, 3 October 2011, 2:49 pm | Scoop Audio
At Labour leader Phil Goff's weekly press standup, topics covered included: • Weekend sports and Dan Carter's groin. • Poor recent poll results for Labour. • Last week's credit rating downgrade. • Bill English proposes 'thicker and faster' public ... More >>
Audio, Images & Video: Defence On Lance Corporal Smith
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 2:38 pm | Scoop Audio
Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and Chief of the Defence Force Lieutenant General Rhys Jones held a press conference at Defence headquarters today on the death of NZSAS trooper Lance Corporal Leon Smith. They gave further details on the corporal, whose ... More >>
Scoop Coverage: Video Surveillance Bill
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:14 am | Scoop Full Coverage
Press releases, commentary and multimedia reports on the Governments plans to pass urgent legislation in the wake of a Supreme COurt ruling on video surveillence evidence in the Urewera case. More >>
5AA Australia: Manning & Godfrey On A NZSAS Soldier Killed
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:12 am | Scoop Audio
Scoop's Selwyn Manning and 5AA Australia's Peter Godfrey discuss how a second NZ SAS Soldier has been killed in Afghanistan; Also, the National-led Government is determined to ram through a video surveillance bill; and a Rugby World Cup update... More >>
Scoop Images: Parliament Protest Against Students Bill
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 3:53 pm | Scoop Images
A small protest, supported by MPs from the Labour, Green, Maori, and Mana parties, was held at Parliament this lunchtime to protest the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill, which would make all students associations voluntary. More >>
Scoop Audio: Second SAS Death In Afghanistan Announced
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 2:41 pm | Scoop Audio
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Force today held a press conference to announce the death of an SAS soldier serving in Afghanistan. More >>
PM's Presser 26/9/11: Surveillance And The Global Economy
Monday, 26 September 2011, 6:01 pm | Scoop Audio
At his weekly post-cabinet press conference Prime Minister John Key summarized the government's legislative response to the Supreme Court's ruling on covert video surveillance. He said the decision "has a serious effect on current operations involving the New ... More >>
Phil Goff: Police Surveillance & Cannabis
Monday, 26 September 2011, 2:10 pm | Scoop Audio
On plans for urgent surveillance legislation: • Govt had made "no effort to talk with us" on bill. • Will vote the plan through to select committee. • Not convinced 'serious criminals will get off the hook' as claimed • The video surveillance process ... More >>
Summer Is On The Way: Daylight Savings Begins This Sunday
Saturday, 24 September 2011, 1:39 pm | The Scoop Team
Lost in the rugby and the politics is the fact that tonight the clocks go forward for an hour More >>
6.8 Magnitude Quake Strikes Near Tonga
Friday, 23 September 2011, 11:46 am | Scoop News
An Earthquake Measuring 6.8 Magnitude Has struck near Tonga and the Somoa Islands Region. There appears to be no significant tsunami threat for the great south Pacific area however the Pacific Tsunami Center has warned there may be a risk of tsunami ... More >>
io9 Link: CERN Recorded Faster Than Light Particles
Friday, 23 September 2011, 10:01 am | Scoop Link
[Now updated with other links] An international team of scientists at CERN has just announced that they've recorded neutrino particles traveling faster than the speed of light. More >>
Scoop Link: Insurer Sues Saudi Arabia for 'Funding 9/11'
Friday, 23 September 2011, 9:53 am | Scoop Link
The Brighton-based Lloyd's 3500 syndicate, which paid $215m compensation to companies and individuals involved, alleges that the oil-rich Middle Eastern superpower bears primary responsibility for the atrocity because al-Qa'ida was supported by banks ... More >>
95bFM: Manning & Armistead - Retro Bill & Current Prisoners
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 2:34 pm | Scoop Audio
Selwyn Manning & Jon Armistead discuss the retrospective surveillance legislation that the National-led Government seeks to urgently pass through Parliament - Will people already convicted of crimes seek to have their convictions quashed? More >>
5AA: Selwyn Manning & Peter Godfrey on Retro-Terror Bill
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 9:29 am | Scoop Audio
Click a link to play audio (or right-click to download) in either MP3 format or in OGG format . More >>
Audio, Images & Video: Norman Launches 'Green Jobs' Plan
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 1:05 pm | Scoop News
Greens co-leader Russel Norman launched the party's plan to "create 100,000 new green jobs" today. More >>
Video Surveillance: Govt To Override Court
Monday, 19 September 2011, 5:25 pm | Scoop News
The Government plans to pass urgent legislation to override a recent Supreme Court decision on covert filming. More >>
Scoop Review: Auckland Opera Fans Lend Me Your Ear
Friday, 16 September 2011, 5:46 pm | Scoop Review
For all those Sicilian opera and Francis Ford Coppola fans out there here's your chance to bask in the classic inspiration the master film director drew on for his final of the Godfather trilogy. More >>
