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Scoop Top Stories For March 24, 2010 News Summary
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 2:17 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Key, Bennett pitch benefit cut-offs Welfare shake up a 'nightmare' for children NZ POLITICS Miner Problems: International Backlash Gathers Speed Justice: Bill Brings Trial By Skype One Step Closer Watching The Watchers: Intelligence Inspector-General ... More >>
Link: The Economist on NZ's Environmental Record
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 12:11 pm | Scoop Link
FANS combing internet sites are not the only people eagerly anticipating a pair of epic fantasy movies based on “The Hobbit”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, that it is planned will start filming this year. New Zealand’s tourist industry, too, is eager to ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 23 2010
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 8:56 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: The President’s Health Care Bill The White House The President’s Bill puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care. It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 23, 2010 News Summary
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 3:25 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Key, Bennett pitch benefit cut-offs NZ POLITICS Balancing Our Enviromental Respon... Maximising Our Mineral Potential: Gordon Campbell On Mining's Green Light Disputes: PSA And Ministry Negotiate Settlement Foreign Affairs: Delegation To Strengthen ... More >>
Scoop Coverage: Conservation Mining Announcement
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 1:02 pm | Scoop Full Coverage
Well, we learned yesterday that Forest and Bird leaks had been right all along, and that the government is indeed planning to take 7,058 hectares of land currently under Schedule 4 protection (because it had been judged to be crucial to the conservation ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 22 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 9:18 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Time to discuss maximising our mineral potential New Zealand Government Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee and Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson today released a discussion paper containing a suite of measures to facilitate the environmentally ... More >>
Scoop Full Coverage: Ploughshares Trial Closes
Friday, 19 March 2010, 9:49 am | Scoop Full Coverage
The acquittal of the Waihopai Three for their attack on the Waihopai spy base is as welcome as it is surprising. To succeed in court, one would have thought they would need to have proved a direct connection between the base near Blenheim and ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 17 2010
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:29 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 7 Bryan Law It seems an age ago, but the Waihopai defendants finished their personal testimony only last Friday 12 March. The time since has been spent in legal discussion and decision-making by the ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 17, 2010 News Summary
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 5:03 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Parliament Live NZ POLITICS Public Service: Cap Now Pulled Down Over Eyes Fiji Cyclone: NZ Help Now On Its Way Any Mention Of Neeson? Power Presents Human Rights Report To UN Public Access: Home Fishing Is Not A Crime Local Government NZ: ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 16 2010
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 9:13 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Immunise now the flu is on its way Ministry of Health The Ministry of Health predicts the flu season in New Zealand will come early this year and the pandemic H1N1 (swine flu) virus will be the dominant strain. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1003/S00066.htm More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 16, 2010 News Summary
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 4:51 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Parliament Live NZ POLITICS Public Health: Mapua Cleanup Report Released Public Access: Home Fishing Is Not A Crime Local Government NZ: Hide On Reform Platforms: Political Favoritism At Pasefika Human Rights: Simon Power To Present Report To UN ... More >>
Scoop Coverage: Leaks on National Park Mining
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 1:27 pm | Scoop Full Coverage
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird has uncovered Government plans to allow mining in 7000 hectares of high-value conservation land in the West Coast's Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula. More >>
Final NZ Festival Giveaway - Two Shows This Week!
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 11:25 am | The Scoop Team
For tomorrow night (Wednesday 17th) we have a double pass to The Walworth Farce at 7.30pm in the Wellington Opera House. And for Thursday the 18th we have a double pass to Frisky and Mannish at 10.15pm at the Pacific Blue Festival Club. More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 15 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 9:25 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Writers and Readers Week: Neil Gaiman Lyndon Hood Under De Goldi's questioning, Gaiman described how he had inadvertently become a specialist in Edwardian literature, and G.K. Chesterton in particular, due to the limited selection of his school library. ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 15, 2010 News Summary
Monday, 15 March 2010, 6:07 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Key Refuses To Confirm Conservation Mining Reports Greens and Forest and Bird unhappy at reports of mining plans NZ POLITICS Local Government NZ: Hide On Reform See Also, Cutting Prisoner's Aid Soc. Funding: DHB Limits Prisoner Drug ... More >>
Radio Adelaide: Godfrey & Manning NZ News Round-Up
Monday, 15 March 2010, 11:02 am | Scoop Audio
Peter Godfrey & Selwyn Manning on a significant number of Kiwis & Aussies want to see NZ become a state of Australia. Also, NZ's Internal Affairs Department has turned on its internet filtering system, blocking access to sites containing child pornography. More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 14 2010
Monday, 15 March 2010, 9:08 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Bryan Law: Waihopai Ploughshares Trial - Day 5 Bryan Law The testimony and cross-examination of the Waihopai defendents is complete. Defence counsel are well pleased so far. Adi Leason enlivened the jury. Peter Murnane educated them. Sam Land loved and honoured ... More >>
Arts Festival Review: Jenny Morris
Sunday, 14 March 2010, 2:52 pm | Scoop Review
Jenny Morris does not have a pretty voice. Powerful and strong (and she can still hit the high notes), its beauty comes from the clarity and sheer force, something that has not dimmed in her 30-year career, since the days of the Crocodiles, and ... More >>
Scoop Top Stories For March 12, 2010 News Summary
Friday, 12 March 2010, 4:20 pm | The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Bomber's Blog - The War On News! NZ POLITICS SuperGold Card: Nothing To See Here Gordon Campbell: On The Wellywood Sign (& Education Cuts) Waihopai Three Trial Focuses Peace Activists Waihopai Trial: Day Two Waihopai spy base accused enter ... More >>
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 11 2010
Friday, 12 March 2010, 8:51 am | Scoop Daily Ratings
1: Labour launches petition to stop whaling plans New Zealand Labour Party Public pressure is the only way to stop the National Government agreeing to commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean, Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesman Chris Carter says. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00135.htm More >>
