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1: Why
Republicans Oppose an Australian
Republic
A foretaste of things to come in NZ? Simon Orme writes from Sydney on the question of a republic and how the debate is finally heating up.
2:
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Today - Yesterday's Top
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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop...
3:
Office
Classifies Keith Haring Artworks
The Office of Film and Literature Classification has classified 18 works by the late American Artist Keith Haring, recently exhibited at the City Art Gallery, Wellington.
4:
Rankin's
Thursday Column: Democracy And The
Media
A worrying theme is emerging in some recent studies; democracy is much less popular than died-in-the-wool democrats such as myself would wish it to be. Further, democracy seems to be less popular with young than with older New ZealandersAdvertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Treasury
NZ Rail report 'garbage'
A Treasury cost-benefit study on the privatisation of NZ Rail released today is garbage, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.
6:
Cultural
Rethink Required, An Auckland
Perspective
Isn't it interesting how when under the spotlight a position of hindsight is quickly assumed. We are talking here of course about the WINZ fiasco.
7:
The
Shifting Sands Of the GE
Debate
Scoop Feature: Scoop's Jonathan Hill looks at the changing positions in the leadup to this weeks labelling decision on genetically engineered foods and the challenges of the immediate future
8:
Telecom
To Exchange Phonecards
Telecom will exchange magnetic strip cards for special chip PhoneCards for customers with unused value in their magnetic cards.
9:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
Watson - Unemployment - Irradiation - Cancer - Maori Claim - Tax - Con Air - Cambridge Crash - Foxton Crash - Asian Flooding - Stolen Gold Seizure - Train Tunnel - Robbery Arrest - Y2K
"More childish fibs from Bill English. If he was less preoccupied with trying to impress his mates in caucus and more serious about New Zealand, he'd spend less time on these cheap gimmicks and more addressing the structural problems in the economy," ...
11:
AIDS
Groups Squabble Over
Cash
Auckland's AIDS charities claim $11,000 is missing from proceeds collected during this year's Hero Parade. The charities claim organisers of the Hero Parade spent the money and that this was a breach of trust as the money was gifted to go towards ...
12:
Transcript:
White House On Hillary Clinton
I/V
PRESS BRIEFING BY JOE LOCKHART - Q: Does the President have a problem fundamentally with what Mrs. Clinton said about him in her interview in Talk Magazine?
13:
Balkans
Editorial: Teach Your Children
Well
Scoop's Alastair Thompson analyses the latest developments in the Kosovo tragedy, and argues peace is not a two way street..
14:
Alternatives
To The APEC Agenda Announced
The September Leaders Summit won't be the only conference in Auckland to focus on APEC. The APEC Monitoring Group today announced details of its forum entitled Alternatives To The APEC Agenda to be held from September 10-12 in Auckland.
15:
Role
for X-Files in Wellington Central
Campaign
"Bunkle (Alliance) should get the X-Files to help her with her campaign to Save Wellington Airport" says National's Wellington List MP Annabel Young.
16:
Rail
Study Vindicates Privatisation -
Prebble
The independent study into rail privatisation vindicates the decision to sell, says former rail Minister Richard Prebble.
17:
Jobseekers
giving up searching for work
The Alliance says the drop in unemployment from 7.2 % to 7% at the same time that employment has stayed static and hours worked has dropped shows jobseekers are giving up rather than getting jobs.
18:
Movement
Of Prisoners Reveals Crisis -
PSA
The disclosure that 30 North Island prisoners are to be flown to the Christchurch region tomorrow is a revealing and worrying development, the PSA said today.
19:
SCP
Image: Silence Is The Enemy Of Human
Rights
Amnesty International opened a brutal cinema campaign targeting political complacency today in Wellington's Embassy Theatre. The catch-line is: "Speak up - Silence is the enemy of Human Rights."
20:
Military
Exercising With Indonesia
Condemned
The New Zealand Defence Force still maintains intimate training and exercise links with the Indonesian military despite its role in the militia terror in East Timor.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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