Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Wednesday, 3 August 2005, 5:33 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS:
Goff Tables His Evidence Of Dr Smith's US Friendly Foreign Policy
Govt's Coalition And Support Partners Barred From TV3's Political Debate
Will Tax Cuts Be Used to Complete 1990s 'Unfinished Business' ? -
Lizard Day Gets Skinks Up-close n Cosy
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Children Starving In Niger While Surrounded By Food
MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

SCOOP COLUMNS:
Paul Buchanan Ends His Tolerance Of Winston
Sonia Nettnin: Hiroshima Anniversary This Weekend
William Fisher On The Bolton Appointment
MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics):
Brownlee Urges PM To Produce Motorcade Case Notes
No Mana? Peters Hides From Iraqis says Dunne
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

Goff Tables His Evidence Of Dr Smith's US Friendly Foreign Policy

[1] Today during the final question time for this Parliament Labour Whip Jill Pettis asked Mr Goff a question related to Dr Smith's United States sojourn last year. Mr Goff then read out, under parliamentary privilege, the guts of a conversation Dr Smith had supposedly had with United States officials last year. Mr Goff later tabled excerpts of a diplomatic cable that alleged Dr Smith had been inquiring about United States policy assistance. See... Scoop Transcript: MFAT Cable Regarding Dr Lockwood Smith [2] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00031.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00031.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00095.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00029.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00063.htm

Govt's Coalition And Support Partners Barred From TV3's Political Debate

- Jim Anderton: "It is an irony that the foreign-owned broadcaster, TV3, has decided to knock the Progressives out of its pre-election party leaders' debate when the Progressive Party has by far the strongest track record of all Third Parties for getting its policies adopted, Jim Anderton said today. "I've been told that the foreign-owned TV3 will interfere in our country's democratic process by silencing the voice of the very third party that has actually delivered under the MMP system over the past six years." See… Third party that has got things done knocked out of TV3 debate ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00061.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00087.htm

Will Tax Cuts Be Used to Complete 1990s 'Unfinished Business' ? -

Acclaimed New Zealand documentary maker, Alister Barry, has been following Donald Brash's career for nearly two decades. Mr Barry considers Dr Brash wants massive tax cuts in order to create a "strategic deficit". “Strategic deficit” refers to a political technique used by President Ronald Reagan and his new right budget director, David Stockman to downsize the state. See... Don Brash and the “Strategic Deficit” [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00023.htm

Lizard Day Gets Skinks Up-close n Cosy

- Do you know the difference between a gecko and a skink? Come along to Lizard Day at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday 27 August and find out. There’ll be fascinating talks between 11am and 2pm and the opportunity to see some real live geckos and skinks up close. There will be other fun activities for kids too. So pack a picnic, round up the whole family and come along – it’s be a great family day out. See... Lizard Day at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary 17/08/05 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0508/S00017.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0508/S00063.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0508/S00039.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0508/S00038.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0508/S00025.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0508/S00026.htm

Children Starving In Niger While Surrounded By Food

- A tiny head, eyes closed, lolling above a spine and ribs jutting starkly under the skin exemplifies the face of hunger on the front line of the United Nations-backed war against hunger in Niger today, where 3.5 million people have been affected by poverty. See... Face Of Hunger In Niger [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00055.htm

MORE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00057.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00052.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00051.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00049.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00047.htm

Paul Buchanan Ends His Tolerance Of Winston

- Unsubstantiated allegations by Winston Peters that there is an extremist hydra residing within the New Zealand Muslim community, coupled with equally vague claims by a foreign security expert that there are at least ten Islamic militant groups operating here, ... See... P Buchanan: Scaremongering In The Political Gutter [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00039.htm

Sonia Nettnin: Hiroshima Anniversary This Weekend

- August 6 and 9 mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 200,000 people died immediately or soon after the 1945 bombings – thousands of Hibakusha (radiation victims) died of leukemia and cancer in the years ... See... 60 Years: Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Exhibition [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00037.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00038.htm

William Fisher On The Bolton Appointment

- President Bush poked a thumb in the eye of Senate Democrats today by his recess appointment of John Bolton as America’s ambassador to the United Nations – and triggered wholly predictable responses from the foreign policy community. See... William Fisher: Big Apple Here I Come [1] MORE:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00035.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00034.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00025.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00020.htm

MORE SCOOP COMMENTARY:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00033.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00036.htm

Brownlee Urges PM To Produce Motorcade Case Notes

- National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark must release her statement of evidence in the speeding motorcade case. "This looks a lot like Paintergate. The PM refuses to be interviewed or answer questions, then gets her lawyers to draw up a statement. "Does this statement support Helen Clark's public comments? "Was Helen Clark cautioned by Police when she signed that statement to Police? "If she was cautioned and told her rights under the Bill of Rights, then this means she was considered a suspect by Police at that time. See…Helen Clark must release statement of evidence [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00086.htm

No Mana? Peters Hides From Iraqis says Dunne

- New Zealanders yesterday saw the real Winston Peters - “the craven, unprincipled politician skulking around Parliament, doing everything but facing up like a man to two innocent Iraqis who he had attacked in Parliament”, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. “They got the full Peters treatment - unsubstantiated allegations made under parliamentary privilege that left their reputations in tatters without so much as a shred of evidence. See... Dunne: Craven Peters hides from Iraqis [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00072.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00048.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00056.htm
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[23] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00077.htm
[24] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00073.htm

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