Scoop: Top Scoops + Just Politics

Thursday, 25 August 2005, 9:43 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS:
Parliament's Top Party Finance Spokesmen Quizzed On Tax
What Is Really Behind This US/NZ Thaw In Security Relations?
Brash Tells Pensioners They Will Be $20 Better Off With Nats
MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:
Global Action On Small Weapons Gains Support
MORE WORLD NEWS HEADLINES:

OTHER NEWS (Just Politics):
73 Year-Old Transsexual Attracts Peters' Wrath
Greens Object To Tax-Payers Money Going Into USA Wars
MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

Parliament's Top Party Finance Spokesmen Quizzed On Tax

Audio and Images: The economy - Michael Cullen, John Key, Winston Peters, Rodney Hide, Rod Donald, Gordon Copeland had 5 minutes each to answer the following questions: Will you lower the company tax rate and/or personal tax rates? If so, when? Will you set a cap on core Government spending as a percentage of GDP? If so, what would that cap be? Will you commit to reducing the regulatory burden on businesses by ensuring new and existing legislation is subject to a Regulatory Responsibility Act? Will you commit to work towards free trade agreements, and on what basis? See... Scoop Audio: Finance Spokesmen Talk About The Economy [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00190.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00192.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00191.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00188.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00189.htm

What Is Really Behind This US/NZ Thaw In Security Relations?

- Security Expert and Auckland University lecturer Paul Buchanan writes that election year politics has thrown new light on US-New Zealand relations: "Outgoing US ambassador Charles Swindell reiterated his concerns that recent years have seen a decline in the relationship, officially noted in the US shift from viewing New Zealand as an ally to (rather) that of “close friend,” and felt practically in the termination of the ANZUS military alliance." What has this thawing of US/NZ relations got to do with the elections and trade? See... Military Exercise + Spurious Trade Relationship [1] ALSO:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00187.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00596.htm

Brash Tells Pensioners They Will Be $20 Better Off With Nats

- National Party Leader Don Brash says superannuitant households will be $20 a week better off as a result of the National Party’s tax policy. National Party Leader Don Brash says superannuitant households will be $20 a week better off as a result of the National Party’s tax policy. “Our tax cuts will benefit not just workers but retired New Zealanders as well,” he told superannuitants on the Kapiti Coast today. See... Superannuitants benefit by $20 from Nats' tax pack [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00607.htm

MORE NEW ZEALAND HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0508/S00291.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0508/S00098.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0508/S00099.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0508/S00407.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0508/S00157.htm

Global Action On Small Weapons Gains Support

- Encouraging regional and sub-regional efforts to curb gun violence can pave the way for further action at the global level, especially wider implementation of a 2001 United Nations accord aimed at combating illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. See... Annan ‘Encouraged’ By Action To Combat Small Arms [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00212.htm

MORE WORLD NEWS HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00213.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00211.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00210.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00209.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00207.htm

73 Year-Old Transsexual Attracts Peters' Wrath

- New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peter’s is outraged that 73 year old transsexual, Vicky Harvey, is able to secure a $30,000 state funded sex change operation when there are thousands of New Zealanders on waiting lists or with debilitating illnesses ... See... Peters Slams $30,000 State Funded Sex Change [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00625.htm

Greens Object To Tax-Payers Money Going Into USA Wars

- New checking mechanisms are needed to prevent New Zealand companies from exporting technology that ends up being used by military forces in unjust wars, Green Defence and Disarmament Spokesperson Keith Locke says. He was commenting after reports today that New Zealand company Rakon, indirectly assisted by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, is adapting its GPS crystals for use on American 'smart bomb' missiles. See... Stop taxpayer-subsidised tech. being used in bombs [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00620.htm

MORE POLITICS HEADLINES:

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00615.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00612.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00616.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00610.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00604.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00626.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00623.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00622.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00621.htm
[10] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00619.htm
[11] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0508/S00618.htm

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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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