PPP Ps: NZ’s First PPP Prison To Be Built
The Government intends to commission a new prison at Wiri that will be designed, built and operated under a public-private partnership, Infrastructure Minister Bill English and Corrections Minister Judith Collins announced today.The approximately 1000-bed male prison on land owned by the Department of Corrections at Wiri in South Auckland is subject to consents and the successful completion of an open tender process. It will be the first PPP undertaken by this Government. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00136.htm

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Gordon Campbell: On Welfare Insurance
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance that exist elsewhere in the world, and Canada is widely regarded as a leading source of policy initiatives in this field. More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/gordon-campbell-on-welfare-insurance/

Party Central: Queens Wharf Debate Becomes In Tents
“The Government has missed a unique opportunity to develop Auckland’s Queens Wharf into a showcasing venue for the Rugby World Cup and are instead looking at simply pitching a tent” says Labour Spokesperson on Auckland Issues, Phil Twyford. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00123.htm

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Hard News: Misadventure and Muppetry [2]

[2] - http://publicaddress.net/default,6568.sm#post6568" target="_blank [2]

Entry Requirements: Tertiary Fever
Tightening entrance standards for all degree programmes puts polytechnic students at risk of being turned away at the door, says Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson, Maryan Street. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00113.htm

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Tertiary Institutions Free To Develop Campuses [2]

Appointments to 20 polytech councils announced [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00134.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00133.htm [3]

Gordon Campbell: On New Zealand’s Anti-Nuclear Posturing
New Zealand’s national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can provide a shining example to an outside world riven by conflict and greedy self interest. More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/13/campbell-on-new-zealands-anti-nuclear-posturing/

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Federated Farmers Encouraged By U.S. Talks [2]

VP Biden meeting with NZ PM Key [3]

New Russian-US Arms Control Treaty [4]

Trade Nuking Our Foreign Policy [5]

Nuclear Half Measures [6]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00116.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00182.htm" target="_blank [3]

[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00111.htm" target="_blank [4]

[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00105.htm"target="_blank [5]

[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00068.htm"target="_blank [6]

Nuclear Summit - Ukraine To Give Up Nuke Material
- More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/35016.html

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Will Pollard & Alyn Ware Analyse The Nuclear Summit [2]

Wallace Chapman & Selwyn Manning Discuss The Nuke Summit & the USA's Strike Readiness [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00079.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00079.htm [3]

Banking On Generosity:Govt pledges US$1b for future bailouts
New Zealand has agreed to lend the International Monetary Fund (IMF) up to US$1 billion (NZ$1.34b) if the world faces another economic crisis like the 2008/09 global meltdown, Finance Minister Bill English says. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00108.htm

Full Coverage: PublicACTA Wellington Declaration Released
The Wellington Declaration paints a broad picture of the need to limit ACTA to what it originally set out to do: tackle the problem of counterfeiting. It also makes some specific suggestions as to how the detailed provisions being negotiated in Wellington next week - that go far beyond counterfeiting - can be made more citizen-friendly... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00080.htm

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Nuplex Case: Securities Commission Member Resigns
Commerce Minister Simon Power has accepted the resignation of Securities Commission member David Jackson after it was announced last night that civil proceedings were to be filed against him in his role as a director of Nuplex Industries Ltd. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00121.htm

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Nuplex director resigns from Securities Commission [2]

Nuplex “very disappointed” at landmark prosecution [3]

Stocks to watch: Nuplex, Diligent, Infratil [4]

[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/nuplex-director-resigns-from-securities-commission/ [2]

[3] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/nuplex-very-disappointed-at-landmark-prosecution/ [3]

[4] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/stocks-to-watch-nuplex-diligent-infratil/ [4]

Job Ads: Pace Of Labour Market Recovery Slows In March
The pace of recovery in New Zealand’s labour market slowed last month, according to data from Seek New Zealand, which operates the country’s largest jobs website. More »[1]

[1] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/pace-of-labour-market-recovery-slows-in-march/

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Job Market Picks Up Steam [2]

Auckland civil servants advised on jobs this week [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00206.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00115.htm [3]

Modesty: Wellington Region Gold Awards - 2010 FINALISTS
Cyber Gold in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers: Recognising innovation, leadership and sustained growth in the information & communications sector...
• SCOOP MEDIA : Selling aggregating raw news content over multiple channels at up to 1.2million pages per month More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00286.htm

Hammertime: Doug Graham to face civil proceedings over Lombard
Former directors of failed Lombard Finance & Securities Investments, Douglas Graham, Michael Reeves, William Jeffries and Lawrence Bryant, have been issued civil proceedings by the Securities Commission. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00274.htm

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EUFA On Lombard Finance & Investments Ltd [2]

Kiwis Have Their Say On Ultra Fast Broadband - 4 [3]

World class broadband reaching Auckland [4]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00124.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00044.htm [3]

[4] - http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00079.htm [4]

Clean & Green NZ: New Pro-1080 Alliance Lacks Sustainability Vision
The new pro-1080 animal toxin alliance led by Forest & Bird and Federated Farmers lacks a vision of a truly sustainable clean green 100% Pure New Zealand according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1004/S00014.htm

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Treasury gets gloomier on finance companies in Feb [2]

[2] - http://business.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/09/treasury-gets-gloomier-on-finance-companies-in-feb/ [2]

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Gordon Campbell: Welfare Insurance
The new working group on welfare reform to be headed by former Commerce Commission head Paula Rebstock will be looking at schemes of unemployment insurance that exist elsewhere in the world, and Canada is widely regarded as a leading source of policy ... More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/14/gordon-campbell-on-welfare-insurance/

Rudd’s Refugee Woes: The Afghan and Sri Lankan Dilemma
The Australian government, as is often the case on the perennial matter of refugees, is muddled about its role in the world. The latest update in the sordid treatment it has offered Sri Lankan and Afghan refugees is that its information on the security... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00095.htm

UK Decides: An Occasional Election Diary from Margaret Thompson in London
Yesterday, Monday 12 April, the Union Jacks flew above all the important buildings in Whitehall at half mast in tribute to the Polish President who, along with 95 others, died in the horrific plane crash in Russia. But in the media, the election has returned ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00087.htm

Jim Miles: Water - driving Israel’s need for more land and more power
There is a global crisis emerging concerning the allocation, uses, and abuses of fresh water. This is a combination of misuse by humans and the increasing violence and changing frequency of various weather conditions as the global climate heats ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00092.htm

Gordon Campbell: New Zealand's Anti-Nuclear Posturing
New Zealand's national identity is very much based on our sense of virtuous purity – and the feeling that we can provide a shining example to an outside world riven by conflict and greedy self interest. If only people were more like us. If only they ... More »[1]

[1] - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/13/campbell-on-new-zealands-anti-nuclear-posturing/

Scoop Audio: Prime Minister John Key interview with Connie Lawn
Scoop’s United States correspondent Connie Lawn speaks with Prime Minister John Key regarding yesterday’s meeting with US Vice-President Joe Biden and the latest round of nuclear disarmament talks. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00077.htm

Paul G. Buchanan: All For Being Against--but is Being All Against Enough?
One simple way of distinguishing between political ideologies and political movements is to focus on whether they are proactive or reactive in nature. That is to say, the dividing line is drawn by whether they are founded upon being for or against ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00062.htm

John Minto: An Apology From The NZRU Is In Order
Jock Hobbs - where are you? An apology is in order for the families of Maori rugby players excluded from All Black tours to South Africa for nearly 50 years in deference to that country’s racially prejudiced policies. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00063.htm

Martin LeFevre: Nuclear Half Measures
The stage is set for Israel to take military action against Iran. And Obama’s “new” nuclear policy opens the door to Israel’s use of nuclear weapons. How? A Nuclear Posture Review that carves out exceptions for “outliers like Iran and North Korea,”... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00068.htm

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Cartoonist Carlos Latuff on Israel vs Iran [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00071.htm [2]

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LIFESTYLE

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Scoop Review Of Books: War In All Its Ugliness
As the attention of the West shifts away from Iraq and increasingly towards Afghanistan, The Good Soldiers is a timely and quite exceptional insight into the experiences of US soldiers in Iraq at the height of George W. Bush’s ’surge’ . More »[1]

[1] - http://books.scoop.co.nz/2010/04/12/war-in-all-its-ugliness/

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Reservoir Hill [2]

[2] - http://tvnz.co.nz/reservoir-hill/ta-ent-index-group-2985476" target="_blank [2]

NZ On Screen:"This Is NZ" Top's The Top 10 for March 2010
March's Top 10 is brought to you with a twist: this month we've filtered the 'most viewed' chart to show the Top 10 titles viewed in New Zealand. The usual suspects feature (Billy T, motor-racing), plus a trio of NZ screen taonga: a taster for epic ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00050.htm

Wellington.Scoop: Is Not Being Able To Fit Metallica Really A Problem?
What do you do if you own a waterfront events centre which has been reviled as looking like a Soviet ablution block? What do you do when almost all the reviews criticise its acoustics and sightlines? The last thing you’d do would be to consider making it bigger. More »[1]

[1] - http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23455

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WORLD

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Media Decree: Law Threatens Journalists
The Fijian government will be able to imprison journalists for up to five years, obliterating media freedom, if its Cabinet adopts a repressive draft Media Decree today, says Amnesty International. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00181.htm

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Media Censorship A Step Backwards For Fiji [2]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00095.htm [2]

Plane Crash: Ban Pays Tribute After Polish Leader Killed
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his shock and sadness after learning of today's plane crash in western Russia that has killed the Polish President, his wife and many senior Government officials. More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00141.htm

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The Death of Polish President Kaczynski [2]

Labour mourns with Poland [3]

[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00155.htm [2]

[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00098.htm [3]

Tonga: Statement On Ashika Royal Commission Report
“His Majesty’s Government, having studied the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry established to investigate the circumstances surrounding the loss of the MV Princess Ashika and the subsequent tragic loss of life, is satisfied that all ... More »[1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00126.htm

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