Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 14 2010

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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For April 14 2010

1: NZ’s First PPP Prison To Be Built At Wiri

New Zealand Government

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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00136.htm

2: Friedmanite Fringe Influencing Govt Welfare Policy

Green Party

Any group tasked with looking at welfare in New Zealand needs to have significant input from those who work with beneficiaries, said Green Party unemployment spokesperson Catherine Delahunty.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00139.htm

3: Good Progress On Single Economic Market

New Zealand Government

Commerce Minister Simon Power today said good progress was being made on advancing the single economic market between Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00138.htm

4: Power: Speech to Trans-Tasman Business Circle

New Zealand Government

The evolution of the trans-Tasman relationship stands in contrast to Europe’s political and economic integration. New Zealand and Australia have a shared colonial experience – with some differences – in a very distant part of the world.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00137.htm

5: Westcon To Distribute SMX Email Security Service

SMX

Westcon Group, one of Australia's largest IT distributors, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for the innovative SMX anti-spam and anti-virus email filtering service
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00273.htm

6: Fonterra In Firing Line From GM Milk

GE Free NZ

Plans by AgResearch to produce Genetically Modified milk for overseas companies GTC and Pharming, put Fonterra in the firing line of a consumer backlash.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00123.htm

7: Banks – Open to Sensible Options on Queens Wharf

John Banks

Auckland Mayor John Banks says he remains willing to work with the Government to develop a sensible outcome for party central on Queens Wharf. “I have consistently said that something great should be built on Queens Wharf."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00129.htm

8: WikiLeaks cracks video of second US massacre

Wikileaks

The whisteblower website WikiLeaks -- which exploded onto the national stage earlier this month after it released a video recording showing US servicemembers shooting two reporters and six others to death -- says they plan to release another, even ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00205.htm

9: Private Prisons Are A Recipe For Disaster

Green Party

Building private prisons will make New Zealand’s criminal justice system worse, said the Green Party today. John Key’s Government today announced plans for a private prison to be built in Wiri. It will be built using a public-private partnership (PPP) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00144.htm

10: Appointments to 20 polytech councils announced

New Zealand Government

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has today announced Ministerial appointments to the new councils of all 20 polytechnics.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00133.htm

11: House Price Increases Driving Auckland Renovation

Builderscrack

It is a good time to be a tradesman serving the North Shore of Auckland, but those in Tauranga, Rotorua and Queenstown are likely to continue to find it tough for some time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00250.htm

12: Suzan Mazur: The President's Man

Suzan Mazur

A recent auction of the effects of Washington lawyer Clark M. Clifford may supply valuable clues into some of the mysteries of the age, suggests Suzan Mazur
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0412/S00161.htm

13: Bill Clinton’s Heavy Hand on Haiti

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Did President Clinton and other recent White House tenants condemn Haiti to a future of endemic poverty through a self-serving U.S. rice export policy? An examination of Haiti’s economic liberalization strategies of the 1980s and 1990s indicates ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00235.htm

14: Jailing Is Job For State, Not Private Enterprise

New Zealand Labour Party

Locking people up in jails is a job for the state, not for private businesses whose prime motivation will inevitably be to make money out of a PPP venture, says Labour Law and Order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00143.htm

15: John Key: Speech To US/NZ Council

New Zealand Government

Along with about 40 heads of government, we have been talking about working together – to improve the security of the world’s nuclear material and to prevent nuclear smuggling and terrorism.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00140.htm

16: More Short-Sighted Plans From Steven Joyce

New Zealand Labour Party

Selling off the student union building to make up for a shortfall in education funding will do nothing to secure the financial future of our Universities, says Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson, Maryan Street.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00141.htm

17: Real Estate Sales Consultants Exchange Blows…

Bayley's Real Estate

In a crushing victory in the boxing ring, big-hitting Bayleys Canterbury residential sales consultant Mark O’Loughlin knocked over his opponent from Harcourts in a charity boxing Fight for Youth event held in Christchurch on the weekend.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00316.htm

18: National continues to undermine Tertiary education

New Zealand Labour Party

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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00113.htm

19: Binoy Kampmark: Rudd’s Refugee Woes

Binoy Kampmark

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 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1004/S00095.htm

20: Time To Declare Truce In War On Cannabis Users

NORML

Dakta Green, Auckland spokesperson for marijuana law reform organisation NORML NZ, today called for a truce in the war on cannabis as he prepares to take Mary Jane the Cannabus out on the 'Armistice Tour' to urge the Government to change its stance ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00137.htm

21: Stop Cutting Public Health Services

Green Party

"Auckland DHB is being forced to cut the funding and staffing of their public health service because of a short sighted policy by Minister of Health Tony Ryall," said Green Party Health Spokesperson Kevin Hague.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00110.htm

22: Key Should Show Courage On Nuclear issue

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour is questioning the Prime Minister's reluctance to talk about New Zealand's nuclear free policy at President Obama's nuclear security summit, said Labour's spokesperson on Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00142.htm

23: “Gears Of War 3" Tippped As Biggest Game Of 2011

Xbox 360

The spectacular conclusion to one of the game industry’s most memorable and celebrated sagas, “Gears of War 3”, is poised to take the world by storm next autumn.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1004/S00022.htm

24: Tertiary Institutions Free To Develop Campuses

New Zealand Government

The government has announced it will give tertiary education institutions more control over how their land and buildings are managed, allowing them to provide better learning environments in the future.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00134.htm

25: Lighthouse Gin – A Kiwi Shining Light

JRPR

M edia release Lighthouse Gin – A Kiwi Shining Light In the few short months since its first release, New Zealand’s own super premium Lighthouse Gin is exceeding expectations – and it may well be the uniquely Kiwi twist to the classic formula ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1004/S00311.htm

26: Temporary Option For Queens Wharf Only Choice

Auckland Regional Council

The Auckland Regional Council and Government are looking at temporary options for Queens Wharf because current Auckland mayors had a collective failure of leadership, said ARC Chairman Mike Lee today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1004/S00140.htm

27: Housing shortage faked to drive up prices

Citizens Electoral Council

There is no housing shortage in Australia; rather, tens of thousands of empty homes in each capital city are being kept off the market to force property prices up, and sucker investors into becoming debt mules as they race to get into the market.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00204.htm

28: Polytechnic Council Appointees Ignore Staff Voice

Tertiary Education Union

Steven Joyce's ministerial appointments to polytechnic councils are not representative of the sector says TEU national president Dr Tom Ryan. "Looking through the names it appears that not one single staff member has been appointed to the Council.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1004/S00028.htm

29: Goff: Address to Grey Power AGM

New Zealand Labour Party

There are a number of changes being made that affect senior New Zealanders, and I want to focus my comments on these today: The changes in the tax system that increase the GST you pay; The long term future of superannuation; And cuts to health care.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00131.htm

30: Securities Commission member resigns

New Zealand Government

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.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1004/S00121.htm

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