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Auckland Story for 24 July 2013 - Korimovement Freedom
24 Jul 2013It was military training but not as we knew it. Now two young Aucklanders want adults to rediscover their inner child, get back on their feet, and learn to move again. Audio
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Auckland Story for 17 July 2013 - Angry Bulbul Bird
17 Jul 2013The hunt is on for the angry little bulbul bird on Auckland's North Shore. DOC staff have recorded it singing and are playing its own bird song back to it, in the hope that they may be able to trap… Read more Audio
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Red-vented bulbul bird song
17 Jul 2013The hunt is on for the angry little bulbul bird on Auckland's North Shore. DOC staff have recorded it singing and are playing its own bird song back to it, in the hope that they may be able to trap… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 10 July 2013 - Overweight Aucklanders
10 Jul 2013Auckland University is looking for 300 overweight Aucklanders to take part in a three-year study on diabetes prevention. According to Marta Silvestra New Zealand is the seventh most obese country in… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 3 July 2013 - Manatunga
3 Jul 2013They're finally putting names to some faces, thanks to an exhibition of photographs of Maori that have lain unidentified for over a hundred years. Audio
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Auckland Story for 26 June 2013 - Sustainability Street
26 Jun 2013Lisa Thompson finds out about an Australian initiative being piloted in Auckland called Sustainability Street. It's a neighbourhood approach to sustainable living which starts with a group of… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 19 June 2013 - Matariki Festival
19 Jun 2013Auckland artist Lorna Rikihana of the weaving cooperative Te Roopu Raranga o Tamaki Makaurau has organised a three day workshop at Manukau for school children on harakeke weaving, pottery and… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 12 June 2013 - Ride sharing
12 Jun 2013A car-pooling advocate says Auckland can fix its congestion problems simply, if more Auckland drivers would only share a ride to work. Audio
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Auckland Story for 5 June 2013 - Puhoi 150th
5 Jun 2013The tiny north Auckland community of Puhoi is this month celebrating its founding 150-years ago, by a boat load of settlers from Bohemia, which is now part of what is the Czech Republic. After four… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 29 May 2013 - Affordable Housing
29 May 2013Spoken Features producer Lisa Thompson finds out why a Northland housing trust is now providing accessible housing for people with disabilities in Auckland. Audio
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Auckland Story for 22 May 2013 - Halfway Down
22 May 2013First it was just a road; twenty years ago it became a song, now its art. Composer Don McGlashan's song 'Dominion Road' has become the subject of a piece of guerrilla art, halfway down Dominion Road… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 15 May 2013 - Harbour Clean Up
15 May 2013An Auckland Trust that's collected 25 million pieces of litter from the city's harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a decade has launched a new boat this week. Audio
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Auckland Story for 8 May 2013 - Greenways Cycling
8 May 2013A organisation which is pushing for more cycleways in Auckland says almost half of all Aucklanders own a bike but few use them because it's just too dangerous. Audio
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Auckland Story for 1 May 2013 - Future Population Growth
1 May 2013Auckland's population is predicted to reach two-and-a-half million people by 2043. Where will everyone live? Audio
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Auckland Story for 24 April 2013 - Refugees as Survivors
Afghan interpreters who worked with New Zealand defence force there have just moved into the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre with their families. The refugee children are being swamped with… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 17 April 2013 - Sealink
17 Apr 2013One of Auckland's oldest ferry companies wants to bring back car ferries between the city's North Shore and downtown. Sealink also proposes dramatically expanding Auckland's passenger ferry network to… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 10 April 2013 - Samoan Master Carving
10 Apr 2013A Samoan master carver is finishing his work on the last of five poles to be centre stage at a new South Auckland preschool. Each has been uniquely carved with traditional designs of five Pacific… Read more Audio
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Auckland Story for 3 April 2013 - St Stephens
3 Apr 2013A push to re-open the doors to the Anglican Maori boarding school of St Stephens is gaining traction. Audio
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Auckland Story for 27 March 2013 - Drought at Tawharunui
27 Mar 2013Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too. Audio
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Auckland Story for 20 March 2013 - Baird's Mainfreight School
20 Mar 2013In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual… Read more Audio
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