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6:12 PM.A closed door meeting is underway between Auckland's mayor and the Minister of Housing over how best to solve the city's housing shortage. Audio

6:08 PM.The Earthquake Commission has been forced into an embarrassing admission that the details of all 83-thousand clients in its Canterbury Home Repair programme have been accidentally emailed to the wrong… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.The lawyer for a former director of two failed finance companies has told a court that he had nothing to gain financially from breaching the companies' trust deeds and in hindsight, would have done… Read more Audio

5:47 PM.Higher Government standards in the home-based health support sector have prompted a Maori provider in Gisborne to pull the pin on its care service; The Maori Council is fully supporting the… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.To Canberra now, where Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unveiled her new frontbench line-up, following last week's farcical leadership challenge. Audio

5:41 PM.A Westport lawyer who put coins in his mouth to try to trick a breath-test may be suspended from practising for two years if the Law Society standards committee gets its way. Audio

5:37 PM.The Earthquake Commission has admitted the details of all 83-thousand clients in its Canterbury Home Repair programme have been accidentally emailed to the wrong place, not just the almost 10 thousand… Read more Audio

5:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:28 PM.The funeral has taken place today for Sir Ewan Jamieson, the former Chief of Defence during the ANZUS crisis in the mid eighties. Audio

5:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:21 PM.The Labour Party is demanding answers to how a man, electronically monitored on home detention, managed to flee New Zealand and go on to be charged with brutally attacking a sex worker in Canada. Audio

5:16 PM.A deal to save the Cyprus banking system from collapse has finally been hammered out after hours of gruelling negotiations right down to the wire. Audio

5:12 PM.The EQC's chief executive, Ian Simpson says the mistake is embarrassing and in hindsight the commission should have dug more deeply before going public with the breach on Friday shortly after it… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.The Earthquake Commission has admitted its privacy breach was almost 10 times worse than it had said, with the details of all 83-thousand clients in its Canterbury Home Repair programme being emailed… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.EQC admits its privacy breach is much worse than first reported. Finally a deal to save Cyprus banks from collapse and electronic monitoring of criminals under scrutiny. Audio

6:53 PM.The Tuhoe chief negotiator, Tamati Kruger, is being praised for his tenacity in securing a Treaty agreement with the Crown; Two Maori immersion schools are refusing to budge from their sites, despite… Read more Audio

6:38 PM.The Government is still refusing to abandon the error-ridden Novopay system, even though a review has found the school payroll remains unstable and the taxpayer bailout for it has surged to at least… Read more Audio

6:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:26 PM.A new Australian study has found the ocean's top predator, the great white shark, needs to eat three to four times more often than previously thought. Audio

6:24 PM.The Human Rights commissioner is going in to bat for uninsured red-zoned property owners who want more time to consider their land compensation offers. Audio

6:21 PM.Little growth in the labour market. Audio

6:14 PM.Critics of proposed reforms of the Resource Management Act say they tip the balance too far in favour of farmers and business. Audio

6:11 PM.The Fiji regime's draft constitution is being described as a recipe to enable the present regime to stay in power. Audio

6:07 PM.The Government says a serious privacy breach by the Earthquake Commission where information on almost ten thousand claims was emailed to someone outside EQC was noticed within minutes and no one… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.Telecom will have the final figure on job cuts at the company in a matter of weeks and says the number could be as high as 15-hundred but could also be more or less. Audio