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The changes in Australia means smokers will have to fork out another two dollars 16 cents Australian for a pack of 30 cigarettes. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

The Minister for Social Development and Employment has defended Work and Income's determination to get people into jobs, after it sent a 78-year-old woman letters urging her to sign up for work. Audio

Terrified bank customers and staff were held at gunpoint and threatened with a crowbar at the ASB bank in the Auckland suburb of Three Kings today. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

New Zealanders are now being warned not to travel to any parts of Thailand as the violence and civil unrest escalates. Audio

Hundreds of mourners have packed a hangar at Ohakea Air Base today, for the military funerals of three airmen killed in the ANZAC Day Iroquois crash. Audio

Simon Hayes's wife owns the children's clothing store Rockies which is on lower Beach Street in Queenstown. Audio

Our Queenstown reporter Steve Wilde is at the lake front. Audio

Lake Wakatipu is rising and predicted to flood Queenstown streets overnight. Audio

The American defence secretary Robert Gates has accused Syria and Iran of supplying increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Audio

The price of Diesel is continuing to increase, and it seems to be closing in on the cost of petrol. Audio