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Midday Report for Monday 5 October 2020
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Midday News for 5 October 2020
12:00 PM.At least 40 properties are destroyed at Lake Ohau. National announces its housing policy.
Nicola Wright has the news. Read more Audio
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At least 40 homes destroyed by fire at Lake Ohau
12:11 PM.Lake Ohau residents are hoping they will have the chance to pick over the remains of their homes this afternoon, with most of the village's 50 houses thought to have been destroyed in a fire that's… Read more Audio
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Government announces funding for Lake Ohau residents after fire
12:15 PM.Residents are about to board buses to survey the damage to their homes.
RNZ's Otago-Southland reporter, Tess Bruton, has been speaking to officials and residents in the village and spoke to Māni… Read more Audio
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National to pass emergency legislation for building if elected
12:16 PM.National is promising to take urgent action to make houses more affordable if elected, by passing emergency legislation similiar to that used for the Christchurch rebuild.
National leader Judith… Read more Audio
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Midday Business News for 5 October 2020
12:21 PM.Fonterra will sell its China farms back to a local company for half a billion dollars, as it continues to look for ways to pay down debt.
Gyles Beckford has te pūrongo pakihi. Read more Audio
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Midday Sports News for 5 October 2020
12:28 PM.The pressure is on the White Ferns batters to perform in today's second cricket one dayer against Australia.
Barry Guy has te pūrongo hakinakina. Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 5 October 2020
12:35 PM.Farmers fear there will be more fires in future like the one near Lake Ohau because Department of Conservation land gets overgrown with vegetation, providing a fire with plenty of fuel to burn.
Eric… Read more Audio
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Two charged with Dilworth School offending named
12:42 PM.Two of the men charged with historical indecent assault linked to the Auckland boys school Dilworth case can now be named.
Alister Grant Harlow, who's 60, pleaded not guilty to one count of indecent… Read more Audio
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New polling in the Waiariki Māori electorate
12:44 PM.New polling in the Waiariki Māori electorate shows the Labour Party's Tamati Coffey is leading the Māori Party candidate, Rawiri Waititi,
The Maori Television Curia Market Research poll shows Coffey… Read more Audio
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New Caledonia narrowly rejects independence in 2nd referendum
12:52 PM.Leaders in Paris and New Caledonia are pondering what's next for the territory after voters in a second referendum narrowly rejected independence and chose to stay with France.
Under the Noumea… Read more Audio