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Midday Report for Friday 9 April 2021
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Crowd-funding to buy ancestral whenua
12:44 PM.A Wairarapa hapū is hoping to crowd fund half-a-million dollars to buy back a piece of ancestral whenua. Ngāti Kahukuraawhitia has its eye on 182 hectares by the Waiohine river and ancestral maunga… Read more Audio
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Festival drug testing to become permanent
12:42 PM.The government will make drug testing a permanent fixture at events like music festivals. The Drug Checking Act expires at the end of the year, but will now be made permanent as the government says… Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 9 April 2021
12:35 PM.A rural GP says the nationwide bowel screening programme will miss the mark with his patient group and its success will be limited. Audio
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Midday Sports News for 9 April 2021
12:28 PM.The Black Ferns Sevens team won't attend the two World Series tournaments in Paris next month. Which means their Olympic preparations will be extremely limited as those tournaments are the only World… Read more Audio
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Midday Business News for 9 April 2021
12:20 PM.Air New Zealand's delay to its capital raise will allow the airline to nail down exactly how much cash it needs, according to an investment analyst. Audio
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School students go on strike for climate crisis
12:18 PM.Classrooms throughout the country have been abandoned today, as school students go on strike to draw attention to the climate crisis.
Young people want to see urgent action taken to reduce emissions… Read more Audio
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Govt wants stricter freedom camping rules
12:17 PM.The government wants stricter rules for freedom campers - including fines of up to one thousand dollars for those who break the rules.
The Tourism Minister is proposing limiting freedom camping to… Read more Audio
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How can travelers from high-risk Covid-19 countries stay safe?
12:15 PM.The majority of Covid-19 cases caught at the border in the last month were among travelers from India.
The government's temporarily suspending travel from there, while it looks at how it can… Read more Audio
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Border management under close scrutiny
12:11 PM.The government's management of the border is under increasing scrutiny today, after it temporarily suspended all travel from India to New Zealand.
It says that's due to an explosion in Covid-19… Read more Audio
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Midday News for 9 April 2021
12:00 PM.Debate erupts over the ban on Indian arrivals. Audio