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New car sales down by a fifth in 2020
11 Jan 2021New car sales were down by more than a fifth in 2020. And while that's a little better than the Motor Industry Association anticipated last May, when it thought sales would be down by about a third… Read more Audio
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Driver behaviour targeted to reduce road toll
11 Jan 2021Eleven people died on New Zealand's roads between Christmas Eve and January the 5th, in what was one of the country's bloodiest holiday road tolls. And the head of the Road Transport Forum says the… Read more Audio
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Republican senators call for Trump's resignation
11 Jan 2021A second Republican senator has called for the US President Donald Trump to resign following the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters last week.
Senator Pat Toomey, a conservative supporter of… Read more Audio
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Black box signals detected in Java Sea near crash
11 Jan 2021Searchers have located the black boxes of a plane that went down off the coast of Indonesia at the weekend. There were 62 passengers and crew aboard the 26-year old Boeing 737-500 which was flown by… Read more Audio
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Concerns about instability at border facilities
11 Jan 2021Nurses working at managed isolation facilities across the country have raised concerns about staff shortages and instability. These problems were formally recognised in an audit by the Ministry of… Read more Audio
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Defence against new Covid-19 strains needed - experts
11 Jan 2021New Zealand's managed isolation facilities now house both the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new strain associated with South Africa. Almost a quarter of the country's live cases… Read more Audio
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Cyber security expert on Reserve Bank breach
The Reserve Bank is urgently responding to a breach of one of its data systems. A third-party file service the bank used to store some sensitive information was hacked -- although the bank didn't say… Read more Audio
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Market reaction to US unrest
8 Jan 2021The US sharemarket has all but shrugged off the unrest on Capitol Hill -- and it's not the first time the market has done that. The Dow Jones, Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are all tracking upwards for a… Read more Audio
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Battle of Te Ruapekapeka commemorations
8 Jan 2021Commemorations are being held in Waiomio on Friday to mark the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka. On this day in 1846, British troops attacked Te Ruapekapeka Pa, beginning one of the… Read more Audio
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Surf Lifesaving NZ on Waihi Beach shark attack
8 Jan 2021A woman died at Waihi Beach in the western Bay of Plenty on Thursday in what's believed to have been a shark attack at the holiday hotspot. Emergency services were called to Waihi Beach soon after… Read more Audio
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Top White House officials resign
Some top White House officials for both Donald Trump and the First Lady have resigned at the shocking violence in Washington DC. And there are reports that some Republicans are now calling for Trump… Read more Audio
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Unscalable wall being installed around Capitol Building
A new, unscalable wall is being installed around the Capitol Building in Washington DC and the city's mayor, Muriel Bowser, has declared a state of emergency for the next two weeks. So far 68 people… Read more Audio
