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Morning Report for Thursday 20 August 2009
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Top stories for 20 August 2009
6:00 AM.Morning Report's Top Stories is hosted today by Geoff Robinson and Todd Niall. Dozens killed in Baghdad attacks, 9 college students suspended over brawl, School principal says its time to get back to… Read more Audio
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Education Minister criticised over school reviews
6:11 AM.Another school community says it has been left feeling let down by Education Minister Anne Tolley. Audio
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Taiwan's typhoon deathtoll hits 500
6:13 AM.A group of ministers in Taiwan's government have offered to resign following criticism they were too slow to respond to last week's typhoon that killed more than 500 people. Audio
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Pacific news for 20 August 2009
6:18 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 20 August 2009
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Waatea news
6:27 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Schoolboy rugby players suspended after brawl
6:39 AM.Nine schoolboy rugby players have been suspended after a brawl between the first 15s of two of Auckland's biggest schools. Audio
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Morning business
6:47 AM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Dozens killed in Baghdad attacks
7:10 AM.At least one hundred people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in five bomb blasts in central Baghdad. Audio
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9 college students suspended over brawl
7:13 AM.The Auckland Rugby Union disciplinary committee has suspended nine students involved in the brawl between Kelston Boys High and Auckland Grammar. Audio
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School principal says its time to get back to the rugby
7:17 AM.The fallout from the brawl means Auckland Grammar will have to dramatically alter its team to play in the Auckland schools final at Eden Park this weekend. Audio
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Hide denies using coercion over Maori seats
7:21 AM.Rodney Hide has been forced to deny he's threatening to split the Government over the issue of Maori seats on the Auckland SuperCity. Audio
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Maori Party speaks out over supercity seats
7:27 AM.National's other coalition partner the Maori Party is pushing for reserved Maori seats on the supercity. Its co leader Tariana Turia joins us now. Audio
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Key says MP gave him 'personal assurance' over allegations
7:35 AM.The Prime Minister John Key says he has had a personal assurance from his MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi that there is nothing to the allegations against him around an immigration case. Audio
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Security forces on high alert in Afghanistan on eve of election
7:39 AM.Security forces are on high alert in Afghanistan in the face of Taliban threat to disrupt the national presidential election. Audio
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Sports news
7:45 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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PM says shared currency with Australia unlikely
7:47 AM.The Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand is unlikely to ever adopt the Australian dollar as it would lose control of monetary policy. Audio
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Expert tells court boarding company had safety deficiences
7:53 AM.A white water expert has told a court considering the drowning of English tourist Emily Jordan in the Kawarau River last April that there were major deficiencies in the way a river boarding company… Read more Audio
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Push to change adoption laws praised by same sex couples
7:57 AM.Same sex couples are welcoming a Judge's push to overhaul adoption laws and officially recognise them as parents. Audio
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Mayors respond to Hide's threat to resign
8:10 AM.Local Government Minister Rodney Hide says he will resign the job if the Government decides to have Maori seats on Auckland's new super-city. Audio
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College sport head cites lesson from brawl
8:15 AM.The principal of Kelston Boys High School says he is struggling to accept the long bans imposed on his rugby players for their part in last weekend's brawl. Audio
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Schools to bar some children if measles spread
8:20 AM.The Ministry of Health is warning that children not immunised or who have not had measles will be barred from schools that have an outbreak. Audio
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Usain Bolt into final of 200 metre race in Berlin
8:23 AM.Not content with his one hundred metres world record, Jamaica's Usain Bolt has set his sights on the two hundred metre event in Berlin, qualifying fastest for the final. Audio
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Afghan New Zealanders hope for trouble free election
8:28 AM.The polls open in a few hours in Afghanistan's presidential elections, a cliffhanger of a vote which Taliban militants have vowed to disrupt. Audio
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Markets update
8:29 AM.A quick update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Sports news
8:35 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Fierce debate over Auckland local body assets
8:41 AM.A bill aimed at preventing the sale of local body assets in Auckland resulted in furious exchanges in Parliament last night. Audio
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Feasibility study backs Tarras water scheme
8:45 AM.Backers of an irrigation scheme to take water out of the Clutha River say it's closer to reality now a feasibility study has backed it. Audio
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Waatea news
8:48 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Matariki holiday bid fails
8:51 AM.A Bill in the name of the Maori Party MP, Rahui Katene, seeking to make the Maori New Year, Matariki, into a new holiday was narrowly defeated in Parliament last night. Audio
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Scrutiny over Trade Me's wine sales venture
8:54 AM.Internet auctioneers Trade Me is now allowing on-line wine sales but says it is confident the drink won't get into the hands of minors. Audio
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Ashes preview
8:57 AM.Crickets oldest rivals, England and Australia, are about to head into the final Ashes test later today at the Oval Ground in London. Audio