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Morning Report for Monday 27 March 2017
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Top Stories for Monday 27 March 2017
6:00 AM.Hit and Run : book's authors defend "major inaccuracies" claim, Afghan raids: Independent inquiry warranted, Steep cliffs and rock falls in search area for missing woman, and Afghan raids: Prime… Read more Audio
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Efforts to mediate before reaching Family Court 'not working'
6:14 AM.The Family Dispute Resolution Service was supposed to help estranged parents - with the help of a mediator - reach agreement on things like custody arrangements without having to set foot into court… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 27 March 2017
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 27 March 2017
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Strains begin to show in Maori, Mana parties relationship
6:46 AM.Mana Party Leader Hone Harawira says his supporters may choose to ignore the deal he's struck with the Maori Party because of the Maori Partys' bill to reform Maori land legislation Audio
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Business News for 27 March 2017
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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'Hit and Run' author defends "major inaccuracies" claim
7:11 AM."I find it completely staggering that after five days this is what they have come up with because it is completely lacking in credibility." Hit and Run co-author Nicky Hager responds to the Defence… Read more Audio
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Afghan raids: Independent inquiry warranted
7:19 AM.The Human Rights Foundation sides with Nicky Hager. The foundation's Peter Hosking, says he's as astonished as Nicky Hager is by the Defence Force's claims. "It all seems to me to be obsfucation… Read more Audio
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Steep cliffs and rock falls in search area for missing woman
7:25 AM.Auckland woman Kim Bambus has been missing since Friday morning when she drove her yellow car to Piha's Ahuahu Track for a jog, as Joanna MacKenzie reports. Read more Audio
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Afghan raids: Prime Minister - war crimes inquiry not on the table
7:28 AM.The Prime Minister Bill English says so far no inquiry is warranted. He says in any event there's unlikely to be an inquiry into war crimes "If it's a case, as it appears to be, that all the… Read more Video, Audio
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Prime Minister to hold first meeting with Chinese Premier today
7:40 AM.Li Keqiang flew into Wellington last night for the official visit, with his wife Cheng Hong, and a business delegation, as our political reporter Demelza Leslie reports. Read more Audio
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Maori, Mana parties clash over 'poisonous' bill
7:44 AM.The Maori Party has spearheaded a new bill proposing major changes to the governance and administration of Maori land parcels with the aim of streamlining decision making about how the land is used --… Read more Audio
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Advocate calls for a solution for seasonal worker exploitation
7:48 AM.A showdown is brewing in Marlborough over the exploitation of seasonal workers from the Pacific employed by contractors operating on vineyards. Contractors on some of Marlborough's biggest vineyards… Read more Audio
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Family Dispute Resolution Service failing
7:53 AM.Radical changes to the Family Court to get warring couples into mediation appear to be faltering with a large number of people granted exemptions simply because they don't want to go, as Catherine… Read more Audio
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Search resumes this morning for missing Auckland jogger
7:58 AM.Police have resumed their search for Auckland nurse Kim Bambus who went missing in Piha on Friday. Audio
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Afghan Raids: requires police investigation not public inquiry
8:11 AM.The Prime Minister has ruled out any immediate inquiry into into allegations New Zealand SAS officers were involved in civilian deaths in Afghanistan in 2010. But Wellington lawyer, Graeme Edgeler… Read more Audio
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Chinese enterprises in talks to house workers on cruise ship
8:18 AM.Chinese are among the bidders lining up now for what amounts to the country's biggest ever infrastructure project, the $3.5 billion city rail link, as Phil Pennington reports. Audio
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MPI senior manager taking Kaikohe's youth crime in hand
8:22 AM.Youth crime in Kaikohe is about to get straightened out as an unlikely ally steps in. Senior MPI manager, Ben Dalton, who's from Kaikohe, is on a mission to help fix the problem. Audio
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"What Price Power" Former Green MP Sue Bradford slams Greens' deal with Labour
8:28 AM.Left think tank spokesperson, Sue Bradford raises concerns that the Greens are making a mistake in their agreement with Labour. Dr Bradford says the Greens need to remember that not only centre and… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 27 March 2017
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Tax specialist with NZ link sues Uber for tax avoidance
8:39 AM.A tax specialist whose early life was spent in New Zealand is taking Uber to court over tax avoidance. If he succeeds, the company would owe the British government hundreds of millions in tax. Read more Audio
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Report: Electricity technology will harm the poor
8:45 AM.The report says technology such as solar panels and high-performance batteries are likely to make 80 percent of low income people worse off, as Eric Frykberg reports. Audio
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Researchers want replacement for deciles
8:49 AM.Education researchers are worried replacing the decile system will make it harder to monitor the impact of disadvantage on children, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen reports. Audio
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Forget the red vs white debate- blue wine is the latest trend
8:53 AM."We wanted to create an innovation in the market, we wanted to make something different, we wanted to target people the traditional wine indsutry cannot target." Iñigo Alday, one of the founders of… Read more Audio
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Restoring a history embedded in glass
8:56 AM.A long-running project to preserve rare photographs held by the Nelson Provincial Museum, has been given a last-minute financial boost to help it over the finish line, as our Nelson reporter Tracy… Read more Audio