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Morning Report for Thursday 27 April 2017
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Top Stories for Thursday 27 April 2017
6:00 AM.Forensic experts begin to piece together fatal Invercargill shooting, New Zealand's use of seclusion and restraint practices lambasted, Censor creates new rating for controversial Netflix series, and… Read more Audio
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Children's Commissioner says report will shake up Govt
6:09 AM.Children's Commissioner says the report looking at seclusion gives New Zealand "probably the only chance in our lifetime," to once and for all end the practice of putting children and teenagers in… Read more Audio
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Major tax reforms announced in the US
6:15 AM.The Trump administration has just announced a package of major tax reforms. It's proposing a 15 percent tax rate for business, to reduce the number of tax brackets from 7 to 3 and to double the… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 27 April 2017
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 27 April 2017
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Invercargill police shocked at murder charge for officer
6:39 AM.Invercargill police say they're shocked to be investigating one of their own for murder. Southern District Commander, Superintendent Paul Basham says it's a huge tragedy for everyone involved." our… Read more Audio
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Business News for 27 April 2017
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Forensic experts begin to piece together Invercargill shooting
7:11 AM.Invercargill police say they're shocked to be investigating one of their own for murder. Constable Ben McLean, who is 47, was charged yesterday with murdering his estranged wife Verity and attempting… Read more Audio
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New Zealand's use of restraint practices lambasted
7:15 AM.The report called 'Thinking Outside The Box' found prisoners in New Zealand were four times more likely to be secluded than prisoners in England and Wales while Maori and women were the most likely… Read more Audio
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New Zealand's rate of restraint alarmingly high- expert
7:19 AM.Sharon Shalev from the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford has reported on the use of solitary confinement and restraint techniques in New Zealand prisons and hospitals. She says the… Read more Audio
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Censor creates new rating for controversial Netflix series
7:25 AM.The Censor's office has created an entirely new classification specifically for the Netflix show about teenage suicide, 13 Reasons Why. It's now RP18 which means someone under 18 needs to view the… Read more Audio
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Biggest change in tax US since Reagan era just announced
7:31 AM.The White House is calling it the most significant tax reform legislation since 1986 and one of the biggest tax cuts in American history. Geof Nightingale from Price Waterhouse Coopers, says the… Read more Audio
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One building, three engineers, three very different opinions
7:40 AM.Three structural engineers have separately studied a Wellington office block in the wake of the Kaikoura earthquake. Their assessments vary from potentially less than a third of the New Building… Read more Audio
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Herald accuses Winston Peters of Donald Trump tactics
7:44 AM.The New Zealand Herald says the New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has stooped to a new low in politics by using tactics straight out of the Donald Trump playbook, as Demelza Leslie reports. Audio
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Small town team aimin to blaze through Hip Hop nationals
7:48 AM.A dance company in small town Kerikeri is bringing its "fierce little girls" to the stage as the national Hip-Hop competition gets under way in Auckland, as Leigh Marama McLachlan reports. Audio
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US now tops global list of cyber terrorism targets
7:50 AM.Symantec says cyber terrorists shift and innovate, and attacks can come from all over the world. The global internet security company's technology strategist says Kiwis are getting twice as many… Read more Audio
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Civilian defence force staff picket in front of Ferry Terminal
7:55 AM.Civilian staff from the Devonport naval base are picketing today in front of the Devonport Ferry Terminal in support of nationwide campaign for better pay and conditions. They say they haven't had a… Read more Audio
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Corrections vows to learn from critical HRC report
8:11 AM.Corrections defends what they've doing within the prisons to keep people safe, pointing out there has been just one suicide in the past business year in prison. "At risk units have a place but what we… Read more Audio
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Group highlights better alternative to seclusion, restraint
8:18 AM.Robyn Shearer, the chief executive of mental health workforce development group Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui, says solitary confinement and restraint techniques used in New Zealand result in poor outcomes… Read more Audio
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Will Trump's anger Canada's dairy industry extend to NZ?
8:24 AM.Charles Finny says Donald Trump's rhetoric against Canadian dairy farmers is a world away from New Zealand with its very different dairy industry. New Zealand exports around a billion dollars of dairy… Read more Audio
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Engineering report variations for high rise 'very concerning'
8:27 AM.Three different earthquake ratings by three different engineers for the same Wellington high-rise has the engineering industry concerned. One structural engineer has told a tenant of Alcatel-Lucent… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 27 April 2017
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Trump briefs senators on North Korea at White House
8:37 AM.There's been a meeting between the US president Donald Trump and the entire Senate at to the White House to be briefed on the escalating crisis between the US and North Korea. "It's a legitimate and… Read more Audio
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Electricity Authority forging ahead with pricing changes
8:43 AM.The Electricity Authority is forging ahead with its controversial changes to transmission pricing.That's despite a report into the changes found them to be deeply flawed.Under the new proposal, people… Read more Audio
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Health Minister backs schools raising funds selling chocolate
8:49 AM.Health Minister Jonathan Coleman is not backing calls from the Ministry of Education's newly appointed chief nutrition advisor for schools to stop selling chocolate bars to raise funds, as Emile… Read more Audio
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Spray and pray also used in Southland
8:53 AM.The controversial farming method where hillsides are stripped of vegetation using weed killer and sewn with winter feed crops has many of the same negative consequences for the environment in… Read more Audio
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Ontario to test free income in three of its cities
8:56 AM.Ontario is rolling out a pilot universal basic income scheme in three of its cities to test if the extra funds will help improve job prospects and quality of life. Roughly 4-thousand recipients will… Read more Audio