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Morning Report for Friday 28 April 2017
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Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
8:56 AM.It's Friday so we cross the Ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio
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Top Stories for Friday 28 April 2017
6:00 AM.Microbiologists are warning there could be thousands of cases of a dangerous potentially lethal superbug infection every year if action isn't taken immediately. Dr Joshua Freeman, a clinical… Read more Audio
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Pentagon probes Trump's ex-adviser Flynn over foreign payments
6:12 AM.President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn is the subject of a new investigation. It comes after documents obtained by a Congressional committee show General Flynn was… Read more Audio
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Guy: Limit to how much dairy intensification NZ can handle
6:18 AM.The Primary Industries Minister, Nathan Guy, says there's a limit to how much dairy intensification New Zealand can handle and the industry needs to concentrate on increasing the value of exports, not… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 28 April 2017
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 28 April 2017
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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WHO warns of rising cases of a dangerous superbug
6:39 AM.Microbiologists are warning there could be thousands of cases of an almost untreatable superbug infection every year in New Zealand if action isn't taken immediately. "Globally we are using… Read more Audio
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Business News for 28 April 2017
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Number of cases of dangerous superbug rises
7:09 AM.Microbiologists are warning there could be thousands of cases of a dangerous potentially lethal superbug infection every year if action isn't taken immediately. Dr Joshua Freeman, a clinical… Read more Audio
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Broadnose Sevengill shark thought behind Curio Bay attack
7:14 AM.A French tourist is recovering after being attacked by a shark while bodyboarding at Curio Bay on the Southland coast yesterday. Shark expert Clinton Duffy thinks the shark was likely to be a… Read more Audio
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Robertson and Joyce weigh in on the infrastructure spend-up
7:20 AM.Labour's Finance spokesman Grant Robertson isn't celebrating the government's infrastructure announcement. He says National is just trying to make up for its own infrastructure deficit and a lot more… Read more Audio
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Steven Joyce starts promising the dollars a month before Budget
7:34 AM.Steven Joyce says investment in roads is unprecedented and 'no one could have predicted' the rate of Auckland's growth. He says the growing pains means that the country is getting wealthier. Audio
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Primary Industries Minister is decades late for clean rivers
7:40 AM.Nathan Guy says there's a limit to how many dairy cows New Zealand can handle and the industry's future will rely on increasing the value rather than the volume of exports, as Jacob McSweeny reports. Audio
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Jenny Shipley launches another attack on middle class
7:42 AM.Former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley says the nation needs to have a better discussion about who needs access to the most state support, as Demelza Leslie reports. Read more Audio
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United Airlines offers a raft of changes in wake of PR blunder
7:47 AM.United Airlines says it will offer up to US$10,000 to passengers who give up seats on overbooked flights. The change comes as part of a review following an inquiry set up after a man was dragged… Read more Audio
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Most survival kits woefully lacking- Consumer NZ
7:50 AM.Consumer NZ says most pre-made emergency survival kits, including those provided by St John New Zealand, are surprisingly lacking. Suzanne Chetwin says New Zealanders should be better prepared and… Read more Audio
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Horowhenua mayor adamant he has ousted his deputy
7:55 AM.Michael Feyen insists Ross Campbell has been reinstated as his deputy after being supplanted in December. But Wayne Bishop, who took over, is still collecting the deputy mayor's pay, as Phil… Read more Audio
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RNZ Political Editor analyses infrastructure spending promise
8:10 AM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson analyses infrastructure spending promise Audio
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River campaigner challenges effluent rules
8:16 AM.Northland's river campaigner Millan Ruka is challenging the Northland Regional Council over the way it measures the effect of dairy effluent draining into rivers, as Lois Williams reports. Audio
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Edgecumbe studied to help protect other places from flood
8:20 AM.Scientists are heading to Edgecumbe next week to gather data they hope will help protect towns all around the world from the devastating effects of floods, as Rowan Quinn reports. Audio
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Post earthquake landmark in Christchurch prepares to close
8:24 AM.The Re:Start container mall was one of the first things to pop up in the city's derelict central business district after the February 2011 quake, but now it's preparing to close up shop, as Maja Burry… Read more Audio
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Cassini brings us closer to Saturn than ever before
8:28 AM.The NASA Cassini space probe has dived through the narrow gap between Saturn and its icy rings and has started sending data back to Earth. Professor Andrew Coates from University College London has… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 28 April 2017
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Record numbers taking up the national sport
8:39 AM.The popularity of women's rugby is driving up numbers of players across the country. The General Manager of Rugby Neil Sorenson says he's also hoping for more people tuning in with the current… Read more Audio
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Forestry hoping new initiative will improve accident figures
8:45 AM.Today is International Workers Memorial Day and one of the country's most dangerous industries -- forestry -- is marking it by announcing a new safety initiative. Forest Industry Safety Council's… Read more Audio
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Campaigners: Guidelines needed for medicinal cannabis policing
8:49 AM.Campaigners say the hit and miss approach to policing the use of medicinal cannabis that puts dying people before the courts but lets other off needs to be replaced with national guidelines, as Teresa… Read more Audio
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A warning not to soothe an upset child with a sweet treat
8:54 AM.A Norwegian professor of pyschology warns that parents who soothe an upset toddler with a sweet treat are setting up their child for eating problems later in life. Audio