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Morning Report for Thursday 22 February 2018
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Top Stories forThursday 22 February 2018
6:00 AM.Gita: Takaka faces huge clean-up, waits on supplies, Gita: Storm sweeps 16 slips over Takaka road, New Plymouth on boil water notice, work starts on broken pipe, Human Rights Commission under review… Read more Audio
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NZ cleans up roads, slips, fallen trees after ex-cyclone Gita
6:09 AM.Central New Zealand, especially Taranaki and the West Coast, is cleaning up after ex-cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand on Tuesday and Wednesday. RNZ reporter Laura Dooney joins us with details of… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 22 February 2018
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Gita: Food shortage hits Takaka, cut off after storm
6:40 AM.It could be a year before the top of the South Island gets back to normal after the damage wrought by Cyclone Gita. Thousands of people are still trapped in Golden Bay after after huge slips on the… Read more Audio
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Gita: Storm damages Wellington, South Island highways
6:43 AM.A number of main roads, including SH1 near Paekakariki and SH60 in Golden Bay, were closed on Wednesday as ex-cyclone Gita swept over the New Zealand coastline, bringing landslips, fallen trees and… Read more Audio
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Australia triumph over New Zealand at Eden Park
6:48 AM.After seven matches on either side of the Tasman, Australia's cricketers took out the T-20 Tri-Series title when they cruised to a 19-run win over New Zealand via the Duckworth-Lewis method in last… Read more Audio
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Business News for 22 February 2018
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Gita: Takaka faces huge clean-up, waits on supplies
7:10 AM.Takaka and the surrounding area faces a long and expensive clean up after Tuesday night's big storm while other areas are still being hit by the tail of former cyclone Gita. Six homes on the Kapiti… Read more Audio
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Gita: Storm sweeps 16 slips over Takaka road
7:20 AM.Takaka and the surrounding area faces a long and expensive clean up after Tuesday night's big storm while other areas are still being hit by the tail of former-cyclone Gita. In Golden Bay the… Read more Audio
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New Plymouth on boil water notice, work starts on broken pipe
7:22 AM.Repairs crews will be starting work at first light to fix the broken pipe that's cut water to a quarter of New Plymouth district's water network. A boil water notice is in place for at least a week… Read more Audio
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Justice Minister calls for Human Rights Commission review
7:38 AM.The Human Rights Commission says it dished out the appropriate punishment to a senior staff member who sexually harrassed an intern. But Justice Minister Andrew Little has called for a review. He… Read more Audio
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Human Rights Commission under review after sexual harassment
7:40 AM.The Human Rights Commission says it dished out the appropriate punishment to a senior staff member who sexually harrassed an intern. The intern told Stuff that she felt the commission was more… Read more Audio
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CTV memorial garden opens in time for quake anniversary
7:45 AM.The memorial garden that marks the site of the CTV building opens to the public today on the seventh anniversary of the quake in Christchurch. One hundred and fifteen people - two thirds of those… Read more Audio
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Stuff scraps 28 community papers, magazines
7:50 AM.Yesterday New Zealand's largest newspaper publisher Stuff confirmed plans to close or sell 28 local community and rural newspapers. The news is not entirely unexpected with the difficulties faced by… Read more Audio
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Australian abuse survivors fear NZers won't get justice
7:57 AM.Australian abuse survivors are urging New Zealand not to curtail a Royal Commission of inquiry's powers to investigate the church and other non-state groups. The story is getting a big run in the… Read more Audio
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Gita: Takaka supermarket says no need for panic
8:10 AM.Tasman District Mayor Richard Kempthorne says Takaka and the surrounding area could take a year to recover from former cyclone Gita's devastation. But residents of the Golden Bay town have been more… Read more Audio
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Florida shooting survivors march, demand gun laws change
8:10 AM.Students and survivors of a school shooting in Florida last week are in the state's capitol en-masse to discuss with politicians how to revise the state's gun laws. Some students arrived in time to… Read more Audio
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Gita: Riwaka evacuee describes panic in floodwaters
8:15 AM.The small town of Riwaka on the Nelson side of Takaka hill was one of the worst hit communities in the district in the flooding caused by former cyclone Gita. Local woman Suzette Bonar and her family… Read more Audio
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Barrytown in clean up mode
8:16 AM.On the West Coast residents in the small town of Barrytown were among some of the worst affected by former cyclone Gita. Charlie Dreaver has been there and filed this report. Audio
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Major education shake-up to review 'Tomorrow's Schools'
8:20 AM.The government's planning a three-year makeover of the education system with the aim of ensuring the sector keeps pace with the modern world. In its sights are home-based early childhood education… Read more Audio
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What do principals want from education review?
8:27 AM.The government is reviewing the Tomorrow's Schools system that underpins the way more than 2000 state schools are governed and managed. It might bring major changes, or it might tweak around the… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 22 February 2018
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Seven years on from quake, Christchurch still rebuilding
8:38 AM.It's seven years today since Christchurch was rocked by the magnitude 6.3 earthquake. It killed 185 people, injured thousands more and led to whole suburbs and most of the central city being… Read more Audio
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Govt open to reviewing Maori ward law
8:41 AM.The government is refusing to condemn as racist the law that allows Maori wards to be contested with referendums. The lobby group Hobson's Pledge has now gathered enough support to force votes in five… Read more Audio
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NZ First also holds leadership contest, of sorts
8:45 AM.In the shadows of the packed race for the National Party leadership there is another contest going on. On the same day National votes in its new team, New Zealand First will also be meeting to elect a… Read more Audio
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More visas for tradies than professionals coming into NZ
8:50 AM.Immigrants filling trade and technical jobs are outnumbering those taking professional roles for the first time. And the latest Immigration New Zealand figures show there are more labourers coming… Read more Audio
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Nauru refugee begs Jacinda Ardern for help
8:53 AM.A refugee detained by Australia on Nauru has begged Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for help before it's too late. The 55-year-old woman from Iran has been told there's an imminent risk of her sudden… Read more Audio
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Climate change could cause new Category 6 cyclone
8:55 AM.A new category of cyclone - category six - may be needed as climate change makes storms more extreme. The only thing that stopped the strongest tropical cyclone on record - Cyclone Winston - being a… Read more Audio
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Coromandel local fuming after police pollute beach
8:58 AM.Police are apologising after a cannabis spraying operation in the Coromandel went slightly awry. A helicopter was targeting parts of Kennedy Bay on Monday but when it landed on the beach, locals… Read more Audio