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Morning Report for Tuesday 16 July 2019
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Top Stories for Tuesday 16 July 2019
6:00 AM.Williamson would rather 'fine print' didn't decide World Cup, Black Caps coach says losing on a technicality is tough, Cricket's overthrow rule explained, March of the Penguins - across busy… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 16 July 2019
6:06 AM.Black Caps bowling coach Shane Jurgensen has revealed they didn't prepare for a super over ahead of the Cricket World Cup final. Audio
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Former cricketer dissects World Cup match
6:09 AM.A veteran cricketer believes New Zealand and England should have shared the Cricket World Cup.
John Morrison played for New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s.
He told RNZ reporter, Jonathan Mitchell, he… Read more Audio
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NZ Cricket have no complaints about how final was decided
6:11 AM.The chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, David White, says they have no complaints about how the final result was decided.
The score was tied at 241 apiece after normal play, forcing the Black… Read more Audio
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Research shows people are born with predisposition to anorexia
6:18 AM.New research into anorexia nervosa has found people are born with a biological predisposition to developing the eating disorder.
Nicki Wilson is the chair of the Eating Disorders Association.
She… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 16 July 2019
6:20 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and a catch up on overnight action on financial markets. Audio
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India likely to push for Cricket World Cup rule change
6:42 AM.A senior editor with cricket news website Cricinfo in India says she expects India to push for changes in the rules for the next World Cup, which will be held in the subcontinent.
Corin Dann spoke to… Read more Audio
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Vegans told putting stickers on supermarket meat is illegal
6:46 AM.The meat industry says it hopes the actions of vegans who put stickers on meat in supermarkets to stop people buying it doesn't become more widespread in New Zealand.
Supermarkets across New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Business News for 16 July 2019
6:49 AM.Port of Napier unveils share float pricing, and hopes for strong local participation. NZ Super Fund looks for tourism investments after backing hotel venture. Global markets flat after soft China… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 16 July 2019
7:06 AM.Black Caps captain Kane Williamson expects the pain of the Cricket World Cup final defeat will linger for a while yet. Audio
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Williamson would rather 'fine print' didn't decide World Cup
7:10 AM.A day after the stunning finale of the Cricket World Cup, the Black Caps captain has admitted he'd rather the game hadn't been decided by 'fine print'.
England won the epic final - after a tied game… Read more Video, Audio
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Black Caps coach says losing on a technicality is tough
7:14 AM.The Black Caps captain has admitted he'd rather the Cricket World Cup final hadn't been decided by 'fine print'.
England won the epic final - after a tied game and a super over, the cricket… Read more Audio
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Cricket's overthrow rule explained
7:16 AM.Did the winner of the Cricket World Cup come down to the misinterpretation of a little known rule called the overthrow rule?
Cricket experts think it may well have done.
Lawrence Booth is editor of… Read more Audio
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March of the Penguins - across busy Wellington roads
7:22 AM.Department of Conservation rangers are on high alert for 'penguin call outs' after they've been spotted waddling around Wellington City.
On Monday the Little Blue Penguins had to be removed from… Read more Video, Audio
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Black Caps final gives Jacinda Ardern cricket fever
7:27 AM.Not even the Prime Minister has been exempt from cricket fever, staying up most of Sunday night to watch what she has called "one of the most memorable games" in cricket history.
Despite England… Read more Audio
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Trump labelled a racist after comments against Democrats
7:36 AM.The US President Donald Trump has been labelled a racist after he lashed out at a group of left-wing Democratic women of colour.
On Twitter he told them to stop criticising America and "go back and… Read more Audio
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Councils lacking knowledge about seismic strength of buildings
7:44 AM.Local councils are being asked to sign off on major buildings when they have big gaps in what they know about the steel frames and seismic strength.
That is what the industry body Steel Construction… Read more Audio
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Cricket World Cup final an 'astonishing, preposterous' climax
7:46 AM.It's been described as the most thrilling Cricket World Cup final ever - the scores level after 50 overs, the Black Caps matching England's 15 runs in a super over, only to lose on the number of… Read more Audio
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Climate change spokesperson takes swipe at Te Papa
7:51 AM.National's climate change spokesperson, Todd Muller, has taken a swipe at Te Papa saying its new multi million dollar exhibition is "biased and not science based".
The exhibition says less dairying… Read more Audio
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Lashana Lynch cast as new James Bond
7:55 AM.Lashana Lynch has been cast as 007 in the next James Bond film.
She's the first woman and the first black 007.
Fans have been hoping for a black James Bond for years and the news has been widely… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 16 June 2019
8:06 AM.England's director of cricket Ashley Giles has brushed off claims the English were incorrectly given an extra run in their remarkable World Cup victory. Audio
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Supermarkets targeted by vegan sticker protest
8:10 AM.The meat industry says the actions of vegans who are stickering meat in supermarkets to deter people from buying it, are disturbing, and illegal.
Supermarkets hit by the protest are having to take… Read more Audio
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Global study finds people have predisposition to anorexia
8:14 AM.A global study of the DNA of people who have had anorexia nervosa has found people are born with a biological predisposition to developing the eating disorder.
The study, published in Nature Genetics… Read more Audio
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Former cricketers dissect the World Cup final
8:18 AM.It was the final that kept many of New Zealand's cricket greats on the edge of their seats.
Jonathan Mitchell spoke to some of the country's former players. Read more Audio
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Auckland prepares a heroes welcome for Black Caps
8:23 AM.Plans are underway to welcome home the Black Caps when they arrive back in New Zealand after their defeat to England in the Cricket World Cup.
The mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff, discusses plans for… Read more Audio
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Zuma claims corruption allegations are "a conspiracy"
8:26 AM.Former South African president Jacob Zuma has told an inquiry that allegations of corruption against him were a conspiracy.
The inquiry was set up to look into multiple scandals that engulfed his… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 16 June 2019
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Cultural statue vandalisation "disturbing" - Iwi leader
8:36 AM.A Northland Iwi leader says the vandalising of cultural statues is disturbing.
Earlier this year a Rangitane carving in Manawatu Gorge reserve had its wooden penis chopped off, while last week in… Read more Audio
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Te Papa rejects dairy exhibition criticism
8:42 AM.Te Papa is rejecting claims by National's Todd Muller that its latest dairy exhibition isn't science-based.
Dr Dean Peterson is Te Papa's Director of Collections and Research and speaks to Corin… Read more Audio
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Australia won't be able to keep China out of Pacific
8:48 AM.Australia's being warned it will be unable to keep China out of the Pacific as it tries to expand its "sphere of influence" and the country should urgently renew its defences.
Hugh White is a… Read more Audio
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Nomads Waikato gang leader on trial for manslaughter
8:53 AM.A Waikato gang leader and two of his associates are on trial in the High Court in Hamilton charged over the death of a Ngaruawahia man in July last year.
The 26-year old Mitchell Paterson died in… Read more Audio
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Army sends 70 more people to help in Fox landfill cleanup
8:56 AM.The Defence Force is sending two heavy trucks and deploying up to 70 more people on the West Coast to help remove garbage from a spilt landfill.
Heavy rain washed out a West Coast landfill near Fox… Read more Audio