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Morning Report for Tuesday 11 February 2020
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Top Stories for Tuesday 11 February 2020
6:00 AM.Winston Peters stays in his job as the Serious Fraud Office investigates donations to New Zealand First Two months on a White Island helicopter pilot doesn't know what happened to the tourists he… Read more Audio
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Top Stories for Thursday 11 February 2021
6:00 AM.A major 7.7 earthquake hits near New Caledonia, There is no tsunami risk here but strong and unusual currents are possible from Ahipara around the top of the north island and as far south as Tolaga… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 11 February 2020
6:06 AM.The golden run continues for the captain of the New Zealand women's cricket team Read more Audio
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Airman booted out of military for drugs charges
6:13 AM.An engineer has been booted out of the Air Force and sentenced to more than 12 weeks military detention for using and attempting to sell Ecstasy.
A Court Martial has been sitting at Ōhakea Air Base… Read more Audio
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Māori Party candidate says Simon Bridges' leadership preventing a deal
6:14 AM.Māori Party candidate, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has indicated the National Party's veering to the right under the current leader is partly to blame for the parties breaking ties.
Māori Party President… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 11 February 2020
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 11 February 2020
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio
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Kiwis living in Australia battle officials for evacuation from China
6:43 AM.New Zealanders who live in Australia have had to battle officials to board an evacuation flight out of China after they were told by four separate Australian officials they would not be allowed into… Read more Audio
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Business News for 11 February 2020
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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Sports News for 11 February 2020
7:06 AM.The Black Caps are hoping the likely return of captain Kane Williamson today is a sign of things to come. Read more Audio
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NZ First to review donations after Electoral Commission finding
7:11 AM.A political grenade has been lobbed in to election year - with the Deputy Prime Minister's party facing investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
New Zealand First will review how it handles… Read more Audio
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Domestic violence victims say divorce law is retraumatising
7:13 AM.Women who have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to abusive ex-husbands if they stay in their family home after a divorce say the law is retraumatising domestic violence victims.
They want the… Read more Audio
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Whakaari/White Island: Helicopter pilot wants to know who he rescued
7:18 AM.A helicopter pilot who was among the first to respond to the Whakaari - White Island disaster wants to know if the people he helped rescue have survived.
Tom Storey has asked police to let him know… Read more Audio
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Māori film director on Taika Waititi's Oscar win
7:22 AM.Māori film director Libby Hakaraia says Taika Waititi's Oscar win shows the world that indigenous film maker should be at the table.
Yesterday Taika Waititi won Best Adapted Screenplay for his movie… Read more Audio
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More than 1000 Kiwis out of work due to Coronavirus
7:40 AM.The coronavirus outbreak has forced more than a thousand New Zealand forestry workers out of a job.
The Forest Industry Contractors Association says about 30 percent of the country's logging crews… Read more Audio
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NZ First MPs to face questions on donations
7:45 AM.New Zealand First MPs will face questions about donations this morning as the party stares down a Serious Fraud Office investigation.
The Electoral Commission has been investigating the mysterious… Read more Audio
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Wellington at high risk of large fire if earthquake hits
7:52 AM.Fire crews would struggle to access water to fight blazes after a large earthquake in Wellington.
They would be stopped from using the city's reservoirs because they would be needed for drinking… Read more Audio
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Red-billed seagull colony moved due to America's Cup
7:56 AM.The America's Cup has forced a colony of threatened red-billed seagulls to up sticks and find a new home on Auckland's waterfront.
The birds had been breeding at an old boatyard, but that's being… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 11 February 2020
8:06 AM.The England rugby coach Eddie Jones believes increasing the number of teams in the Six Nations would be a mistake. Read more Audio
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Large amounts of teens exposed to self-harm content online - NetSafe
8:10 AM.Netsafe's latest survey shows an alarming number of teenagers have been exposed to suicide and self harm materials online.
Nearly half of the 2000 teenagers interviewed by NetSafe had seen harmful… Read more Audio
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PM's support of RNZ Concert not enough for supporters
8:16 AM.The Prime Minister's determination to keep RNZ Concert radio on FM isn't enough to stop the country's big orchestras from pushing ahead with legal action to save the station.
Jacinda Ardern has… Read more Audio
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Composer calls for Concert presenters to stay
8:20 AM.The Prime Minister's determination to keep Concert radio on FM isn't enough to stop the country's big orchestras from pushing ahead with legal action to save the station.
Jacinda Ardern has announced… Read more Audio
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Democratic candidates get nasty ahead of New Hampshire primary
8:23 AM.Leading Democratic presidential candidates have stepped up attacks against each other ahead of tomorrow's New Hampshire primary. Senator Bernie Sanders and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg were the two… Read more Audio
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Market Update for 11 February 2020
8:30 AM.A brief update on the movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Wuhan evacuees enter day six of quarantine
8:34 AM.It's day six for Wuhan evacuees quarantined at a navy training base in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland.
Last Wednesday, a government-chartered flight landed at Auckland with 98 New Zealand citizens… Read more Audio
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Waipā District Council brings in stringent water controls
8:38 AM.No washing the car, no watering the garden, no filling the paddling pool.
From Wednesday the Waipā District Council in Waikato is bringing in stringent rules to help conserve water.
In the absence… Read more Audio
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Domestic violence victims paying divorced ex-partners thousands
8:45 AM.Domestic violence victims say it is obscene they are being asked to pay their abusive ex-husbands hundreds of thousands of dollars in divorce settlements.
The Government is considering Law Commission… Read more Audio
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Man facing slavery and human trafficking charges in Napier
8:47 AM.A court has been told a man facing two dozen charges of slavery and human trafficking exploited his position as a Samoan Matai making victims to afraid to speak out.
Joseph Matamata, also known as… Read more Audio
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Bus company credited with kick starting Taranaki cruise market
8:51 AM.A Taranaki bus company is being credited with helping to kickstart the cruise ship market in New Plymouth.
On average only three cruise liners dock at Port Taranaki each summer but plans are now… Read more Audio
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Numbers of birds killed by bycatch stagnates
8:55 AM.The fishing industry is failing to reduce the number of seabirds killed by commerical longline and inshore boats each year.
While it says the deaths have halved since reporting began in 2002, numbers… Read more Audio