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Morning Report for Monday 27 July 2020
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Top Stories for Monday 27 July 2020
6:00 AM.Worksafe is criticised over its investigation of a truck accident that killed two children, National downplays a shock poll that has them at just 25 percent support, and There are calls for more… Read more Audio
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Church volunteer admits to starting Nantes fire
6:12 AM.A church volunteer has admitted to starting a large fire that devastated the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last week.
The 39-year-old Rwandan man worked as a warden at the cathedral and had… Read more Audio
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NZ horticulture industry on worker exploitation
6:17 AM.New Zealand's horticulture and fruit picking industry says it needs to take decisive action to make sure exploitation's not rife in its workforce.
Joseph Matamata will be sentenced at the Napier High… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 27 July 2020
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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Poll shows Labour Party could govern alone
6:38 AM.The latest Newshub Reid Research poll has support for the Greens at almost 6 percent, but in the same poll, Labour Party would be able to govern alone.
The party held its annual general meeting over… Read more Audio
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Chance listeria cases cause will never be found
6:50 AM.The investigation into the source of the three cases of listeria in Tauranga this week is still ongoing, but there is a likelihood the cause will never be found.
One person died and two others were… Read more Audio
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Business News for 27 July 2020
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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Worksafe criticised over investigation into double child death
7:09 AM.The family of two young boys killed when a truck driver rear-ended their car on the Desert Road in 2018 is heartbroken they had to battle so hard to get the workplace safety watchdog to investigate… Read more Audio
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Opposition rubbishes poll showing National Party at 25pct
7:16 AM.The Opposition has trashed the latest political poll, dismissing it outright, as it shows the party plummeting to new lows.
The Newshub Reid Research poll began surveying two days after Judith… Read more Audio
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Annual baby deaths twice the road toll
7:20 AM.Every year the number of babies that are stillborn or die within a month of birth is twice the country's road toll.
That stark number - the perinatal and neonatal mortality statistics - sits at… Read more Audio
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NZ could be doing more on infant mortality - Prime Minister
7:25 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand could be doing more on infant mortality.
Speaking to Susie Ferguson after the release of the RNZ Podcast The Unthinkable, Ardern said she wants more… Read more Audio
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Hastings human trafficker to be sentenced today
7:36 AM.The first person ever to be convicted of both human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand will be sentenced in Napier today.
For nearly two decades, Joseph Auga Matamata brought people from Samoa… Read more Audio
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James Shaw backs Marama Davidson's 'tax is love' statement
7:39 AM.Green Party co-leader James Shaw is backing his co-leader Marama Davidson's statement that tax is love.
Davidson made the statement after the release of the party's policy platform over the weekend… Read more Audio
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One hundred days until US election
7:46 AM.There are just 100 days left now until America's Presidential election on 3 November.
President Trump has been spending the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey, battered by a series of polls that… Read more Audio
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Government looking into 'pumped hydro' systems
7:51 AM.The government says its proposed "pumped storage battery" at Lake Onslow in Central Otago could mean New Zealand would be among the few countries in the world with a fully renewable electricity… Read more Audio
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Survey reveals frequent school violence, abuse
7:56 AM.Staff at fifteen Otago schools have reported more than 200 verbal and physical attacks in a five week survey. Teachers, principals and teacher aides say they were punched, slapped, kicked and sworn… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 27 July 2020
8:06 AM.The Hurricanes have lost Ngani Laumape for the rest of the Super Rugby Aotearoa season to a forearm injury he picked up in Saturday's upset win over the Crusaders in Christchurch. Read more Audio
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Poll showing National Party on 25pct 'unbelievable' - Brownlee
8:10 AM.The Leader of the Opposition, Judith Collins, is dismissing last night's Newshub Reid Research poll which put her party at 25.1 percent.
Labour is on 60.9 and on that number it would be able to… Read more Audio
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Analysis: National Party reacts to new poll
8:16 AM.The leader of the opposition, Judith Collins, is dismissing last night's Newshub Reid Research poll which put her party at 25.1 percent.
Labour is on 60.9 and on that number it would be able to… Read more Audio
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Jami-Lee Ross joins party with NZ Public Party
8:21 AM.The former National MP Jami-Lee Ross is joining his Advance New Zealand party with the conspiracy theory-driven New Zealand Public Party.
The Botany MP will co-lead the new party with the Public… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 27 July 2020
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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How widespread is human trafficking in NZ?
8:31 AM.How widespread are human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand?
The first person in New Zealand to be convicted of both crimes will be sentenced in Napier later today.
Over more than two decades… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Victoria has deadliest day yet
8:40 AM.Ten more deaths were reported in the state of Victoria yesterday, making it the deadliest day yet from Covid-19 in Australia.
ABC reporter Elias Clure speaks to Susie Ferguson from Melbourne. Read more Audio
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Ngāti Awa heads to court over water bottling
8:44 AM.The fight to stop a major international company from taking a billion litres of water a year from the Awaiti Aquifer near Whakatane moves to the High Court in Rotorua today.
Ngāti Awa is appealing… Read more Audio
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High Court asked to decide on lockdown legality
8:48 AM.Today the High Court is being asked to decide whether putting the country into lockdown level four and shutting businesses was lawful.
Lawyer Andrew Borrowdale is bringing the judicial review case… Read more Audio
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Managed isolation system working despite escapes - Woods
8:52 AM.The Minister in Charge of Managed Isolation, Megan Woods, says the escape of a family of five from a Hamilton hotel was not a failing on the part of the isolation system.
A family of five fled a… Read more Audio