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Morning Report for Monday 19 October 2020
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Top Stories for Monday 19 October 2020
6:00 AM.Labour celebrates an emphatic victory, it can rule alone. What now for the Greens will they have a part in the new government? National's analysis of its failure in the election begins - we'll speak… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Voters react to red swing
6:09 AM.As voters take stock of the election results they're putting Labour on notice. They say the outright win leaves the party with no excuses not to deliver on its promises. RNZ reporters spoke to people… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: David Seymour on ACT results
6:12 AM.ACT Party leader David Seymour is confident his new caucus members are up to the challenge of being MPs. ACT got 8 percent of the party vote, giving it 10 seats - its best-ever election result… Read more Audio
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Vigils held in Paris after school teacher beheading
6:15 AM.Vigils and rallies are being held after a school teacher was beheaded outside his school in Paris. Samuel Paty, a French history and geography teacher, was killed on Friday by an Islamic terrorist… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 19 Oct 2020
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Audio
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CTU expects slicker government without NZ First
6:39 AM.The country's leading unionist believes the government will operate faster and achieve more without the presence of a New Zealand First "handbrake". New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president… Read more Audio
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Federated Farmers reacts to Labour electoral win
6:43 AM.Heartland New Zealand has turned from blue to red, with a rural voters swing away from the National Party and towards Labour.
Saturday's election threw up a host of surprises, including Labour's… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Hamilton East and West swing left
6:47 AM.Hamilton East and Hamilton West are two electorates that predicted the election result, without fail, in the years before MMP was introduced.
This weekend that historic trend returned with both… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Hotelier confident little risk of contagion after from stay from community case
6:51 AM.A New Plymouth hotelier is confident there is little to no risk of contagion for guests who stayed in the same room as a man who tested positive for Covid-19.
Taranaki health officials have been… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Labour celebrates, National mops up the mess
7:09 AM.An ascendant Labour Party has seized on its historic mandate, pushing ahead with plans to promptly form a new government.
At the same time, a still-reeling National caucus has begun the… Read more Audio
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Analysis: What happens next after election result
7:14 AM.The election has delivered a huge win for Labour, with a red wave sweeping across the country, including in traditionally safe blue seats.
National will meet tomorrow to farewell MPs and start… Read more Audio
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Bloomfield on ship worker testing positive for Covid-19
7:18 AM.A pop-up testing centre will open for border workers at Port Taranaki today after a new case of Covid-19 in the community.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield revealed the case yesterday -… Read more Audio
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Collins not planning to quit after election defeat
7:28 AM.The National party will hold its first caucus meeting tomorrow after its devastating election loss.
It was the party's worst defeat in almost two decades, securing just 26.8 percent of the vote.
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All Blacks bounce back against Wallabies
7:39 AM.After being outmuscled, bullied and pushed around by the Wallabies in last week's draw in Wellington, the All Blacks were under pressure to respond in yesterday evening's second Bledisloe Cup test in… Read more Audio
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Business sector reacts to Labour Party election dominance
7:43 AM.Dust has barely settled on the Labour Party's election triumph but some in the business sector are already urging fresh policies to fuel economic growth.
Critics of Labour's campaign say it was light… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Voters want Labour to deliver on promises
7:47 AM.Voters in the seats flipped to Labour in its election romp on Saturday say the party's now got no excuse not to deliver on its promises.
RNZ reporters spoke to people in the slew of electorates that… Read more Audio
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Waiariki win could see Māori Party back in Parliament, if it sticks
7:51 AM.Are the Māori Party back from the brink?
After losing all seven Māori seats to Labour in 2017, Rawiri Waititi is set to win the Waiariki electorate by a hair.
Susie Ferguson speaks to Labour List… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Māori Party likely winner in Waiariki
7:55 AM.The Māori Party are almost through the doors and back in Parliament thanks to Rawiri Waititi's nail-biting lead in Wairaiki.
Waititi is only 415 votes ahead and incumbent Labour MP Tamati Coffey… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 19 Oct 2020
8:06 AM.The Wallabies coach Dave Rennie admits 40 missed tackles is never going to win you a test and that was the case as his side were beaten 27-7 by the All Blacks in their second Bledisloe Cup test at… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Megan Woods on Labour's result
8:09 AM.After a stunning election win, the Labour Party is this week working on the form of the next government.
With 64 seats, it will be the first party able to govern alone since MMP was introduced in… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: New Parliament to be filled with fresh faces
8:19 AM.The 53rd Government is going to be filled with dozens of fresh faces, following Labour's landslide election victory.
The special votes are still yet to come in, but parliament will be painted red… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: New MPs boost diversity
8:22 AM.New Zealand's first African, Latin America and Sri Lankan MPs are among the 40 new faces entering parliament.
Along with seven of The Green Party's 10 seats, more than half of Labour's 64 seats in… Read more Audio
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Winston Peters quiet after NZ First ousting
8:27 AM.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has gone to ground.
The party and its leader have crashed out of Parliament after a disastrous election result, winning only 2.7 percent of the vote.
Peters… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 19 Oct 2020
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Bledisloe Cup: All Blacks outclass Wallabies
8:29 AM.The All Blacks have one hand on the Bledisloe Cup after a spririted All Blacks performance cast aside the Wallabies 27-7 at Eden Park.
Blockbusting young winger Caleb Clarke starred in his New… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Farmers wait to see Green Party influence
8:40 AM.Farmers are anxiously waiting to see whether or not Labour will choose to govern alone or bring in the Green Party.
In one the elections biggest surprises the strong National electorate of Rangitata… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: James Shaw on post-vote negotiations
8:44 AM.It's the start of a big week for the Greens - will they be invited to the ball, and, if they are, is it really in their interests to accept?
Labour have won enough seats to govern on their own, but… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Ilam voters on electorate's surprise swing
8:50 AM.National MP Gerry Brownlee served Christchurch's Ilam electorate as MP for almost a quarter of a century - but it seems few voters are mourning his defeat.
Brownlee first won the seat when it was… Read more Audio
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Election 2020: Wairarapa swings from blue to red
8:52 AM.The Wairarapa electorate has kept it's true blue status for five consecutive elections but on Saturday turned red for the first time in fifteen years.
The last Labour MP to win the seat was Georgina… Read more Audio
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Catastrophe strikes Kaikōura's banded dotterels
8:56 AM.Domestic cats in Kaikōura are laying waste to the eggs of a rare shore bird.
With only 18,000 of them remaining, the Banded Dotterel is classed as nationally vulnerable.
That status is not being… Read more Audio