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Morning Report for Friday 4 December 2020
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Top Stories for Friday 4 December 2020
6:00 AM.The infrastructure is now in place for the mass surveillance of New Zealanders. More than three thousand people have died from Covid in just one day in the US. Veteran pilot John Funnell wants to… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 4 December 2020
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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Ngarewa-Packer describes early NZ governments as 'monsters, murderers and rapists' in maiden speech
6:21 AM.The Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has pulled no punches in her maiden speech, describing early New Zealand governments as "monsters, murderers and rapists".
The party's returned to… Read more Audio
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Massive rock art discovery made in Colombia
6:22 AM.Thousands of rock art pictures, some depicting Ice Age creatures, have been revealed by researchers in the Amazon rainforest.
The giant canvas was created an estimated 12,500 years ago.
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State surveillance systems too powerful - Researcher
6:44 AM.Facial recognition infrastructure is now in place that could enable for mass surveillance of New Zealanders and a Wellington researcher is warning state surveillance systems have become too powerful… Read more Audio
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Waititi commits to ensuring Maori voices heard in Parliament
6:48 AM.The Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi says he's committed to ensuring unapologetic Maori voices are heard in Parliament and felt in every piece of legislation.
Waititi gave his maid speech… Read more Audio
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Business News for 4 December 2020
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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Infrastructure in place for mass surveillance of New Zealanders
7:09 AM.The infrastructure is now in place for for mass surveillance of New Zealanders using facial recognition technology.
This is the finding of researchers, who warn the country has few rules to control… Read more Audio
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Los Angeles mayor issues stay-at-home order for all citizens
7:16 AM.The mayor of Los Angeles has warned his sprawling US city was nearing "a devastating tipping point" and ordered residents to stay in their homes and avoid social gatherings.
The hard-line measures… Read more Audio
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Māori Party leaders mark party's return to Parliament with maiden speeches
7:22 AM.The Māori Party is back - marking its return to Parliament with powerful speeches and impassioned waiata.
After a devastating loss in 2017, Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi secured the party's… Read more Audio
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Whakaari/White Island: Pilot raising money for director of company charged
7:27 AM.Veteran pilot John Funnell wants to raise tens of thousands of dollars to fund the legal battle for the pilot who was one of the first on the scene after the Whakaari White Island eruption.
Mark Law… Read more Audio
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Royal Commission witnesses recount gruelling stories of abuse
7:36 AM.Witnesses at the Abuse in Care Royal Commission have recounted gruelling stories of being abused while in the care of churches.
During this week and next, the Commission is hearing from 25 survivors.
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Kiwi scientists find missing link between stress and fertility
7:41 AM.New Zealand scientists have found the missing link that proves stress can stop you getting pregnant.
For a decade they've studied a group of neurons in the brain that control female reproduction like… Read more Audio
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Classics teachers disappointed at NCEA Level 1 removal
7:46 AM.Classics teachers say they are bitterly disappointed but not surprised by an announcement to drop Classics from NCEA level 1, and cut Latin from NCEA entirely.
The Education Minister Chris Hipkins… Read more Audio
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Māori All Blacks to face off against Moana Pasifika on Saturday
7:52 AM.The Māori All Blacks play a Moana Pasifika XV in Kirikiriroa tomorrow night in a one off match to celebrate the cultures and connections between Māori, Fijian, Samoan and Tongan communities here.
For… Read more Audio
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NZ cements solid foundation in West Indies test
7:55 AM.Led by captain Kane Williamson, New Zealand cemented a solid foundation on day one of the first cricket test against the West Indies in Hamilton.
Williamson was unbeaten on 97 as the Black Caps… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 4 December 2020
8:06 AM.The New Zealand opener Tom Latham says day one of the first cricket test against the West Indies highlighted the importance of partnerships. Audio
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Rawiri Waititi commits to unapologetic presence in Parliament
8:10 AM.Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi says he's committed to ensuring unapologetic Māori voices are heard in Parliament and felt in every piece of legislation.
Waititi and co-leader Debbie… Read more Audio
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Kiwis being turned down for fruit picking work - Union
8:19 AM.Union officials in Otago say New Zealanders are being turned down for local fruit picking work.
For months, orchard owners have called on the government to open the borders to RSE workers who are… Read more Audio
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Queenstown finally getting its own mosque
8:25 AM.It's one of New Zealand's fastest growing and diverse centres, but until now Queenstown hasn't had a mosque.
But a final fundraising push means Queenstown's Muslim community will have their own place… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 4 December 2020
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Surgeon resigns from Greymouth Hospital in protest
8:39 AM.An American surgeon working in Greymouth has resigned, saying the people of the West Coast deserve better than a hospital essentially run by GPs.
The West Coast and Canterbury district health boards… Read more Audio
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Dannevirke High School mourns pupil, former students killed in crash
8:41 AM.The three teenagers who died in a horrific road crash in Hawke's Bay have been named by the police.
The three young women were in a car travelling on State Highway 2, near the small township of… Read more Audio
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Integrated schools take govt to court over property funding
8:43 AM.Integrated schools are taking the government to court over its refusal to give them millions of dollars of extra property funding.
They say the government should have included them when it announced… Read more Audio
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Ken Laban on Moana Pasifika, Māori All Blacks game
8:46 AM.Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are coming together to form the first ever Moana Pasifika squad to play the Māori All Blacks this weekend.
The match is shaping up as a celebration of the cultural connections… Read more Audio
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Melbourne Museum to host 'Rosetta Stone of dinosaurs'
8:52 AM.Christmas has come early at the Melbourne Museum but it's been sixty million years in the making.
The museum will soon be home to the most complete Triceratops fossil ever found - it's been called… Read more Audio
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Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
8:59 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio