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Morning Report for Tuesday 13 April 2021
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Volunteer mistake behind donation trouble - Māori Party President
6:11 AM.The Māori Party President is blaming volunteers misinterpreting the rules for its failure to declare more than 300,000 dollars in donations.
Any donation of over 30,000 must be declared to the… Read more Audio
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Top Stories for Tuesday 13 April 2021
6:00 AM.Top stories this morning... Toxic mould in Hutt Valley High classrooms will force hundreds of senior students to learn from home The Government is criticised for taking so long to set up a Covid… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 13 April 2021
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 13 April 2021
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio
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Hutt Valley students nervous about study from home - Student
6:37 AM.Hundreds of senior students at Hutt Valley High school will be forced to study from home until their classrooms filled with toxic mould are fixed.
Year 12 and 13 pupils will spend two and a half days… Read more Audio
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'Ridiculous' register of border workers Covid-19 tests not already mandatory - Gorman
6:41 AM.A health expert is lambasting the Government for its handling of border workers' Covid-19 testing records.
The Government is to make it compulsory for all employers of border workers to use a… Read more Audio
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UK lockdown restrictions begin to ease
6:44 AM.Many coronavirus restrictions have been lifted in Britain today, after months of lockdown.
Restaurants and pubs in England can now serve customers outside, and non-essential shops have re-opened in… Read more Audio
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Business News for 13 April 2021
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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Toxic mould forces Hutt Valley High School student back to home learning
7:09 AM.Hundreds of senior students from one of Wellington's biggest high schools are being forced to study from home because their classrooms are riddled with toxic mould.
The principal of Hutt Valley High… Read more Audio
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Ministry of Education on toxic mould at Hutt Valley High School
7:13 AM.Hundreds of senior students from one of Wellington's biggest high schools are being forced to study from home because their classrooms are riddled with toxic mould.
The principal of Hutt Valley High… Read more Audio
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Health experts astonished it took so long for Covid-19 test register to become mandatory
7:18 AM.The government's move to make it mandatory for all testing of border workers to be recorded on a central register is being derided as coming a year too late.
Health experts say it's astonishing it… Read more Audio
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Union on moving unvaccinated border workers
7:21 AM.The clock is now ticking for the 538 front-line managed isolation workers, who have until the end of the month to get the jab if they want to keep working in MIQ.
John Crocker is the national… Read more Audio
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Protesters back in Minneapolis after police fatally shoot 20yo black man Daunte Wright
7:26 AM.Hundreds of protestors are back on the streets in the US state of Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of a black man on Sunday local time.
Daunte Wright, 20, was stopped for a traffic violation when… Read more Audio
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Rules around electoral donations very clear - Geddis
7:36 AM.The Māori Party is under police investigation for failing to declare more than $300,000 in donations - and could be staring at a hefty sanction.
The party's president Che Wilson says it was an honest… Read more Audio
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Hutt Valley High School principal believes mouldy block not fixable
7:45 AM.Hundreds of senior students from one of Wellington's biggest high schools are being forced to study from home because their classrooms are riddled with toxic mould.
Hutt Valley High School is blaming… Read more Audio
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Cannabis: 'All evidence' points to decriminalisation - Chester Borrows
7:52 AM.A justice advocate and former National Party MP says this country's drug laws have been out of date for decades.
He is a signatory to an open letter from a high-powered group of dozens of individuals… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 13 April 2021
8:06 AM.The defending champion Central Pulse are on the back foot ahead of the ANZ netball Premiership, which starts this weekend. Audio
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Hutt Valley High School parent not happy after toxic mould found in classroom
8:10 AM.More now on the mould-riddled conditions at Hutt Valley High School which are forcing up to 500 of its senior students to desert classrooms and study from home for two and half days a week in term… Read more Audio
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Science teacher on state of the subject's teaching in NZ
8:17 AM.Many children are not getting a good education in science.
The Education Review Office says only half the primary schools and early childhood centres it visited recently were teaching the subject… Read more Audio
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Farmers want more support as dry conditions bite
8:23 AM.Parts of New Zealand's east coast are so dry, farmers say they'll run out of feed before the winter.
NIWA's drought index shows Hawke's Bay, Marlborough and Banks Peninsula are very or extremely dry… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 13 April 2021
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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New Plymouth District Council flip-flops over composting plant
8:39 AM.The New Plymouth District Council has done a flip-flop over its support for a controversial composting plant which has accumulated a 20,000 tonne stockpile of contaminated waste at its Uruti site.
In… Read more Audio
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Worries about non-clinical vaccinators unfounded- Health leader
8:45 AM.A Māori health leader says warnings about non-clinical health workers administering the Covid-19 vaccine in Māori communities are unfounded.
The Nurses Organisation says a plan to train up health… Read more Audio
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Samoa election: Fiame Naomi Mata'afa on why her new party did so well
8:51 AM.Samoa is awaiting final vote counts and some horse-trading to see which of two political parties will govern for the next five years.
The Human Rights Protection Party or HRPP and Faatuatua ile Atua… Read more Audio
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NZ astronomer remembers first manned space flight
8:55 AM.Tuesday marks exactly sixty years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew Vostok 1 on a lap of the globe, in what was the first manned space flight.
The successful orbit took just under two hours… Read more Audio