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Morning Report for Monday 26 July 2021
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Top Stories for Monday 26 July 2021
6:00 AM.Top stories this morning... The Police are still strapping teenagers as young as thirteen into restraint chairs despite calls for them to stop using them Dunedin 17-year-old Erika Fairweather smashes… Read more Audio
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Westport schools begin to reopen
6:09 AM.Some routine is also returning to Westport with its three main schools welcoming back students tomorrow.
Around 100 homes have been red stickered, another 400 yellow stickered and the clean up is… Read more Audio
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Govt lending for quake prone apartments not working - resident
6:11 AM.Not a single cent has been cashed out from the Government's $23 million loan scheme for those living in earthquake-prone apartments.
Official figures show only 35 people have registered their… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 26 July 2021
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio
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IPCA chair backs reforming restraint chair use for teens
6:38 AM.The New Zealand police put 38 teenagers into restraint chairs between 2015 and 2020 - the youngest just 13 years old.
Restraint chairs leg, waist, wrist and chest straps to immobilise a person deemed… Read more Audio
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Climate change needs to be depoliticised - expert
6:45 AM.The Climate Change Research Institute is upset the fight against climate change is so entangled with politics there is no cross parliament plan.
New Zealand is currently on track to import more coal… Read more Audio
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Research firm unveils new real time carbon emissions tracker
6:48 AM.New Zealanders will soon be able track how much greenhouse gas the country is emitting in almost real time.
The research firm that made the tool, Dot Loves Data, says having up-to-date information is… Read more Audio
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Business News for 26 July 2021
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio
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'There must be better ways': Calls for change over police strapping teens into restraint chairs
7:09 AM.The Police are strapping teenagers as young as thirteen into restraint chairs - despite a UN funded reported calling for them to be abolished four years ago.
The chairs use leg, waist, wrist and… Read more Audio
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Prime Minister believes trapped Kiwis will get home before full bubble closure
7:18 AM.The Government says the trans-Tasman bubble won't reopen until it's "comfortable" community transmission in Australia is contained.
Quarantine free travel is being paused for at least eight weeks as… Read more Audio
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Concern for heavy rain in flood-hit Marlborough
7:25 AM.With heavy rain forecast falling across the country there is again concern in Marlborough where up to 70mm of rain is forecast.
Much of the Marlborough region was adversely affected devastated by… Read more Audio
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Buller High School ready to open after major flooding
7:27 AM.Some normality is returning to Westport as schools reopen in the town, just over a week on from its devastating floods.
Around 100 homes have been red stickered - meaning they are uninhabitable, and… Read more Audio
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Private service to farewell Toa the baby orca
7:36 AM.Baby orca Toa was farewelled at the weekend by around 70 people before being taken for burial by Ngāti Toa rangatira.
The orca died in his sea pen on Friday evening after being cared for at the… Read more Audio
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Government's earthquake-prone apartments $23m loan untouched
7:39 AM.Not a single cent has been cashed out from the Government's $23 million loan scheme for those living in earthquake-prone apartments.
Official figures show no one has even got so far as to apply for a… Read more Audio
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NZ on track to burn a record amount coal in 2021 - officials
7:43 AM.New Zealand is likely to import more coal this year than it ever has before, in the midst of a self-declared climate emergency.
Last year was already the highest in 14 years and we're bringing in… Read more Audio
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'Risky' to put councillors back in charge in 2021 in Tauranga
7:49 AM.Six months after Crown appointed commissioners took over at Tauranga City Council, local leaders want their stay extended.
The four commissioners are supposed to stay on until local government… Read more Audio
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Work begins on letting Kiwis get better access to consumer data
7:53 AM.The Government is moving to make it easier for consumers to access and share their personal information.
The European Union, Britain and Australia have all moved to bring in regulations requiring big… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 26 July 2021
8:06 AM.A 17-year-old from Dunedin has become New Zealand's strongest hope in the pool at the Tokyo Olympics, having made this afternoon's final of the women's 400-metres freestyle. Audio
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Covid-19: Clock ticking to get Kiwis back across Tasman
8:10 AM.The clock is ticking with just five days left for Kiwis to get on a quarantine-free flight back home from Australia.
Unless travelling from New South Wales - where the Covid-19 outbreak is at its… Read more Audio
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Childrens Commissioner wants restraint chairs phased out
8:16 AM.The Children's Commissioner wants the use of restraint chairs to be phased out as soon as possible.
Between 2015 and 2020 Police strapped 38 young people into the chairs - the youngest just 13 years… Read more Audio
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Prime Minister defends vaccine rollout speed
8:24 AM.RNZ analysis estimates that 20 percent of New Zealanders in group 3 nationwide have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Just 12 percent of group 3 have been fully inoculated.
Corin… Read more Audio
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Fiji opposition politicians arrested
8:27 AM.Several leading opposition politicians in Fiji have been arrested after their criticism of government moves to amend a land bill.
The National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad, Sodelpa… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 26 July 2021
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio
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Westport schools begin to reopen after flooding
8:38 AM.Some semblance of normality is returning to Westport today as schools ready to reopen.
The area's only secondary school, Buller High School, was among the properties affected by floodwater.
Staff… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Health authorities hoping for more Taranaki tests
8:43 AM.Health authorities are hoping more people will turn up in Taranaki today for a Covid-19 test.
Testing stations are due to open in the next hour. Extra testing sites have been set up after traces of… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters swarm Sydney streets amid virus outbreak
8:48 AM.Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters took to the streets in violent clashes with police across Australia during the weekend.
Police have issued more than 500 fines, with most relating to… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Wallabies plan for Bledisloe Cup tests in NZ
8:55 AM.Dates and locations for the three Bledisloe Cup rugby tests remain up in the air because of trans-Tasman Covid-19 travel restrictions.
Reports in Australia say the Wallabies are targeting a flight to… Read more Audio
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Dunedin teen next big Olympic medal hope
8:56 AM.A 17-year-old from Dunedin has become New Zealand's strongest hope in the pool at the Olympics, after making the final of the women's 400-metres freestyle.
Erika Fairweather, who is the youngest New… Read more Audio