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Cyclone Gita: Devastated Tonga faces huge clean-up
7:14 AM.A massive clean up is underway for Tonga after Cyclone Gita destroyed homes, buildings, and food crops. The storm made landfall on Tonga with category 4 force on Monday night. It ripped roofs off… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Fiji wakes to assess damage
7:10 AM.Fiji's Red Cross says it has concerns for people on Ono-i-Lau and Vatoa in the Southern Lau islands which were swiped by Cyclone Gita. Communication was cut to the islands when Gita passed on Tuesday… Read more Audio
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Business News for 14 February 2018
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Joyce predicts smooth transition to new National leader
6:46 AM.The jostling to replace Bill English as leader of the National Party is beginning - with MPs expected to declare their intentions in the coming days. The caucus has just two weeks to decide on Mr… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: No storm-caused deaths reported
6:44 AM.Residents of Nuku'alofa endured a "terrifying" night with huge amounts of debris, trees uprooted, and roofs ripped from buildings on Monday as Cyclone Gita hit Tonga's main islands. As the nation… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Where is it headed?
6:43 AM.Fiji has escaped a direct hit by tropical cyclone Gita. But what is the catergory four storm going to do next? NIWA's principal forecasting scientist Chris Brandolino joins Guyon Espiner with the… Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 14 February 2018
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Early Business News for 14 February 2018
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Salvation Army foodbank demand surges in 2017
6:15 AM.The Salvation Army says it handed out almost 63-thousand food parcels around the country last year - a 12 percent increase on 2016. But they're not the only organisation experiencing an increasing… Read more Audio
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Auckland bishop accepts woman is daughter of priest
6:14 AM.The Catholic Bishop of Auckland says he now accepts that an Auckland woman is correct in saying her father was a serving priest who broke his vow of celibacy. Bishop Patrick Dunn says as far as he… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Fiji narrowly misses direct hit
6:09 AM.Fiji has escaped a direct hit by tropical cyclone Gita. The southern island group of Ono-i-Lau and Vatoa - about halfway between Tonga and Fiji - were the closest to the category 4 storm, as it moved… Read more Audio
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Top Stories for Wednesday 14 February 2018
6:00 AM.Cyclone Gita: Fiji wakes to assess damage, Cyclone Gita: Devastated Tonga faces huge clean-up, Auckland bishop convinced priest is woman's father, Leadership battle brews in National Party Audio
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Disparaging cartoons of Polynesians 'not illegal' - High Court
8:54 AM.The Labour MP Louisa Wall has failed to have cartoons depicting Polynesian families in a disparaging light declared illegal. She took the case to the High Court after also failing before the Human… Read more Audio
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World's biggest radio telescope in NZ: Is it worth it?
8:50 AM.It will be the world's largest radio telescope, but some New Zealand scientists are asking whether it's worth this country spending millions to help build it. The Ministry of Business and Innovation… Read more Audio
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Port Hills fire: One year on, locals still recovering
8:40 AM.It's one year since Christchurch's devastating Port Hills Fires started. At about 5:45pm on February 13 last year a fire started on Early Valley Road in Lansdowne. Four hours later, another blaze… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: 'Street like a swimming pool'
8:36 AM.Tonga has woken to widespread damage after being hit by category 4 Cyclone Gita overnight. Frenchwoman Virginie Dourlet lives in Tonga and tells Susie what she's seen on the devastated streets. Audio
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Markets Update for 13 February 2018
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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PSA welcomes stronger oversight of CEO salaries
8:26 AM.The government's plans for a new law to give better oversight over the pay packets of top public servants has been welcomed by the Public Service Association. State Sevices Minister Chris Hipkins says… Read more Audio
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Fears heart surgey machines behind infections
8:22 AM.Thousands of people who've had open heart surgery in the past four years have been told to watch our for signs of bacterial infection. The warning comes after about 120 cases overseas that have been… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Power poles 'like matchsticks' in Tonga
8:18 AM.Melino Maka is the chairman of the Tongan Advisory Council, an organisation originally set up to get information to the Tongan community in the event of a cyclone. He tells Guyon Espiner about his… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Tonga locals wake to widespread damage
8:10 AM.There's been devastation in Tonga following Tropical Cyclone Gita. Winds just over 230km/h lashed the small Pacific country and people in Nuku'alofa have told us of flying debris and buildings being… Read more Audio
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Makeup tutorials scrapped from Wellington school
7:56 AM.A Wellington school has abandoned plans to teach girls how to put on makeup after outrage from parents. Glitz and Glamour for Girls was one of the electives offered to 11 and 12-year-olds at Evans Bay… Read more Audio
