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Morning Report for Thursday 1 November 2018
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Top Stories for Thursday 1 November 2018
6:00 AM.Top mountain guide killed in Aoraki avalanche, Friends, colleagues mourn guides killed in Aoraki avalanche, Lees-Galloway forced to review criminal's residency grant, Khashoggi strangled at Saudi… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 1 November 2018
6:06 AM.The Pakistan cricketers chose to bat first and were a short time ago 92 for 4 after 14 overs in the opening T20 against the Black Caps in Abu Dhabi. Audio
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Ruapehu early warning alarm essential - volcanologist
6:13 AM.A volcanologist says the early-warning system on Mount Ruapehi is essential. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, which runs Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields, is locked in negotiations with the Department of… Read more Audio
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Crown plan for Ngāpuhi divisive - Waihoroi Shortland
6:15 AM.The Ngāti Hine chair Waihoroi Shortland says the Crown is setting Ngāpuhi up for war - with its new mandate model. The representation plan drawn up by a Ngāpuhi working group, crown officials and… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 1 November 2018
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Jo Morgan lucky to survive Mt Hicks avalanche
6:42 AM.Philanthropist and adventurer Jo Morgan says she was lucky to survive the avalanche that killed her two guides on Mount Hicks in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. Until the tragedy on Wednesday Ms… Read more Audio
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Immigration Minister under pressure over Czech man's residency
6:45 AM.An embarrassed Immigration Minister is demanding his officials review all information provided him about a Czech man Karel Sroubek. Sroubek also known as Jan Antolik, was granted residency despite… Read more Audio
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Digital switch-off not enough - ex-software engineer
6:48 AM.A former software engineer says responding to work emails at home is stressful and a new trial at the telecommunications company 2degrees to help staff to switch off, doesn't go far enough. The… Read more Audio
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Business News for 1 November 2018
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Sports News for 1 November 2018
7:06 AM.The Black Caps cricketers are chasing 149 to win the opening T20 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. Audio
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Top mountain guides killed in Aoraki avalanche
7:10 AM.Praise has been flooding in for the two mountain guides who were killed in an avalanche on Mount Hicks in Aoraki Mt Cook National park on Wednesday. Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess died while returning… Read more Audio
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Friends, colleagues mourn guides killed in Aoraki avalanche
7:10 AM.Anne Braun-Elwert from the mountain guide company Alpine Recreation was a good friend of both Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess. They'd both worked for her Tekapo-based business. She told RNZ Otago… Read more Audio
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Lees-Galloway forced to review criminal's residency grant
7:17 AM.National says the Immigration Minister should resign over his bungled handling of a decision to allow a convicted drug smuggler from the Czech Republic to stay in New Zealand. In an embarrassing turn… Read more Audio
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Khashoggi strangled at Saudi consulate - Istanbul prosecutor
7:23 AM.Istanbul's chief prosecutor says Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate last month. He says it was a premedidated killing and Mr Khashoggi's body was… Read more Audio
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Abuse survivor urges school to remove priests' portraits
7:28 AM.A survivor of past sex abuse by two priests at a Wellington college is demanding their portraits be taken down from the school's walls. Wellington's Catholic diocese admits one of the two, Father Fred… Read more Audio
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Royals in Rotorua - a kiwi experience
7:40 AM.Wednesday was a jam-packed final day for Prince Harry and Megan Markle on the final stop of their New Zealand royal tour in Rotorua. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex embraced Māori culture at a local… Read more Video, Audio
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Lion Air black box detected by Indonesian searchers
7:43 AM.Indonesian rescuers believe they have detected the signal of the black box from the Lion Air Boeing 737 that crashed on Monday killing all 189 people on board. The 737 Max crashed into the sea shortly… Read more Audio
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Dane Coles back in All Blacks after year in injury wilderness
7:45 AM.After almost a year and a lot of soul-searching, Dane Coles is set to make his All Blacks return this weekend. The All Blacks name their team to play Japan in Tokyo on Thursday afternoon and it will… Read more Audio
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Most of ANZ's near-$2b net profit goes back to Australia
7:50 AM.ANZ New Zealand has posted a record net profit after tax of nearly $2 billion. That's a 12 percent increase on last year's profit. ANZ is the country's biggest home and business lender as well as the… Read more Audio
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More nurses in hospitals, but what about elderly care?
7:56 AM.Two hundred extra nurses are being employed at public hospitals in a long-awaited move to improve staffing. It follows a pay deal in August that included government funding for an extra 500 nurses… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 1 November 2018
8:06 AM.The Black Caps opener Colin Munro scored a half century but the New Zealand cricketers then lost some quick wickets including captain Kane Williamson as they chase 149 to win in an opening T20 against… Read more Audio
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'A huge loss' - Maier, Hess mourned after Aoraki avalanche
8:10 AM.Wolfgang Maier, one of two men killed in the avalanche near Aoraki Mt Cook on Wednesday, has been described as one of the country's top mountain guides. Wolfgang Maier along with Martin Hess died… Read more Audio
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Czech criminal's case 'did not come before National minister' - Bridges
8:15 AM.The case of a convicted drug smuggler from the Czech Republic being allowed to stay in New Zealand has become an embarrassment for the government. Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has been… Read more Audio
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Nelson developers frustrated by delays on SHAs
8:25 AM.Developers in Nelson-Tasman are frustrated by slow progress being made to build homes in zones designated for fast tracking. Special housing areas were meant to have added close to 2000 new… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 1 November 2018
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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CPTPP deal will make business easier - producers, exporters
8:37 AM.Exporters say it is impossible to tell how much money the revamped Trans Pacific trade deal will save them, but it will make business easier. The controversial agreement has been ratified by enough… Read more Audio
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Harry, Meghan 'genuine' at Rotorua pōwhiri - interpreter
8:45 AM.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have wrapped their four day tour of New Zealand. Yesterday was a jam-packed final day for the royal couple in Rotorua. Prince Harry and Megan Markle visited Te Papaiouru… Read more Video, Audio
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2degrees' digital downtime not enough - workers
8:52 AM.Workers plagued by emails outside of normal hours say 2degrees' new digital switch-off for staff doesn't go far enough. The telecommunications company told Morning Report yesterday that it's started a… Read more Audio
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Southland fatal bus, car crash on 'straight bit of road' - truckie
8:54 AM.One person has died following a serious crash between a car and a bus in Southland. The crash occurred at about 7.20 this morning on State Highway 6 near Allandale Road, south of Kingston. Another… Read more Audio
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Kevin 'Cotty' Cottrell's 1981 skydiving record remains unbeaten
8:56 AM.Remember that recording breaking skydiving jump last month over Abel Tasman when Wendy Smith jump from 25,000 feet? Pioneering skydiver Kevin Cottrell tells us it's not true. He says he set the record… Read more Audio