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Morning Report for Thursday 31 January 2019
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Top Stories for Thursday 31 January 2019
6:00 AM.Cancer patients wants action over 13-hour wait for transfer, The Indian students who say New Zealand failed them, Rising seas threaten $8b of infrastructure - report. Audio
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Sports News for 31 January 2019
6:06 AM.Former Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley says moves to replace him at the Red Bull-owned Formula One team became apparent to him as early as the Monaco race last season. Audio
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Indian students were misled - migrants' association
6:10 AM.A group of Indian students who were deported from New Zealand say their lives are ruined, and Labour MPs who promised to help have abandoned them. Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little publicly supported… Read more Audio
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Vehicle collision repairers push for urgent safety changes
6:16 AM.Vehicle collision repairers are pushing for the 20 year old Repair Rule that governs the industry to be updated. It covers high-tech cars using things like radars which need incredibly fine… Read more Audio
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Northland mayoral forum to work along Taitokerau iwi
6:19 AM.The Northland Mayoral Forum is set to sign an agreement today to work alongside the Taitokerau Iwi Chairs Forum or Te Kahu o Taonui. But the agreement is being criticised by a Whangarei hapū group who… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 31 January 2019
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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'We have nothing to hide' - Huawei New Zealand
6:35 AM.Huawei is offering to open its systems to the government to allay national security fears about the Chinese company's bid to build a next-generation cellphone network. Its New Zealand deputy managing… Read more Audio
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Canterbury irrigation scheme faces no penalties
6:45 AM.A large North Canterbury irrigation scheme is being allowed to exceed recommended levels of nitrate in the water - potentially for years. Forest and Bird says there should penalties for the pollution… Read more Audio
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Business News for 31 January 2019
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Sports News for 31 January 2019
7:06 AM.Former Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley says it became clear he was going to be axed from the team as early as the Monaco round of last year's Formula One season. Audio
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Cancer patients wants action over 13-hour wait for transfer
7:10 AM.A father with terminal bowel cancer was left waiting 13 hours at Invercargill Hospital for a flight to Christchurch Hospital for emergency surgery. Thirty-eight-year-old Blair Vining says it's not… Read more Audio
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The Indian students who say New Zealand failed them
7:14 AM.A group of Indian students who were deported from New Zealand say their lives are ruined, and Labour MPs who promised to help have abandoned them. Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little publicly supported… Read more Audio
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Rising seas threaten $8b of infrastructure - report
7:17 AM.Rising seas are threatening $8 billion worth of New Zealand's roads, pipes, and other infrastructure. That's according to a new report measuring the impact of a 1.5m rise in sea levels. Local… Read more Audio
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Sir Peter Jackson to make Beatles film with unseen footage
7:27 AM.New Zealand filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson is using 55 hours of mostly-unseen footage to make a documentary film about The Beatles. The recording sessions for the band's final album, Let it Be, were… Read more Audio
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Developers give govt their Kiwibuild wish list
7:37 AM.As the Housing Minister looks at ways to refine the troubled KiwiBuild scheme, the property sector is already getting in its wish list. After admitting the policy would miss its first year target… Read more Audio
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Govt fair pay group split on making agreement compulsory
7:40 AM.The government will have to decide whether its new Fair Pay Agreement system should be compulsory or not. Fair Pay Agreements would set minimum standards to lift wages and conditions across an… Read more Audio
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Waiheke Island tourist recovering after vicioust assault
7:45 AM.A Melbourne woman on holiday on Waiheke Island is recovering after being punched in the face, strangled and thrown over a fence. 25 year old Raven Torea says she was approached from behind and… Read more Audio
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Mother of baby with broken arm feared he would be taken
7:50 AM.An advocate for the family of a one-month-old baby, who was found to have a broken arm at Middlemore Hospital, says the mother was closely monitored and made to believe her baby would be taken from… Read more Audio
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Govt lobbying for Talley's questioned
7:56 AM.The role of New Zealand government officials in lobbying to have a NZ fishing vessel taken off an international black list is being questioned. The Amaltal Apollo, which is owned by a Talley's… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 31 January 2019
8:06 AM.The Black Caps cricket coach Gary Stead concedes his side have been well out played by India in all facets of late, he believes the difference between the two sides isn't as stark as it seems. Audio
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Deported Indian students feel used by Labour MPs
8:10 AM.Indian students who were deported from New Zealand say their lives are ruined, and Labour MPs who promised to help have abandoned them. Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little publicly supported nine… Read more Audio
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One-third of children fail to attend school regularly
8:17 AM.A quarter of a million children failed to turn up to school regularly in 2018, with year 13 girls the worst offenders. The Education Ministry's annual attendance survey says children who missed more… Read more Audio
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Cancer patient slams public health system
8:21 AM.A 38 year old terminally ill cancer patient will spell out to the Health Minister today what's wrong with Cancer treatment in the public health system and what has to change. Blair Vining has stage… Read more Audio
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Freshwater streams disappear from 90-mile beach
8:26 AM.Conservationists in the Far North are sounding the alarm over the disappearance of freshwater streams from 90-Mile Beach. They say there used to be dozens that ran from the dunes to the sea… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 31 January 2019
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Iwi Chairs Forum holds year's first hui
8:35 AM.Iwi leaders want to know how the new Māori-Crown Relations portfolio will secure them a greater say in government policy that affects their communities. More than 160 people are meeting in Waitangi… Read more Audio
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Govt to decide if Fair Pay agreement forced on businesses
8:44 AM.The Fair Pay Agreement working group, led by former prime minister Jim Bolger, is divided over whether the system should be compulsory or not, and have thrown the decision back to the Minister to… Read more Audio
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Aus review into financial services due back
8:49 AM.The Government is vowing to move quickly to crackdown on life insurance companies, after this week's report from the Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank which blasted insurers for putting… Read more Audio
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Unsafe repairs of high-tech cars going undetected
8:52 AM.Unsafe repairs of increasingly complex cars are going undetected. The extent of the threat to road safety is unclear but the industry consensus is the regulations are years out of date and poorly… Read more Audio
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Great white sharks spotted in Taranaki
8:54 AM.It's not just fishermen and families enjoying the water this Summer. Great white sharks have been spotted close to shore at White Cliffs in Taranaki by two fishermen, who filmed one shark swimming… Read more Video, Audio