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Tuesday 23 August 2011, with Geoff Robinson & Simon Mercep
Audio from Tuesday 23 August 2011
Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.
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Top Stories for Tuesday 23 August 2011 ( 24′ 09″ )
06:00 New Zealand's ambassador heads to Libya, Rugby fan's dream team ahead All Blacks World Cup squad selection, Consumers could expect power price increases, New Zealand to have electronic health records within 3 years and Report shows many Pasifika children failing standards.
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Consumer says customer exodus hurts Contact's profits ( 1′ 34″ )
06:16 Consumer New Zealand says a campaign to encourage customers to check where they can get the cheapest electricity has encouraged people to quit Contact Energy.
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Pacific News for 23 August 2011 ( 3′ 54″ )
06:18 The latest from the Pacific region.
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Morning Rural News for 23 August 2011 ( 5′ 04″ )
06:22 News from the rural and farming sector
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Manu Korihi News for 23 August 2011 ( 3′ 04″ )
06:27 A Northern iwi company says Chinese investors in a broadband project have empowered it when New Zealand investors would not; Ngapuhi hapu opposed to early settlement of the Treaty claims are appealing to the Waitangi Tribunal to investigate; The people of Central Otago are to be surveyed on what they think a nameless peak in the region should be called.
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Thousands of vehicles confiscated for illegal street racing ( 2′ 55″ )
06:41 More than 13-hundred people have also been arrested and thousands of cars have been confiscated as part of the crackdown on illegal street racing.
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Morning Business for 23 August 2011 ( 12′ 35″ )
06:47 News from the business sector including a market report.
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New Zealand's ambassador heads to Libya ( 5′ 35″ )
07:16 World leaders have been acknowledging the apparent end of Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
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Rugby fan's All Blacks World Cup team ( 2′ 38″ )
07:22 The All Blacks Rugby World Cup squad will be revealed this afternoon after weeks of anticipation and speculation.
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Consumers could expect power price increases ( 3′ 34″ )
07:26 An exodus of thousands of customers from Contact Energy seeking cheaper electricity prices, has led to a cut in the power company's annual profits
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New Zealand to have electronic health records within 3 years ( 3′ 08″ )
07:35 Within three years every New Zealander could have an electronic health record.
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Report shows many Pasifika children failing standards ( 2′ 45″ )
07:38 A major study of the first year of the controversial national standards, shows that half of all Pasifika children fail to reach the benchmarks in reading, writing and maths.
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Sports News for 23 August 2011 ( 2′ 58″ )
07:42 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Dairy farmers left spinning by Fonterra ( 7′ 04″ )
07:46 Dairy farmers say they've been blind sided and left spinning by Fonterra's plan to halve the number of North Island farmers who supply it with organically produced milk.
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Judge asked to dismiss sexual assault charges ( 3′ 20″ )
07:50 New York prosecutors have asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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Southern stadiums, Bluff oysters ready for World Cup ( 4′ 08″ )
07:56 With 17 days until the first game of the Rugby World Cup, we start our reports on the preparations and expectations from around the regions.
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Implications for Mid East from Libya crisis ( 5′ 01″ )
08:13 A former senior State Department official in the Middle East who's now with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Aaron David Miller.
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The price of oil drops as Gaddafi's regime falls ( 3′ 16″ )
08:18 The end of Colonel Gaddafi's regime spells good news for oil prices which began to fall ahead of a likely increase in oil production out of Libya.
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Local Libyans rejoice at news Gaddafi losing power ( 1′ 42″ )
08:21 A Christchurch man, Husain Benyounis, who was driven out of Libya in 1996 by the Gaddafi regime, says the end couldn't come soon enough.
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Consumers will continue to be ripped off by power companies ( 4′ 59″ )
08:23 Are New Zealanders still getting ripped off when it comes to the cost of power?
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Study finds racist vitriol widespread in online comments ( 4′ 26″ )
08:28 A Victoria University study has revealed New Zealanders are unleashing a torrent of racial hatred in online comments that has never been seen before.
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Markets Update for 23 August 2011 ( 39″ )
08:32 A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Sports News for 23 August 2011 ( 3′ 41″ )
08:38 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Areas around Fukushima power plant off-limits for decades ( 3′ 13″ )
08:42 Towns near Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant could remain uninhabitable for decades because of high radiation levels.
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Toilet paper maker in trouble over use of rainforest pulp ( 3′ 39″ )
08:45 The New Zealand toilet paper manufacturer, Cottonsoft, is coming under fire for using pulp from Indonesian rainforests to make its products.
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Manu Korihi News for 23 August 2011 ( 2′ 51″ )
08:49 Ngapuhi hapu opposed to early settlement of the Treaty claims are appealing to the Waitangi Tribunal to investigate; A Northland iwi company says Chinese investors in a broadband project have empowered it when New Zealand investors would not; The people of Central Otago are to be surveyed on what they think a nameless peak in the region should be called.
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Rangiora locals demand their after hours service be reinstalled ( 2′ 41″ )
08:53 Hundreds in the North Canterbury town of Rangiora have met with the district health board to demand their after-hours GP service be reinstated.
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Bougainville meets London as 'Mr Pip' filmed in Oamaru ( 3′ 35″ )
08:56 For the past four days, the North Otago town of Oamaru has become the backdrop for the filming of the adaptation of Lloyd Jones' award-winning book, Mr Pip.
Presenter:
Geoff Robinson
Presenter:
Simon Mercep
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