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Morning Report for Thursday 21 April 2011
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Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
8:57 AM.Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh discusses immigration detention centres and royals. Audio
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Hawkes Bay's earthquake relic mystery
8:53 AM.Hawkes Bay's museum is desperate to unravel the mystery behind a Napier earthquake relic that was unceremoniously left on its doorstep. Audio
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BP a year on since massive oil spill
8:50 AM.It's exactly a year since the Deepwater Horizon disaster which killed 11 people and sent millions of barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Audio
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Waatea News for 21 April 2011
8:42 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Nelson music school faces crippling quake costs
8:40 AM.New Zealand's oldest music school says the cost of strengthening one of its heritage buildings will cripple it unless the Nelson City Council helps with funding. Audio
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Sports News for 21 April 2011
8:35 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Markets Update for 21 April 2011
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Metservice forecasts Easter holiday weather
8:28 AM.For the latest holiday forecast, we're joined now by the Metservice meterologist, Bob McDavitt. Audio
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Trial briquetting plant may not go out for public comment
8:25 AM.Dunedin locals have expressed surprise and angered that a lignite processing plant planned for Southland could go ahead without them having the chance to object . Audio
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Silver Fern Farms rebuilding its Te Aroha freezing works
8:22 AM.The boom in the agriculture sector is having a pay-off for the small Waikato community of Te Aroha. Audio
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High-profile crime victims pan restorative justice push
8:18 AM.A push towards greater use of restorative justice has been met with disdain, from people caught up in some of the country's most high-profile killings. Audio
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Despite huge Super Fund profits, govt still won't invest
8:13 AM.Despite huge returns by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund the Government insists it will not start putting money back into it. Audio
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Government 'should accept responsibility to disabled'
8:10 AM.Families who want to be paid for looking after their severely disabled children are flabbergasted the Ministry of Health has spent more than a million dollars fighting them. Audio
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Wellington Mayor votes to support transport improvements
7:55 AM.Wellington's pro-public transport Mayor Celia Wade-Brown reversed positions to support a $2.4 billion roading programme at an extraordinary city council meeting last night. Audio
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Italy, France join Britain in sending troops
7:50 AM.France and Italy have joined Britain in announcing they'll send a small number of military troops to Libya to help train opposition rebels. Audio
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Sports News for 21 April 2011
7:45 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Fed Farmers criticises internet roll out
7:42 AM.Federated Farmers says the Government is treating the rural community as second class citizens by taking six years to roll out what they say will be dated internet technology. Audio
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NZ oil and gas says calls for capping equipment 'irrelevant'
7:40 AM.New Zealand Oil and Gas says the suggestion this country should have the latest oil well safety technology on hand is absurd. Audio
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Breakers one game from Basketball title
7:30 AM.That's more than four thousand ecstatic Breakers' fans counting down till the end of the first match in their best of three Australian National Basketball League Grand Final series against Cairns. Audio
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RSA urges public not to reject Chinese-made poppies
7:27 AM.Branches of the RSA are urging the public not to reject poppies made in China during their street appeal today. Audio
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PM used helicopter four times in April
7:22 AM.The Air Force has confirmed the Prime Minister has used a Defence Force Iroquois helicopters four times since March the 31st, but doesn't know how much it cost the taxpayer. Audio
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Nine Taliban killed by SAS troops in Afghanistan
7:16 AM.New Zealand's elite soldiers serving in Afghanistan have killed nine Taliban fighters in retribution for the killing of New Zealand soldier, Tim O'Donnell, last year. Audio
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Green's Delahunty says govt 'disgusting' toward disabled
7:12 AM.The Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty has held meetings with the families over the past few months and hosted a forum for them at Parliament last month. Audio
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Government spend $1 million in fight over disabled care
7:10 AM.The government's being accused of wasting money fighting its responsibility to pay family members to look after their severely disabled children. Audio
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Morning Business for 21 April 2011
6:46 AM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Coroner says still months to identify last quake victims
6:42 AM.Two months on from the Christchurch earthquake, the remains of nine people are still to be formally identified. Audio
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Police union applauds long sentence for police shooter
6:40 AM.The police union says the sentence for the man who attempted to murder a police officer is appropriate despite his lawyer's claims to the contrary. Audio
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Families flabbergasted at cost of Ministry's legal action
6:35 AM.A man who looks after his severely disabled daughter says he's disgusted the Ministry of Health has spent more than a million dollars on legal action against families who want to be paid for their… Read more Audio
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Waatea News for 21 April 2011
6:28 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 21 April 2011
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Pacific News for 21 April 2011
6:18 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio
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New national war memorial park opens in Wellington
6:10 AM.The first stage of a ten-million-dollar project to turn a derelict inner city site in Wellington into a national war memorial precinct has just been finished. Audio
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Top Stories for Thursday 21 April 2011
6:00 AM.Disabled care, SAS in Afganistan, PM chopper use, RSA poppies, oil safety in NZ. Audio