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Morning Report for Thursday 18 May 2017
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Top Stories for Thursday 18 May 2017
6:00 AM.Washington Post reporter predicts end of Trump Presidency, Winston Peters, Stuart Nash, Eugenie Sage, Ashburton mayor - there are enough jobs for meatworkers, Relief for Filipino dairy workers who… Read more Audio
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Mayor confident Ashburton has jobs for meatworkers
6:09 AM.Ashburton's mayor is confident the mid-Canterbury town still has work to offer to hundreds of meatworkers, who could lose their jobs next month. Audio
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7000 migrants make dangerous voyage to Europe in the last week
6:18 AM."The numbers remain high and everyone I've spoken to expects them to remain high". The BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti has been on a Save the Children's rescue ship off the Libyan coast. Audio
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Council will consult over finishing overbudget cycle trail
6:20 AM.Southland District Mayor Gary Tong says his council will consult the public before deciding how to finish a controversial, overbudget cycle trail Audio
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Morning Rural News for 18 May 2017
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Early Business News for 18 May 2017
6:23 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Putin offers to provide Congress transcript of meeting
6:44 AM.The Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to provide Congress transcript of meeting the meeting between his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US President Donald Trump. We cross to our… Read more Audio
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Industry: progress being made on steel quality controls
6:46 AM.Last year Stephen Hicks of the Heavy Engineering Research Association labelled New Zealand the 'wild west' of steel testing, amid the fiasco over flawed seismic reinforcing mesh - but he tells our… Read more Audio
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Business News for 18 May 2017
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Washington Post reporter predicts end of Trump Presidency
7:10 AM.Morning Report talks to the Washington Post reporter Greg Miller who broke the story of Mr Trump's disclosure of classified material. He says Trump officials have gone into hiding and "the defenders… Read more Audio
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Opposition parties demand answers over plant closure
7:21 AM.The Government's been urged to summon the owners of Silver Fern Farms and demand answers over the planned closure of its sheep meat plant in Ashburton. Read more Audio
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Ashburton mayor - there are enough jobs for meatworkers
7:27 AM.Ashburton's Mayor Donna Favel is optimistic there are enough jobs locally to find employment for those who lose their jobs if the Silver Fern Farms' Fairton Meatworks closes. Audio
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TPP back on track with Japan's support
7:35 AM.Bill English has emerged from talks with Shinzo Abe pleased with the Japanese Prime Minister's commitment to implementing the Trans Pacific Partnership. Read more Audio
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Relief for Filipino dairy workers who have path to residency
7:40 AM.There's relief among Filipino dairy workers in the South Island who will become eligible for residence under a new visa - despite having initially used false documents to get a work permit. Audio
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21 yr old lost sight in one eye after Southern DHB delays
7:45 AM.21 year old Koby Brown was one of the 14 patients that suffered moderate or major loss of vision because of the delayed eye treatments. He says he's not angry with the findings in the report. "What… Read more Audio
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Eye specialist wants patients facing delays given more options
7:51 AM.An opthalmologist who blew the whistle on Southern District Health Board's poor eye service is welcoming a critical report and it's recommendations. But says the key issue is there aren't enough… Read more Audio
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NZ still a long way from having a safe steel supply system
7:51 AM.New Zealand remains a long way from having a safe steel supply system more than a year after the Government ordered officials to look into it. Phil Pennington says some progress remains but myriad… Read more Audio
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Weather gods smile on Team New Zealand in Bermuda
7:55 AM.Team New Zealand's America's Cup campaign has taken a knock after the kiwi boat was damaged in practice racing. But Team NZ's Performance Coach, Murray Jones, says the 'weather gods' have been smiling… Read more Audio
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Former FBI assistant Director: latest claims add to anxiety
8:11 AM.Reports from the White House suggest the administration is becoming more and more chaotic with reports of shouting and yelling behind closed doors. A former assistant director of the FBI Ronald Hosko.
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Meatworks closure partly due to lost marketshare
8:21 AM.The closure of Ashburton meat works has been log signalled as Silver Fern Farms has lost market share to other meat processors. Agribusiness commentator, Alan Barber says the overall decline in sheep… Read more Audio
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Program gives school children instant legal advice
8:26 AM.Teachers might need to be more careful when handing out detentions and suspensions thanks to a new system that advises children on their rights at school through their mobile phone. Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 18 may 2017
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Vodafone and Sky lodges full appeal against merger rejection
8:40 AM.Sky TV and Vodafone are going to court in a bid to overturn the Commerce Commission's refusal to let the two companies merge. But not everyone's happy that the proposal might be back on the table. We… Read more Audio
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PredictIt puts chance of Trump impeachment at 30 percent
8:41 AM.Geoff Todd, the Managing Director of VicLink, which runs the online political stock market Predict It says it puts the chance of Trump being impeachment in 2017 at 30 percent. Audio
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Calls for a Royal Commission into the Family Court
8:48 AM.The Backbone Collective says it's "hugely disappointing" its plea to the Justice and Courts Minister for change has also fallen on deaf ears, and it's now calling for a Royal Commission into the… Read more Audio
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Government to double Lagarosiphon control on Lake Dunstan
8:50 AM.Otago regional councillor Michael Laws is hopping mad the council is spending more on controlling wallabies than it is on tackling the oxygen weed threatening the near pristine waters of Lake… Read more Audio
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Castlecliff sheds gangland image
8:55 AM.People power is being credited with transforming the often maligned suburb of Castlecliff in Whanganui into a thiving community once more. Audio