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Morning Report for Tuesday 20 June 2017
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Top Stories for Tuesday 20 June 2017
6:00 AM.Building industries sound alarm about weakness in standards; Cardiff father of four named as driver in London mosque attack; Greens call for a major boost to refugee intake; Andrew Little explains how… Read more Audio
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Car deliberately hits Paris police van on Champs-Elysees
6:08 AM.A car deliberately hit a police van before bursting into flames on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in central Paris. The driver died in the incident. Our correspondent Peter Allen says Police found a… Read more Audio
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Coal industry rallies as power hunger bites
6:17 AM.More coal is being burnt to make electricity, to compensate for low water levels in South Island hydro lakes. Two units at Huntly Power station which were reprieved from scheduled closure last year… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 20 June 2017
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 20 June 2017
6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio
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Building experts say poor product standards potentially deadly
6:39 AM.A range of construction trades are warning of widespread weaknesses in quality control standards in New Zealand buildings including those for fire safety. Audio
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Principals warn parents about taking kids on in-term holidays
6:45 AM.Secondary Principals' Association president Mike Williams says parents need to realise their kids are missing out at school if they are taken out during term time for holidays. New research shows more… Read more Audio
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Business News for 20 June 2017
6:50 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Building industries sound alarm about weakness in standards
7:12 AM.A range of construction trades are warning of widespread weaknesses in quality control standards in New Zealand buildings including those for fire safety. Phil Pennington reports. Audio
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Cardiff father of four named as driver in London mosque attack
7:16 AM.British Police have named the driver of the van that was deliberately driven into worshippers outside a North London mosque. He is Darren Osborne a father of four from Cardiff. He was not known to the… Read more Audio
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Greens call for a major boost to refugee intake
7:26 AM.NZ currently accepts 750 refugees a year - that's set to rise to one thousand next year, but that still isn't enough to satisfy the Green party. Its co-leader James Shaw wants the intake boosted by… Read more Audio
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Andrew Little explains how Labour will target youth vote
7:30 AM.Following the rise in youth voting in the UK following the shock of Brexit, back here the Labour leader Andrew Little explains what Labour intends to do to increase the youth vote to create a… Read more Video, Audio
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Foster carers made sceptical "broken" system will ever be fixed
7:41 AM.Foster parents say they're still waiting for change from the new Ministry, Oranga Tamariki, and are increasingly sceptical that the desperately needed support is ever going to arrive. Audio
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Insulation subsidy a hard sell
7:44 AM.The Government's $18 million, two-year Healthy Homes programme for insulating the country's housing appears to be a hard sell. Fewer than 4,000 homes have been insulated under the scheme; it was hoped… Read more Audio
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Britain and EU begin discussions on "divorce"
7:47 AM.Britain's Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has described the first day of talks about the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union as "very productive" and says that a deal is "eminently… Read more Audio
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Homecoming of sorts for Warren Gatland at Lions, Chiefs
7:54 AM.Waikato is Warren Gatland's home province and the Chiefs rugby team his former employer. Sport Waikato's Chief Executive Matthew Cooper says there's a good atmosphere in Waikato. Audio
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Pike River families say they've seen footage of intact bodies
8:10 AM.Some Pike River families say they have seen new video footage which shows five or six intact bodies inside the Pike River mine. Sonya Rockhouse says the new footage was handed to her by the police… Read more Audio
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New robot for Pike, but not for months
8:17 AM.A fifth robot is to be sent down into the Pike River Mine, through boreholes that are yet to be drilled, to try to look for signs of bodies of the 29 men who died in the mine, or for the cause of the… Read more Audio
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Greens say they would double refugee quota twice over
8:22 AM.The Green Party has announced it will give the the refugee quota a big boost - raising it to 5,000 within the next six years, if it's elected into government in September. Audio
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Oranga Tamariki chief - money on the way for foster carers
8:27 AM.The chief executive of Oranga Tamariki, Grainne Moss, says money is on the way to improve the way the state cares for children who cannot live with their birth families. Audio
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Markets Update for 20 June 2017
8:35 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Ombudsman backs MPI re swamp kauri land privacy
8:43 AM.In a break from tradition, the Ombudsman has ruled that the Ministry for Primary Industries no longer has to reveal the locations where swamp kauri is being extracted. That's in contrast to what's… Read more Audio
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Bali's dog meat trade being plied to Aust/NZ tourists
8:46 AM.Animal rights activists in Australia are horrified at Bali's dog meat trade and the fact unsuspecting tourists are being duped into thinking they're eating something other dog meat. Animals Australia… Read more Audio
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Chch urged to get behind anchor projects
8:53 AM.Christchurch hosted a city leaders forum last night for 300 or so community and business leaders looking at the future direction of the city. One of the points raised - the city risks losing ambition… Read more Audio