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Morning Report is a news and current affairs programme on Radio New Zealand National. It broadcasts nationwide every weekday morning for three hours and covers major national and international stories, as well as business, sport, Pacific and Māori news. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s website (note internationally sourced news packages may not necessarily appear in the rundown):
06:06
Sports News for 2 December 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'59"
06:16
Pacific News for 2 December 2014
The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'35"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 2 December 2014
News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 4'06"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 December 2014
A report says a Maori boarding school's lack of agreement with its religious landowner is holding the college back; Iwi leaders will have their say at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Peru this week; A well-known art writer and curator is rejecting the idea that Pakeha artists often use Maori symbols and signs in a superficial manner; The Tupuna Maunga Authority o Tamaki Makaurau has passed an agreement to remove vehicle access from Maungawhau or Mt Eden.
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Duration: 3'27"
06:40
A quarter of New Zealand children living in poverty
The second annual Child Poverty Monitor says almost a quarter of New Zealand children are living in poverty.
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Duration: 2'10"
06:44
Team Vestas Wind to look at salvage operation
The crew of a round-the-world racing yacht that ran aground on an Indian Ocean reef will soon be arriving in Mauritius where they will start making plans for how to salvage their boat.
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Duration: 4'14"
06:48
Westpac predicts a more than 10% fall in NZ's purchasing power
Westpac is predicting New Zealand's purchasing power with the rest of the world will have deteriorated by more than 10 percent by the middle of next year.
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Duration: 2'01"
06:49
Hellaby ups dividend payout policy to combat flat share price
The investment company now plans to pay out about 75 percent of net profit in dividends, up from about 50 percent previously.
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Duration: 3'35"
06:51
Campaign for Auckland Council to become maority owner of Vector
A 75 percent stake in the electricity and gas lines company, Vector, could transfer to the Auckland Council, if a lobby in the city gets it's way.
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Duration: 1'24"
06:54
Law expert says hard work begins to meet new market regulations
The new financial markets regulations, which took effect this week, were over six years in the making, but for the market participants, the hard work is just beginning.
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Duration: 1'47"
06:56
Entrepreneur plans backdoor listing for his third venture
Peter Montgomery is proving to be a serial entrepreneur, having founded and sold two businesses already, and now plans to list his latest venture, Inventory Technologies, through a backdoor listing.
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Duration: 2'31"
06:58
Morning Markets
The Dow Jones Index is down 46 points to 17 782.
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Duration: 1'07"
07:07
Sports News for 2 December 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'46"
07:09
Child Poverty Monitor releases report
The second annual Child Poverty Monitor says almost a quarter of New Zealand children are living in poverty.
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Duration: 3'50"
07:14
Children's Commissioner concerned by poverty numbers
Joining us is the Children's Commissioner, Dr Russell Wills.
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Duration: 5'36"
07:21
Prime Minister signalled much tougher security laws to come
The Prime Minister has signalled the Government will look to introduce much tougher security laws after a review next year.
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Duration: 3'43"
07:24
Manhunt for two men wanted in Queenstown kidnapping continues
The manhunt for two men wanted in relation to a triple-kidnapping in Queenstown continues today.
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Duration: 2'18"
07:27
Special screening of final Hobbit movie in Wellington
A special screening of the third and final Hobbit movie, The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies, is to get underway in Wellington shortly.
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Duration: 2'49"
07:34
Labour leader discusses possible ANZAC resumption
In an apparent effort to gain cross party support, John Key hinted yesterday there could be some changes, notably to the controversial 48 hour surveillance period.
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Duration: 6'27"
07:40
Inquest hears officer falsely logs visits to at risk prisoner
The inquest into the death of a prisoner from a suspected drug overdose has heard a corrections officer logged visits to his cell that never happened.
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Duration: 3'27"
07:45
Australia and NZ could resume ANZAC activities
The Government is still looking into how the New Zealand military could contribute to the fight against Islamic State in Iraq.
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Duration: 6'46"
07:53
Child health expert slams future plan for rheumatic fever
A leading expert in rheumatic fever says a government plan to shift funding and responsibility for preventing the disease to health boards is deeply worrying.
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Duration: 3'39"
07:57
Repatriation of ancestral remains in NZ history announced
The largest collection of Māori and Moriori ancestral remains to be returned to New Zealand has been handed over to a Te Papa delegation in New York overnight.
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Duration: 2'51"
08:06
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'06"
08:11
Social Development Minister on poverty report
The second annual Child Poverty Monitor says almost a quarter of New Zealand children are living in poverty.
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Duration: 7'58"
08:19
Campaign for Auckland Council to be majority owner of Vector
A campaign's begun to have the Auckland Council take over the two billion dollar lion's share of the electricity lines company Vector, ending the annual payout to hundreds of thousands of consumers.
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Duration: 3'33"
08:23
Cake is at centre of employment case taken against credit union
Two former senior executives of one of the country's largest credit unions are expected to support claims NZCU Baywide stole the private information of a former employee and used it to try to destroy her career.
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Duration: 3'16"
08:26
Trustpower calls for access to dangerous dog registers
A power company is calling on the government to give it access to councils' dangerous dog registers so it can protect its workers.
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Duration: 2'42"
08:29
Markets Update for 2 December 2014
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 51"
08:34
Vehicles to be banned from Auckland volcanic summits?
A move to ban all vehicles driving to the summit of Maungawhau, or Mt Eden, in Auckland could be in place by next year.
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Duration: 4'34"
08:39
WFP to halt aid to 1.7 million syrian refugees
The United Nations World Food Programme has been forced to suspend a critical programme providing food vouchers to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees, due to a funding crisis.
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Duration: 3'49"
08:42
Dunedin named 'City of Literature' by UN
From today Dunedin can now call itself a City of Literature after UNESCO accepted the city's bid to join one of the world's most exclusive book clubs.
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Duration: 4'23"
08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 December 2014
A report says a Māori boarding school's lack of agreement with its religious landowner is holding the college back; A well-known art writer and curator is rejecting the idea that Pakeha artists often use Māori symbols and signs in a superficial manner; Iwi leaders will have their say at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Peru this week; The Tupuna Maunga Authority o Tamaki Makaurau has passed an agreement to remove vehicle access from Maungawhau or Mt Eden's summit.
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Duration: 2'58"
08:52
69 year old woman dies after falling 40 metres down steep bank
A 69 year old Wanaka woman has died after falling 40 metres down a steep bank on the Fern Burn Walking Track in the Motatapu area.
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Duration: 1'53"
08:55
NCEA exams end today
NCEA and Scholarship exams end today after what school principals and the Qualifications Authority say has been an almost trouble-free exam season.
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Duration: 2'41"
08:56
Tony Canizales, a-k-a "Mister Christmas", talks about decorating his Californian home with 300,000 Christmas lights.