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0600 News/Sport
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0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS RUGBY WORLD CUP won by South Africa. SA Rugby Union president Louis Luyt tells dinner guests that Springboks would have won previous two tournaments if they had taken part. Remarks prompt All Blacks to leave, followed by England and France. All Black campaign manager Brian Lochore comments; commentator Graeme Moodie i/ved live about the game. RUGBY WORLD CUP has become unifying force in South Africa with soccer-mad black community now taking up the sport which previously had been preserve of whites. I/v with Thimba Sepotokele, "The Sowetan". (Stephen Hewson) CROWN HEALTH ENTERPRISES minister Paul East asks CHEs to plan for smaller hospitals and more community-based health care, expected to have marked effect on rural communities. Hawkes Bay CHE confident moves are correct. Comment from CHE chair Peter Wilson, Ken Young of Rural GP Network, Nurses Orgn national director Brenda Wilson. (Helen Matterson); live i/v with minister Paul East.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NATIONAL PARTY regional conferences in AK and WN discuss new political environment under MMP and what it means for coming election campaign. Comment from party president Geoff Thompson, Māori vice president Cliff Bedwell and MP; Murray McCully and Roger Sowry. (Janice Rodenburg); live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher about National's latest moves.
COMPUTER FRAUD could be costing NZ businesses huge sums of money if British experience is anything to go by. Live i/v with Peter Jenner, visiting UK international management and technology consultant with PA Consulting.
PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES
0800 NEWS/WEATHER
WANGANUI - issue of Moutoa gardens resurfaces, with National Party Māori vice president Cliff Bedwell suggesting council hand over the gardens to local Māori, says initiative must be taken before "Māori hardliners" reappear. Comment also from Wanganui deputy mayor Lysbeth Noble and district councillor Vivienne Eyers. (Peter Fowler)
SEARCH for missing climber in Fiordland National Park ended by bad weather and further avalanche danger. CH man Daniel Meecham swept over 500 metre face by avalanche. Searchers may not be able to recover body until Spring thaw. (Jocelyn Darling)
NUCLEAR TESTS - opposition and environment groups urge govt to keep up pressure on French govt over tests. Cabinet meets this morning to review effectiveness of measures taken so far. Comment from Labour leader Helen Clark, Michael Szabo of Greenpeace, and Louise May, organiser of anti-test rally in WN. (Mark Crysell)
NUCLEAR TESTS - human rights advisory group, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, calls on all Commonwealth nations to take stand against resumption of nuclear testing in South Pacific. Live i/v with Initiative chair Dr Kamal Hossain of Bangladesh.
UNITED NATIONS celebrates 50th anniversary of signing of Charter. Actuality of then NZ PM Peter Fraser; I/v with Colin Aikman, member of 1945 team that went to San Francisco to sign charter. (Erik Frykberg)
REGIONAL NEWS
0830 NEWS/SPORTS
CROATIAN PRESIDENT Franjo Tudjman arrives in NZ for visit at invitation of govt. Honorary Consul-General in Ak, Tony Covic, says Serbian protests encountered in Australia are unlikely to be repeated in NZ. (Alexia Russell); live i/v with Chris Civic, Royal Inst of International Affairs in London, about Mr Tudjman.
N.Z. RUGBY UNION signs $820 million 10 year deal, along with Australian and South African unions, with Rupert Murdoch's New Corporation Ltd. (Stephen Hewson); live i/v with NZRFU vice president Rob Fisher.
COMMENT ABORIGINES - new study into Aboriginal health shows Aborigine men 3 times as likely, and Aborigine women 4 times as likely, to die from disease at early age than general population. I/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (Mng Rpt)
RUGBY WORLD CUP - i/v with correspondent Anthony Johnson about how the tournament has changed the face of South Africa.