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0700 NEWS SEX ABUSE - Commissioner for Children Laurie O'Reilly wants every school to appoint sex abuse expert and go through educational law tribunal to investigate cases against teachers, in wake of conviction of Thomas Leigh whose abuse of Mahurangi College students went unpunished for 20 years. School Trustees Assn believes Commissioner may be pushing things too far. (Adam Hollingworth); live i/v with PPTA principals' council chair Karen Sewell. MELBOURNE FIRE - 9 men die in fire at residence for intellectually disabled in inner city suburb. Live i/v with 3AW police reporter Nicole Swift. DRUGS IN PRISONS - govt planning to change law to allow for testing of inmates. Corrections minister Paul East says govt determined to tackle problem head-on but Labour's Justice spokesman Phil Goff believes govt simply trying to pre-empt his private member's Bill. (Janice Rodenburg); i/v with prison officer and PSA negotiator Mike Smith. SOUTH KOREAN president Kim Young-sam warns North Korea that South will not tolerate further incursions into demilitarised aone. North Korea has sent soldiers into zone 3 times in past 4 days in contravention of armistice agreement. Live i/v with Richard Grant, Korean affairs expert at Royal Inst of International Affairs in London.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS HIV - some patients may need tests re-done after testing kit being used here gave false negative results in Europe. Kit was purchased by 17 hospital and community laboratories but Health ministry therapeutics manager Dr Bob Boyd says way in which kit failed overseas means re-testing not necessary for everyone. He's i/ved live. illegible - annual conference motivates rank and file to move from shaky poll results to firm election footing and discusses tactics for campaign starting today. Delegates pledge to get 13,000 new members between now and election, hold over 7,000 street meetings and raise over million dollars by August. (Anna Hughes); live i/v with leader Jim Anderton. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER SEX ABUSE - parent of children abused by former Mahurangi College teacher supports idea of having sexual abuse contact person in every school. Live i/v with David. CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS' SERVICE - Labour Party releases documents showing DSW director General Margaret Bazley has major concerns about CYPS funding. Documents outline concerns CYUPS being forced to pay for care of disabled children who should come under Health umbrella, meaning it doesn't have enough funds to meet its own care and protection obligations. Comment from Labour's spokeswoman Lianne Dalziel and CYPS general manager Griff Page.(Corinne Ambler) U.S. - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski being kept under 24 hour surveillance in cell while being held on 1 count of illegal possession of explosives. Law enforcement officials confident he's mastermind behind 17 year bombing campaign that killed 3 people and wounded 23. Live i/v with ABC News correspondent in Washington, Bill Greenwood. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES TEACHER SHORTAGE - PPTA believes Education ministry has given minister Wyatt Creech inaccurate information on future size of shortage. Comment from PPTA president Martin Cooney and Wyatt Creech. (Allanah Kalafatelis); live i/v with Education ministry's schools' resourcing senior manager Eric Pedersen. CANADA - live i/v with Ron Irwin, minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (visiting NZ), about land claims, future of native languages, and alternative justice systems.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS EASTER TRADING - 28 shops may be prosecuted for trading over Easter weekend, mostly garden centres. Live i/v with chief Labour Dept Inspector Mike Feely. OOS - govt criticised for not doing enough to stop "explosion" of occupational over-use syndrome among public servants. Labour's spokesman on labour relations, Steve Maharey, releases figures showing huge increase in ACC claims among workers in govt depts. Comment also from PSA operations manager Angela Belich and Marlene Thompson, Occupational Safety and Health Service. (Helen Matterson. DRUGS IN PRISONS - live i/v with David Hagar, secretary of Howard League for illegible Reform about govt's planned crackdown. illegible OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes about weekend's events across Tasman. (senior diplomat to appear in court later this month charged with sex offences against children overseas)