Morning report. 1996-05-20

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1996
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58872
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Year
1996
Reference
58872
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio news programs
Radio programs
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Duration
02:02:59
Credits
RNZ Collection
Hosking, Mike, Presenter
Robinson, Geoff, Presenter
Corbett, Maree, Producer
CADDICK, Kent, Sports presenter
National Radio (N.Z.) (estab. 1986, closed 2007)

0700 NEWS WAITING LISTS - Labour's Health spokeswoman Lianne Dalziel says more than 3 quarters of people currently on waiting lists will drop off under govt's new booking system, says 71,000 of 91,000 waiting for surgery won't be eligible for new lists, says it's "election year scam". Health minister Jenny Shipley says illegible not as Ms Dalziel portrays. (Marie Hosking); live i/v Dr Brent Layton, chair of Crown Health Assn. CREUTZFELDT JACOB DISEASE - Health ministry decides to put blood products donated by 2 CJD sufferers under lock and key despite finding no scientific evidence CJD can be transmitted through blood. Also decides, with backing of Haemophilia Society, not to inform people who may have already used the products. Comment from Health ministry's Colin Feek, Haemophilia Society, Kids Fndn, medical ethics specialist Prof Grant Gillet, and parent Peta Hardley. (Maria Slade); live i/v with Dr Jim Faed, blood specialist and member of blood transfusion service's advisory committee. RUGBY - Auckland Blues makes finals of Super 12 competition, defeats Northern Transval by 48 points to 11. Live i/v with commentator Graeme Moody about team's chances against Natal and All Black trial sides being announced today.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS GREEN PACKAGE - govt to unveil conservation package today, expected to reveal big funding increase for DoC but will also deal with wider green issues. Comment from PM Jim Bolger and Conservation minister Denis Marshall. (Marie Hosking) BOSNIAN SERBS - reports that leader Radovan Karadzic, indicted on war crimes illegible, has stepped down from power and replaced by hardline deputy Biljana plavsic, but this may be ruse to enable Karadzic to continue pulling strings behind scenes. I/v with Chris Cviic, Royal Inst of International Affairs. (Mng Rpt) BRITAIN - Conservative Party chair orders immediate investigation into claims party reveived more than $200,000 in donations from businessmen linked to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Money handed over between 1992-94 at height of Bosnian war. (Keith Chalkley) PARALYMPIAN ATHLETES impatient over govt inaction re demand they continue to receive benefits while at Atlanta Olyjmpics. Athlete Cristeen Smith, multiple sclerosis sufferer and holder of world records for 100 metres, 200 metres, javelin, shotput, discus and pentathlon, says she won't go unless social welfare rules are changed. (Mng Rpt); live i/v with Social Welfare minister Peter Gresham. CONSTABLE - month since Glenn McKibbin shot, killer not yet found. McKibbin family says month since death made harder by fact there's been no arrest. (Karlum Lattimore) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER WAITING LISTS - chair of Crown Health Assn, Dr Brent Layton, has denied Labour claims that 3 quarters of those people currently on waiting lists will be pushed off under new booking system. Live i/v with Labour's Health spokeswoman Lianne Dalziel in reply. GREEN PACKAGE - will it remedy electorally damaging situation for govt arising from revelations of funding shortfalls in DoC and Cave Creek accident. Live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher. CREUTZFELDT JACOB DISEASE - blood products containing blood donated by 2 CJD sufferers to be removed from national blood supplies but not destroyed, and people who may have already used the products will not be informed. Live i/v with Haemophilia Society president Mike Mapperson. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES WN WATERFRONT development projects hits public disapproval. 600 Wellingtonians attend public meeting, concerned Lambton Harbour Management, WN City Council subsidiary, is charging ahead without public approval. Comment from WN Civic Trust's Brian Tyler, mayor Mark Blumsky, and Donald Best of Lambton Harbour Management. (Andi Brotherston)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS MONDAY OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (controversy ove which way Sydney's Olympic stadium should face). PUBLIC SERVICE industrial unrest likely to continue this week. Inland Revenue staff begin 24 hour strike today, DoC staff considering strike action. Pay talks for many other public servants still in progress. Comment from Courts Dept spokesman Geordie Casdsin, IRD spokesman Adam Morris and PSA spokeswoman Kate Clark. (Claire Silvester) DEREK QUIGLEY - Muldoon era dissident National Party politician re-enters political arena, this time for ACT. He's i/ved live. AIDS - 13th international candlelight memorial service drawns over 400 people to AK's St Matthew's church. (Elma MaUa) COMMENT U.S. - Admiral Jeremy Boorda, chief of US Naval Operations, apparently killed himself rather than face exposure for wearing unearned combat decorations. Live i/v with "Guardian" correspondent Martin Walker.