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0700 NEWS MT RUAPEHU - live report from Lisa Owen, near the Chateau; decision expected soon on whether flights will resume, passengers starting to trickle in to airport, closed overnight because of ash clouds. Andrew Fleming reports live; live i/v with Martin Gosling, Civil Aviation Authority, re latest situation. PETERS DEFAMATION case heading to early conclusion. Lawyer Sandra Moran announced she wouldn't be calling any evidence on behalf of Mr Peters. (Merle Nowland) SUPERANNUATION SURTAX - Labour Party decides to give qualified support to govt proposal to change surtax, allowing superannuitants to keep about twice as much as currently can before paying surtax. Live i/v with social security spokesperson Annette King about party's change of mind on issue. SECONDARY TEACHERS look set to take industrial action again this Friday, and full 2 day strike next week. Govt met PPTA's proposal for increase to pay of 1st year teachers in effort to boost recruitment but stumbling block still pay rate for teachers with 8 years' experience or more. Live i/vs with Education minister Wyatt Creech and PPTA vice president Bernardine Vester. illegible NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS Māori LANGUAGE correspondent course, based in Hastings, being investigated by Education ministry and NZ First Party after it automatically signed up students as members of NZ First Party. Ministry investigations also uncover wider concerns involving public funds and course content. (Karlum Lattimore); live i/v with Associate Education minister Roger McClay. MT RUAPEHU - DoC declares Turoa skifield safe, allowing ski season to begin this weekend. News greeted with cautious optimism by townspeople. (Helen Matterson) COMPUTERS - end of century and millenia poses problems. Machines not geared to dealing with era beyond 20th century and could cease to function when date comes up with
0000. Live i/v with visiting US computer consultant Tom Watrous. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MT RUAPEHU - effects of ash on airports. Most in top half of North Island open again after Civil Aviation Authority ordered planes out of air last night because of dangers from ash cloud. Live i/v with C A A spokesperson martyn Gosling re latest situation. MT RUAPEHU - farmers in path of ash cloud anxious for rain to wash ash from pastures. Bruce Wilson, Kinloch station near Taupo, i/ved about conditions. (Mng Rpt) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES AGING - Prime Ministerial Taskforce on Positive Aging travelling the country, holding public meetings to gatherideas on how NZ should prepare for aging population. Comment from United Party leader Clive Matthewson. (Kathryn Street) ABANDONED BABY - AK's Samoan community helps in search for mother of baby James, left at Middlemore Hospital a month ago. Mother has arranged to contact CYPS but failed to do so and contact information found to be incorrect. Community worker Solo Brown i/ved live. HAKA - do All Blacks need a new one? Coach of NZ Māori side, Matt Te Pou, says yes and calls on All Blacks to drop Kamate haka because it's culturally offensive to some South Island Māori. Some All Blacks also concerned haka being devalued by being performed too often. (Stephen Hewson) MT RUAPEHU - live report from Helen Matterson, at Turoa skifield. PAROLE - Justice minister Doug Graham says he agrees with calls by Victim Support for victims of crime to be told when offender is coming up before Parole Board. Inadequacies in system in spotlight after recent high profile case. Comment also from Victim Support chief exec Laureen Outtrim. (Corinne Ambler) AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL latest annual report details human rights abuses in 146 illegible, harshly critical of increasing flow of weapons and torture devices illegible western manufacturers to those regimes who use them against their own people. I/v with Mark Ogle, Amnesty International London. POLITICAL BLUNDERS - Guinness Book describes drunkenness, embarrasing statements, backtracks, infidelities etc. Live i/v with author Geoffrey Hindley. COMMENT ISRAELI PM ELECT Benjamin Netanyahu presents govt to Parliament, but occasion marred by split in coalition over role of hardliner Ariel Sharon. Live i/v with correspondent Robert Berger.