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0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS WAIKATO HOSPITAL - investigation into staffing and patient safety recommends programme to recruit more experienced staff plus several other recommendations aimed at improving staffing situation. I/v with Health Waikato chief exec Gary Smith. (Mng Rpt) WILD HORSES - Kaimanawa Wld Horses Protection Society makes application under Resource Management Act to have planned cull declared unlawful, asking for horses to be protected until detailed research done. Live i/v with Society's founder Jim Boyd. IVAN MILAT - NZ police investigating possible link between Australia's convicted "backpacker killer" and several unsolved murders here. Milat was in NZ 1971-74. (Kent Caddick) JULY WEATHER was extraordinary, with snow, lowest ever air temperatures in some places, and much rain. Live i/v with Met Service chief forecaster Augie Auer. BSE - British Agriculture ministry scientists produce first evidence that bovine spongiform encephalitis is hereditary and can be passed on from cow to calf. Findings mean many more cattle have to be slaughtered. (Keith Chalkley) OLYMPICS - Gordon Irving reports live.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS TELEVISION NZ - allegations of political interference in editorial decisions - true or not? ACT leader Richard Prebble political appointees to TVNZ too scared to do anything in case journalists and PSA members blow the whistle. He's i/ved live. RESCUE - 31 year old fisherman rescued off Chatham islands praises crew of trawler that also came to his aid. Peter Lawrie plucked from "San Giuseppe" suffering from lung damage received while welding on his own vessel. Medical staff say he survived only because of 24 hour care given by "San Giuseppe" crew. (Kiri Coughlan) BURUNDI - military junta vows to overcome economic sanctions aimed at bringing it down. Central and East African leaders vote to impose total embargo to force Tutsi strongman Major Pierre Buyoya to return country to civilian rule. I/v with Nairobi correspondent Jane Standley. (Mng Rpt) OLYMPICS - do the modern Games reflect the ideals envisaged by Baron de Coubertin 100 years ago? (Stephen Hewson) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER IVAN MILAT - i/v with Sydney reporter Ian Eckersley, who knows the Milat case well, explains how Milat's trip to NZ in 1970s came about. (Mng Rpt) CATHOLIC CHURCH to investigate how former priest jailed for paedophilia came to be living in church house next to a Waikato primary school. Live i/v with Deborah Coddington, compiler of recently published list of paedophiles. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES N.Z. TELEVISION PROGRAMMES could soon screen in Australia. Federal Court ruling today will decide whether NZ television content should have access to Australia's local content quota. Lobby group Project Blue Sky has launched appeal against Australian Broadcasting Authority ruling excluding NZ from the quota. (Hannah Belcher) CULTURAL SAFETY - Nursing Council review of how cultural safety taught to student nurses fails to please some MPs on education select committee. Govt MP Nick Smith appeared to express view of other govt members when he indicated new guidelines produced by Council showed nothing had changed. Live i/v with Dr Smith and Nursing Council president Judy Kilpatrick.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS TANIA FURLAN MURDER - investigation looks like being a long one. Live report from Glenda Wakeham. CHRISTIAN COALITION releases law and order policy, believe there's support for tough line. Comment from spokesperson and former Police Commissioner John Jamieson, and Christian Heritage leader Graeme Capill. (Janice Rodenburg) BERNMUDA TRIANGLE mystery claimed to be solved by retired Australian professor of civil engineering. Richard Silvester says he understands mystery not only of Bermuda Triangle but of similar phenomena in other parts of world. (air/water vortices). He's i/ved. (Mng Rpt) PM JIM BOLGER gives official explanation to Parliament of his role during 1981 Springbok tour following questions from Labour Party. Audio of Mr Bolger and Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen. (Stephen Parker) DIPLOMAT - Brian Absolum named as NZ's first High Commissioner to South Africa, having previously been cross-credited from Zimbabwe. He's i/ved. (Mng Rpt) COMMENT OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes about week's events across Tasman. (Ivan Milat case, Mrs Howard's cancer operation, superannuation)