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0630 News Update
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0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS CAMPAIGN - live i/vs with reporters who've been following leaders around the country - Janice Rodenburg, Stephen Parker, Marie Hosking, Kathryn Street. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - Air NZ, Waikato Univ, and WN hospital disputes winding down but 2 more disputes on the boil - at Healthcare Otago over stalled contract talks and at ANZ Bank/Postbank over pay offer. Comment from FinSec's Paul Goulter and ANZ general manager Julie McDougall. (Hannah Belcher) COUNCIL HOUSES - impact study on planned sell-off in AK indicates some tenants may be driven to suicide by loss of homes. Councillor' Bruce Hucker, opposed to sale, says tenants' study results are appalling. He's i/ved live. KEITH RAMSTEAD CASE - former CH surgeon giving evidence on his own behalf. (Merle Nowland)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS RUGBY chiefs approve use of tactical substitutions. IRB rules that up to 5 substitutes will be able to be used at any time during match. Live i/v with commentator Graham Moodie. CAMPAIGN - live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher. (Jim Bolger predicts on TV3 that National's share of vote will be better than 35% won in last election) SEX OFFENDER - debate on laws to detain people who may be threat to public resurfaces with CH case of missing 18 year old sex offender. Mental health professionals and Human Rights Commission believe he's example of people who are still falling through cracks between mental health laws and criminal justice system. Comment from Dr Alan Fraser, Mental Health Law Assn, Human Rights Commissioner Pamela Jefferies, and privacy consultant Catherine Dalziel. (Clare Sziranyi); AK Univ law lecturer Warren Brookbanks advised govt on legislation which distinguished between intellectually disabled offenders and those with mental disorders - he's i/ved live. UNCOMMITTED VOTE - live discussion with Masterton kindergarten teacher and mother of 2 Judy Clark, WN bokshop owner Tim Skinner, CH law student Olivia Tifaga and AK superannuitant Tom Davies. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER ELECTION - live i/v with political commentator Colin James. COUNCIL HOUSES - AK deputy mayor David Hay says planned sale of houses will go ahead, believes Councillor Bruce Hucker using tomorrow's election as platform to grandstand on issue. He's i/ved live. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES SOUTH AFRICA - 6 black South Africans accused of carrying out dirty work for apartheid-era Defence minister Magnus Malan found not guilty of massacring 13 civilians. Malan still waiting to hear vedrdict on his case. I/v with correspondent Carolyn Dempster. AUSTRALIA - family of 6 year old in Cairns who was doused with petrol and set alight in primary school yard dismiss suggestions attack could have been racially motivated. Aboriginal boy in serious condition with burns to 60% of body. (Zandra Sharpe) 2 4 D - Federated Farmers concerned decision to ban herbicide will make weed control too expensive for farmers, new formula could cost extra 30%. Live i/v with Rurals reporter Kevin Ikin.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS ELECTION - Pacific Island voters likely to go to polls without any obvious preference for vote despite history of backing Labour. (Lualemana Tino Pereira) OLYMPICS 2000 - Sydney's stadium operators launch $11,000 package which guaranteed seat in each stadium session during Games, stadium club membership for more than 30 years and investment in stadium business. Critics label packages as elitist. (Stephen Hewson) OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes about week's events across Tasman. (parrot hero) ELECTION - first MMP election sparks classroom exercises throughout country. At WN's Thorndon School 5 parties have resorted to every election trick in the book. (Al Morrison)