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A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
09 February 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 A Short History of Jazz - The 1960s (1 of 4, WFIU) 3:05 Bus, by Tim Page (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 9 February 2016
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John Key talks to us about the decision to stay away from Waitangi. Health authorities in Tonga are now reporting up to seven people have contracted the Zika virus. Retiring Black Caps skipper Brendon McCullum ended his one day career in style yesterday.
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Duration: 29'50"
06:06
Sports News for 9 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'52"
06:14
Mosquito muting Rio's olympic buzz
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It's six months to the start of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics- but a shadow remains over the world's most revered sporting event.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Brazil
Duration: 2'26"
06:21
Early business news
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Our business editor Gyles Beckford joins us.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'29"
06:27
Morning Rural News for 9 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'52"
06:38
Titewhai Harawira says PM turned back on Ngapuhi
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Ngapuhi kuia Titewhai Harawira says they worked harder than ever before to ensure the Prime Minister's safety, and he turned his back on them by not going.
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Regions: Northland
Tags: Waitangi
Duration: 2'21"
06:41
Australian clergy offer their churches as safe havens
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Clergy in Australia are offering sanctuary to asylum seekers who face being sent back to the Nauru detention centre, even if it means risking prosecution.
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Tags: Australia, Nauru
Duration: 1'59"
06:43
Direct flights to Townsville on cards
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New Zealanders wanting a dose of sunshine may be able to fly direct to Townsville, in Australia, if plans by tourism leaders there get the go ahead.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 3'15"
06:50
Corporate reporting season kicks off
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The corporate reporting season gets underway this week, as the bulk of the stock exchange's listed companies report their first half results for the six months ended December.
Topics: business
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Tags: reporting
Duration: 2'50"
06:53
RBNZ off beam with monetary policy - economist
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An economist is unimpressed by the Reserve Bank governor's defence last week of its interest rate policy.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: RBNZ
Duration: 1'57"
06:55
Jim Parker in Australia
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Let's turn our attention to Australia and our correspondent Jim Parker.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'02"
06:57
Week ahead
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And it's the start of the half year earnings season ... over the next three weeks we'll have a torrent of earnings results.. the first out of the blocks is casino operator Sky City Entertainment on Thursday ...
Topics: business
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Tags: earnings results
Duration: 39"
06:58
Morning markets for 9 February 2016
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Wall Street hurt by weaker oil prices and technology stock sell off
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'05"
07:07
Sports News for 9 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'35"
07:16
John Key on his Watangi Day no-show
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The Prime Minister says his failure to appear at Waitangi this year after a dispute over his speaking rights is not a sign the Government's relationship with Maori is failing.
Topics: politics
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Tags: John Key
Duration: 4'03"
07:20
Seven reported Zika cases in Tonga: hundreds more suspected
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Health authorities in Tonga are now reporting up to seven people have contracted the Zika virus.
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Tags: zika virus, Tonga
Duration: 5'21"
07:26
Black Caps taste sweet victory in McCullum's last ODI
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Retiring Black Caps skipper Brendon McCullum ended his one day career in style yesterday.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 3'14"
07:29
Tramping on and off the the beaten track
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Bookings on the South Island's famous tracks are running at an all time high, raising concerns about overcrowding and potential damage to New Zealand's reputation overseas.
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Regions: Southland
Tags: tracks, tourism
Duration: 3'30"
07:36
Labour's leader stands by his pledge
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Andrew Little has turned the tables on the Prime Minister John Key with a pledge to visit Waitangi every year if elected Prime Minister.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Waitangi
Duration: 5'38"
07:42
US Primaries road-show rolling on in New Hampshire
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The U.S Presidential Primaries roadshow is rolling on in New Hampshire, where the Republican Donald Trump and the Democrats' Bernie Sanders have a strong lead in the polls over their rivals.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US
Duration: 4'36"
07:47
Ratepayers pay thousands for council seats at PM speech
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Auckland ratepayers have picked up a four and a half thousand dollar tab for council staff to attend a speech by the Prime Minister at a top city hotel.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 2'50"
07:52
Calls for govt to increase cost of tobacco
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The health organisation trying to encourage Maori to stop smoking is urging the Government to keep increasing the cost of tobacco, and by greater amounts.
Topics: health
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Tags: smoking
Duration: 3'21"
07:55
One week left to raise cash for Abel Tasman slice of beach
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A crowdfunding campaign to buy a private beach in the Abel Tasman National Park has raised one point three-four million dollars.
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Regions: Tasman
Tags: beach
Duration: 4'29"
08:07
Sports News for 9 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'57"
08:11
John Key on his Watangi Day no-show
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The Prime Minister rejects suggestions he broke a long-standing promise by refusing to go to Waitangi this year.
Topics: politics
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Tags: John Key
Duration: 2'34"
08:13
Jones slams Te Tii trustees over Waitangi day debacle
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Former Northland-based Labour MP Shane Jones is among those calling for a shake up of Waitangi Day commemorations after this year's debacle.
Topics: politics
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Tags: John Key
Duration: 4'52"
08:18
Holidaying Affco meat workers could face disciplinary action
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Dozens of meat workers who enjoyed their Monday-ised Waitangi Day off yesterday could face repercussions today for defying their bosses.
Topics: business
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Tags: AFFCO
Duration: 2'49"
08:21
Greens welcoming Westpac's report on Paris Agreement
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One of the country's biggest banks says the Government's decision to go easy on farming's greenhouse gas emissions will cost the country dearly.
Topics: politics
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Tags: greenhouse gas emissions, ETS
Duration: 5'04"
08:31
Markets Update for 9 February 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'07"
08:37
Northland rugby's gang patch ban non-negotiable.
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Northland rugby's gang patch ban is put to the test next month, after it was brought in to save a division of minnows from falling apart
Topics: sport
Regions: Northland
Tags: gang patch ban
Duration: 3'15"
08:40
Maori slate Chris Finalyson's response to report
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Treaty negotiations minister Chris Finlayson has fired back at criticism of his government's plans to reform management of Maori land.
Topics: politics, te ao Maori
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Tags: Maori land
Duration: 3'59"
08:44
Changes could be on horizon for Twitter
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Twitter users went into overdrive at the weekend, fearing the popular social media site would make changes to its timeline.
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Tags: Twitter
Duration: 2'21"
08:47
As the Superbowl turns 50, its appeal in NZ increases
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Superbowl has turned 50 years old.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Superbowl
Duration: 2'58"
08:54
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Phil Kafcaloudes, Australia
Duration: 5'08"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 9 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'51"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: All the Ends Starts Again, by Rochelle Elliot, read by Vivienne Bell A funny and reassuring tale about a man, a dog, a goat and the cycle of life (1 of 3, RNZ)
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09:08
Why young men dominate drowning statistics
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A 16-year-old boy died yesterday after jumping off a bridge in Raglan, and a 22 year old man was killed on the Kaituna River, north of Rotorua - another was seriously injured. And two young men also nearly drowned at Muriwai, while a 14 year old girl is also in hospital following a near drowning at Maraetai in southeast Auckland. Auckland University Water safety expert, Dr Kevin Moran, says young men take more risks and over estimate their abilities.
Topics: health, life and society
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Tags: water saftey, drownings
Duration: 14'55"
09:23
Exotic invaders dominating native species
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Dr Kevin Burns from Victoria University's School of Biological Sciences has spent 10 years documenting the ecosystem of an archipelago of small islands off the south coast of Wellington. During this time the numbers of exotic plants making their home here has increased quickly, with the evidence suggesting that from being in the minority they now out number native plants. What's more that 'exotic invasion' is still taking place. So what's driving the immigration and extinction of certain species ? Does this mirror what's happening in the rest of the country? And what can be done to slow the invasion?
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Dr Kevin Burns from Victoria University's School of Biological Sciences has spent 10 years documenting the ecosystem of an archipelago of small islands off the south coast of Wellington.
During this time the numbers of exotic plants making their home here has increased quickly, with the evidence suggesting that from being in the minority they now out number native plants.
What's more that ''exotic invasion'' is still taking place. So what's driving the immigration and extinction of certain species ?
Does this mirror what's happening in the rest of the country? And what can be done to slow the invasion?
Dr Burns talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: environment
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Tags: native species, ecosystems
Duration: 11'58"
09:39
Jane Patterson reports from the US Primaries
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Radio New Zealand's Political Editor Jane Patterson reports from New Hampshire.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, United States
Duration: 10'54"
09:50
US correspondent, Steve Almond
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Steve Almond reports on America's 50th Super Bowl after a wave of newspaper editorials on the dangers of the game, including the New York Times.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, United States
Duration: 9'16"
10:06
Elly van de Wijdeven - Vintage Paua Jewellery
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The story of paua jewellery, from art souvenir and tourist kitsch to highly collectible Kiwi icon. Elly van de Wijdeven is an academic and researcher in the field of material culture, and along with her interest in paua shell jewellery, she writes and speaks on New Zealand textiles.
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The story of paua jewellery, from art souvenir and tourist kitsch to highly collectible Kiwi icon.
Elly van de Wijdeven is an academic and researcher in the field of material culture, and along with her interest in paua shell jewellery, she writes and speaks on New Zealand textiles.
Her book Vintage Paua Shell Jewellery explores the history and shares the many stories of how and why it came to be produced and by whom.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: Elly van de Wijdeven, paua jewellery, souvenir, tourist kitsch, kiwi icon
Duration: 28'34"
10:38
Book review - Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali
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Reviewed by Paul Diamond.
Topics: books
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Tags: Paul Diamond, book review
Duration: 6'47"
11:06
Politics with Matthew Hooton and Stephen Mills
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Waitangi Day. The flag debate.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 17'19"
11:28
Dawn McMillan on using humour to engage young readers
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Dawn McMillan writes children's books and educational readers. She has published more than 140 educational readers which are used in schools in Australasia, the US and Canada. Many of her books have a focus on animals and New Zealand's natural environment. She works from her home on the Thames Coast, Coromandel. Her titles include Why do dogs sniff bottoms? and her latest Mister Spears and his hairy ears. With New Zealand children just back at school and new entrants learning to read, we're taking a look at how to engage kids in reading.
Topics: author interview, books
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Tags: Dawn McMillan, children's author, reading, Mister Spears and his hairy ears
Duration: 12'47"
11:45
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis on how news media are damned if they report Waitangi Day protest and damned if they don't. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
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Duration: 13'49"
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09:05 Why young men dominate drowning statistics
A 16-year-old boy died yesterday after jumping off a bridge in Raglan, and a 22 year old man was killed on the Kaituna River, north of Rotorua - another was seriously injured. And two young men also nearly drowned at Muriwai, while a 14 year old girl is also in hospital following a near drowning at Maraetai in southeast Auckland. Auckland University Water safety expert, Dr Kevin Moran, says young men take more risks and over estimate their abilities.
09:20 Exotic invaders dominating native species
Dr Kevin Burns from Victoria University's School of Biological Sciences has spent 10 years documenting the ecosystem of an archipelago of small islands off the south coast of Wellington. During this time the numbers of exotic plants making their home here has increased quickly, with the evidence suggesting that from being in the minority they now out number native plants. What's more that 'exotic invasion' is still taking place.
So what's driving the immigration and extinction of certain species ? Does this mirror what's happening in the rest of the country? And what can be done to slow the invasion?
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09:30 Jane Patterson reports from the US Primaries
Radio New Zealand's Political Editor Jane Patterson reports from New Hampshire.
09:45 US correspondent, Steve Almond
Steve Almond reports on America's 50th Super Bowl after a wave of newspaper editorials on the dangers of the game, including the New York Times.
10:05 Elly van de Wijdeven - Vintage Paua Jewellery
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The story of paua jewellery, from art souvenir and tourist kitsch to highly collectible Kiwi icon.
Elly van de Wijdeven is an academic and researcher in the field of material culture, and along with her interest in paua shell jewellery, she writes and speaks on New Zealand textiles. Her book Vintage Paua Shell Jewellery explores the history and shares the many stories of how and why it came to be produced and by whom.
10:35 Book review
Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali
Reviewed by Paul Diamond
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Politics with Matthew Hooton and Stephen Mills
11:20 Dawn McMillan on using humour to engage young readers
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Dawn McMillan writes children's books and educational readers. She has published more than 140 educational readers which are used in schools in Australasia, the US and Canada. Many of her books have a focus on animals and New Zealand's natural environment.
She works from her home on the Thames Coast, Coromandel. Her titles include Why do dogs sniff bottoms? and her latest Mister Spears and his hairy ears. With New Zealand children just back at school and new entrants learning to read, we're taking a look at how to engage kids in reading.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis on how news media are damned if they report Waitangi Day protest and damned if they don't.
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 9 February 2016
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The Prime Minister says the Government is not considering introducing a health surcharge for visitors from the United Kingdom. The man accused of killing a Massey University student last year has pleaded guilty to amended charges.
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Duration: 15'10"
12:17
Gloss on capital housing market - QV data
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Activity in the housing market appears to be levelling out at a national level - but some regions are showing signs of getting a new burst of activity.
Topics: housing
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Tags: house prices
Duration: 1'40"
12:19
Truckometer pulls back in January
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The economy looks to have had a bit of a holiday last month, according to the ANZ's monthly Truckometer index.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Truckometer
Duration: 1'13"
12:20
Expectations for earnings season
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A leading broking firm expects a handful of companies to report outstanding earnings growth of more than 50 percent as the corporate reporting season gets underway this week, but most are coming off a weak base.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'30"
12:22
Jim Parker in Australia
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To Australia and our correspondent Jim Parker, who reports on the liberties that at least one person was willing to take in a creative tax return that they filed.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 59"
12:23
Midday Markets for 9 February 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'30"
12:27
Midday Sports News for 9 February 2016
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The New Zealand cricket coach Mike Hesson maintains relations between the Black Caps and Australia remain cordial despite the contoversial dismissal of Australian batsman Mitchell Marsh in last night's Chappell-Hadlee series decider in Hamilton.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'42"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:10
First Song
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'Where The Light Gets In' - Primal Scream
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Duration: 4'35"
13:15
Parliament Resumes 2016 - Chris Bramwell
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In just under an hour Parliament will resume for the year. To speak about what's on the agenda, is RNZ's deputy political editor, Chris Bramwell.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 5'03"
13:20
Pygmy Blue Whale - Professor Leigh Torres
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An international research team are on the water 40 kilometres north of Farewell spit, finding out more about the blue whale. The team on board Niwa research vessel Ikatere, is collaborating with the Department of Conservation and is being led by marine mammal expert Professor Leigh Torres of Oregon State University.
Topics: environment, science
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Tags: Pygmy Blue Whale, whales
Duration: 10'47"
13:31
'The Art of Youth' - Molawin Evangelista
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Our next guest is looking forward to his first ever solo exhibition. Auckland based photographer, Molawin Evangelista, has been photographing tattoos, and exploring how young people 'collect' body art from a young age. The exhibition is called 'The Art of Youth'.
Topics: media, arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: photography, Molawin Evangelista, The Art of Youth
Duration: 5'49"
13:45
Favourite Album
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The Nightfly - Donald Fagen. Chosen by Gilly Avery.
Topics: music
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Tags: Donald Fagen, The Nightfly
Duration: 14'04"
14:10
War On Weeds - Lynley Hayes
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Landcare research invasive weeds scientist Lynley Hayes explains biocontrol of pest weed species.
Topics: environment
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Tags: weeds
Duration: 12'09"
14:20
Great NZ Concerts - Michael Jackson
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The year was 1996 and the man dubbed the King of Pop was on a tour so full of spectacle, pyrotechnics and computer graphics that one reviewer said he seemed to to be aiming for a new title: God of Pop.
Topics: music
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Tags: Michael Jackson
Duration: 37'56"
15:09
This Is Your Brain On Sport
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Sam Sommers' new book is called This Is Your Brain On Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
Topics: sport, books
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Tags: This Is Your Brain On Sport
Duration: 24'06"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 9 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'32"
21:20
Ecoblitz
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An Ecoblitz combines measuring ecological diversity with enthusing high school students about science and their local environment
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"An Ecoblitz is a way of systematically surveying different habitats in a way that we can repeat in future years, to look at change over time. We’re also getting school kids out so they can work alongside scientists – ecologists and taxonomists – to understand how we go about surveying biodiversity and allow them to see what it’s like to be a professional scientist."
Tim Curran, ecologist, Lincoln University
Take 50 school students and bunch of ecologists and taxonomists, mix well and unleash them in the grounds of St Peter’s School in Cambridge, and what you have is an Ecoblitz.
Lincoln University's Ecology Department and Hurunui College pioneered the first Ecoblitz, held in the Nina Valley in Canterbury in 2014. That event went on to be the big winner at the Ministry for the Environment's Green Ribbon Awards that year, winning both the 'Supreme winner' and the 'Communication and education' awards.
In 2015, Lincoln University went into partnership with St Peter’s School in Cambridge. The school’s large grounds next to the Waikato River include a dairy farm, restored wetland and a remnant of kahikatea forest, and Lincoln University is helping the school make the dairy operation more sustainable.
Lincoln University ecologists thought it would be good to combine establishing an ecological baseline for the school with introducing students to some of the tools and methods that scientists would be using to achieve this.
So, over a weekend, a large team of scientists got the students involved in everything from electric fishing in the wetland’s stream, using beating and sweeping to find small invertebrates living on bushes, counting birds, surveying plants, digging for worms and collecting eDNA. At night activities included spotlighting for animals, using a bat detector and collecting flying insects with a light trap.
A key aspect of the event was using Nature Watch New Zealand to help with the identification of plants and animals. Students and scientists posted images of what they'd found and other experts around the country helped identify them.
"We can bring some experts along to the Ecoblitz, but we can’t bring everybody, so the rest of the community gets involved through Nature Watch,” says Jon Sullivan. “I posted a photo of a fungus I photographed in the school’s kahikatea forest, and within a few hours Nature Watch NZ was getting species IDs on them.”
The 50 students involved were very enthusiastic. “We’ve really opened their eyes up to what’s in their school grounds,” says Tim. “And we’ve given them the tools and the enthusiasm, so hopefully they can continue and go out themselves.
“The students have been so keen,” says Tim Curran. “They’ve asked wonderful intelligent questions, and it just goes to show that if you get a really curious mind early on and guide them into science they can continue to be really interested in this sort of thing, we hope.
The scientists came from a range of organisations, and brought a wide set of skills. They included Jon Sullivan, Tim Curran, Rob Cruickshank, James Ross and Adrian Paterson from Lincoln University, entomologist Brian Patrick from Wildlands Consultants, worm expert Stephane Boyer from Unitec, photograher Bryce McQuillan, spider expert Phil Sirvid from Te Papa, bat expert Roger MacGibbon from OPUS Consultants, eDNA whiz Andreas Makiola from the Bioprotection Research Centre, along with freshwater ecologists Elizabeth Graham and Brian Smith from NIWA and Dudley Bell from the University of Waikato.
Topics: science, environment
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Ecoblitz, St Peter's School, ecology, survey, biodiversity, Lincoln University
Duration: 25'47"
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1:10 First Song
'Where The Light Gets In' - Primal Scream.
1:15 Parliament Resumes 2016 - Chris Bramwell
In just under an hour Parliament will resume for the year. To speak about what's on the agenda, is RNZ's deputy political editor, Chris Bramwell.
1:18 Pygmy Blue Whale - Professor Leigh Torres
An international research team are on the water 40 kilometres north of Farewell spit, finding out more about the blue whale. The team on board Niwa research vessel Ikatere, is collaborating with the Department of Conservation and is being led by marine mammal expert Professor Leigh Torres of Oregon State University.
1:28 'The Art of Youth' - Molawin Evangelista
Our next guest is looking forward to his first ever solo exhibition. Auckland based photographer, Molawin Evangelista, has been photographing tattoos, and exploring how young people 'collect' body art from a young age. The exhibition is called 'The Art of Youth'.
1:35 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - BBC Witness
In February 1938, the world's first full-length animated feature film went on general release. It was Walt Disney's classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Disney had had to gamble all his money, and take out a loan against his life insurance to finish it. Witness listens back through the archives to some of those who worked on it, and talks to film writer and enthusiast, Brian Sibley, who met many of those involved.
1:40 Favourite Album
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen. Chosen by Gilly Avery.
2:10 War On Weeds - Lynley Hayes
Landcare research invasive weeds scientist Lynley Hayes explains biocontrol of pest weed species.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts - Michael Jackson
The year was 1996 and the man dubbed the King of Pop was on a tour so full of spectacle, pyrotechnics and computer graphics that one reviewer said he seemed to to be aiming for a new title: God of Pop.
3:10 This Is Your Brain On Sport
Sam Sommers' new book is called This Is Your Brain On Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon.
3:30 Our Changing World
Take 50 high school students and a host of enthusiastic biologists, mix well, then let them loose in a wetland, a forest remnant and a farm for the weekend, and see what they find. That's the recipe for the Ecoblitz that Lincoln University ecologists trialled recently at St Peter's College near Cambridge. Alison Ballance joins the Ecoblitz crew to find out how it all works.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 9 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'32"
16:04
The Panel with Ella Henry and Finlay MacDonald (Part 1)
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Topics: Police want more powers over guns, ATEED shouts seats at PM speech, Gareth Morgan to stump up for Abel Tasman beach, and NZers to pay UK health surcharge.
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Duration: 23'46"
16:05
The Panel with Ella Henry and Finlay MacDonald (Part 2)
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Topics: Chinese Year of the Monkey, Paternity leave good for business, and French legislate against food waste.
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Duration: 26'27"
16:08
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Ella Henry and Finlay MacDonald have been up to.
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Duration: 4'33"
16:13
Police want more powers over guns
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Mark Henaghan of the University of Otago discusses tighter gun control and if would make a dent in gang crime.
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Duration: 6'49"
16:19
ATEED shouts seats at PM speech
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Auckland Council's economic development arm paid over $3000 for staff and guests to attend John Key's State of the Nation speech.
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Tags: rates
Duration: 4'49"
16:25
Gareth Morgan to stump up for Abel Tasman beach
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Businessman Gareth Morgan will donate $600 000 to make up for the shortfall to buy an Abel Tasman Beach to keep public access.
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Duration: 2'36"
16:27
NZers to pay UK health surcharge
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The last remainling threads to the apron stings of the Motherland are being snipped with a new surcharge for New Zealanders living in the UK.
Topics: health
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Duration: 4'30"
16:34
Chinese Year of the Monkey
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It's all monkey business this year - what does the Year of the Monkey mean to Chinese astrologers?
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Duration: 5'07"
16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Ella Henry and Finlay MacDonald have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'31"
16:45
Paternity leave good for business
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The CEO of Business NZ Kirk Hope discusses an Ernst and Young study that's found more women at the top is good for business and so is men taking paternity leave.
Topics: business
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Tags: Paternity leave
Duration: 6'36"
16:52
French legislate against food waste.
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George Langlands of food rescue organisation Kaibosh talks about whether NZ needs to follow France in making laws against food waste.
Topics: food
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Tags: waste, food waste
Duration: 5'35"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, 9th February 2016
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Watch Tuesday's Checkpoint with John Campbell. The show starts five minutes in.
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17:09
Parliament returns for 2016
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Prime Minister John Key got the political year underway today with a blistering attack on the Labour Party over its position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
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Duration: 3'19"
17:12
Meatworkers in stand-off with Affco over Waitangi Day holiday
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Meat workers who took their Waitangi Day holiday yesterday, in defiance of their bosses at the Talley's owned AFFCO freezing works, are waiting to hear what the consequences might be.
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Tags: emplyment, AFFCO
Duration: 6'20"
17:19
Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes Nelson region
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The Tasman region has been hit by a large earthquake, although there's no reports of damage.
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Tags: Gns, earthquakes
Duration: 3'46"
17:20
Gareth Morgan's beach offer "Plan C" - campaigner
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Christchurch businessman Duane Major set up the givealittle page to try and raise $2million to tender for the Awaroa Inlet in the Abel Tasman National Park.
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Tags: Abel Tasman national park
Duration: 4'46"
17:24
Hawkes Bay town in lockdown as police search for armed man
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An armed man is on the run near Wairoa after pointing a gun at a police officer.
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Duration: 1'43"
17:28
Rescuers save eight-year-old girl from Taiwan apartment block
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Rescuers have pulled an eight-year-old girl out alive from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block Monday, more than 60 hours after it was toppled by a quake.
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Duration: 1'25"
17:34
Business news with Jonathan Mitchell
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New housing figures out today tell an interesting story, particularly about Auckland. Business Reporter Jonathan Mitchell joins John Campbell from Wellington.
Topics: housing, business
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Duration: 2'31"
17:35
Apple files Annual Financial Statement
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Apple New Zealand has filed its Annual Financial Statement for the year ended 26th of September 2015.
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Duration: 47"
17:40
Corey Anderson live
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the Black Caps beating Australia 2 - 1 in the Chappel Hadlee one day cricket series.
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Duration: 3'38"
17:41
Teen who died in bridge jump named
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While the community of Raglan is reeling from the death of one of its teenagers, its tradition of bridge jumping looks set to continue.
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Duration: 3'24"
17:45
Murder charges reduced for student's death
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A murder trial was due to get under way in Palmerston North this morning for the man accused of killing a Massey University student last year, but a last minute reduction in the charges prompted a guilty plea instead.
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Duration: 3'12"
17:48
Westland High School principal on damage to school
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Just days into the new school year, pupils at Hokitika's only high school won't be able to return to their classrooms until at least Thursday, after a large fire destroyed a number of buildings.
Topics: education
Regions: West Coast
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Duration: 2'31"
17:50
Westland High pupil disappointed by fire-related closure of school
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Sixteen-year-old Hokitika resident, Laura Jones, is in Year 12 at Westland High, and is disappointed to be taking time off after a fire destroyed a number of buildings.
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Duration: 2'12"
17:53
Damaged ship returns to port after monster storm
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The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Anthem of the Seas is heading back to New Jersey in the US after a monster storm packing high winds and nine metre waves toppled furniture and shattered glass on the vessel.
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Duration: 5'13"
18:10
Parliament gets underway with attack and counter-attack
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Parliament is back in action with MPs refreshed after their summer break, and immediately going on the attack.
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Duration: 3'40"
18:13
Chch City Council backpedals on tree protection removal
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The Christchurch City Council has backpedaled on a proposal to remove protections from hundreds of significant trees on private land.
Topics: environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: trees
Duration: 2'18"
18:15
Brazil celebrates Carnival despite Zika fears
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As Olympic Athletes who may want to become pregnant in the next year or two, consider their participation at the Rio Games, a more regular Rio occasion has been celebrated with typical joy.
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Duration: 1'42"
18:18
Mother of two children with microcephaly shares story
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An American mother whose daughters suffer from microcephaly talks to Checkpoint with John Campbell about the condition.
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The Zika virus - a relatively mild disease spread by mosquitoes declared a global emergency last week - has thrust microcephaly into the spotlight.
For Kansas mother-of-three Gwen Hartley, however, the condition, which causes children to be born with unusually small heads and damaged brains, has been a feature of the last 15 years of her life. Her two daughters, Claire, 15, and Lola, 10, both suffer from it.
Microcephaly often leads to a shortened lifespan and, in the vast majority of cases, serious developmental issues. Claire and Lola weigh barely 20kg between them, cannot speak or walk, and suffer from daily seizures.
Speaking to Checkpoint with John Campbell, Mrs Hartley said that she was grateful to be able to share her experiences of the condition, and was glad that awareness of the condition had increased.
"I just wish that it had come to be under different circumstances," she said.
"I hope that I don't continue to get people asking me questions such as, 'What's wrong with your daughter' now - I think it's probably going to be a little bit more recognised, because it's in the news so much."
While Mrs Hartley's daughters did have serious health problems, she said people often assumed they weren't 'in there', because they were unable to communicate in a typical way, instead using eye movements, grunts or even vomiting to get their message across.
"I am positive that my girls are in there, and they find their own ways to communicate with us that are a little more subtle than we're used to," she said.
For parents affected by the condition, whether as a result of Zika virus or not, Mrs Hartley said an effective support network of friends, family and health professionals was very important.
"Having that support and having everyone being on the same page, having the same expectations and high standards for the girls' care and what we want them to accomplish is crucial. I think the key for all these new moms is to find that team."
Mrs Hartley had not heard of the condition before her daughter Claire was born, but was aware that there was a risk that her third child, Lola, would have it.
"For me and for my family, it took a lot of thought, a lot of deliberation and prayer, and everything, just to make sure that we felt like whatever happened with our situation, whether our child was born typical or not, that we would be ready for it at that point."
After Claire was born, they waited four years before deciding to have another child.
"We just had the faith that whatever child was given to us was going to be the perfect child for our family," she said.
"I feel like all three of my kids have been nothing but a gift to my life."
Topics: health
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Duration: 5'43"
18:23
Which issues are important to black voters?
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Voters in New Hampshire are preparing to become the first in the United States to hold primaries in the Presidential race. But some residents are already anxious for the fanfare to end. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Duration: 6'39"
18:50
Today In Parliament for 9 February 2016
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The year in the House begins with the swearing-in of new National MP Maureen Pugh, followed by a moment's silence for the late former Mp Bob Tizard. Politics then resumes with debate on the Prime Minister's Statement.
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Duration: 5'15"
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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19:12
Our Own Odysseys - Student Exchange to China
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Wellingtonian John Chan took up the opportunity to visit China in 1977 with the NZ University Students Association.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Mao, China, communism, Muldoon
Duration: 18'39"
20:42
Pundit - Military History
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Historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton talks to Bryan about South Africa's War of 1914-1915.
Topics: politics, conflict
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Tags: South Africa, Boer War
Duration: 16'27"
20:59
Conundrum clue 1
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Conundrum clue 1.
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21:59
Conundrum clue 2
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Conundrum clue 2.
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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Student Exchange to China
Wellingtonian John Chan took up the opportunity to visit China in 1977 with the NZ University Students Association...
7:30 The Sampler
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19:30
The Sampler for 9 February 2016
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews the first album in 3 years from blockbuster pop artist Rihanna; the retro-rock and contemporary commentary of Ty Segal; and the southern soul of veteran sideman Donnie Fritts.
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Duration: 29'03"
12:00
Anti by Rihanna
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Nick Bollinger reviews the first album in 3 years from blockbuster pop artist Rihanna
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Nick Bollinger reviews the first album in 3 years from blockbuster pop artist Rihanna.
There are few acts in the world that have sold more records than Rhianna: something like 200 million and counting.
Whether Anti will do much to increase that sales figure is something of a moot point, as it has so far been pretty easy to obtain without having to pay a thing, due to an apparently accidental leak on Tidal – the streaming service in which Rihanna is a partner; and soon after that, its availability as a giveaway download, part of a sponsorship deal she’s done with Samsung. But really, recording sales have, for a long time, been just a part of the multi-platform industry that is Rihanna. And though there has been some anticipation about this new album – which has been a longer time coming than any record she’s ever made – it also carries signs that, for blockbuster pop artists like Rihanna, the album is not the iconic object it once was.
For one thing, Anti doesn’t include either of the two big singles she’s had out in the past year; the exaggeratedly vengeful ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ and the somewhat sweeter Kanye West-Paul McCartney collaboration ‘Four Five Seconds’. So is it packed with future hits? Well let’s say it’s not without its hooks.
It’s some sort of accomplishment that Rihanna manages to be a recognisable, even distinctive singer, in spite of the fact that her voice is usually smothered in production effects. There’s her almost relentless use of auto-tune, which she uses not because she can’t hold a note – she can - but rather because she has made it a signature of her sound, like the echo on an old Elvis record. And there’s the way her recorded phrases often seem to have been broken up into units, so they can be abutted against each other, or overlapped for effect; something no singer could do onstage. It works, though I’ve always found the effect literally dehumanising when the breaths between phrases are digitally removed as they are in many of the tracks here.
Yet in spite of the constant use of such studio tools, there are some personal performances on Anti. Originally from the island of Barbados, Rihanna has never embraced her island patois as openly as she does in ‘Consideration’, the album’s opening track. And she mixes some of that distinctive Caribbean phrasing with a darker, bluesier tone on ‘Desperado’.
The mood and tempo tends towards the downbeat, and at times Anti takes on a mussed-up, industrial quality - almost the sort of thing Kanye West introduced with Yeezus.
At other times Rihanna just seems to be indulging herself, not so much covering a song from Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala as simply singing karaoke-style over their original track.
But there is another sense in which the variety here seems calculated to give everyone in Rihanna’s wide-ranging audience at least a little of what they want, from folky, Taylor Swift-style confessionals like ‘Never Ending’ to the vintage R&B of ‘Love On The Brain’ or the whiskey-drinking weeper ‘Higher’. The latter is the type of song I could hear a classic soul singer like Candi Staton or Betty LaVette singing the hell out of. Not that Rihanna doesn’t unleash some emotion; yet once again the production – particularly that clipping and abutting of vocal phrases – threatens to undo the sense of a spontaneous performance.
But what’s the point in judging Rihanna’s Anti as a classic soul record when that’s hardly what it’s trying to be? Rather it is the latest marketing event from a major pop figure whose position seems so assured that even an eclectic, sometimes daring and occasionally off-beam record like this one is only going to reinforce the brand.
Songs played: Work, Kiss it Better, Consideration, Desperado, Woo, Same Ol' Mistakes, Never Ending, Higher
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, rihanna
Duration: 11'16"
12:00
Emotional Mugger by Ty Segall
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Nick Bollinger reviews the retro-rock and contemporary commentary of Ty Segal.
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Nick Bollinger reviews the retro-rock and contemporary commentary of Ty Segal.
In his book Retromania, the writer Simon Reynolds lamented the way 21st century pop seemed, so far, to have been dominated by styles recycled from the century before. And I imagine a record like this one was the sort of thing he was referring to.
This is the eighth album this 28-year old San Franciscan has released under his own name since he made his solo debut in 2008, and that’s not counting the numerous bands he’s been involved in with, three of which he is still nominally a member of. So is this retro? Well, if playing a lot of loud distorted guitars makes you retro, then Segall surely fits the bill.
It’s clear that Segall takes inspiration from the guitar heroism of the 60s and early 70s, particularly those of the British school. Loud and fuzzy is how he likes it. But if Segall recycles, he doesn’t replicate. His tastes aren’t confined to a single corner of retro rock. He would seem to have as much regard for the blues riffery of Cream as he has for the glam pop of T. Rex, and he can remind me of both – at the same time.
And if there’s little hint here that Segall has noticed any musical innovation to occur after about 1972, he does seem to be using music to say something to us about the present. There’s a suggestion there in the album’s title: Emotional Mugger.
He often appears to be commenting on the modern lust for more. That could be more of anything – drugs, sex. money, even rock’n’roll. And he sums up this insatiable craving in the catch-phrase ‘candy’, which recurs like a motif throughout the record. But when he’s in social commentary mode I’m reminded, curiously, not of any psychedelic relic but rather of our own local hero Chris Knox.
There are moments where Segall’s way of tossing off 60s-style riffs with an added layer of 21st century distortion can get a bit wearying, and leave you feeling rather like you’ve been mugged yourself. But at its best, Ty Segall’s Emotional Mugger strikes a good if precarious balance; gazing into the rear vision while keeping a healthy concern for the future.
Songs played: Candy Sam, Mandy Cream, Breakfast Eggs, Big Baby Man, California Hills, Emotional Mugger
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Tags: music, music review, Ty Segall
Duration: 8'36"
12:00
Oh My Goodness by Donnie Fritts
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Nick Bollinger reflects on the southern soul of veteran sideman Donnie Fritts.
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Nick Bollinger reflects on the southern soul of veteran sideman Donnie Fritts.
‘Erroll Flynn’, the opening song on this album, was written by a woman called Amanda McBroom, a cabaret singer and songwriter, best known for her song ‘The Rose’, and it tells a true story. Her father was an actor who played supporting roles in numerous Hollywood movies, his name often appearing, like the song says, ‘four or five names down below Errol Flynn’. But there is a particular poignancy in this version. The singer with the weatherbeaten voice is a guy named Donnie Fritts. He’s a songwriter himself – he co-wrote ‘Breakfast In Bed’, a hit for both Dusty Springfield and UB40, and ‘We Had It All’, a terrific record for Waylon Jennings. But for more than forty years he’s been the piano player in the band of Kris Kristofferson: a working pro, quietly plying his trade in the shadow of a much bigger star, just like the guy in the song. Now in his seventies, this Alabama native has released one of his own occasional albums.
His singing isn’t pretty. It’s not even particularly strong, but it’s perfect for songs that are full of personal truth – even the ones he didn’t write. The whole album has a casual, homespun quality about it, as though this old fella has just sat down in your living room and begun to sing you his life story.
Though it’s hard to imagine there’s any other kind of record Fritts could have made, it is a credit to producers John Paul White and Ben Tanner that a record as relaxed as this was made at all. White was the frontman of the now-defunct Nashville duo the Civil Wars and now has his own studio in Alabama; Tanner plays with Alabama Shakes. Both were obviously long term fans of Fritts. And though they have insured the intimate and unhurried mood of the whole thing, they haven’t skimped on the details. There’s the atmospheric street corner brass band style horn arrangement on Fritts’ cover of Jesse Winchester’s ‘Foolish Heart’, and the string quartet that brings an unexpected lushness to ‘If It’s Really Gotta Be This Way’, the great song Fritts wrote with fellow Alabamian Arthur Alexander.
Fritts may be almost, if not quite, the last survivor of his generation of southern songwriters; Jesse Winchester and Arthur Alexander are both gone now. And the mood of his album, which is titled Oh My Goodness, is one of looking back, yet not with regret so much as gratitude.
Songs played: Erroll Flynn, Tuscaloosa 1962, Memphis Women and Chicken, Memphis Women and Chicken, Foolish Heart, If It’s Really Got To Be This Way, Oh My Goodness
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Duration: 9'12"
7:30 The Sampler
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger
8:12 Window on the World - The Truth About Diabetes pt 4 of 4
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Pundit - Military History
historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war... South Africa's War 1914-1915
pundit roster: Economics, Philosophy, Right Thinking, Military History, Feminism, Left Thinking, Mathematics, NZ History, Religion & Kai A Miro (Maori Issues)
8:59 conundrum clue 3
9:07 Tuesday Feature - Black Lives Matter: The Story of a Slogan
9:59 conundrum clue 4
10:17 Late Edition
a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour - The Shed
music from a myriad of cultures
... nights' time is the right time...
===8:13 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
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The BBC's Mukul Devichand traces the growth of the online campaign that has revitalised the US civil rights movement. The slogan was coined in 2013, shortly after a jury acquitted a Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer of the murder of black teenager. But it was the events in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of an 18-year-old black youth which turned those words into a worldwide rallying cry. (BBC)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
Late Edition for 9 February 2016
Another bad weekend for water safety, why Gareth Morgan is helping to buy a beach in Abel Tasman National Park, and in Dateline Pacific, Bougainville considers building its own gold refinery.
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed. (8 of 13, MCM)