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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:
11 February 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Enemy Territory, by Elspeth Sandys (2 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ) 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===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 Thursday 11 February 2016
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The Police are again under pressure to review their policy around fleeing drivers after the deaths of three teenagers in the past month. A new OECD report says poor children in New Zealand are over six times more likely than well-off children. to do badly at maths.
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Duration: 28'17"
06:06
Sports News for 11 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cycling, cricket
Duration: 1'30"
06:09
Trump and Sanders victorious in New Hampshire
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Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders have coasted to victory in the New Hampshire presidential primaries.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, New Hampshire
Duration: 8'04"
06:19
Wellington commuters test out double decker buses
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Wellingtonians had the chance yesterday to take a ride in what will be the future of local transport, a double decker bus.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Double Decker Bus, buses, Wellington, public transport
Duration: 2'07"
06:21
Early business news
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The earnings season is underway with the ASB Bank reporting a record first half.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 3'00"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 11 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'59"
06:38
IPCA urges review on pursuit policy
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The Independent Police Conduct Authority is urging the police to review their policy on chasing fleeing drivers saying too many young people are dying.
Topics: law, crime, transport
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Tags: Independent Police Conduct Authority, police, Pursuit, safety
Duration: 2'20"
06:40
Labour claims excessive budget for spin at quake authority
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Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority boss John Ombler yesterday confirmed to MPs the organisation spent more than two and a half million dollars on public relations last year.
Topics: politics, media
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: CERA, earthquake recovery, Christchurch, Spin
Duration: 3'46"
06:44
Lydia Ko back in NZ for first time in year to defend Open title
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Lydia Ko is back in New Zealand for the first time in a year to defend the New Zealand Open she won last year and in 2013.
Topics: sport
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Tags: golf, New Zealand Open, Olympics
Duration: 2'30"
06:48
ASB comfortable but coy about H2 outlook
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The ASB Bank is keeping its cards close to its chest on the chances it will post a record full year profit after it managed to lift its half year result by 7 percent.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: ASB Bank
Duration: 2'56"
06:53
New Zealanders prefer cards to cash
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An increasing number of New Zealanders prefer using cards to pay for everything and half don't expect to be using cash at all in ten years time.
Topics: business, economy, technology
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Tags: cash, money, EFTPOS, credit cards
Duration: 2'02"
06:56
Yellen says financial conditions could throw the U.S. economy off track
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The chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Janet Yellen says tightening financial conditions driven by falling stock prices, uncertainty over China and a global reassessment of credit risk could throw the U.S. economy off track.
Topics: business, economy, politics
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Tags: U.S. Federal Reserve
Duration: 1'07"
06:58
Morning markets
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Wall Street has been mostly positive, European markets also closed in the black.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'41"
07:06
Sports News for 11 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'20"
07:10
Police commissioner defends current pursuit policy
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The Police are again under pressure to review their policy around fleeing drivers after the deaths of three teenagers in the past month.
Topics: law, crime, transport
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Tags: police, Pursuit, safety
Duration: 6'17"
07:16
Report shows poverty big factor in under achievement
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A new OECD report says poor children in New Zealand are over six times more likely than well-off children to do badly at maths.
Topics: education, inequality
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Tags: OECD, report
Duration: 2'42"
07:20
Excessive budget for spin doctors at quake authority - Labour
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Labour says the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is spending too much on spin doctors given it's about to be wound up.
Topics: politics, media
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: earthquake recovery, CERA, Spin Doctors
Duration: 4'11"
07:24
Fish & Game criticise leniency shown to Chief Justice
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Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and her businessman husband Hugh Fletcher have been let off with a warning after their cattle were seen wading in a high country Canterbury lake.
Topics: farming, law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Fish and Game, Environment Canterbury, cattle, water
Duration: 2'48"
07:27
Women discuss "sexism" debate raging among Democrats
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The battle to put a woman into the White House for the first time ever has taken a vitriolic turn.
Topics: politics, inequality
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Tags: America, sexism, presidential race, feminism
Duration: 3'15"
07:36
Pilots, sailors reject idea of random drug testing
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The Government's been told it would be wrong to introduce random drug and alcohol testing in the commercial aviation and maritime industries.
Topics: law, transport
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Tags: pilots, drugs, testing
Duration: 4'05"
07:40
Uber asks govt to launch in Christchurch, with new rules
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Taxi rival Uber has asked the government to let it launch in Christchurch, under different rules.
Topics: law, transport
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Uber, Christchurch
Duration: 2'15"
07:42
Auckland bus users irritated by delays but supportive
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Auckland commuters may not be happy their buses are running late because of a driver go-slow but many are still backing the industrial action.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: buses, Nz Bus
Duration: 2'07"
07:46
Otago wildlife sanctuary up for sale
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As the fundraising campaign to buy a slice of the Abel Tasman beach closes in on its goal, further down country, on the east coast, another 'for sale' sign has gone up, this time on the Otago Peninsula.
Topics: environment, business
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago Peninsula, Sale
Duration: 4'51"
07:51
Kapiti shark sightings sign waters unseasonably warm
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A marine expert believes the sighting of five sharks off Kapiti Coast is a sign of the unseasonably warm waters.
Topics: environment
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Kapiti Coast, sharks
Duration: 3'51"
07:55
It's just not cricket! Sin bins for bad behaviour trialled
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New rules could mean some players may find themselves sin binned or red carded as lawmakers crackdown on increasing levels of bad behaviour.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket, Rules
Duration: 3'46"
08:06
Sports News for 11 February 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'55"
08:09
Mother of chase victim wants review of pursuit policy
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It's just over two years ago since Runanga woman Joe Hall lost her son Judd in a car crash during a police chase. She's unhappy that the police are refusing to take the IPCA's advice and reconsider the policy.
Topics: law, transport, crime
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Tags: Police Pursuit, safety
Duration: 3'44"
08:16
Government can't ignore OECD report - union
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The secondary school teachers union says the Government can't ignore a new report that says children living in poverty are not learning maths as well as wealthier children.
Topics: education, inequality
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Tags: OECD, report, poverty
Duration: 4'53"
08:20
Peters' challenges PM to $100,000 fishing competition
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Winston Peters wants the Prime Minister to pay a hundred-thousand dollars to charity unless he can find a witness to back up his claims that the Northland MP had spent all his time in his new electorate fishing on his boat.
Topics: politics
Regions: Northland
Tags: fishing, charity
Duration: 4'11"
08:25
Extradition battles can be shorter and more clear-cut
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Imagine a high profile extradition of a foreigner accused of a crime that didn't involve millions of taxpayers' dollars and years of wrangling in the courts.
Topics: politics
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Tags: extradition
Duration: 3'37"
08:29
Markets Update for 11 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: 1'32"
08:34
Outsider victories challenge US political establishment
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The Republican and Democratic party establishments are facing a big challenge after outsider candidates swept to victories in yesterday's New Hampshire presidential primary elections.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, presidential race, Primaries, New Hampshire
Duration: 6'19"
08:40
Pay system causing headaches for staff at Fairfax
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The problems are affecting workers who produce Stuff and newspapers, such as the Dominion Post and The Press, among others.
Topics: media, technology
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Tags: Fairfax, payroll
Duration: 3'01"
08:44
Fifty-four years on, searchers still seek downed Dragonfly
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Nearly fifty-four years after a plane went missing between Christchurch and Milford Sound two groups are still searching for it, on either side of the South Island.
Topics: transport, history
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Tags: Dragonfly, Plane
Duration: 3'23"
08:49
Fiji PM not flinching on Fiji flag
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While New Zealanders get the chance to vote on whether to change the flag, in Fiji the decision about its new flag will be decided by the government.
Topics: Pacific, politics
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Tags: Fiji, flag
Duration: 2'41"
08:56
100's of new galaxies discovered
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The Milky Way has always been too bright to let astronomers see all the galaxies behind it but new Australian led research and technology has helped change that.
Topics: science
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Tags: Great Attractor, space
Duration: 3'48"
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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 (3 of 3, RNZ)
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09:08
Shortage of secondary maths and science teachers a "crisis"
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A shortage of college maths and science teachers is being described as a crisis by secondary principals and at least one college of education. Some schools are having such difficulty finding specialist teachers in these areas, they are persuading retired teachers to return to the classroom.
Topics: education
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Tags: teachers, Secondary
Duration: 24'24"
09:32
Could the big banks go bust again?
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Another global financial crisis is inevitable, but we should avoid being too preoccupied with what happened in 2008, says a leading British economist.
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Another global financial crisis is inevitable, but we should avoid being too preoccupied with what happened in 2008, says a leading British economist.
Shares in Deutsche Bank - one of the world's biggest financial institutions - hit a 30-year low this weak, sparking fears of another banking crisis.
John Kay, a visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and author of books such as The Truth about Markets and Other People's Money, said the finance sector has grown too large and become an industry that mostly trades with itself, talks to itself and judges itself by its own standards.
He told Nine To Noon that while the risk of another global financial meltdown was very real, it was unlikely to be sparked by the same issues that created the last one.
"The kind of regulation we have introduced since then is designed - as this kind of regulation after a crisis always is - to ensure we won't have exactly that crisis again and we won't. But we will have other crises and possibly more serious crises, because the fundamental dysfuncionality of the world financial service we have created are still very much in place, and there has been no real attempt to address them since 2008."
He said those dysfunctionalites had been growing in the financial sector since the 1970s.
"It's basically the way relationships in the financial sector have been turned into a world that is dominated by transactions and trading in anonymous markets. So when I was at school in Edinburgh way back in the 1960s, banking was the Royal Bank of Scotland, and banking was a career for boys in my class who didn't get good enough grades to go into universities, they became bank managers. And what we now know is that they ran the Bank of Scotland better than the much smarter people who were running it by the time these banks collapsed in 2008."
Previous financial meltdowns were seen with the emerging market debt crisis in the 1990s, followed by the "new economy bubble", the the US housing market collapse and the current Eurozone crisis.
Mr Kay said that while these cases sounded significantly different, they all had the same origin.
"That is, people see something, a change that is really happening in the world economy. And what happens is that people who are early to spot these trends move into them and make money out of them. What then happens is that other people see this happening, move in and they try to profit from it as well. You get this herding behaviour which leads to massive asset mispricings, then all that falls apart and then governments and central banks act to pump money into the system to try and mitigate the damage and that sets up the fuel for the next crisis."
Issues with automated trading, where trades were made in the blink of an eye through computer algorithms, were also part of the problem, said Mr Kay.
He said there were several reasons why politicians had not addressed the fundamental issues with the financial sector.
"One is that it's always easier not to tackle a problem, so people in 2008 said we can look at the fundamental problems later, the immediate priority is to keep the show on the road. And you can see that by 2010 the show was back on the road, so why bother?
"The other is that this industry is pretty hard to understand and some of the ways in which money is made is very complex. I don't think fundamentally the issues of what we need a financial service to do are that complex, but the extent to which it is dressed up makes it seem like an arcane mystery.
"And the final reason is the large political power of the financial industry. In the US it's not just campaign funding, you're seeing an election happening at the moment which is very largely fuelled by Wall Street money. Although we also see quite interestingly the popularity of candidates who's main claim to fame is that they are outside the mainstream and conventional politics."
He said the main motivation for the behaviour that caused the various crises was simple - people are making very large amounts of money.
"Now I'm not particularly against people making very large amounts of money, but I don't think it's an activity that is valuable in its own right, and when the large amounts of money that are being earned are being created not by adding value by providing goods and services that we all want, but by a process of trading with each other, then I think we lost sight of our main purposes."
Listen to the full Nine To Noon interview with John Kay here:
Topics: business, economy, author interview
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Tags: banking, finance
Duration: 15'19"
09:48
Pain relief for childbirth with nasal spray
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Women in labour may get another option for pain relief with the trial of a self-administered nasal spray. About a quarter of women giving birth in New Zealand have spinal epidural blocks to manage the pain, and about 10 percent use Pethidene. Julie Fleet is a midwifery researcher from the University of South Australia who has been trialling another opioid drug sometimes used in childbirth - Fentanyl.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: childbirth, Medicine. Fentanyl
Duration: 4'51"
09:52
UK Correspondent, Matthew Parris
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Matthew Parris discusses current affairs in the UK, including the continuing fall out from David Cameron's EU deal, the latest strike by junior doctors and the opening of a new inquest into the death of a young army recruit at the Deepcut barracks.
Topics: life and society, politics
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Tags: UK, EU, doctors, Top Gear, Deepcut Barracks
Duration: 6'53"
10:12
Gaynor Leeper - from city girl to Arctic husky dog trainer
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Gaynor Leeper used to live in London with a highly paid job working in communications. But feeling she was "drowning in the rat race", she quit the job, sold her flat, and took off to travel the world. Seven years later, she met Milos, a husky dog trainer in remote Northern Sweden.
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Gaynor Leeper used to live in London with a highly paid job working in communications. But feeling she was "drowning in the rat race", she quit the job, sold her flat, and took off to travel the world.
Seven years later, she met Milos, a husky dog trainer in remote Northern Sweden.
The couple married, and she now lives in an isolated cabin with no running water or phone-line close to the kennel that houses their 40 dogs.
She tells Kathryn Ryan about her new life in a very different place.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 28'28"
10:41
Book Review: Carole Beu
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Carole Beu reviews Exposure by Helen Dunmore.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'52"
11:10
New technology with Andy Linton
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Electric bikes and how recent technology makes them viable.
Topics: technology
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Tags: Electric bikes
Duration: 15'37"
11:26
Sarb Johal - Parenting wins & fails
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Clinical and health psychologist, and Associate Professor at Massey University, Sarb Johal talks about what parents regard as their greatest failures and triumphs, and what we can learn from them.
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Clinical and health psychologist, and Associate Professor at Massey University, Sarb Johal talks about what parents regard as their greatest failures and triumphs, and what we can learn from them.
He, along with Kathryn Ryan, responds to listener emails, and gives advice.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: parenting
Duration: 24'10"
11:50
Viewing with Lara Strongman
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Lara Strongman watches the new NZ observational documentary series The Big Ward, and the filthy (but hilarious) British sitcom Catastrophe.
Topics: media, arts
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Tags: The Big Ward, Catastrophe, TV
Duration: 9'03"
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09:05 Shortage of secondary maths and science teachers a "crisis"
A shortage of college maths and science teachers is being described as a crisis by secondary principals and at least one college of education. Some schools are having such difficulty finding specialist teachers in these areas, they are persuading retired teachers to return to the classroom. President of the Secondary Principals' Association Sandy Pasley , Director, Secondary Teacher Education at Auckland University Ngaire Hoben and the Ministry of Education's head of early learning and student achievement, Lisa Rodgers
09:20 Could the big banks go bust again?
Despite all the measures to beef up the banks post the Global Financial Crisis, why don't we trust them more? What reform is needed ? John Kay, one of Britain's leading economists, is an advocate for change. He says the finance sector has grown too large and become an industry that mostly trades with itself, talks to itself and judges itself by its own standards.
John Kay is a visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and has been a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, since 1970. He chaired the Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making which reported to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on the 23rd July 2012. His books include: The Truth about Markets (2003) and The Long and the Short of It: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry (2009), Obliquity (2011) and his latest, Other People's Money (2015).
09:30 Pain relief for childbirth with nasal spray
Women in labour may get another option for pain relief with the trial of a self-administered nasal spray. About a quarter of women giving birth in New Zealand have spinal epidural blocks to manage the pain, and about 10 percent (2011 9.7%) use Pethidene. But each of those have their risks, including the lengthening of labour and in the case of Pethidene, drowsiness and breathing trouble in babies. Julie Fleet is a midwifery researcher from the University of South Australia who has been trialling another opioid drug sometimes used in childbirth - Fentanyl. The study found that administering Fentanyl through a nasal spray was just as effective as pethidene. Dr Fleet now has funding to look into whether use of the Fentanyl spray will reduce the need for epidurals.
09:45 UK Correspondent, Matthew Parris
10:05 Gaynor Leeper
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Gaynor Leeper used to live in London with a highly paid job working in communications.
But feeling she was "drowning in the rat race", she quit the job, sold her flat, and took off to travel the world. Seven years later, she met Milos, a husky dog trainer in remote Northern Sweden.
The couple married, and she now lives in an isolated cabin with no running water or phone-line close to the kennel that houses their 40 dogs.
She tells Kathryn Ryan about her new life in a very different place.
10:30 Book Review: Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Reviewed by Carole Beu, published by Hutchinson
10:45 The Reading: All That Ends Starts Again by Rochelle Elliot read by Vivienne Bell
(Part 3 of 3)
11:05 New technology with Andy Linton
Electric bikes and how recent technology makes them viable.
http://electricbikehub.co.nz/electric-bike-articles/
http://switchedonbikes.co.nz/portfolio/
11:25 Sarb Johal - Parenting wins & fails
Clinical and health psychologist Sarb Johal, and Associate Professor at Massey University talks about what parents regard as their greatest failures and triumphs, and what we can learn from them.
11:45 Viewing with Lara Strongman
Lara Strongman watches the new NZ observational documentary series The Big Ward, and the filthy (but hilarious) British sitcom Catastrophe.
===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 11 February 2016
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An assurance foreign investors won't find it easy to sue the government under the TPP and the Government pledges to help the Pacific fight the spread of Zika.
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Duration: 15'15"
12:17
SkyCity's first half profit rises 30%, revenue up 14%
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The casino operator, SkyCity Entertainment Group, has made a record first half profit -- up 30 percent, driven by bigger earnings from rich overseas gamblers.
Topics: business
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Tags: SkyCity Entertainment Group
Duration: 2'04"
12:19
Manufacturing activity rises
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Activity in the manufacturing sector has picked up to its highest level in 15 months with a lift in employment and production.
Topics: business
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Tags: manufacturing sector
Duration: 53"
12:20
Tower Insurance looking to cut products and costs
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Listed insurance company Tower is going to cut the number of products it offers -- as well as squeeze costs -- as it looks to improve its performance and bottom line.
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Tags: Tower
Duration: 41"
12:22
Intueri lowers earnings outlook slightly
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The troubled listed education and training provider, Intueri Education, has lowered its earnings forecast slightly and renegotiated its debt facilities.
Topics: business
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Tags: Intueri Education
Duration: 53"
12:23
Midday Markets for 11 February 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Melika King at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'13"
12:25
Business briefs
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More overseas visitors are filling motels and hotels throughout the country.
Topics: business
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Tags: tourism
Duration: 28"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 11 February 2016
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None of the Australian cricket side have played a test match in New Zealand and the Black Caps are hoping that lack of experience will give them an edge heading into the first test in Wellington on Friday.
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Duration: 2'46"
12:33
Midday Rural News for 11 February 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 9'20"
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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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Burn Baby Burn - The Trammps.
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Duration: 3'42"
13:14
Tony Abbott And 'Fake' Rolexes - Elle Hunt
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Have you heard the one about the 'fake' Rolexes, the instant noodle billionaire and the Australian Prime Minister? Well Tony Abbott and some of his Liberal Party colleagues are in hot water after failing to properly declare a gift of 250 thousand dollars worth of designer watches from a Chinese businessman Liberal MPs have all said they didn't declare the Rolex watches because they assumed they were fakes. Elle Hunt is a reporter for the Guardian Australia.
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Tags: Australia, Tony Abbott
Duration: 9'54"
13:24
Doggy Speed Dating - Cathy Casey
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It's Valentines Day on Sunday, and a new doggy speed dating service has been set up to help Aucklanders find love. Dozens of Auckland Council Animal Shelter dogs will be looking for love at Victoria Park tomorrow. Councillor Cathy Casey is with us to talk about the love initiative.
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Tags: Doggy Speed Dating
Duration: 5'45"
13:30
The Book of Everything - Dan Musgrove
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Dan Musgrove is an actor and writer. He's probably best known for his role playing Lefty Munroe in Westside and the notorious Mr. Asia in Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud. And now, Dan is playing Jesus in the upcoming play, The Book of Everything.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 17'36"
13:48
Feature Album
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Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie. First released on this day in 1972.
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Duration: 11'44"
14:10
Money - Mary Holm
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Financial author and columnist Mary Holm answers your questions about personal finance.
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Duration: 19'56"
14:43
Food Guest - Peter Cullinane
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Peter Cullinane is the founder of the incredibly successful Lewis Road Creamery.
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Duration: 16'23"
15:07
Masterpieces - Bryan Waddle
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It's time for our weekly Masterpieces segment, and today we're speaking with veteran New Zealand sports commentator, Bryan Waddle. Often called the voice of New Zealand cricket, Bryan talks about his favourite cricket match.
Topics: sport, media
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Tags: Bryan Waddle
Duration: 15'07"
15:22
The Expats - Pania Mowat
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Now for our weekly expat catch-up, when we speak with a New Zealander living overseas. And this week, we're off to Melbourne, to speak with Pania Mowat.
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Duration: 13'39"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 11 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'18"
21:10
In pursuit of the yellow octopus
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NIWA fisheries scientists are surveying the prey species of the New Zealand sea lion, including the elusive yellow octopus, to find out how hard the endagered marine mammals have to work for their food.
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Fisheries scientists are spending more than a month at sea around the subantarctic Auckland islands, surveying the diet of New Zealand sea lions to figure out how hard the endangered marine mammals have to work for their food. Among the species the team hopes to spot is the elusive yellow octopus.
Octopuses are clever, arguably the smartest among invertebrates. They are playful, even mischievous. And they make excellent mothers, with some taking as much as a year off from other activities, including eating, to look after a gelatinous mass of eggs.
To many of us, octopuses seem otherworldly, with their eight suckered arms, a parrot’s beak for a mouth and an uncanny ability to squeeze their body through the tiniest cracks.
Of the 35 or so species of octopus at home in New Zealand waters and the Southern Ocean, we only encounter a few that inhabit fissures and crevices among rocks in shallow coastal waters. Others, such as the yellow octopus, live in the deep ocean and only turn up when they are caught accidentally as part of fishing operations.
This month, NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa sailed south to the subantarctic Auckland Island group to catch a few of these elusive deep-water creatures. Enteroctopus zealandicus is a big, fleshy octopus, and probably quite abundant and widely distributed. It is not a target species for New Zealand fisheries, and therefore only a few specimens have been caught accidentally and studied in detail.
NIWA fisheries scientist Jim Roberts says yellow octopus is one of the main prey species for sea lions and getting a better idea of their distribution and abundance should shed light on why the subantarctic sea lion population has declined so dramatically in the last few years.
"The New Zealand sea lion is endemic here, most of the breeding is around the Auckland Islands, and that population has declined by something like half in the past 15 or 20 years and it shows numerous indicators of food limitation. The breeding females are quite small, they start breeding late in life, relative to the Otago peninsula population, and we can also see evidence for changes in diet composition over time."
During the expedition, the team will carry out a demersal trawl survey of several prey species that are on the sea lion menu, including hoki, southern arrow squid, hake and red cod. But octopuses are clever enough to evade trawls and the team is using specially designed octopus pots, made from plastic tubes that will be lowered down to the ocean floor, to depths of up to 500 metres.
He says even just a few specimens would help the team to characterise the octopuses’ own diet, to determine their age and how long they live, and whether they have recruitment pulses during which their abundance decreases, and consequently, the sea lions find less food.
“We don’t know how many there are but we know that there are least a million every year because that’s how many the sea lions are eating.”
He says the hope is that the pots will provide a nook for four octopus at a time. “We think they might be like their close relatives, which make their homes in dens. Here they live a lot like messy teenagers, leaving the remains of what they’ve been eating just outside their front door.”
If the Tangaroa returns with yellow octopus specimens, NIWA marine ecologist Mark Fenwick hopes to carry out a genetic analysis, which will help the team to track their diversity. “Low genetic diversity could mean that they are being overfished by the sea lions, high diversity could mean something else.”
He says genetics is likely to throw up a few surprises, not just for the yellow octopus but for New Zealand's octopus fauna in general. “We can answer many questions by using morphology - counting sucker rows, describing the radula shape, measuring arm lengths – but in octopuses morphology is very variable within species. Genetics could change the octopus family tree.”
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Tags: New Zealand sea lion, yellow octopus, Auckland Islands
Duration: 15'52"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:06 Paul Intro
1:13 First Song
Burn Baby Burn - The Trammps.
1:17 Tony Abbott And 'Fake' Rolexes - Elle Hunt
Have you heard the one about the 'fake' Rolexes, the instant noodle billionaire and the Australian Prime Minister? Well Tony Abbott and some of his Liberal Party colleagues are in hot water after failing to properly declare a gift of 250 thousand dollars worth of designer watches from a Chinese businessman Liberal MPs have all said they didn't declare the Rolex watches because they assumed they were fakes. Elle Hunt is a reporter for the Guardian Australia
1:27 Doggy Speed Dating - Cathy Casey
It's Valentines Day on Sunday, and a new doggy speed dating service has been set up to help Aucklanders find love. Dozens of Auckland Council Animal Shelter dogs will be looking for love at Victoria Park tomorrow. Councillor Cathy Casey is with us to talk about the love initiative.
1:30 The Book of Everything - Dan Musgrove
Dan Musgrove is an actor and writer. He's probably best known for his role playing Lefty Munroe in Westside and the notorious Mr. Asia in Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud. And now, Dan is playing Jesus in the upcoming play, The Book of Everything.
1:40 Feature Album
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie. First released on this day in 1972.
2:10 Money - Mary Holm
Financial author and columnist Mary Holm answers your questions about personal finance.
2:30 Burnt Barley - Pita Mathias
Peta Mathias heads out west as she continues her search for the heartland of Ireland. And today we join her in Galway town during the Arts Festival, and on the Aran Islands in Galway Bay.
2:45 Food Guest - Peter Cullinane
Peter Cullinane is the founder of the incredibly successful Lewis Road Creamery.
3:10 Masterpieces - Bryan Waddle
It's time for our weekly Masterpieces segment, and today we're speaking with veteran New Zealand sports commentator, Bryan Waddle. Often called the voice of New Zealand cricket, Bryan talks about his favourite cricket match.
3:25 The Expats - Pania Mowat
Now for our weekly expat catch-up, when we speak with a New Zealander living overseas. And this week, we're off to Melbourne, to speak with Pania Mowat.
3:35 Our Changing World
Chasing the yellow octopus. Veronika Meduna meets a team of NIWA marine biologists as they head off south in search of one of the ocean's most elusive creatures, the yellow octopus. The endemic octopus is one of the key prey species of the endangered New Zealand sea lion, but so little is known about it that the team is taking 100 purpose-built pots to catch some.
3:45 Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about, with Paul Brennan, 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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The Panel pre-show for 11 February 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'18"
16:03
The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Michele A'Court (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Bernard Hickey have been up to. Are we on the brink of another banking collapse? Professor Robin Gauld of the University of Otago discusses how the pressure can be taken off hospitals by educating immigrants about primary care. A third of new state houses in Christchurch have tested positive for methampetamine.
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Duration: 23'57"
16:05
The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Michele A'Court (Part 2)
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Beauty in the work environment. What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Michele A'Court have been thinking about. Christchurch City Councillor Ali Jones talks about CERAs $2.5m public relations spend. The New Zealand First MP for Northland Winston Peters was stopped from getting on a school bus to check out the dusty roads up north. Principal of Mangakahia Area School Phil Reynolds tells the Panel what happened.
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Duration: 25'55"
16:07
Panel intro
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What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Bernard Hickey have been up to.
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Duration: 3'51"
16:11
Financial wobbles
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Are we on the brink of another banking collapse?
Topics: economy
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Duration: 8'46"
16:20
New immigrants and the health system
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Professor Robin Gauld of the University of Otago discusses how the pressure can be taken off hospitals by educating immigrants about primary care.
Topics: health
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Tags: hospitals
Duration: 9'14"
16:29
State houses as P labs
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A third of new state houses in Christchurch have tested positive for methampetamine.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 1'45"
16:34
Beauty in the work environment
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Beauty in the work environment.
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Duration: 5'29"
16:40
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Michele A'Court have been thinking about.
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Duration: 11'07"
16:50
CERAs PR budget
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Christchurch City Councillor Ali Jones talks about CERAs $2.5m public relations spend.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 5'11"
16:55
Winston Peters banned from school bus.
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The New Zealand First MP for Northland Winston Peters was stopped from getting on a school bus to check out the dusty roads up north. Principal of Mangakahia Area School Phil Reynolds tells the Panel what happened.
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Duration: 3'53"
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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, 11th February 2016
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Watch Thursday's Checkpoint with John Campbell. The show starts five minutes in.
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17:08
Driver chased at 150km/h with baby in back seat
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Police say a man who sped up to 150 kilometres an hour trying to evade them had five-month old baby in the back seat, was breaching bail and was banned from driving.
Topics: transport, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: police
Duration: 3'11"
17:11
SPCA say they don't have enough money to prosecute
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The SPCA are suffering a near-crisis in their ability to prosecute animal welfare cases and say they simply don't have enough money.
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Duration: 7'09"
17:19
Shortage of maths and science teachers bites
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Children might be back at school around the country but there's a critical shortage of maths and science staff to teach them.
Topics: education
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Duration: 3'26"
17:23
Back and forth on fluoride in Whakatane's water supply
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Just nine days after fluoride was removed from Whakatane's water supply, the council has voted to put it back in - and may be looking to add it to more areas.
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Duration: 3'06"
17:26
SkyCity hits jackpot after extending gambling operations
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SkyCity's deal with the government to allow it to extend its gambling operations in return for a convention centre has paid off, with the company announcing a record profit today.
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Duration: 3'41"
17:29
Black Caps Captain Brendon McCullum on 100th consecutive test
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Retiring Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum will play his 100th consecutive Test for New Zealand against Australia tomorrow - the first player in the history of the game to achieve the feat.
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Duration: 2'54"
17:35
Vet raises serious concerns about treatment of sheep
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A retired vet of 25 years has raised serious concerns about the treatment of sheep held at the Alliance Group's meatworks plant in Stoke, Nelson.
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Duration: 4'47"
17:39
Alliance Group says its sheep are treated appropriately
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Kerry Stevens is the General Manager of Processing for the Alliance Group. I asked him if the sheep in the yard had been treated appropriately.
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Duration: 5'25"
17:45
Business news with Jonathan Mitchell
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Jonathan Mitchell talks to John Campbell about insurers looking to cut costs and the ups and downs of the market.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'36"
17:48
Staff shortages likely to hamper ultra fast broadband rollout
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Staff shortages look likely to hamper the Government's flagship ultra fast broadband rollout.
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Duration: 2'32"
17:50
A person seriously injured after digger caught fire
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A woman's been seriously injured after a digger caught fire on Wellington's south coast.
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Duration: 1'37"
17:52
Trampers rumbled for booking for non-existent babies
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A group of trampers has been rumbled booking bunks for a dozen non-existent infants in an apparent attempt to keep an entire back country hut to themselves.
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Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Waitawheta Hut, trampers
Duration: 5'27"
18:07
Winston Peters says he's barred from taking a school bus
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Winston Peters is seeing red over being barred from a school bus in his Northland electorate.
Topics: education
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Duration: 3'54"
18:11
TPP Hearings underway in Parliament
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Hearings into the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement have got underway today.
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Duration: 4'20"
18:16
Nine Christchurch pre-schools could have their budgets cut
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Nine Christchurch pre-schools could have their budgets cut dramatically following a city council decision today to remove guaranteed funding.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 3'20"
18:19
Iraqi troops in Taji without power or running water
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Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of New Zealand's troop-training effort in Iraq given the trainees are living without power or running water.
Topics: defence force
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Duration: 3'09"
18:22
Australian churches offer sanctuary to Nauru refugees
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As many as 100 Australian churches have promised sanctuary to 267 refugees facing imminent transfer to Nauru after a recent High Court verdict. 37 of them are just babies.
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Duration: 4'12"
18:27
First Maori women MPs memorialised in Parliament
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The first women to represent Maori in Parliament have been memorialised in the House.
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Duration: 3'00"
18:50
Today In Parliament for 11 February 2016 - evening edition
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Debate on Prime Minister's statement resumes with golfing story from the attorney-general about his hole-in-one. New Zealand on Air chiefs reluctant to endorse commercials on Sunday morning radio and television. Broadcasting Minister denies any conflict of interest in appointment of commercial radio man to Radio New Zealand's board. National list MP Jiang Yang explains significance of the year of the monkey.
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Duration: 5'06"
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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
Relentless Gravitational Pull
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President of the Palmerston North Astronomical Society Jeremy Moss on what happens when black holes collide.
Topics: science
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Tags: astronomy, black holes, gravity, time
Duration: 20'56"
20:42
Nights' Culture - Poetry
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Former convener at VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop, Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets. Walter "Walt" Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist - he was a humanist and his writing reflects a transition between transcendentalism and realism.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 17'15"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Conundrum Clue 7
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21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Conundrum Clue 8
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=SHOW NOTES=
7:12 Relentless Gravitational Pull
president of the Palmerston North Astronomical Society Jeremy Moss on what happens when black holes collide...
7:35 At the Movies
movie reviews and film industry news with Simon Morris
8:12 Window on the World
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Culture - Poetry
former convener at VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop, Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... Walter "Walt" Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist - he was a humanist and his writing reflects a transition between transcendentalism and realism...
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culture roster: Classical, Comics, Jamaican Music, Poetry, Hip Hop, Video Games, Jazz, Pasifika, Electronic Music, Dance
8:59 conundrum clue 7
9:07 Our Changing World
science, environment and medical research in New Zealand labs and out in the field
9:59 conundrum clue 8
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 Music 101 pocket edition
the digest on brand-new music with Emma Smith
... 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. | Our Changing World===
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Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Alison Ballance and Veronika Meduna
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
Late Edition for 11 February
A lack of money leaves the SPCA unable to prosecute animal abusers, women discuss "sexism" debate raging among Democrats, and in Dateline Pacific - a new flag for fiji
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | Music 101===
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Music, interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, career profiles, new, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales - with a focus on New Zealand/Aotearoa (RNZ)