RNZ National. 2016-07-04. 00:00-23:59, [Suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq].

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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:

04 July 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Love Story by Robin McFarland read by Kate Harcourt (RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 To the Max by Mark Inglis (10 of 10, RNZ)

===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 Monday 4 July 2016
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Is the Government's billion dollar infrastructure fund enough to make a dent in the housing crisis? We ask the Auckland Mayor, Len Brown. With no further vote counting til Tuesday, Australia is in limbo after Saturday's election - We'll have analysis.
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Duration: 32'47"

06:06
Sports News for 4 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'07"

06:13
A buoyant Labor party out of election
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The Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is quietly confident of delivering a majority Coalition government, despite the weekend's cliffhanger election not yet producing a clear winner. Our political reporter, Demelza Leslie, spent election night at the Labor Party HQ.
Topics:
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Tags: Australia, elections
Duration: 3'41"

06:17
Younger Williams paving similar path to big brother
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Niall Williams, the younger sister of Sonny Bill Williams, talks to our sports reporter Matt Chatterton about realising her dream and representing her country at Rio.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'17"

06:21
Early Business News for 4 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'15"

06:26
Morning Rural News for 4 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 4'11"

06:38
Opposition parties say $1b fund is desperate and piecemeal
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The Government claims its billion dollar infrastructure fund will help councils break the dead-lock on new house building. But opposition parties argue the plan is desperate and piecemeal, and will do little to address the housing crisis. our Deputy Political Editor, Chris Bramwell reports
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 3'04"

06:43
Wadeable freshwater not good enough -- Fox
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A "wadeable" freshwater standard is not good enough for Maori. The Maori Party, says streams and rivers are a lifeblood for Maori and they should be safe to drink and gather food from. Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more.
Topics: environment
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: water
Duration: 3'29"

06:47
Iceland defies odds to play France in quarterfinal of Euro 2016
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On paper Iceland should never had made it to into Euro 2016, let alone into the quarterfinals.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Iceland
Duration: 2'26"

06:50
Markets shake off inital shock of Brexit
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Global financial markets appear to have recovered from the initial shock of the Brexit vote, having recouped most -- if not all their losses, with the notable exception of the British currency.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Brexit
Duration: 2'20"

06:50
Markets shake off inital shock of Brexit
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Global financial markets appear to have recovered from the initial shock of the Brexit vote, having recouped most -- if not all their losses, with the notable exception of the British currency.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Brexit
Duration: 2'20"

06:50
Markets shake off inital shock of Brexit
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Global financial markets appear to have recovered from the initial shock of the Brexit vote, having recouped most -- if not all their losses, with the notable exception of the British currency.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Brexit
Duration: 2'20"

06:53
Imre Spiezer discusses market reaction to Australia vote
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Business sentiment and markets are expected to be tested as the Federal election result remains unclear.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'19"

06:53
Imre Speizer discusses market reaction to Australia vote
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Business sentiment and markets are expected to be tested as the Federal election result remains unclear.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'19"

06:54
Reserve Bank of Australia set to cut rates
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has its regular monthly interest rate review tomorrow.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'05"

06:54
Reserve Bank of Australia set to cut rates
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has its regular monthly interest rate review tomorrow.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'05"

06:56
Technology disrupting traditional business models
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New Zealand manufacturers are being advised to prepare and have strategies to cope with the upsetting of traditional business models and processes.
Topics: business, technology
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Tags: robots
Duration: 1'44"

06:58
Quietish week locally, event risk overseas
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Now to a look ahead at this week's business agenda. s
Topics: business
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Duration: 27"

06:58
Morning markets for 4 July 2016
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Wall Street made gains at the end of the week.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 52"

07:07
Sports News for 4 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'33"

07:11
Auckland mayor welcomes $1 billion dollar infrastructure fund
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Auckland Council welcomes the government's billion dollar housing infrastructure fund but Len Brown says it will add thousands of new houses to Auckland not the tens of thousands promised by the government.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 5'21"

07:16
Todd Niall analyses Government's $1 billion infrastructure fund
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Our Auckland correspondent Todd Niall gives his take on the Government's $1-billion infrastructure fund.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 4'12"

07:23
Australian election too close to call
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Too close to call. With no clear winner in Australia's election we talk to Simon Banks, who has worked on many federal election campaigns for Labor and was Kevin Rudd's chief of staff and John Hewson, a leader of the Liberal Party in the 1990s about the Australian election results.
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Tags: Australia, elections
Duration: 8'22"

07:36
Behind the country's biggest ever cocaine haul
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Police are seeking a fourth man in connection to the country's largest ever cocaine bust. Jamie Bamford is Customs' Group Manager of Intelligence, Investigations & Enforcement has more on the record haul.
Topics: crime
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Tags: cocaine bust
Duration: 2'30"

07:38
Crown irrigation company defends spend
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The Crown company set up to oversee public financing of irrigation projects is defending its spending. Our environment reporter Kate Gudsell investigates.
Topics: environment, politics
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Tags: Crown Irrigation Investments
Duration: 3'59"

07:42
Siblings set to rule the roost in Rio
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It's a family affair for two sets of siblings named in the men's and women's rugby sevens teams to represent New Zealand at the Rio Olympics next month. Sonny-Bill Williams has been named in the men's squad while his sister Niall will play in the women's team. Also named in the men's squad are the Ioane brothers. Matt Chatterton reports.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Olympics
Duration: 2'55"

07:45
Māori Language Week
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It's Maori Language Week - Ko te wiki o te reo Maori tenei. Our Maori Correspondent Mihingarangi Forbes sets out to answer your questions.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: Maori language week
Duration: 4'53"

07:50
Conservative candidates seek to replace David Cameron.
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Candidates running for the ladership of the British Conservative Party are jostling for support ahead of tomorrow's first run-off vote.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UK
Duration: 4'58"

07:55
Prime Minister announces $1 billion fund
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The Prime Minister says the billion dollar infrastructure fund will speed up the supply of houses and will eventually stabilise prices in Auckland and 4 other cities.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 4'25"

08:07
Sports News for 4 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'31"

08:11
Infrastructure fund "not enough" to solve the housing crisis
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Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff says the new infrastructure fund is one fortieth of what's needed. Mr Goff tells Guyon Espiner one billion dollars will only make a difference on the margins and many billions more is needed to really tackle the housing crisis.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 3'47"

08:15
Charities Services. investigates the Hepatitis Foundation
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The Hepatitis Foundation and a trust linked to it are being investigated by Charities Services. Our reporter Sharon Brettkelly has the details
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Tags: Hepatitis Foundation
Duration: 5'15"

08:22
New Zealander at centre of Australian elections
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Derryn Hinch, the New Zealand born broadcaster known as the Human Headline, is poised to join the Australian Senate.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, Derryn Hinch
Duration: 5'17"

08:27
Maori language programme takes off on North Shore
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A Māori language programme supported by former All Black Buck Shelford and his wife Jo has taken off on Auckland's North Shore. Te Manu Korihi reporter Aaron Smale has the details.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 2'34"

08:30
Markets Update for 4 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 44"

08:35
Council reaction to government's $1 billion loan
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Most councils are welcoming the Government's one-billion-dollar interest free loan for new housing.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 2'44"

08:39
Somali NZers frustrated at treatment by Customs at airports
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Members of New Zealand's Muslim community told RNZ News they are humiliated and treated like criminals at the airport by Customs when returning to the country. David Bennett says Somali members of his Hamilton East electorate are routinely stopped by Customs after travelling internationally. We speak to Somali New Zealander Farhan Osman about his experience.
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Tags: Customs
Duration: 2'48"

08:41
More money needed to maintain defence status quo
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Taxpayers are being warned that if they want to maintain the Defence Force's current capabilities they'll have to cough up more money. Experts are meeting in Wellington today. Our Defence Reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia has more.
Topics: politics, defence force
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Tags: costs
Duration: 3'13"

08:45
NASA's super balloon, makes it to Peru
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Nasa's super balloon, launched from Wanaka in May, has successfully completed its mission in Peru. Jeremy Eggers from NASA's Balloon Program tells Guyon Espiner the team is thrilled with the operation.
Topics: science
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Tags: NASA
Duration: 5'11"

08:50
Wind poses problems for St Helena airport
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St Helena Island's brand new airport has been forced to shut down operations temporarily after strong winds pose problems for aircraft trying to land. The Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Star Airlines, Captain Richard Brown tells us just how scary landing on the South Atlantic Island is.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 3'46"

08:55
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Kerry-Anne Walsh joins us from Canberra for her own inimitable election debrief.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 4'50"

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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: My Father's Ears by Karen Goa, read by Michelle Amas When a brother she didn't know about visits from New Zealand, an Italian-Canadian daughter hears a lot of previously unspoken family history. As her father relates his childhood experiences she learns the pain of separation and immigration and the treatment meted out to aliens in commonwealth countries during WWII (6 of 10, RNZ)

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09:09
"Govt should crash house prices by 40%"
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The former Reserve Bank chair says Auckland property prices must come down by 40 percent, and he has a few ideas about how to achieve it.
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Former Reserve Bank chair Arthur Grimes says Auckland property prices must come down by 40 percent, and has a few ideas about how the government could achieve it.
Now a senior analyst at Motu Research, Dr Grimes said although politicians were happy to talk about building more affordable housing they were unwilling to say how much they thought prices should fall.
Local and national government needed to accept that investors would lose money, and needed to deliberately collapse prices as soon as possible through intensification, seizure of land under the Public Works Act and greenfield development.
"I think we need to have some very explicit targets on house prices in Auckland if we're worried about the next generation," he said.
"Auckland council has actually gone quite a long way on this, they have actually said they want to bring house prices down to five times household incomes by 2030. That's a long way off - I'd quite like to get that brought forward and get that done much faster.
"Median house prices somewhere between $800,000 and $900,000 is way above most Aucklanders' possibilities of buying. We do need the government to flood the market with housing.
"And that's going to be two-fold, it needs to be through intensification and by expansion of the city's area."
He said house prices needed to be crashed by at least 40 percent which would bring them back in line with where they were just four years ago.
"And they were too high then, they were around 500,000 then.
"But also to list many of the crazy restrictions we've got on intensification, and to give you some perspective I was brought up, fortunately, on Tamaki Drive - all two-storey blocks and single houses. I just can't see any logic in preventing high-rise buildings all the way along there to enable tens of hundreds of thousands of people to live along there."
"It's where people want to live, so why not let them live there."
He said that in terms of expansion, Auckland was surrounded by farmland that could be bought through the public works act, with a premium paid to owners based on rural land values, but then infrastructure would need to be provided.
His comments come as the government has announced a new plan to loan $1 billion interest free to local councils to fund the new roading and water infrastructure needed for housing expansions.
The government would have to borrow the money to pay for the loans.
Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith said he accepted the loans might mean things would not happen in the order the Auckland Council wanted.
"That may mean that there may be some leapfrogging of development, that is, new residential development that is not right adjacent to the current urban-rural perimeter."
Dr Smith said the fund might also be available for projects in the urban area, if they led to a big boost in the number of homes that could be built there.
Dr Grimes said rural landowners would not be able to make windfall profits from re-zoning.
"I think that uplift should go to the council as the council has made the change in zone, and that value should go towards building the infrastructure that's required.
The government hoped to finalise the loan scheme details by December, and be open for bids from councils early next year.
Dr Grimes said people who had already bought houses at inflated prices would lose out, but that was no different to in other parts of the country when prices had come down 20 to 30 percent in the past.
There was also not as much risk to the banking system as in other places in the world.
"Luckily in New Zealand we have a very strong banking sector, it's very well capitalised, most of their loans are to people who bought their houses well before four years ago, and so a large decrease in prices in Auckland would not have the same effect as it has elsewhere.
Dr Grimes admitted he was being deliberately provocative but said something did need to happen.
"And what I do is whenever I find a politician that says they want affordable housing I ask them a very simple question - how much do you want house prices to fall by overall. And not one of them has been able to answer that very simple question.
"My concern is that many of the policies that both local and central government have introduced in the last decade or so have been in the right direction but have been far too small to have an effect."
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: house prices
Duration: 15'19"

09:25
The results of the Australian election are far from clear
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ABC election analyst Antony Green and political academic Peter Chen from the University of Sydney discuss Australia's cliffhanger election.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 13'49"

09:42
Lawyer turned activist leads push to ditch health star rating
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Claire Deeks is a counterfeit lawyer & Auckland mother who has put together a petition to the New Zealand and Australian Governments to ditch the health star rating system. She's worried that both governments have fallen into the trap of simply endorsing packaged food that are dangerously high in sugar and far from healthy.
Claire's petition can be found on her blog . She is just about to embark on a Mums On A Mission tour of New Zealand to campaign for children to eat 'real' food.
Topics: food, health
Regions:
Tags: health star rating, sugar, health, obesity
Duration: 8'09"

09:55
Middle East correspondent Kate Shuttleworth
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The latest from the Middle East, including on the rising death toll from the massive bombing in Baghdad.
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Tags: Middle East
Duration: 10'08"

10:06
Jane Mayer: Dark Money
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New Yorker writer Jane Mayer on her book Dark Money about right-wing political funders Charles and David Koch - the Koch brothers. She says the Kochs and their ultra-wealthy allies on the right are the single most effective special-interest group in the country.
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With the race for the U.S. presidential election in full swing, it is clear how money has a big influence on the country’s political campaigns.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer has written about politics in Washington D.C. for the magazine for the past two decades. In 2010, she wrote an article on the Koch brothers - Charles and David - outlining their growing financial support for what grew into the Republican Tea Party movement. They have not been so much media-shy as virtually underground in seeking a public profile for their political funding, having poured millions of dollars into trying to defeat Democrats.
Jane Mayer who has a new book out on the brothers called Dark Money, estimates they will spend 750 million US dollars on this election’s presidential cycle. Some 300 million dollars directly on campaigns. She says the Kochs and their ultra-wealthy allies on the right are the single most effective special-interest group in the country.
Read an edited excerpt from the interview:
What we learn more about and what has become clearer is what was until recently an underground influential mix of big money and politics and the use of the super packs in particular. When did you first begin on the trail of this or even come across the Koch brothers?
Actually it was completely accidental on my part. I come from New York City and I was rounding a corner in the city and went by Lincoln Center, which is where the big cultural centre is and saw that the name David Koch had been carved into the front of Lincoln Center. I knew a little about him, I’m a political reporter and I follow money because that’s a big part of anybody’s job if you cover politics, and I knew the Kochs were putting a little bit of money into an organisation that was organising the Tea Party rebellions and yet, there’s their name in the middle of Manhattan and I thought ‘I bet there aren’t many people in New York City in cosmopolitan New York circles who know that this person is funding the Tea Party rebellion against Obama.’
I started to root around to find out what the Kochs were doing and it turned out while they publicly spent money on cultural philanthropy, which gave them a great name, they were very secretive about their political spending and it took a ton of investigative reporting. It took me years to be able to document the kind of spending that was going on at a subterranean level here.
The use of the super PACS, groups that fund political parties and interests, is this he main way that they have had their influence?
No. What made the story so interesting to me was Charles and David Koch approached American politics as an engineering challenge. They wanted to figure out, ‘How can we affect change most convincingly by spending our money with the biggest impact?’ Spending on candidates is only a small part of it.
There are a lot of papers I found where Charles writes about this very early on, going back to 1980. He’s writing about how he wants to create a radical movement, a radical-government movement. To do that, you would have to change the universities, change the professors you would have to create organisations that would go door-to-door and create think tanks that would push the message and pressure the politicians.
Basically they looked at politicians as just actors reading a script and they told one reporter early on that they wanted to write the script, so they set out to write the script in American politics and over a 40 year period they have done it in numerous different ways.
That’s what makes this story so interesting, is it’s not just people putting money on and picking out a candidate, they really wanted to create a political movement, and they have been relatively successful.
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Duration: 29'46"

10:37
Book review - The Girls by Emma Cline
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Reviewed by Jenna Todd, published by Penguin Random House.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'42"

11:07
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
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Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams unpick the Australian election and the Government's billion dollar infrastructure loan fund.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 24'16"

11:35
Perfect pleasure pastry ... sweet, savoury, puff and choux
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Award-winning baker and pastry chef Michael Kloeg from The Claireville Bakery in Carterton on pastry making and the techniques to getting it right. He is giving a hands on masterclass at his bakery as part of Wellington on a Plate.
Topics: food
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Tags: pastry
Duration: 13'54"

11:49
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne wades into debate over increased helicopter landings in remote DoC areas in Fiordland, and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's critique of the Ministry for the Environment's state-of-the-environment report. 'Defend Milford', a game created by Caspar Harmer & Sam Stewart, asks 'How many helicopters can Fiordland -- and its alpine parrots -- withstand?' A gumboot-throwing kea represents the attempt to forestall the helicopter invasion. You can play the game here.
Topics: environment
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Duration: 10'07"

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09:05 Govt should crash house prices by 40 %
Former Reserve Bank chairman and chief economist Dr Arthur Grimes, says while politicians are happy to talk about building more affordable housing they're unwilling to say how much they think prices should fall. His provocative comments come as the government announces a one billion dollar fund, offering loans to councils to fund infrastructure development and new home building to target Auckland's housing crisis.
09:20 Australian election result, far from clear
ABC election analyst Antony Green and political academic Peter Chen from the University of Sydney discuss Australia's cliffhanger election
09:30 Auckland lawyer turned activist leads push to ditch health star rating
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Claire Deeks is a counterfeit lawyer & Auckland mother who has put together a petition to the New Zealand and Australian Governments to ditch the health star rating system. She's worried that both governments have fallen into the trap of simply endorsing packaged food that are dangerously high in sugar and far from healthy.
Claire's petition can be found on her blog She is just about to embark on a Mums On A Mission tour of New Zealand to campaign for children to eat 'real' food.
09:45 Middle East correspondent Kate Shuttleworth
The latest from the Middle East, including on the rising death toll from the massive bombing in Baghdad.
10:05 Jane Mayer: Dark Money
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer on her book Dark Money about right-wing political funders Charles and David Koch - the Koch brothers. She says the Kochs and their ultra-wealthy allies on the right are the single most effective special-interest group in the country.
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10:35 Book review - The Girls by Emma Cline
reviewed by Jenna Todd, published by Penguin Random House
10:45 The Reading
My Father's Ears, by Karen Goa read by Michele Amas ((Part 6 of 10)
11:05 Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Perfect pleasure pastry ... sweet, savoury, puff and choux
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Award-winning baker and pastry chef Michael Kloeg from The Claireville Bakery in Carterton on pastry making and the techniques to getting it right. He is giving a hands on masterclass at his bakery as part of Wellington on a Plate.
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne wades into debate over increased helicopter landings in remote DoC areas in Fiordland, and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's critique of the Ministry for the Environment's state-of-the-environment report.
'Defend Milford', a game created by Caspar Harmer & Sam Stewart, asks 'How many helicopters can Fiordland -- and its alpine parrots -- withstand?' A gumboot-throwing kea represents the attempt to forestall the helicopter invasion. You can play the game here

===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 4 July 2016
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The Ministry of Social Development has pleaded guilty in the Wellington District Court to a health and safety charge relating to the murder of two of its Ashburton employees. A former prison officer has denied charges of taking bribes from the convicted murderer and sex offender, Phillip John Smith.
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Duration: 15'38"

12:17
Hawkins says overstretched construction sector lead to JV
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The privately owned construction company, Hawkins Group, says an overstretched construction sector is one of the reasons why it's partnering with China Construction to build the 200-million dollar luxury Park Hyatt on Auckland's waterfront.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Hawkins Group, Park Hyatt
Duration: 2'00"

12:19
China still a global economic worry
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An investment manager is warning that China remains a significant economic risk for world growth and it should not be forgotten in the uncertainty caused by the British vote to leave the European Union.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: China, Brexit
Duration: 1'37"

12:21
Election result worst outcome for market - currency strategist
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The Australian sharemarket has opened marginally weaker today despite the uncertainty after Saturday's general election.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Australia, election
Duration: 1'15"

12:23
Midday Markets for 4 July 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: 2'20"

12:26
Business briefs
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Small and medium sized businesses are looking to expand and hire more staff in the future.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 40"

12:27
Midday Sports News for 4 July 2016
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Hosts France brought Iceland's fairy tale run at football's Euro 2016 to a grinding halt with a 5-2 win over the rank outsiders in this morning's last quarter-final.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'54"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 4 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'03"

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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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13:14
Build your own electric bike
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Electric bikes cost upwards of $2000, but if you are prepared to put one together yourself you can do it for a quarter of the price.
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Electric bikes cost upwards of $2000, but if you are prepared to put one together yourself you can do it for a quarter of the price.
Auckland engineer, Stuart Harwood, did just that, building his own e-bike, which he gave to his girlfriend for her birthday.
Now he's sharing what he has learned at Pecha Kucha Auckland tomorrow night, so others can build their own bikes too.

A Pecha Kucha night is an event format in which presenters show a slideshow of 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds.
Hopefully, that's enough time to learn the basics of making an ebike.
Stuart Harwood talks to Jesse Mulligan.
Topics: transport, life and society
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Tags: Electric bikes, DIY
Duration: 10'19"

13:25
Aroha Bridge
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A second online series which show cases the more multicultural side of New Zealand is being launched this week.
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The animated web series, Aroha Bridge follows the band Hook Ups, made up of sister and brother Kowhai and Monty Hook, and their eclectic bicultural family. The name of the show comes from the fictional community they call home.
The makers describe it as a snapshot of the multicultural melting pot that is Aotearoa.
Here's a taste of season 1:
The series is voiced by an impressive line up of famous names - Madeleine Sami, Frankie Stevens, Matai Smith, Scotty Cotter, Jessica Hansell, & Rizván Tu'itahi. Aroha Bridge creator, Coco Solid (Jessica Hansell) and cast member Frankie Stevens joined Jesse to explain more about the series and its beginnings.
Topics: internet, te ao Maori
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Tags: Aroha Bridge
Duration: 11'29"

13:38
Dwelling on the Stoep
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The flats on Greys Ave in central Auckland, are often referred to in the media as "the notorious state housing block" linked with drugs, gang violence and crime.
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The flats on Greys Ave in central Auckland, are often referred to in the media as "the notorious state housing block" linked with drugs, gang violence and crime.

That's what fascinates artist and photographer Dieneke Jansen, who has made a study of social housing blocks that are considered to be failures - and look out how the people who live in them create their own communities and social connections.
She has also studied projects in Marunda in Indonesia and Bijlmermeer in Netherlands, going as far as living in the spaces to really get an understanding of how people go about their lives.
Her exhibition Dwelling on the Stoep is on at AUT's St Paul St Gallery.
Dieneke Jansen is a visual arts lecturer at AUT and talks to Jesse Mulligan about her project and what she has learned about social housing.
Topics: housing, life and society
Regions:
Tags: Greys Ave, AUT's St Paul St Gallery
Duration: 9'29"

13:46
Favourite album - Hounds of Love
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Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Topics: music
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Tags: Hounds of Love
Duration: 13'10"

14:11
Television Critic, Phil Wallington
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Phil Wallington joins Jesse to discuss local current affairs coverage, 60 Minutes and the new Bravo channel.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: TV
Duration: 13'12"

14:27
Planet Hunter, Michael Albrow
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Before 1995, the only planets we knew that existed, were those in our solar system. How things have changed!
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Before 1995, the only planets we knew that existed, were those in our solar system. How things have changed!
Associate Professor Michael Albrow is a Senior Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Canterbury - and a keen planet hunter.
Jesse quizzes Michael Albrow about planets, and how to find them, and he has some mind bending questions for us.
Topics: science
Regions:
Tags: astronomy, space, planets
Duration: 30'03"

15:08
Australia River Cottage
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Four years ago, Paul West traded in his job in the kitchen of one of Melbourne's poshest restaurants for a life of growing organic, environmentally sustainable food.
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Four years ago, Paul West traded in his job in the kitchen of one of Melbourne's poshest restaurants for a life of growing organic, environmentally sustainable food.
He beat out 1300 applicants to who wanted to move to the New South Wales Coast and host Australia River Cottage, based on a successful British Show.
As Paul West has grown into his role as sustainability commander in chief, he's also growing into his role as father to son Otto, who will be in the series for the first time this year.
He also shares a recipe with us for desiree potato gratin.
Topics: food, media
Regions:
Tags: River Cottage Australia, television, sustainability
Duration: 23'49"

15:30
The Real Iran - Elham's Story
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Get to know the real Iran - Elham's story: Elham Salari grew up in Iran's capital Tehran and the war dominated her childhood memories. She moved to Hawkes Bay with her husband five years ago. Frustrated by Western media's negative take on her home country Elham meets Lynda Chanwai-Earle to tell her about the real Iran.
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“Iranian women are known for using a lot of make-up, they’re the second largest importer in the world just after Saudi,” says Elham Salari. “Heavy usage of makeup is a statement of empowerment when the face is the only feature to show, so no surprise that nose operations are so popular there.”
Life in Iran to life here couldn’t be more of a stark contrast for artist Elham Salari, whose life has been all about contrasts.
Currently the Audience Engagement Officer at Hastings City Art Gallery, Elham loves connecting art with the visiting public.
When I drop by the gallery, Elham is explaining the Asia New Zealand Foundation ‘Visiting Asia’ exhibition to eight-year old Joseph and his ten-year old brother Nickora, as they tour the gallery with their mum.
Then, retired art teacher Roy Dunningham discusses an upcoming visit by senior citizens with Elham.
Roy’s a big fan of Elham’s work as an artist. One of her paintings, for example, is a powerful image of a woman whose mouth is covered by a scarf sewn into her cheeks. It’s a symbol of the subjugation and silence of women during Iran’s history – several hundred years ago one Persian Shah was famous for having 300 women in his harem.
“People usually get surprised with the facts they hear about my home country, Iran,” says Elham. “Iran is a big country in the Middle East, [but] some westerners do not even realize that Iran is not an Arab country. Iranians are Persians and they speak Farsi or Persian (not Arabic). The capital city is Tehran and 98% of people are Muslim, but they are much more secular than other Muslim countries.”
Born and raised in Tehran, Elham grew up amidst the war between Iran and Iraq. One of five siblings, she had an independent and inspirational mother, and a father who was, until the revolution, a photographer.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 that replaced a pro-Western Monarchy with an anti-Western theocracy and the following war between Iran and Iraq, created years of sanctions against Iran driven by the United States.
Growing up in a country under international economic sanctions was really tough. Elam recalls her father campaigning for workers’ rights when factory after factory were closed down and the famous Persian rug trade suffered.
“The U.S. said the sanctions were against the government but the sanction affected us very much, all individual Iranians, we felt it in every cell of our body, there was no access to medicine, to books for education.”
Elham's father joined the war effort to fight against Iraq, leaving Elham’s mother to bring up five children on her own. Elham remembers strict food rations but she also remembers a passionately arts loving, highly educated and close knit family. “My father is so courageous. I hope I can have a little bit of that in my life. My mother is such a role model.”
It was a time of hardship but in spite of this the famous Persian hospitality couldn’t be quelled. Elham remembers the neighbourhood sharing what little they had with each other.
Elham’s name means 'inspiration.' At the age of 26 Elham travelled to Hyderabad, India, to further her education. She met her husband Ben there, a fellow Iranian. After living and working in India, Elham and Ben decided to move to New Zealand. That was five years ago.
"So do Iranian women drive cars?"
It’s this kind of annoying F.A.Q. that Elham laughs at. Elham is globally educated; she has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tehran University of Fine Arts, a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Hyderabad, India and a Masters in Visual Material Culture from Massey University in Wellington. "Iranian women," Elham says, "are anything but how western media has painted them."
Elham is keen to set the record straight. Later at her home in Hastings, Elham serves traditional cinnamon flavoured black tea from tiny silver & glass tea cups. It's an elegant and age old ritual, like many aspects of Persian culture.
“If you talk to any Iranian living outside of Iran - the media paints the wrong image about our country - that frustrates me a lot.”
“One of my sisters is a journalist for Tehran’s, Hamshahri Newspaper (Citizen of the City) and my youngest sister is a talented documentary film-maker, one of the "hundred talents in the world", whose most recent project is about Afghani migrants in Iran.”
“Iranian women are not dull or subjugated as Western media suggests. Iranian women are part of every aspect of Iranian culture, sports and politics. Over 65% of tertiary students are women in Tehran. The ratio of female students in the engineering fields in Iran is more than any other country in the world. Iranian women are full of life.”
Topics: refugees and migrants, life and society
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Iran, Islam, women, refugee and migrants, art, culture, faith, identity, Iranian Revolution
Duration: 23'03"

15:47
The Panel pre-show for 4 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 12'08"

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1:10 First song
1:15 Build your own electric bike
Electric bikes cost upwards of 2-thousand dollars, but if you are prepared to put one together yourself you can do it for a quarter of the price.
Auckland engineer, Stuart Harwood, did just that, building his own e-bike, which he gave to his girlfriend for her birthday...
and now he's sharing what he has learned at Pecha Kucha Auckland tomorrow night, so others can build their own bikes too.

A Pecha Kucha night is an event format in which presenters show a slideshow of 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 secondsm giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds. Hopefully enough time to learn the basics of making an ebike.
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1:25 Aroha Bridge
A second online series which show cases the more multicultural side of New Zealand is being launched this week.
Aroha Bridge follows the band Hook Ups, made up of sister and brother Kowhai and Monty Hook, and their family.
The name of the show comes from the fictional community they call home.
The series is voiced by a well known cast of talented names - Madeleine Sami, Frankie Stevens, Matai Smith, Scotty Cotter, Jessica Hansell, & Rizván Tu'itahi.
Its creator, Coco Solid (Jessica Hansell) and cast member Frankie Stevens talk to Jesse about the series.
1:35 Dwelling on the Stoep
The flats on Greys Ave in central Auckland, are often referred to in the media as "the notorious state housing block" linked with drugs, gang violence and crime.

That's what fascinates artist and photographer Dieneke Jansen, who has made a study of social housing blocks that are considered to be failures - and look out how the people who live in them create their own communities and social connections.
She has also studied projects in Marunda in Indonesia and Bijlmermeer in Netherlands, going as far as living in the spaces to really get an understanding of how people go about their lives.
Her exhibition Dwelling on the Stoep is on at AUT's St Paul St Gallery.
Dieneke Jansen is a visual arts lecturer at AUT and talks to Jesse Mulligan about her project and what she has learned about social housing.
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1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Television Critic, Phil Wallington
2:20 Planet Hunter, Michael Albrow
Before 1995, the only planets we knew that existed, were those in our solar system. How things have changed!
Associate Professor Michael Albrow is a Senior Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Canterbury - and a keen planet hunter.
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Jesse quizzes Michael Albrow about planets, and how to find them, and he has some mind bending questions for us.
3:10 Australia River Cottage
Four years ago, Paul West traded in his job in the kitchen of one of Melbourne's poshest restaurants for a life of growing organic, environmentally sustainable food.
He beat out 1300 applicants to who wanted to move to the New South Wales Coast and host Australia River Cottage, based on a successful British Show.
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As Paul West has grown into his role as sustainability commander in chief, he's also growing into his role as father to son Otto, who will be in the series for the first time this year.
He also shares a recipe with us for desiree potato gratin.
3:35 Voices
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

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JESSE MULLIGAN : AFTERNOONS 1 - 4pm
Monday 4th July
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Paul Ubana Jones
TITLE: Who We Are
COMP: Paul Ubana Jones
ALBUM: Unreleased
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Kate Bush
TITLE: Hounds of Love
COMP: Kate Bush
ALBUM: Hounds of Love
LABEL: EMI
ARTIST: Kate Bush
TITLE: Cloudbursting
COMP: Kate Bush
ALBUM: Hounds of Love
LABEL: EMI
ARTIST: Kate Bush
TITLE: Dream Of Sheep
COMP: Kate Bush
ALBUM: Hounds of Love
LABEL: EMI
FEATURE INTERVIEW:
ARTIST: The Story Bots
TITLE: The Planet Song for Kids
COMP: A.J. Jenkins
ALBUM: Kids Learning Tube
LABEL: Download
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
ARTIST: Goodshirt
TITLE: Out of Our League
COMP: Rodney Fisher, Gareth Thomas, Murray Fisher, Mike Beehre
ALBUM: Kiwi Hit Disc
LABEL: NZ On Air

ARTIST: Te Aratoi
TITLE: Tapapakanga
COMP: Riki Bennet, Rewi Spraggon
ALBUM: Iwi Hit Disc 28
LABEL: NZ On Air
PANEL HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Alice Cooper
TITLE: No More Mr. Nice Guy
COMP: Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce
ALBUM: Billion Dollar Babies
LABEL: Warner

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=

An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

=AUDIO=

15:47
The Panel pre-show for 4 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 12'08"

16:05
The Panel with Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin have been up to. The Ministry of Social Development has asked to not be convicted under health and safety laws over the Ashburton WINZ office murders. Economist Geoff Simmons discusses the $1bn infrastructure fund. How much help with it be for the housing crisis? Whether it's Britain, the United States, and now Australia, voters are defying convention, the expert predictions, and even the polls.
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Duration: 24'00"

16:06
The Panel with Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin (Part 2)
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Are you a pussy-footer or a bull in a China shop? What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about. Parents of preschoolers are venting at Mediaworks morning kids TV is dropped. The Maori party wants the government to do more to improve the standard of cleanliness in the country's fresh water systems. Mihi Forbes joins the conversation on Maori lanuage week. The Remain camp was left in shock after Brexit went through. Was this a wake up call to all in democracies that their vote does matter?
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Duration: 26'35"

16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin have been up to.
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Duration: 5'01"

16:12
MSD pleads guilty over WINZ shootings
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The Ministry of Social Development has asked to not be convicted under health and safety laws over the Ashburton WINZ office murders.
Topics: politics, crime
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Tags: WINZ, Ministry of Social Development, Ashburton
Duration: 4'19"

16:17
Govt $1bn infrastructure fund
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Economist Geoff Simmons discusses the $1bn infrastructure fund. How much help with it be for the housing crisis?
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Council, Local Government New Zealand
Duration: 9'00"

16:26
Aussie election
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Whether it's Britain, the United States, and now Australia, voters are defying convention, the expert predictions, and even the polls.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, election
Duration: 5'34"

16:33
Just say NO
BODY:
Are you a pussy-footer or a bull in a China shop?
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Politeness, Agression
Duration: 3'27"

16:36
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'34"

16:43
Mediaworks under fire over pulling kid's programmes
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Parents of preschoolers are venting at Mediaworks morning kids TV is dropped.
Topics: media
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Tags: TV, Kid's TV, Mediaworks
Duration: 5'37"

16:49
Maori Party raises the water quality bar
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The Maori party wants the government to do more to improve the standard of cleanliness in the country's fresh water systems.
Topics: environment, te ao Maori
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Tags: water, Maori Party
Duration: 5'21"

16:54
Maori Language week with Mihi Forbes
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Mihi Forbes joins the conversation on Maori lanuage week.
Topics: language, te ao Maori
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Tags: Maori language week
Duration: 2'43"

16:57
Is Brexit a reminder of the power of the vote?
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The Remain camp was left in shock after Brexit went through. Was this a wake up call to all in democracies that their vote does matter?
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Brexit, United Kingdom
Duration: 2'50"

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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, Monday 4th July 2016
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Watch Monday's full programme here.
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Duration: 00"

17:09
Worksafe says attack on WINZ staff was foreseeable
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A fatal attack on Ashburton Work and Income staff was foreseeable and more should have been done to prevent it, Worksafe has said.
Topics: politics, crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: WINZ, Ashburton, WorkSafe, Ministry of Social Development
Duration: 3'09"

17:16
Australians not sure what to think after election
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Australians have had six PMs in the past decade - and some expected that the weekend's election would usher in a seventh. Now, after a hung result, Melbourne voters are no clearer as to their country's political future.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, election
Duration: 3'43"

17:21
$1bn infrastructure fund to focus on Akld development
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Minister of Building and Housing Nick Smith today confirmed that a focus of the government's new $1bn infrastructure fund is to support developing rural Auckland.
Topics: politics, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: infrastructure, sprawl
Duration: 3'02"

17:24
Clutha Mayor swamped by inquiries about Kaitangata promotion
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The welcome mat may be out for people considering a move to South Otago's Kaitangata - but there's no $160,000 cash payment, despite international reports to the contrary. Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan joins Checkpoint to debrief.
Topics: housing, life and society
Regions: Otago
Tags: Kaitangata, Clutha District
Duration: 6'37"

17:33
Evening Business for 4 July 2016
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Nona Pelletier wraps up the day's business news, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 3'31"

17:37
Depression descends on Karada after bombings
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AFP journalist Ammar Karim was one of those caught in the crossfire in attacks on Baghdad at the weekend in a suburb full of people celebrating the approach of Eid, shopping and having fun together.
Topics: life and society, security, conflict
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Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, terrorism
Duration: 4'30"

17:43
Phillip Smith attempted bribe, says Crown
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The Crown says the convicted murderer and sex offender Phillip John Smith sent a former prison officer money as a bribe in an envelope addressed to his dead cat.
Topics: crime
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Tags: bribery, prison
Duration: 3'30"

17:46
Uber slashes taxi drivers' incomes 'in half'
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Cab drivers in Christchurch say their incomes have plummeted 30 to 50-percent since the arrival of the alternative taxi service Uber.
Topics: transport
Regions:
Tags: Uber, protest
Duration: 3'09"

17:50
Army instructor's trial on ill treatment charges
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A former army instructor is on trial accused of grabbing his students' testicles and dragging female recruits to the ground by their hair.
Topics: defence force, crime
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Tags: Linton Military Camp
Duration: 3'21"

17:53
Man found dead likely victim of accident
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Police say the death of Te Awamutu man Daniel Bindner whose body was found at a Hamilton recycling centre was most likely a tragic accident.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Te Awamutu, recycling
Duration: 2'36"

17:55
MoE steps up for Te Puea
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The Ministry of Education has come to the table to help some of the tamariki at Te Puea marae in Auckland, which is currently at capacity
Topics: life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Ministry Of Education, Te Puea marae
Duration: 3'15"

18:08
Call to crash Akld house prices
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Arthur Grimes, a former chair of the Reserve Bank, says the government needs to deliberately crash Auckland house prices by 40-percent.
Topics: housing, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: house prices
Duration: 1'35"

18:11
Don't forget us, says Queenstown developer on new fund
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A Queenstown developer says the new fund proposed by the Government could be of great help to the region.
Topics: housing, economy
Regions: Otago
Tags: Infrastructure fund, Queenstown
Duration: 4'07"

18:20
Judge orders rethink on returning murder-accused to China
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The Justice Minister has been ordered to reconsider sending an accused killer to face trial in China, because there are questions over whether he will recieve a fair trial.
Topics: crime
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Tags: extradition, China
Duration: 2'10"

18:25
PM reitirates opposition to compulsory te reo Maori education
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More than half of schools don't have any Maori language education, but despite repeated calls to make it compulsory, John Key has maintained his position.
Topics: te ao Maori, politics, language
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Tags: te reo, Maori language week
Duration: 3'28"

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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=

Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
Still puzzled about Brexit?
Kevin Mitnick: hacking and security
Richard Watson

===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

=AUDIO=

19:12
Law Says Animals Have Feelings
BODY:
Last year a change in New Zealand law acknowledged that that animals are sentient. What does this mean for animal rights, welfare and farming practices? We talk to former vet and animal law expert Ian Robertson.
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Last year a change in New Zealand law acknowledged that that animals are sentient. What does this mean for animal rights, welfare and farming practices? We talk to former vet and animal law expert Ian Robertson.
Read an edited excerpt of their interview below:
How crucial was that word ‘sentient’ in that legislation?
It has the potential to be a real game-changer. The definition of sentient is the capability to feel, to perceive and experience subjectively.
Where we have actually gone to recognising not just that animals can experience pain or distress, but that they experience pain, distress and joy. That changes everything in terms of, do we continue to operate on minimum standards of… does this animal experience pain or distress. If the answer is yes, then the next legal question is, is that pain or distress necessary? If it was a yes to the reasonable or necessary, it could be whatever animal husbandry practice, animal research or whatever treatment, then that was permissible.
But arguably by adding in the word sentient to the law, it elevates that there is now a third part to that test that says, are they experiencing or having a positive psychological experience?
I used to say to my students, nowhere in law in the animal welfare act does it say, is the animal happy? But arguably by adding in sentient, that is the gate that has been opened. There is now potentially a responsibility on people to ensure that their animals are happy.
When did the law come into force? Under the new legislation, has that potential been realised in any way?
In August 2015. There in is the rub. There has been criticism already that because the law hasn’t specifically provided a definition of sentient, then the criticism says, ‘It’s window dressing. It’s political puffery and meant as something merely symbolic.’ And there are all sorts of motivations in that to keep various stake holders happy.
On the other hand it’s well known that a word introduced into law changes the playing field potentially. What this could do in the right hands, particularly advocates of evolved animal welfare standards can say, ‘It’s not just a word, and it’s not just window dressing.’
It’s something that shifts our responsibility, and actually imputes a responsibility to people to ensure that animals in their care have a positive mental, emotional experience. Comfort, pleasure, interests, confidence, those sorts of things.
What was the legal or even philosophical basis for the old laws?
In 1911, there was the Animal Protection Act. In brief, the Animal Protection Act criminalised blatant acts of animal cruelty. It said, this is what you must not do to an animal.
Then in 1999, we moved from the Animal Protection Act to the Animal Welfare Act. The difference was that the new act in 1999 included these protections of animals and saying what you must not do, but it also added a layer of what you must do, saying prevention is better than a cure. It said, you must provide them with adequate food, water and shelter and medical attention, those sorts of things.
The test as to whether that had been fulfilled or not was a two-part test. First of all: did this animal experience pain or distress? If the answer was no, then no harm, no foul, at least through the legal lens anyway. If the answer was yes, then the next part of that test was: is the pain or distress that this animal is experiencing necessary or reasonable? For example if you take your dog to the veterinarian and this animal has an injection, to protect it from various viral diseases or a bacterial infection, then many animals, like people, would not actually prefer to be injected. However, it’s necessary. In the hands of a veterinarian certain procedures are deemed necessary for the wellbeing of the animal or for society as a whole. That’s essentially where we stayed.
We were at minimums, we agreed that animals should not experience unnecessary pain or distress, either at the animal’s wellbeing or the owner’s wellbeing or society’s wellbeing. It’s a shift on from that. We’ve departed from just assessing things in terms of minimums to elevating things.
Topics: life and society, law
Regions:
Tags: animals, animal rights
Duration: 18'45"

20:12
Nights' Science - Body Parts
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Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy...
Topics: health, science
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Tags: human anatomy, eyes
Duration: 19'31"

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7:12 Law Says Animals Have Feelings
Last year a change in New Zealand law acknowledged that that animals are sentient. What does this mean for animal rights, welfare and farming practices? We talk to former vet and animal law expert Ian Robertson.
7:35 Upbeat
Neil Ieremia ONZM, reflects on 21 years of maintaining his company Black Grace. There were many sceptics when as a 24 year old Ieremia began a male only dance company to reflect his own culture on stage, but as Neil puts it "If people tell me I can't do something, it just encourages me more!"
8:12 Nights' Science - Body Parts
A users guide to the body - tonight Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, has her sight on the Cornea.
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8:30 Window on the World
Mind your Manners - It's not what you eat, but the way that you eat it according to this episode of The Food Chain from the BBC world Service. As people are exposed to cuisines from all over the world, the programme asks if there has been a global shrugging off of table manners. From how we sit, to the tools we use, is there a best way to consume food? And what do your eating implements of choice - hands, cutlery, or chopsticks - say about your cultural identity?
9.20 ROTN
In our RightOnThe Night (ROTN) serial tonight, we visit ancient Greece and the original Olympic games to see whether performance-enhancing is a modern phenomenon or whether, even back then, there were problems. You can be a part of the audible audience for the live recording of ROTN on Monday nights. But it's a become a very popular gig so you need to sign up. Just email RightOnTheNight@radionz.co.nz.

9:30 Insight
The RNZs sports team look at the new sports at the Olympics, rugby sevens and golf, and explores what it might mean for the game at home.
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
Tonight in Folk Alley an exclusive in-studio session with up-and-comer Virginia singer-songwriter Dori Freeman. Plus New music from past IBMA "Guitarist of the Year" recipient, Bryan Sutton, Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop, Sarah Jarosz, Robert Ellis, The Infamous Stringdusters.

===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries

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Monday 4 July - Mind Your Manners
Mind your Manners - It's not what you eat, but the way that you eat it according to this episode of The Food Chain from the BBC world Service. As people are exposed to cuisines from all over the world, the programme asks if there has been a global shrugging off of table manners. From how we sit, to the tools we use, is there a best way to consume food? And what do your eating implements of choice - hands, cutlery, or chopsticks - say about your cultural identity?

Tuesday 5 July - America's Independent Voters
America is in the middle of its most volatile presidential election season in half a century. The traditional political parties are being shaken to the core by voters who are not necessarily Democrats or Republicans, so called 'independent' voters. Michael Goldfarb travels to the key state of Ohio - a state that has voted for every presidential winner over the last 50 years - to meet with independent voters. He explores the anger that is motivating independents this year. He places their views in the deeper historical context of changes in American society - changes that have hit Ohio hard.

Wednesday 6 July - Belize Penal Reform
The former British colony of Belize is a tiny country that boasts rich Central American indigenous culture and a spectacular Caribbean coast. It also suffers a high rate of violent crime, and its one and only prison houses more than its fair share of murderers. The BBC’s Charlotte McDonald has gained rare access to the jail, and to inmates there who have faced capital punishment for their crimes – sometimes coming alarmingly close to being put to death. All have since been spared thanks to an ongoing legal campaign, led by a group of British lawyers.

Thursday 7 July - The Accrington Pals
The story of the Accrington Pals, a battalion of East Lancashire volunteers who joined the so-called ‘Big Push’ against the German front line at the Battle of the Somme. On July the first they marched into a hail of German machine gun fire. An allied artillery bombardment was meant to have destroyed all resistance. But the Germans were well armed and well dug-in. In less than 30 minutes more than 580 of the 720 Accrington Pals were killed, injured or missing in action. Lyse Doucet explores the pride and sadness of local people as they prepare to mark the centenary of the day that nearly wiped out the Accrington Pals and she reflects on modern attitudes to war and remembrance.

===9:30 PM. | Insight===
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An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs

===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===

Late Edition for 4 July 2016
A South Otago town goes viral. How to turn your bicycle electric and in Dateline Pacific, Rio Tinto exits Bougainville.

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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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Elena See presents a selection of traditional and contemporary folk, Americana and roots music from classic and new releases, as well as in-studio and live concert recordings (5 of 12, PRX)