RNZ National. 2016-08-23. 00:00-23:59.

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:

23 August 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Tuesday Special (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:05 Hidden Treasures (RNZ) 3:05 The Stove Rake, by Denise Keay, read by Tandi Wright (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including:
6:16 and 6:50 Business News
6:26 Rural News
6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 23 August 2016
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Inquiry should look at plans to intensify agriculture - Greens, Havelock North councillor underwhelmed by Govt gastro bug inquiry, NZ government, companies bugged - security expert, Inquiry hears homelessness issues are increasing, Labour talks about inquiry into Havelock North gastric bug, Mayor rejects 'mob mentality' after sex offender moved, and Fundraising to raise funds for Sir Ed's Antarctic hut underway
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Duration: 33'46"

06:06
Sports News for 23 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'20"

06:15
PM happy Tuheitia's political candour takes aim at Labour
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John Key says he's happy for the Maori King to keep making political comments as long as they are against the Labour Party. But others aren't so happy.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Kiingi Tuheitia
Duration: 2'34"

06:20
Early Business News for 23 August 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'41"

06:26
Morning Rural News for 23 August 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'34"

06:39
Secondary principals fear special education disaster
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The Government is considering a dramatic shift in special education funding from school-aged children to under-5s. That, secondary school principals say, would be a disaster.
Topics: education
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Tags: special education, education funding
Duration: 2'21"

06:41
Boil water notice still in place for Havelock North
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Havelock North's residents should know this week whether they need to keep boiling their water. The number of campylobacter cases are coming down, but it's possible other organisms are in the water supply.
Topics: health
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Tags: Campylobacter
Duration: 1'45"

06:46
Renzi, Merkel, Hollande to discuss post-Brexit future
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The leaders of France, Germany and Italy meet to discuss the future of the European Union without Britain.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Brexit, EU
Duration: 2'17"

06:50
Developers and investors head to non-bank lenders
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Tighter lending controls and a more conservative approach by banks is driving a strong demand for non-bank sources of finance.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: lending
Duration: 2'19"

06:52
KiwiSaver investment managers opting out of Vanguard fund
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KiwiSaver investment managers are working to find funds that can offer socially responsible investments.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: KiwiSaver
Duration: 1'37"

06:54
Christchurch's Divine Cakes rebuilds post quake
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Divine Cakes in Christchurch has had a tough past five years building up again after the 2011 earthquakes.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Divine Cakes
Duration: 3'19"

06:57
Corporate reporting for Tuesday 23 August 2016
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It's a busy day on the corporate reporting calendar, with a large number of businesses releasing their financial results for the period ended in June, today.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 52"

06:58
Markets update
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An update on the markets.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 50"

07:07
Sports News for 23 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'24"

07:11
Dramatic change in special education planned
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The government is considering a dramatic shift in special education funding from school-aged children to under-5s. They say the money will have a bigger impact if it is spent on younger children. Not so, says secondary school principals. Our education correspondent John Gerritsen has more.
Topics: education
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Tags: special education, education funding
Duration: 3'15"

07:14
Inquiry should look at plans to intensify agriculture - Greens
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The Government's been told the inquiry into the contamination of Havelock North's drinking water must also review its plans to intensify agriculture throughout the country.
Topics: politics
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Tags: water
Duration: 2'47"

07:18
Havelock North councillor underwhelmed by gastro bug inquiry
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Havelock North Councillor Simon Nixon who was struck down with campylobacter says the bug should have stopped with Mayor Lawrence Yule.
Topics: politics
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Simon Nixon
Duration: 4'20"

07:22
NZ government, companies bugged - security expert
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Security analyst Paul Buchanan says the Prime Minister's admission attempts have been made to bug him raises the question of who is trying to listen in. He says there are suspects at home and abroad.
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Tags: bugging, security, GCSB
Duration: 6'06"

07:29
Inquiry hears homelessness issues are increasing
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Charitable trust founder says the Government isn't doing enough to tackle homelessness as a joint Labour-Green-Maori Party inquiry gets under way at Te Puea marae.
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Tags: homelessness
Duration: 4'38"

07:37
Labour talks about inquiry into Havelock North gastric bug
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Andrew Little says John Key is as "loose as a goose" after claiming he's been the subject of frequent bugging attempts.
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Duration: 5'24"

07:42
Mayor rejects 'mob mentality' after sex offender moved
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Lower Hutt mayor says residents who successfully argued for a child sex offender to be moved from their community acted reasonably and rejects suggestions they were an "angry mob".
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Tags: sex offender housing
Duration: 4'31"

07:52
Ranger says crocs future uncertain after school prank
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Four men released three salt water crocodiles into a Northern Territory school as a prank. But the ranger who rescued them told me the crocs were in such poor condition they didn't put up much of a fight.
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Duration: 3'57"

07:56
The countdown to the Rio Paralympics has begun
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The Paralympics begin in Rio in just two weeks time. We talk to the chief of Paralympics New Zealand about the New Zealand team's chances.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Paralympics
Duration: 4'05"

08:06
Sports News for 23 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'39"

08:11
Ministry of Education defends special education funding shuffle
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Education Ministry's special education director says shifting funding from schoolchildren to under-5s will be gradual and won't leave schools high and dry.
Topics: education
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Tags: special education, funding
Duration: 7'58"

08:19
Havelock North businesses considering possible legal action
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Business owners are struggling in Havelock North, hit hard by the gastro bug outbreak. But they're undeterred by a new government enquiry. They'll still be looking into a class action.
Topics: business
Regions: Hawkes Bay
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Duration: 5'24"

08:25
Specialist pushes for responsible investing
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Ethical investment specialist Rodger Spiller says people with Kiwisaver accounts need to make the effort to find out where their money is being invested if they're worried it's being invested unethically.
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Duration: 5'28"

08:31
Fundraising for money to repair Sir Ed's Antarctic hut underway
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The Antarctic Heritage Trust is driving three tractors more than two thousand kilometres in a bid to raise funds to help repair Sir Edmund Hillary's hut in Antarctica. The journey from Piha Beach to Mt Cook replicates the length of Sir Ed's trip from Scott Base to the South Pole 60 years ago.
Topics: history
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Tags: Sir Edmund Hillary, preservation
Duration: 2'02"

08:33
Markets Update for 23 August 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'18"

08:40
TV interview interrupted by sword wielding man
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Don Brash was with an Auckland local body candidate during a television interview when an angry man got out of a car and started waving a sword about. He tells us what happened.
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Duration: 3'54"

08:45
Fairfax and NZME merger decision delayed
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The Commerce Commission has delayed its decision on whether to approve a giant media merger between Fairfax and NZME. We talk to former NZ Herald editor Tim Murphy.
Topics: media
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Tags: NZME, Fairfax
Duration: 4'12"

08:50
Crown says Fijian woman trafficked, wanted better life
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The High Court in Auckland has heard how a Fijian woman who the crown says was trafficked into New Zealand, wanted to give her seven daughters a better life. It's only the second people trafficking case in New Zealand. Sally Murphy's covering the trial.
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Tags: human trafficing, Fiji
Duration: 2'16"

08:55
Search resumes for crayfisher missing off New Plymouth
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Searchers are out looking for a young man missing at sea off New Plymouth for nearly 24 hours.
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Regions: Taranaki
Tags: New Plymouth, missing at sea
Duration: 3'06"

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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: Snapper in a Landscape, written and told by Declan O'Neill. Irish New Zealand "snapper" and raconteur Declan O'Neil reads from the blog he kept detailing his back country photographic road trips accompanied by dogs Toby and Rufus. (Part 5 of 6, RNZ)

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09:09
Special ed shakeup: robbing Peter to pay Paul?
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Documents from the Ministry of Education show the government wants to greatly increase its spending on under-5s with special needs, at the expense of spending on school-aged children. Nine to Noon speaks to Kim Hall, from Autism Action who says families are scared at what the changes could mean. Also Vanushi Walters and Kenton Starr from Youth Law, which has been reviewing the provision of special education.
Topics: education
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Duration: 22'05"

09:31
Teens' risky drinking aided by parents
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A quarter of Wanaka school students are binge drinking on alcohol supplied by their parents, according to a study on underage drinking.

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A study of Wanaka school students has found a quarter are binge drinking on alcohol supplied by their parents.
The survey of 334 Year 9 to 11 students at Mt Aspiring College was commissioned by the Wanaka Alcohol Group to find out more about drinking in its community.
It found 28 percent of the students between 13 and 15-years-old drank alcohol regularly, and 25 percent were drinking to get drunk.
It found parents were very often the source of the alcohol, either by giving it to their children (62 percent), buying it on their behalf (32 percent), or allowing them to take alcohol from their home (41 percent).
Wanaka parents were also found to have a relatively high rate of alcohol use (89 percent), well above the national average (59 percent).
Wanaka Alcohol Group chairperson Rachel Brown told Nine to Noon the students reported good, strong bonds with their parents, but that bond was also leading them to drink alcohol at a relatively young age.
The young people surveyed felt they received enough alcohol health promotion, but said the promotion should be done with the adults around them.
The study was funded by the government's Health Promotion Agency.
The Agency's policy, research and advice manager, Cath Edmondson, said most of the survey reflected what was happening nationally, including the fact that most alcohol was coming from young people's parents.
The high level of parental involvement showed New Zealand had a culture that normalised alcohol in the family and community, Ms Edmondson said.
That culture needed to be addressed at both levels, she said.
The overall number of young people drinking, and the amount they are drinking, were both trending down.
However, the agency was still concerned about the rates of risky drinking and the impact on young people and their communities, she said.
Topics: education, health
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Tags: alcohol
Duration: 11'57"

09:43
The Science of Smell
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Dr Leonardo Belluscio is a brain scientist with a particular interest in smell. The loss of smell can be an early symptom of neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimers and it's hoped that better understanding how smell operates in the brain could provide clues to how and why those illnesses happen.
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Dr Leonardo Belluscio is a brain scientist with a particular interest in smell. The loss of smell can be an early symptom of neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimers and it's hoped that better understanding how smell operates in the brain could provide clues to how and why those illnesses happen.
Most recently, Dr Belluscio’s team at the National Institute of Health in the United States has uncovered how stem cells in the brain are critical to re-establishing networks of neurons responsible for smell in mice. Dr Belluscio’s in new Zealand at the invitation of Auckland University’s Centre for Brain Research.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
How does the brain process smell?
That’s a very complicated question and the short answer is, we don’t quite know. Although we know a lot about how the brain is organised and how it basically takes a lot of information coming in the nasal cavity, which is really the first place that odours are detected and at an anatomical level, how that information is then sent into the brain through passages that go through a plate that then essentially passes that information from the outside world directly to the brain. How that information is then interpreted is a much more complicated question and there is a lot of groups that are trying to understand that, including ourselves.
You’ve been carrying out experiments with mice, what are the results telling us?
Much of my work is tackling that question, which is, how the brain really makes sense of smells that we detect in the outside world and one of the first places that that information is received at a place called the olfactory bulb, which sits in the base part of the brain in humans. So a lot of our focus is trying to make sense of how the signals from the sensory epithelium that lines the nasal cavities make sense of the information that comes in, what patterns that may have… can it tell it something about how a certain smell can produce a certain pattern of activity? Then also what happens over time as we become familiar with the smell, do the patterns change? Things of that sort. A lot of our work has really focused on this structure - the olfactory bulb - which is quite a remarkable structure actually. There is regeneration that occurs continuously in an organism, at least in mice. In humans it is still a hotly debated topic. What we had found was the regeneration that goes on in the olfactory bulb is actually critical to maintaining the stability of the circuits that are present in the olfactory bulb.
So this is the link with neurodegenerative diseases that you are exploring?
The neurodegeneration has emerged as a parallel project because we were aware of the fact that neurological dysfunctions and smell have a history. The loss of a sense of smell is one of the earliest things that people report when they are diagnosed with some of these disorders. So what we wanted to understand was, can we get some kind of meaningful idea for why the sense of smell is one of the things that goes first. Is there something special about the olfactory system that could indeed render it susceptible as an early indicator for some of these disorders? That’s really some of our focus with neurodegeneration emerged from.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: neuroscience
Duration: 8'21"

09:52
US Correspondent - Steve Almond
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Steve Almond with the latest from US politics, with Donald Trump changing his campaign tone, and the fallout from American swimmer Ryan Lochte's behaviour at the Rio Olympics.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, United States, US
Duration: 8'54"

10:09
India's James Herriot: Naveen Pandey
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Dr Naveen Pandey is the Head Veterinarian for The Corbett Foundation, an NGO with branches in Central, North and North-East India where staff try to mitigate conflict between people and wildlife. His veterinarian work is often carried out in difficult situations, like floods and at night, with minimal resources. And with India being a biodiversity hotspot, the animals and birdlife he treats range from farm cows to endangered species.
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Dr Naveen Pandey is the Head Veterinarian for The Corbett Foundation, an NGO with branches in Central, North and North-East India where staff try to mitigate conflict between people and wildlife.
His veterinarian work is often carried out in difficult situations, like floods and at night, with minimal resources. And with India being a biodiversity hotspot, the animals and birdlife he treats range from farm cows to endangered species.
Topics: rural
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Tags: Dr Naveen Pandey, India
Duration: 29'52"

10:39
Book review - I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
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'I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This' by Nadja Spiegelman. Reviewed by Laura Caygill ,published by Text Publishing.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'47"

11:09
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Rod Oram looking at some Kiwisaver providers having made some socially irresponsible investments, and a number of major NZ companies having irresponsibly bought fraudulent carbon credits.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Rod Oram
Duration: 17'42"

11:31
David Eggleton on poetry for all
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Unleashing the power of poetry, David Eggleton is the editor of the country's leading literary magazine, Landfall and he says poetry affects people of all ages. It's National Poetry Day on Friday, an annual celebration of the written and spoken word, with 100 events around the country engaging thousands of New Zealanders, young and old.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: David Eggleton, poetry, national poetry day
Duration: 9'59"

11:44
Media commentator Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis on the Commerce Commission adopting a more realistic timeframe and delaying its decision on the merger of Fairfax NZ and NZME. Also film critic Peter Calder has resigned after 30 years at tjhe New Zealand Herald.
Topics: media
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Tags: Gavin Ellis
Duration: 15'18"

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09:05 Special ed shakeup: robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Documents from the Ministry of Education show the government wants to greatly increase its spending on under-5s with special needs, at the expense of spending on school-aged children. Nine to Noon speaks to Kim Hall, from Autism Action who says families are scared at what the changes could mean. Also Vanushi Walters and Kenton Starr from Youth Law, which has been reviewing the provision of special education.
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09:20 Teen drinking
A study of Wanaka school students has found that just over a quarter of them are drinking alcohol regularly - with most of those binge drinking. Nine to Noon speaks to Rachel Brown - the Chair of the Wanaka Alcohol Group which commissioned the survey and Health Promotion Agency General Manager Policy, Research and Advice, Cath Edmondson.
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09:30 The Science of Smell
Dr Leonardo Belluscio is a brain scientist with a particular interest in smell. The loss of smell can be an early symptom of neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimers and it's hoped that better understanding how smell operates in the brain could provide clues to how and why those illnesses happen.

09:45 US Correspondent
Steve Almond with the latest from US politics, with Donald Trump changing his campaign tone, and the fallout from American swimmer Ryan Lochte's behaviour at the Rio Olympics.
10:05 India's James Herriot: Naveen Pandey
Dr Naveen Pandey is the Head Veterinarian for The Corbett Foundation, an NGO with branches in Central, North and North-East India where staff try to mitigate conflict between people and wildlife. His veterinarian work is often carried out in difficult situations, like floods and at night, with minimal resources. And with India being a biodiversity hotspot, the animals and birdlife he treats range from farm cows to endangered species.
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10:35 Book review - I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman
Reviewed by Laura Caygill ,published by Text Publishing
10:45 The Reading
Snapper in a Landscape written and told by Declan O'Neill (Part 5 of 6)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
Rod Oram looking at some Kiwisaver providers having made some socially irresponsible investments, and a number of major NZ companies having irresponsibly bought fraudulent carbon credits.
11:20 David Eggleton on poetry for all
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Unleashing the power of poetry, David Eggleton is the editor of the country's leading literary magazine, Landfall and he says poetry affects people of all ages. It's National Poetry Day on Friday, an annual celebration of the written and spoken word, with 100 events around the country engaging thousands of New Zealanders, young and old
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis on the Commerce Commission adopting a more realistic timeframe and delaying its decision on the merger of Fairfax NZ and NZME. Also film critic Peter Calder has resigned after 30 years at tjhe New Zealand Herald.

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Artist: Pretenders
Song: Don't Get Me Wrong
Composer: Hynde
Album: Get Close
Label: SIRE
Time: 11:29
Artist: Dimmer
Song: Getting What You Give
Composer: Carter
Album: You've Got to hear the music
Label: FMR
Time: 11:40

===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 23 August 2016
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Auckland businessman William Yan will pay out 43-million dollars over money laundering claims and health authorities begin testing for the new threat to Havelock North's water.
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Duration: 14'55"

12:17
Mercury's FY profit beats expectations
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Mercury, formerly known as Mighty River Power, has reported a strong annual profit ahead of market expectations, reflecting better operating earnings.
Topics: business
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Tags: mercury
Duration: 1'37"

12:18
Tourism Holdings reports record result
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The campervan rental company, Tourism Holdings, has reported a record result, off the back of a booming tourism market and growth overseas.
Topics: business
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Tags: Tourism Holdings
Duration: 1'24"

12:20
Refining New Zealand half-year profit slides
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The operator of the Marsden Point oil refinery has had a sharp fall in first half profit, because of lower margins and an oversupply of fuel products.
Topics: business
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Tags: Refining New Zealand
Duration: 1'16"

12:21
Comvita reports steady profit
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The natural foods and honey producer, Comvita, has reported a steady profit of 18-point-5 million dollars on the back of rising demand from China and Australia.
Topics: business
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Tags: Comvita
Duration: 21"

12:21
Fliway reports stronger full-year result despite challenges
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The share price of the freight transport company, Fliway, rose almost 15 percent this morning following a doubling of its annual profit.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fliway
Duration: 15"

12:22
RBNZ governor points to another rate cut, defends policy stance
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As you may have heard in the news, another interest rate cut looks likely after the governor of the Reserve Bank mounted a strong defence of policy and the way he's implementing it.
Topics: business
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Tags: Reserve Bank
Duration: 1'25"

12:23
Midday Markets for 23 August 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Brad Gordon from Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'04"

12:25
Business briefs
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The property investor, Kiwi Property Group, is offering up to 75- million of 7-year fixed rate bonds, with discretion to offer up to 50 million dollars more in oversubscriptions.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'07"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 23 August 2016
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The All Blacks hooker Dane Coles is confident the squad's replacement players will be up to speed with the team's fast paced game plan come Saturday's test against the Wallabies in Wellington.
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Duration: 2'50"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 23 August 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
Haumoana school closed due to e-coli in water
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Haumoana School in Hawke's Bay closed today due to e-coli being detected in the water supply. Hastings District Council says school is serviced by a private bore and it doesn't believe discovery is related to Havelock North supply. RNZ's reporter, Tim Graham, is in Hawke's Bay...
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: water
Duration: 4'49"

13:19
Anger over closure of rural bank branches
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Nineteen Westpac branches could be set to close, leaving some towns with no banking facilities. The proposed closures would affect many rural areas across the country. Residents in the Canterbury town of Fairlie met last night to prepare to fight the possible closure of the town's only bank and ATM machine. Mackenzie District Mayor, Claire Barlow was at the meeting.
Topics: business, rural
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Tags: Westpac
Duration: 7'12"

13:20
Early Childhood educators welcome more special needs funding
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Early childhood centres say increased funding on under 5's with special needs will make a huge difference, as many centres currently have to turn those kids away as they don't have the resources to help them.
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Early childhood centres say increased funding on under 5's with special needs will make a huge difference, as many centres currently have to turn those kids away as they don't have the resources to help them.
Cabinet papers show the government wants to greatly increase its spending on under-5s with special needs, at the expense of spending on school-aged children.
The early Childhood council, which represents independently owned centres, made written and oral submissions the Education and Science Select Committee's 'Inquiry into the identification and support for students with the significant challenges of dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism spectrum disorders in primary and secondary schools... in which it urged the governement to urgenty provide more funding for early childhood centres.
Peter Reynolds is the ECC's Chief Executive
Topics: education
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Tags: funding, special needs
Duration: 9'35"

13:36
Happy birthday to stop-motion animation studio, Laika
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RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin celebrates the 10th anniversary of Portland, Orgeon based Laika Studios who have made films such as The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, Coraline and their latest release Kubo and the Two Strings.
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RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin celebrates the 10th anniversary of Portland, Orgeon based Laika Studios who have made films such as The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, Coraline and their latest release Kubo and the Two Strings.
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Duration: 7'32"

13:44
Favourite album: Joe Jackson, Look Sharp (1979)
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Chosen by Ian Stringfellow.
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Duration: 15'55"

14:11
Book critic - Paul Little
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'One Thousand and One Nights' - a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.
Topics: books
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Duration: 8'53"

14:20
Great New Zealand Album: Good by Goodshirt
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Today's Great New Zealand Album dates from 2001. It was the debut release for a four piece Auckland band and spawned three singles, one of them was one of the biggest hits of 2002 and was nominated for a silver scroll. The band has never broken up, in fact they all still talk to each other, but haven't played as a band for four years. Bandmembers Gareth Thomas and Rodney Fisher talk to Jesse about making the album.
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Today's Great New Zealand Album dates from 2001. It was the debut release for a four piece Auckland band and spawned three singles, one of them was one of the biggest hits of 2002 and was nominated for a silver scroll. The band has never broken up, in fact they all still talk to each other, but haven't played as a band for four years.
Bandmembers Gareth Thomas and Rodney Fisher talk to Jesse about making the album.
Topics: music
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Duration: 40'16"

15:08
Letters to Lindy
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35 years ago Lindy Chamblerlain declared a dingo had stolen her baby. She was convicted of murder, and later exonerated. Over all the years, more than 20,000 letters have been written to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton - who kept them all. They are now the basis of a new play.
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The story of how nine-week old baby Azaria disappeared from her family's tent while camping at Uluru in 1980 holds as much fascination today as it did 35 years ago when Lindy Chamblerlain declared a dingo had stolen her baby. She was convicted of murder, and later exonerated.
Over all the years, more than 20,000 letters have been written to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Some sympathetic, some not so much.
The letters reveal the depth of divided opinion about the case and they are the basis of a new play, Letters to Lindy. Playwright Alana Valentine talks to Jesse about the letters and what they reveal.

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Tags: Alana Valentine
Duration: 25'25"

15:46
One Quick Question for 23 August 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Duration: 4'50"

15:51
The Panel pre-show for 23 August 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 9'07"

21:20
Solving the penguin housing crisis - one home at a time
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Conservation groups are replanting native vegetation around Wellington's Miramar Peninsula to provide safe homes for little blue penguins and food for other native birds.
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While the Auckland housing crisis continues, some of Wellington’s smallest residents are sleeping easy and mortgage-free in their community-provided housing.
Forest and Bird’s Places for Penguins co-ordinator Karin Wiley says they have installed 111 nest boxes for little blue penguins around the south coast of Wellington as well as on the Miramar Peninsula.
In the last breeding season, a third of the boxes were occupied, and the resident pairs successfully produced 43 chicks.
Karin says the problem around the Wellington coast is that there’s only a small strip of vegetation between the sea and busy roads. With few options available the little penguins dice with death as they cross the highway to reach better nesting places.
To try and improve matters, Places for Penguins has been planting native vegetation along the coast to provide shelter and shade around the nest boxes. In the long-term the bushes and flaxes should offer good natural nest sites as well. And hopefully, as the coastal strip becomes more ‘des res’, the penguins will have less need to cross the road.
Places for Penguins organises a number of community planting days during winter, some of which they co-ordinate with another Wellington conservation group Te Motu Kairangi/Miramar Ecological Restoration.
Te Motu Kairangi coordinator Joakim Liman says his group is working to bring bush birds back to Miramar Peninsula, replanting the missing canopy species which are a rich source of food for birds such as tui and kereru.
He says they have planted more than 6500 trees so far, especially fruiting species such as kohekohe.
Little penguins have featured on Our Changing World before, in stories about monitoring and research on Matiu Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
Topics: environment
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Tags: native trees, planting, conservation, little blue penguins, revegetation
Duration: 6'32"

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1:10 First song
1:15 Haumoana school closed due to e-coli in water
Haumoana School in Hawke's Bay closed today due to e-coli being detected in the water supply.
Hastings District Council says school is serviced by a private bore and it doesn't believe discovery is related to Havelock North supply.
RNZ's reporter, Tim Graham is in Hawke's Bay
1:20 Early Childhood educators welcome more special needs funding
Early childhood centres say increased funding on under 5's with special needs will make a huge difference, as many centres currently have to turn those kids away as they don't have the resources to help them.
Cabinet papers show the government wants to greatly increase its spending on under-5s with special needs, at the expense of spending on school-aged children.
The early Childhood council, which represents independently owned centres, made written and oral submissions the Education and Science Select Committee's 'Inquiry into the identification and support for students with the significant challenges of dyslexia, dyspraxia and autism spectrum disorders in primary and secondary schools... in which it urged the governement to urgenty provide more funding for early childhood centres.
Peter Reynolds is the ECC's Chief Executive
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1:25 Anger over closure of rural bank branches
Nineteen Westpac branches could be set to close, leaving at least one town with no banking facilities.
The proposed closures would affect many rural areas across the country. Residents in the Canterbury town of Fairlie met yesterday to prepare to fight the possible closure of the town's only bank and ATM machine.
Mackenzie District Mayor, Claire Barlow, was at the meeting.
1:35 Happy birthday to stop-motion animation studio, Laika
RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin celebrates the 10th anniversary of Portland, Orgeon based Laika Studios who have made films such as The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, Coraline and their latest release Kubo and the Two Strings.
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1:40 Favourite album: Joe Jackson, Look Sharp (1979)
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2:10 Great New Zealand Album: Good by Goodshirt
Today's Great New Zealand Album dates from 2001. It was the debut release for a four piece Auckland band and spawned three singles, one of them was one of the biggest hits of 2002 and was nominated for a silver scroll. The band has never broken up, in fact they all still talk to each other, but haven't played as a band for four years.
Bandmembers Gareth Thomas and Rodney Fisher talk to Jesse about making the album.
3:10 Letters to Lindy
The story of how nine-week old baby Azaria disappeared from her family's ten while , while camping at Uluru in 1980 holds as much fascination today as it did 35 years ago when Lindy Chamblerlain declared a dingo had stolen her baby. She was convicted of murder, and later exonerated.
Over all the years, more than 20,000 letters have been written to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Some sympathetic, some not so much.
The letters reveal the depth of divided opinion about the case and they are the basis of a new play, Letters to Lindy. Playwright Alana Valentine talks to Jesse about the letters and what they reveal.
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3:30 Science and environment stories
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

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15:46
One Quick Question for 23 August 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Duration: 4'50"

15:51
The Panel pre-show for 23 August 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 9'07"

16:03
The Panel with Mai Chen and Gary McCormick (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and Gary McCormick have been up to. Giardia and cryptosporidium may now be the added to the contamination soup of Hawke's Bay water. Peter Cullinane talks about why we're likely to buy things endorsed by sportspeople. Chokers, military style and rusty-tan are making a mark at Fashion Week. A boat has been blocking an inner-city Auckland street for a year. Fairlie's only bank is closing down despite a record profit for Westpac.
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Duration: 24'23"

16:05
The Panel with Mai Chen and Gary McCormick (Part 2)
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Study finds that tall people were more likely to vote Conservative. What the Panelists Mai Chen and Gary McCormick have been thinking about. The Māori King has called for a formal role for Maori in the country's leadership. Cameron Preston of EQC Fix talks about how some Canterbury homes are in worse shape than before they were rebuilt post-quakes. A BBC study has found that aiming for excellence is being sought the way it used to be. Over 10,000 Brits have inquired about moving to New Zealand after the Brexit vote.
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Duration: 25'43"

16:08
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and Gary McCormick have been up to.
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Duration: 7'19"

16:15
Hawke's Bay water contamination
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Giardia and cryptosporidium may now be the added to the contamination soup of Hawke's Bay water.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: water, contamination
Duration: 4'13"

16:19
Marketing sportspeople
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Peter Cullinane talks about why we're likely to buy things endorsed by sportspeople.
Topics: business
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Duration: 7'13"

16:27
Fashion Week
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Chokers, military style and rusty-tan are making a mark at Fashion Week.
Topics: arts
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Tags: fashion
Duration: 36"

16:27
Abandoned boat on city street
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A boat has been blocking an inner-city Auckland street for a year.
Topics: law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: boat
Duration: 1'34"

16:29
Bank closures
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Fairlie's only bank is closing down despite a record profit for Westpac.
Topics: business
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Tags: Westpac bank
Duration: 3'05"

16:34
Height and political leanings
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Study finds that tall people were more likely to vote Conservative.
Topics: life and society, politics
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Tags: People
Duration: 4'40"

16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and Gary McCormick have been thinking about.
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Duration: 4'42"

16:44
Call for greater Maori share of NZ sovereignty
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The Māori King has called for a formal role for Maori in the country's leadership.
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Duration: 4'02"

16:48
Some quake victims houses worse than before rebuild
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Cameron Preston of EQC Fix talks about how some Canterbury homes are in worse shape than before they were rebuilt post-quakes.
Topics: law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: eqc
Duration: 6'21"

16:54
Aiming low
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A BBC study has found that aiming for excellence isn't being sought the way it used to be.
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Duration: 4'23"

16:58
Brexiters eyeing up NZ
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British newspapers are picking up on the resurgence of interest, post-Brexit, in New Zealand as a place for British people to emigrate to..
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Duration: 1'16"

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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, Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full programme here.
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Duration: 00"

17:08
Havelock North businesses out of pocket due to gastro outbreak
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Havelock North businesses have lost tens of thousands of dollars due to a gastro bug outbreak, which caused more than 4000 people to fall ill.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Havelock North, water
Duration: 5'47"

17:14
Govt working on Havelock Nth assistance package, mayor says
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The government is working on a package to assist people who have been financially impacted by Havelock North's water contamination, Hastings District Mayor Lawrence Yule says.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Havelock North, water
Duration: 4'58"

17:20
E Coli forces Hawke's Bay school to close
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A Hawkes Bay school is deciding what to do next after it was forced to close this morning when E Coli was detected in its water.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: E coli, Hawkes Bay
Duration: 2'24"

17:22
Govt's plan for online schools criticised by education groups
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The government wants to let children enrol in online schools instead of going to regular schools, but education groups say that's a bad idea.
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Duration: 2'51"

17:25
Family of rest home victim relieved at caregiver's charge
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The family of Piri Hemi, an elderly man mistreated in his rest home, is relieved the caregiver in question has been charged.
Topics: health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Cascades, retirement, mistreatment
Duration: 5'31"

17:31
Rest home owners shocked at footage
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The owners of a rest home where a caregiver was filmed slapping an elderly man say they're shocked, while Waikato DHB says it's sorry his family isn't satisfied with its response.
Topics: health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Cascades, retirement, mistreatment
Duration: 1'55"

17:36
Evening business for 23 August 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank, Graeme Wheeler
Duration: 4'37"

17:39
$43m forfeiture largest ever in NZ
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Controversial businessman William Yan and three others have been ordered to hand over nearly $43 million worth of property in a record settlement over alleged money laundering.
Topics: business, law, crime
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Tags: William Yan, money laundering
Duration: 2'13"

17:41
National MPs urged to vote with conscience on Easter Trading
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Pressure is mounting on the National party to allow its MPs to cast a conscience vote on Easter trading legislation for its final reading, rather than be forced to toe the party line.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Easter Trading Hours
Duration: 3'11"

17:48
Man accused of trafficking 16 Fijian workers
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Faroz Ali charged Fijian workers large sums of money, facilitated their unlawful entry here and then employed them in breach of their visa conditions, Immigration NZ said at his trial.
Topics: Pacific
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Fiji, good pay
Duration: 3'06"

17:55
Mystery afoot in Matamata over mystery buzzing noise
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Matamata residents Lynn and Jonathan Beesley are fed up with a "low hum" that's keeping them awake at night. Alex Ashton went to investigate the mysterious buzzing noise that only a few can hear.
Topics: health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Matamata, buzzing noise
Duration: 4'13"

18:08
WINZ to offer assistance to Havelock Nth locals
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Work and Income New Zealand is making special assistance available to those who've lost income as a result of the gasto outbreak in Havelock North.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: E coli, Hastings District Council, water, Havelock North, WINZ, assistance
Duration: 4'11"

18:13
Govt questioned over drinking water fund
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The government has faced questions in Parliament about why money to help small councils deliver clean drinking water is no longer available.
Topics: politics, health
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Tags: water, funding
Duration: 3'00"

18:16
Motorcyclist's family upset at maximum sentence
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The family of a motorcyclist killed in a crash earlier this month says the maximum three month sentence for the foreign driver who killed him is an insult.
Topics: law
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin photographer, Riley Baker, motorcyclist, killed, Shag Point
Duration: 3'48"

18:20
Fears disabled children will be shortchanged
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Disability and school groups fear disabled children will be short-changed by a huge shift of special needs funding from schools to early education providers.
Topics: education, disability
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Tags: special needs funding
Duration: 2'44"

18:23
Sir Ngatata Love ill after intense cross-examination
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Sir Ngatata Love, who is on trial in the High Court on alternative charges of fraud and corruption, had to take a break from giving evidence this afternoon due to ill health.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Tenths Trust, Ngatata Love
Duration: 1'32"

18:25
Fight to restore Sir Edmund Hillary's historic Antarctic hut
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Three tractors will travel more than 2000 kilometres from Auckland to Aoraki Mount Cook in a bid to save Sir Edmund Hillary's historic Antarctic hut.
Topics: identity, history
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Tags: Peter Hillary, tractors, Sir Edmund Hillary, Antarctic
Duration: 3'05"

18:50
Today In Parliament Tuesday 23 August 2016 - evening edition
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Week in the House begins with a round of speeches praising the performance of New Zealand's athletes at the Olympic Games in Rio. Questions for the prime minister, John Key, begin with a series from Greens co-leader, Mitiria Turei, about the quality of drinking water. New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, has the last laugh in a tit-for-tat exchange with the prime minister.
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Duration: 5'10"

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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
Larry Pratt: guns and scripture

===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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19:12
New Zealand Fashion Week 2016 Episode #1
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This week RNZ's Sonia Sly dedicates her week to Fashion Week in Auckland. She'll have all the latest from the runways and the latest looks from our designers and all the gossip from day one.
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Sonia Sly chats to Vlad Tichen, founder of menswear blog Bad Wears Good about low lapels, hits and misses on the runway and the one essential item that you might be carrying in the seasons to come - hint, it's not a bag!
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Duration: 19'05"

20:12
Nights Pundit Philosophy
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Philosopher at large Ann Kerwin often muses on the ways we can and could think
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Duration: 18'10"

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7:12 Fashion Week with Sonia Sly
This week RNZ's Sonia Sly dedicates her week to Fashion Week in Auckland. She'll have all the latest from the runways and the latest looks from our designers. She will join Bryan Crump to give him all the gossip from day one.
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7:30 The Sampler

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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the Neil Finn-produced debut of former Rockquest winner Jesse Sheehan; a sonically inspired collaboration between British/New Zealand band The Veils and U.S. hip-hop producer El-P; and a comfortably funky set from soul survivor Aaron Neville.

8:12 Nights' Pundit - Philosophy
Tonight Philosopher at large Ann Kerwin joins Bryan to muse on the ways we can think and could think. Tonight her focus is on Benedict Spinoza, a 17th century Dutch philosopher.

8:30 Window on the World
Philip Dodd explores the new world of cruising. Boarding in Shanghai he meets the passengers and crew who will sail the coast of China down to Hong Kong. The Chinese want different things from a cruise - they don't want to sit in the sun and they do want more of a sense of community on board. Ships are now being fitted especially for the Chinese market with these requirements in mind.
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10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 World Music
Tonight in Episode 10 of WOMAD Taranaki - The World's Festival 2016' features a live performance by Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha who certainly looked different, sounded like very little one has heard before and distinctly qualified as one of the 'discoveries' of the weekend. Their unique repertoire is informed by Ukrainian folk music with touches of Indian, Arabic and even Australian influences, to create a fascinating sound that enthralled a capacity audience.
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===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
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19:30
The Sampler for 23 August
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the Neil Finn-produced debut of former Rockquest winner Jesse Sheehan; a fruitful collaboration between British/New Zealand band The Veils and U.S. hip-hop producer El-P; and a comfortably funky set from soul survivor Aaron Neville.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, Jesse Sheehan, The Veils, Aaron Neville
Duration: 29'55"

19:30
Total Depravity by The Veils
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Nick Bollinger checks a fruitful collaboration between British/New Zealand band The Veils and U.S. hip-hop producer El-P.
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Nick Bollinger checks a fruitful collaboration between British/New Zealand band The Veils and U.S. hip-hop producer El-P.
It’s twelve years since The Runaway Found: the debut album of The Veils, which was most people’s introduction to the particular talents of this group’s British-born, New Zealand-raised frontman Finn Andrews. Though then barely out of his teens, he already had a trademark style: brooding, intense, distinctly gothic, yet with an underlying sense of traditional songcraft, forged in the folk clubs of Devonport. And the style has continued to serve him well, even as his musical ideas have matured and grown.
Total Depravity is the fifth album from the Veils and though still recognisably them, it has more than a few new sonic twists.
The first hints were heard in June with the album’s initial single, ‘Axolotl’, which sets a typical Andrews lyric, rife with images of transfiguration and devilish deals (plus an cunning quote from Bob Dylan), amid an ominously sludgy sonic landscape courtesy of rapper and producer El-P, of vogueish hip-hop outfit Run The Jewels. The combination clicked, and there is more of El-P to be heard throughout the new album. It’s hardly like the Veils have gone hip-hop, but they have certainly refreshed their traditional rock with some of El-P’s sonic palette. You can hear how loops and effects form the foundations of some of the tracks.
There’s always been a contrast between Andrews’s lyrics with their depictions of the demonic, and his voice which in its pure state can sound almost choirboy angelic. And if that has meant that in their more gauche moments The Veils can come across a bit like Nick Cave-lite, at best the paradox works in their favour, giving the music a unique tension.
There are still moments on the new album where Andrews’ voice soars, but he’s been experimenting with other voices too. For the melodramatic ‘King Of Chrome’ he abandons melody in favour of recitation. Not that he’s turned rapper, so much as beat poet-meets-carnival barker.
The American highway setting of that surreal narrative reminds me how little of Andrews’ music sounds particularly English – or, for that matter, New Zealand-ish. Rather, his songs take place in a landscape of his mind; a place he seems forced to share with an assortment of ghouls and demons.
The Veils live at one of those intersections of high and low art. Listening to Total Depravity is a bit like being trapped in some cross between a B-grade zombie film and something far more elevated – a Fellini or Bunuel classic, perhaps. But Finn Andrews is hardly the only person working at this juncture. Another is the film director David Lynch, who has apparently cast Andrews in a yet-to-be-revealed part his new season of Twin Peaks. Andrews is currently sworn to secrecy on this matter, but from the sound of this album I expect to see him looking very much at home there.
Songs featured: Axolotl,Low Lays The Devil, A Bit On The Side, House Of Spirits, King Of Chrome, Here Come The Dead, Total Deparvity.
Total Depravity is released on Nettwerk Records 26 August.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, The Veils, Run the Jewels, El P, David Lynch
Duration: 9'43"

19:30
Apache by Aaron Neville
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Nick Bollinger reviews a comfortably funky set from soul survivor Aaron Neville.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a comfortably funky set from soul survivor Aaron Neville.
When it comes to contradictory packages, I’m hardly the first to point out the paradox of Aaron Neville, with his wrestler’s build, his prison tattoos, wicked ‘third-eye’ birthmark, and the voice of an angel. In fact, I wonder if the appeal of that paradox is the reason his records have often been a bit schmaltzy; everyone just wants to hear the angel sing. But his new album is a reminder that the New Orleans singer has other sides.
At 75, Neville is still in control of that formidable vibrato, still sounding somehow both weightless, and as though he’s carrying the weight of the world. The songs, though, are a long way from the ballads that have been his calling card ever since Linda Ronstadt hauled him onto the Grammy stage. ‘Hard To Believe’ is in the vein of ‘Hercules’, the Allen Toussaint-penned piece of funk that, while never a hit, has over the years become a deejay’s favourite. It’s one of eleven tracks that make up the new album, only one of which wasn’t written by Neville himself. They lean heavily on the New Orleans R&B he grew up with, and the funk that, as a member of the Neville Brothers, he helped create.
The ups and downs of his own life are the basis of virtually all these songs. ‘Sarah Ann’ is an ode to his wife Sarah Ann Friedman, who he met in 2008, not long after his first wife of 50 years succumbed to cancer. ‘Make Your Momma Cry’ is a cautionary tale directed at his younger self.
With arrangements that feel classic rather than retro, the only track here that seems a little miscast is the opener, ‘Be Your Man’ - tellingly, the one song Neville didn’t have a hand in writing. It sounds like the theme from Shaft.
The album is titled Apache, after a nickname he used to go by in New Orleans, and that - with its suggestion of street gangs and Mardi Gras Indians - rings true.
Songs featured: All Of The Above, Stompin’ Ground, Hard To Believe, Sarah Ann, Make Your Momma Cry, Be Your Man.
Apache is available on Tell It Records.
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Tags: music, music review, Aaron Neville, New Orleans
Duration: 10'09"

19:30
Drinking With The Birds by Jesse Sheehan
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Nick Bollinger discusses the Neil Finn-produced debut of former Rockquest winner Jesse Sheehan.
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Nick Bollinger discusses the Neil Finn-produced debut of former Rockquest winner Jesse Sheehan.
Back in 2009, the Smokefree Rockquest was - for the first time - won for by a solo performer: a Wellington College student with a shock of ginger curls, a soaring voice and some unusually sophisticated songs. That was Jesse Sheehan, and the promise that was recognised back then has been borne out since: through a series of EPs, an ENZO cameo and more recently a part in Neil Finn’s touring band. Even so, his first full-length album is a surprise.
Drinking With The Birds is the sort of record not many people make at any stage, let alone this early in their careers. Most don’t have the material, the chops or the opportunity. This is big, technicolour chamber-pop, with brightly coloured backings and melodies that seem to roam wherever they feel like, and Sheehan has the vocal chops to follow them.
Like that other diminutive redhead, Dave Dobbyn, Sheehan’s is a voice that seems almost too big for its frame. Where, you wonder, are those near-operatic notes coming from on ‘Sentimental Fool’? But that’s by no means his only voice. He can also take it low and whispery, like a junior Leonard Cohen, on ‘Brothers Of Jaiyang’. And there’s a lot of ground in between, all of it deeply musical, some boldly experimental, all held together by Sheehan’s strong, rangy melodies.
At times I hear Rufus Wainwright and his grand rococo pop constructions; at other times hints of Radiohead. But if there’s anyone I’m consistently reminded of it’s Neil Finn. Like more than a few songwriters around the world, Sheehan has clearly taken inspiration from Finn’s exquisitely singable melodies, and there are tunes, chord changes and hooks here that would hardly seem out of place on a Crowded House record.
Sheehan must have picked up a thing or two playing in Finn’s band, but he has had the additional benefit of having Finn as producer of this album, and his presence is audible. He shares with Sheehan a lot of the playing – between them they cover everything from guitars, piano and drums to optigons and vibraphones – and you’ll find the kind of details you would be expect to find on one of Finn’s own records.
Does the hand of Finn rest a bit too heavily on Drinking With The Birds? Maybe at times, yet it is a credit to the strength of Sheehan’s own ideas that it doesn’t sound more like Finn. And for much of the album, the production, lavish as it is, is simply serving Sheehan’s widescreen musical vision. Where but from his own imagination does the outrageous ending of ‘The Way It Was Before’ come from, where Sheehan departs from the melody and raves like some kind of soapbox prophet preaching end times?
Sheehan says Drinking With The Birds is the record he has been dreaming up ever since he was at school. It’s a record that dares to dream big, and that dream can sweep you up and take you along with it.
Songs featured: Sentimental Fool, Stone Girl, Brother Of Jieyang, Rising Sun, Last Man Standing, Reverie In Chains, The Way It Was Before.
Drinking With The Birds is available on Universal.
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Duration: 11'17"

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

===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Online Harassment: the Plague of Social Media
This week it was announced that London was getting a new team of specialist police officers to investigate online hate crimes, including abuse on Twitter and Facebook. But how widespread is the problem, and is getting law enforcement involved the best way to tackle it? Owen Bennett Jones brings together a panel to discuss why the abuse happens, and whether there should be limits to free speech on social media . (BBCWS).

===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Late Edition with a roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
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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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Coverage from the world music festival - De La Soul (RNZ)