INNES/SHIPLEY: Nine months to the day after Auckland schizophrenic Matthew Innes was suffocated in the back of a police car, a weighty report into his death's been released. Kathryn Street
PAUL INNES LIVER: On the line now from Australia is Mathew Innes' father...Paul Innes.
DRUGS: New Zealand may be forced to consider decriminalising marijuana if Australia takes the step in a vote next year. Karlum Lattimore
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CAMERON LIVER: The head of Internal Affairs in NZ has been discussing his future with the State Services Commission this afternoon, over the possible appointment of former Ohakea Airbase commander, Frank Sharp, to a senior Civil Defence post. Peter Fowler
INDIA: To India now, where with health authorities growing more confident that the nation's plague outbreak has been brought under control, the Delhi state government has ordered schools to reopen today. Andrew Whitehead
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RABAUL: The volcanic holacaust that [illegible] down on the Papua New Guinea town of Rabaul is giving its last gasps two weeks after the beautiful island town was reduced to a pile of ash, Mary Wilson
MāORI GIRLS: A report on Māori girls in seven primary schools shows they've been subject to physical abuse and harrassment. Adam Hollingworth.
TRADE: New Zealand business people are looking on a trade deal between Japan and the United States as a sign of better things to come. Jonathan Schwass
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ACCOMMODATION: More than one year after the accommodation supplement was introduced, the government has decided to employ consultants to assess how it's [illegible]. Debra Harrington
ORMER DICTATORS: As General Raul Cedras resists attempts to make him leave [illegible], the question arises, what ever happened to other leaders, some of them [illegible] as monsters, who've been forced into exile. Richard Myron
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