Canterbury School Boards of Trustees are frustrated over the lack of progress in the teachers' pay claim and are meeting tonight to discuss what they can do about. LIVER with chair of Riccarton HS board, Roger McHarg
The Republican Party convention is underway in San Diego. cuts ex CNN
The issue of how much the country can afford to subsidise drugs is back in the news. REPORT ex Mark Henderson
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Minister of Education Wyatt Creech on Canterbury school boards of trustees frustration over lack of progress in teachers' pay claim. LIVE i/v Wyatt Creech.
Federated Farmers is getting in behind the Reserve Bank's monetory policy. WRAP ex Bryan Crump
[illegible] a dramatic turn of events at the winebox inquiry today it was suggested a [illegible] witness may have been paid to keep quiet about European Pacific's involvement in Cook Islands tax deals. Maria Slade live with drop-in.
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A Victoria University student has been suspended for a year and half after alledgedly sending hundreds of pornographic messages on the internet. REPORT ex Paula des Tombe WN
Labour's senior vice president Dover Samuels has stepped into the debate over leases on Māori Reserved land today, claiming there's a backlash against Māori owners. REPORT ex Claire Paysley
A former Sydney policeman wanted across the Tasman on drug charges has asked for protection while on remand in jail in Upper Hutt. REPORT ex Mark Torley.
Fierce fighting is continuing in the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, but there are new hopes of peace talks. ex BBC
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The South African parliament reconvenes this week after a break, with the National Party -- the governing party under minority rule -- absent from power for the first time in 50 years. ex BBC
Customs officials in the West African state of Mauritania, say they've seized nearly seven tons of heroin - worth some five hundred million dollars. ex BBC
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