The housing Minister Murray McCully says a review is currently underway of the government's programme for Māori rural housing. Sub-standard housing for Māori in the Far North has been highlighted by the weekend tragedy in Matauri Bay in which 3 children died when fire broke out in the plywood bach they were living in. PRE REC OF MURRAY McCULLY
Teachers or babysitters. That's the question being asked as schools in South Auckland and some rural areas face another teacher shortage this winter. EX MANAGH & LIVER OF WYATT CREECH
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As revealed on Checkpoint last week. NZ may soon host peace talks in an effort to end the long and bloody civil war on the Papua New Guinea Island of Bougainville. EX BRUCE HILL
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[illegible] Minister of Health has called for a report on the weekend's fatal resthome fire at Collingwood. Two elderly women have died in hospital from burns - 6 other people were also hurt in the fire. EX SHEA
Federated Farmers has launched a campaign to raise a five million dollar fighting fund to protect rural property owners land rights. LIVER WITH MALCOLM BAILEY
Two anti-free trade activists say they're outrage over an official report which they say condones the SIS breaking into the home of one of the activists last July. PRE REC OF DAVID SMALL
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In Australia - Queensland's Chinese community is warning of racial violence following threats of ethnic cleansing from supporters of controversial independent federal MP Pauline Hanson. EX SHARPE
Dean Wickcliffe has been sent to trial in the High Court accused of murder. Wickcliffe pleaded not quilty to a charge of shooting Mount Manganui man Richard Bluett, in July last year. LIVE Q&A WITH ANDREW MCRAE
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The mystery over the West Auckland slaying without a body may have moved a step closer to being solved today, with indentification of the possible victim. Police revealed this month that they were investigating the shooting of a mystery man, whose body was seen in the boot of a car at a house in Henderson in 1989. EX WAKEHAM