The Best of Newstalk ZB Breakfast. A weekly programme on Sundays from 6am to 7am. Ongoing recording.
RUNDOWNS IN FOLDER.
16.7.00.
Tk 4 at 0'00"
Larry Williams talks to Bill McGowan of Soccer New Zealand, about Charlie Dempsey's abstention from the 2006 world vote.
Trevor Mallard, Minister of Sport, comments.
Basil Scarsella, Australia's Oceania representative, talks about the situation.
Tk 5 at 0'00"
Barry Soper wraps up on the Fiji deal between George Speight and the military and the Council of Chiefs agreeing to release the hostages.
Brian Davies, Corrections Association of New Zealand union organiser, comments on the overcrowding of women's prisons.
Ian Taylor from the Corrections Department comments.
Tk 6 at 0'37"
Simon Walker, former television jounalist here, has been appointed as the Director of Communications for the Queen. He has been unable to give interviews in England but has agreed to do this phone interview. As Communications Secretary - overall planner of strategy for communications; planning for communications for golden jubilee in 2002. Contact with Royal Family will be regular.
Barry Soper comments on the 9 of teh 27 hostages being released from Fiji.
Sir Paul Reeves who helped draw up the Fiji 1997 constitution comments on the situation.
Tk 7 at 0'34" and tk 8
Annette King, Minister of Health, comments on the sacking of the Gisborne Tairawhiti Health Board. Failures to monitor the problems in screenings of prostate and cervical health.
Tupeni Baba, former Fiji Deputy PM, a released hostage talks about the ordeal of being kept hostage for 2 months. He talks about the conditions - gun carrying and shooting guards; no contact with outside world; no media; some contact with George Speight.