A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
02 July 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Mr Allbones' Ferrets, by Fiona Farrell (9 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour
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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 2 July 2015
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One person is dead and four others have been stabbed in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville overnight. Police have a person in custody. The Greek Prime Minister continues to urge a no vote just as his government offers concessions on the bailout offer. The German chancellor refuses to negotiate.
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Duration: 28'15"
06:06
Sports News for 2 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'53"
06:17
Pacific News for 2 July 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'34"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 2 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'26"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 July 2015
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A Whanganui River tourism attraction will be out of operation for the next three months after being badly damaged by the recent floods; A leading researcher into obesity says a new study identifying the increasing amount and variety of food in New Zealand is likely to affect Māori and Pacific people more than other groups because of the social importance placed on food; A wananga to provide services and help for homeless people in Auckland is being trialled in the city over the next two days.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'05"
06:47
Dairy prices on downward trend
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The average price has fallen 5-point-9 percent to 2-thousand-2-hundred-and-76 US dollars a tonne, the eighth consecutive fall.
Topics: business
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Tags: dairy prices
Duration: 1'19"
06:48
Briscoe Group expects superior sharemarket presence
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Rod Duke says his company's takeover of Kathmandu will create an Australasian retailing group with a superior sharemarket presence.
Topics: business
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Tags: Briscoe Group, Kathmandu
Duration: 2'49"
06:49
Stabbing in Johnsonville
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One person has been killed and four others stabbed in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville overnight.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: stabbing, Johnsonville
Duration: 2'23"
06:52
Z Energy files application to buy Caltex
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Z Energy has filed its application with the competition watchdog to buy rival Caltex for 785-million dollars.
Topics: business
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Tags: Z Energy
Duration: 2'19"
06:54
Tiwai Point tipped to stay open - analyst
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Analysts say it's more likely the owner of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter will keep it open, after it and Meridian Energy agreed to delay a decision on the plant's future by a month.
Topics: business
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Tags: Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, Tiwai Point aluminium smelter
Duration: 2'15"
06:56
Fonterra talks to staff about streamlining its business
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Fonterra says it's started talking to staff about streamlining its business to lift returns.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fonterra
Duration: 1'44"
06:57
Auckland expected to hit more price highs
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Falling mortgage rates and the record low number of houses being listed for sale are expected to push Auckland's rampant house prices to new highs in the coming months.
Topics: business, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: house prices
Duration: 40"
06:58
Morning markets for 2 July 2015
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The Dow Jones Index is up 77 points to 17,697.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'09"
07:07
Sports News for 2 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'59"
07:11
Stabbing in Johnsonville
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A Wellington street is cordoned off after a person was killed and four others stabbed in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville last night.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: stabbing, Johnsonville
Duration: 2'08"
07:13
One man has almost lost his arm and another was tasered
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A man has had his hand almost completely severed off by a machette in a neighbourhood fight in West Auckland.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: fight, taser
Duration: 3'07"
07:17
EU negotiations in Brussels continue
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has offered new concessions to the country's creditors.
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Tags: Greek debt crisis
Duration: 3'32"
07:23
Medicinal cannabis fails to save teenager's life
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The Nelson teenager who received medicinal marijuana while he was in an induced coma has died.
Topics: health
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Tags: medical cannabis
Duration: 1'45"
07:25
Senior US official says TPP agreement is close
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The assistant secretary of state for the US government has told Morning Report the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement will go ahead and that a deal is close.
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 3'30"
07:28
Bangladeshi refugee afraid for life
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Last month on Morning Report, we spoke with a Bangladeshi refugee who revealed Australian officials paid thousands of dollars to the captain and crew of the boat he and others were on, to take them away from Australia.
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Tags: Indonesia, Australia, refugees
Duration: 4'40"
07:37
NZ First indicates possible announcement on deputy leader
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The New Zealand First leader has indicated the questions around the party's leadership will be settled in the next day or so.
Topics: politics
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Tags: New Zealand First
Duration: 4'27"
07:41
Milk powder price drops sharply, eighth consecutive drop
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The price of New Zealand's single biggest export, whole milk powder, has fallen again at auction overnight.
Topics: business
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Tags: milk prices
Duration: 2'11"
07:43
New Zealand lawyers demand government put pressure on Nauru
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Consitutional lawyers are asking the Government to put pressure on Nauru over what they see as a breakdown in democracy in the Pacific Island nation.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Nauru
Duration: 2'16"
07:48
Waste industry concerned about WasteTRACK scrapping
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Companies in the waste industry want to fund a tracking system themselves when a Government-backed system is scrapped.
Topics: environment, business
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Tags: waste industry, WasteTRACK
Duration: 3'08"
07:51
Govt says no increased risk from end of waste tracking
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And Environment Minister Nick Smith is on the line.
Topics: environment, business
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Tags: waste industry, WasteTRACK
Duration: 3'27"
07:55
Commerce Commission to release updated decision
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Will the Commerce Commission answer the calls of more than 50,000 New Zealanders to reduce internet costs?
Topics: business, internet
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Tags: internet costs
Duration: 2'53"
08:07
Sports News for 2 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'00"
08:11
Stabbing in Johnsonville
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A Wellington street is cordoned off after a person was killed and four others stabbed in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville last night.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: stabbing, Johnsonville
Duration: 2'14"
08:13
Greek PM contradicts himself: still urges no vote in referendum
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The Greek Prime Minister is still urging a 'no vote' in Sunday's national bailout referendum, despite earlier saying he could accept most of the conditions
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Tags: Greek debt crisis
Duration: 4'58"
08:18
Farmers making huge profits from tenure review
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New research shows land the crown sold to farmers under tenure review for 11 million dollars has been resold for 3-hundred million dollars.
Topics: farming, rural
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Tags: Crown land
Duration: 3'15"
08:22
Wet wipes are clogging nation's drains
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Tradesmen and councils around New Zealand say so-called "flushable" wet wipes are clogging up drains and sewerage systems, costing homeowners and ratepayers more and more money.
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Tags: wet wipes
Duration: 2'46"
08:25
Labour questions funding for ``cashed up'' charter school
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The Labour Party claims that at a time when state schools are struggling to make ends meet, the Government is giving more cash to Northland charter school than it needs to fund its curriculum.
Topics: education
Regions: Northland
Tags: charter school
Duration: 1'53"
08:27
Parata says Labour's charter school attack off target
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And listening to that was Education Minister Hekia Parata.
Topics: education
Regions: Northland
Tags: charter school
Duration: 4'50"
08:32
Markets Update for 2 July 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 59"
08:37
Disturbing increase in tally of NZers dying in the water
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New Zealanders are drowning in numbers not seen in years.
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Tags: drownings
Duration: 3'09"
08:40
Government accused of giving Ministers extraordinary powers
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The Government's been accused of giving Ministers extraordinary powers in new social housing legislation introduced to Parliament.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: state houses, social housing
Duration: 2'55"
08:44
West Coast leads way on breastfeeding
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Some have exceeded expectations, others have made it, but one region's failed to reach the national target for breastfeeding.
Topics: health
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Tags: breastfeeding
Duration: 3'39"
08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 July 2015
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A Whanganui River tourism attraction will be out of operation for the next three months after being badly damaged by the recent floods; A leading researcher into obesity says a new study identifying the increasing amount and variety of food in New Zealand is likely to affect Māori and Pacific people more than other groups because of the social importance placed on food; A wananga to provide services and help for homeless people in Auckland is being trialled in the city over the next two days.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'18"
08:52
Iconic Gallipoli painting could fetch $500,000
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One of the most iconic Gallipoli paintings is expected to sell for as much as 500-thousand dollars when it goes under the hammer in Auckland this month.
Topics: arts, defence force
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Tags: Gallipoli painting
Duration: 4'45"
08:56
Captain Hurricane calls it quits
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For the past 21 years, Wellington man Nathan Lewer has lived life in the public eye and been seen by millions of people around the world, without anyone knowing what he looks like.
Topics: sport
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Tags: mascot, hurricanes
Duration: 2'36"
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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: Heartland, by Jenny Pattrick, told by Fiona Samuel (9 of 10, RNZ)
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09:07
Are flood prevention measures in Manawatu/Wanganui enough?
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Grant Cooper, Horizons Regional Council land manager, Murray Guy Horizons Regional Councillor and farmer affected by 2004 floods.
Topics: weather, farming
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: floods, forestry, Whanganui, hill country, erosion
Duration: 22'12"
09:33
Anti-euthanasia group urges inquiry caution
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Members of parliament's health select committee are waiting on official advice on how they could proceed with an inquiry into assisted dying. The committee has agreed to hold an inquiry after receiving a petition of nearly 9 thousand signatures from the voluntary euthanasia society. The Care Alliance is a group of organisations and individuals opposed to euthanasia. Matthew Jansen is the spokesperson for the Care Alliance.
Topics: health, politics, law
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Tags: euthanasia, select committee enquiry
Duration: 18'19"
09:51
UK correspondent Kate Adie
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Britain's response to the Tunisia beach shooting in which 30 British people were killed.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UK
Duration: 7'21"
10:11
Sven Pannell on his search for the Rwandan man who saved him
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Sven Pannell is the co-director director and subject of the documentary Act of Kindness which premieres at the NZ International Film festival next month. It follows his journey through Rwanda to find Johnson, the crippled, homeless samaritan, who fed and sheltered him after he was robbed of all his possessions by rebel soldiers.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: Rwanda, documentary, NZIFF
Duration: 26'54"
10:40
Book review: 'Tech Bitch' by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
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Published by Michael Joseph. Reviewed by Leah McFall.
Topics: books
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Duration: 4'50"
11:06
New Technology with Sarah Putt
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Apple Music launches, in a tizz about Tizen and live coding as a spectator sport.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 13'44"
11:24
Why punishing teenagers won't work
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Nathan Mikaere Wallis is part of the Brain Wave Trust, and X Factor Education, Christchurch. He has been a lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, lecturing in human development, brain development, language and communication and risk and resilience.
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They talk back, roll their eyes and refuse to get out of bed in the morning… that unique species known as the teenager.
So what are the best ways to deal with kids who were previously even tempered, but almost overnight have become moody and defiant?
Nathan Mikaere Wallis of the Brain Wave Trust, and X Factor Education joins Kathryn Ryan with some tips and answers some audience questions.
He says at about 12 years of age, the intelligent part of a child's brain, the frontal cortex that controls their emotions, effectively shuts down for renovations.
He says it is vital to avoid getting into an argument with your child, when they initiate it.
Whatever part of the brain you exercise is the part that grows. So if you’re punishing them and getting into conflict with them, arguing with them and having big emotional scenes, you are exercising the emotional brain, and it doesn't need your help. It's already in charge.
Nathan Mikaere Wallis is an expert on brain development, language and communication and risk and resilience.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: parenting, teenagers
Duration: 28'03"
11:52
Film reviewer, Dan Slevin
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Dan Slevin reviews new releases Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) and Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg).
Topics: arts
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Tags: film
Duration: 7'19"
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09:05 Are flood prevention measures in Manawatu/Wanganui enough?
Grant Cooper, Horizons Regional Council land manager, Murray Guy Horizons Regional Councillor and farmer affected by 2004 floods.
09:20 Anti-euthanasia group urges inquiry caution
Members of parliament's health select committee are waiting on official advice on how they could proceed with an inquiry into assisted dying. The committee has agreed to hold an inquiry after receiving a petition of nearly 9 thousand signatures from the voluntary euthanasia society. The Care Alliance is a group of organisations and individuals opposed to euthanasia. Matthew Jansen is the spokesperson for the Care Alliance.
09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie
10:05 Sven Pannell on his search for the Rwandan man who saved him
Sven Pannell is the co-director director and subject of the documentary Act of Kindness which premieres at the NZ International Film festival later this month. It follows his journey through Rwanda to find Johnson, the crippled, homeless samaritan, who fed and sheltered him after he was robbed of all his possessions by rebel soldiers.
10:35 Book review: 'Tech Bitch' by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza
Published by Michael Joseph RRP $38.00. Reviewed by Leah McFall.
10:45 The Reading: 'Heartland' by Jenny Pattrick
Donny Mac arrives home from a short prison stint to find his life back in Manawa turned upside down. A cracker of a yarn told in true Kiwi style, set under the shadow of Mount Ruapehu (9 of 10, RNZ).
11:05 New Technology with Sarah Putt
11:30 Why punishing teenagers won't work
Nathan Mikaere Wallis is part of the Brain Wave Trust, and X Factor Education, Christchurch. He has been a lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, lecturing in human development, brain development, language and communication and risk and resilience.
11:45 Film reviewer, Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews new releases Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad) and Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg).
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand 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 2 July 2015
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A woman and child are hurt in mass stabbing. Neighbours fearful after violent Auckland street brawl.
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Duration: 15'18"
12:19
Kathmandu tells shareholders - take no action on Briscoe bid
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Kathmandu is urging shareholders to sit tight in response to Briscoe Group's takeover offer.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 50"
12:20
No silver bullet on the horizon for dairy prices
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An economist says there appears to be no shine on the horizon for a major pick up in dairy prices.
Topics: business, economy, farming, rural
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Duration: 1'17"
12:22
Marlborough Lines buys 80 percent of Yealands Wine Group
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The power company, Marlborough Lines, is buying an 80 percent stake in Yealands Wine Group for 89 million dollars.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'02"
12:24
Small firms are more downbeat about the year ahead
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ANZ Bank's quarterly survey shows small business sentiment has fallen for the first time since September to a two-year low, but is still positive.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 54"
12:25
Midday Markets for 2 July 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Melika King at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'54"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 2 July 2015
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Hurricanes star openside Ardie Savea is in a race to be fit for the Super Rugby final.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Ardie Savea, hurricanes
Duration: 2'43"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 2 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'42"
21:17
Mixed reaction to ComCom plans
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There's been a mixed reaction from the telecommunications industry to the regulator's latest plans to raise the amount Chorus can charge for use of its copper lines.
Topics: business, economy, technology
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Duration: 1'23"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
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13:10
Your Song - Harvest Moon
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John Gibbs has chosen Harvest Moon - Bob Dylan.
Topics: music
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Duration: 18'20"
13:20
New Zealand A to Z - W for Westshore
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New Zealand A to Z today is W for Westshore. The seaside community on the northwest fringe of Napier.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Napier, Westshore
Duration: 23'01"
14:10
Repair Cafe - Ken Bright
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It's all too-common these days to throw something out when it's broken. But a global movement, which started in Holland and has spread to 18 countries around the world, aims to change our "throwaway" culture. The Repair Cafe is a meeting place where people fix their broken household items, along side a team of volunteers - refuelling with cups of tea or coffee along the way.
Topics: life and society, environment
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Tags:
Duration: 13'04"
14:20
Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest
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A new local web course that teaches people how to write for children has taken off all over the world. "Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest" has only been live for 3 weeks but already 4200 people in more than 130 countries have enrolled. New Zealand author, David Hill, is one of the writers who helped set up the resource.
Topics: books, education, internet
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Tags: MOOC, writing for children, online education
Duration: 9'07"
14:45
Feature Album - Dare
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Dare was the third studio album from British synthpop band The Human League. It was recorded between March and September 1981 and first released in the UK on 16 October 1981 then subsequently in the U.S. in mid-1982.
Topics: music
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Tags: The Human League, Dare
Duration: 13'39"
15:10
Expats - Ben Middlemiss
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Veteran beer brewer Ben Middlemiss in the USA.
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Tags: beer, United States of America
Duration: 13'16"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 2 July 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Tags: Jolisa Gracewood, Steve McCabe
Duration: 15'28"
21:06
Life in the World's Oceans
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Marine scientists in New Zealand make a significant contribution to a global register of marine life.
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by Veronika Meduna Veronika.Meduna@radionz.co.nz
Some 51 per cent of all our marine species are found only in New Zealand. What that means is that we become custodians of that knowledge on behalf of the rest of the planet.
Dennis Gordon, NIWA
Every day, Wellington marine biologist Daniel Leduc comes past a small, popular swimming beach on his way to work. One morning, he decided to grab a handful of sand from the intertidal zone to see what lives in it – and discovered a species of nematode nobody had described before.
These tiny, worm-like creatures are ubiquitous. Some are parasitic and live inside animals, including us, and plants. Free-living species are found everywhere, with the biggest diversity in soils and marine sediments. A square metre of sand or soil is likely to be home to a million nematodes.
“They are quite diverse. You can take a handful of sediment from a beach and you might find a dozen species or so. If you go to the deep sea, the same handful of sediment will probably contain about a hundred species,"says Daniel Leduc.
The newly discovered nematode is one of many new species marine biologists at the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere have contributed to a global effort to combine all existing knowledge of sea life. The World Register of Marine Species, known as WoRMS, recently announced that it has almost completed logging all of the world’s known marine species that have been described throughout scientific history.
Since the initiative began in 2008, more than 1000 new-to-science marine fish species have been described globally – an average of more than 10 per month – including 122 new sharks and rays, 131 new members of the goby family, and a new barracuda found in the Mediterranean.
A NIWA-led inventory of New Zealand’s marine species counted close to 12,500 named marine species for WoRMS.
NIWA taxonomist Dennis Gordon says the rate of discovery is only limited by the amount of time people can put into studying biodiversity, and as far as marine life is concerned, there is still a lot to be found.
“A case in point is when in 2007 we had the world’s first marine BioBlitz, which was focusing on the Taputeranga Marine Reserve on Wellington’s south coast. We had at least 20 new species and half a dozen of those have since been described.”
These new species are not all tiny microscopic organisms.
As we get more and more into the deep sea, we’re finding heaps of new species - and we’re talking here about quite large organisms. We’re talking about sponges, large corals, including black corals. It’s hard to keep up with the rate of discovery.
Dennis Gordon says while naming and describing biological diversity is fundamental to ecological science, the next step is to protect unique ecosystems.
“This is particularly true for New Zealand, because we have a high degree of endemism, in other words, species that are found nowhere else in the world. And this is true even in the marine environment – some 51 per cent of all our marine species are found only in New Zealand. What that means is that we become custodians of that knowledge on behalf of the rest of the planet.”
Globally, in 2014 alone, some 1,451 new marine creatures were added to WoRMS, including 139 sponges and two dolphins (see image gallery above). But apart from adding new species, another task is to tidy up taxonomic redundancies. The champion in this category is Littorina saxatilis, a sea snail popularly known as the rough periwinkle, which has been described and named 113 times.
The most daunting challenge, however, is that researchers with the Census of Marine Life, within which WoRMS is a major component, estimate that up to two million marine species remain to be discovered and described.
“It is humbling to realise that humankind has encountered and described only a fraction of our oceanic kin, perhaps as little as 11 per cent," says WoRMS co-chair Jan Mees.
We fear many species will almost certainly disappear due to changing maritime conditions - especially warming, pollution and acidification - before we’ve had a chance to meet.
Topics: science, environment
Regions:
Tags: biodiversity, World Register of Marine Species, endemism, the ocean, marine life
Duration: 11'40"
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1:10 Your Song
Harvest Moon - Neil Young. Chosen by John Gibbs.
1:20 Our New Zealand A to Z - Westshore
The seaside community on the Northwest fringe of Napier. Westshore is a bit like Atlantis in reverse. 84 years ago the ground the community now sits on was under the sea, part of the Ahuriri lagoon. Guests: Dr Laura Wallace, Jeremy Bayliss, Larry Dallimore.
2:10 Repair Cafe - Ken Bright
It's all too-common these days to throw something out when it's broken. But a global movement, which started in Holland and has spread to 18 countries around the world - aims to change our "throwaway" culture. The Repair Cafe is a meeting place where people fix their broken household items, along side a team of volunteers - refueling with cups of tea or coffee along the way.
2:20 Mooc - David Hill
A new local web course that teaches people how to write for children has taken off all over the world. "Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest" has only been live for 3 weeks but already 4-thousand-200 people in more than 130-countries have enrolled. New Zealand author, David Hill, is one of the writers who helped set up the resource.
2:30 NZ Reading - Almost Perfect
Polly has a thing for gloves. Why does she run and hide when Gavin starts to kiss her?
2:45 Feature album
The Human League - Dare.
3:10 The Expats - Ben Middlemiss
Our expat this week is veteran craft beer brewer, Ben Middlemiss, who's in Oklahoma working with 90's boy band Hanson on their new boutique beers.
3:20 BBC Witness - James Salter: Writer And Pilot
The acclaimed American author died on 19 June 2015 - aged 90. As a young man, before he became a writer, he was a jet fighter pilot during the Korean War. Hear his memories of fighting, and flying.
3:35 Our Changing World - Veronika Meduna
New Zealand marine biologists have contributed hundreds of newly-discovered species to a global database of life in the ocean, and they found that just over half of all marine species found in New Zealand waters are unique to this region. Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Simon Mercep, Zara Potts, Steve McCabe and Jolisa Gracewood.
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 2 July 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics:
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Tags: Jolisa Gracewood, Steve McCabe
Duration: 15'28"
16:06
The Panel with Jolisa Gracewood, Steve McCabe (Part 1)
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Judge calls for review of sentencing; West Coast pub crack down; Freebies to stop smoking.
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Duration: 23'59"
16:07
The Panel with Jolisa Gracewood, Steve McCabe (Part 2)
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Celebrity advice; Mixed bag for internet users; Dry pub a first for NZ.
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Duration: 25'11"
16:10
Panel intro
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What the Panelists Jolisa Gracewood and Steve McCabe have been up to.
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Duration: 4'04"
16:12
Judge calls for review of sentencing
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Mark Henaghan of University of Otago joins the Panel to discuss if it's time for maximum sentences to be reviewed as one judge claims.
Topics: law
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Tags: University of Otago
Duration: 7'48"
16:20
West Coast pub crack down
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Three West Coast pubs have had their licenses suspended. Doug Sellman joins the Panel to talk about the level of training for bar managers and if there needs to be stricter penalties for breaking liquor laws.
Topics: law
Regions: West Coast
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Duration: 8'35"
16:28
Freebies to stop smoking
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Pregnant women in Waikato are being offered freebies and gift vouchers to quit smoking and have a healthier lifestyle.
Topics: health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Pregnant women, quit smoking
Duration: 3'27"
16:35
Celebrity advice
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Celebrities are putting their two cents worth in about all sorts of things. Jim Carrey on vaccinations and Miranda Kerr on healthy living. Do celebrities have any influence over the decisons you make?
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Duration: 5'17"
16:40
Panel says
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What the Panelists Jolisa Gracewood and Steve McCabe have been thinking about.
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16:45
Mixed bag for internet users
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The Telecommunications Users Association say a draft decision by the Commerce Commission that would have an influence over broadband prices will be of no benefit to users. TUANZ CEO Craig Young tells the Panel what it would take for prices to come down.
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Duration: 7'56"
16:53
Dry pub a first for NZ
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The country's first no-alcohol bar is due to open in Auckland.
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Duration: 3'57"
16:57
Siri the sarcastic
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Apple's virtual assistant Siri is there to help you. But just how clever do you want your i-phone devices responses to be?
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Duration: 2'06"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 2 July 2015
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Reports of multiple fatalities at a house in Ashburton; Johnsonville stabbing a 'family tragedy'; Neighbour's feared for their lives as dispute turned violent; Govt downplays impact of another drop in dairy prices; Hurricanes and Highlanders prepare for big final; Two women auction off dates to rugby final; Little point in owning car in future: Transport chief; Police on multiple fatalities at a house in Ashburton.
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17:08
Reports of multiple fatalities at a house in Ashburton
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There are reports of multiple fatalities at a house in Ashburton.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 18"
17:09
Johnsonville stabbing a 'family tragedy'
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A 25 year old woman is under guard in the Hutt Hospital tonight after a family stabbing in Johnsonville that's left one man dead and four people hurt.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 2'26"
17:12
Neighbour's feared for their lives as dispute turned violent
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West Auckland locals feared for their lives after a neighbourhood dispute in Ranui turned violent last night.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: West Auckland, Ranui
Duration: 2'52"
17:14
Govt downplays impact of another drop in dairy prices
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The Government has downplayed the impact of another drop in dairy prices, saying New Zealand's economy is well placed to weather the storm.
Topics: politics, farming, rural
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Duration: 2'41"
17:17
Hurricanes and Highlanders prepare for big final
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The Hurricanes and Highlanders are putting their final preparations together ahead of the Super Rugby final in Wellington on Saturday night.
Topics: sport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: hurricanes, Highlanders, super rugby
Duration: 3'10"
17:23
Two women auction off dates to rugby final
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'The perfect blind date' - that's how two women are advertising the Super 15 tickets they're selling in an online auction this evening.
Topics: sport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: super rugby, tickets
Duration: 2'45"
17:26
Little point in owning car in future: Transport chief
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Imagine no trucks on the motorway and no one owning a car.
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Duration: 3'26"
17:30
Police on multiple fatalities at a house in Ashburton
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Four people have been found dead at a house in Ashburton.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 4'29"
17:38
Today's market update
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Spark has hit out at the Commerce Commission's latest plans to raise the amount Chorus can charge for use of its copper lines.
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Duration: 2'06"
17:40
Lawyers say bring Nauru to heel
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The wife of a suspended Nauru MP who's had his passport seized by the Pacific Island government says his situation is becoming more desperate.
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Duration: 4'24"
17:45
Poster showing pull up on powerline replaced
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A poster showing a silhouette image of a person hanging from a power line has landed the New Zealand Alpine Club in trouble.
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Duration: 3'44"
17:48
Waikanae couple use app to catch bogeyman
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When Melissa Rodrigues' three year old son woke her up screaming about a man shining a light into his bedroom window, she thought he was having a nightmare.
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17:52
Report calls for better tertiary education auditing
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An independent report has called for tighter monitoring of tertiary institutions after government agencies missed two multi-million-dollar rorts.
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Duration: 2'30"
17:56
Māori tourism operators encouraged to market their products
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The organisation that promotes Māori tourism is warning operators they need to up their game to cope with the growing influx of overseas visitors.
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Duration: 3'29"
18:06
Sports News for 2 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'09"
18:12
One woman and three children are found dead
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Three children and a woman have been found dead inside a house in Tinwald, on the outskirts of Ashburton.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 2'58"
18:18
The "Auckland effect" of rising house prices
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The latest property figures suggest that the Auckland-effect, of rising property prices, is spreading.
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Duration: 4'27"
18:23
Next door neighbour of Ashburton house where 4 dead
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More now from Ashburton where three children and a woman have been found dead.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 2'03"
18:25
Wimbledon favourite Andy Murray back on court tonight
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Home crowd favourite, Andy Murray will play his second round singles match tonight as the Wimbledon tournament moves into its fourth day.
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Duration: 4'11"
18:34
Leota, Henry, Latu dropped from Silver Ferns
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The Silver Ferns have dropped three experienced players for the Netball World Cup in Sydney in August.
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Duration: 3'03"
18:38
A new plan for Christchurch
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The Prime Minister says a new organisation to lead the Christchurch rebuild will gradually hand back control to the city council over the next five years.
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Duration: 2'53"
18:42
Officials envisgaes the day when we won't own cars
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New Zealand's top transport official has been outlining where the future is taking us, and he sees a world in which we will no longer need to own a car.
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Duration: 4'18"
18:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 2 July 2015
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The organisation that promotes Māori tourism is warning operators they need to up their game to cope with the increasing influx of overseas visitors; The Māori Language Commission has appointed a new head to lead the organisation following the sudden death of its previous chair, Erima Henare; Waikato-Tainui has launched an education plan for the tribe that spans the next 30 years.
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Duration: 3'34"
18:49
Today In Parliament for 2 July 2015 - evening edition
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Steven Joyce and Grant Robertson go head to head on dairy prices; Tracey Martin and Ron Mark exercise their leadership skills; Simon Bridges runs into trouble with the Speaker.
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Duration: 5'01"
18:57
The latest from our reporter in Ashburton
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More now from Ashburton where three children and a woman have been found dead inside a house in Tinwald, on the outskirts of the town.
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Duration: 2'29"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including:
7:30 Arts with Nikki Bedi: Author Anthony Horowitz talks about his forthcoming new James Bond Thriller Trigger Mortis set for release this September. Star comic actress Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig talk about their box office smash film Spy. And the winner of the In The Dark Audio Award a big prize for the best storytelling in audio (BBCWS)
8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries
9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)
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Translating 'The Gangsters'
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After translating a small and seemingly innocuous work of literary fiction 'The Gangsters' by Lefkios Zafiriou from Greek into English, Hellenic Studies Prof. Stathis Gauntlett then encountered an incredible amount of conflict.
Topics: language, books
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Duration: 21'01"
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Poetry- Martians and Martian poetry
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VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop convener Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... Martians and Martian poetry.
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The school of Martian poetry is named for the title poem of Craig Raine’s second collection of poems, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home in which the speaker is a Martian describing the commonplace.
The school only really consisted of two poets, Raine (b. 1944) and Christopher Reid (b. 1949). Raine tutored Reid in Oxford, so it really was a school
Cliff Fell talks to Bryan Crump about the Martin poetry.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 20'15"
20:59
Conundrum - clue number 7
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Conundrum - clue number 7.
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21:59
Conundrum - clue number 8
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Conundrum - clue number 8.
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7:10 Translating 'The Gangsters'
After translating a small and seemingly innocuous work of literary fiction 'The Gangsters' by Lefkios Zafiriou from Greek into English, Hellenic Studies Prof. Stathis Gauntlett then encountered an incredible amount of conflict.
7:30 Arts with Nikki Bedi
Author Anthony Horowitz talks about his forthcoming new James Bond Thriller Trigger Mortis set for release this September. Star comic actress Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig talk about their box office smash film Spy. And the winner of the In The Dark Audio Award a big prize for the best storytelling in audio (BBCWS)
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Poetry
VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop convener Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... Martians and Martian poetry.
9:06 Our Changing World
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21:06
Life in the World's Oceans
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Marine scientists in New Zealand make a significant contribution to a global register of marine life.
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by Veronika Meduna Veronika.Meduna@radionz.co.nz
Some 51 per cent of all our marine species are found only in New Zealand. What that means is that we become custodians of that knowledge on behalf of the rest of the planet.
Dennis Gordon, NIWA
Every day, Wellington marine biologist Daniel Leduc comes past a small, popular swimming beach on his way to work. One morning, he decided to grab a handful of sand from the intertidal zone to see what lives in it – and discovered a species of nematode nobody had described before.
These tiny, worm-like creatures are ubiquitous. Some are parasitic and live inside animals, including us, and plants. Free-living species are found everywhere, with the biggest diversity in soils and marine sediments. A square metre of sand or soil is likely to be home to a million nematodes.
“They are quite diverse. You can take a handful of sediment from a beach and you might find a dozen species or so. If you go to the deep sea, the same handful of sediment will probably contain about a hundred species,"says Daniel Leduc.
The newly discovered nematode is one of many new species marine biologists at the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere have contributed to a global effort to combine all existing knowledge of sea life. The World Register of Marine Species, known as WoRMS, recently announced that it has almost completed logging all of the world’s known marine species that have been described throughout scientific history.
Since the initiative began in 2008, more than 1000 new-to-science marine fish species have been described globally – an average of more than 10 per month – including 122 new sharks and rays, 131 new members of the goby family, and a new barracuda found in the Mediterranean.
A NIWA-led inventory of New Zealand’s marine species counted close to 12,500 named marine species for WoRMS.
NIWA taxonomist Dennis Gordon says the rate of discovery is only limited by the amount of time people can put into studying biodiversity, and as far as marine life is concerned, there is still a lot to be found.
“A case in point is when in 2007 we had the world’s first marine BioBlitz, which was focusing on the Taputeranga Marine Reserve on Wellington’s south coast. We had at least 20 new species and half a dozen of those have since been described.”
These new species are not all tiny microscopic organisms.
As we get more and more into the deep sea, we’re finding heaps of new species - and we’re talking here about quite large organisms. We’re talking about sponges, large corals, including black corals. It’s hard to keep up with the rate of discovery.
Dennis Gordon says while naming and describing biological diversity is fundamental to ecological science, the next step is to protect unique ecosystems.
“This is particularly true for New Zealand, because we have a high degree of endemism, in other words, species that are found nowhere else in the world. And this is true even in the marine environment – some 51 per cent of all our marine species are found only in New Zealand. What that means is that we become custodians of that knowledge on behalf of the rest of the planet.”
Globally, in 2014 alone, some 1,451 new marine creatures were added to WoRMS, including 139 sponges and two dolphins (see image gallery above). But apart from adding new species, another task is to tidy up taxonomic redundancies. The champion in this category is Littorina saxatilis, a sea snail popularly known as the rough periwinkle, which has been described and named 113 times.
The most daunting challenge, however, is that researchers with the Census of Marine Life, within which WoRMS is a major component, estimate that up to two million marine species remain to be discovered and described.
“It is humbling to realise that humankind has encountered and described only a fraction of our oceanic kin, perhaps as little as 11 per cent," says WoRMS co-chair Jan Mees.
We fear many species will almost certainly disappear due to changing maritime conditions - especially warming, pollution and acidification - before we’ve had a chance to meet.
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Duration: 11'40"
21:20
From False Teeth to Forensics - the Story of Dental Technology
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Understanding physics and material engineering are as important as artistic skill in a technology that spans false teeth, prostheses and forensic investigations
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By Alison Ballance
"Dental technology is the technical side of dentistry. We’re sort of the backroom guys, the oral micro-engineers who design and make things for the dentists to use to treat patients."
Neil Waddell, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago
Dentures or false teeth, bridges, tooth caps, orthodontic devices such as removable braces, ‘glass’ eyes, and prosthetic noses and fingertips. If it can be made from polymers, metals and ceramics, and it needs to look and, at least in the case of the teeth, function like the real thing, then chances are a dental technologist will be able to make it.
Dental technology is mainly about creating appliances to improve patients’ appearance, speech or ability to chew. It is taught as a three-year degree at the University of Otago, and students must have a background in chemistry, biology and physics. After training they can register as a Registered Dental Technician.
Neil Waddell, from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Otago says that dental technologists need to have a good understanding of the forces and chemical make-up of the human mouth.
“The forces in the mouth are very strong, so the materials we use to make the teeth have to withstand very, very high forces. And the mouth is a very harsh environment. The saliva, the enzymes there, are very corrosive,” says Neil. “And then because we eat, we masticate, we clench and our jaws move it’s a fatigue – we cyclically load. Yet at the same time it’s got to look tooth-like in appearance.”
As a result dental technologists need to understand material engineering as well as having artistic abilities to be able to sculpt and paint things such as dentures in a very realistic way.
“Dental technology is very linked to the aerospace industry,” says Neil. “The dentistry industry looks at the aerospace industry and says ‘wow, we could use these technologies and materials and techniques’ but in a dental application.”
Neil Waddell and others from the Department of Oral Rehabilitation in the Faculty of Dentistry have worked with Crown Research Institute ESR to develop a skin-skull-brain model that was used in ballistic testing. PhD student Lisa Falland is currently working to further the use of the model to look at concussive head injuries.
“The question is how much energy would get transferred [to the brain] if you got hit on your head, and you can’t measure that on a real human,” says Lisa. “So I’ve developed this model that has a gelatin brain, a polymer resin skull, and skin made from silicon. Then there are sensors attached.”
The model has been tested so far with swords from the Japanese martial art of Kendo. “A couple of month ago you’d have seen a whole lot of students, using a Kendo sword, beating a skin-skull-brain model to measure the impacts. Once we know what the levels of energy transfer are we can then start to change as a variable the helmet design, thickness, etcetera in light of the forces going through to the brain.”
PhD student Joanne Choi has been developing a moulded device to measure intra-oral pH in the mouth over 24 hours. Acidic conditions in the mouth can lead to dental erosion of both real and artificial teeth, and is common amongst people who have dry mouths or suffer from gastric reflux.
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Duration: 12'55"
21:34
Liquid Water on Mars
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As NASA's Curiosity rover discovers liquid water on Mars, astrophysicist Duncan Steel discusses what that might mean for life on Mars.
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By Veronika Meduna
Space scientists have seen a lot of evidence for frozen water at the Martian poles, and water vapour in the planet's atmosphere, but in theory, Mars should be too cold to support liquid water.
Recently, however, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered deposits of salts, known as perchlorates, which significantly lower the freezing point of water. The findings suggest that liquid water could form below the Martian soil surface on cold winter nights, and evaporate again in the morning when temperatures start to rise again.
The discovery was made while the rover traversed Gale Crater, near the Mars equator, taking round-the-clock, year-round measurements. An international team led by Javier Martín-Torres from Luleå University of Technology then analysed data on atmospheric humidity and temperature from a full Martian year, finding that while it would be impossible to detect the brine directly, the conditions for its formation are right.
Astrophysicist Duncan Steel says water is a prerequisite for life as we know it but the discovery does not mean that life will be discovered on Mars. “We also find organic chemicals there, all but that that means is that the building blocks of life are there. Although it’s exciting to find liquid water on Mars, there really is no way of making an estimate at all as to whether there is any life elsewhere in the universe.”
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21:46
Losing Weight and Getting Healthy - the SWIFT Study
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The University of Otago SWIFT study is following 250 people for 2 years as they try popular diet and exercise programmes such as the Paleo diet, the 5:2 fasting diet, and high intensity exercise.
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By Alison Ballance
“This diet, if my wife had come up with it, I probably would have told her it is a stupid idea. But I read about it in the paper and it sounded like what I wanted to do.”
Geoff Keeling, South Canterbury dairy farmer
Geoff Keeling is on a diet and exercise programme – and in just a few weeks he’s already seeing the benefits. The Canterbury dairy farmer seems like an unlikely candidate for a diet, but this is no ordinary weight-loss programme. He’s taking part in the University of Otago’s SWIFT study, a 2-year project that hopes to identify popular and effective diet, exercise and support strategies that people can easily incorporate into their daily lives.
Geoff says his motivation for getting involved came from looking around and seeing other middle-aged, overweight and unfit men. He says his farming lifestyle is probably less energetic than most people would expect – he spends much of his time in meetings or in the office, and often drives a tractor around the farm. The SWIFT study has enlisted 250 participants, more than 30% of whom are male, which is a high proportion for this kind of study.
SWIFT stands for Support strategies for Whole-food diets, Intermittent fasting and Training, and PhD student and medical doctor Melyssa Roy is adamant that weight-loss is just a small part of the study. The focus of the study, she says, is to support people who want to make healthy life-style changes, by looking to see whether “these alternatives that are popular in popular culture are feasible alternatives from a public health point of view.”
Michelle Jospe, another PhD student working on the project, says “you can lose weight following many different diets, but it’s a matter of finding one that works for you. And then we’re interested in seeing how places like a GP practise can help a patient follow the diet and exercise plans that they want to follow.”
The 250 study participants can choose between three diet options and two exercise options, and then they are randomly assigned to one of five support strategies. The three diets are popular diets that haven’t all been well-researched: the well-known Mediterranean diet of whole foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, and low meat; the palaeo diet, which is similar except there is no limit to the amount of meat that can be eaten, and no processed food; and the intermittent fasting or 5:2 diet, in which people eat normally for five days, and then eat no more than 500 calories for women or 600 calories for men on the remaining two days.
The choice of exercise programme was either moderate intensity exercise, which is the current standard recommendation of 30 minutes a day, or high intensity exercise, which is a very sharp intense exercise bout for 5-10 minutes two to three times a week. This has grown in popularity recently as it doesn’t involve much time.
Geoff has chosen to follow the 5:2 diet, as it fits in well with his busy, energetic family without impacting their diet. He chose to follow a moderate intensity exercise programme, as again it works in well with his family – his children swim a lot, so he can either swim with them or take a walk, and he is also trying to make himself walk rather than use the quad bike around the farm.
The third key component of the study is the support strategy that people are randomly assigned to. The control group is current GP care, in which people are briefed at the beginning and then left to their own devices; a more traditional support strategy that involves coming in occasionally for weighing and a chat about successes or failures; daily weighing and reporting-in, with feedback in the form of a monthly email; use of the popular mobile app My Fitness Pal, which you use to log your eating and exercise; and hunger training – during the first four weeks of the programme people gain awareness of when and why they want to eat, by monitoring blood glucose levels to determine if they actually need to eat.
Geoff was assigned to the hunger training support group, and credits this with losing 7 kilograms in weight during the first 5 weeks of the study.
“I was effectively training myself to only eat when absolutely required, which meant that there are no snacks between mealtimes, my meals are generally smaller, and with two kids that loved monitoring what my blood glucose was, watching what I eat and sniping at me [it had] huge effects, straight-away.”
The intensive hunger training system really opened Geoff’s eyes.
“It illustrated that we eat a lot of food needlessly. I got to the stage after a couple of days I knew my blood glucose wouldn’t be in the right level so even though I felt like I wanted to eat I just didn’t even bother.”
The SWIFT study runs for two years, and results won’t be available until after June 2017.
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21:55
Commuting Secrets of Antarctic Orca
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New Zealand and Italian researchers have confirmed that Type C killer whales from Antarctica travel to and from northern New Zealand
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New Zealand and Italian researchers have finally confirmed what scientists have suspected for nearly 20 years - that some of the orca seen around the coast of Northland are in fact orca from Antarctica.
The clincher is photos of the same female orca, taken in both Northland and Antarctica.
Dr Ingrid Visser, from the Orca Research Trust, has studied orca for more than 20 years. She knows most of the 200 or so animals that make up the small New Zealand population by sight.
But, every so often, she sees smaller orca with yellowish white patches and distinctive slanted eye patches - which she suspected were a kind of Antarctic orca.
Dr Visser has been collaborating with Dr Regina Eisert from Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury over the photo identification of orca in New Zealand and Antarctica.
Ekaterina Ovsyanikova, a student supervised by the pair, recently struck gold, finding that the same individual female "Type C" orca had been photographed repeatedly in New Zealand and in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
“This suggested that the killer whale had been commuting between Scott Base and Northland,” Dr Eisert said.
For the past two summers, Dr Eisert has been researching orca and their diet in the McMurdo Sound area of the Ross Sea as part of the Top Predator Alliance (TPA) project.
At the same time, Italian researchers Dr Giancarlo Lauriano, from the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, and Dr Simone Panigada from the Tethys Research Institute, have been studying Type C Antarctic orca in Terra Nova Bay, 360 kilometres north of New Zealand’s Scott Base.
They deployed satellite transmitters on orca to determine where they travelled to, and these have revealed that Type C Antarctic orca are travelling to northern New Zealand, and as far as north as the Kermadec Islands, a journey of nearly 5000 kilometres.
The satellite tags only work for a month, and most of the data collected shows the whales moving north, so it's not yet known how frequently the orca make the return journey.
Orca in Antarctica: Type A to Type C
There are three types of orca recognised in Antarctica. Type A are found in open water around the Antarctic Peninsula and migrate there in summer from further north to prey on Antarctic minke whales. Type B live in loose pack ice and prey mainly on seals. Type C are the smallest and least well-known type, and they forage deep into the pack ice, hunting fish such as Antarctic toothfish in open-water leads amongst the ice.
These are the orca that are being studied in the Ross Sea.
“If Antarctic killer whales roam all the way from Scott Base to the North Island of New Zealand, rather than stay in a relatively confined area as some scientists believe, it crucially changes our understanding of the ecology of these key top predators and the potential threats they may face,” Dr Eisert said.
She said that the the whales’ long commute "would also suggest that there is much greater ecological connectivity between Antarctica and New Zealand than previously thought".
The TPA, of which this work forms a part, is a joint multi-year research programme between Gateway Antarctica, NIWA, Landcare Research and Lincoln University. It is looking at top predators in the Ross Sea ecosystem, including Weddell seals, Adelie penguins and Antarctic toothfish, as well as orca.
“We wanted to determine whether a decline in the Antarctic toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea poses a risk to Type-C killer whales, including finding out how many there are in the Ross Sea and where they feed,” Dr Eisert said.
She said that, although scientists had suspected that Type C orca eat Antarctic toothfish, as well as smaller fish such as silverfish, it was during the 2013/14 summer that the research team finally got photographic evidence of an orca with a toothfish in its mouth.
While some researchers had reported declines in the number of toothfish caught in McMurdo Sound, the TPA has been finding evidence of good numbers of toothfish coming into the sound.
The Antarctic Type C orca have learnt to use the open water provided in the shipping channel created by an icebreaker each summer in McMurdo Sound.
“Killer whales are very smart,” Dr Eisert said. “You have to remember they are about the same size as an elephant and they have a kilogram more [of] brain. They wait for the ship to come in and then they follow the channel right down to [McMurdo] Station.”
Mapping families
The TPA project has also been collecting photos of as many Antarctic orca as possible to add to Dr Visser’s existing photo identification catalogue for New Zealand orca.
Photo identification is one of the main non-invasive research tools used to study orca, as well as other whales, dolphins and sharks. Subtle differences in colouration patterns, nicks on the dorsal fin, and scars on the whale’s body uniquely identify each whale, allowing individual killer whales to be recognised wherever they go.
Compilation of whale images into a catalogue allows scientists to follow individuals in time and space, and even estimate the total size of a population.
Dr Eisert is currently working with Antarctica NZ to investigate the possibility of hosting the orca photo identification catalogue on Antarctica NZ’s new digital asset management platform.
Small tissue samples, collected using a biopsy dart fired from a special gun, will allow the researchers to analyse diet, and confirm how important Antarctic toothfish are as food.
The findings are being presented this week at a meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
They are the result of international collaborations between Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury, Italian researchers from the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research and the Tethys Research Institute, the Orca Research Trust and Heritage Expeditions - a Christchurch-based adventure travel company.
Many citizen scientists in Antarctica and New Zealand contributed their killer whale photos and sightings.
In New Zealand, Antarctic killer whale research is supported by the Ministry of Primary Industries, Antarctica New Zealand, the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute and Canon New Zealand Ltd.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: Antarctica, orca, killer whales, toothfish, migration, satellite tagging
Duration: 9'57"
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Old Antarcticans Malcolm Laird and Peter Otway
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Geologist Malcolm Laird and surveyor Peter Otway reminisce during the 2014 IceFest about their early visits to Antarctica in the 1960s
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By Alison Ballance
Antarctic geologist and one-time sled dog handler Malcolm Laird died recently. The retired University of Canterbury sedimentologist made more than a dozen trips to Antarctica during his lifetime, beginning in 1960 as a dog handler, and more recently as part of the Cape Roberts Drilling Programme. He also visited a number of times as a lecturer on board cruise ships. In 1978 he was awarded the Polar Medal for his services to Antarctic research. Laird Plateau and Cape Laird in Antarctica are named after him.
At the 2014 IceFest, held in Christchurch, Malcolm Laird shared the stage with retired surveyor Peter Otway, another frequent Antarctic visitor, in a session entitled Old School Antarctic Explorers. The session was chaired by Alison Ballance, and the pair showed slides and talked about the challenges and excitement of working in remote locations, using sleds and sled dogs to travel.
Topics: Antarctica, science, environment
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Tags: sled dogs, huskies, polar exploration, geology, surveying, Antarctica
Duration: 56'17"
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