A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
13 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Country Life (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 The Dream of Nikau Jam by Peter Hawes (2 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Wednesday 13 April 2016
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The Building Minister Nick Smith tells officials to look at compulsory third party testing of all critical building materials. Paeroa schools refuse to accept an extremely violent nine-year-old boy who was suspended last year and Helen Clark's rivals for the top UN position begin their pitch for the job.
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Duration: 29'43"
06:06
Sports News for 13 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'58"
06:10
More arrests in Brussels over Paris attacks
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Three people have been detained after a house search in southern Brussels.
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Tags: Belgian
Duration: 3'33"
06:13
Greens say Govt should go further than mandatory reporting
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The Green Party says extending mandatory reporting to all school staff is a good start - but warns it may not be enough to protect children from sex offenders.
Topics: education
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Tags: mandatory reporting
Duration: 2'44"
06:19
Early Business News for 13 April 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'14"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 13 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'22"
06:39
Paeroa schools refuse to enrol violent boy
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A school in Paeroa is refusing to let a violent child return to class, the second time in three years one of the north-Waikato town's schools has taken such action.
Topics: education
Regions: Waikato
Tags: violent child
Duration: 2'41"
06:42
Prosecutors in Lebanon have filed charges against TV crew
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Prosecutors in Lebanon have filed charges against an Australian TV crew held over an attempt to abduct two children in a custody dispute.
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Tags: Lebanon
Duration: 3'25"
06:51
Orion Healthcare signs more contracts
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Listed medical software developer Orion Healthcare is hinting that it may start reporting profits after years of ploughing its revenue into product and amrket development.
Topics: business
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Tags: Orion Healthcare
Duration: 2'10"
06:53
Analysts predict big changes to the electricity industry
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Analysts are predicting big changes to the electricity industry will be announced next month.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Electricity Authority
Duration: 1'45"
06:55
Opus upbeat about its new growth strategy
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The engineering and infrastructure consultancy firm, Opus International, is changing tack and focusing on sector-based growth, instead of country-based.
Topics: business
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Tags: Opus International
Duration: 1'24"
06:56
Housing market is strong - Westpac
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An economist says a revitalised housing market is due to a passing effect of Reserve Bank restrictions, low interest rates and constant employment levels.
Topics: business, housing
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Tags: house prices
Duration: 1'26"
06:58
Morning markets for 13 April 2016
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American stocks are strongly higher, talk of a deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze oil production has lifted prices.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'06"
06:59
Business briefs
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Hot on the heels of New Zealand, Australia has unveiled its new 5 dollar note and it is causing a bit of a stir.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 19"
07:07
Sports News for 13 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'16"
07:10
Govt to consider mandatory tests on all key building products
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The Government is looking at introducing mandatory third-party testing of all critical building products after revelations seismic steel mesh failed to meet standards.
Topics: housing
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Tags: seismic steel mesh
Duration: 4'12"
07:14
Paeroa schools refuse to enrol violent boy
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Schools in the north-Waikato town of Paeroa are again refusing to enrol a child because of extremely violent behaviour.
Topics: education
Regions: Waikato
Tags: violent child
Duration: 3'16"
07:18
UN Sec-Gen hopefuls face a public grilling
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Helen Clark's rivals for the United Nations Secretary-General role have begun their first public pitches for the job.
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Tags: UN
Duration: 3'21"
07:22
Key left to explain as Panama Papers continue to reverberate
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The Panama Papers revelations that in the past week have claimed the political scalp of Iceland's prime minister and forced embarrassing confessions by other world leaders, left John Key with some explaining to do yesterday.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Panama Papers
Duration: 3'42"
07:25
Cost of Hawke's Bay dam project soars to nearly $1 billion
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The cost of the controversial Ruataniwha water storage project in Hawke's Bay has jumped fifty percent and is approaching the one billion dollar mark.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha Dam
Duration: 4'17"
07:34
Maori weavers aghast at Defence Force's new 'cloak'
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Traditional Maori weavers are questioning the authenticity of the Defence Force's new feather cloak.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: new feather cloak
Duration: 3'00"
07:37
Changes put New Zealanders first in line for jobs
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Employers will now have to make low-skilled jobs available to New Zealanders before hiring migrants to fill vacancies.
Topics: business
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Tags: hiring migrants
Duration: 3'19"
07:46
Experts say govt needs to build more houses in Auckland
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The Government is being urged to do more to boost housing supply as Auckland prices hit another high, after a short-lived lull in the market.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: house prices
Duration: 3'56"
07:51
Waitara one step closer to freeholding land
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Taranaki has turned a new page in the history of one of New Zealand's most bitter and long-running land disputes.
Topics: housing
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: land disputes
Duration: 3'33"
07:54
Zika outbreak linked back to Pacific Islands
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The outbreak of the Zika virus in South America has been linked back to the Pacific Islands.
Topics: health
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Tags: zika virus
Duration: 3'00"
07:57
Fraud allegations following PNG prime minister
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Papua New Guinea's anti-fraud and corruption unit says it's a step closer to arresting the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill over a major fraud case.
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Tags: Papua New Guinea
Duration: 2'37"
08:07
Sports News for 13 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'04"
08:10
Govt to consider mandatory tests on all key building pr
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The Government is considering making third party testing of all critical building materials compulsory.
Topics: housing
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Tags: seismic steel mesh
Duration: 4'57"
08:15
Schools dealing with more violent children- Principals' Fed.
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The Principals' Federation says schools are having to deal with more violent and difficult children than ever before, and many are struggling to cope.
Topics: education
Regions: Waikato
Tags: violent child
Duration: 4'06"
08:20
Opposition: Prime Minister's foreign trusts links a bad look
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The leaders of the Labour and Green parties say the Prime Minister's links to a company that sets up foreign trusts in New Zealand are a bad look.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Foreign trusts
Duration: 3'33"
08:23
Ruataniwha dam project cost reache almost $1 billion
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A Hawke's Bay regional councillor and horticulture industry expert says the Ruataniwha water storage project is becoming both an environmental and economic nightmare.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha Dam
Duration: 4'16"
08:27
Fluoridating water supplies - law change
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The responsibility for fluoridating water supplies may be shifted from councils to district health boards.
Topics: health
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Tags: fluoride
Duration: 3'27"
08:31
Markets Update for 13 April 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'03"
08:37
Support for govt plan to hire New Zealanders ahead of migrants
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The change requiring employers to hire New Zealanders ahead of migrants for low-skilled jobs is gaining praise from the business community.
Topics: business
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Tags: hiring migrants
Duration: 6'17"
08:43
Number of over-stayers almost halved in last decade
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The sister of a Tongan over-stayer who's been in New Zealand since he was a child says Immigration should show compassion in cases like her brother's.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: over-stayers
Duration: 3'59"
08:48
West Coast campground could be eroded to closure
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A desperate West Coast campground manager is warning the local economy will suffer if the council doesn't build a sea wall to stop the campground eroding away.
Topics: environment
Regions: West Coast
Tags: sea wall
Duration: 3'32"
08:54
Proposal to move 80 rhino from Africa to Australia
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A New Zealand wildlife expert is calling an Australian plan to relocate 80 rhino from Africa a bandaid for a bullet wound.
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Tags: Australia, rhino
Duration: 3'55"
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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: Where The Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti A spirit who exists in the 'no place' watches over his descendants living at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries (8 of 15, RNZ)
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09:08
Ruataniwha budget blow out
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A new report by the company developing the dam for the Hawkes Bay Regional Council, shows the total cost has risen by 50 percent to nearly over 9-hundred million dollars, and farmers will have pay much more to use the water. Peter Beavan is a Hawkes Bay Regional Councillor and the former Chief Executive of Pipfruit New Zealand.
Topics: environment, business, farming
Regions: Hawkes Bay
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Duration: 9'09"
09:17
Dairy farmer to legal cannabis dealer
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Former Waikato dairy farmer John Lord is at the helm of the Colorado cannabis dispensary chain LivWell which employs 500 people. LivWell is a medicinal and recreational marijuana business. Its success makes John Lord one of the largest legal drug dealers in the US .The firm is seen as a pioneer in the development of the legalised marijuana industry in the state of Colorado. Livwell not only has stores selling cannabis products, but also employs scientists, inventors, and farmers. The cannabis is cultivated at a secret and highly secure location in Denver.
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A former Waikato dairy farmer has become one of the largest legal drug dealers in the United States.
John Lord helms Colorado cannabis dispensary chain LivWell, a medicinal and recreational marijuana business which is seen as a pioneer in the development of the legalised marijuana industry in the Untied States.
As well as owning stores that sell cannabis products, the company employs 500 people, including scientists, inventors, and farmers.
Drug reform has been in the news in New Zealand recently after Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne said he was open to reviewing evidence around the decriminalisation of cannabis following calls to allow the use of marijuana on medical grounds.
Mr Lord told Nine to Noon he got involved with the Colorado cannabis industry in 2009 after becoming disillusioned with dairy farming in New Zealand.
"I found that (farming) extremely frustrating. I think it was one of the few business in the world where you never ... market anything yourself.
"You had no idea what you were really earning until a year after you've earned it - it was very hard to run a business in that way.
He moved into manufacturing and importing child-safety seats, and then began exporting them overseas, including to Walmart and Kmart in the US.
After tiring of the commute between New Zealand and the US he decided to move to Denver, Colorado, and in 1998 he purchased a company, which he sold 10 years later.
"I really got bored with retirement after a few months and was going to probably make trouble for myself in some form or another. This seemed to have all of that adventure, it was something very new - new business is such a rare thing today."
A background in child-safety seats meant he was used to a high level of government regulation, so when he entered the cannabis industry, as it moved towards legalisation, he was able to make the shift smoothly.
"I think I found the transition of bringing this new industry into the light a little bit easier than perhaps someone who had been growing out the back."
The industry is highly regulated in Colorado, and based on rules around the sale of alcohol. It is overseen by the Marijuana Enforcement Division, a branch of the Department of Revenue.
Mr Lord said black marketeers' product had to pass through a long supply chain to get to their customers. However, LivWell was vertically integrated - it grew and dispensed its own product, which meant it could undercut the black market price.
"Those that were dealing in the black market here moved their attention to other states. That will be an interesting sort of a situation for New Zealand being an island in the South Pacific - where do they go?"
Topics: life and society
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Tags: John Lord, Livwell, cannabis, legal cannabis, Colorado
Duration: 28'18"
09:48
Australia Correspondent Karen Middleton
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The Labor Party is seizing on a combination of allegations of dodgy practices within Australia's banks and the international fallout over the Panama Papers to call for a royal commission.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 10'42"
10:07
The surgeon treating street crime
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Broken noses , knife wounds, broken jaws, and smashed teeth... Treating injuries like these prompted Welsh surgeon Jonathan Shepherd to take action. He came up with the idea of using anonymous intelligence from A&E departments for violence prevention - known as 'The Cardiff Model'.
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Dislocated jaws, knife wounds, broken noses ... Treating injuries like these prompted Welsh surgeon Jonathan Shepherd to take action.
He came up with the idea of using anonymous intelligence from A&E departments for violence prevention. This innovation – known as 'The Cardiff Model' – has been adopted by governments around the world and by the WHO. Now it is about to be rolled out in Australia.
Read an edited snapshot of their conversation below:
In your work as a surgeon, how much of what you were seeing was violence-related? How much of the work you were doing was patching up someone who'd been a victim of violence?
In Cardiff, in Wales, where I work, we used to see around 4,000, 5,000 people injured in violence in our emergency department every year. Now, that probably represents about half of all the trauma, all of the facial and jaw and dental trauma that we'd see in a year. So it's a substantial amount and a substantial proprortion of the work that we do.
Did you simply get tired of it, tired of being the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff doing the patching up?
Well, I thought, like other things in health care, that prevention has got to be just as important as cure. And we actually discovered that a large amount, a large number of people injured in violence who were treated in our emergency department, in my own surgical service, actually weren't known to the police at all. And that was mainly because the injured people, injured persons, hadn't reported the offence for various reasons. So I thought, well, given that knowledge, there's the potential for collecting up unique information, unique intelligence – to put it in police language – which would be really useful for prevention. Finding out which pub, which club, which street, which school people got injured in, for example.
Had you already seen particular patterns, whether it was times or places, that you instinctively knew would be of use?
Yeah. Well, it all started actually when i was doing my surgical training in Leeds in the north of england, where amongst other comments people would make would be 'Well, we always see more busted jaws and cheekbones from the Waggon & Horses pub on the Wakefield Road, whereas the numbers of people injured in other pubs were really small or we weren't getting any patients from there at all. So that kind of whetted my interest in trying to tackle these troublesome licensed premises.
How did you go about doing this?
To start with, I called a meeting in Cardiff and invited police and city government officials and people from A&E around the table to basically pull information about where violence was happening, what weapons were being used, times and days. And then to start tackling violence based on that much fuller informaiton than you just get from what we knew then to be incomplete police records. And then the work slowly grew, and supported by a big government grant we appointed a team which we called the Tackling Alcohol-related Street Crime team. And the work has realy developed since then. It's gone on to tackle domestic violence and violence in which children are injured. And we find that introducing 'health' – this medical, surgical influence and knowledge – into the whole business of preventing violence actually seemed to galvanise police and local government officials to join in and do a rather better job than they were doing previously.
Topics: health, law, crime
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Tags: violence
Duration: 25'21"
10:36
Book Review - Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
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'Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul' by Deborah Rodriguez. Reviewed by Phil Vine and published by Penguin Random House.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'04"
11:08
Marty Duda's features Iggy Pop
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Known by some as "The Godfather Of Punk", Iggy Pop is wrapping up his 50-year career that spans his work with The Stooges, David Bowie and his own solo work. His last album (at least that's what he claims) is Post Pop Depression, Pop's collaboration with Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age. Iggy's solo career has been a patchy one, starting with the one-two punch of The Idiot and Lust For Life and then wandering all over the musical landscape for the following 40 years, eventually culminating in a Stooges reunion and now, this final album, being hailed as his finest since 1977's Lust For Life.
Topics: music
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Tags: Marty Duda, Iggy Pop, music
Duration: 21'25"
11:30
How do we raise incomes in New Zealand?
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Dieter Adam, the CEO of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters details the most important drivers of wealth creation
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High-value, high-tech, high-productivity... That mantra is now decades old, so how are we doing?
Is New Zealand stil too dependant on the ups and downs of commodities? And what happened to the transformation of the economy that was supposed to make the country and all of us richer?
Dieter Adam, the CEO of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters, says that if we want to grow how much we export and particularly its value, we must improve on what we export. Last year, for the first time, the total number of small businesses – those with fewer than 20 employees – topped half a million and the number of people working for them passed 2 million. Dieter says it is maximising potential in these companies in particular that is the key to getting this right.
Topics: economy
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Tags: export
Duration: 16'45"
11:48
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
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This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains why scientists are looking for the hidden superheroes amongst us, and talks about flesh-eating bacteria in Sydney Harbour, sabre-toothed crocodiles and PenguinWatch2.0.
Topics: science
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Duration: 11'42"
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09:05 Ruataniwha budget blow out
A new report by the company developing the dam for the Hawkes Bay Regional Council, shows the total cost has risen by 50 percent to nearly over 9-hundred million dollars, and farmers will have pay much more to use the water.
Peter Beavan is a Hawkes Bay Regional Councillor and the former Chief Executive of Pipfruit New Zealand.
09:25 John Lord, legal cannabis dealer
Former Waikato dairy farmer John Lord is at the helm of the Colorado cannabis dispensary chain LivWell which employs 500 people. LivWell is a medicinal and recreational marijuana business. Its success makes John Lord one of the largest legal cannabis dealers in the US .The firm is seen as a pioneer in the development of the legalised marijuana industry in the state of Colorado. Livwell not only has stores selling cannabis products, but also employs scientists, inventors, and farmers. The cannabis is cultivated at a secret and highly secure location in Denver.
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09:45 Australia Correspondent Karen Middleton
The Labor Party is seizing on a combination of allegations of dodgy practices within Australia's banks and the international fallout over the Panama Papers to call for a royal commission.
10:05 The surgeon treating street crime
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Broken noses , knife wounds, broken jaws, and smashed teeth. It was treating injuries like these that prompted, Welsh surgeon Jonathan Shepherd to take action. He came up with the idea of using anonymous intelligence from A & E departments for violence prevention. Known as 'The Cardiff Model' his innovation has been adopted by governments around the world and by the WHO. In 2008, his model was awarded the Stockholm Prize for Criminology. Now it is about to be rolled out in Australia.
Jonathan Shepherd is a Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of the Violence Research Group at Cardiff University.
10:35 Book Review
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez - Reviewed by Phil Vine
10:45 The Reading
11:05 Marty Duda's features Iggy Pop
Known by some as "The Godfather Of Punk", Iggy Pop is wrapping up his 50-year career that spans his work with The Stooges, David Bowie and his own solo work. His last album (at least that's what he claims) is Post Pop Depression, Pop's collaboration with Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age. Iggy's solo career has been a patchy one, starting with the one-two punch of The Idiot and Lust For Life and then wandering all over the musical landscape for the following 40 years, eventually culminating in a Stooges reunion and now, this final album, being hailed as his finest since 1977's Lust For Life.
11:20 How do you raise incomes ?
Dieter Adam, the CEO of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters details the most important drivers of wealth creation
11:45 Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains why scientists are looking for the hidden superheroes amongst us, and talks about flesh-eating bacteria in Sydney Harbour, sabre-toothed crocodiles and PenguinWatch2.0.
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Artist: Calexico
Song: Not Even Stevie Nicks
Time: 0944
Artist: Sharon Jones
Song: 100 days/ 100 nights
Time: 10:30
Artist: Ladi 6
Song: Ikarus
Time: 10:42
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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 13 April 2016
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Grave doubts are cast on Hawkes Bay's controversial dam scheme, a major police drug operation culminates in 41 arrests.
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Duration: 14'26"
12:17
Meridian Energy is reviving plans for new windfarms
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Meridian Energy is reviving plans for new windfarms, even though construction is still several years away.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Meridian Energy, windfarms
Duration: 1'19"
12:19
Infratil says it won't go chasing returns
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Utilities investor, Infratil, says it's expecting little change to its underlying earnings over the next couple of years.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Infratil
Duration: 1'12"
12:20
Michael Hill International to switch to Australian exchange
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Michael Hill International has confirmed it will push on with moving its primary stock exchange listing to Australia.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Michael Hill International
Duration: 1'01"
12:21
Family members more confident to take over businesses
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Younger family members appear to be more confident about taking over the family business but there are still hurdles.
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Duration: 1'27"
12:22
FMA has limited powers to help some claimants
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The Financial Markets Authority says it has received more than two thousand complaints of financial and business scams since July 2014.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Financial Markets Authority, FMA
Duration: 57"
12:23
Diligent shareholders approve takeover
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Shareholders in software company Diligent have approved the takeover offer of U.S. company Insight Venture Capital.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Diligent
Duration: 29"
12:24
Midday Markets for 13 April 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'40"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 13 April 2016
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Wanaka freeskier Finn Bilous has capped a successful season on the international stage, the Hurricanes will trial a new look midfield in their Super Rugby clash with the Rebels in Melbourne on Friday night.
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Duration: 2'30"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 13 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'42"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:12
STIs and monogamy
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Enjoying a long and happy marriage? Well you can thank sexually transmitted infections for that. A new study out of Canada suggests monogamous societies may have evolved to combat the spread of STIs.
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Enjoying a long and happy marriage? Well, you can thank sexually transmitted infections for that.
A new study out of Canada suggests monogamous societies may have evolved to combat the spread of STIs. Researchers at Waterloo University used computer models to simulate the spread of diseases in different kinds of ancient societies. They found that in small groups of hunter-gatherers, the hazard of STIs is manageable, even when people are sleeping around. But when people started living in bigger agricultural settlements, polygamy STIs quickly became endemic in the population. One of the lead authors in the study is Chris Bauch, professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo
Topics: health, science, history, life and society
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Tags: STI, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Duration: 9'24"
13:25
Photosynthesis: Prof Robert Furbank
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Australian scientists are hoping to supercharge the growth of crops like wheat and rice by harnessing the power of a special kind of photosynthesis.
Topics: science, food, farming
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Tags: photosynthesis
Duration: 9'53"
13:40
Nga Taonga/Sound Archives - Sarah Johnston
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It's undoubtedly the most famous shipping disaster of them all, and inspired one of the biggest movies of all time, 104 years ago this Friday, the White Star liner 'Titanic' sank on her maiden voyage from England to New York in April 1912.
Topics: history
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Tags: Titanic
Duration: 10'20"
13:45
Favourite Album - Soulmining
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Soulmining - The The.
Topics: music
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Duration: 12'31"
14:20
Bookmarks - Andre Lovatt
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On Bookmarks today, the newly appointed Chairman of "Regenerate Christchurch", the agency set up by central and local government co-ordinate the city's post-quake recovery. Andre Lovatt has a background in leading large scale engineering projects and returned to the city of his birth from Singapore because he wanted to be part of the rebuild.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Regenerate Christchurch, Christchurch Rebuild, Christchurch, Canterbury earthquakes
Duration: 40'18"
15:10
Geoffonomics - Geoff Simmons
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Economist Geoff Simmons addresses the question of who owns our water.
Topics: economy, business, politics, law
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Duration: 14'08"
15:20
The Wireless
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The Wireless reporter Rebecca Kamm has been writing about the entrepreneur teaching Auckland guys how to be men.
Topics: media
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Tags: gender
Duration: 4'40"
15:25
History - Grant Morris
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Grant Morris discusses the history of influenza in New Zealand.
Topics: health, history
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Tags: influenza, flu
Duration: 8'53"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 13 April 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'36"
21:06
Good for your joints - a smart device to improve how you walk
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Smart socks and an ankle bracelet that uses small vibration motors might help us to retrain how we walk and stave off joint surgery
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“We’re interested in seeing if we can change the way people walk.”
Thor Besier, University of Auckland and MedTech Centre of Research Excellence
Sore knees are one of the curses of middle-age. But University of Auckland bioengineer Thor Besier says that the simple act of changing how we walk might be enough to stave off the need for knee surgery for many years.
As we age the cartilage in our knees can become damaged due to osteoarthritis, or from excess mechanical loading due to being overweight, for example. Thor’s research has shown that it is possible to change the mechanical loading by altering the way we walk.
Thor works in the Bioengineering Institute and Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland, but earlier research carried out at Stanford University involved providing visual feedback to people as they walked on a treadmill in an exercise clinic. He says they used computational models to identify simple adjustments such as adding some trunk sway (“walking like a penguin”), or turning toes either in or out.
“The effect we can make with these minor adjustments can be as dramatic as having a surgery where you cut away a piece of bone … and realign the joint,” says Tor.
Although this worked very well, it relied on expensive equipment and could not be simply translated into a tool that people could use at home.
Good vibrations
Thor then began investigating haptics, or tactile feedback, and developing wearable sensors.
“One of the most simple ways of providing tactile feedback is through vibrating motors, the little pager motors that you have in your cell phone.”
Thor wondered if these vibrating motors could be strategically placed on the body to provide instant feedback, and has been investigating this question with funding from a Marsden Grant.
“We’ve been investigating where we should put the motors, what type of arrangement of these motors could we use to inform or trick us into thinking we should move in a certain manner.”
PhD student Daniel Chen says he began by “looking at the different ways a human can sense touch.”
He says that by placing two vibration motors, one on each side of the foot, it was possible to make people turn left or right. However, it wasn’t possible to give more complicated feedback without people getting confused.
Next, he investigated skin stretch. Although this was an effective way of making people turn left or right, it was difficult to turn into a portable device.
So, he went back to the idea of using vibration motors to create an illusion of touch.
“The device I have right now is an array of four vibration motors around the ankle, but instead of providing on-off vibration feedback you can give people stroking patterns.”
Daniel has spent the last year working out the optimal placement of vibration motors and the best phasing to give people the sensation of being stroked to the left or the right.
The effect is so intuitive that people don’t need any training. Daniel reports that people respond to it immediately with more than 90 per cent accuracy.
“That’s the good thing about this technology – people can pick it up straight away.”
He now has a prototype device, controlled by his mobile phone, which can both measure the acceleration and force of someone’s stride, and also provide directional feedback.
Smart socks
Intern Markus Haller has been working on a sister project, ‘smart socks’ that can either work on their own or be integrated with the stroking ankle bracelet.
Using soft stretchy sensors developed by StretchSense, he has built a sock that can be worn under the ankle bracelet which senses how the foot is moving.
He has had to work out how many sensors to embed in the sock and also how to integrate the sock with the ankle bracelet, but he is happy with the result.
“You can barely feel that there is anything other than a regular sock,” says Markus.
The future of wearable technology
“Wearable technology is becoming a bit of a buzz,” says Thor, “and everyone is realising that for this technology to take off it almost needs to be ubiquitous and built into the clothing.”
Thor says they are already coming up with new ideas about ways to use the stroking bracelet. After Daniel directed Markus on a complicated walk using just left and right commands from the ankle bracelet, they began to wonder if it could be used to help the visually impaired navigate.
“This is one of the great things about doing basic research, you never know where it’s going to go,” says Thor.
The next step with the haptic device is to trial it on real patients outside the clinic. A small number of clinical trials to date have shown that people can reduce the load on their joints within three weeks and reduce pain within six weeks, and Thor says it now needs to be trialled in the real world.
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Duration: 14'18"
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1:10 First Song
I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley.
1:15 Photosynthesis - Robert Furbank
Australian scientists are hoping to supercharge the growth of crops like wheat and rice by harnessing the power of a special kind of photosynthesis.Professor Robert Furbank is the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis
1:25 Did STIs cause monogamy? - Chris Bauch
Enjoying a long and happy marriage? Well you can thank sexually transmitted infections for that. A new study out of Canada suggests monogamous societies may have evolved to combat the spread of STIs. One of the study's lead authors is Chris Bauch - a professor of applied mathematics at Waterloo University.
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1:35 Sound Archive - Sounds of the Titanic
It’s undoubtedly the most famous shipping disaster of them all, and inspired one of the biggest movies of all time. 104 years ago this Friday, the White Star liner ‘Titanic' sank on her maiden voyage from England to New York in April 1912. Sarah Johnston from the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision plays us some excerpts from a sound recording James Cameron's researchers undoubtedly used while making his blockbuster film about the disaster.
1:45 Favourite Album
Soulmining - The The.
2:20 Bookmarks - Andre Lovatt
On Bookmarks today, the newly appointed Chairman of "Regenerate Christchurch", the agency set up by central and local government co-ordinate the city's post-quake recovery. Andre Lovatt has a background in leading large scale engineering projects and returned to the city of his birth from Singapore because he wanted to be part of the rebuild.
3:10 Geoffonomics - Geoff Simmons
Economist Geoff Simmons addresses the question of who owns our water.
3:20 The Wireless
The Wireless reporter Rebecca Kamm has been writing about the entrepreneur teaching Auckland guys how to be men.
3:25 History - Grant Morris
Grant Morris discusses the history of influenza in New Zealand.
3:35 Our Changing World
In an effort to lessen damage to aging knees and stave off the need for a joint replacement, bioengineer Thor Besier and PhD student Daniel Chen at the University of Auckland are developing a haptic or touch-sensitive device that will help people improve their walking style. Alison Ballance joins them to hear about the evolution of the device, which now uses the kind of vibration motors used in mobile phones to produce a stroking sensation on the skin.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Paul Brennan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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ARTIST: England Dan & John Ford Coley
TITLE: I'd Really Love To See You Tonight
COMP: Parker McGee
ALBUM: Nights Are Forever
LIVE: Atlantic
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: The The
TITLE: This Is The Day
COMP: Matt Johnson
ALBUM: Soul Mining
LABEL: Epic
ARTIST: The The
TITLE: I've Been Waiting For Tomorrow All of My Life.
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ALBUM: Soul Mining
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ARTIST: The The
TITLE: The Sinking Feeling
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BOOKMARKS with Andre Lovatt:
ARTIST: Phoenix Foundation
TITLE: Pure Joy
COMP: Samuel Flynn Scott, Luke Buda, Conrad Wedde
ALBUM: Happy Ending
LABEL: Flying Nun
ARTIST: Interpol
TITLE: Take You On A Cruise
COMP: Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler, Sam Fogarino
ALBUM: Antics
LABEL: Matador
ARTIST: The National
TITLE: Mistaken for Strangers
COMP: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf
ALBUM: Boxer
LABEL: Beggars Banquet
THE PANEL: HALFTIME SONG
ARTIST: R. Kelly
TITLE: The World's Greatest
COMP: R. Kelly
ALBUM: Ali: Original Sound Track
LABEL: Jive
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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The Panel pre-show for 13 April 2016
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16:05
The Panel with Tim Watkin and Claire Matthews (Part 1)
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Topics - what's happening in Australia's housing market and the resurgence of New Zealand house prices, Dr Penny Truman discusses how harmful other people's tobacco smoke in the outdoors is, and Barack Obama believes the way the US ousted Libya's Muammar Gaddafi was the biggest mistake of his presidency.
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The Panel with Tim Watkin and Claire Matthews (Part 2)
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Topics - Is proficiency more about dogged perseverence or being naturally gifted? Lawyer Duncan Webb tallks about what it would take to outlaw specific dog breeds, Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles talks about toxoplasma gondii and if it's behind sudden outbursts of rage, Do working parents get a better deal than workers without children? An Australian 60 Minutes investigation has backfired with the journalists charged with kidnap.
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Housing
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The Panelists discuss what's happening in Australia's housing market and the resurgence of New Zealand house prices.
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16:20
Banning smoking outdoors
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Dr Penny Truman discusses how harmful other people's tobacco smoke in the outdoors is.
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16:25
Obama's Libya regrets
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Barack Obama believes the way the US ousted Libya's Muammar Gaddafi was the biggest mistake of his presidency.
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Well-practiced or naturaly gifted?
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Is proficiency more about dogged perseverence or being naturally gifted?
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16:45
Banning dangerous dog breeds
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Lawyer Duncan Webb tallks about what it would take to outlaw specific dog breeds.
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16:49
Angry microbes
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Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles talks about toxoplasma gondii and if it's behind sudden outbursts of rage.
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16:57
Working parents
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Do working parents get a better deal than workers without children?
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16:59
Australian reporters held in Lebanon
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An Australian 60 Minutes investigation has backfired with the journalists charged with kidnap.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Wednesday 13th April 2016
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17:09
PM has deposit in law firm specialising in foreign trusts
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Responding to criticisms about New Zealand's 'tax haven' status, the Prime Minister says he is not embarrassed by his own deposit with an equivalent firm.
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Duration: 3'07"
17:12
Who is Kenneth Whitney?
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John Key's lawyer, Antipodes Trust Executive Director - and what else? Checkpoint investigates who precisely Kenneth Whitney is.
Topics: law, politics
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Duration: 2'53"
17:14
Labour leader questions PM's judgment on Shewan appointment
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In Parliament this afternoon, the Labour leader accused John Shewan, appointed to review the rules on foreign trusts, of giving the Bahamas advice to preserve its status as a tax haven.
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Duration: 2'11"
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John Shewan joins Checkpoint
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Tax expert John Shewan joins Checkpoint to discuss Labour's allegations today that he helped the Bahamas preserve their tax haven status.
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Duration: 8'06"
17:25
Modified family home for disabled child leaking
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A family with a severely autistic daughter have nowhere to go after learning the home they purchased nine years ago is a leaky building.
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Duration: 6'50"
17:34
Government seeks to make tax life easier for SMEs
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The Prime Minister has unveiled long-awaited changes to the provisional tax system today, which will change the rules for about 100,000 small businesses.
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17:37
Evening business for 13 April 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
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17:39
Report released in wake of Six60 balcony accident
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Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith has released his Ministry's report into the collapse of a balcony in Dunedin last month which injured 18 students.
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17:44
Crown says teens agreed to sex before bashing, robbing, man
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The Crown says two teenagers agreed to have consensual sex with a 54 year-old man before fatally bashing and robbing him. Auckland court reporter Edward Gay has been covering the case.
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17:47
Former detainee to return to Australia
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Former 501 detainee Adam Taylor has won his appeal to return to Perth. He joins Checkpoint.
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Duration: 4'46"
17:50
Low dairy returns could mean pipfruit growth
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Apples and grapes may not be the dominant crops grown with water from the Ruataniwha Dam, investment company HBRIC has said.
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Duration: 3'11"
17:54
Exclusion of problem students "very common"
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The disability advocacy group, the IHC, says schools are demonising children with special needs. John Gerritsen reports.
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Duration: 2'54"
18:09
65 jobs at risk at Cavalier Carpets
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More than sixty jobs could be axed at the carpet manufacturer Cavalier. Kay Hearfield is the First Union organiser for Whanganui - Taranaki.
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Duration: 2'29"
18:12
Parents of autistic child fear homelessness after leaks
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A family with a severely autistic daughter have nowhere to go after learning the home they purchased nine years ago is a leaky building.
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Duration: 11'53"
18:23
Who will be Christchurch's next mayor?
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It's just six months until the local government elections, but in Christchurch, nobody has put their hand up to run for mayor.
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18:25
Nelson attampts to break world record
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In Nelson just after five o'clock today hundreds of people gathered in Victory Square in an attempt to break a world record of poi spinning.
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18:50
Today In Parliament for 13 April 2016 - evening edition
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Prime Minister, John Key, emerges unscathed from a fresh hail of questions about tax havens, spiced with exposure of a link to a legal specialist in foreign trusts among his pecuniary interests. Of greater interest to the average business taxpayer, the government unveils a pay-as-you-go regime for payment of provisional tax. Health Minister Jonathan Coleman takes a turn at scoring a political point over his Labour shadow, Annette King.
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18:54
The Wellington City Council abandons begging ban
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The Wellington City Council is abandoning a suggestion to ban begging in the central city.
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines
===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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Russia's Troubled Environmental History
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University of York Department of History Anniversary Prof. David Moon on getting to grips with another cultural point of view, in this case, how Russians and Soviets have managed the impact of human activities upon the environment.
Topics: life and society, politics, economy, spiritual practices
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Duration: 18'33"
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Nights' Overseas Reports - Japan
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Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
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Duration: 18'16"
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7:12 Russia's Troubled Environmental History
University of York Department of History Anniversary Prof. David Moon on getting to grips with another cultural point of view, in this case, how Russians and Soviets have managed the impact of human activities upon the environment.
http://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/majorprojects/russiasenvironmentalhistory/
7:30 Spectrum
You could call it a job, but staff at Southland Disability Enterprises use terms like "family" and "way of life".
8:12 Nights' Overseas Reports - Japan
Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. Tonight she's discussing the move away from "job-for-life" culture, and what it's like to be pregnant in Japan (congrats Motoko!).
8:30 Window on the World
One question yields countless surprises about the lives of strangers. In this three-part series, Catherine Carr invites people to pause on their way from A to B and asks them one simple question: "Where Are You Going?" The encounters reveal funny, moving, poignant and sometimes astonishing details about the lives of others. In this programme we hear from a woman who is married to her cat, a man dicing with death in his day job and a mother who is travelling to see her daughter who has cancer. These unpredictable encounters come together to create a unique and fascinating audio portrait of New York City.
9:07 The Drama Hour
'Milk' A bittersweet drama of milk, babies and mistakes.
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour
This week on The New Jazz Archive, the life and legend of jazz great Thelonious Monk. He was one of the most original voices to emerge from the world of mid-20th century jazz. Biographer Robin Kelley talks about Monk's life and music. And we'll explore how Monk's battle with mental illness shaped his life and career, and take a look at how Monk's masterpiece "'Round Midnight" became the most recorded jazz standard of all time.
... nights' time is the right time...
===7:35 PM. | Spectrum===
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Southland Disability Enterprises handles kerbside recycling for its entire region but it's also doing its bit for the local community. The company employs just over 100 people, many of whom have intellectual, physical or neurological disabilities
===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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A bittersweet drama of milk, babies and mistakes. Set in small-town New Zealand in the 1980s (RNZ)
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