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:
18 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Dream of Nikau Jam by Peter Hawes (8 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 Green and Pleasant Land by Stephanie Creed (RNZ)
===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 Monday 18 April 2016
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At least 41 people are dead after the quakes measuring 6.4 and 7.3 on the southern island of Kyushu. Council contractors are working to clear slips that have closed roads in the north of the Coromandel peninsular after heavy rain overnight. .The company signed up to do the single most expensive building in the Christchurch rebuild will be centre stage this week in a corruption inquiry in the Australian Senate. A report out today by the Morgan Foundation claims New Zealand has spent 200 million dollars on a fraudulent credit scheme which it says amounts to "hot air".
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Duration: 27'31"
06:06
Sports News for 18 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'05"
06:09
New Zealander in Japan caught up in earthquake
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The death toll from severe earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan have continued to rise overnight.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: earthquake, Japan, Ecuador, Natural disaster, Quito, Kumamoto
Duration: 4'16"
06:13
Coromandel road closures
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Some roads remain closed on the Coromandel pensinsular after a night of heavy rain.
Topics: transport
Regions: Northland
Tags: Coromandel pensinsular, roads
Duration: 1'24"
06:15
The salvage of the fishing vessel the Jubilee is delayed a week
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Bad weather has halted attempts to salvage the fishing vessel the Jubilee.
Topics: transport
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Transport Accident Investigation Commission, jubilee, shipwreck, salvage
Duration: 3'43"
06:18
Early Business News for 18 April 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'51"
06:22
Disabled children law change needed - Human Rights Commission
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The Human Rights Commission and the IHC say it is time for a law change giving disabled children the absolute right to attend their local school.
Topics: education, law, disability
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Tags: Human Rights Commission, children, disabled children
Duration: 2'22"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 18 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'04"
06:40
Greens call for a temporary moratorium on water management
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The Green Party wants a temporary ban on issuing consents for water bottling projects.
Topics: business, politics, environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Green Party, water, Bottling, Ashburton District Council
Duration: 2'16"
06:42
Head of PNG's police anti-corruption unit is suspended
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The head of Papua New Guinea's police anti-corruption unit has been suspended following the arrests last week of several high-profile officials.
Topics: Pacific, politics
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Tags: Papua New Guinea, Police Corruption
Duration: 3'18"
06:51
Nick Tuffley live on inflation data released today
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Inflation will be the key business topic with official data for the first quarter out today. A Reuters poll of economists is picking zero-point-1 percent for the quarter and zero-point-4 percent for the annual rate.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank, inflation
Duration: 3'18"
06:54
Tegel Chicken share float garners interest and opens today
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The managers of the Tegel sharefloat say they have received more-than 200-million dollars of binding offers already as the offer formally opens today.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Tegel, trading
Duration: 55"
06:55
Electricity prices to fall - Keith Turner
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The former head of the country's biggest power company says electricity prices will fall to a third of their current level in a little over a decade because of the spread of solar power.
Topics: business, economy, energy
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Tags: Meridian Energy, Energy Prices, electricity
Duration: 1'14"
06:57
Jim Parker reporting
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Across the Tasman and our regular look at financial matters, with our man in Sydney, Jim Parker.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'06"
06:57
Business agenda
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Expectations are for a quarterly consumer inflation rate of 0.1 percent for an annual rate to 0.4 percent.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 38"
06:58
Morning markets for 18 April 2016
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American stocks ended weaker - lower oil prices and investors taking a breather weighing on the market.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'01"
07:06
Sports News for 18 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'05"
07:13
Search continues after Japan's quakes, as death toll rises
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At least 41 people are dead after the quakes measuring 6.4 and 7.3 on the southern island of Kyushu.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Japan, earthquake
Duration: 3'47"
07:17
The latest update from Thames Coromandel DC
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Council contractors are working to clear slips that have closed roads in the north of the Coromandel peninsular after heavy rain overnight.
Topics: transport, weather
Regions: Northland
Tags: Coromandel, roads, Thames Coromandel DC
Duration: 2'56"
07:20
Australian senate to investigate CIMIC
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The company signed up to do the single most expensive building in the Christchurch rebuild will be centre stage this week in a corruption inquiry in the Australian Senate.
Topics: business, law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: corruption, CIMIC, steel, CPB, Christchurch Hospital
Duration: 5'38"
07:26
NZ accused of being climate change "cheats"
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A report out today by the Morgan Foundation claims New Zealand has spent 200 million dollars on a fraudulent credit scheme which it says amounts to "hot air".
Topics: climate, law
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Tags: Emissions Trading, Morgan Foundation
Duration: 4'43"
07:34
No link between National Party donation and contract - McCully
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The Foreign Affairs Minister says there is no link between a businessman's donation to the National Party and his company winning a contract to manage a resort in Niue.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Foreign Affairs Minister, Niue, donations, National Party
Duration: 3'05"
07:37
Govt to review OIO decision with possible Panama Papers links
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The Overseas Investment Office has been ordered to review a decision two years ago to let a person linked to the Panama Papers buy land in New Zealand.
Topics: business, politics
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Tags: overseas investment, Panama Papers
Duration: 4'41"
07:42
Brazil gears up for vote on whether to impeach president
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Large demonstrations are expected across Brazil where members of parliament are due to vote today on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for alleged corruption.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Brazil, protests, president, Impeachment
Duration: 2'03"
07:45
Iranian film maker shut out of visiting NZ
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The guest speaker at next month's Documentary Edge film festival has been told she isn't welcome in New Zealand.
Topics: arts, politics
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Tags: film, immigration, documentary, Documentary Edge film festival
Duration: 4'26"
07:48
Prime Minister leads delegation to China
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The Prime Minister and two of his senior ministers will be pushing for greater trade access to China during an official visit there this week.
Topics: business, economy, politics
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Tags: trade, China
Duration: 3'36"
07:54
Ashburton water 'not for sale'
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Organisers of this weekend's protest against the sale of land with attached water rights in Ashburton, are eager to see if they will get a response from the council.
Topics: business, environment, politics
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Ashburton District Council, water
Duration: 3'19"
08:06
Sports News for 18 April 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'19"
08:10
7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
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More than 235 people are dead after a 7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on Sunday.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Ecuador, earthquake
Duration: 5'48"
08:16
After a weekend of quakes, is there any link?
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The earthquake in Ecuador is the latest of a series of large quakes in the seismically active ring of fire.
Topics: science
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Tags: Ecuador, earthquake, Japan, Tonga, Vanuatu, geophysics
Duration: 3'12"
08:20
New Zealander reports from quake hit Japanese city
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New Zealander Elley Stanton is in the Japanese city of Kumamoto teaching English.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Kumamoto, earthquake, Japan
Duration: 3'10"
08:23
Government warned foreign trust quick fixes not enough
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The Government is being warned that quick fixes to the foreign trust regime in the wake of the Panama papers won't be enough, if the country is serious about restoring its battered reputation.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: Panama Papers, tax
Duration: 3'07"
08:26
New solution for unpaid tourist fines
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The country's rental car companies are calling for a new type of collection agency to bring in millions of dollars of unpaid overseas driver's fines by simply charging their credit cards.
Topics: transport, law
Regions: Otago
Tags: freedom camping, Driver's Fines, tourism, Queenstown
Duration: 3'38"
08:31
Markets Update for 18 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: 55"
08:36
Time to change the conversation on Maori health outcomes
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The Public Health Association says it's time to change the conversation about Maori health outcomes.
Topics: health, te ao Maori
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Tags: Public Health Association, Maori health symposium, maori health
Duration: 2'30"
08:39
Understanding the American electoral system
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An extraordinary row has broken out in the United States between Donald Trump and leaders of the Republican Party that he's battling to represent at this November's Presidential election.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, election, Republican Party
Duration: 6'03"
08:39
Understanding the American electoral system
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An extraordinary row has broken out in the United States between Donald Trump and leaders of the Republican Party that he's battling to represent at this November's Presidential election.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, election, Republican Party
Duration: 6'03"
08:46
New initiative for integration Pasifika communities in Oamaru
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According to the last census, the second most spoken language in Oamaru is Tongan, with as many as 2000 Tongans living in the town.
Topics: language, Pacific, refugees and migrants
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Tags: immigration, Tonga, Pasifika Communities, Oamaru
Duration: 3'16"
08:46
Live snake arrives in Auckland in a Nissan Leaf
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An Auckland used car salesman got a nasty surprise when he discovered an unwelcome passenger in one of his yard's new imports.
Topics: environment
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Snake, car, Auckland, Japan, Nissan
Duration: 3'40"
08:53
Scottish Regiment colours paraded into history
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The regimental colours of the kilted unit, formed for the Second World War, were retired at the weekend with a parade through Dunedin's streets and a public 'laying up' ceremony.
Topics: defence force
Regions: Otago
Tags: Scottish Regiment, Dunedin
Duration: 3'30"
08:57
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Two modern-day slave houses, staffed by 50 Taiwanese foreign workers forced to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with no pay working the phones non-stop in a scam aiming to defraud as many Chinese as possible. Operating in Brisbane mansions.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 3'01"
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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: Shackleton's Boat Journey by Captain Frank W. Worsley, read by Peter Elliot
An epic story of survival in Antarctic waters early in the 20th century told by the Akaroa-born master of Shackleton's ill-fated expedition ship, Endurance (2 of 10, RNZ)
(Unfortunately the audio for this Reading is not available online)
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09:05
The future of tertiary education
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Why is it that when so many industries have had huge increases in efficiency thanks to computers and the internet it still takes the same amount of time to get a tertiary education? What's more, with the next generation of worker expected to change careers several times in their lifetime - how will they afford the cost in time and money of gaining the skills needed for those jobs? Kathryn discusses the future of education with Joshua Vial - the head of Enspiral Dev Academy and Dr Rick Ede, the Chief Executive of Unitec.
Topics: education, technology
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Tags: tertiary education, work, computers, training, employment
Duration: 21'47"
09:30
NZ govt. bought at least 11 % of world's junk emissions units
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New analysis has laid bare the extent to which New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions credits, will have no impact on reducing emissions. A new report from the Morgan Foundation shows 97 percent of the Government's imported credits come from schemes that are probably fraudulent.
Topics: climate, politics
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Tags: greenhouse gas emissions, Emissions Credits, Junk Credits
Duration: 8'56"
09:39
Health fallout from Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown
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Five years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster a true picture of the catastrophic health fallout is emerging.
Topics: environment, health
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Tags: Fukushima, Japan, disaster, Effects
Duration: 9'45"
09:50
Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
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Our correspondent Seamus Kearney discusses the latest news from Europe, including Pope Francis' visit to the refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Europe, Pope, Greece, refugees
Duration: 9'56"
10:09
Fat Science: Dr Robyn Toomath
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For 14 years, endocrinologist and diabetes specialist Dr Robyn Toomath fronted a vocal and visible campaign highlighting obesity. But in November last year, she wound up the action group she'd founded, Fight the Obesity Epidemic, or FOE, saying she felt she'd made no progress.
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An Auckland diabetes specialist has slammed the government for its lack of action to fight obesity.
Dr Robyn Toomath says the government needs to use fiscal measures to combat obesity, by making healthy food more affordable than unhealthy food.
Dr Toomath started Fight the Obesity Epidemic in 2001 when, as a diabetes specialist, she started seeing teenagers with Type 2 diabetes; it had previously affected mostly only people aged over 40.
She wound up the group in November last year, saying she felt she'd made no progress, but has just published a book called Fat Science: Why Diets and Exercise Don't Work and What Does.
Dr Toomath said there was a period of productive activity to fight obesity that went on for six or seven years, but that ended in 2008.
"Everybody at that stage started began treading water, thinking well you know 'the political climate will change and we'll be able to get going again', but there's a limit to how long you can tread water and just see absolutely nothing changing."
Dr Toomath said obesity was not an issue of personal responsibility but of societal responsibility.
New Zealand is the third most obese nation of the OECD countries, according to official statistics.
Dr Toomath said the continued focus on the individual as being entirely responsible was maddening for her, as she said she saw individuals struggling to do their best - and failing.
"So I've become very annoyed with this intransigent stance that the government [has] taken and I'm just not prepared to keep banging my head against a brick wall."
Dr Toomath said, during 2006 to 2008, things were very productive, with a health select committee inquiry into obesity and the 'Mission On' health initiative leading to boards of trustees restricting food types in schools.
She said all those things were bubbling away until a change of government.
"All of the funding for NGOs working in the public health issues stopped. The schools were told that they no longer needed to control the food that was sold."
The National Party adored the phrase 'Nanny State' and made it absolutely explicitly clear that they were not the government that was going to regulate the environment, she said.
Dr Toomath said there had been tremendous lobbying by the food and soft drink industries, where there was a great deal of power.
"I think that's something that is underestimated, when we wonder why we're not getting traction."
She said polls and petitions going back a decade indicated that the general public wanted to reduce the amount of junk food advertising on television and that people wanted a sugar tax.
"So even though there are clear signals by public that we would like these changes brought about, why is [it] that the government is not moving? And I think that they've got very good friends in industry."
Dr Toomath said introducing a sugar tax, reducing junk food advertising and increasing useful food labelling were all a good start but it was important to change the frame of reference to combat obesity.
"You would not have fast food outlets, or perhaps even dairies, adjacent to schools, they would need to be further apart.
"You would certainly use fiscal measures so that healthy food was more affordable than the unhealthy food... you would restrict the density of junk food outlets - particularly in supermarkets."
Obesity was not an area where you could wait for evidence on measures and then move, she said.
"What is the risk of putting a soft drink tax on? What is the harm - why are we waiting for the evidence?"
Dr Toomath said having milk that was more expensive than soft drinks was a tragedy, and society would bear the costs of obesity for a long time to come.
"But it's like climate change - the longer we dick around not doing anything, the longer this cost is going to keep piling up."
Topics: life and society, health, science, author interview
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Tags: obesity, fat, sugar, food
Duration: 26'21"
10:40
Book review: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
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Reviewed by Charlotte Graham, published by Text Publishing
Topics: books
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Tags: The Argonauts
Duration: 5'27"
11:09
Political commentators Stephen Mills and David Farrar
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Political commentators Stephen Mills and David Farrar discuss political polling and its influence and the continuing fallout from the Panama papers.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 26'18"
11:36
Good Boy pears
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Nick Tripe is a pear grower at Glenfield Orchard in the Mangamahu Valley, about 40kms north-east of Whanganui. He talks to Kathryn about the joys and challenges of growing pears and the best way to eat them.
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Nick Tripe is a pear grower in the Mangamahu Valley, about 40km north-east of Whanganui.
Under the brand Good Boy Fruit, Nick produces a range of varieties - Taylor's Gold, Doyenne du Comice, Bosc, Packham, Conference and Winter Nelis, as well as red pears called Crimson Gems.
Recipes:
Roasted pork chops
Pear and ginger cake
Read an edited snapshot of Nick Tripe and Kathryn Ryan's conversation below:
All pears are the same to me, and I have no idea what the most common pear is. It’s just grey and speckled on the outside and yellowish white on the inside. What variety is that typical, common one?
The traditional pears have been Bartlett, Nevis and coal – the ones you’ve seen in the supermarkets for probably 50 years. And they’re generally presented to the public as either rock-hard or rotten, which gave pears a very bad image. Not many of us understand the ripening process for pears. You probably like a crisp pear, but a lot of people like a pear where you stand over the sink to eat it and the juice drips into the sink. That being so, the ripening process has to be completed, which involves four weeks or so in cool store. And then they fire up – to use the jargon – when you take them out and expose them to atmospheric temperature. So there are two pear eaters – one is the one who likes the hard pear, the modern variety. And one who likes the really juice one. And the really juicy ones require that ripening process which won’t happen on the tree, to get them really juicy and dripping down your cheeks.
What is the key to year-on-year producing a very good crop?
That’s a tricky one. Basically they tend to be alternate years – good crop/bad crop. The challenge is to overcome that good crop/bad crop. They’re susceptible to severe frost – light frost they’ll handle. Generally, pear trees are pretty damned hard to kill. It’s pretty hard to kill a willow tree and it’s pretty hard to kill a pear tree.
Topics: food, environment
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Tags: pears, orchards, Growing, farming
Duration: 12'41"
11:49
Urbanist Tommy Honey
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Say you're standing perpendicular to an East Coast beach gazing out over the waves. What continent are you facing-Europe or Africa, right? Well, if you happen to be in certain places from South Carolina up to Newfoundland, your eyes could be directed all the way to Australia.
Topics: environment, science
Regions:
Tags: maps, geography
Duration: 10'56"
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09:05 The future of tertiary education
Why is it that when so many industries have had huge increases in efficiency thanks to computers and the internet it still takes the same amount of time to get a tertiary education? What's more, with the next generation of worker expected to change careers several times in their lifetime - how will they afford the cost in time and money of gaining the skills needed for those jobs? Kathryn discusses the future of education with Joshua Vial - the head of Enspiral Dev Academy and Dr Rick Ede, the Chief Executive of Unitec
09:25 Report says NZ govt. bought at least 11 % of world's junk emissions units
New analysis has laid bare the extent to which New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions credits, will have no impact on reducing emissions. A new report from the Morgan Foundation shows 97 percent of the Government's imported credits come from schemes that are probably fraudulent.
Nigel Brunel is from the Auckland broker, OM Financial which has been trading in carbon credits since 2009. He says what's really important now is how the Government prepares for what happens after 2020, when the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, ends.
09:30 Health fallout from Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown
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Five years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster a true picture of the catastrophic health fallout is emerging.
The meltdown of the nuclear power plant was triggered by the tsunami that followed a magnitude 9 earthquake which struck off the Pacific Coast of Japan .It claimed around 16 thousand lives, with a further 2000 people remaining unaccounted for. University of Melbourne Global Health Professor Tilman Ruff says leaks from the defunct plant are continuing, tens of thousands of people are still displaced and here is an emerging thyroid cancer epidemic.
09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
10:05 Fat Science: Dr Robyn Toomath
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For 14 years, endocrinologist and diabetes specialist Dr Robyn Toomath fronted a vocal and visible campaign highlighting obesity. But in November last year, she wound up the action group she'd founded, Fight the Obesity Epidemic, or FOE, saying she felt she'd made no progress. New Zealand is the third fattest nation of the OECD countries, according to official statistics. One in every three New Zealand adults, and one in every ten New Zealand children are obese. Robyn Toomath says we live in an obesogenic environment with too much access to and promotion of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food. Dr Toomath has just published a book called Fat Science: Why Diets and Exercise Don't Work and What Does.
10:35 Book review: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Reviewed by Charlotte Graham, published by Text Publishing
10:45 The Reading Shackleton's Boat Journey by Captain Frank W. Worsley read by Peter Elliot
11:05 Political commentators Stephen Mills and David Farrar
11:30 Nick Tripe - Goodboy Pears
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Nick Tripe is a pear grower at Glenfield Orchard in the Mangamahu Valley, about 40kms north-east of Whanganui. He grows Taylor's Gold, Doyenne du Comice, Bosc, Packham, Conference and Winter Nelis as well as red pears called Crimson Gems under the brand GoodboyFruit. He talks to Kathryn about the joys and challenges of growing pears and the best way to eat them.
Recipes:
Roasted pork chops
Pear and ginger cake
11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey
Say you’re standing perpendicular to an East Coast beach gazing out over the waves. What continent are you facing-Europe or Africa, right? Well, if you happen to be in certain places from South Carolina up to Newfoundland, your eyes could be directed all the way to Australia.
Tommy Honey asks what are you really facing when you look across the ocean?
Andy Woodruff, Cartographer
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A Coloring Book for the Map-Obsessed, CityLab
What's in a Flag's Design?
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===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 18 April 2016
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Labour wants the Auditor General to review the awarding of a Niue hotel contract to a National Party donor. A trader defends the integrity of New Zealand's emissions reduction regime.
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Duration: 15'50"
12:17
Pressure off RB to cut rates - Economist
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An economist says the slightly higher than expected consumers price index takes the pressure off the Reserve Bank to cut the official cash rate this month.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank
Duration: 1'46"
12:19
Norwegian clothing firm chases quality NZ merino
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A Norwegian clothing firm says the quality of New Zealand merino wool and the way it's produced is commanding a premium price in Europe.
Topics: business
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Tags: Devold
Duration: 2'29"
12:23
Midday Markets for 18 April 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Brad Gordon at Macquarie Private Wealth
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 3'05"
12:26
Business briefs
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Commercial property investor Augustya Capital is buying an Auckland city office building for nearly 116-million dollars.
Topics: business
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Tags: Augustya Capital
Duration: 20"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 18 April 2016
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Defending Indy Car series champion Scott Dixon finished second in this morning's latest round in Long Beach but he was left fuming following some late race controversy.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'43"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 18 April 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'40"
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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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13:16
Fashion Revolution - Simon Pound
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Fashion Revolution Week starts today, and the industry is getting together, hoping people will think more critically about fashion and the ethics behind our clothing. It was spurred on by events such as the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, when an eight story garment factory collapsed, killing more than 1000 people. And now people are taking to twitter to raise awareness. Ingrid Starnes director, Simon Pound, is here to talk ethical fashion.
Topics: arts
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Tags: fashion, ethics
Duration: 9'13"
13:26
E-Educator - Curt Bonk
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Professor Curt Bonk is an expert on how we learn, and how emerging technologies are changing how we learn. Professor Bonk teaches psychology and technology courses at Indiana University. And he's in New Zealand at the moment, to talk about how business, education, psychology, and technology intersect. And how to effectively engage learners in the digital era.
Topics: education, technology
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Duration: 11'06"
13:46
Favourite album
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'Primitive Man' - Icehouse.
Topics: music
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Duration: 13'39"
14:10
TV Review - Alex Casey
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The Path, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Chef's Table
Topics: media
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Tags: Telivision
Duration: 12'34"
14:23
New Music - Simon Sweetman
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PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project , Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor's Guide to Earth and Britta Phillips, Luck or Magic.
Topics: music
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Duration: 22'43"
14:45
Books - Pip Adam
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"Memorandum of Understanding" by Bill Nelson and "Beside Herself" by Chris Price.
Topics: books
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Duration: 8'04"
14:53
Theatre - Lindsay Clark
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'Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joanne', by Carl Nixon
Topics: arts
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Tags: theatre
Duration: 5'56"
15:08
Anne Marie Hochhalter
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There is a memorial near Columbine High School in Colorado where 17 years ago this week, two high school students killed 13 people and injured 24 others before taking their own lives. Carved in stone, the memorial reads "It brought the nation to its knees, but now that we've gotten back up, how have things changed; what have we learned? This year, Sue Klebold, the mother of shooter Dylan Klebold, searches for elusive answers about her own son in a new memoir. Anne Marie Hochhalter was having lunch outside when she was shot twice. Once in the back, and in her stomach. She is in a wheelchair and has continuing health problems. She has learned to let go of bitterness. When the Klebold book came out, she wrote an open letter to Sue offering her forgiveness.
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There is a memorial near Columbine High School in Colorado where 17 years ago this week, two high school students killed 13 people and injured 24 others before taking their own lives.
Carved in stone, the memorial reads "It brought the nation to its knees, but now that we've gotten back up, how have things changed; what have we learned?
This year, Sue Klebold, the mother of shooter Dylan Klebold, searches for elusive answers about her own son in a new memoir.
Anne Marie Hochhalter was having lunch outside when she was shot twice. Once in the back, and in her stomach. She is in a wheelchair and has continuing health problems. She has learned to let go of bitterness. When the Klebold book came out, she wrote an open letter to Sue offering her forgiveness.
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Stop domestic violence - help the men
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Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the team behind Gandhi Nivas - a ground-breaking early intervention initiative first created within Auckland's Indian community that might just revolutionise the way domestic violence cases are handled across the country.
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One year since it opened, an early intervention family violence facility set up by the Indian community in South Auckland, is being used as an example for other communities around the country.
Fifty-five percent of protection order breaches are being committed by men from the South Asian backgrounds, according to statistics, and of the 14 women killed in domestic violence cases in New Zealand from 2013-2014, four were Indian.
The numbers are alarming - so the Indian community decided to rally around, own these issues, and create a solution in the form of an early intervention family violence facility called Gandhi Nivas.
The early intervention programme, established in Otahuhu, provides emergency housing, counselling and referral to social services for men from South Asian communities who have either been issued with a police safety order, or are otherwise involved in police matters related to family violence.
Men’s family violence related issues addressed at the earliest possible opportunity, with immediate counselling for them and their families, especially when police issue a safety order.
It also ensures victims and their children stay in their own home without having to move elsewhere.
While the initiative grew from discussions between Counties Manukau Police and their South Asian Advisory Board, it is now supported nationally by Māori, Pacific and Ethnic services at Police National Headquarters in Wellington.
Statistics pointed to wider public issues
For South Asian female victims in New Zealand there is a higher than likely chance that their perpetrator partner will breach a police safety order or a protection order.
In most cases, especially in South Asian Communities, a police safety order is issued against a male. However, when they are given to a man involved in a family violence matter the perpetrator tends to return home where the problem had originally occurred.
This reoffending is common because of the traditional cultural values of the community. Victims often wish to keep the matter away from the knowledge of the wider community because of a “shame factor” associated with it.
Statistics also indicate that South Asian men have no place other than the established home to return, and as a result the compliance of the order is not met, resulting in a breach and subsequent arrest of the male.
There is also statistical evidence (taken from the last census) showing a high incidence of physical attack and abduction apprehensions by Indian males, that is disproportionate to that of other ethnicities.
Indian solo-mother Savita Alva in South Auckland, describes how she was at her wits-end after suffering repeated incidents of violence at her home between her two teenage sons.
“I requested to my son’s probation officer that I don’t want to see my son on the streets, feeling insecure and becoming a criminal … but for me coming back home and seeing them fight and bleed, windows and doors getting shattered and filthy language was very stressful.”
But Gandhi Nivas became the family’s solution to the violent outbursts.
“After [her son] was taken under Gandhi Nivas I felt assured and secure that his is under proper guidance and has professional support if he needs to turn his life around.”
Unpacking culturally embedded practices
Lynda Chanwai-Earle met the team at Gandhi Nivas
I travelled to the heart of South Auckland to the facility to meet the team behind Gandhi Nivas – and was greeted at the entrance by Sucharita Varma, the Director of Sahaayta’s Counselling and Social Support Services.
The first thing I noticed were the bars on the exterior of the entrance.
“This is a secure facility,” Sucharita explains.
“It is manned 24 - 7 by our Sahaayta male counsellors. Most of our intakes happen over the weekend."
When police get a domestic violence call they assess the situation. If no assault has occurred and they believe removing the partner is the right thing to do, then they bring them here and fill out a referral for, she says.
If that person is under the influence of alcohol the police will retain them for a couple of hours.
“One of the requirements for us is that they need to be able to comprehend house rules when they come in. Then we explain the house rules, show the man to his room, offer him a hot meal and then they go off to bed,” she says.
“There are four rooms here, each of those rooms can take three people; two beds and a pull-out. You can see the rooms are nice and airy. The clients are responsible for their own property.”
“The next day we get a comprehensive police report that explains the incident in detail; the family members and children involved….if there was an assault at the home then that person would be arrested and taken away.”
Education ‘is key’
In the living room area is a meeting about future funding is taking place between Inspector Dave Glossop and Gandhi Nivas team members including chair of the board Ranjna Patel.
Ranjna Patel says the group realised the men needed to be educated.
“When we first started this project - I would speak to 150 Indian women at a conference and ask; 1 in 3 women are abused but no one in this room is abused?”
“With the migrant community there’s no excuse for domestic violence but many reasons. To understand the cultural part is very important,” she says.
“It’s a community issue, a new migrant community issue - it’s not unique to South Asian communities and the cases may have been less but because it was reported and the breakage of PSO’s were a lot more among Indian men - the percentage was disproportionately higher. The men needed to be educated.”
Sucharita introduces me to Sahaayta’s male drug and alcohol counsellor Karthik Nandikoor, he’s been with Gandhi Nivas since its inception and he’s the one that helped Savita Alva with her two sons.
Karthik deals with the initial referral from the police, deals with the men first hand and will stay overnight at the premises.
He walks me through the spacious facility towards the showers and bathroom explaining that up to 12 men can stay at a time within the four large bedrooms.
Karthik supports the men with work and income related needs, housing, help with CV’s and gaining employment, even dropping the men off to their jobs.
This reoffending is common in the South Asian Community because of the traditional cultural values of the community, Sucharita says.
The violence is normalised, sometimes it’s culturally embedded practices they have bought from their countries of origin, she says.
“That’s why the breaches of PSO’s have happened in the past. These victims have taken the perpetrators back into the home without getting proper support because the victims are worried about their men’s safety and needs.”
They tell me they’ve had explain New Zealand’s law to clients - like why they couldn’t break furniture and throw stuff around.
“The normalised way of living with violence needs to be addressed, a lot of re-education needs to happen. A lot of good work happens here.”
There is a team of 15 counsellors with 18 different languages spoken. Most of the counselling is done in native languages and the counsellors are a range of multi-cultural, ethnic and multi-faith backgrounds.
One man who put in hours of volunteer work helping create the Gandhi Nivas facility is Ethnic Liaison Officer Sergeant Gurpreet Arora.
"The men have taken responsibility for their actions, their mana and self-respect are kept intact within their family and community. The issues that the family have had are being addressed as well. As a result the men have gone back to their families with no incidents following,” he says.
Results speak for themselves
According to Massey University’s School of Psychology Research Report, over 103 men came into Gandhi Nivas in the first 12 months opened.
The study found a 43 percent drop in the number of men offending after intervention, and a 57 percent decrease in the frequency of offending, after intervention.
“The one-year findings support the effectiveness of the innovative programme for its rapid response to referrals from Counties Manukau Police and its culturally appropriate services through Sahaayta Counselling and Social Support.”
It was anticipated that Gandhi Nivas would be used mainly by Indian and Fijian men, yet one-third of users have been Maori and Pasifika and the remainder other Asian, Middle Eastern and European men.
“The cost benefit analysis and joint evaluation with Massey University is still going but the results are excellent so far.”
Governance Committee member Inspector Rakesh Naidoo explains that the early intervention Gandhi Nivas model could be replicated in main centres.
“Family violence needs to be addressed in partnership - communities want to assist - they want to help. They play a part in education and advocacy - and now they can contribute financially.”
“Referrals are effective in reducing offending since 93 percent of clients have not been involved in another family violence incident after their intake.”
“We want to put in place a prevention focus. Family violence needs to be addressed in partnership - local solutions for local problems. Communities want to help.”
“We do not want to be that ambulance at the bottom of the cliff - we want to be prevention focused. This facility is the fence at the top of the cliff.”
Topics: health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: domestic violence, youth, women, equity
Duration: 28'26"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 18 April 2016
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1:15 Fashion Revolution - Simon Pound
Fashion Revolution Week starts today, and the industry is getting together, hoping people will think more critically about fashion and the ethics behind our clothing. It was spurred on by events such as the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, when an eight story garment factory collapsed, killing more than 1000 people. And now people are taking to twitter to raise awareness. Ingrid Starnes director, Simon Pound, is here to talk ethical fashion.
1:25 E-Educator - Curt Bonk
Professor Curt Bonk is an expert on how we learn, and how emerging technologies are changing how we learn. Professor Bonk teaches psychology and technology courses at Indiana University. And he's in New Zealand at the moment, to talk about how business, education, psychology, and technology intersect. And how to effectively engage learners in the digital era.
1:33 BBC Witness - Spanish Republic
In April 1931, the King of Spain was overthrown and a Republic was declared amid huge public excitement. The new government made it a priority to introduce modern education and culture to everyone in the country, including the rural poor. Some of Spain's leading writers and artists volunteered to go on 'Missions' to villages where the inhabitants were illiterate and life had not changed since the Middle Ages. Simon Watts introduces first-person accounts from the time.
1:40 Favourite album
Primitive Man - Icehouse.
2:10 The Critics
TV Review - Alex Casey
New Music - Simon Sweetman
Books - Pip Adam
Theatre - Lindsay Clark
3:10 Feature Interview - Anne Marie Hochhalter
There is a memorial near Columbine High School in Colorado where 17 years ago this week, two high school students killed 13 people and injured 24 others before taking their own lives. Carved in stone, the memorial reads "It brought the nation to its knees, but now that we've gotten back up, how have things changed; what have we learned? .
This year, Sue Klebold, the mother of shooter Dylan Klebold, searches for elusive answers about her own son in a new memoir. Anne Marie Hochhalter was having lunch outside when she was shot twice. Once in the back, and in her stomach. She is in a wheelchair and has continuing health problems. She has learned to let go of bitterness. When the Klebold book came out, she wrote an open letter to Sue offering her forgiveness.
3:35 Voices
In the year 2013 to 2014 - four out of 14 women killed in domestic violence cases in this country were Indian. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the team behind Gandhi Nivas [pron: Gandhi Neevas] - a ground-breaking early intervention initiative first created within Auckland's Indian community that might just revolutionise the way domestic violence cases are handled across the country.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Julie Moffett.
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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Flaming Lips
TITLE: Space Odyssey
COMP: David Bowie
ALBUM: Singal digital release
LABEL: Download
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Ice house
TITLE: Great Southern Land
COMP: Iva Davies
ALBUM: Primative Man
LABEL: Chrysalis
ARTIST: Ice house
TITLE: Street Cafe
COMP: Iva Davies
ALBUM: Primative Man
LABEL: Chrysalis
ARTIST: Ice house
TITLE: Hey Little Girl
COMP: Iva Davies
ALBUM: Primative Man
LABEL: Chrysalis
ARTIST: Ice house
TITLE: Glam
COMP: Iva Davies
ALBUM: Primative Man
LABEL: Chrysalis
MUSIC CRITIC - Simon Sweetman:
ARTIST: PJ Harvey
TITLE: The Orange Monkey
COMP: PJ Harvey
ALBUM: The Hope Six Demolition Project
LABEL: Island
ARTIST: Sturgill Simpson
TITLE: In Bloom
COMP: Kurt Cobain
ALBUM: A Sailor's Guide To Earth
LABEL: Atlantic
ARTIST: Britta Phillips
TITLE: Drive
COMP: Ric Ocasek
ALBUM: Luck or Magic
LABEL: Download
ADDITIONAL SONG:
ARTIST: Del Ray System (feat: Dallas)
TITLE: Sweet Division
COMP: Gooidward, Tamaira, DeGrut
ALBUM: Del Ray System
LABEL: Bounce
THE PANEL: HALFTIME SONG
ARTIST: ACDC
TITLE: Thunderstruck
COMP: Angus Young, Malcolm Young
ALBUM: The Razor's Edge
LABEL: ATCO
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel pre-show for 18 April 2016
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16:03
The Panel with Jonathan Krebs and Selwyn Manning (Part 1)
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What the Panelsist Selwyn Manning and Jonathan Krebs have been up to. A British Airways plane has been hit by a drone at London's Heathrow Airport. John Key is in China talking trade. He will also mention China's foreign policy. Professor Robert Ayson tells us whether or not this is a good idea. Motoring commentator Clive Matthew-Wilson talks about various driving test standards around the world.
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The Panel with Jonathan Krebs and Selwyn Manning (Part 2)
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ACDC has replaced ailing singer Brian Johnson with Axel Rose. Concert promoter Michael Chugg talks about why the show needs to go on. .What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Jonathan Krebs have been thinking about. Is Pastafarianism any different that Scientology? We ask Dr Peter Lineham of Massey University. The parents at the centre of failed child-snatch case in Beirut have been unable to reach an agreement about the custody of their children.
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What the Panelsist Selwyn Manning and Jonathan Krebs have been up to.
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Passenger plane hit by drone
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A British Airways plane has been hit by a drone at London's Heathrow Airport.
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Duration: 2'19"
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PM's trade talks with China
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John Key is in China talking trade. He will also mention China's foreign policy. Professor Robert Ayson tells us whether or not this is a good idea.
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Duration: 11'26"
16:24
Driving on a foreign licence
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Motoring commentator Clive Matthew-Wilson talks about various driving test standards around the world.
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Duration: 7'45"
16:35
The ACDC show will go on
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ACDC has replaced ailing singer Brian Johnson with Axel Rose. Concert promoter Michael Chugg talks about why the show needs to go on
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Duration: 7'20"
16:42
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Jonathan Krebs have been thinking about.
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16:49
"Made up" religions
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Is Pastafarianism any different that Scientology? We ask Dr Peter Lineham of Massey University.
Topics: spiritual practices
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Duration: 8'35"
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Lebanon kidnap
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The parents at the centre of failed child-snatch case in Beirut have been unable to reach an agreement about the custody of their children.
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Duration: 2'14"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday 18th April 2016
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17:11
Dan Collyns describes quake hit Guayaquil in Equador
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Dan Collyns is a freelance journalist, based in Peru. He files for The Guardian, the BBC, and American TV networks, and he's driving up the Coast to the area where the earthquake's damge is greatest.
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Duration: 3'34"
17:14
Greyhound board member banned for 11 years for doping
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In an action with few precedents in the history of New Zealand sport, a member of the Greyhound racing governing body has been banned from the sport for 11 years after admitting to doping charges.
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Duration: 3'13"
17:19
John Key not scared by South China Sea warning
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The Prime Minister says he's not scared off by a warning by Chinese state media not to bring up the China South Sea dispute during his official visit there.
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Duration: 2'46"
17:22
Road worker hit during police chase
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A road worker's been hit by a car being chased by police.
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Duration: 2'34"
17:24
Scenic Hotel director says he knew nothing about 100k donation
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The company awarded a government contract to manage a luxury resort in Niue says its executive chairman who made a big donation to the National Party knew nothing about the bid.
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Duration: 3'03"
17:27
Police used sirens to find car that drove off bank
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The police say they had to use sirens and car horns to track down a man who drove 30 metres down a steep bank in rural West Auckland.
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Duration: 1'52"
17:34
Evening Business for 18 April 2016
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 3'15"
17:39
92-year-old shaky after dog attack in Kaikohe
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Jim Morgan, an elderly Kaikohe man injured in a random dog attack at the weekend, says he's feeling shakier now than when it happened.
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Duration: 2'15"
17:46
Legal loophole reopens Akld Supercity debate
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The Auckland Supercity's structure has come under scrutiny, after the Local Government Commission decided there's community backing for a change. Auckland Correspondent, Todd Niall, reports.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: supercity
Duration: 3'30"
17:49
Govt accused of picking favourites for chch red-zone.
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The Government is being accused of picking favourites over a proposal to put a flat water sporting facility in Christchurch's red zone. Sally Murphy reports.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: red zone
Duration: 3'07"
17:52
Former volunteer firefighter to speak out on bullying
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More than 100 people are expected to turn out to a public meeting in Christchurch tonight on bullying in the workplace. One of the guest speakers, Jude Marks, speaks to John Campbell.
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Duration: 7'10"
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Demelza Leslie reports on John Key's trip to China
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John Key's trip to China has kicked off with a warning - raising the South China Sea issue could hurt New Zealand's push to make progress on trade with China. Demelza Leslie explains.
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Duration: 4'41"
18:13
NZer volunteering in Ecuador describes quake
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An Ashburton teenager volunteering in Ecuador describes feeling the deadly 7.8 magnitude quake 800 kms away from the epicentre.
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Four major earthquakes in five days
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Four major earthquakes in five days - could they be connected? Mark Quigley from the University of Melbourne explains
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Duration: 4'46"
18:24
Morgan Foundation report an over-generalisation
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A carbon trader says while there were some dubious carbon credits traded in the past, it is an over-generalisation to say they were all fraudulent. Chris Bramwell reports.
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Duration: 2'55"
18:27
Sports reporter Matt Chatterton wraps up the weekend's sport
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Time for a wrap up of the weekend's sport with Matt Chatterton is in the Auckland studio.
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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19:12
Powering Africa
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What will power Africa's growth? Prof. Mark New from the African Climate & Development Initiative on the environmental and social challenges Africa faces as its energy needs increase.
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Duration: 13'53"
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Nights' Science - Physics
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What does gravity sound like? Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Punaha Matatini at the University of Auckland is explains the LIGO discovery.
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Duration: 18'53"
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7:12 Powering Africa
What will power Africa's growth? Prof. Mark New from the African Climate & Development Initiative on the environmental and social challenges Africa faces as its energy needs increase.
7:35 Upbeat
New Zealand born organist Katherine Dienes-Williams is the first woman to hold the most senior musical post in a Church of England cathedral. The accomplished organist is home on holiday with her husband Patrick Williams, librarian of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and daughter Hannah who's a chorister.
8:12 Nights' Science - Physics
What does gravity sound like? Prof. Shaun Hendy director of Te Pūnaha Matatini at the University of Auckland is explains the LIGO discovery.
8:30 Window on the World
Horn Dilemma
The majority of white and black rhinoceros are found in South Africa. This stronghold for these magnificent creatures is now being threatened by poachers killing rhino for their horns. In this programme Adam Hart explores the Horn Dilemma - whether to lift the ban on selling harvested rhino horns to try and fund bettter protection and conservation efforts to stop the poachers who kill the rhinos for their horns. Unlike elephant ivory, pangolin scales and the bones from lions, rhinos can be dehorned without harming the animal. Many rhino owners are already removing the horns from their animals to stop them attracting poachers. So they are sitting on stockpiles of harvested horn.
9:30 Insight
The Struggle for Special Education - RNZs Education Correspondent heads to the classroom to find out what's working and what not for children with special needs, their parents and their teachers.
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 Beale Street Caravan. The first act is Auckland band Riverhead Slide with a couple of tracks from their CD "Hangin' with the blues".
===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries
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An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | Beale Street Caravan===
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David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (12 of 13, BSC)