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:
25 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 A Small Victory, by Robin McFarland, told by Jane Waddell (RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===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 25 July 2016
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Munich gunman had been planning attack for a year, John key's staff knew about claims of Chinese threats, NZ backs IOC decision to let Russians compete at Olympics, Sports writer Joseph Romanos says IOC decision is fair, Surgeon warns thousands are missing out on specialist care, and Annette King calls for investigation into phantom waiting lists
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Duration: 33'19"
06:06
Sports News for 25 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'18"
06:14
Surgeon warns thousands are missing out on specialist care
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University of Otago's Associate Professor of Surgery Phil Bagshaw details how thousands of patients are missing out on specialist care.
Topics: health
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Tags: Specialist Care, hospital care
Duration: 2'36"
06:20
Early Business News for 25 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'13"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 25 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector
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Duration: 4'09"
06:44
Man dies in Ashurst house fire
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A man has died in a house fire in Ashurst. The Manawatu fire chief says the lack of smoke alarms gave the resident no chance to escape.
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Duration: 2'04"
06:47
Briton Chris Froome wins third Tour de France
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Win number three for Britain's Chris Froome in the Tour de France cycling classic. Hugh Schofield watched the finish on Paris' Champs Elysees.
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Duration: 2'06"
06:53
Savers hit hard by low deposit rates
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An analyst says savers are doing it tough in the low interest rate environment and should prepare for further easing.
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Duration: 1'37"
06:55
NZ companies urged to accept failure as a strategy for growth
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A cloud-based business development company, API Talent, says New Zealand companies need to accept failure in order to innovate and keep ahead of the competition.
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Duration: 1'40"
06:57
Australian business news
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Across the Tasman, and the introduction of tighter regulation of Australian agriculture has been heavily criticised in report to the federal government.
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Duration: 1'49"
07:06
Sports News for 25 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'20"
07:08
IOC won't ban Russia from Olympic games
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IOC decides against banning all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics. While Russia's track and field team remains banned, other athletes will be allowed to compete if cleared by their international federations. New Zealander Barry Maister from the IOC backs the decision though says personally, he'd have preferred a blanket ban.
Topics: sport
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Tags: OIc. Russia, Olympics
Duration: 6'31"
07:12
Moscow relieved with IOC decision not to ban all athletes
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The Russian Sports Minister, Vitaly Mutko says he is very grateful to the IOC for their decision not to implement a blanket ban on Russian athletes .. Moscow Correspondent Julia Lyubova has more details.
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Tags: Olympics
Duration: 4'22"
07:17
DHBs accused of hiding patients on phantom waiting lists
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The official tally of patients on waiting lists to see specialists is on the rise but RNZ's Catherine Hutton reports those figures don't tell the whole story.
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Duration: 3'36"
07:25
Police promise hard line over Queenstown bomb threat
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Queenstown police say the person responsible for yesterday's Queenstown airport bomb hoax faces jail time or a stiff fine.
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Duration: 2'16"
07:35
Munich gunman had been planning attack for a year
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David Sonboly, the teenage gunman who killed nine people in Munich, had been planning his attack for a year and bought his glock pistol on the dark web.Our correspondent in Germany Ira Spitzer has the latest details
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Duration: 3'22"
07:38
Hurricanes secure home semi after 6th straight win
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Three New Zealand teams head into this weekend's Super Rugby semi-finals. The Hurricanes have secured a home semi-final after storming to a 41 nil victory against the Sharks on Saturday. We talk to our sports report about the matches.
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Tags: super rugby, hurricanes
Duration: 2'34"
07:41
Missing woman's friends vow to continue search
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Mary Berrington's friends say they'll continue their hunt for the Upper Hutt woman after police call off their search. She's been missing since last Tuesday.
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Duration: 2'38"
07:44
Councils call for freedom camping law
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Councils across the country want central government to come up with a consistent set of laws for freedom camping.
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Duration: 3'02"
07:48
People being turned away without seeing specialists
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The Minister of Health denies existence of phantom waiting lists saying , Forty five thousand patients referred to hospital specialists by GPs were turned away according to the latest figures from the District Health Boards.
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Tags: waiting lists, Specialist Care
Duration: 2'57"
07:55
Barbara Kendall responds to IOC decision
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Barbara Kendall, a member of the IOC Athletes Commission, backs the IOC decision to let Russian athletes compete at Rio if they can prove they're clean.
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Tags: Ioc, Olympics
Duration: 6'13"
07:57
John Key's staff knew about claims of Chinese threats
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Prime Minister John Key on his weekly Morning Report slot. This week he explains why his staff did not tell him about claims China has been threatening NZ's dairy, wool and kiwifruit exporters.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: John Key, China, dairy, wool
Duration: 5'02"
08:06
Sports News for 25 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'47"
08:10
NZ backs IOC decision to let Russians compete at Olympics
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The NZ Olympic Committee says it backs the IOC's decision not to impose a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the Rio games. President Mike Stanley says the IOC had to balance individual justice with collective responsibility.
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Tags: Ioc, Olympics, Russia, Rio Olympics 2016
Duration: 5'46"
08:16
Veteran NZ Olympics journalist says IOC decision is fair
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Veteran Olympics journalist Joseph Romanos says IOC has made a fair decision in allowing Russian athletes who can prove they're clean to compete at Rio.
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Tags: Ioc, Olympics, Russia, Rio Olympics 2016
Duration: 3'33"
08:25
Annette King calls for investigation into phantom waiting lists
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Labour health spokesperson Annette King says phantom waiting lists are just that. She tells Morning Report patients are getting the run around.
Topics: health
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Tags: waiting lists, Specialist Care
Duration: 4'25"
08:30
Labour - Govt needs to be upfront about Chinese trade threats
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Labour's Grant Robertson says it's ridiculous to think the Government was not aware exporters had been threatened with retaliation if complaints about Chinese steel were official investigated.
Topics: politics
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Tags: China, Chinese steel
Duration: 5'20"
08:32
Markets Update for 25 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 48"
08:35
NZOC spokesperson discusses problems at Rio athletes village
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Australia abandons Olympic village saying it's not up to scratch, but the New Zealand Olympic Committee says team leader Rob Waddell has given the New Zealand accommodation the all clear. Ashley Abbott is the Director of Public Affairs and communication at the NZ Olympic Committee.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Olympics, Rio Olympics 2016, Australia
Duration: 4'17"
08:42
Rangiwaea Islanders fed up with arrogant, reckless waterskiers
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Tauranga Maori say they're fed up with reckless waterskiiers in the harbour and are warning they'll put barriers in place if behaviour doesn't improve.
Topics: environment
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: waterskiers, Rangiwaea Island
Duration: 4'21"
08:46
A more consistent freedom camping law on Local Govt's AGM
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Local Government New Zealand begins its AGM in Dunedin by voting in favour of a number of pressing issues, including calling for a nationwide law covering freedom campers.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Freedom campers
Duration: 2'39"
08:52
Conservation group takes MPI to court over swamp kauri exports
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Arguments over the difference between a kauri stump and a slab of kauri go to the High Court. Environmentalist will argue the Ministry of Primary Industries' definitions have allowed huge quantities of kauri to be exported unlawfully.
Topics: law, environment
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Tags: kauri, trade, exports
Duration: 2'13"
08:55
Democrat chief quits over emails showing plot against Sanders
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Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned amid a furor over leaked emails showing party officials plotting against Bernie Sanders during the primary campaign. Our US correspondent Simon Marks says it's a black eye for the party on the eve of its convention.
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Duration: 7'14"
09:51
Restaurant Brands plans to grow KFC brand in Australia
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The fast food chain operator, Restaurant Brands, sees big growth opportunities in Australia, where it plans to expand through development and acquisition.
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Duration: 2'07"
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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: When We Wake, by Karen Healy. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's protesting the wrongs of the world. (Part 11 of 12, RNZ)
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09:10
Preventing rural suicide
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A lack of medical professionals wanting to live in rural areas means patients in the country are having difficulty accessing GPs and mental health services, the head of the Rural Health Alliance says.
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A lack of medical professionals wanting to live in rural areas means patients in the country are having difficulty accessing GPs and mental health services, the Rural Health Alliance says.
The Alliance's chair Jo Scott-Jones, who is also a GP in Ōpōtiki, told Nine to Noon there was a shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs, nurses, and mental health workers willing to live in remote places.
That was a concern, he said, as suicide was a real issue in rural communities.
"I, over the years, have seen far too many, particularly young men, choosing suicide as an option as a result of family pressures, social isolation, certainly the economic difficulties."
He said it was a feature of everyday life for rural doctors.
Once identified, the problem was where to go for help.
"Access is the rural issue," he said.
About 25 percent of rural practices were actively looking for another GP, Dr Scott-Jones said.
He did not know the figures for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health workers but said there was a "woeful lack of psychiatrists" in general.
"There are many small communities around New Zealand that are reliant on short-term locums working in clinics and there's no real opportunity for patients to build up a trusting relationship."
Dr Scott-Jones said he loved the community he lived in and could not understand why more people would not want to move to such locations.
"It's absolutely marvellous, I love where I live, I have a fantastic lifestyle."
One solution would be to train the people who were working in those communities already, he said.
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Topics: life and society, health, rural
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Duration: 15'55"
09:29
Poi for your health
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PhD student Kate Riegle-Van West on her Auckland University research study to measure the effects of International Poi on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults.
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An American student at the University of Auckland is researching how practising poi may benefit older people's health.
PHD student Kate Riegle-Van West is mid-way through trialling the cognitive and physical affects poi use has on healthy adults over 60 years old.
Ms Riegle-Van West, who comes from a background in circus and dance, told Nine to Noon poi is used all over the world and can vary greatly from Māori poi practice.
"International poi is quite similar to Māori long poi but it doesn't have the same cultural implications - Māori poi is unique".
She said the art form could eventually be used for rehabilitation and well-being because it challenges mobility, balance, grip, strength, heart rate and cognitive flexibility.
Part of her study compares the the benefit of poi with those of Tai Chi.
Ms Ms Riegle-Van West said in her personal experience she attributed feeling good to using poi, but she needed to have the evidence to back it up.
"I thought, OK, this feels good, I'm teaching lots of people to do it and wouldn't it be great if I could bring it to places like hospitals and nursing homes."
"But there was a real roadblock there because stories and feelings are great but it's not always what places like hospitals and nursing homes want to hear."
"They want some data and so I thought that's what I'll do, I'll go get that data."
Ms Riegle-Van West says she has seen some positive trends in participant's co-ordination despite being only halfway through the study.
She hopes to broaden out her research to larger randomised controlled trial for adults affected by stroke and mild cognitive impairment.
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Duration: 14'55"
09:44
International correspondent Carsten von Nahmen
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Carsten von Nahmen on the IOC decision on Russian athletes and the gun rampage in Munich.
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Duration: 14'52"
10:06
What is it like to live on Mars?
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Sheyna Gifford from the Hi-Seas programme has the unusual claim of being the first doctor ever to work on simulated "Mars." The NASA funded simulated space mission is on Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii. Since last August she and six other scientists have been living, working, eating and conducting experiments in a 100 square metre solar powered dome, which they only leave to conduct experiments The project is treated as a real mission to Mars so the crew have all the supplies for their year long stay. Sheyna talks to Kathryn about life on Mars.
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Sheyna Gifford from the Hi-Seas programme has the unusual claim of being the first doctor ever to work on simulated "Mars."
The NASA funded simulated space mission is on Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii.
Since last August she and six other scientists have been living, working, eating and conducting experiments in a 100 square metre solar powered dome, which they only leave to conduct experiments
The project is treated as a real mission to Mars so the crew have all the supplies for their year-long stay.
Sheyna answers Kathryn Ryan's questions about life on Mars.
Read an edited excerpt of their conversation
Why did you chose to get involved with this Mars project? You’ve described it as a service to mankind, in what way do you see it as that?
One of the nice things about being in the medical field is that you have a vast array of choices about where to extend your skills. And for me, because I had been in space research and love space, and had worked for NASA, it seemed completely appropriate for me to take what I had learned and go back into space with space medicine .So that’s my gift, that’s my service. My mother was an internist for years and a geriatrician and my father was a psychiatrist and then a neurologist, and I am a space doctor. That’s what I do, I take care of people who are in the wildest wilderness there is. And there’s a challenge to that and it’s both terrifying and exhilarating and it is part of an evolving practise that we’re all learning because it’s something we need to know about. Because humanity wants to go and we define ourselves on our ability to go and how clever we can be and coming up to solutions to problems that have never been solved before. We come together around this ambition of being a spacefaring race and we do it collectively and peacefully, and it’s one of the few things we do really well together.
Even though you have company up there, is it isolating in some ways?
No it’s not especially isolating. You might think so. There are five other people up here and there’s a 20 minute delay between communicating with other people. But because we’re up here and it’s such a unique thing that were doing, and it’s the longest space simulation in history, we are constantly in touch with all kinds of people we would not have ever met otherwise. It is sad that I’m away from my family at this time – I have an ailing grandparent and an ailing parent – and I’ve left those people in good care. I can’t be there for them and that is difficult. But actually isolated, no not really. We have the whole world behind us, we know what that feels like now and it’s an incredible feeling.
What are the group dynamics like between the six of you?
So in describing the group dynamics I would have to say it really boils down to what we have in common – often they have to work together and under what circumstances. So, as the lone physician and lone journalist, I end up working on my own quite a bit. I can’t train anybody else here to be a physician, though I have trained a couple of the crew here to conduct some basic physical exams – I know they’re here if I need them… Other people in the crew work together in pairs to achieve their goals. So the crew physicist, whose specialty is finding water, and the soil scientist work together an awful lot because they’re trying to figure out how to extract water from the ground. The soil scientist also works very closely with the astrobiologist – they’re trying to figure out how to increase crop yields in the volcanic soil up here. The chief engineer works a lot with the crew architect to do repairs and plan improvements to the dome. And we all work together on geology projects – we are given by mission control, so we all go out together, take these samples and try and find an answer to these questions. But it’s kind of like anything – imagine an office, but you never go home. Once in a while we have a break and play games…but it’s pretty much all work, all of the time.
What kind of research is happening up there?
This is in itself is one big experience and are technically experimental subjects. We are simulating astronauts, but that is true of astronauts as well. As much as they do science, we are science. As for the kind of research I do, I’m involved in seven or eight of my own research projects with members of the crew and collaborators outside. The project we’re writing up now for a conference next month is called the Mars Games Project – and we’re basically looking at home people relax. What activities allow people to deal with their stress the best as individuals and as a group. I’m also studying the microbiome, basically the biology of a habitat and how that affects the people in it. So we’ve been here for 10 months now - so [I’m looking at] are we more like each other? In terms of the bacteria and the flora and fauna occupying our skin – is it the same. Or has our diversity remained?
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Tags: Mars, NASA
Duration: 32'19"
10:38
Book review - My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
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Reviewed by Naomi Arnold, published by Text Publishing.
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Duration: 5'17"
11:06
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
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Mike and Matthew discuss the Auckland Unitary plan and a victory for New Zealand in the dispute over nuclear armed warships.
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Duration: 24'40"
11:34
Cake creations with Niuafe Malupo
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Niuafe Malupo's baking business, Niu Cakery, has taken off. The young West Aucklander has no formal baking training, but after posting his colourful creations on instagram, orders are pouring in. The 22 year old says his success has taken him by surprise, and his mother is proud.
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Niuafe Malupo's baking business, Niu Cakery, has taken off.
The young West Aucklander has no formal baking training, but after posting his colourful creations on instagram, orders are pouring in.
The 22-year-old says his success has taken him by surprise, and his mother is proud.
Niuafe talks to Kathryn Ryan.
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Duration: 13'00"
11:48
Urbanist Tommy Honey
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The New Zealand Institute of Architects announced the nominees for its awards.. and the Carbuncle Cup, which is awarded to the ugliest building constructed in the last 12 months in the UK.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 11'38"
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09:05 Preventing rural suicide
The Rural Health Alliance says it's succeeding in raising awareness of mental health issues among farmers, but getting them access to help is still a big problem. Dr Jo Scott-Jones has been a GP in Opotiki for the last 24 years - he's chairman of the Rural Health Alliance.
09:30 Poi for your health
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PhD student Kate Riegle-Van West on her Auckland University research study to measure the effects of International Poi on physical and cognitive function in healthy older adults.
09:45 International correspondent Carsten von Nahmen
Carsten von Nahmen on the IOC decision on Russian athletes and the gun rampage in Munich.
10:05 What is it like to live on Mars?
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Sheyna Gifford from the Hi-Seas programme has the unusual claim of being the first doctor ever to work on simulated "Mars." The NASA funded simulated space mission is on Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii. Since last August she and six other scientists have been living, working, eating and conducting experiments in a 100 square metre solar powered dome, which they only leave to conduct experiments The project is treated as a real mission to Mars so the crew have all the supplies for their year long stay. Sheyna talks to Kathryn about life on Mars.
10:35 Book review - My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
reviewed by Naomi Arnold, published by Text Publishing
10:45 The Reading
When We Wake by Karen Healy read by Francesca Emms (Part 11 of 12)
11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Mike and Matthew discuss the Auckland Unitary plan and a victory for New Zealand in the dispute over nuclear armed warships
11:30 Cake creations with Niuafe Malupo
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Niuafe Malupo's baking business, Niu Cakery, has taken off. The young West Aucklander has no formal baking training, but after posting his colourful creations on instagram, orders are pouring in. The 22 year old says his success has taken him by surprise, and his mother is proud.
11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey
The New Zealand Institute of Architects announced the nominees for its awards.. and the Carbuncle Cup, which is awarded to the ugliest building constructed in the last 12 months in the UK.
Links
2016 New Zealand Architecture Awards shortlist, Architecture Now:
http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/2016-new-zealand-architecture-awards-shortlist/
Carbuncle Cup 2015: Walkie Talkie skyscraper named as Britain's ugliest building, Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/carbuncle-cup-walkie-talkie-skyscraper-named-as-britains-ugliest-building-a2925326.html
Why people call this London skyscraper the 'death ray', Fortune: http://fortune.com/2015/07/31/london-skyscraper-death-ray/
===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 25 July 2016
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The Waitangi Tribunal hears that the Corrections Department is failing Maori inmates and another appeal against the sentences given for the killing of Moko Rangitoheriri.
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Duration: 14'51"
12:17
Building boom will dampen hosue prices, eventually - report
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As you may have heard in the news, a strong surge in house building is expected over the next couple of years.
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Duration: 1'02"
12:18
Savers need to take risks if wanting decent returns
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An investment analyst says those on fixed incomes will have to look at riskier options - such as the sharemarket - if they are to counter falling interest rates.
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Duration: 1'03"
12:21
Survey puts business ethics in spotlight
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Over the Tasman a new survey has put business ethics in the spotlight.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'06"
12:22
Midday Markets for 25 July 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners
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Duration: 2'40"
12:24
Business briefs
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An independent director of the mobile payments app, Pushpay Holdings, has purchased 800-thousand shares for 2-dollars-23 each.
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Duration: 1'24"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 25 July 2016
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As we heard in the news the All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has confirmed he is staying with the side through until the 2019 World Cup in Tokyo.
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Duration: 2'21"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 25 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 8'25"
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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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13:13
Why hosting the Olympics is a bad idea
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It's less than two weeks until the Rio Olympics begins, and there are doubts things will be ready in time. The Australian team will not move into the Olympic Village for the Games because of problems including 'blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring'. Over the past few days, the New Zealand team has had to work on their rooms, before they were livable. US sports economist Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College and argues that governments should avoid the contests at all costs.
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Hosting the Olympics is prohibitively costly with little benefit even for well-off cities, a sports economist says, but the International Olympic Committee could make it more attractive.
Professor of Economics at Smith College in Massachusetts, Andrew Zimbalist has consulted in Latin America for the United Nations Development Programme, the United States Agency for International Development and numerous companies, and he has consulted in the sports industry for players' associations, teams, cities, companies and leagues.
"I'm interested in the way the business of the sports industry functions and what are the dynamics that are changing the way the sport industry functions, and I'm also interested in the way sports impacts larger society."
He has also authored twenty three books, including Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup.
"This is what the modern Olympics and the modern World Cup are really about," he says. "It's the Circus Maximus in the old days of referring to these gigantic stadiums and elaborate facilities, but it's also a Circus Maximus in the sense that it's a circus."
He told Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan the idea that the Olympics could benefit a city was generally untrue.
The summer Olympics generally did not happen in lesser-known cities because they did not have the resources - and it did not pay off even for those that could, Prof Zimbalist said.
"Most cities in fact don't have the resources but the larger cities feel like they do, and some of the larger cities feel like they will put themselves even more on the world stage by hosting the Olympic Games."
However, the effect of the Olympics often negatively affected the city's branding, he said, such as in Rio.
"People historically thought about Rio as a spectacularly gorgeous and interestingly exotic city.
"What people have been learning over the last year or two years about Rio is that there's intense and pervasive political corruption, that the economy is failing, that there's pervasive violence all over the streets here's a dysfunctional water system and sewerage system, that they have terrible transport bottlenecks, that 22,000 families have been evicted from their homes in order to clear the way for the Olympic venues and the bus rapid transit lane.
"What we've learned basically, and I haven't exhausted the list by a long shot, is that Rio is a place you want to avoid, not a place you want to go to.
Olympic extortion not just in Rio
In Circus Maximus, Prof Zimbalist argues governments should avoid hosting the Games.
He told Afternoons that arguably the only cities that benefited in the last 50 or 60 years being Barcelona in 1992 and Los Angeles in 1984, but even those were special cases.
"The benefit that Los Angeles had in 1984 was very modest - maybe they generated a surplus of $215 - what happened in Los Angeles was a very special circumstance and won't be repeated.
"And most of the gains that Barcelona had didn't have to do with hosting the Olympics - [they] had to do with the economic plan to undo many of the things that happened, many of the negative things that happened under the Franco government between the 1930s and 1975 when he died."
He said the effect of the 2012 London Olympics had been well documented and all the tourists who had been drawn into the city had not been at all interested in exploring beyond that.
"They spent their time at the olympic park in east london watching olympic events - they didn't go to London to watch theatre.
"Go and interview a restaurateur in central London near Piccadilly or go and interview a theatre manager in central London about how their business was in central London in August of 2012 [during the Summer Olympics] and they'll say 'It was awful. It was like the great depression.'
"If you look at total number of tourists who came to London during July and August it was down 6 percent from what it had been the previous year."
The theory that the investment would provide long-lasting infrastructure did not stand up either, because the infrastructure gained for the amount spent was simply not economic.
In Rio for example, the subway which had been built ran between the beaches and the olympic centre, and would not relieve any of the transport pressures the working class faced in the city every day.
"If you have a state and region that's financially bankrupt and you have very, very scarce resourses and you have massive poverty, is that the best way to spend scarce resources? And the answer is overwhelmingly no."
In London, Olympic Park was being turned into a new mini-city, with a £400 million pricetag.
So why do cities bid?
Prof Zimbalist said cities still bid to host the Olympics partly because politicians were self-serving.
"Politicians basically are motivated by getting re-elected and they get re-elected by behaving in ways that are supportive of what is the biggest economic interest in the city," he said.
A city's strongest economic interest and largest employer was typically the construction industry and real estate, which definitely saw benefits from the Games, he said.
"In the case of Rio, the city has given land to developers, they've given low-interest loans to developers, they've given tax breaks to developers, and also in the process of doing that they've despoiled a good portion of their natural environment."
What's the solution?
It was a different story for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), however.
His book explained that over the past few decades, the IOC had taken an increasing share of the proceeds for itself: the most recent public data revealed it took more than 70 percent of Olympic television revenue, compared with less than 4 percent between 1960 and 1980.
"There's no political body that stands over the IOC and says 'you're abusing your customers or your participants or your workers and that has to change', so it hasn't had to change over time and the result is that the host cities get the raw thin end of the stick.
Potential hosts were getting wise to the difficulties and cost of hosting the Games, however.
While 12 different cities had bid to host the 2004 Olympics, only five were seeking to host for 2020.
That could prompt the International Olympics Committee to rethink its approach.
"They make a ton of money - they share about 25 percent of the money they earn internationally ... with the host city, about 75 percent they keep, a large part of what they keep goes to paying their own functionaries and their executives but they also share a large part of it with the international federations of the Olympic sports and the national Olympic committees.
"It would be a lot prettier if they were to say to Rio - or if they had said to Vancouver in 2010 or London in 2012 - 'we're going to share more of this revenue with you because we don't want you to be losing revenue,' but that has not been the operating style.
He also suggested limiting the number of cities bidding, adjusting the television revenue split to favour host cities, making the voting systems more transparent and imposing term limits on members.
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Duration: 16'25"
13:30
School of creativity for disengaged students
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Since 2009, alternative education provider, Nga Rangatahi Toa has been running programmes to help young people who've been excluded from their school. The aim is to help disengaged youth find a path through education and hopefully a fulfilling career. Now it is set to open a special school of creativity at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Otara. Nga Rangatahi Toa's founder, Sarah Longbottom joins Jesse in the studio.
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Since 2009, alternative education provider, Nga Rangatahi Toa has been running programmes to help young people who've been excluded from their school. The aim is to help disengaged youth find a path through education and hopefully a fulfilling career. Now it is set to open a special school of creativity at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Otara.
Nga Rangatahi Toa's founder, Sarah Longbottom joins Jesse in the studio.
Topics: education
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Duration: 12'20"
13:43
Favourite album
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'The Ghost of Tom Joad' by Bruce Springsteen, chosen by Russell Harding.
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Duration: 17'01"
14:09
Boys teargassed while in confinement
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Shocking footage showing boys at a Northern Territory youth justice centre being tear gassed while locked in their cells will air on Australian tv tonight.
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Shocking footage showing boys at a Northern Territory youth justice centre being tear gassed while locked in their cells will air on Australian tv tonight. The ABC current affairs show, Four corners, obtained the CCTV footage from the Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre in Darwin, and has released some of it on the ABC website ahead of the screning of a documentary this evening.
The detention centre had already been under investigation after it was previously revealed that children were being held in unlawful isolation, inside bare rooms. There were also claims from former inmates that staff at the facility made teenagers fight and eat animal faeces for rewards of junk food.
Human Rights lawyer, Ruth Barson appears in the documentary and has seen the footage.
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Duration: 7'31"
14:16
Television Critic Phil Wallington
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Phil Wallington discusses the plethora of "Housing un-affordability" stories, says Fair Go has become too lightweight, the new Gloriavale documentary and more.
Topics: media
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Duration: 12'41"
14:31
Mastermind Winner, William Barnes
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William Barnes devours history books. The high school English teacher from Hawke's Bay won last night's Mastermind final, thanks to a broad general knowledge, and his incredible recall of facts about American History in the 1960s. He joins Jesse in the studio to talk about his passion for history and why 60s America was such a time of change that sent ripples throughout the world.
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William Barnes devours history books. The high school English teacher from Hawke's Bay won last night's Mastermind final, thanks to a broad general knowledge, and his incredible recall of facts about American History in the 1960s.
Both are pretty extensive subjects, but he consistently scored highly in those sections.
So why the interest in 1960s America, and how did he manage to become such an expert in this area?
He joins Jesse in the studio to talk about why he picked these topics and what it felt like to win the title last night.
Topics: media
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Duration: 27'20"
15:07
Historian Greg Jenner: Stone Age to Phone Age
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How did humans used to wipe their bottoms? And how did they wake up in the morning before alarm clocks? Historian Greg Jenner has the answer to all these questions in his book A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life, From Stone Age To Phone Age.
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How did humans used to wipe their bottoms? And how did they wake up in the morning before alarm clocks?
Historian, Greg Jenner has the answer to all these questions in his book A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life, From Stone Age To Phone Age.
He reveals how our ancestors coped with the rituals of everyday life that we still follow today and how our lives compare to theirs.
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Duration: 23'15"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 25 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'22"
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1:10 First song
1:15 Why hosting the Olympics is a bad idea
It's less than two weeks until the Rio Olympics begins, and there are doubts things will be ready in time. The Australian team will not move into the Olympic Village for the Games because of problems including 'blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring'.
Over the past few days, the New Zealand team has had to work on their rooms, before they were livable.
US sports economist Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College and argues that governments should avoid the contests at all costs.
1:30 School of creativity for disengaged students
Since 2009, alternative education provider, Nga Rangatahi Toa has been running programmes to help young people who've been excluded from their school. The aim is to help disengaged youth find a path through education and hopefully a fulfilling career. Now it is set to open a special school of creativity at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Otara.
Nga Rangatahi Toa's founder, Sarah Longbottom joins Jesse in the studio.
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1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Boys teargassed while in confinement at Australian youth justice centre
Shocking footage showing boys at a Northern Territory youth justice centre being tear gassed while locked in their cells will air on Australian tv tonight. The ABC current affairs show, Four corners, obtained the CCTV footage from the Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre in Darwin, and has released some of it on the ABC website ahead of the screning of a documentary this evening.
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The detention centre had already been under investigation after it was previously revealed that children were being held in unlawful isolation, inside bare rooms. There were also claims from former inmates that staff at the facility made teenagers fight and eat animal faeces for rewards of junk food.
Human Rights lawyer, Ruth Barson appears in the documentary and has seen the footage.
2:20 Television Critic Phil Wallington
Phil Wallington discusses the plethora of "Housing un-affordability" stories, says Fair Go has become too lightweight, the new Gloriavale documentary and more.
2:30 Mastermind Winner, William Barnes
William Barnes devours history books. The high school English teacher from Hawke's Bay won last night's Mastermind final, thanks to a broad general knowledge, and his incredible recall of facts about American History in the 1960s. He joins Jesse in the studio to talk about his passion for history and why 60s America was such a time of change that sent ripples throughout the world.
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3:10 Historian Greg Jenner: Stone Age to Phone Age
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Every day is Ground Hog day for some aspects of our lives according to historian Greg Jenner. He's the historical consultant to the BBC's Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry. His book, A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life, From Stone Age To Phone Age reveals how our ancestors coped with the rituals of every day life that we still follow today and how our lives compare to theirs.
3:35 Voices
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
===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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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 25 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'22"
16:03
The Panel with Gary McCormick and Niki Bezzant (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Gary McCormick and Niki Bezzant have been up to. Sir Rob Fenwick of Predator Free NZ talks about the government's new drive for pest control. Not all Russians will be banned from com,peteing at the Rio Olympics. And we talk about the apparent infrastructure faults at the Olympic village. Pokemon players are finding ways around the rules to catch rare Pokemon.
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Duration: 22'19"
16:05
The Panel with Gary McCormick and Niki Bezzant (Part 2
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Workers burning out and heat could help depression. Stuart Bryant of the Tasman District Council discusses how a freedom camping by-law has worked in his region. Charles Crothers of AUT talks about the workings of bureaucracy and whether Councils are too complicated. Does US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton come with too much baggage?
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Duration: 28'08"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Gary McCormick and Niki Bezzant have been up to.
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Duration: 3'43"
16:11
More government support for pest control
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Sir Rob Fenwick of Predator Free NZ talks about the government's new drive for pest control.
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Duration: 11'52"
16:24
Rio -kidnaps, faulty sewage and Russian ban
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Not all Russians will be banned from com,peteing at the Rio Olympics. And we talk about the apparent infrastructure faults at the Olympic village.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 3'40"
16:27
Pokemon GPS cheats
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Pokemon players are finding ways around the rules to catch rare Pokemon.
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Duration: 2'39"
16:31
Burning out
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Workers burning out and heat could help depression
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Duration: 4'18"
16:36
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Gary McCormick and Nuiki Bezxzant have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'36"
16:43
Nationwide freedom camping law
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Stuart Bryant of the Tasman District Council discusses how a freedom camping by-law has worked in his region.
Topics: law
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Tags: Freedom campers
Duration: 6'26"
16:49
Local body bureaucracy
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Charles Crothers of AUT talks about the workings of bureaucracy and whether Councils are too complicated.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: bureaucracy
Duration: 7'07"
16:56
Hillary Clinton's baggage
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Does US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton come with too much baggage?
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'15"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday 25 July 2016
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Watch Monday's full show here.
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17:09
Trade Minister apologises to the PM over China trade spat
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Trade Minister Todd McClay has apologised to the Prime Minister for his initial response to reports of trade retaliation by China over possible steel dumping.
Topics: economy, politics
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Duration: 3'08"
17:12
CYF apologises to Nelson landlord
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Child Youth and Family has been forced to apologise to a Nelson landlord after it ignored her concerns for the welfare of two children living in her rental property.
Topics: politics, life and society
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Duration: 6'03"
17:19
Professional cricketer on trial for rape
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A professional cricketer has gone on trial in the Hamilton District Court accused of raping a woman after being out with her in May last year.
Topics: sport, crime
Regions: Waikato
Tags: cricket, rape, Hamilton
Duration: 2'48"
17:21
Beach settlement feels abandoned post-storm
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A Taranaki beach settlement is in clean up mode again today after storm surges washed up rotting animal carcasses and tossed huge logs through fences.
Topics: weather, life and society
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: beach, Storm
Duration: 3'59"
17:25
Six Countdown supermarkets to close
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Six Countdown supermarkets are set to close as the chain's Australian parent company shuts stores and slashes hundreds of jobs.
Topics: business
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Tags: Countdown, Woolworths
Duration: 2'13"
17:33
Evening business for 25 July 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 3'36"
17:40
Email leak may prove disastrous for Democrats
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The chair of the DNC has resigned on the eve of the convention after leaked emails reveal Party officials were actively favouring Hillary Clinton. Democratic Strategist Mary-Anne Marsh joins Checkpoint.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, Democrats, Convention
Duration: 6'16"
17:46
Bernie supporters speak out at DNC
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Kim Crozier and Karen Suykins say the Sanders supporters, and American voters they know, don't want Hilary Clinton as President even if that means the risk of President Trump.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, Democrats
Duration: 3'37"
17:52
Hansen to stay on as ABs coach
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Steven Hansen is to stay on as All Black coach until the end of 2019, giving him another shot at the Rugby World Cup.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 7'17"
18:09
NZ aims to become predator-free by 2050
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The Government has announced it wants to make New Zealand predator-free by 2050, investing $28m in a new joint venture company called Predator Free NZ Ltd.
Topics: environment
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Duration: 7'08"
18:16
McClay apologises to PM over steel dumping
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The Trade Minister has apologised to the Prime Minister for his initial response to reports of trade retaliation by China over possible steel dumping.
Topics: politics
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Tags: trade, China, Trade Minister, Retaliation
Duration: 7'19"
18:23
Retired probation officer takes claim against Corrections
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The man who brought a Waitangi Tribunal claim against the Department of Corrections says it is failing in its duty of care.
Topics: te ao Maori, politics
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Duration: 1'43"
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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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19:12
Rights for Renters - Elinor Chisholm
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Half of New Zealanders rent the home they live in, often dealing with insecure tenure and poor quality housing. So what can we do about it? Bryan Crump asks Elinor Chisholm, Research Fellow at the University of Otago, Wellington who has recently completed a PhD looking at individual and collective action for healthy housing in New Zealand.
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Half of New Zealanders rent the home they live in, often dealing with insecure tenure and poor quality housing. So what can we do about it? We'll ask Elinor Chisholm, Research Fellow at the University of Otago, Wellington who has recently completed a PhD looking at individual and collective action for healthy housing in New Zealand.
Topics: housing, inequality, life and society
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Duration: 19'47"
20:12
Nights' Science - Astronomy
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Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore on Juno's arrival at Jupiter.
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Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore on Juno's arrival at Jupiter.
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Duration: 17'02"
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7:12 Rights for Renters - Elinor Chisholm
Half of New Zealanders rent the home they live in, often dealing with insecure tenure and poor quality housing. So what can we do about it? We'll ask Elinor Chisholm, Research Fellow at the University of Otago, Wellington who has recently completed a PhD looking at individual and collective action for healthy housing in New Zealand.
7:35 Upbeat
New Zealand violinist Benjamin Morrison has been a member of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras for over a year. He tells us about the process of first proving your skills over an extended audition period before becoming eligible to apply for membership of one of the top orchestras on earth.
8:12 Nights' Science - Astronomy
Former Mt John University Observatory superintendent Alan Gilmore on Juno's arrival at Jupiter.
8:30 Window on the World
Beauty and Food - A BBC world Service programme looking at what happens when the worlds of food and beauty collide. The market for nutricosmetics - foods that have claimed beauty benefits - is growing by 10% every year. A beauty blogger in Tokyo tells us why she thinks these products are already popular in Asia, particularly Japan. In China, the concept of beauty from within sits comfortably with traditional medicine. Could the food industry turn the beauty industry on its head? One company that thinks so invites us to take a look at their laboratory where they've created a small chocolate bar, which they say prevents ageing and promises all the goodness of 300g of Alaskan salmon.
9:20 R.O.T.N.
Our weekly serial, recorded and aired on the night. Tonight we’ll be off to medieval times embroidering a few loose threads that are showing up on the Bayeux Tapestry.
9:30 Insight
This week Insight considers whether the Brexit referendum will actually result in the UK leaving the EU.
10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour
Tonight in Folk Alley - new music from Sara Watkins, David Francey, Sam Bush The Earls of Leicester, and Sarah Jarosz; we'll hear one from guitarist Bryan Sutton's new solo record, 'The More I Learn'; plus set of previously unreleased recordings from John Gorka and an in-studio performance from Boston-based trio, Lula Wiles.
===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries
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Monday 25 July - Beauty from Within?
A BBC world Service programme looking at what happens when the worlds of food and beauty collide. The market for nutricosmetics - foods that have claimed beauty benefits - is growing by 10% every year. A beauty blogger in Tokyo tells us why she thinks these products are already popular in Asia, particularly Japan. In China, the concept of beauty from within sits comfortably with traditional medicine. Could the food industry turn the beauty industry on its head? One company that thinks so invites us to take a look at their laboratory where they’ve created a small chocolate bar, which they say prevents ageing and promises all the goodness of 300g of Alaskan salmon.
Tuesday 26 July - A Tempest in Rio
On the eve of the Olympics, Shakespeare’s mix of sex, politics and intrigue plays out in Rio. 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, his plays have come to Brazil and are being played to packed houses in front of enthralled audiences who respond instinctively to their passionate mix of political corruption, violence, sex, death and the supernatural. A unique collaboration between international directors, academics and Brazilian actors has brought one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, The Tempest – in which he writes about the ‘brave new world’ of the Americas – to Rio de Janeiro. Writer and historian Jerry Brotton finds that the Brazilian world of carnival proves to be not so far away from the popular festival world of Elizabethan England, and sees how Shakespeare has been used by Brazilians to understand everything from their independence to military dictatorship and even the nation’s celebrated television soap operas.
Wednesday 27 July - 'Stealing Innocence' in Malawi
Ed Butler explores the secretive and shocking world of Malawi’s 'hyenas'. These are the men hired to sexually initiate adolescent and pre-adolescent girls – some said to be 12 years old, or even younger. It is a traditional custom that is endorsed and funded by the communities themselves, even the children’s families. Ed meets some of the victims, the regional chief campaigning to stop the practice, and the hyenas themselves, and ask if enough is being done to stamp out a custom that is not just damaging on a human scale, but is also undermining the country’s economic development.
Thursday 28 July - The Secret History of Yoga
Like millions of people, Mukti Jain Campion attends regular yoga classes and enjoys its many physical and mental benefits while believing it to be the “timeless Indian discipline” so often described in yoga books. But recent research challenges this common assumption. Could modern yoga classes, as now taught all around the world, actually be the product of 19th Century Scandinavian gymnastics as much as ancient Indian philosophy?
===9:30 PM. | Insight===
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An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs.
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Swinging poi for your health; Jessie Mulligan speaks to a Mastermind; and in Dateline Pacific a campaign for more freedom of expression in Fiji.
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Elena See presents a selection of traditional and contemporary folk, Americana and roots music from classic and new releases, as well as in-studio and live concert recordings. (PRX)