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:
28 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Discovery (BBC); 1:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 2:05 The Cultural Frontline; 3:05 Tall Half Backs by Graham Hutchins (3 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (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 Thursday 28 July 2016
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Up and out - the new rulebook for Auckland Housing minister welcomes Auckland's Unitary Plan Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton emails Paperwork slip-up at Parole Board Labour and Greens out of sync on housing prices Todd McClay out of the picture but not out of hot water Call for Australia's Cardinal Pell to be stood down over abuse claims
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Duration: 31'20"
06:06
Sports news for 28/7/2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'00"
06:11
Government gives Auckland bluerpint cautious thumbs up
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The Government has given Auckland's Unitary Plan a cautious thumbs up, but is pledging to stay out of the way while the Auckland Council considers the report. Mei Heron reports.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 3'31"
06:13
Aid cut to Syrian town as attacks intensify
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The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a huge bomb attack that hit the mainly Kurdish city of Qamishli ka-mee-shlee in northeastern Syria. We talk to World Vision's Response Manager for Turkey and northern Syria Christine Latif.
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Duration: 3'49"
06:20
Early business news for 28/7/2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 2'47"
06:20
Rural News for 28/7/2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: farming
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Duration: 3'59"
06:37
Aucklanders divided on Unitary Plan proposal
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Has the Unitary Plan got the balance right? Mohamed Hassan reports on how the proposed 30-year vision for Auckland focuses heavily on increasing housing density in the city, and reducing protections for character suburbs.
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Duration: 3'30"
06:45
Parole Board releases private paperwork to wrong person
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The Parole Board is under fire for mishandling sensitive personal information. A rape victim says she has recieved paperwork on a transgender prisoner by mistake.
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Duration: 1'38"
06:50
Trustpower disappointed after losing Supreme Court appeal
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Trustpower says it's lost its Supreme Court appeal over millions of dollars in tax deductions.
Topics: business
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Duration: 2'20"
06:52
Tax case may prompt case for law change and halt projects
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The Supreme Court's ruling is expected to create some nervousness among companies involved in energy and infrastructure projects.
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Duration: 59"
06:53
Abano says dental crucial to future outlook
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The health services provider, Abano Healthcare, says its dental arm is crucial to its future growth.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'27"
06:55
Annual meeting briefs
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A couple of snippets from annual meetings.
Topics: business
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Duration: 42"
06:56
Russell Investments recommends savers take more risks
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Russell Investments says diversification and a willingness to embrace risk are necessary to achieve reasonable retirement income.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'19"
06:57
Markets
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An update on the markets.
Topics: business
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Duration: 57"
07:06
Sports news for 28/7/2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'32"
07:10
Up and out - the new rulebook for Auckland
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Our Auckland correspondent Todd Niall has been looking at the Unitary Plan
Topics: housing
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Duration: 5'46"
07:12
Housing minister welcomes Auckland's Unitary Plan
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The Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith has welcomed Auckland Council's new unitary plan but says he needs more time to sift through the thousands of pages. He says he's giving councillors space to come to their own conclusions.
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Duration: 4'54"
07:22
Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton emails
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Donald Trump says thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails were missing when the FBI investigated her email system, and if the Russians can find them, they should do America a favour and publish them.
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Duration: 4'15"
07:25
Paperwork slip-up at Parole Board
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A rape victim says she has recieved sensitive personal information about a transgender prisoner by mistake, after the Parole Board mishandled paperwork.
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Duration: 2'03"
07:27
Labour and Greens out of sync on housing prices
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The Labour Leader Andrew Little talks to Susie Ferguson about the Greens call for Auckland house prices to fall substantially over the next decade and why Labour wasn't told first.
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Duration: 5'21"
07:35
Todd McClay out of the picture but not out of hot water
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RNZ political editor Jane Patterson on Labour's calls for Todd McClay to be sacked.
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Duration: 4'11"
07:46
Call for Australia's Cardinal Pell to be stood down over abuse
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British child abuse prevention campaigner Peter Saunders tells Morning Report Australia's top Catholic cleric should be stood down from his top level role at the Vatican while fresh abuse claims against him are investigated.
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Duration: 4'11"
07:50
Building industry puzzled how to achieve needed boom
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Under Auckland's proposed Unitary Plan, the city will need to build another 422 thousand homes between now and 2040. Is this even possible when just 10 thousand homes will be built this year? We talk to Certified Builders Association to find out.
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Duration: 3'02"
07:53
Government sued by disabled men who were 'warehoused'
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Three intellectually disabled men are suing the Government over the way they were treated while they were in state care. Max Towle reports on the High Court case.
Topics: health
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Duration: 2'43"
07:57
Californian firefighters struggle to contain wildfires
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Our Los Angeles correspondent Patrice Howard details the challenges facing California fire fighters battling wildfires that have now claimed a life.
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Duration: 2'25"
08:08
Sports News for 28/7/2016
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An update from the RNZ Sports team.
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Duration: 2'27"
08:11
Ak Unitary Plan a blend of positive and negative for ratepayers
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We talk to a couple of Aucklanders about the city's Unitary Plan to see whether they support it and what parts of it they could do without.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 4'59"
08:15
Clinton's nomination breaks the glass ceiling
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Alyssa Ketterer of Women's empowerment organisation Live Your Dream dot org discusses the significance of Hilary Clinton's nomination as the first female presidential candidate for a major political party.
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Duration: 4'21"
08:20
'Boy' star James Rolleston awake in hospital after car crash
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The star of the hit New Zealand film, Boy, James Rolleston, is awake in hospital and surrounded by his whanau, after a serious car crash in Opotiki.
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Duration: 1'23"
08:21
Maori significance reference deleted from Auckland plan
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Treaty of Waitangi principles and cultural impact assessments for Maori sites of significance have been removed from the Auckland Unitary Plan. Mihingarangi Forbes reports on how mana whenua fare in the new scheme.
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Duration: 4'10"
08:26
Are the Olympics a sporting spectacle or five ring circus?
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The greatest sporting show on earth or a five-ring circus? Our Sports editor Stephen Hewson looks at the outlook for the Rio Olympics.
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Duration: 4'56"
08:31
Markets Update for 28/7/2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 57"
08:36
New Zealand rowing Olympic hopefuls still waiting for the call
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Top sports lawyer warns world sporting bodies are likely to face massive damages claims over bans on Russian Olympic athletes.
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Duration: 5'22"
08:42
Tax experts warn Supreme Court judgement could cost investment
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the costs of getting resource consent for a project are not tax deductible. Lawyers and accountants are warning this may deter companies from embarking on big new projects across the country.
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Duration: 2'53"
08:45
Crown defends Corrections, says Maori reoffending 'complex'
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The Crown is defending Corrections performance to the Waitangi Tribunal. At the week-long hearing in to the department's role in reducing Maori re-offending, the Crown has argued that the complex causes of crime can't be blamed on Corrections alone.
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Duration: 2'19"
08:47
Christchurch homeowners feel strain of rates increases
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Christchurch home owners and businesses are struggling to pay rising rates. Ratepayers now owe 11.5 million dollars to the city council. Conan Young has more details.
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Duration: 3'54"
08:52
South China Seas ruling could limit Pacific fishing
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Some Pacific island countries' claims to lucrative fishing and seabed mining resources could be limited by a landmark ruling on the South China Sea. Sally Round looks at the impact of a decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Topics: Pacific, law
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Tags: fishing
Duration: 3'26"
08:56
Statues of Captain Cook repeatedly vandalised in Gisborne
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Statues of Captain Cook are being repeatedly vandalised in Gisborne. Josh Wharehinga from the Gisborne District Council explains why tensions are high.
Topics: arts, history, crime
Regions: East Coast
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Duration: 3'49"
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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: Soon, by Charlotte Grimshaw, read by Michael Hurst. A satirical novel following the fortunes of National Party Prime Minister David Hallwright and his Auckland set (Part 2 of 12, RNZ)
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09:08
Up and out: challenges for Auckland now
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Auckland now has a plan for intensification - what are the challenges now? Kathryn talks with Alan McMahon, National Director of Research and Consulting for Property Services firm Colliers International.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Unitary Plan
Duration: 11'31"
09:20
Big tech companies lock up health data
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New wearable technologies and smartphones are sweeping up ever greater amounts of health information in real time and big tech companies are swiftly moving to find ways to turn that data into profit. The problem is the data is often not made available either to the people it is collected from - or to researchers who could use it to improve public health. John Wilbanks is an open source advocate and board member at Sage Bionetworks who led a successful campaign in 2013 to allow the free access of US taxpayer-funded research data.
Topics: health, technology
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Tags: big data, open source, open data
Duration: 18'19"
09:39
Auckland's growth must be quality
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Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. He says the big issue for Auckland's intensification is quality of design and build.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 13'06"
09:51
UK Correspondent Dame Anne Leslie
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Dame Anne Leslie on jumpiness over recent terror attacks, the bankrupting of the department store chain British Home Stores by its rich owner.. and the rise of the POB -- the political bob.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UK
Duration: 7'59"
10:08
Dr Dave Baldwin: Flying doctor
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Dr Dave Baldwin is a bush pilot and back country doctor who flies around the country performing medicals on pilots at remote airstrips and farms. He's also an avid hunter and adventurer, many of those adventures with his son Marc. In 2009 he published his first book Healthy Bastards, which put the spotlight on men's health and encouraged men to attend regular medical checkups.But in 2012 - his beloved son and mate Marc took his own life - which has prompted Dave Baldwin to focus on more than just physical health. He says men need to speak out about how they're feeling and seek help. Dave's new memoir, called The Flying Doctor, has just been published.
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Dr Dave Baldwin is a bush pilot and back country doctor who flies around the country performing medicals on pilots at remote airstrips and farms.
He's also an avid hunter and adventurer, many of those adventures with his son Marc.
In 2009 he published his first book Healthy Bastards, which put the spotlight on men's health and encouraged men to attend regular medical checkups.
But in 2012 - his beloved son and mate Marc took his own life - which has prompted Dave Baldwin to focus on more than just physical health.
He says men need to speak out about how they're feeling and seek help.
Dave's new memoir, called The Flying Doctor, has just been published.
Dr Baldwin talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: life and society, health, author interview
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Duration: 30'19"
10:38
Book review - Red Dust, A Path Through China
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'Red Dust, A Path Through China' by Ma Jian, reviewed by Karen Brown.
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Duration: 5'15"
11:08
New technology with Paul Matthews
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Paul Matthews on what the expanded school curriculum on digital technology means in practice.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 13'22"
11:22
Helping your child succeed at school
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Education consultant and parenting commentator Joseph Driessen talks about what parents of children who succeed at school are doing right.
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Education consultant and parenting commentator Joseph Driessen talks about what parents of children who succeed at school are doing right.
Joseph Driessen explains what some families do to help their children succeed at school in this excerpt from the interview:
In families where it goes well, the parents do not think that learning is what the child does by themselves with the school and the parents have nothing to do with it. The parents think the opposite. They really foster a tremendous culture in the home that learning is a team effort and that we all do it and that it’s really important. It’s fun, it’s great, but we all should revolve our lives around it so the children can learn and do well at school. These parents talk to their children, they listen to them and they have a dialogue about how it is going. They’re part of the team.
And then what happens is that these parents encourage their children to have good habits, they might give them a good desk, and they might have a structure for when they should do their homework - when they’re younger especially. They want their children to be autonomous and independent, but often it takes a lot of discipline by the parents first of all before the child gains that self-motivation and discipline to do it. Then they are very caring and supportive.
Research shows that many of these parents don’t hesitate to sit next to their children and give them that emotional support and say "I can give you a hand here for a little bit." They don’t do it for them, but they definitely send a very strong signal; "I know what it’s like and I will help you if you need it. I am here for you". That is a very supportive stance.
They also have a fairly strong stance of being accountable, saying what needs to be done. "We’ve got a job and your job is to go to school and do your learning processes and enjoy it but realise it is your duty. It is something you have to do and you’ve got to do it really well".
That theme of being involved and helping the child, being nurturing and supportive and yet communicating to them that it’s actually very important, that doesn’t happen very well in some families. They’re a little bit passive. They think it is the job of the child. They might be watching television while the child is in their bedroom on their lonesome. These parents might have been repelled by the child who says, "This is my job, keep out of it". Then the child drifts off and the parents don’t intervene and think, "Well, we wouldn’t allow him not to go to school, so why would we allow him not to do his homework?"
Topics: education, life and society
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Tags: parenting, Joseph Dreissen
Duration: 24'07"
11:47
Viewing with Sarah McMullen
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Sarah McMullen on winter streaming service binge watching; OITNB 4, Mr Robot 2, Gilmore Girls, Terry Teo and her picks from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Topics: arts, movies
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Tags: film festival
Duration: 12'21"
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09:05 Up and out: challenges for Auckland now
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Auckland now has a plan for intensification - what are the challenges now? Kathryn talks with Alan McMahon, National Director of Research and Consulting for Property Services firm Colliers International.
09:30 Big tech companies lock up health data
New wearable technologies and smartphones are sweeping up ever greater amounts of health information in real time and big tech companies are swiftly moving to find ways to turn that data into profit. The problem is the data is often not made available either to the people it is collected from - or to researchers who could use it to improve public health. John Wilbanks is an open source advocate and board member at Sage Bionetworks who led a successful campaign in 2013 to allow the free access of US taxpayer-funded research data.
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09:35 Auckland's growth must be quality
Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. He says the big issue for Auckland's intensification is quality of design and build.
09:45 UK Correspondent Dame Anne Leslie
Dame Anne Leslie on jumpiness over recent terror attacks, the bankrupting of the department store chain British Home Stores by its rich owner.. and the rise of the POB -- the political bob
10:05 Dr Dave Baldwin: Flying doctor
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Dr Dave Baldwin is a bush pilot and back country doctor who flies around the country performing medicals on pilots at remote airstrips and farms. He's also an avid hunter and adventurer, many of those adventures with his son Marc.
In 2009 he published his first book Healthy Bastards, which put the spotlight on men's health and encourged men to attend regular medical checkups.But in 2012 - his beloved son and mate Marc took his own life - which has prompted Dave Baldwin to focuss on more than just physical health. He says men need to speak out about how they're feeling and seek help. Dave's new memoir, called The Flying Doctor, has just been published.
10:35 Book review
Red Dust, A Path Through China by Ma Jian, reviewed by Karen Brown
10:45 The Reading
Constance and the Unicorn by Raewyn Alexander, read by Dena Kennedy
11:05 New technology with Paul Matthews
Paul Matthews on what the expanded school curriculum on digital technology means in practice.
11:25 Helping your child succeed at school
Education consultant and parenting commentator Joseph Driessen talks about what parents of children who succeed at school are doing right.
11:25 Viewing with Sarah McMullen
Sarah McMullen on winter streaming service binge watching; OITNB 4, Mr Robot 2, Gilmore Girls, Terry Teo and her picks from the New Zealand International Film Festival.
===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 28 July 2016
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Pharmac funds the anti cancer vaccine Gardasil and a lobby group considers a legal challenge to Auckland's Unitary Plan.
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Duration: 15'29"
12:17
FMA issues code of conduct for finance companies
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Financial services companies are being helped to improve their standards of behaviour and treatment of customers in a proposed Good Conduct guide from the Financial Markets Authority.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Financial Markets Authority, FMA
Duration: 1'54"
12:19
Dollar holds after Fed keeps rates steady
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The New Zealand dollar has held its recent gains despite signs the United States will likely raise interest rates at the end of the year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: NZ dollar
Duration: 1'37"
12:21
Russell Investments sees good returns in emerging markets
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The financial services firm, Russell Investments, says Asia offers some good returns for long-term savers, but warns that an emerging market portfolio requires careful management.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: investors, Russell Investments
Duration: 1'32"
12:24
Midday Markets for 28 July 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'49"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 28 July 2016
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The Hurricanes captain Dane Coles has been bracketed in the starting lineup for their Super Rugby semi-final against the Chiefs in Wellington on Saturday.
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Duration: 2'33"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 28 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'55"
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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
The War For Auckland
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The Spinoff is at war. For Auckland.
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The Spinoff is at war, over Auckland. Why? it says the housing crisis has forced our most vulnerable onto benches and into cars and garages, and left hundreds of thousands more living in sub-standard accommodation, with no prospect of ever owning an adequate home in the city they grew up in.
And it says the greatest need and opportunity is a massive increase in the quantity of good, warm, dependable and affordable housing, served by fast and efficient public transport and within its current footprint.
Toby Manhire joins us to explain.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 8'56"
13:25
A Whale of a Mystery
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A mysterious new breed of whale has been discovered, after washing up on an Alaskan shore. A whale corpse, more than seven metres-long, was discovered in 2014 and has helped researchers identify the new species. It's believed the species lives in the in the Bering Sea between Japan and Alaska. Phillip Morin, is a molecular geneticist, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
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A mysterious new breed of whale has been discovered, after washing up on an Alaskan shore.
A whale corpse, more than seven-metres long, was discovered in 2014 and has helped researchers identify the new species.
It's believed the species lives in the in the Bering Sea between Japan and Alaska.
Phillip Morin, is a molecular geneticist, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center, who has been working on finding out what the whale is.
He talks to Jesse Mulligan about what he found out.
Topics: science
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Duration: 10'31"
13:36
From Puppet shows to film costumes
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Young Gisborne woman, Brighde Penn has been sewing for as long as she can remember. As a child she would make dresses and puppets for her own puppet shows. After training as a costume maker at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama school, she is now heading to Britain to do a masters in costume design at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of music and drama.
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Young Gisborne woman, Brighde Penn has been sewing for as long as she can remember. As a child she would make dresses and puppets for her own puppet shows.
After training as a costume maker at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama school, she is now heading to Britain to do a masters in costume design at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of music and drama.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Costumes, Puppets, Brighde Penn
Duration: 7'05"
13:43
Favourite album:
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They Might be Giants - 'Here comes Science', chosen by Karen Monks.
Topics: music
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Tags: Kindie Rock
Duration: 17'08"
14:07
Theatre Critic
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Dione Joseph reviews the Auckland Theatre Company's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Dione Joseph reviews the Auckland Theatre Company's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 5'59"
14:14
Geoffonomics: The Economics of Cannabis
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A recent Official Information Act request revealed some back of the envelope Treasury calculations about the legalisation of marijuana. Economist Geoff Simmons asks if this something we should really be looking at or is it just smoke and mirrors?
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A recent Official Information Act request revealed some back of the envelope Treasury calculations about the legalisation of marijuana.
Economist Geoff Simmons asks if this something we should really be looking at or is it just smoke and mirrors?
Topics: politics
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Tags: marijuana
Duration: 15'11"
14:29
History - Rivers
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We hear a lot of about rivers and water quality in the news - and its an issue that has been on the mind of our history commentator, Law Professor, Jacinta Ruru - who is the Co-Director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga - which is NZ's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Today she's looking at the history and laws around our rivers.
Topics: environment, history
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Duration: 11'37"
15:07
Masterpieces with Mana Magazine Editor Leonie Hayden
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Our guest this week is Leonie Hayden, editor of Mana magazine. She's appearing at Hamilton's Spark festival in August talking about the representation of Maori in the media.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 16'32"
15:24
A kiwi in Abu Dhabi
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Like many kiwi's who've moved overseas, Liz Jones did it in part for the money. She lives in Abu Dhabi - the capital and the second most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, where she works at the government University.
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Like many kiwi's who've moved overseas, Liz Jones did it in part for the money. She lives in Abu Dhabi - the capital and the second most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, where she works at the government University.
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Tags: expats, Liz Jones
Duration: 6'58"
15:44
The Panel pre-show for 28 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 15'03"
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1:10 First song
1.15 The War For Auckland
The Spinoff is at war, over Auckland. Why? it says the housing crisis has forced our most vulnerable onto benches and into cars and garages, and left hundreds of thousands more living in sub-standard accommodation, with no prospect of ever owning an adequate home in the city they grew up in.
And it says the greatest need and opportunity is a massive increase in the quantity of good, warm, dependable and affordable housing, served by fast and efficient public transport and within its current footprint.
Toby Manhire joins us to explain.
1.25 Mysterious Whale Discovery
A mysterious new breed of whale has been discovered, after washing up on an Alaskan shore. A whale corpse, more than seven metres-long, was discovered in 2014 and has helped researchers identify the new species. It's believed the species lives in the in the Bering Sea between Japan and Alaska. Phillip Morin, is a molecular geneticist, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
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1:35 From Puppet shows to film costumes
Young Gisborne woman, Brighde Penn has been sewing for as long as she can remember. As a child she would make dresses and puppets for her own puppet shows.
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After training as a costume maker at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama school, she is now heading to Britain to do a masters in costume design at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of music and drama.
1:40 Favourite album:
2:10 Theatre Critic
Dione Joseph reviews the Auckland Theatre Company's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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2:20 Geoffonomics: The Economics of Cannabis
A recent Official Information Act request revealed some back of the envelope Treasury calculations about the legalisation of marijuana.
Economist Geoff Simmons asks if this something we should really be looking at or is it just smoke and mirrors?
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3:10 Masterpieces with Mana Magazine Editor Leonie Hayden
3:25 The Expats: Liz Jones on life in Abu Dhabi
Like many kiwi's who've moved overseas, Liz Jones did it in part for the money. She lives in Abu Dhabi - the capital and the second most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, where she works at the government University.
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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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15:44
The Panel pre-show for 28 July 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 15'03"
16:03
The Panel with Lavina Good and Peter Elliott (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Lavina Good and Peter Elliott have been up to. Will the Ministry of Vulnerable Children just be CFY under a different name? Should Teina Pora's compensation for wrongful imprisonment be inflation adjusted? The CEO of the Council for Infrastructure Development Stephen Selwood talks about the Auckland Unitary plan and what it will do for traffic.
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Duration: 25'39"
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The Panel with Lavina Good and Peter Elliott (Part 2)
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A bouncy castle has been set up at the US Democrats' National Convention to bring awareness to world poverty. What the Panelists Lavina Good and Peter Elliott have been thinking about. Outgoing US president Barack Obama has taken several swings at the Republican candidate Donald Trump. Employment lawyer Steph Dhyrberg discusses Rene Ranger's drink drive case and what Brendan McCullum can and can't say about Chris Cairns. Rio has been dogged by bad publicity, environental and crime problems around the Olympics. Is it time to flag it?
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Duration: 24'53"
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Lavina Good and Peter Elliott have been up to.
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Duration: 4'57"
16:12
A new government department replacing CYF
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Will the Ministry of Vulnerable Children just be CFY under a different name?
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Duration: 2'32"
16:15
Teina Pora's compensation
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Should Teina Pora's compensation for wrongful imprisonment be inflation adjusted?
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Duration: 3'03"
16:19
Unitary plan and traffic
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The CEO of the Council for Infrastructure Development Stephen Selwood talks about the Auckland Unitary plan and what it will do for traffic.
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Duration: 13'59"
16:36
Bono's bouncy castle for poverty
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A bouncy castle has been set up at the US Democrats' National Convention to bring awareness to world poverty.
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Duration: 3'55"
16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Lavina Good and Peter Elliott have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'56"
16:44
Obama disses The Donald
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Outgoing US president Barack Obama has taken several swings at the Republican candidate Donald Trump
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Duration: 5'09"
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Some legal insights on Rene Ranger and Brendan McCullum
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Employment lawyer Steph Dhyrberg discusses Rene Ranger's drink drive case and what Brendan McCullum can and can't say about Chris Cairns.
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Duration: 8'02"
16:57
Is this the last Olympics?
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Rio has been dogged by bad publicity, environental and crime problems around the Olympics. Is it time to flag it?
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Duration: 1'41"
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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
RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Thursday 28 July 2016
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Watch Thursday's full show here.
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17:09
Twelve sign up for govt relocation offer
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A total of 12 people have been paid out a government grant to move from Auckland to regional towns including Tawa and Invercargill.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: relocation, Tawa, Invercargill, Housing Shortage
Duration: 3'40"
17:12
Tweets cause employment row
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The Meatworkers' Union and Talley's-owned meat processing company AFFCO are caught up in a stoush over the Union's tweets, which AFFCO says are untruthful, derogatory and breach the duty of good faith.
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Duration: 2'15"
17:15
Pharmac announces funding for chickenpox, HPV vaccines
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Chicken pox and HPV may become things of the past after New Zealand's drug buyer Pharmac announced further funding today for vaccines to prevent them.
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Duration: 3'28"
17:19
Auckland councillors try to exclude Maori members
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As Auckland's councillors assess their response to the Unitary Plan, a group has failed in its bid to exclude Maori representatives from the final debate.
Topics: te ao Maori, housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Unitary Plan, Auckland Council
Duration: 3'49"
17:22
Home ownership out of sight for working poor
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The voices of young, poor people are often missing from debates on housing supply and demand, with no obvious lobby group to speak for them. John Campbell went to Manukau to investigate.
Topics: housing, inequality
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 7'42"
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Home ownership out of sight for working poor
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The voices of young, poor people are often missing from debates on housing supply and demand, with no obvious lobby group to speak for them. John Campbell went to Manukau to investigate.
Topics: housing, inequality
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Housing supply, Manukau
Duration: 7'42"
17:31
Evening business for 28 July 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
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Duration: 4'14"
17:36
Biden, Obama speak out at DNC
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The third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia saw a rousing speech from US President Barack Obama -- and a blistering attack on Donald Trump from VP Joe Biden.
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Duration: 3'18"
17:39
Man sentenced for mistreating bobby calves
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A Waikato man has been given ten months' home detention and 200 hours' community work for wilfully and recklessly mistreating bobby calves at a pet food plant in Te Kauwhata last August.
Topics: farming, crime
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Te Kauwhata, Bobby calves, animal cruelty
Duration: 3'27"
17:44
Charity under pressure to provide hygiene kits
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Children's charity Kidscan says low-decile schools are increasingly asking them to provide hygiene packs for students whose parents are unable to afford deodorant, soap and toothbrushes.
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Duration: 4'56"
17:49
Hollande attends mass for murdered priest
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French President Francois Hollande joined hundreds at a mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral to honour the 85-year-old priest killed in a knife attack by terrorists earlier this week.
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Duration: 1'28"
17:51
Tongan PM promises action on passports
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Controversy over the sale of thousands of Tongan passports has dominated the first day of Tongan PM 'Akilisi Pohiva's visit to New Zealand.
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Duration: 2'39"
17:54
National kapa haka festival in 16th year
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The national secondary schools' Kapa Haka festival is underway in Hawke's Bay this week, with hundreds of students taking part.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 2'47"
17:57
David Jones opens in Wellington
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Hoards of people queued for hours on Wellington's Lambton Quay this morning, desperate to get inside the new David Jones department store.
Topics: life and society, business
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: David Jones, shopping
Duration: 2'18"
18:09
Crackdown on freedom camping in Christchurch
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Christchurch councillors today voted to permanently ban freedom campers travelling without toilets on board.
Topics: transport, life and society
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: freedom camping, Christchurch
Duration: 2'34"
18:11
Blackadder signs with English club Bath
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Outgoing Crusaders rugby coach Todd Blackadder is heading to England having signed a three year deal with club side Bath.
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Duration: 4'02"
18:15
Prisoner advocates unhappy with Parole Board slip-up
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After the Parole Board sent a prisoner's private information to the wrong victim, prison reform proponents have spoken out in support of prisoners' rights.
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Duration: 2'54"
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Will Rio be free of dopers?
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The New Zealand men's rowing four will not compete at the Rio Olympics after Russia confirmed it would put together a crew for the event.
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Duration: 4'03"
18:22
NZ audiences still favour TV, radio
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This year's NZ on Air survey has shown TV and radio are still the nation's favourite form of media, despite the rapid rise in popularity of online platforms.
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Duration: 3'17"
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Mini-housing building boom in Niue
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An increase in tourism to the island of Niue has prompted the need for many new houses - though a broken supply ship has caused hiccups in the building process.
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Duration: 3'05"
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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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The Problem with Fighting Cancer
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Dr Dhruv Khullar is a resident in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital with interests in health policy, bioethics, and journalism. We'll ask him why we use metaphors when talking about disease and the issues with using of military metaphors around cancer.
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Dr Dhruv Khullar is a resident in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital with interests in health policy, bioethics, and journalism. Bryan Crump asks him why we use metaphors when talking about disease and the issues with using of military metaphors around cancer.
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Duration: 17'10"
20:12
Central Auckland Walking Tour (Part 1)
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Historian Edward Bennett takes Bryan Crump on a Auckland Heritage Tour.
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Historian Edward Bennett takes Bryan Crump on a Auckland Heritage Tour.
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Duration: 16'33"
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7:12 The Problem with Fighting Cancer
Dr Dhruv Khullar is a resident in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital with interests in health policy, bioethics, and journalism. We'll ask him why we use metaphors when talking about disease and the issues with using of military metaphors around cancer.
7:35 At the Movies
Simon Morris looks at the 13th Star Trek movie, Star Trek beyond, and a film called Demolition, in which Jake Gyllenhaal has to break up his life to put it back together again. He also talks to Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson, whose film Rams was a big winner at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
8:12 Walking K Road
Historian Edward Bennett takes Bryan on a Karangahape Road Heritage Tour.
8:30 Window on the World
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?
9:07 Our Changing World
Inspiring Pacific Island students about healthy living and science using a flume swimming pool, why science inspires two Year-6 students, rogue waves, and a first look at the idea of a Predator-Free New Zealand by 2050.
9:30 This Way Up
Dan Lyons was a senior tech journalist who lost his job and joined a tech startup run by people half his age; and that's where the fun really began! Teased by a crew of narcissistic, ping-pong playing millennials, spouting management speak and corporate gobbledegook, the experience confirmed some of his worst fears about flaws in the tech startup sector. On the plus side it gave him plenty of material to use when he became a writer on the hit TV show Silicon Valley
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 Music 101 pocket edition
Progressive pop artist Maala offers an insight into his debut album, Candian Twins Tegan & Sara explain their stadium pop swing and Andrew Keoghan on the influence of the "Big Apple"
===7:30 PM. | At The Movies===
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A weekly topical magazine about current film releases and film related topics
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At The Movies for 28 July 2016
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On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the 13th Star Trek movie, Star Trek beyond, and a film called Demolition, in which Jake Gyllenhaal has to break up his life to put it back together again. He also talks to Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson, whose film Rams was a big winner at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
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Star Trek Beyond Review
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The latest in the franchise, with Fast and furious director Justin Lin taking over from J J Abrams. Written by co-star Simon Pegg.
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Duration: 8'15"
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Demolition Review
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An independent American film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, and directed by Jean-Marc (Dallas Buyers Club) Vallee.
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Interview Rams Director Grimur Hakonarson
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An extended interview with Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson, whose film won the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival last year.
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Duration: 11'51"
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Featured this week – Star Trek beyond, directed by Justin Lin, of Fast and furious fame…
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz46uuoVKXA
Demolition is the new film from Jean-Marc Vallee, of Dallas Buys’ Club fame…
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOSiVECp8M
And an interview with Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson, whose film Rams won the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SADRDD38zts
===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | Our Changing World===
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Highlights from the world of science and the environment, with Alison Ballance and Veronika Meduna
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Project Activate - swimming in a flume
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Project Activate involved a group of 12-year-old Pacific Island students learning about healthy living and science - and it included a swim in a research flume pool.
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Take a bunch of Pacific Island students, add a nutrition expert and a physical education researcher and you have Project Activate.
The aim of Project Activate, which ran for a week during the school holidays, is to enthuse the 12-year-olds about healthy living and about science.
Finau Taungapeau is health promotion team leader at the Pacific Trust Otago, she says Project Activate has a couple of aims.
“We want to motivate and encourage them to take up science at school, but also at the same time we’re looking at healthy living, healthy eating and being active and fit.”
Nutrition expert Rebecca Wilson says the students are at the age where they’re starting to choose subjects, and also forming habits to take through their lifetime.
"This is a good time to influence them.”
Finau says the role of the Pacific Trust Otago is to get our people to be healthy, and also to try to excel in whatever subjects they want to do.
As well as cooking workshops, a sports tournament, the students get to experience different exercise equipment at the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago.
Scientist Jim Cotter led the exercise component of the Project, which included a swimming challenge in the flume, a circulating water channel is the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
The flume is 10 metres long and contains180 tonnes of water, which Jim says: “is a fair bit to get cranking around, essentially in a big loop".
He says the purpose of the week is to show the students how different forms of exercise can be valuable for heart health, and are all different.
He also says it’s important for them to experience how it feels to get their heart rate working at different levels of exertion.
“If they measure their heart rate while they’re doing these different forms of exercise then, if they want to, they can have some idea as to how hard they working their heart when they’re swimming, or cycling or running.”
“We’re also doing basketball, and hopefully what they’ll find there is their heart rate can be really high and they can get a really good cardiovascular workout doing a team game, yet they’re not even thinking about it.”
He points out that swimming, along with rowing, is a sport that is very good at oxygenating the brain, as it uses arms as well as legs.
Jim Cotter has previously been on Our Changing World talking about heat, exercise and heart health.
Topics: science, health, Pacific, life and society
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Duration: 11'17"
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Inspired by Science
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Year-6 students Ava Beens and Eilish Cassidy take part in the 2016 International Science Festival in Dunedin, and give a 2-minute speech on what inspires them about science.
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At the recent International Science Festival in Dunedin, Year-6 students Ava Beens and Eilish Cassidy spoke at the 'What Inspires Me' event.
They were part of a series of two-minute talks by women talking about why science inspires them, and the two St Clair primary school students shared the stage with the likes of NASA’s Deputy Administrator.
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Duration: 4'20"
21:20
Rogue waves
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Rogue waves are rare, massive waves and Craig Stevens explains that although 'we know one when we see one' we don't understand how they form.
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In mid-July, RNZ reported the Maritime Union claiming that “a rogue wave may have caused two trailers to break their storm chains and topple off a Bluebridge ferry crossing the Cook Strait.”
And in September 2015 RNZ also reported that “an Auckland ferry company blamed a rogue wave for injuring two of its passengers on a ferry headed for Waiheke Island.”
So, what is a rogue wave?
Craig Stevens is an ocean physicist at NIWA and the University of Auckland, and he says they are unusually large waves, that are much larger than the background sea state. He also says they are very rare.
According to Wikipedia, “the first scientific evidence of the existence of rogue waves came with the recording of a rogue wave by the Gorm platform in the central North Sea in 1984. A stand-out wave was detected with a wave height of 11m in a relatively low sea state.[5] However, the wave that caught the attention of the scientific community was the digital measurement of the "Draupner wave", a rogue wave at the Draupner platform in the North Sea on January 1, 1995, with a maximum wave height of 25.6 metres (peak elevation of 18.5 metres).”
“They’re considered to be something you find mainly in deep water, and that’s not where we have a lot of wave measurements,” says Craig.
University of Auckland physicist optical physicist Miro Erkintalo is part of an international team investigating how lasers and optical fibres can be used to understand rogue waves. While it is impossible to study rogue waves at sea, as they are uncommon and unpredictable, optical rogue waves can be studied under controlled conditions in the lab.
Craig says that normal waves are caused by wind pulling up the surface of the water, and he says that waves are able to travel for incredibly long distances across the world’s oceans. Rogue waves are an interaction between wind and currents, but no one understands exactly how or why they form.
Craig works on understanding the strong tidal currents that move through Cook Strait, which he acknowledges is one of the most turbulent stretches of water in the world.
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Duration: 5'27"
21:30
Predator Free NZ - ambitious and under-funded
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The Government has announced ambitious plans to make New Zealand predator-free by 2050 - but how achievable is it?
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The New Zealand Government’s announcement that it wants to make New Zealand predator-free by the middle of this century is exciting, aspirational – and very under-resourced. It’s also not possible with existing technology.
The Predator Free New Zealand (PFNZ) 2050 target, announced on 25 July by the Prime Minister and a supporting cast of Ministers, involves setting up a new public-private partnership company, to help fund regional large-scale predator eradication programmes.
It’s great to see Government taking this ambitious idea seriously, although you do have to ask why they’re giving money for this at the same time they are starving the Department of Conservation of funds.
That aside, predator-free is an idea that already has lots of community volunteers, as well as DOC rangers, out on the ground trapping and poisoning, all with the aim of saving our previous native biodiversity.
And some of this country’s greatest minds are already thinking up more effective ways of dealing with the pest problem.
The focus will be on rats, possums and mustelids. But when we say rat, we mean three species of rats – ship, Norway and kiore - as well as mice. And there are weasels and ferrets as well as stoats. And let us not forget feral cats, which are often the elephantine feline in the room, although John Key acknowledged in his announcement that feral cats will be targeted.
That’s eight species that need to be controlled, and the order in which they are controlled is very important. We already know that if we remove possums from forest, then ship rat numbers increase – unintended consequences are a real risk.
The technology to eradicate eight species of mammals from New Zealand doesn’t yet exist. Good progress is being made in incrementally improving existing trapping technology, self-resetting traps have been developed, and species specific toxins, such as PAPP for stoats have been shown to work.
But what this ‘Apollo moonshot’ requires will be left-field break-through – gene drives, perhaps, or Trojan females that produce sterile sons.
Timeline and aims
DOC’s website lays out the following aims, which includes research as well as management:
‘2020 goals
Develop a collaborative predator control strategy.
Another 175,000 hectares in addition to the current 1 million hectares on conservation land and 7 million hectares led by OSPRI are under some form of control.
Five projects supported by PFNZ are making progress, and sharing lessons.
PFNZ and DOC will tackle larger scale operations.
Collaborative results will show social and economic benefits.
PFNZ will foster community participation in local predator control activities.
2025 goals
Increase by 1 million hectares the areas of New Zealand where predators are suppressed.
Demonstrate predator removal in areas of mainland New Zealand of 20,000 hectares.
Remove all mammalian predators from New Zealand’s offshore island nature reserves.
Develop science solutions that remove at least one small mammal predator from the New Zealand mainland.’
The size – and cost – of the problem
New Zealand’s land area is more than a quarter of a million square kilometres, and the Government is initially putting in $28 million over four years, although it has also said it will match private and Council input, putting in $1 for every $2 contributed.
By comparison, the Antipodes Island mouse eradication has just cost about $4 million to get rid of one species on a tiny island that is just 22 square kilometres in size.
Just last year James Russell, from the University of Auckland, and Andrea Byrom, from Landcare Research and Director of the Biological Heritage Challenge, published a paper saying that the cost of ridding New Zealand of predators over 50-years would be more than $9 billion. This makes $28 million seem more than a little inadequate.
The Royal Society of New Zealand produced an interesting position paper on Challenges for Pest Management in New Zealand that takes a wider look at agricultural pests and weeds, as well as vertebrate pests.
The key to successful predator eradications is getting support from local communities. So far it is proving difficult to achieve this, as proposed eradications on Lord Howe Island in Australia, and on Great Barrier and Stewart islands in New Zealand have shown.
Predator free on Our Changing World
We have produced many stories under the theme predator-free, and here is a selection of them, including stories about new technologies.
The Science of Predator-Free New Zealand with Andrea Byrom and James Russell
The 'pee' in pest control - developing super lures
'Trojan Females' - A Novel Idea for Pest Control
Stoat Toxin and the Spitfire Trap
Killing Rats With Self Setting Traps
Self-setting Possum Traps
Possum-free Otago Peninsula
Science Behind 1080 Use in Conservation
Innovation in Conservation: includes an award for developing an early response system for monitoring predator traps and bait stations
New Zealand leads world in island conservation: how invasive mammal eradications lead to animals being actively saved
Antipodes Island mouse eradication successfully completed
'Team Rat' Completes World's Largest Island Eradication on South Georgia Island
Lord Howe Island proposed Rodent Eradication
Resolution Island Stoat Eradication
James Russell talks about Seabirds, Rodents and Islands
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===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Barack Obama speaks out for Hillary Clinton; an unlikely doctor; the economics of dope; and in Dateline Pacific there's info on peacekeeping in the Solomon Islands.
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | Music 101===
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Music, interviews, live performances, behind the scenes, industry issues, career profiles, new, back catalogue, undiscovered, greatest hits, tall tales - with a focus on New Zealand/Aotearoa (RNZ)