0600 News/Sport
0615 Good Morning "Rural" NZ : See Rural Report Rundown
0630 News/Weather/Māori News
0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. Margaret Inge.
0700 NEWS LIVE
00:04:34 FLOODS: Heavy rain battered the SI yesterday. Maurice Bradshaw - Kaikoura Civil Defence Officer LIVE
00:02:43 FLOODS (2): Peter Connors - Operations engineer for Transit NZ
00:01:33 HAWKES BAY 1893: Is the weather worse than it used to be?
00:01:39 LOST AT SEA: It could be hours before rescuers reach four people who have spent 10 days lost and drifting in the oceans off Fiji. Peter Fowler
00:02:12 ACC ABUSE: Accusations that doctors and health specialists are cheating the ACC system. Kerry Lamont
00:03:20 VEHICLE SAFETY RULES: Land Transport Safety Authority to speed up the development of new vehicle safety rules. Jonathan Schwass
00:00:14 DIC SANTA: Children reminded that Santa must observe drink drive laws.
00:02:13 STATISTICS: NZ says it has produced incorrect overseas debt figures. Anna Hughes i/v Dennis Trewin - Deputy Government Statistician
00:02:42 HUMAN RIGHTS: Says it acted purely in an advisory role to the Justice Department over allegations of prisoner beatings at Mangaroa Prison. Paul Allen
00:01:34 CHRISTMAS PUDDING: Prisoners give up Xmas pudding to give young offenders better Xmas. Nona Pelletier
00:00:32 CLINTON: Has revealed that in the privacy of their home he and his family sometimes act out the parts of Christmas Carols.
0727 WEATHER
0730 NEWS & SPORT
00:00:43 COMA: A young mother is expected to be able to have a family Christmas after being in a coma for many months. LIVE
00:04:09 AUSTRALIANS: Appear to be thinking of moving away from close defence with the US. Terrence O'Brien - former UN ambassador and current academic.
00:01:26 ONEHUNGA: We've heard the National Party accused by Labour of using scumbag tactics.
00:00:35 PAKISTAN: PM Benazir Bhutto has announced a special gift of
00:03:05 million rupees as a special Christmas gift for the poor and needy. METROPOLITAN PAPERS:
0800 NEWS AND REGIONAL ROUNDUP:
00:07:34 TANGIWAI DISASTER: 40 yrs ago today one of NZ's greatest tragedies took the lives of 150 people
00:00:44 CHRISTMAS TREE EXPORT: Is this a forestry market NZder's haven't entered yet.
00:02:47 ROAD CHRISTMAS REPORT: Police remind motorists to be careful - avoid another christmas eve tragedy. Nona Pelletier i/v Police Asst Commissioner Phil Wright
00:00:59 CHRISTIAN STUDIES: An American biblical scholar received a great Christmas present this year.
0830 NEWS:
00:02:16 GARDEN GERM: Germ causes death by Gardening. Gillian Durham Commission chief executive i/v by Kerry Lamont
00:03:36 BUGS: Look out for the Australian two-spined spiders. Rud Kleinpaaste -entomologist.
00:01:26 WHITEBAIT: Has mysteriously appeared in large numbers on a West Coast beach. Arch Barclay i/v Ernie Unger of Paratanui
00:01:00 SUFFRAGE YEAR: Remember the controversy earlier this year over all those people who got suffrage medals. Charlotte Corday
00:02:37 EBENEZEER SCROOGE:
00:02:05 MORNING COMMENT: Derek Wigzell