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0700 NEWS ACC - govt plans to tighten rules for payment in attempt to cut $400m from ACC budget. Minister Bruce Cliffe to release discussion paper next month. (Anna Hughes) ACC - Coalition on ACC spokesperson Ross Wilson says govt increased administration costs tenfold with 1992 Act and is using the costs as excuse for illegible cuts to scheme, aiming to privatise it. (Maria Slade) ACC - live i/v with ACC consultant Don Rennie about minister's proposals. HUI - govt prepares plan to gather Māori views on fiscal envelope proposal if intended consultation process disrupted by protestors. PM Jim Bolger and Treaty Negotiations minister Doug Graham say if protests get out of hand, hui could be cancelled. (Anna Hughes) HUI - first of hui on fiscal envelope planned for Rotorua next week. Chief exec of Māori Development ministry, Wira Gardiner, says it will go ahead despite threats of protest action. (Lualemana Tino Pereira) HUI - police plan tactics to deal with attempts to disrupt hui. (Glenda Wakeham) WAITANGI DAY - Race Relations Office investigating complaints about confrontation and conflict at Waitangi celebrations. Conciliator John Clarke says events have significantly set back race relations and lost ground must be recovered as soon as possible. He's i/ved live. LABOUR PARTY - leader Helen Clark tells caucus to focus on National rather than Alliance this year, indicating Alliance no longer seen as threat. Live i/v with Helen Clark.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS SCHOOLS - Alliance releases survey which it says shows govt's special needs illegible system is robbing poor schools to pay even poorer ones. Comment from Michael Deaker, Education ministry, and Beth Pithkerley of Gisborne High School. (Maria Slade); live i/v with Education minister Lockwood Smith. PRINCESS DIANA - NZer Bryce Taylor, who secretly took photos of princess working out at his London gym, settles out of court. Live i/v with correspondent Keith Chalkley. ASPAC/PAPERS
0800 NEWS/WEATHER BABIES - AK researcher Dr Jane Harding finds link between form of chest therapy performedon premature babies, standard practice worldwide, and brain damage and death. Live i/v with Dr Harding. TAX CUTS - economist Brian Easton believes govt could bring in tax cuts by end of year, calls on govt to look at effective marginal tax rates for beneficiaries which discourage them from moving into work. Comment also from beneficiary Craig Wordsworth. (Stephen Ward) COOK ISLANDS TAX INQUIRY - Inland Revenue Dept continues providing details of complex tax dealings of some of NZ's largest companies today. Investigator John Nash has told inquiry of millions of dollars passing through tax havens to reduce liabilities in NZ. (Martin Gibson) EUROPE - EU officials discuss proposals to fine cinema-goers every time they see a non-European film, as part of French-led campaign to protect Europe's own film and TV industry from "cultural invasion". (John Fraser) WAITANGI DAY - live i/v with European Union representative Dr Dietrich Hammer, who was present at the celebrations that were disrupted and cancelled. SCHOOLS - parents of children attending Mangere's Arahunga Intermediate meet to discuss how to fight merger proposal put forward by Education ministry. Live i/v with chair of Board of Trustees, Christine Hazelman. REGIONAL NEWS
0830 NEWS/SPORTS WATERFRONT WORKERS' Union wants non-union labour banned from wharves to protect jobs of 1300 of members. Waterfront workers and National Distribution Workers' Union want law changed to allow return of "closed shops" banned under Employment Contracts Act. Comment from Trevor Hanson, Waterfront Union, and Mike Jackson, Distribution Union. ENERGY COMPANIES - Energy Direct buys holding in Power New Zealand in effort to speed up proposed 3 way merger also involving Hamilton's WEL Energy. Comment from Mike Underhill, Energy Direct, and Laurie Lennon, convenor of the Energy Shareholders' Protection Assn. (Stephen Hewson) U.S. - President Clinton fails in attempt to end baseball players' strike. ive illegible with "Guardian"' Washington correspondent Martin Walker. ASTHMA RESEARCHERS to embark on hunt for house dust mites in public places. High levels of the allergen discovered in WN homes. I/v with WN School of Medicine researcher Dr Julian Crane. (Mng Rpt) COMMENT FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.