0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 Māori NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: ACC - changes. (Karen Gregory-Hunt)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 SPORTS STORY: RUGBY - live i/v with commentator Graeme Moody.
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: ACC - changes. Comment from Ross Wilson, Coalition on ACC
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: COLONIAL insurance and banking group launches public share float. Comment from chief financial officer Tim Wade. (F Tino Pereira) FINANCE WESTPAC moves to take over Bank of Melbourne, only days ahead of release of Wallis Inquiry report into Australian financial sector. (Zandra Sharpe) TIP TOP - new owners, Perth-based Peters and Brownes, expect bigger and better for the combined companies. (Gyles Beckford) FOODLAND GROUP, Australian retailer and wholesaler posts record profit of almost $A28 million for 6 months ending January. Group owns NZ's Farmers Deka and Progressive Enterprises. (F Tino Pereira)
0700 INTRO/NEWS ACC minister Jenny Shipley considering tightening up on minor claims, include making decision on whether there should be level below which either the injurillegible person or their employer pays medical costs. Similar to excess scheme run in private sector. Live i/v with Jenny Shipley. MP JOHN BANKS says he's prepared to cross floor and vote against govt if it reneges on tax cut promises, says he's had enough of politicians being deceitful - i/ved. (Mng Rpt); what will coalition govt do if John Banks cross the floor, given its majority of one? Live i/v with Chief Whip John Carter. INCOMPETENT TEACHERS - Education Review Office head Judith Aitken tells Parliamentary select committee there's large number and they shouldn't contirillegible to be employed. Comment also from ACT MP Donna Awatere-Huata, and Labour's Steve Maharey. (Al Morrison) FIJI - MULTIRACIAL CABINET - Parliamentary select committee agress to multiracial cabinet under new constitution. Live i/v with correspondent Shiu Singh.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE update with Gyles Beckford. BRITAIN - BOMB ALERTS - rush hour traffic thrown into disarray when 3 motorwa illegible shut down by series of alerts thought to be work of IRA. Live i/v with correspondent Keith Chalkley. POLICE WAGES - govt accused of short-changing police over wage agreement. Police minister Jack Elder confirms govt will meet $12 million of $15 million cost put on last year's wage round, but Midland regional commander Bruce Scott says that's not the deal put to police during last year's negotiations. (Kerry Lamont) PAPUA NEW GUINEA - CRISIS - Tim Spicer, head of mercenary company hired by govt, questioned at judicial inquiry investigating contract with Sandline International. I/v with correspondent Sean Dorney. WESTPAC continues expansion drive, announces plan to buy Bank of Melbourne, still digesting acquisition of Trustbank with full merger expected to be completed next year. (Bronwen Evans) SPAIN - ETA separatist group claims responsibility for 5 attacks in recent months, including assassination of Supreme Court judge. Supreme Court declassifies documents relating to "dirty war" fought between Spain's last Socialist govt and ETA. Live i/v with correspondent Adela Gooch.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER ACC - "excess" scheme annoys physiotherapists. Live i/v with Physiotherapists Society vice president Ian Carrick and with lawyer Linda Kaye. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS FIJI - MULTIRACIAL CABINET - Parliamentary select committe makes recommendatior in favour as part of review of Reeves Commission proposals for constitutional change. live i/v with Commission's head, former NZ Governor General Sir Paul Reeves. MP JOHN BANKS releases his biography, talks about how he turned his life around after both his parents were imprisoned. (Mng Rpt) SUPERANNUATION - PM Jim Bolger accused to trying to scare people into voting in favour in referendum on compusory superannuation, claiming growth in number of retired people makes current scheme unsustainable. (q). Todd Taskforce member Michael Littlewood and Diana Cook of NZIER say he's wrong, while ACT spokesman Ken Shirley says he's right. (Mark Henderson)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS TENNIS - NZ team plays today in Jakarta in Davis Cup world group qualifying tie with Indonesia. I/v with player Alistair Hunt. (Mng Rpt) BIRD SMUGGLING - joint wildlife taskforce cracks international smuggling ring, say, case is symptomatic of increasing problem. AK Man charged with possession of undeclared goods after being searched at AK Airport. Comment from MAF spokesman Robert Brewer and Chris Laidlaw, chief exec fo Worldwide Fund for illegible. (Eileen Cameron); live i/v wiht Jane Holden, "Traffic Oceania", Sydney-based group set up by WWF to monitor trade in wildlife in this part of world. TRANZRAIL accused of charging too much to export coal from West Coast. Buller's mayor and local council say Tranzrail treating West Coast as cash cow, want to build new facilities at Westport to export more coal to Australia while Coal Corp also looking at other alternatives. Comment from mayor Pat O'Dea, Transrail's Fred Cockram, and Tony King, Coal Corp. (Kiri Coughlan) FEEDBACK OZ SPOT - live i/v with Phil Kafcaloudes.