0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: ALLIANCE CONFERENCE ends with aggressive stance towards Labour. Leader Jim Anderton tells delegates Alliance must etch role in next govt on own terms. Cool response from Labour. Comment from Jim Anderton, Helen Clark, Phillida Bunkle, Sandra Lee and Matt McCarten. (Clare Sziranyi)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 SPORTS STORY: RUGBY - ALL BLACKS defeat Wales 42-7 at Wembley Stadium. This week sees build-up to 2nd test against England. Live i/v with commentator Graeme Moody.
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: BLACK ECONOMY - research carried out for Inland Revenue by economist David illegible shows substantial amounts of income never declared and govt may be missing out on billions of dollars of tax. Comment from IRD's general manager of policy Robin Oliver, John Shewan of Coopers and Lybrand, ACT MP Rodney Hide, and builder Trevor Allsebrook. (Alannah Kalafatelis)
0639 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: MANAGED FUNDS INDUSTRY set for further shake-up, according to head of AMP Investments, Roger Grevile. AMP has bought National Bank subsidiary Southpac Investment Management. (Sharon Brettkelly) CELLPHONES - Commerce Commission prosecutes national retailer for alleged breaches of Fair Trading Act. Frequent breaches in industry prompting Commission to take action to force compliance with Act. (Sharon Brettkelly) FINANCE/MARKETS JAPAN - YAMAICHI SECURITIES COLLAPSE causing other Japanes brokerage firms to feel heat of customer anxieties that they too are concealing trading losses. (BBC); PRyutaro Hashimoto reaffirms gvot will use public funds only to protect depositors and not to prop up ailing banks. (AAP) ASIAN ECONOMY - finance minister and senior officials from 14 Asian nations and illegible hold 2 days of meetings in Kuala Lumpur this week, expected to focus on proposed regional rescue fund and Malaysia's call for rules to govern currency trade. (RTR) WORLD TRAD ORGANISATION - senior exec says next round of major trade talks look set for year 2,000. Deputy director-general Chulsu Kim, currently visiting NZ, says round may be based on already planned single issue negotiations, including agriculture. (Rodney Joyce) BUSINESS BRIEFS
0700 INTRO/NEWS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE - leader Jim Anderton says Alliance must be part of next govt if it's to have voice at cabinet table, so why has he risked antagonising Labour by saying it needs Alliance backbone? - i/ved. (Mng Rpt); live i/v with Political editor Al Morrison. WEATHER - STRONG WINDS cause damage in Southland. Invercargill emergency services kept busy with over 100 reports of power lines and poles blown down and roofs coming off houses. Live i/v with mayor David Harrington. CLIMATE CHANGE conference opens in Kyoto this week, aim of reaching agreementon how to control it. While there's widespread scientific acceptance that world is heating up and greenhouse gases are largely to blame, there's no widespread agreement on how to deal with it. Comment from Dr Martin Manning, NIWAR, Environment minister Simon Upton, Maria Robertson of Greenhouse Policy Coalition, and Adam Laidlaw, Greenpeace. (Jonathan Schwass) CHILDREN ALONE - still no sign of parents of 2 children found wandering in New Plymouth playground on Saturday evening. Live i/v with Constable Geoff McGrath. LORD OF THE DANCE star Michael Flatley ill and NZ shows cancelled. Ticketholders will have money refunded but that's no consolation for those who wanted to see him. (Lisa Owen) NZ PAPERS illegible NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE UPDATE BLACK ECONOMY - tax-free, under-table transactions estimated to cost NZ govt up to $3 billion a year in lost taxes, according to report written for Inland Revenue by Prof David Giles, Canada's Univ of Victoria. He's i/ved live. WORLD AIDS DAY - Russia has highest growth rate of AIDS in world, largely due to drug use according to experts. (Alistair Wanklin) LEASEHOLD LAND - Angry West Coast lessees of Māori reserve land meet to consider next stage of campaign to wrest more compensation from govt, say deal offered in Māori Reserved Land Amdt Bill comes nowhere near what's needed to compensate them for losses. Live i/v with Ivan Willis, Taranaki farmer. MONDAY OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (NSW bush fires)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER ALLIANCE CONFERENCE lays bare feelings towards Labour Party and reaffirms party's principles in preparation for election. I/vs with commentator Chris Trotter and Alliance chair Matt McCarten. (Mng Rpt) RENTAL HOUSING - advocacy group Friendship House says tenants in South AK worse off now than 4 years ago despite millions of dollars of accommodation supplement, planning further research to see whether that's been fuelling local rents and property prices. (Todd Niall) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS INDIA - COALITION COLLAPSES, snap election to be called unless Hindu nationalist opposition, BJP, and allies can form govt; bomb blasts this weekend in New Delhi kill 2 people and injure 58 others. I/v with correspondent Ranjan Gupta. SINN FEIN LEADERS Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to meet British PM Tony Blair at 10 Downing St this week, first time Sinn Fein leader has entered building since Michael Collins in 1921. Unionists and Tories angry about meeting. (Keith Chalkley) illegible FISH - Fisheries ministry investigating possibility that commercial fishers may have dumped hundreds of dead snapper that washed up on Coromandel beaches. Live i/v with Steve Atwill, Fisheries compliance officer for Coromandel.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS CRICKET - NZ's 3rd test against Australia in Hobart could still produce some kind of solid result. Day notable for NZ's century from makeshift opener Matt Horne, replacing Blair Pocock. Live i/v with commentator Bryan Waddle. CLIMATE CHANGE - Kyoto conference seen by some as last-ditch effort to deal with legacy of consumer society and whether world steps back from brink of ecological disaster before it's too late. Live i/v with Greenpeace campaigner Adam Laidlaw. TEACHER TRAINING - British education consultant Dr Geoffrey Partington, in report written for Education Forum, says teacher training institutions over -emphasis ethnic and gender issues, argues it's symptomatic of ideological capture in Colleges of Education. Report also argues in favour of allowing range of new providers to enter teacher education, funding them on same basis as state institutions. Live i/v with Education Forum's Phil Raffils and Lester Taylor principal of DN College of Education. CHRISTCHURCH HERITAGE group formed to preserve it embarks on multi-million dollar project to save character of central city. Heritage Trust working towards creating residential precinct within inner city. Comment form city concillor and Trust member Anna Crichton, Ian Clark of Civic Trust, and Dame Cath Tizard, Historic Places Trust. (Lauren McKenzie) WORLD AIDS DAY - Otago Medical School releases figures showing that to end of September this year, 18 NZ children under 15 diagnosed with HIV and 6 notified with AIDS. Live i/v with CH Hospital's head of paediatrics Prof David Teele. PAPUA NEW GUINEA - BRIBERY - PM Bill Skate orders deputy PM and leader of one of coalition parties be sacked, says they're scheming to depose him. Another illegible filmed videotape screened shows Mr Skate boasting he'd ordered killing of Highlands man who shot at him and claiming to be "godfather" of Port Moresby's street gangs. Live i/v with PNG expert Prof Ted Wolfres.