ONE NEWS. 09/08/2007

News, sport and weather.

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has gone off during a taxpayer funded trip to Australia to visit an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia. Ron mark (New Zealand First MP); Hone Harawira (Maori Party MP).

Louise Nicholas has said that the guilty verdict for former Rotorua CIB Head John Dewar has restored her faith in police. Donna-Marie Lever (One News); Louise Nicholas (Complainant).

The Government will fasttrack the process to allow controversial power pylons to be constructed from Waikato to Auckland. Guyon Espiner (Political Editor); Pete Hodgson (Cabinet Minister); Ralph Craven (Transpower Chief Executive); Jeanette Fitzsimons (Green Party Co-Leader).

Nia Glassie's body has been buried. Glassie's death had ignited concerns over domestic and child abuse in New Zealand. Billie Jo Ropiha (One News); Iva Singsam (Nia's Aunty); Bill Teariki (Cook Islands Consulate).

The Iranian asylum seeker who has been on a hunger strike for over a month has been released on bail.

The take-up rate for KiwiSaver is far ahead of what was expected, and even the Opposition is now refusing to criticise it.

There has been another drop in the official unemployment rate.