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Wellington will not hold the V8 Supercar streetrace next year, leaving the future of the event in New Zealand in doubt. Kerry Prendergast (Wellington City Mayor); Mark Torley (Reporting from Wellington); Mark Blumsky (National Candidate, Wellington Central); Marian Hobbs (Labour, Wellington Central).
The Cardinals eligible to sit in conclave are now locked into the Sistene Chapel, not allowed to emerge until they have selected a new Pope to replace the late John Paul II. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is widely picked as the frontrunner, though usually the favourite does not win. Voxpop; Jim Maceda (NBC News); Monsignor Charles Burns (Former Vatican Archivist); James Walston (Vatican Analyst); Father Thomas Reese (Vatican Expert); Diana Dorahy (Rome Correspondent).
The smaller political parties are furious over the way money for political broadcast advertisements has been split up, with Labour getting a third. Helena Catt (Electoral Commission Chief Executive); Fran Mold (Reporting from Wellington); Stephen Joyce (National Party General Manager); Rod Donald (Green Party Co-Leader); Winston Peters (New Zealand First Leader).
There has been an increase in the number of prostitutes working in New Zealand, which has been blamed on the decriminalisation of prostitution. Gordon Copeland (United Future, List).
A special sitting of the Pitcairn Island's Supreme Court is deciding whether the six men found guilty of sexual abuse of children should go to jail or not. Simon Moore (Pitcairn Chief Prosecutor); Ewart Barnsley (Reporting from Papakura).
Talks in Beijing between Japanese and Chinese officials have failed to settle or smooth over angry protests in China over a Japanese history book that glosses over the wartime atrocities committed by Japanese.
Protesters have disrupted what was expected to be a friendly series of meetings between Ngati Porou and Crown Officials. Luke Donnelly (Protest Spokesman); Api Mahuika (Ngati Porou Spokesman); Gideon Porter (Reporting from Gisborne).