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Checkpoint FOR MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012
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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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A passenger on board the international flight quarantined at Auckland airport this morning says the bio-security measures were chaotic and a joke. Lauren Borgas (Borgis) was on the Air New Zealand flight from Tokyo and was at the back of the plane sitting near the 73 Japanese school children with suspected flu. She says at one stage during the quarantine process the children were allowed to mix with other passengers with no symptoms and then when officials realised were hurriedly ushered into another room. Ms Borgis says the pilot announced when the plane landed at 9.25 that health officials would be boarding the aircraft but it was an hour and a half before they arrived. She says Air NZ staff couldn't get any information about what was going on. PREREC
Julia Peters headed the team from the Auckland Regional Public Health Service that was called to the airport this morning. Officials there were worried about the large number of people on the flight who were apparently ill although it was later confirmed they did not have the flu. But Dr Peters is defending the time it took to get on the plane. PREREC
Four people have gone on trial today accused of being part of alleged military-style camps in Te Urewera National Park. The trial comes after years of legal arguments and protests alleging police over-reacted with their raids under anti-terrorism laws, centred on the Bay of Plenty in 2007. And today there've been yet more protests, with scores of people gathered outside the High Court in Auckland, some carrying placards. One of the four accused Tame Iti says he's happy to see the support. CUT At the heart of the case are charges of participating in an organised criminal group. Our reporter Natalie Mankelow joins us now from outside the court. LIVE
To Los Angeles now where the post-mortem on singer Whitney Houston's body has been completed. The pop-star was found dead at the weekend in a hotel room in Beverly Hills and investigators are trying to piece together what happened. Here's county coroner Ed Winter.
CUT In recent years Whitney Houston's life had been blighted by drink and drugs, but the coroner wouldn't be drawn on whether they played a role in her death. CUT County coroner Ed Winter talking to reporters in Los Angeles. The singer's death has overshadowed the Grammy Awards being held in LA tonight Our correspondent in LA, Brad Pomerance has been watching them and joins us now LIVE
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1720 TRAILS AND BUSINESS WITH Jonathan Mitchell
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Public Service chief executives are continuing to spend tens of thousand of dollars on travel, accommodation and food but the man responsible for monitoring their spending is spartan in comparison. The latest release of chief executives expenses from July to the end of last year reveal the State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, spent just under fifteen hundred dollars (1480). Other chief executives spent much more in the six month period. Our political editor Brent Edwards has been looking at the figures. LIVE
The Greek government's won a crucial vote for a new round of tough spending cuts so it can get another multi-billion dollar bailout. The vote's provoked fury outside the Parliament where angry crowds hurled rocks and molotov cocktails at police, who shot back with stun-grenades and tear gas. Reporting from Athens, the BBC's Chris Morris : PKG
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17.30 HEADLINES
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The Pike River inquiry's been told the mine's equipment was set up in such an unusual way it would've been impossible to know what how it would cope a dangerous underground environment. An Australian mining consultant Tony Reczek (Re-zick) told the Royal Commission today the Pike Mine staff would have had no idea how major equipment such as the main ventilation fan would react to the likes of power surges. And he says it should have been tested before it was put underground. CUT Our reporter Rebecca Quilliam has been following the hearing today, and she joins us now. LIVE
The Prime Minister's flagged more state sector mergers and is not ruling out further redundancies as the Government continues to trim its budget. At his regular post Cabinet news conference today, John Key indicated major changes could be ahead. READER + CUTS
A former territorial solder says cuts to the number of reserve soldiers could undermine the Army's ability to help in peace-keeping missions overseas. The Defence Force says the reserve army will be cut by 600 funded positions to no more than 12-hundred. It says the move will save more than nine-million dollars. The Defence Minister, Jonathan Coleman, declined to be interviewed - saying a review was currently underway on how the cuts would be made. Carl Scott was a former Corporal in the Territorial Force. PREREC
The black and white silent film The Artist, has dominated this year's BAFTA ceremony in London, taking seven awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Male Actor. The BBC's Vincent Dowd was at the ceremony at the Royal Opera House for the big occasion:
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A month-long inquiry to decide if Wellington's major new motorway gets built has begun.
An Environment Protection Authority board of inquiry is considering resource consent for Transmission Gully, a 27 kilometre long inland highway to supplement the congested State Highway One heading north from the capital. Our reporter Cushla Norman has been at the environment court.....LIVE
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17.45 MANU KORIHI
Kia ora mai good evening,
Tūkoroirangi Morgan has met with his lawyers after he failed to be re-elected to Waikato-Tainui's executive, Te Arataura.
An election of officers - including his former position of Chair - was held yesterday in Hopuhopu near Ngāruawāhia.
Rosemary Rangitauira reports:
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Submissions are starting to pile up for the political inquiry into the status and well-being of Māori children.
It's being carried out by the Māori Affairs select committee - looking at six different areas, including public money spent on tamariki, health, education, social services, and the justice sectors.
One submitter is a collective of Māori and non-Māori organisations, Te Ora o Manukau.
Its Co-Chair, Tania Kingi, argues there needs to be a greater emphasis on family, because whānau well-being equates to tamariki well-being.
She says the idea of the well-being of children being independent of the well-being of other whānau members doesn't work for Māori - particularly for a people whose welfare is based upon tribalism and collectivism.
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The chair of Ngā Hapū o Ngāruahine Incorporated in South Taranaki says feedback from Treaty Settlement consultation meetings, suggests a collective approach is the way to go.
A series of three hui up and down the country last year called on tribal members to have their input and look at strategies to move treaty settlements forward.
Daisy Nobel says at the last hui in December Ngāruahine joined up with another Taranaki iwi Te Ātiawa who are also going through Treaty settlements.
She says the collaboration meant more people attended the meeting which both iwi recognised was a better way of making progress, and are keen for other Taranaki tribes to come on board.
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The number of Māori women going for breast cancer screening is rising.
Sixty two per cent of wāhine are now getting mammograms - an increase of 10 per cent in the space of 3 years.
The Ministry of Health's manager in charge of National Screening Unit, Jacqui Akuhata-Brown, says health providers are investing a lot of time in getting women to enter the programme - and come back.
She says the support includes collecting women from their homes and driving them to the clinic to be screened.
That's Te Manu Korihi news, I'll have a further bulletin in an hour.
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The Waikato Regional Council says it didn't tell Thames people about possible poisoned soil five years ago because the report that raised the alert belonged to the Ministry for the Environment. The 2006 report just obtained under the Official Information Act warns that the Moanataiari subdivision may be contaminated because it's so close to reclaimed land that has high levels of mercury. The author suggests further testing and that this should be kept confidential. Last year the Council publicly revealed the subdivision had high levels of arsenic.
The chair Peter Buckley denies the council wanted to keep the 2006 information secret from the public. PREREC
Regional taxes, higher rates and road tolls are being looked at to make up for a funding shortfall of up to 15 billion dollars in Auckland. The money is to pay for huge transport upgrades. Briony Sowden reports PKG