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Morning Report is a news and current affairs programme on Radio New Zealand National. It broadcasts nationwide every weekday morning for three hours and covers major national and international stories, as well as business, sport, Pacific and Māori news. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s website (note internationally sourced news packages may not necessarily appear in the rundown):
06:07
Sports News for 15 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'11"
06:16
Pacific News for 15 September 2014
The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'36"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 15 September 2014
News from the rural and farming sector.
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Duration: 4'02"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 15 September 2014
The Maori Women's Refuge in Whangarei says more wahine are becoming confident at reporting domestic violence incidents; The Maori Party co-leader, Te Ururoa Flavell, is warning tangata whenua to vote carefully otherwise it could mean the end of Maori seats; A prison reform advocate says the Department of Corrections needs to think about tangi as being a healing process rather than a security exercise; The Commissioner assigned to review election processes at a Northland kura says he was initially stopped from entering the school by people opposed to his arrival.
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Duration: 3'24"
06:33
Labour Party would create sovereign wealth fund if elected
The Labour Party says that, if elected, it would create a sovereign wealth fund that could see shares in state-owned energy companies bought back.
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Duration: 2'12"
06:47
Infratil sells Australian energy businesses for $A605 million
Infratil has sold its Australian energy businesses for 605 million Australian dollars to Snowy Hydro, the operator of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
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Duration: 3'36"
06:51
$252 million off Xero's value after resignation
Investors shaved as much as 252 million dollars off Xero's value on Friday after the company revealled its North American head, Peter Karpas, has stepped down after just 6 months in the job.
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Duration: 3'18"
06:54
Rakon CEO says company will return a profit in FY 2016
The Rakon board of directors faced some angry shareholders at the annual meeting in Auckland on Friday afternoon, wanting to know when the company will return to profitability.
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Duration: 2'58"
06:57
Investors look forward to an action-packed week
The Federal Reserve meeting in the United States, local economic growth figures and the general election are among events the markets will be watching keenly.
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Duration: 1'46"
07:07
Sports News for 15 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'31"
07:10
PM defends stance on GCSB, dismisses Dotcom
With only five days until the election, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald, is promising to reveal new details on the government's spy activities.
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Duration: 7'55"
07:18
Journalist promises to reveal mass surveillance by GCSB
Glenn Greenwald responds to John Key's claims about the GCSB, and talks about the documents he is releasing on Monday night.
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Duration: 8'38"
07:27
Fiji campaigning ends in run up to Wednesday's vote
All political campaigning in Fiji has now finished and all the promotional banners, posters, shirts and caps should be off the streets.
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Duration: 2'58"
07:35
Australia to send troops to the Middle East
Australia is to send 600 military personnel to the Middle East as international efforts to take on Islamic State extremists step up.
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Duration: 4'58"
07:40
P use or labs in state houses cost taxpayer $1.55 million
State houses that may have been used as P labs have cost the taxpayer more than one point five million dollars in the past two years.
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Duration: 3'01"
07:43
Political leaders agree they would struggle on low income
The country's political leaders agree they would struggle to live on the incomes of the poorest households.
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Duration: 2'39"
07:46
Paula Bennett outlines Nats policy for children and families
The Social Development Minister, Paula Bennett, launched details of National's children and families policy yesterday.
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Duration: 12'58"
07:51
MP says more needs to be done for homeless teens
Questions are being asked about how and why a teenager killed in a housefire in Christchurch over the weekend had ended up without a home of his own.
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Duration: 2'47"
07:56
All Blacks test against Springboks a major step up
Saturday night's 14-10 triumph over South Africa in the Rugby Championship gives the All Blacks a three year unbeaten run against the Springboks.
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Duration: 3'32"
08:07
Sports News for 15 September 2014
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'19"
08:10
PM considers releasing classified documents on GCSB
The Prime Minister says he'd be prepared to release classified documents on the GCSB to protect his reputation, information that he hadn't previously considered to be in the public interest.
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Duration: 6'44"
08:17
Intelligence analyst on Glenn Greenwald's GCSB revelations
Listening to that is an intelligence analyst from 36th Parallel Assessments, Paul Buchanan.
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Duration: 5'15"
08:23
Britain vows to 'confront' ISIS menace
The British prime minister, David Cameron, says those responsible for the beheading of the British aid worker, David Haines, will be hunted down and brought to justice, no matter how long it takes.
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Duration: 5'05"
08:28
Wages lag despite more productive firms
Firms are becoming more productive, but it's not being reflected in workers' pay packets. Our economics correspondent, Patrick O'Meara has been looking at the reasons.
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Duration: 3'10"
08:29
Markets Update for 15 September 2014
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 1'14"
08:36
Labour claims NZ could become world leader in clean technology
The Labour Party claims its new sustainable investment policy, NZ Inc, could see New Zealand become a world leader in clean technology.
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Duration: 2'47"
08:40
NZ's treatment of people with disabilities under spotlight
For the first time, New Zealand's treatment of people with disabilities is to be scrutinised by the United Nations.
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Duration: 3'07"
08:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 15 September 2014
A prison reform advocate says the Department of Corrections needs to think about tangi as being a healing process rather than a security exercise; The Maori Women's Refuge in Whangarei says more wahine are becoming confident at reporting domestic violence incidents; The Maori Party co-leader, Te Ururoa Flavell, is warning tangata whenua to vote carefully otherwise it could mean the end of Maori seats; The former chair of a Northland Maori immersion school is defending the actions of ex-Board of Trustee members and parents after two powhiri were cancelled and the school's Commissioner was stopped from entering its grounds.
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Duration: 3'51"
08:49
Poor children still under-represented in exam help figures
Poor children with learning disabilities are missing out on help when sitting their NCEA exams.
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Duration: 2'48"
08:52
Conservatives say support in Napier seat is growing
The Conservative Party says its support in the Napier seat is growing and it believes people will vote strategically on Saturday.
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Duration: 3'14"
08:55
Fate of UK hangs in balance after latest Scotland polls
With just four days of campaigning ahead of Scotland's independence referendum, the opinion polls suggest the outcome is still too close to call.
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Duration: 3'12"