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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):
06:06
Sports News for 14 April 2015
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'56"
06:18
Pacific News for 14 April 2015
The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'46"
06:21
Morning Rural News for 14 April 2015
News from the rural and farming sectors
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Duration: 4'04"
06:25
Te Manu Korihi News for 14 April 2015
MPs have heard Te Puni Kokiri is operating with 40 vacancies; A Waitangi Tribunal report's told Hauraki tribes to fix internal troubles over their rights to ancestral moutains - because it's not the Crown's problem to sort out; A tribal council in South Westland says if it can't stop a tourist highway being built in its takiwa, it will call on the wider Ngai Tahu iwi for help; New Zealanders in Sydney are preparing for celebrations this week to mark a milestone of Maori history in Australia.
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Duration: 3'24"
06:38
Wild wintry blast set to move north today
An unseasonal cold snap across the country has come three months too early.... but is set to start easing today.
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Duration: 2'58"
06:41
PM maintains nobody owns water
Negotiations between the Crown and iwi over Maori freshwater rights are continuing despite the Prime Minister reiterating that nobody owns the resource.
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Duration: 2'33"
06:44
Auckland lawyer wants to take on quake insurers
An Auckland lawyer is weighing into Christchurch's insurance woes, warning group action could set a precedent for how insurance companies handle major natural disasters in the future.
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Duration: 2'49"
06:49
Inflation will hit bottom in Q1
Cheaper petrol is likely to have driven down the cost of living in the first three months of this year.
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Duration: 1'46"
06:51
Borrow-and-spend days are over
Consumers are ditching their borrow-and-spend ways and learning to live more within their means.
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Duration: 1'49"
06:53
Australia's M2 buys CallPlus telco for $250 million
M2, the Australian telecommunications and utilities provider, has bought New Zealand's CallPlus for a quarter of a billion dollars.
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Duration: 1'31"
06:54
Just Water to diversify following sale of Australian business
Just Water International says it is looking to expand its business to include healthy-lifestyle goods and services.
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Duration: 1'11"
06:55
Adventure park looks to expand customer numbers
The adventure park firm, Adrenalin Forest, began operating in Christchurch in 2006 and then expanded to Wellington and Bay of Plenty.
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Duration: 2'12"
06:58
Morning Markets for 14 April 2015
The Dow Jones Index is down 44 points to 18,013.
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Duration: 51"
07:07
Sports News for 14 April 2015
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'03"
07:11
Wintry blast moves north after sweeping over South Island
The country is shivering under an unseasonal cold snap, with extensive snow showers from the Desert Road in the north, to Dunedin in the south .. the good news is that the wintery system should start easing today.
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Duration: 5'34"
07:16
Australia-New Zealand co-hosting gig may be unrealistic
Australia's expensive - and failed bid - to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup means it is unlikely to have any interest in co-hosting the world's biggest sporting event in with New Zealand in 2026.
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Duration: 4'32"
07:23
Serious failings found in care of intellectually disabled man
In a rare move, the public health watchdog has referred a caregiver to the director of proceedings for many serious failings in the care of an intellectually disabled man.
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Duration: 3'28"
07:27
Medical Council calls for debate on health data
The Medical Council wants a debate about what information the public should be given about the performance of doctors.
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Duration: 5'50"
07:35
Minister reviews 'punitive' aspects of zero-hours contracts
The Government is considering changing labour laws to rule out the most punitive parts of zero hours contracts
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Duration: 5'49"
07:41
Andrew Little on potential scrapping of zero hours contracts
The Labour leader and former union leader Andrew Little joins me now.
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Duration: 6'42"
07:48
Will TV3 changes prompt funding for current affairs?
TV3's decision to review the future of Campbell Live is leaving some media commentators wondering if broadcasters will seek public funding for current affairs programmes.
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Duration: 4'36"
07:57
Online tax take campaign launched
New Zealand retailers hope to convince the Government it's taking a hit by not taxing cheaper goods purchased online.
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Duration: 3'30"
08:07
Sports News for 14 April 2015
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'14"
08:11
Republican strategist on Clinton bid
While Hillary Clinton still has to win the Democratic Party nomination to contest the US presidency next year, her political opponents in the Republican Party have already been gearing up to fight her.
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Duration: 6'31"
08:18
Relucant landlords shirking free insulation deal
A publicly funded programme to insulate houses for poor people is struggling to get landlords on board, with some saying it's because they can't be bothered dealing with the red tape.
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Duration: 3'30"
08:22
PM maintains nobody owns water
The Prime Minister says the Government will continue to work with iwi over Maori freshwater rights but maintains nobody can own the resource.
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Duration: 2'33"
08:24
Some iwi seeking ownership in water talks
A short while ago I spoke to the Freshwater Iwi Leadership Group adviser Willie Te Aho who told me at least some iwi are seeking to assert ownership rights.
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Duration: 4'04"
08:28
Forty years on, airlift to save Vietnamese babies remembered
Forty years on from an operation that took thousands of orphans out of war-torn Vietnam, a New Zealand man is one of many using DNA technology to find out more about his past.
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Duration: 4'03"
08:32
Markets Update for 14 April 2015
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 49"
08:38
Girl raped by ISIS now pregnant
A nine-year-old Kurdish girl is pregnant after being kidnapped and raped by militants.
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Duration: 3'40"
08:44
Te Manu Korihi News for 14 April 2015
A Waitangi Tribunal report's told Hauraki tribes to fix internal troubles over their rights to ancestral moutains - because it's not the Crown's problem to sort out; MPs have heard Te Puni Kokiri is operating with 40 vacancies; A tribal council in South Westland says if it can't stop a tourist highway being built in its takiwa, it will call on the wider Ngai Tahu iwi for help; New Zealanders in Sydney are preparing for celebrations this week to mark a milestone of Maori history in Australia.
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Duration: 3'38"
08:48
Vinyl revival sees Official Vinyl Chart published.
Noel Gallagher's single, Ballad of the Mighty I, has topped the new vinyl singles chart, launched in Britain last night.
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Duration: 3'17"
08:52
Elderly couple turned away from ANZAC tour because of walker
A couple wanting to join an Anzac weekend tour by train say they feel discriminated against as they were turned away by a tour operator because one of them requires a walker.
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Duration: 3'41"
08:55
Country's oldest science institute celebrates 150 years
There were no universities or bank notes in New Zealand 150 years ago, but there was a science organisation.
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Duration: 4'26"