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A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
05 June 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 The Truth About Aids (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 NZ Society (RNZ); 2:30 The Sampler; 3:05 Between the Lines, written and read by Elisabeth Easther (4 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour
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06:00
Top Stories for Friday 5 June 2015
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Lecretia Seales, the terminally ill Wellington woman who asked for the right for a doctor to help her to end her life, has died overnight of natural causes. We'll talk to a close friend of the Wellington lawyer shortly. Housing advocates respond to a coroner's finding a cold, damp state house contributed to a child's death. They say thousands of children are suffering because of poor living conditions and Dunedin cleans up after its one-in-100 year flood, we'll hear how the clean up's going from Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull.
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Duration: 33'52"
06:06
Sports News for 5 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 2'00"
06:10
Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales has died
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Lecretia Seales, the 42-year-old Wellington lawyer with terminal brain cancer, died of natural causes at 12.35am this morning.
Topics: law
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Tags: right to die, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 1'08"
06:21
Pacific News for 5 June 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags:
Duration: 2'52"
06:24
Morning Rural News for 5 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags:
Duration: 3'56"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 5 June 2015
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Bay of Islands College says some of its school buildings are unsafe to work in because they are in a dilapidated condition; A workforce survey has revealed that even Maori organisations are guilty of not following tikanga Maori or values; The leader of a Far North delegation opposing oil exploration in Te Reinga Basin says some shareholders in Norway's biggest oil giant are backing its campaign to stop looking for oil in New Zealand waters.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'09"
06:40
Health trust handles hundreds of housing complaints a year
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A health group in South Auckland says housing problems are the single biggest cause of complaints to its advocacy service.
Topics: health, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Emma-Lita Bourne
Duration: 2'35"
06:43
Foreign Minister heads to Ramallah
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The Foreign Minister says he believes it is possible the Israeli Prime Minister and President of the Palestinian Authority could agree to meet.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Palestinian, Israel
Duration: 3'38"
06:49
Kirks may escape Wellington street-scape if deal approved
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Shares in Kirkcaldie and Stains have jumped by 28 percent after its board recommended to investors that the Australian retail giant David Jones take over the high-end Wellington department store.
Topics: business
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Kirkcaldie and Stains
Duration: 2'18"
06:51
BurgerFuel expanding in the US this year
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Shares in the fast-food chain, BurgerFuel, have risen 22 percent after revealing it plans to open its first store in the United States later this year.
Topics: business
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Tags: BurgerFuel
Duration: 2'10"
06:53
Restaurant Brands' fast food sales have jumped
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Restaurant Brands' fast food sales have jumped, mainly thanks to more people eating at KFC.
Topics: business
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Tags: Restaurant Brands
Duration: 34"
06:54
Auckland house prices continue to rise
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Auckland's largest real estate agent is predicting supply will catch up with demand in the next year-and-a-half.
Topics: business
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Tags: real estate, Barfoot and Thompson
Duration: 1'01"
06:55
Founder of Martin Aircraft Company has resigned
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The founder of Martin Aircraft Company has resigned from the board following a disagrement over the direction of the company.
Topics: business
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Tags: Martin Aircraft Company
Duration: 1'21"
06:56
English to consider taxing ACC investments
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The Finance Minister Bill English says he'll consider taxing ACC's investments in order to bring it into line with the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.
Topics: business
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Tags: New Zealand Superannuation Fund, ACC
Duration: 1'37"
06:58
Morning Markets for 5 June 2015
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On Wall St, stocks have fallen after economic news showed US nonfarm productivity fell sharply while Greece told the International Monetary Fund it will delay Friday's 300 million euro debt repayment.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'29"
07:07
Sports News for 5 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 1'17"
07:10
Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales has died
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Lecretia Seales, the 42-year-old Wellington lawyer with terminal brain cancer, died of natural causes at 12.35am this morning.
Topics: law
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Tags: right to die, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 5'58"
07:17
Experts say thousands of kids affected by cold, damp housing
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Housing experts say a toddler who died due to sickness in part caused by a cold, damp home is the tragic face of an issue facing thousands of children.
Topics: housing, health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: cold, damp, pneumonia
Duration: 3'50"
07:21
English responds to criticism of state houses
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Listening to that is the Minister Responsible for Housing New Zealand, Bill English
Topics: health, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: cold, damp, pneumonia
Duration: 5'26"
07:26
Clean up underway as Dunedin dries out
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Back now to Dunedin where the clean up of 170 properties and four flooded homes will continue today.
Topics: weather
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, floods
Duration: 4'07"
07:35
Thin blue line stretched thinner, says Labour and police union
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Police figures show the thin blue line has got a lot thinner, as the number of constables on the beat has dropped by almost 18 percent since 2009.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Police numbers
Duration: 3'01"
07:38
Farmers' hefty helmet fines came after repeated warnings
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A Marlborough couple Phillip Jones and Maria Carlson have just had a 40-thousand dollar fine for riding quadbikes around their dairy farm without wearing helmets reduced on appeal to the High Court.
Topics: farming, rural, law, crime
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: quadbikes
Duration: 6'52"
07:50
FIFA senior officials turn on themselves
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The former Fifa vice-president, Jack Warner, is vowing to tell investigators everything he knows about the corruption scandal engulfing the organisation.
Topics: sport
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Tags: FIFA, corruption, Jack Warner
Duration: 5'02"
07:55
Former employees react to Kirks' closure.
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It's had pride of place on Wellington's Lambton Quay for 152 years, but the department store Kirkcaldie and Stains is set to shut up shop for good.
Topics: business
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Kirkcaldie and Stains
Duration: 3'15"
08:07
Sports News for 5 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'00"
08:11
Greens say government needs to move faster to fix state houses
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The Green Party says the Government is not moving fast enough to insulate state houses.
Topics: politics, housing, health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: damp, cold, pneumonia
Duration: 4'46"
08:16
Documentary maker says toddler's death is not a surprise
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In 2011, Bryan Bruce investigated child health in New Zealand. His documentary helped put child poverty on the agenda at the election.
Topics: politics, housing, health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: damp, cold, pneumonia
Duration: 2'41"
08:19
Hotel investor warns of convention centre glut
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An international hotel investor is warning that the new hotel convention centres planned for New Zealand could go empty because of oversupply.
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Tags: convention centres, SkyCity
Duration: 3'59"
08:23
Warning that maintaining national super
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The rapidly rising cost of the superannuation may only be able to be met by reducing or containing spending on areas such as health and welfare.
Topics: politics
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Tags: superannuation
Duration: 3'48"
08:27
Elderly and disabled hit hardest in Dunedin's floods
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The clean-up is underway in Dunedin, where about 170 properties have been flooded.
Topics: weather
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, floods
Duration: 3'20"
08:30
Markets Update for 5 June 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'11"
08:35
Government concedes it's part of the Saudi problem
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The Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has conceded that the Saudi businessman, Hamood Al Ali Al-Khalaf, was not impressed with the Government when it didn't lift the ban on live sheep exports in 2010.
Topics: politics
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Tags: live sheep export, Saudi Arabia, Hamood al-Ali al-Khalaf
Duration: 3'36"
08:39
Cull continues as Mihi Forbes leaves Native Affairs
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Māori Television journalist Mihingarangi Forbes announced she was quitting as presenter of current affairs show Native Affairs yesterday.
Topics: media
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Tags: Mihingarangi Forbes, Native Affairs
Duration: 3'12"
08:43
Parents explain why Charter School model suits their kids
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The country's first Charter school's are making their first ever annual reports available to the public. And, overall, the results look good.
Topics: education
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Tags: Vanguard Military School, South Auckland Middle School, charter schools
Duration: 4'03"
08:45
Auckland housing accord running ahead of expectations
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The Government and Auckland Council say they're ahead of schedule at the mid-point of their three year housing accord, designed to increase the number of homes built in the city.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Housing Accord
Duration: 4'00"
08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 5 June 2015
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Bay of Islands College says some of its school buildings are unsafe to work in because they are in a dilapidated condition; A workforce survey has revealed that even Maori organisations are guilty of not following tikanga Maori or values; The leader of a Far North delegation opposing oil exploration in Te Reinga Basin says some shareholders in Norway's biggest oil giant are backing its campaign to stop looking for oil in New Zealand waters.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'18"
08:52
Substandard Chch rentals pushes family to live in a tent
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We've been reporting this morning on a coroner's finding that cold, damp conditions in a South Auckland state house may have contributed to the death of a toddler.
Topics: housing, health
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: cold, damp, rentals
Duration: 4'17"
08:56
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
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Tags: Australia, news
Duration: 3'11"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Reverse Living, by Catherine Chidgey, read by Miranda Manasiadis (F, RNZ)
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09:08
Campaigning lawyer Lecretia Seales dies
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The Wellington lawyer who took a landmark case to the High Court over assisted dying, had died just hours after receiving the judgement. Lecretia Seales was 42. She was a highly experienced public lawyer, who worked until very recently at the Law Commission. Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer is a friend and former colleague.
Topics: law, health, life and society
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Tags: right ot die, Lecretia Seales, assisted dying
Duration: 12'39"
09:20
Bryan Stevenson on tackling racism in the US justice system
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More than two people a day are shot and killed by police in the US, yet the government doesn't keep its own record. Top lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson, who Desmond Tutu calls 'America's Mandela', has spent decades challenging discrimination.
Topics: crime, life and society
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Tags: USA, police, justice, inequality, Bryan Stevenson
Duration: 16'30"
09:40
Woodville's Kevin McIntyre on artist Gottfried Lindauer
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A labour of love has turned into a European adventure with a couple devoted to celebrating the works of the former Woodville artist Gottfried Lindauer, invited to his homeland in the Czech Republic. Kevin McIntyre and his wife Joan set up a studio in Woodville in the Tararua District to show copies of the Bohemian portrait artist's work in 2001. Lindauer was a prolific portrait artist who specialised in portraits of Maori.
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Woodville's Kevin McIntyre on reviving interest in the works of the artist Gottfried Lindauer
A labour of love has turned into a European adventure. A couple devoted to celebrating the works of the former Woodville artist Gottfried Lindauer have been invited to his homeland in the Czech Republic.
Kevin McIntyre and his wife Joan set up a studio in Woodville in the Tararua District to show copies of the Bohemian portrait artist's work in 2001. Lindauer was a prolific portrait artist who specialised in portraits of Maori.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori
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Tags: Gottfried Lindauer, Tararua, painter, Czech Republic
Duration: 8'37"
09:49
Pacific correspondent Mike Field
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USA wants islands for bombing range. No more dolphin hunting in the Solomon islands? The political influence of China and Japan in the pacific.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 9'26"
10:06
Lydia Bradey the first New Zealand woman to climb Mt Everest
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Getting to the top of Mt Everest was for our most famous New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the making of a legend. But the same feat for Lydia Bradey, the first New Zealand woman to get to the top of the world, was surrounded in controversey. In 1988, at 27 Lydia was part of an international expedition, along with fellow New Zealanders Rob Hall and Gary Ball on Everest. Split into different teams, she eventually made the ascent on her own without oxygen, only to return to a storm of doubt cast over whether she'd made it to summit. A keen climber since her teenage years, having grown up as the only child of a solo Mother, much of Lydia's life has been devoted to being in the mountains.
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Lydia Bradey the first New Zealand woman to climb Mt Everest and her life story
New Zealander Lydia Bradey is the first woman to get to the top of Mt Everest without oxygen, but her solo feat in 1988 was surrounded in controversy.
Lydia was 27 and part of an international expedition, along with fellow New Zealanders, the late Rob Hall and Gary Ball on Everest. Split into different teams, she eventually made the ascent to the top of the world on her own, only to return to a storm of doubt cast over whether she'd made it to summit.
A keen climber since her teenage years, having grown up as the only child of a solo mother, much of Lydia's life has been devoted to being in the mountains. Her story is told in a new book, Going Up is Easy written with her friend Laurence Fearnley.
Topics: author interview, books
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Tags: Lydia Bradey, Going Up is Easy, Mt Everest, climbing
Duration: 38'01"
11:06
John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop in Wellington
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'Nanotech' by Denis Wright, published by Submarine, and 'Lullaby' by Bernard Beckett, published by Text Publishing.
Topics: books
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Tags: Children's Books
Duration: 6'22"
11:13
Music with Grant Smithies
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Grant Smithies jumps the ditch to get an earful of Australian music new and old.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 19'35"
11:32
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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The ongoing FIFA corruption scandal. New Zealand cricket tour of England.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: Brendan Telfer
Duration: 12'47"
11:49
The week that was
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With Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood.
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Tags: comedy, humour
Duration: 11'14"
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09:05 Campaigning lawyer Lecretia Seales dies
The Wellington lawyer who took a landmark case to the High Court over assisted dying, had died just hours after receiving the judgement. Lecretia Seales was 42. She was a highly experienced public lawyer, who worked until very recently at the Law Commission. Former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer is a friend and former colleague.
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09:20 Bryan Stevenson on tackling racism in the US justice system
More than two people a day are shot and killed by police in the US, yet the government doesn't keep its own record. Top lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson, who Desmond Tutu calls 'America's Mandela', has spent decades challenging discrimination.
09:30 Woodville's Kevin McIntyre on reviving interest in the works of the artist Gottfried Lindauer
A labour of love has turned into a European adventure with a couple devoted to celebrating the works of the former Woodville artist Gottfried Lindauer, invited to his homeland in the Czech Republic. Kevin McIntyre and his wife Joan set up a studio in Woodville in the Tararua District to show copies of the Bohemian portrait artist's work in 2001. Lindauer was a prolific portrait artist who specialised in portraits of Maori.
09:45 Pacific correspondent Mike Field
Pacific correspondent Mike Field with news from the Pacific including the American plan to turn a chain of islands into a bombing range - despite the locals being strongly opposed.
10:05 Lydia Bradey the first New Zealand woman to climb Mt Everest and her life story
New Zealander Lydia Bradey is the first woman to get to the top of Mt Everest without oxygen, but her solo feat in 1988 was surrounded in controversy.
Lydia was 27 and part of an international expedition, along with fellow New Zealanders, the late Rob Hall and Gary Ball on Everest. Split into different teams, she eventually made the ascent to the top of the world on her own, only to return to a storm of doubt cast over whether she'd made it to summit.
A keen climber since her teenage years, having grown up as the only child of a solo Mother, much of Lydia's life has been devoted to being in the mountains. Her story is told in a new book, Going Up is Easy written with her friend Laurence Fearnley.
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10:25 John McIntyre from The Children's Bookshop in Wellington
Nanotech by Denis Wright. Published by Submarine, ISBN 978-0-9941069-5-7
Lullaby by Bernard Beckett. Published by Text Publishing, ISBN 9781 99218275-3
10:45 The Reading: 'Reverse Living' by Catherine Chidgey
Read by Miranda Manasiadis. Livvy has isolated herself among the hubbub of online cultures in the new home she and Michael built, an example of 'reverse living'. (2 of 2, RNZ)
11:05 Music with Grant Smithies
Grant Smithies jumps the ditch to get an earful of Australian music new and old.
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
Brendan Telfer discusses Sepp Blatter; and who's tipped to replace FIFA's boss?
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood
Twitter: @JamesElliott8 / @gemmagracewood
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Artist: Broods
Song: Bridges
Composer:
Album:
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Time: 9.37
Artist: Eleanor Frieedberger
Song: Stare at the Sun
Composer:
Album:
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Grant Smithies music selection:
Artist: Twerps
Song: I Don't Mind
Comp: Twerps
Album: Range Anxiety
Label: Flying Nun/Chapter/Merge
Artist: Twerps
Song: Back To You
Comp: Twerps
Album: Range Anxiety
Label: Flying Nun/ Chapter/Merge
Artist: The Go Betweens
Song: Five Words
Comp: Grant McLennan/ Robert Forster
Album: Spring Hill Fair
Label: Beggar's Banquet
Artist: The Go Betweens
Song: Streets Of Your Town
Comp: Grant McLennan
Album: 16 Lovers Lane
Label: Beggar's Banquet.
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 5 June 2015
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Discharge without conviction for a Whanganui woman who admitted the manslaughter of her son and electronic consoles on Auckland buses are being replaced after one exploded.
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Duration: 14'49"
12:17
Eastern Bay Energy Trust makes second bid for Horizon
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The Eastern Bay Energy Trust is offering $4.41 a share in a takeover bid for the Whakatane-based Horizon Energy.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Eastern Bay Energy
Duration: 1'16"
12:18
Shortage of workers in construction reported
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The Manufacturers and Exporters Association report found total sales increased 14% in April, compared with the same month last year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags:
Duration: 42"
12:25
Midday Markets for 5 June 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Bryan Shepherd at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'32"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 5 June 2015
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The All Blacks and Hurricanes hooker Dane Coles has become the third player to commit long-term to New Zealand Rugby and the All Whites have climbed the FIFA world rankings by six places to 138th.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 2'40"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 5 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'23"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
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13:10
Your Song - To Build A Home
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Reuben Harcourt from Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast has just returned from Nepal. He's chosen "To Build a Home" by the Cinematic Orchestra.
Topics: music
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Duration: 14'36"
13:20
NZ Live - Jody Direen
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Rising country star Jody Direen plays songs from her new album 'Jody Direen Breaks Out" live in our Auckland studio on Hobson St.
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Rising country star Jody Direen plays songs from her new album Jody Direen Breaks Out live in our Auckland studio on Hobson St.
Topics: music
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Tags: Jody Direen, Jody Direen Breaks Out, New Zealand music
Duration: 37'23"
14:09
Hundertwasser Museum
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After years of debate it looks like the Hundertwasser museum will be built in Northland; people in Whangarei have voted by a huge majority for the plan to build the art centre in the city.
Topics: arts
Regions: Northland
Tags: Hundertwasser museum
Duration: 3'38"
14:20
Elizabeth Yates - First Woman Mayor in the British Empire
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The year is 1893, the month November and the people of Onehunga have just done an extraordinary thing. Only three months after New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote, this small Auckland borough elected the empire's first female mayor. Her name was Elizabeth Yates.
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“I wish you would call her to order.”
The year is 1893, the month November and the people of Onehunga have just done an extraordinary thing. Only three months after New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote, this small Auckland borough elected the empire's first female mayor. Her name was Elizabeth Yates.
She was born Elizabeth Oman in Scotland in 1845 and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of just eight. It is believed that the family lived in the Onehunga area from about 1855 onwards and this was where she would later marry Captain Michael Yates, a shipmaster, a politician and a fellow Scot. They were wed on 15 December 1875 at St Peters Church in Onehunga.
Michael Yates was a borough councillor for eight years and served as Mayor from 1888 to 1892. Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand says that during his term Elizabeth “assisted him with his duties”. Michael wasn’t well, however and his poor health forced him to stand down from the mayoralty in 1892.
In September of 1893 a Women’s Suffrage Bill was signed into law, giving women full voting rights. Elizabeth was the first woman to record her vote.
She also saw her chance to record another first. There were only ten weeks until the national and local elections but Elizabeth believed that she was ready to run for the mayoralty. She had already made a name and reputation for herself as a supporter of the suffragette cause and as a formidable debater in the Auckland Union Parliament. And the name Yates was by now well known in Onehunga political circles.
She accepted the nomination for mayor and began her campaign. Her only opposition was a local draper called F.W. Court. Elizabeth had a platform, she had experience and ability and she had name recognition, which was just as handy then as it is now. She was the one to beat.
On the 28th of November national elections were held and the next day local government had its turn. Elizabeth won the mayoralty with a majority of just 13 votes; a number that becomes slightly more impressive when you learn that only 227 ballots were cast. But she – and the voters of Onehunga – had done it. Elizabeth Yates was the first Lady Mayor in the British Empire.
Her win brought with it congratulations from Premier Richard Seddon and Queen Victoria as well as Elizabeth’s automatic appointment as Justice of the Peace – another first. It also brought the immediate resignation of the Town Clerk and four councillors in protest.
Elizabeth had the support of most of the council but some opposed her every action not on merit but simply because they objected to a woman as mayor. Meetings became, in the words of her obituary, “decidedly lively”. Large crowds filled the chambers wanting to see a “lady mayor” in action and some came from as far afield as Australia. On one occasion their rowdy behaviour forced Elisabeth to send for the constable to have the room cleared and the doors locked.
Declaring that she “would not have the council burlesqued’ Elizabeth Yates got down to business. In just a year she wiped the council debt and established a sinking fund, fixed the roads, paths and sewerage, re-established the local fire brigade and convinced central government to reopen the Waikaraka Cemetery. The town, she said, was now “in a better sanitary condition than any in the North Island”. Elizabeth always claimed that she stood for the ratepayers of Onehunga and their interests and took up the job of mayor only because her husband could not. It is clear, though, that the amount she had been able to accomplish in such short time indicated a very able administrator. But there still seemed to be a problem.
The New Zealand Herald described her as “forthright in expressing her opinions”. Others called her “tactless and dictatorial”. She may have been the first woman in New Zealand politics to be so described, but she certainly would not be the last. When election time rolled around again in 1894, opposition to her triumphed and she was beaten by a healthy 90 votes. After only a year, the first Lady Mayor in the British Empire was out of the chair. It would be another sixty years until New Zealand elected a second woman to the mayoralty.
Elizabeth Yates wasn’t finished with politics. She was elected to the Onehunga Borough Council in 1899 and stayed there for two years. A newspaper report of council proceedings at this time suggest that she did indeed have a sharp tongue as well as a keen grasp of council procedure and regulations. She attacked the mayor over ignoring the correct procedure when installing new councillors and his unauthorised expenditure of council funds and ordered him to repay the money. When a councillor interjected and was called to order by the mayor, he said “I wish you would call her to order.”
Michael Yates died in 1902. Seven years later, Elizabeth was admitted to the Auckland Mental Hospital and never came out again. Elizabeth Yates died on the 6th September 1918 and was buried alongside her husband.
Her obituary recalls Elizabeth’s term as mayor as “the most interesting period in Onehunga’s municipal history” and praises her accomplishments. “She had not the slightest idea of seeking any notoriety” when contesting the mayoralty but stood “simply in the interests of the ratepayers’. Nor, it continues, did she stand “from any idea of asserting woman’s position or in connection with woman’s suffrage”. The obituary concludes by praising her as a "first class butter maker who also made her own and her husband’s clothes".
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Women, the vote and equality
Produced by Justin Gregory.
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Topics: history
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Elizabeth Yates
Duration: 9'40"
14:20
Wellington Zoo vet nurse - Sarah van Herpt
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Rehabilitation of native birds and zoo animals. The zoo has just had its busiest summer, with 50-60 sick and traumatised native birds admitted to the hospital each month. Ex zoo-keeper, now vet nurse, Sarah van Herpt, talks about her enrichment programme, and her recent trip to China where she presented her work to international experts.
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Tags: native birds, animals, zoo animals, vet nursing, zoos, sick animals
Duration: 7'48"
14:45
Feature album - Big Love
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Brand new from British pop group Simply Red; "Big Love".
Topics: music
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Tags: Simply Red, Big Love
Duration: 13'36"
15:10
Fresh Fast Food with Jacob Brown
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Jacob Brown is the Chef/Co-Owner of The Larder restaurant on Darlington Road in Mirimar and has a recipe for Empanadas with Chimichurri.
Topics: food
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Tags: Chimichurri, Empanadas
Duration: 9'14"
15:20
Wine with Yvonne Lorkin
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Yvonne Lorkin with her weekend wine pics and a match for Empanadas and Chimichurri.
Topics: food
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Duration: 10'26"
15:30
High Court judgement - Lecretia Seales
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The High Court judgement in the case of Lecretia Seales, who died this morning, has just been released. Our reporter, Ruth Hill, has been reading the judgement.
Topics: law, life and society
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Tags: Lecretia Seales
Duration: 2'36"
15:35
Film review with Sarah McMullan
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Sarah McMullan has spent several hours in cinemas again this week, on our behalf. and reviews "Aloha", "Entourage" and "Tangerines".
Topics: arts
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Duration: 9'16"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 5 June 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'41"
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1:10 Your Song
To Build a Home by the Cinematic Orchestra. Requested by Reuben Harcourt.
1:20 NZ Live - Jody Direen
Rising country star Jody Direen plays songs from her new album 'Jody Direen Breaks Out" live in our Auckland studio on Hobson St.
[video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-I65xB43ok
2:10 Wellington Zoo vet nurse - Sarah van Herpt
Sarah talks about rehabilitating native birds and zoo animals. The zoo has just had its busiest summer, with 50-60 sick and traumatised native birds admitted to the hospital each month. Ex zoo-keeper, now vet nurse, Sarah van Herpt, talks about her enrichment programme, and her recent trip to China where she presented her work to international experts.
2:20 Our First Female Mayor - Justin Gregory
In 1893 the people of Onehunga did an extraordinary thing. This small borough elected the British Empire's first female mayor.
New Zealand Society
2:30 NZ Reading - Shark's Tooth Rock
Ross and Greg go on a doomed diving trip off Wellington's south coast.
2:45 Feature album
Big Love-Simply Red (2015).
3:10 Food, Wine and Movies
Jacob Brown's recipe for Beef Empanadas with Chimichurri
Weekend Wine - Yvonne Lorkin
Mid Price Magic
Villa Maria Cellar Selection Marlborough Dry Riesling $17.99
Clean, crisp, crunchy lime and riverstone minerality coming through. Zippy, cleansing and loaded with lemon. Often discounted and definitely a great start to a journey into dry riesling - brilliant stuff.
Summerhouse Marlborough Pinot Gris 2014 $18
Punchy pear and juicy peach flavours are smashed together with crunchy apple and spicy quince characters to create a lush, slightly sweet, fruit-packed taste sensation. It's a white wine that'll really please the crowds and appeal to those who like a splash of sweetness. It's got real personality and smile-factor.
Treat Yourself
Moana Park Gimblett Road Chardonnay 2013 $45
I love this style of chardonnay so much! Inside the bottle is a bunch of sexy butterscotch, mango and grapefruity goodness all dusted with cinnamon toast notes. It's silky and succulent to sip, beautifully balanced and boasting almond meal and cashew characters. Full, rich and generously proportioned, it's a complex, charming chardonnay. Great stuff.
Movie Review - Sarah McMullan.
This week: Aloha / Entourage / Tangerines
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Julie Moffett, Andrew Clay and Amanda Millar.
MUSIC DETAILS:
Friday 5 June 2015
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: The Cinematic Orchestra
TITLE: To Build A Home
COMP: Swinscoe / Watson
ALBUM: Ma Fleur
LABEL: NINJA TUNE 921200
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Simply Red
TITLE: Shine On
COMP: Mick Hucknall
ALBUM: Big Love
LABEL: WARNER
ARTIST: Simply Red
TITLE: Dad
COMP: Mick Hucknall
ALBUM: Big Love
LABEL: WARNER
ARTIST: Simply Red
TITLE: Big Love
COMP: Mick Hucknall
ALBUM: Big Love
LABEL: WARNER
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 5 June 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'41"
16:05
The Panel with Amanda Millar and Andrew Clay (Part 1)
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The woman who left her toddler in a hot car after forgetting he was there has been discharged without conviction. Legal expert Mark Henaghan joins the Panel to discuss the judge's decision. The Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales died overnight after taking a case for her to be allowed to end her life to the High Court. Ethicist Tim Dare joins the Panel to talk about the issue becoming politicised. The Conservation Minister Maggie Barry has suggested limiting the number of cats to two for each household and for the SPCA to put-down feral cats which are trapped.
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Duration: 23'54"
16:06
The Panel with Amanda Millar and Andrew Clay (Part 2)
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Amazing results in speech recognition programme Sound Hound. A new test can work out what simple health and lifestyle factors are best indicators of short-term death. Dr Hamish Jamieson joins the Panel to discuss how something as simple as how fast you walk can be an indicator of your health. Aussie department store chain David Jones is taking over Wellington's Kirkcaldie and Stains. Does it matter? The Australian state of Victoria is trying to ban students from putting their hands up in classrooms, as part of an experiment in changing how classes are run.
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Duration: 25'32"
16:10
Panel introduction
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What the Panelists Amanda Millar and Andrew Clay have been up to.
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Duration: 4'15"
16:14
No conviction over baby death
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The woman who left her toddler in a hot car after forgetting he was there has been discharged without conviction. Legal expert Mark Henaghan joins the Panel to discuss the judge's decision.
Topics: law, life and society
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Duration: 6'58"
16:20
Assisted suicide
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The Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales died overnight after taking a case for her to be allowed to end her life to the High Court. Ethicist Tim Dare joins the Panel to talk about the issue becoming politicised.
Topics: law, life and society
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Tags: assisted dying, quality of life, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 10'53"
16:30
Cat limits
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The Conservation Minister Maggie Barry has suggested limiting the number of cats to two for each household and for the SPCA to put-down feral cats which are trapped.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Maggie Barry, conservation
Duration: 1'33"
16:36
Speech recognition
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Amazing results in speech recognition programme Sound Hound.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 7'15"
16:42
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Amanda Millar and Andrew Clay have been thinking about.
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Duration: 4'23"
16:46
What your gait says about your lifespan
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A new test can work out what simple health and lifestyle factors are best indicators of short-term death. Dr Hamish Jamieson joins the Panel to discuss how something as simple as how fast you walk can be an indicator of your health.
Topics: health
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Duration: 8'41"
16:55
The end of a retail institution
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Aussie department store chain David Jones is taking over Wellington's Kirkcaldie and Stains. Does it matter?
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Duration: 1'37"
16:56
Thumbs down to hands up
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The Australian state of Victoria is trying to ban students from putting their hands up in classrooms, as part of an experiment in changing how classes are run.
Topics: education
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Duration: 3'10"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme 6:35 Focus on Politics Analysis of significant political issues presented by Radio New Zealand's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 5 June 2015
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Lecretia Seales loses right to die case, Amy Adams - govt. not going to take lead on assisted dying law, Mother discharged over toddler's death, Auckland Transport knew ticket machines could overheat, Millions of US federal workers have their pay records hacked, Whangarei says yes to Hundertwasser, Anti Euthanasia weighs in on Lecretia Seales case and Mother of a toddler who died in HNZ house speaks out.
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Duration: 29'58"
17:08
Lecretia Seales loses right to die case
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Lecretia Seales has lost her legal battle for the right to die on her own terms, with her family saying she was bitterly disappointed at the decision.
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: assisted dying, quality of life, right to die
Duration: 4'06"
17:11
Amy Adams - govt. not going to take lead on assisted dying law
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Justice Minister Amy Adams says the government is not going to take the lead on changing the law although she has enormous sympathy for Lucretia Seales' family.
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: quality of life, right to die, assisted dying
Duration: 3'34"
17:15
Mother discharged over toddler's death
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A Whanganui woman who admitted the manslaughter of her son broke down and sobbed when she was granted a discharge without conviction in the High Court at Whanganui today.
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Regions: Northland
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Duration: 4'18"
17:21
Auckland Transport knew ticket machines could overheat
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Auckland Transport knew last year that the ticketing machines on its buses could overheat, but didn't treat it as an urgent problem.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Transport, bus ticket machines, Auckland buses
Duration: 2'57"
17:24
Millions of US federal workers have their pay records hacked
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Millions of Americans who work for the Federal Government have had their pay records hacked in a vast cyber attack the US is blaming on China.
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Duration: 4'35"
17:28
Whangarei says yes to Hundertwasser
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The champagne corks are popping in Whangarei this evening, after a referendum result in favour of a Hundertwasser art centre.
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Regions: Northland
Tags: Whangarei, Hundertwasser museum
Duration: 3'37"
17:35
Evening Business for 5 June 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'54"
17:38
Anti Euthanasia weighs in on Lecretia Seales case
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Care Alliance argued giving Lecretia Seales what she wanted would effectively legalise assisted dying on demand which would put many at risk. Its spokesperson Matthew Jansen joins us.
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: assisted dying, right to die, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 3'43"
17:41
Mother of a toddler who died in HNZ house speaks out
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The mother of a toddler whose death has been partly blamed on living in a cold, damp house, says she'd been asking Housing New Zealand for help for years
Topics: housing
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Tags: Carla Penman
Duration: 2'55"
17:44
Teenager thought he'd get rich by robbing a dairy
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A witness in the High Court today said his friend thought he'd get rich from robbing a local dairy but got nothing and is now on trial for murder.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Kumar trial, Auckland
Duration: 2'41"
17:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 5 June 2015
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The people of Te Arawa and the community of Rotorua are mourning the death of the respected orator Mauriora Kingi. The seven year legal battle over the burial of James Takamore has finally been resolved, but the decision is not being released. The South Taranaki iwi, Ngaruahine is disappointed that a 35-year extension has been granted for the extraction of natural gas from the Maui gas field by Shell Todd Oil Services. Te Ohu Kaimoana will take a "wait and see" approach to threats of legal action over the control of a $20 million fishing fund.
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Duration: 3'32"
17:50
Former All Black Jerry Collins killed in car accident in France
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Former All Blacks captain Jerry Collins and his wife have been killed in a car crash in France.
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Duration: 40"
17:52
Questions about false evidence given to Sydney siege committee
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Australia's opposition is demanding a Senate hearing about the Sydney gun seige be reconvened after revelations that a senior official from the Attorney General's office gave false evidence.
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Duration: 3'19"
17:54
Plan to soften blow of Christchurch rates rises
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Christchurch ratepayers are being spared the full brunt of a huge 28% rates rise under a new proposal announced today by the mayor, Lianne Dalziel.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch rates rises, Christchurch
Duration: 3'05"
18:06
Sports News for 5 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'11"
18:12
Lecretia Seales' husband urges government to act
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Lecretia Seales' husband is urging the government to act after the Wellington lawyer's legal battle to die on her own terms was rejected.
Topics: life and society, law
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Tags: assisted dying, right to die, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 2'10"
18:14
Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway - end of Life choice' debate
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The Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway is calling for parliament to address the 'end of Life choice' debate.
Topics: life and society, law, politics
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Tags: assisted dying, right to die, Lecretia Seales
Duration: 4'04"
18:18
Australian high-flying businessman and fraudster Alan Bond dies
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Alan Bond, the Australian businessman who funded the country's historic 1983 America's Cup victory before losing his fortune and his freedom, has died.
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Duration: 4'22"
18:25
Emu ends up on the surgeon's table after swallowing a sock
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An emu called Georgia is recovering at Wellington Zoo after she swallowed a bright green sock which needed to be swiftly removed to save her life.
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Duration: 3'05"
18:38
Focus on Politics for 5 June 2015
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The new Green Party male co-leader James Shaw has big, ambitious plans for the party.
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Duration: 16'47"
18:52
Te Manu Korihi News for 5 June 2015
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The people of Te Arawa and the community of Rotorua are mourning the death of the respected orator Mauriora Kingi; The seven year legal battle over the burial of James Takamore has finally been resolved, but the decision is not being released; The South Taranaki iwi, Ngaruahine is disappointed that a 35-year extension has been granted for the extraction of natural gas from the Maui gas field by Shell Todd Oil Services; Te Ohu Kaimoana will take a "wait and see" approach to threats of legal action over the control of a $20million fishing fund.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'31"
18:56
Cleaning up after Dunedin's devastating floods
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Civil Defence in Dunedin says the flooding in the city has caused extensive damage and the clean up will take some time.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: Civil Defence, Dunedin
Duration: 2'30"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
Entertainment and information, including: 8:25 Spotlight 9:06 Country Life: Memorable scenes, people and places in rural NZ (RNZ)
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20:10
Sport Australia
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Point scoring across the ditch with ABC sports presenter Paul Kennedy... Australia's new male tennis players, and in cricket, Australia is touring West Indies and getting ready for Ashes, plus the Rugby World Cup ahead (how are the Wallabies shaping up).
Topics: sport
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Tags: Australia, tennis, cricket, rugby
Duration: 21'19"
20:55
Conundrum answer
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Conundrum answer.
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Duration: 7'51"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:06 Sonic Tonic
8:10 Sport Australia
Point scoring across the ditch with ABC sports presenter Paul Kennedy. Australia's new male tennis players, and in cricket, Australia is touring West Indies and getting ready for Ashes, plus the Rugby World Cup ahead (how are the Wallabies shaping up).
8:25 Music Feature: Princess Chelsea live at The Kings Arms
On the back of the release of her second LP, The Great Cybernetic Depression, Princess Chelsea embarked on a tour that began at Dunedin’s Chick’s Hotel and finished up at Auckland’s Kings Arms. Radio New Zealand. Radio New Zealand’s Andre Upston was there to record the final show of Chelsea’s five-show run.
9:06 Country Life
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21:05
Guest - Stephen Korteweg
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Some coastal Otago farms are water-logged after the recent storm says Federated Farmers Otago provincial president Stephen Korteweg.
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Some coastal Otago farms are water-logged after the recent storm says Federated Farmers Otago provincial president Stephen Korteweg.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Otago
Tags: dairy farming
Duration: 1'32"
21:10
Regional Wrap
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Confidence in the beef industry were backed up by prices at the first of the season bull sales in Gisborne this week, while Marlborough farmers jumped for joy receiving a good 70 to 80 millimetres of rain this week. There was less jumping about the rain in the South of the South Island.
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Confidence in the beef industry were backed up by prices at the first of the season bull sales in Gisborne this week, while Marlborough farmers jumped for joy receiving a good 70 to 80 millimetres of rain this week. There was less jumping about the rain in the South of the South Island.
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: farming conditions
Duration: 7'41"
21:13
Harihari handicraft
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Nolly Martini converted an abandoned cottage in Harihari into a craft shop and recently her daughter Ingrid has come back from Melbourne to help her run the business. The shop has been open for nearly 30 years now and specialises in handspun knitwear, including a popular jersey made from dog hair and wool.
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Nolly Martini (above with daughter Ingrid) came to New Zealand from The Netherlands forty five years ago to visit her four sisters that were already living here and she never went back.
She fell in love with Joseph Martini and followed him to West Coast where she’s lived ever since.
The Martini’s had a dairy farm in Harihari for 15 years and during this time Nolly had three children, learnt how to spin wool and converted an abandoned, historic cottage into craft shop.
The cottage was built by Mr. Green, a local businessman and Maori war veteran, for his niece who came to Harihari to marry a Danish man who had the ferrying service across the Wanganui River.
The Willows Craft Shop has been open for nearly 30 years now and is full to the brim with local products and handspun knitwear, including a soft sweater made from wool and dog hair.
She says “The thing is you can’t have a one hundred percent dog hair sweater because dog hair doesn’t stretch, you have to have it mixed with wool to make it stretch and give.”
Topics: rural
Regions: West Coast
Tags: The Willows, craft, wool, dog hair, history, tourism, Harihari
Duration: 14'20"
21:30
Benneydale beckoning
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Benneydale was a mining and milling town that once had a population of about 2000. Today, with those industries gone, it's about a tenth of that. However newcomers are settling in the King Country town, attracted by the quiet lifestyle, cheap housing and opportunities for tourism.
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Gary Howe's motorbike cost four times as much as his house.
He paid just $8,000 for his home in the northern King Country town of Benneydale. And it came with the section next door.
The house was, however, burnt out and Gary has been working for 18 months to rebuild it.
Gary moved to Benneydale after living 30 years in Rotorua. He'd been riding around the country on his motorbike looking for the perfect spot to live for four years.
He says he's found it.
"I love it. It's the best thing that's ever happened. The people are friendly. They're helpful. They just come down and 'what can I do to help you' sort of thing. They're amazing people."
Gary was a project manager for a building company but says he became ground down and needed the peace and quiet Benneydale offers.
He says he's never been busier. He does some work at the local freezing works and spends much of his time showing people living in the town how they can fix their homes without spending large amounts of money.
"It's good because someone comes up and says 'I've got a broken window', so you go down there and you fix it and the next thing you know you've got the daughter beside you with a hammer and giving you a hand....So I spend a lot of time teaching the little fellas.
Gary is one of a number former urbanites who are making a new life in Benneydale.
"Even though we haven't got a lot of money, we're probably living better than we ever did in the cities," he says.
Mechanic Brian Isaacs (above left) has lived in the town all his life. Monica Louis (above right) has made her home in Benneydale.
Isabelle Isaaco's backyard and patio - she aims to live her life through art.
Topics: rural
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Benneydale, King Country, Timber Trail
Duration: 24'42"
9:06 Country Life
Rural news and features.
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 The Byrds: Farther Along
The Byrds, covering 1968 to 1972: The ground breaking country-rock years. We pick up the story in 1968 and detail how the Byrds' legendary Act I was followed by one of rock history's most fascinating second acts. Despite their lower record sales, the Byrds' later incarnations alternately defined and re-defined "country-rock", thanks to the influential contributions by folks like Gram Parsons and guitarist Clarence White (F)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
The Byrds, covering 1968 to 1972: The ground breaking country-rock years. We pick up the story in 1968 and detail how the Byrds' legendary Act I was followed by one of rock history's most fascinating second acts. Despite their lower record sales, the Byrds' later incarnations alternately defined and re-defined "country-rock", thanks to the influential contributions by folks like Gram Parsons and guitarist Clarence White (F)