RNZ National. 2016-09-06. 00:00-23:59.

A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:

06 September 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Tuesday Special (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 David Bowie - Part 1: The Odyssey of a Changeling (RNZ) 3:05 The Dungarvie Festival by Owen Marshall read by Bruce Phillips (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:07
Sports News for 6 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'04"

06:10
Govt says homelessness inquiry reveals nothing new
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The Prime Minister says the inquiry into homelessness held by opposition MPs has yet to reveal anything the government doesn't already know. John Key says the inquiry is unlikely to prompt a change in the government's approach.
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Duration: 3'13"

06:14
Conditions in camp growing worse - legal adviser
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Medecins Sans Frontieres runs a health centre inside the Calais refugee camp. Its legal adviser Lucie le Carpentier says conditions in the camp are difficult for refugees.
Topics: conflict, refugees and migrants
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Duration: 2'54"

06:20
Early Business News for 6 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 2'24"

06:26
Morning Rural News for 6 September 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 4'14"

06:39
Residents awoken by a series of aftershocks on the East Coast
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Te Araroa resident says continuing quakes are unsettling after a flurry of significant tremors overnight.
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Duration: 3'31"

06:43
People's Party says Winston Peters a hypocrite over donation
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Roshan Nauhria, founder of the new People's Party, is calling on Winston Peters to apologise for comments he made at NZ First's conference over the weekend.
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Duration: 2'35"

06:49
Dairy prices set for boost, but dollar dents export returns
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Dairy prices look set to push higher at this week's global auction but may hit a wall and correct later in the year.
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Duration: 2'29"

06:52
Comvita gains from joint venture news
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Shares in honey and health food producer Comvita rose strongly yesterday after it announced a near $60 million joint venture with its Chinese distributor.
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Tags: honey, bees, honey bees
Duration: 1'01"

06:54
SOS drink company will need more funds to help expansion
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A New Zealand drink company, SOS Hydrate, is looking to raise another US $5 million in the next few months to fund expansion in the United States and Britain.
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Duration: 1'32"

06:55
Australian CEO pay rates falling
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In Australia, relatively subdued economic conditions, especially in the mining and resources sectors, are hurting chief executive pay packets.
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Duration: 1'03"

06:56
Tech expert warns 'do or die' in digital revolution
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A technology specialist says businesses are increasingly needing to embrace technology to survive.
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Duration: 1'03"

06:58
Morning Markets for 6 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 1'05"

07:08
Sports News for 6 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'58"

07:11
Flurry of aftershocks hits East Cape overnight
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GNS says East Cape residents should expect earthquakes to continue for some time, but the risk of another big one is reducing day by day.
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Duration: 4'02"

07:14
Five teenagers accused of armed robbery in court today
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Five teenagers accused of carrying out an armed robbery while subject to a 24-hour curfew will appear in the North Shore Youth Court today.
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Duration: 2'01"

07:17
Growers frustrated by quality of locals seasonal work scheme
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Orchardists and grape growers confirm the Prime Minister's claim that many beneficiaries aren't up to the task of picking fruit.
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Duration: 3'08"

07:24
Obama, Putin in tense standoff at G20 meeting in China
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The White House insists President Obama wasn't snubbed by China at the G20 summit.
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Duration: 3'19"

07:26
Peters denies personally taking cheque from Roshan Nauhria
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Winston Peters is refusing to apologise to Peoples' Party leader Roshan Nauhria, saying he did not personally take a cheque from Mr Nauhria despite claims to the opposite.
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Duration: 8'15"

07:39
Auckland mayoral contest on biggest platform with RNZ debate
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Auckland's mayoral contest goes before its biggest audience tomorrow with RNZ's live debate featuring four candidates. The debate, held in conjunction with AUT, can be heard Report at 8 tomorrow and will also be videostreamed live on radionz.co.nz
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Duration: 2'59"

07:43
Labour says young NZers need real job opportunities
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Andrew Little says John Key's claim that people without jobs aren't keen on work distracts from the serious challenge of providing opportunities for young New Zealanders.
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Duration: 6'56"

07:50
Union slams Victoria University over job ads
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Victoria University is offering those applying for a librarian job thousands of dollars more if they opt out of a collective agreement. The Tertiary Education Union is outraged.
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Duration: 3'29"

07:53
New Zealand universities inch upwards in world rankings
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Universites NZ says it's a great achievement in an incredibly competitive global market.
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Duration: 3'08"

07:56
Legendary art collection to go under the hammer
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One of the most important private art collections amassed in this country goes under the auctioneer's hammer tonight and tomorrow in Auckland. More than four hundred paintings, prints and ceramic pieces by a roll call of New Zealand's best known artists will be sold.
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Duration: 4'00"

08:08
Sports News for 6 September 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'19"

08:11
Auckland home buyers hunt for greener pastures
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Where might those seeking refuge from Auckland's record high house prices go? Anusha Bradley checks out greener, more affordable, options.
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Duration: 4'06"

08:15
Kevin Hague to pursue conservation agenda outside politics
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Green MP Kevin Hague is leaving Parliament to become Forest and Bird's chief executive.
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Duration: 6'06"

08:21
Has Southland warrior Shadbolt met his match?
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Tim Shadbolt is seeking a record eighth term as mayor of Invercargill. However he is facing a strong challenge from those seeking to topple him.
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Duration: 3'40"

08:25
CTU takes aim at anti union job offers
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The Council of Trade Unions say universities are trying to undermine working conditions by offering better pay to people who opt out of union agreements.
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Duration: 4'05"

08:29
Markets Update for 6 September 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 52"

08:36
Community detention after crash killed friend
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A family grieving over the loss of their teenage daughter in a car accident has forgiven the young driver responsible, saying they don't want to see her become a life-long victim.
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Duration: 3'12"

08:39
Southerly expected to bring snow, big waves
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The MetService is predicting that biting southerly gales will batter both islands tomorrow as a potent cold front races up the country.
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Duration: 2'32"

08:42
Speculation that Tietjens will call time on his Sevens career
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Gordon Tietjens 23-year rein as rugby sevens coach is expected to come to an end today.
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Duration: 3'19"

08:49
Plans to settle Ngapuhi's Treaty claim get Ministerial approval
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The Minister of Treaty of Negotiations has rubber-stamped a new approach to settle Ngapuhi's treaty claim in the Far North, which has been beset with difficulties over the past decade.
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Duration: 3'28"

08:50
Somare apologises for shaming PNG after bribe accusations
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The former PNG prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, has apologised for the shame he's caused the country after being accused of accepting a million dollar bribe.
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Duration: 3'05"

08:59
Top Stories for Tuesday 6 September 2016
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Flurry of aftershocks hits East Cape overnight; five teenagers accused of armed robbery in court today; growers frustrated by quality of locals seasonal work scheme; Obama, Putin in tense standoff at G20 meeting in China; Peters denies personally taking cheque from Roshan Nauhria; Auckland mayoral contest on biggest platform with RNZ debate; Labour says young NZers need real job opportunities.
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Duration: 31'21"

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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: Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall, read by Katherine McCrae. Sarah sucumbs to a fleeting romantic distraction during a dismal period of life. (Part 7 of 10, RNZ)

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09:07
Unfair contracts not limited to energy companies
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A review of over 100 contracts across a range of different industries has found that unfair contract terms are rife, and even if the law is on the client's side it's very difficult to enforce. Nine to Noon talks to Alex Sims the Head of Auckland University's Commercial Law Department who also sits on the governing council of the Telecommunication Disptute Resolution .
Topics: law
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Duration: 27'08"

09:35
The immune system - when does a friend become an enemy?
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Professor of Immunology at Victoria University Anne La Flamme has spent over 20 years researching auto-immunity, or what can cause the immune system to attack its own healthy cells and tissues. She also heads the Multiple Sclerosis Research Programme at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and is currently running a trial looking at new treatments for MS, one of the myriad illnesses caused by auto-immunity
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What happens when the system to protect our bodies effectively does the opposite? What is it that causes the immune system to attack its own healthy cells and tissues?
Professor of Immunology at Victoria University Anne La Flamme, has spent over 20 years researching auto-immunity.
She also heads the Multiple Sclerosis Research Programme at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and is currently running a trial looking at new treatments for MS, one of the myriad illnesses caused by auto-immunity.
The trial at Wellington hospital is looking at the use of drugs commonly used to treat schizophrenia to see if they can be effective in treating the progressive form of MS.
People with progressive MS experience a steady deterioration of their symptoms, as opposed to the episodic, relapse-remitting form of the disease.
Research now shows a there is an inflammatory factor involved in schizophrenia which could help with future MS therapy.
“In schizophrenia, which you would not expect to have the immune system involved, we have more recently realised it’s a level of chronic inflammation that can be promoting that process.”
MS is caused when the immune system attacks myelin, a kind of sheath that protects nerves.
Professor La Flamme is looking for people with the progressive form of MS to participate in a trial to see whether two commonly used drugs to treat schizophrenia might also have therapeutic benefits for them.
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Duration: 14'49"

10:07
Alix Coysh, on losing her sight
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Alix Coysh is progressively going blind, and the 22 year old University of Auckland Masters student wants to do a PhD in retinal genetics - trying to find a cure for her condition, retinitis pigmentosa
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Alix Coysh is progressively going blind, and the 22-year-old University of Auckland Masters student wants to do a PhD in retinal genetics - trying to find a cure for her condition, retinitis pigmentosa.
She will complete her Masters degree in leukaemia research in 2017 before going on to follow her dream to work on a cure for the degenerative condition.
She has an offer, subject to funding, to join a research team at Oxford University.
Alix was fully sighted until she was 16, but since then she has progressively lost her sight due to the condition which she started to notice when she was 15
“If a teacher used a pen that was running out of ink on the board that would be harder for me to see than for other students.”
When it became apparent she was colour blind, rare for a girl, she was referred to an opthamologist and was diagnosed with cone dystrophy a progressive condition where the retinal cells die over time.
Although devastating news, she felt some relief it had not affected her siblings.
“I was glad it had happened to me and not my other siblings, I have three other siblings and that would have just crushed me.”
Sadly, she discovered a few years later that both her younger siblings had the same thing condition.
Despite discouragement from some quarters she went on to university and pursued her passion for science.
Although she had to adapt.
“In lectures I had to rely on what I was hearing because I couldn’t see the slides and I learnt to type very fast. I was actually known as the machine!”
Her studies for her Masters have given her an appetite for further scientific challenges.
Her next challenge, having impressed the researchers at Oxford University, is to secure funding so she can take up a position there in 2017.
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Duration: 30'54"

10:40
Book review - Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
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Book Review - Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, published by Hachette and reviewed by Stella Chrysostomou.
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Duration: 6'06"

11:05
Business commentator Rod Oram
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King Salmon heading for a float; Comvita takes control of its Chinese distributor; Sir Graham Douglas, pharmaceutical pioneer, dies.
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Duration: 12'17"

11:25
Teresa Tepania-Ashton, Hinepreneurs
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Successful Maori women are getting international life-coaching qualifications to go back to their communities and help other women in business. The Hinepreneurs are part of a plan to get more indigenous women around the world setting up businesses for themselves.
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Successful Maori women are getting international life-coaching qualifications to go back to their communities and help other women in business. The Hinepreneurs are part of a plan to get more indigenous women around the world setting up businesses for themselves.
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Tell us about this coaching qualification that they get. What is the programme?
It’s the International Coaching Federation and so, first off it is requiring 60 hours of face to face training which we did collectively in our own group and then from there we have to develop 100 hours of coaching. There are certain rules to that as well. Then we have to do an online test, to make sure that we have understood the core responsibilities of being a coach. The coaching is not necessarily mentoring. It is really provoking conversations, it’s really about creating awareness and it’s around allowing a client themselves to find their own potentials and solutions and strategies to any particular issue they may have.
What are some of the difficulties facing some of the women who come to you?
One of the key ones is support. Where to find that support, where to find like-minded people to provide that support. Another particular one is in relation to understanding the key fundamentals of business. An idea is always an idea, but until you put it into practice or go through the mechanisms to make sure that it’s a really good idea… for example, one of our primary gaps that we found was financial capability. Through our research we realised that a large number of our clients lack financial capability skills.
Also, not only professionally, but also personally. Our coaches can come along and ask the key questions around why we have those gaps. What are our own behaviours around money? It’s key because it’s what is going on in our inner mind. It’s our subconscious that really holds us back. So it’s really about finding solutions within yourself to move forward.
So it’s not necessarily even business-specific, it’s more about the psychology of a performance in some ways, or the psychology of goal-making or pursuing goals, is that the kind of thing that we’re talking about?
Absolutely. It is anything that is holding a person back. That can be any number of things. It could be, I haven’t got enough hours in the day, what am I going to do with my children this afternoon? Where’s the next client coming from? There are so many constraints that hold us back.
What about the more personal self-limiting behaviours that people can fall into as well?
Absolutely. You said limited behaviours, but limited beliefs is one of the worst things that holds us back. It really goes back to what happened to us as a child. Those things from back there that we keep over compensating for what happened to us. But actually what we have to do is recognise what happened. Acknowledge it, and then move forward. But not hide it. We tend to leave it there and then try to forget about it, but actually you just have to go back, acknowledge that it happened, what do we see instead of that and then go back to where we want to go.
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Duration: 19'37"

11:45
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Kathryn Ryan talks media matters with Gavin Ellis, including a Press Council ruling against the New Zealand Woman's Weekly which may pose new issues for coverage of domestic abuse.
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Duration: 12'29"

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09:05 Unfair contracts not limited to energy companies, consumers warned
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A review of over 100 contracts across a range of different industries has found that unfair contract terms are rife, and even if the law is on the client's side it's very difficult to enforce.
Nine to Noon talks to Alex Sims the Head of Auckland University's Commercial Law Department who also sits on the governing council of the Telecommunication Dispute Resolution .
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09:30 The immune system, when does a friend become an enemy?
Professor of Immunology at Victoria University Anne La Flamme has spent over 20 years researching auto-immunity, or what can cause the immune system to attack its own healthy cells and tissues.
She also heads the Multiple Sclerosis Research Programme at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and is currently running a trial looking at new treatments for MS, one of the myriad illnesses caused by auto-immunity
09:45 US Correspondent Steve Almond
Steve Almond discusses Donald Trump's visits to church and to Mexico, while Hillary Clinton has been quietly raising money.
10:05 Alix Coysh, on losing her sight
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University of Auckland Masters student Alix Coysh is progressively losing her sight and she almost missed out on going to university after she was told there would be no future for her. But next year, the 22 year old will complete a Masters degree in leukaemia research. Her dream is to work on a cure for the degenerative condition, retinitis pigmentosa that has robbed her of sight. She has had an offer to join a research team at Oxford University to do a PhD in retinal genetics.
10:35 Book review - Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Reviewed by Stella Chrysostomou, published by Hachette
10:45 The Reading
Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall read by Katherine McRae (Part 7 of 10)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
King Salmon heading for a float, and Comvita taking control of its Chinese distributor.
11:20 Teresa Tepania-Ashton, Hinepreneurs
A scheme called Hinepreneur was launched earlier this year to give Maori women access to business and life coaches to help them succeed. The scheme has been set up by Maori Women's Development Inc, who are aiming to have a Hinepreneur in every community to empower Maori women in business. MWDI CEO Teresa Tepania-Ashton joins Nine to Noon to tell explain how the Hinepreneurs operate and what they hope to achieve.
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11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Kathryn Ryan talks media matters with Gavin Ellis, including a Press Council ruling against the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly which may pose new issues for coverage of domestic abuse.

===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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 6 September 2016
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The average value of an Auckland home has topped one million dollars; Police are cleared of any wrongdoing in last year's McDonald's shooting.
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Duration: 14'47"

12:17
QV house prices crack records
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As you may have heard in the news, the growth in house prices is the fastest in 13 years.
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Duration: 1'58"

12:23
Economy shows momentum heading into the end of the year
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The economy has solid momentum heading into the end of the year, if the latest truck movements are anything to go by.
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Duration: 1'29"

12:24
NZ's Vodafone loss narrows in highly competitive market
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The telecommunicatons company, Vodafone New Zealand, has made a full-year loss, while revenue rose slightly in what it describes as a highly competitive industry.
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Duration: 2'10"

12:25
Midday Markets for 6 September 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners.
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Duration: 2'09"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 6 September 2016
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Gordon Tietjens steps down as coach of the All Blacks Sevens.
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Duration: 2'56"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 6 September 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 8'13"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

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13:15
Auckland average house value now over 1 million
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Quotable Value's monthly house price index for August show values in the region have increased 16 percent in the past year to an average of 1.013 million dollars.
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Quotable Value's monthly house price index for August show values in the region have increased 16 percent in the past year to an average of 1.013 million dollars.
The national average value has risen 15 percent in the past year to 612-thousand 500 dollars.
QV spokesperson, Andrea Rush discusses why the market still hasn't cooled.
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Duration: 8'07"

13:25
Protecting the Earth's Microbiome
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We've heard of the human microbiome but did you know the earth has one too?
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We've heard of the human microbiome but did you know the earth has one too?
So what state is it in and how can we protect it?
AUT Professor Steve Pointing has had a research paper published in the journal Nature Microbiology which considers microbial diversity on a global scale, and what we humans are doing to mess with it.
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Duration: 12'50"

13:35
Dan Slevin on the 21st Century's greatest films
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The BBC asked 177 film critics from around the world to pick the best films since 2000. Dan Slevin dissects their list.
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Duration: 11'01"

13:45
Favourite album - Various Positions
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Leonard Cohen's Various Positions is today's favourite album.
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Duration: 13'33"

14:10
Stop! Go! How Traffic Lights Work
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There's probably not a driver in the world that hasn't cursed at some point, at the eternal frustration of a red light.
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There's probably not a driver in the world that hasn't cursed at some point, at the eternal frustration of a red light. And if you're an Aucklander, stuck in Auckland traffic, then the chances are much higher. We spend hours of our lives looking at them and (hopefully) obeying them.
But just how do they work? Matthew Hoyle is the joint technical services manager at the Auckland Transport Operations Centre.
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Duration: 12'10"

14:20
Book critic Steph Soper
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Our book critic this week is Steph Soper, Marketing and Communications Manager with the New Zealand Book Council.
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Duration: 10'21"

14:25
Great New Zealand Album: The Mockers - Culprit and the King
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Gareth Curtis, the Mockers' main songwriter joins Jesse to talk about making their best selling album, Culprit and the King.
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Gareth Curtis, the Mockers main songwriter joins Jesse to talk about making their best selling album, Culprit and the King.
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Duration: 28'02"

15:10
Discovering ancient tombs by computer
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Dr Sarah Parcak is known around the world for making new archaeological discoveries and she does most of it from a computer in her office at the University of Alabama.
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Lost in the sands of time there are thousands of undiscovered ancient settlements, burial sites and even pyramids that may help unlock secrets of our past.
Dr Sarah Parcak is known around the world for making new archaeological discoveries and she does most of it from a computer in her office at the University of Alabama.
She's helped to catch grave robbers and antiquity thieves all from her computer at the University of Alabama.
Using satellite technology she analyses infra-red imagery that sometimes reveal burial sites and settlements that have remained secret for thousands of years.
With a $1 million TED Talk grant, she is using mapping technology to try and protect historical sites and catch looters - and is getting citizen scientists involved.
Topics: life and society, history, education, identity
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Duration: 23'55"

15:44
One Quick Question for 6 September 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Duration: 4'50"

15:45
The Panel pre-show for 6 September 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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NZTA's Andy Knackstedt answers: Why can't you use fog lights when there's no fog?
Otago University's Andrew Geddis answers: Why is it ok to accuse someone of lying in Court but not in Parliament?
Robert Ayson of Victoria University answers: What are the chances of nuclear annihilation?
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Duration: 13'30"

21:06
P53: the gene that causes - and cures - cancer
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P53 is a cancer gene with a Jekyll and Hyde personality. It stops cancer tumours growing, but mutant versions of the gene actually cause cancer.
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You may have never heard of it, but P53 is the most studied single gene in history. And when it comes to cancer, it turns out to be one of the most important genes we have.
It has a Jekyll and Hyde personality: it can be described as ‘the gene that stops cancer’ – or the ‘gene that causes cancer’.
The story starts in 1979, when P53 was identified. At first, it seemed to be an oncogene – a gene that causes cancer cells to grow and divide uncontrollably, creating tumours.
At the time, University of Otago researcher Antony Braithwaite was in Australia, working on adenoviruses, which are cold viruses. He was working on the genes in the virus that controlled cell DNA replication. He says that back then “it was hard to work on mammalian cells, but you could work on genes in viruses.”
“I did actually manage to identify the viral gene,” he says. “It’s called E1a … And that turned out to be a really famous observation.”
A change in focus
Already a leader in one field of science, Antony then read of another exciting breakthrough. It involved the P53 gene (the P, by the way, stands for protein, and the 53 is its molecular weight, which is 53,000 daltons).
Antony says the scientific article he was reading in Nature Reviews reported that “P53 stimulated cells to divide [and produce tumours], and functioned similarly to E1a in adenovirus. I thought that’s exciting – I want to go and work on P53.”
So, Antony switched his attention to P53 – but far from causing runaway growth in cancer cells, the p53 he was working on behaved like a tumour suppressor gene. These genes suppress or stop tumours – they’re good guys. They snap into action when a cell suffers DNA damage, and they either repair the damage or kill off the cell.
It was turning out that P53 comes in different forms - normal p53 and various mutated versions.
“Normal P53 – we call it the wild type – inhibited [cell] proliferation, and mutated P53 stimulated it,” says Antony.
P53’s link with cancer
Over the next four or five years, says Antony, literally hundreds of papers were published that linked mutated versions of the P53 genes to different kinds of cancer.
“Yes in colorectal cancer, yes in prostate cancer, yes in breast cancers – there were lots of tumours that had mutations in P53.”
We now know the most commonly mutated gene in people who have cancer is P53. In fact, more than 50% of all cancers involve a missing or damaged P53 gene. But there’s more to it than that.
“The evidence has accumulated so strongly in the last 20 years that if there’s not a mutation in the P53, then there’ll be a mutation in something that controls P53 or inhibits it from working,” says Antony. “Some people might shoot me for this – but I would say that defects in the P53 pathway occur in 100 percent of tumours.”
“A nasty piece of work”
Antony and his research group moved from studying the wild type of P53, the ‘good guy’, in cell culture, and began studying one of the mutant varieties, or isoforms as they’re known, in mice.
“This isoform is a really nasty piece of work,” says Antony. “It will make tumours invade, and it’s the invasion part, the movement around the body, that causes problems. If you’ve got a primary tumour you can remove it. So this is a metastatic oncogene.” That is, a gene that causes tumours to metastasise or spread, which makes cancers difficult to treat.
The search for a cure for cancer
Antony thinks that his research will help identify possible drugs to treat invasive cancers.
“We’ve worked out the molecular pathway that’s causing this [metastatic] invasion and there are known drugs that block the enzymes that are controlling that. The experiments that we’re about to write up show how we can inhibit the invasion.”
Antony is quick to point out that the research has not yet been carried out in animals, and that much more work is needed before any possible drugs can be tested in humans.
Elephants and P53
About 40 percent of us will get cancer. But if you’re an elephant your lifetime risk of developing cancer is just 3 percent. Research published just last year showed that part of this, at least, is due to the fact that while we have just one copy of the p53 gene, elephants have 20.
The Shorland Medal
Antony Braithwaite is in the Dunedin School of Medicine. He has won the Shorland Medal, which is awarded by the New Zealand Association of Scientists in recognition of major and continued contribution to basic or applied research that has added significantly to scientific understanding or resulted in significant benefits to society.
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Duration: 7'47"

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1:10 First song
1:15 Auckland average house value now over 1 million
Quotable Value's monthly house price index for August show values in the region have increased 16 percent in the past year to an average of 1.013 million dollars.
The national average value has risen 15 percent in the past year to 612-thousand 500 dollars.
QV spokesperson, Andrea Rush discusses why the market still hasn't cooled.
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1:25 Protecting the Earth's Microbiome
We've heard of the human microbiome but did you know the earth has one too?
So what state is it in and how can we protect it?
AUT Professor Steve Pointing has had a research paper published in the journal Nature Microbiology which considers microbial diversity on a global scale, and what we humans are doing to mess with it.
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1:35 Dan Slevin on the 21st Century's greatest films
The BBC asked 177 film critics from around the world to pick the best films since 2000.
Dan Slevin dissects their list
1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Stop! Go! How Traffic Lights Work
There's probably not a driver in the world that hasn't cursed at some point, at the eternal frustration of a red light. And if you're an Aucklander, stuck in Auckland traffic, then the chances are much higher. We spend hours of our lives looking at them and (hopefully) obeying them.
But just how do they work? Matthew Hoyle is the joint technical services manager at the Auckland Transport Operations Centre.
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2:15 Book critic Steph Soper
Five Young Kiwi authors that are "so hot right now"
2:30 Great New Zealand Album: The Mockers; Culprit and the King
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Gareth Curtis, the Mockers main songwriter joins Jesse to talk about making their best selling album, Culprit and the King.
3:10 Discovering Ancient Tombs via computer
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Archaeologist Sarak Parcak discovers ancient tombs and pyramids in the Egyptian desert. She's helped to catch grave robbers and antiquity thieves all from her computer at the University of Alabama. Using satellite technology, she analyses infrared imagery that sometimes reveal burial sites and settlements that have remained secret for thousands of years. With a $1 million dollar TED Talk grant, she is using mapping to try and protect historical sites and catch looters.
3:30 Science and environment stories
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

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JESSE MULLIGAN AFTERNOONS:
1pm - 4pm with Jim Mora
Tuesday 6th September 2016
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST Six60
TITLE: Don't Forget Your Roots
COMP: Ji Fraser, Matiu Walters
ALBUM: Six60
LABEL: Universal
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
TITLE: Dance Me To The End Of Love,
COMP: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Various Positions
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
TITLE: Lie If It Be Your Will
COMP: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Various Positions
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
TITLE: Heart With No Companion
COMP: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Various Positions
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
TITLE: Hallelujah
COMP: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Various Positions
LABEL: Columbia
THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND ALBUM:
ARTIST: The Mockers
TITLE: Forever Tuesday Morning
COMP: Gary Curtis, Andrew Fagan
ALBUM: Culprit & The King
LABEL: RCA
ARTIST: The Mockers
TITLE: One Black Friday
COMP: Gary Curtis, Andrew Fagan
ALBUM: Culprit & The King
LABEL: RCA

ARTIST: The Mockers
TITLE: Seven Years Not Wasted
COMP: Gary Curtis, Andrew Fagan
ALBUM: Culprit & The King
LABEL: RCA

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

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15:44
One Quick Question for 6 September 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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The Panel pre-show for 6 September 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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NZTA's Andy Knackstedt answers: Why can't you use fog lights when there's no fog?
Otago University's Andrew Geddis answers: Why is it ok to accuse someone of lying in Court but not in Parliament?
Robert Ayson of Victoria University answers: What are the chances of nuclear annihilation?
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16:00
The Panel with Duncan Webb and Raybon Kan (Part 1)
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Panel intro;Rural jobs;Overseas students left in the lurch;Closing time.
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Duncan Webb and Raybon Kan have been up to.
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16:16
Rural jobs
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Economist Gareth Kiernan of Infometrics talks about whether the rural sector can afford to pay workers more.
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16:22
Overseas students left in the lurch
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International students are one of our biggest exports but some are left drifting into crime and prostitution.
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16:25
Closing time
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The side-effects of bars being open 'til the early hours.
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16:30
The Panel with Duncan Webb and Raybon Kan (Part 2)
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Trump; Panel says; NZ First $3000 donation from Roshan Nauhria;Obama's treatment in Asia;Icing sugar as cocaine; Not so Little; Nanny state.
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Trump
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Trump and Clinton - a rock and a hard place?
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Panel says
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What the Panelists Duncan Webb and Raybon Kan have been thinking about.
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16:46
NZ First $3000 donation from Roshan Nauhria
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Another donation controversy for Winston Peters.
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16:50
Obama's treatment in Asia
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Barack Obama's now had an insult about his parentage hurled at him by the Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte.
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16:55
Icing sugar as cocaine
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A Las Vegas-themed primary school fundraising ball has raised eyebrows after icing sugar was used as a prop for cocaine.
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16:57
Not so Little
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The Naked Andrew Little likeness on carpet at the Wallace Art Awards. The full frontal nude depiction of the Leader of the Opposition.
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Nanny state
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Is the term "nanny state" sexist?
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

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RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 6 September 2016
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RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 6 September 2016
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Average house price in Auckland reaches $1m
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Owning a home in Auckland is becoming increasingly out of reach for many people as the average house price has tipped $1 million. Housing Minister Nick Smith joins Checkpoint.
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Young people looking to buy their first home in Auckland have to choose between a very small apartment in the city or a long commute, the Housing Minister says.
Housing Minister Nick Smith told Checkpoint with John Campbell that if he was in the position of a 30-something couple on a $120,000 household income, he would be "cautious" about buying in Auckland.
With the average house price in Auckland surpassing $1 million for the first time, it would be tough for first-home buyers, he said.
"Because I think there is a risk that the market is overheated - but I wouldn't rule it out completely," he said.
"Yes, there is that choice that that young couple is going to need to make as to whether their first home is in a smaller apartment in the city or whether they're making a choice [to live in] Takanini in the south or some of the suburbs up in the north of which people then have the difficulty in lifestyle of a rather long commute," he said.
He said there were some new housing developments in the central city that could be a good deal, but acknowledged that such houses tended to be very small.
"There was an excessive number of those super-small 40sqm apartments that were built back in 2004, the new rules do set some sensible rules there.
"Although, the new Unitary Plan [will] put some limits on that."
He said he would be putting new legislation through Parliament under urgency, focused on ensuring a smooth transition from Auckland's current special housing mechanism to the new Unitary Plan.
"The Unitary Plan coming into effect next week is a huge step forward for Auckland, I've got further legislation that i'm putting through Parliament today to make sure that that momentum and supply continues.
"If we did not put that law through that I'm proposing to take through all stages under urgency today it would mean that development - particularly involving about 8000 homes across Auckland - would stall," he said.
"I've continually said I won't rest until such time as we're getting that house price rise into the single digits."
However, he said it was impossible to say when that would be.
"If we look at that average house price it's comparable to what's in Sydney and Melbourne as an average."
Those places had higher average incomes, however.
"And it does make it big stretch for the average family to be able to afford to get into a home.
"And that is why the government's programmes, whether it be HomeStart and assisting people to get a deposit, [or] whether it be in terms of changing the mode of construction, so there are more apartments that central city people are able to get into under $650,000 where that HomeStart cap is."
He said there would be a difficulty in trying to lift wages in the city to keep up with the rising house prices to match.
"I think the difficulty with that is that you prevent a natural correction," he said.
"So there are some regions that I was visiting last week for instance in Whakatane, Ōpōtiki, who were just delighted by the fact that their house prices had lifted by 10 percent in the sense that it was now at a point where you're getting the first new houses built and redeveloping in communities like that.
"And so I think the government would be cautious of simply feeding the monster in Auckland by raising wages artificially just for that market, when to some degree some pressure can be taken off that market, whether it be in terms of housing, or others where some people for lifestyle regions are choosing to move to centres further afield.
"That is something that we shouldn't necessarily discourage.
"But nobody's questioning that a price at an average at a million dollars is a big stretch, although again I point out that 34 percent of house sales in Auckland in the last month were under that $650k mark and as a consequence were able to get a foothold into the market."
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17:18
Million dollar homeowners don't feel like millionaires
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The average house in Auckland is now valued at $1 million. RNZ reporter Tom Furley asked Auckland million dollar homeowners if they feel like millionaires.
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Duration: 3'30"

17:21
Shamubeel Eaqub calls on govt to boost Akl housing investment
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Billions of dollars, not millions, need to be invested in the Auckland housing market, Economist Shamubeel Eaqub says.
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Duration: 3'45"

17:24
Sir Gordon Tietjens resigns as sevens coach
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Sir Gordon Tietjens has resigned from the New Zealand Rugby Sevens after 22 years in charge of team. He told Checkpoint he was always going to resign regardless of how the team did at the Olympics.
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Duration: 4'34"

17:28
Pahiatua residents told to boil water until given all-clear
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Pahiatua residents have to wait at least two more days before a precautionary notice to boil water can be lifted after it tested positive for E-Coli. Tararua District Council Mayor Roly Ellis joins Checkpoint.
Topics: health
Regions: Manawatu
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Duration: 4'59"

17:35
Evening Business for Tuesday 6 September 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
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Duration: 3'10"

17:43
Crown, defence summarise cases in George Taiaroa murder trial
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Defence for the man charged with murdering George Taiaroa in 2013 say he had no reason to kill the roadworker, despite the Crown arguing he is the killer. Carla Penman reports.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Waikato
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Duration: 3'39"

17:46
Trump, Clinton kick off final two month stretch to White House
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The US presidential nominees are reaching out to voters in Ohio, as they prepare for the traditional kickoff to the last stretch of campaigning ahead of the November 8 election.
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Duration: 1'26"

17:48
MSD defends fruit picking work scheme
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The Ministry of Social Development is defending a work scheme which places locals in fruit picking jobs, despite the fact that only half of them complete their contract or remain in work.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
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Duration: 3'01"

17:53
Health Minister says he didn't snort fake coke
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Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says he attended a primary school fundraiser where there was fake cocaine but he did not snort it.
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Duration: 1'16"

17:55
Rug depicting naked Labour leader leaves little to imagination
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Whanganui artist Mark Rayner has crafted a rug with an image of a naked and very muscular Labour leader Andrew Little. Checkpoint spoke with the artist and asked him why?
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Duration: 4'43"

17:58
Morning Report to host live Auckland Mayoral debate
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Morning Report will host an hour-long Auckland Mayoral debate from AUT's television studio from 8am tomorrow morning. Host Guyon Espiner joins Checkpoint
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Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett joins Checkpoint
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Minister for Social Housing Paula Bennett joins Checkpoint to discuss an extra $24 million for social housing, announced the same day Auckland's average house price reached $1m.
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18:15
Auckland housing prices hit $1 million
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The government has driven housing affordability "into the ground", the Green Party told Parliament today as the average house price in Auckland reached $1 million.
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18:18
Christian Cullen speaks about former coach Gordon Tietjens
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Sir Gordon Tietjens has resigned after 22 years at the helm of the sevens. He rated Eric Rush, Christian Cullen and the late Jonah Lomu as the best players he coached. Christian Cullen spoke to Checkpoint.
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Duration: 4'32"

18:22
High demand for bottled water in Pahiatua
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New World Pahiatua is selling bottled water at cost as demand remains high since the town's water bore head tested positive for E Coli last Friday.
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Duration: 3'26"

18:26
Chch library fights crime with annoying sound
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A Christchurch library is taking a novel approach to fighting crime - it's using a device that emits a sound which is annoying only to young people, generally anyone under 25.
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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
Minimalist parenting. Less stuff. Less stress. More fun

===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

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Our Own Odyssey - Kenya
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RNZ reporter Carla Penman ran a marathon to raise money to donate while she was volunteering in Kenya. She talks about her experiences seeing Kenya through the eyes of a volunteer, but also the mind of a reporter.
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Duration: 18'18"

20:12
Nights' Pundit - Military History
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Historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton on New Zealanders on the Somme: The Battles of Flers-Courcelette, Morval and the Transloy Ridges.
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Duration: 20'11"

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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Kenya
RNZ Reporter Carla Penman ran a marathon to raise money to donate while she was volunteering in Kenya. She talks about her experiences seeing Kenya through the eyes of a volunteer but the mind of a reporter.
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7:30 The Sampler
Nick Bollinger discusses the crowdfunded return to disc of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul; the anarchic surrealism of Amer-indie veterans Deerhoof; and a never-released set of vintage rock and soul from Betty Davis.
8:12 Nights' Pundit - Military History
Dr. Damien Fenton on New Zealanders on the Somme: The Battles of Flers-Courcelette, Morval and the Transloy Ridges.
8:30 Window on the World
Where To? - Catherine Carr continues her series where she hears stories from people all over the world, uncovered by asking one simple question - Where are you going? Every interrupted journey becomes a portal into the life of another, and there are surprises in every answer. Catherine travels to the refugee camps in northern France, where the journeys people have undertaken to get there are epic, and their onward passage is uncertain. The answers given by the people trying to live in The Jungle will reveal the rhythms of life in limbo and will also describe past lives and future hopes.
9:07 Tuesday Feature
The End of Cash - South Korea's central bank has a target of eliminating cash by 2020 and many other countries want to reduce the amount of physical currency in circulation due to the cost. So is cash going to be a thing of the past? The BBC's Owen Bennett Jones and his guests discuss the possibility of a truly cashless society.
10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 World Music
Tonight's Episode of "WOMAD Taranaki - The World's Festival 2016" features a live performance by Hip Hop crew De La Soul, who burst out of the New York scene in the late 80's when they delivered their globally successful debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. Without a doubt, for much of the audience, one of the most highly anticipated shows of the Womad weekend.

===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
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A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases

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and the Anonymous Nobody by De La Soul
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Nick Bollinger discusses the crowdfunded return to disc of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul.
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Nick Bollinger discusses the crowdfunded return to disc of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul.
In any account of hip-hop’s evolution, De La Soul occupies an important place. With absurdist humour, a playful casual rapping style and a hitherto unthinkable variety of samples, their 1989 debut 3 Feet High and Rising was like nothing that had come before and its influence was widely felt. 27 years on, De La Soul could be excused for seeing themselves as something akin to rap royalty.
But in ‘Royalty Capes’, from their first album in twelve years, they reflect on their regal status in their own typically quizzical way. Who, after all, would rather be consigned to history than seen as a still viable and relevant force?
If you caught De La in their headlining set at WOMAD earlier this year, you would already have had a chance to consider this question. With a nine-piece band boasting horns and three percussionists, and MCs Posdnuos and Dave working the crowd like a hip-hop Sam and Dave, they put on a terrific show – closer in many ways to a classic soul revue than a current hip-hop act. And again there’s a live band at the heart of this new album.
3 Feet High and Rising might have been revolutionary in the breadth of its sampling, but one of its samples in particular – a grab of an obscure Turtles song - became an expensive legal test case, and it is the complex question of sample clearances that continues to keep De La Soul’s back catalogue largely unavailable. For this latest album they chose to avoid that minefield altogether. How? By, effectively, sampling themselves. They invited musicians – including members of their live band – into the studio to jam, amassing over a series of sessions an extraordinary 200 hours of music, from which they selected, edited, looped, and created the beats and beds that make up these new tracks. And comforting though the crackle of old vinyl might be, there is something powerfully present about these crisp, fresh rhythms.
Of course all those studio hours and live musicians – which include horns, backing singers, and, at one point, a full orchestra – is ultimately no less expensive than clearing samples. But it’s part of an ethos of independence that underpins the whole project. Rather than enslave themselves to yet another record contract, they funded this album with a Kickstarter campaign, which massively exceeded its initial goal and landed the group a budget of more than half a million dollars. Which allowed them a few extravagances.
That’s ‘Lord Intended’, a seven-minute opus that realises its stadium rock ambitions in a climactic finale featuring Justin Hawkins of the Darkness doing his best Freddie Mercury. And on ‘Snoopies’ there’s the familiar signature of David Byrne who encases Pos and Dave’s verses in a song that could comfortably sit on any of his solo albums.
Such collaborators from outside the traditional hip-hop sphere are a reminder that De La Soul was one of the first rap outfits to cross over to audiences not necessarily weaned on hip-hop. And while there are guest rappers here as well – from Snoop Dogg to Roc Marciano - the flavour of the album as a whole is a long way from the prevailing sound of current hip-hop. With no identifiable sampling (other than an almost-mandatory James Brown shout) there isn’t the sense of familiar hooks redeployed, a kind of subtext hip-hop listeners have almost come to expect. But there’s still some interesting stuff going on lyrically and Pos and Dave still have their sense of the absurd. Which is not to say they don’t also have some poignant or pertinent stories to tell, such as ‘Greyhounds’, a saga of migrants and broken dreams with Usher crooning the choruses.
27 years after their debut, and following a 12 year recording absence, De La Soul have made a big eclectic production that neither recycles their own past nor mimics the currently fashionable styles of anyone else. The title De La Soul And The Anonymous Nobody acknowledges the eleven thousand donors who contributed to its making, but might also refer to the existential questions about who we are and where we are going that, with the passage of time, have come to inhabit these rappers’ thoughts. And the choruses of ‘we’re still here now’ in ‘Here In After’ (co-written with Damon Albarn) seem as much a comment on De La Soul’s longevity as an acceptance of the fact that, in the end, whoever we are, we’re not going to be here forever.
Songs featured: Here In After, Royalty Capes, Trainwreck, Pain, Lord Intended, Snoopies, Drawn, Greyhounds.
and the Anonymous Nobody is available on AOI Records.
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The Sampler for 6 September
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the crowdfunded return to disc of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul; the anarchic surrealism of Amer-indie veterans Deerhoof; and a never-released set of vintage rock and soul from Betty Davis.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses the crowdfunded return to disc of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul; the anarchic surrealism of Amer-indie veterans Deerhoof; and a never-released set of vintage rock and soul from Betty Davis.
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Duration: 28'47"

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Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69
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Nick Bollinger checks a never-released set of vintage rock and soul from Betty Davis.
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Nick Bollinger checks a never-released set of vintage rock and soul from Betty Davis.
Of the many artists who have enjoyed a critical reappraisal in recent times, one of the more deserving is Betty Davis. The three albums she made between 1973 and 1975, though largely overlooked in their day, were forward-thinking epistles in funk that presented a rare image for that period: a strong, independent woman who was clearly calling the artistic shots. Those albums, all reissued now, have inevitably created a demand for more. But Betty Davis, now 71, is no longer making music. So Light In The Attic have trawled back even further into the archives, and have come out with this.
The album centres on five songs, recorded but never released – or even properly mixed - at what were in fact demo sessions in 1969, organised by her then-husband, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. The pair had married the year before, and the North Carolina-born singer had already had an audible effect on Miles’s music, turning him onto electric instruments and introducing him to some of her friends from the rock world, including Jimi Hendrix. Perhaps as a way of repaying the favour, Miles (and his producer Teo Macereo) set up these recordings, in the hope that they would secure Betty a record contract with Columbia. Instead they languished in the vaults for almost fifty years. You can tell they are unfinished; they are punctuated with banter and there’s a loose, jammy quality about the whole thing. But they also have a terrific groove.
One of the ways Betty Davis was ahead of the game was in bringing elements of hard rock into the world of soul and R&B. Miles had recently introduced the British guitarist John McLaughlin into his band, and McLaughlin can be heard firing on all cylinders in these recordings, along with other players more commonly associated with rock – including Hendrix’s rhythm section of Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell. Meanwhile, Betty was giving her own salacious spin to such material as the Cream song ‘Politician’.
These demos are fleshed out here with three recordings, made a year earlier in 1968 with trumpeter Hugh Masekela. These tracks seem more complete, but also more conventional. The demos, though, are well worth a listen. This may be scraping the bottom of the barrel, but whatever was in that barrel sure was funky.
Songs featured: Hanging Out, Down Home Girl, Politician.
The Columbia Years is available on Light In The Attic Records.
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Duration: 6'37"

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The Magic by Deerhoof
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Nick Bollinger revels in the anarchic surrealism of Amer-indie veterans Deerhoof.
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Nick Bollinger revels in the anarchic surrealism of Amer-indie veterans Deerhoof.
When it comes to bands doing it independently, Deerhoof have been ploughing their own furrow for more than two decades - and that furrow hasn’t got any straighter.
The Magic is Deerhoof’s fourteenth album and finds them as wilfully eclectic as ever. In just the opening song they crash from rockabilly rhythm into oriental melody, with the occasional jazz change and a bit of Hawaiian guitar thrown on top. They call the track ‘The Devil and His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue’, but that could just as easily be a description of the band itself.
Formed in San Francisco 22 years ago, their mainstays have been drummer/vocalist Greg Saunier, guitarist John Dietrich and bass player and vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki, who had never played in a band before, just sung a little karaoke, and had only arrived in America from her native Japan a week before she joined Deerhoof in 1995. Her naïve yet surprisingly pop-wise style has been one of the group’s chief assets, and has neither lost its innocence nor its charm.
Though their songs can be disarmingly simple, Deerhoof have no deficiencies in the chops area. Drummer Greg Saunier in particular is a fantastic musician, and the groove he plays on ‘Model Behaviour’ lays the foundations for what resembles a psychedelic James Brown.
Yet equally impressive is the way these accomplished musicians preserve the raw punk spirit they started out with. Saunier has talked about the group consciously trying not to progress from one record to the next, but rather tearing itself down and starting from scratch with each new project - though he’s also said that the original plan for their last album, La Isla Bonita was to bring in an outside producer and go for a slick 80s dance sound, in keeping with the album’s title, which was borrowed from a Madonna song. They were making demos in preparation for the big disco treatment when they decided they rather liked the demos the way they were, so that became the album instead. The final results sounded nothing like Madonna - and nor for that matter does this.
That’s a wobbly cover of an old Ink Spots tune, which seems to hark back to Matsuzaki’s origins as a karaoke singer. At other times, Deerhoof show that if they wanted to they could probably write a pop classic themselves, though as always it would seem to be entirely on their own terms. ‘Acceptance Speech’ might be Deerhoof’s take on big 80s FM pop – rendered, naturally through a scratchy transistor radio – while the riffs of ‘Kafe Mania’ suggest their version of hair metal.
They may deliberately avoid progression, still Deerhoof have made an album as full of mad energy, grungy rock, pop fun, and wild exotica as any they have ever done. To record it, they convened for a week in an abandoned office space in the New Mexico desert. They went there, the said, looking for the magic. And they found it.
Songs featured: The Devil and His Anarchic Surrealist Retinue, Criminals of the Dream, Model Behaviour, That Ain’t No Life For Me, Acceptance Speech, Kafe Mania, I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire.
The Magic is available on Polyvinyl Records.
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