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:
10 August 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (1 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (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, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 10 August 2015
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A family warns of the dangers of meningitis after a missed diagnosis leaves their son brain-damaged, blind and deaf. We'll talk to the baby's father after 7. A warning from Labour banks will soon be forcing indebted dairy farmers to sell up. The Primary Industries Minister is rejecting Labour's claims, saying he's confident banks will stick by farmers and in a massive upset, the Silver Ferns beat Australia in pool play at the Netball World Cup.
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Duration: 32'29"
06:06
Sports News for 10 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'59"
06:18
Pacific News for 10 August 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'40"
06:21
Morning Rural News for 10 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'38"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 10 August 2015
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Te Rūnanganui o Ngati Porou is no longer accepting iwi members' driver's license for personal identification purposes for the upcoming runanga elections; The women's refuge collective says the government's newly launched family violence review is an opportunity for whanau to make sure the laws work for them; A Taranaki academic says he hopes to give Parihaka international recognition for its pioneering role in the passive resistance movement.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'16"
06:39
Silver Ferns upset lends fresh excitment to Netball World Cup
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At the end of what was shaping up as a black weekend for our national sports teams, the Silver Ferns gave New Zealanders something to cheer about with a stunning victory over the highly favoured Australian netball side in Sydney last night.
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Duration: 2'14"
06:49
Earnings season will start to pick up
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The earnings season will start to pick up from this week, and analysts are expecting solid results on the whole.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: earnings growth
Duration: 1'22"
06:50
Manufacturers feeling more confident
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An exporters' lobby group says firms are bringing some of their overseas-based operations back home, due in part to the lower dollar.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Exporters' Association
Duration: 1'32"
06:50
Briscoe Group will meet with Kathmandu's shareholders again
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Briscoe Group's major shareholder and managing director Rod Duke will meet with some of Kathmandu's key shareholders in Australia again this week, but he faces an uphill battle winning them over.
Topics: business
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Tags: Briscoe Group
Duration: 3'03"
06:55
Week ahead
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On the corporate front, the earnings season starts picking up.
Topics: business
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Duration: 44"
06:56
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and plans to build one of the world's biggest coal mines in Queensland have run into legal and financial problems.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'43"
06:58
Morning markets for 10 August 2015
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Wall Street fell to its lowest level since February, after the release of robust American labour market data made an interest rate hike more likely.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 56"
07:07
Sports News for 10 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'18"
07:12
Wgtn Hospital criticised for a failure to diagnose meningitis
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A family is warning about the dangers of meningitis after doctors failed to recognise it in their baby son leaving him brain-damaged, blind and deaf.
Topics: health
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: meningitis
Duration: 2'55"
07:15
Family launches campaign after doctors missed meningitis
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And Derek Burton joins us.
Topics: health
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Tags: meningitis
Duration: 6'32"
07:22
Labour expects dairy farms to be getting sold to foreigners
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The Labour Party is warning that banks will begin forcing indebted dairy farmers to sell their land within a year.
Topics: farming, politics
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Tags: dairy prices
Duration: 3'37"
07:24
Economy expected to take a hit off dairy price falls
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With us is Fonterra's group director of co-operative affairs, Miles Hurrell.
Topics: farming, politics
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Tags: dairy prices
Duration: 6'51"
07:37
Silver Ferns stun Aussie favourites in Netball World Cup
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The Silver Ferns stunned tournament favourites Australia in pool play at the Netball World Cup last night, beating their old foes for the first time in ten clashes.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Silver Ferns
Duration: 4'43"
07:42
Lawyer for inmate critically inured in jail mulls legal action
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The lawyer for an inmate who had his skull fractured and other bones broken in prison, is considering legal action against the Department of Corrections.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Department of Corrections
Duration: 3'10"
07:45
All Blacks reflect on loss to Wallabies
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The All Blacks will be taking a long hard look at themselves this week after their devastating 27-19 loss to the Wallabies in Sydney.
Topics: sport
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Tags: All Blacks
Duration: 4'02"
07:49
Donald Trump defends comments towards a Fox News journalist
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US Presidential candidate Donald Trump remains defiant as the fallout continues from his comments about a Fox News journalist.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Donald Trump, USA
Duration: 4'25"
07:56
Vegemite may be banned from remote Aboriginal communities
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Remote Aboriginal communities might soon be stripped of Australia's favourite sandwich spread.
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Tags: Vegemite, Australia, moonshine
Duration: 3'20"
08:07
Sports News for 10 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'09"
08:11
Thirty police officers nation-wide in court in the past year
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Thirty police officers across the country have been accused and convicted of serious charges within the past year, including one officer who filmed a teenager in a shower.
Topics: crime
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Tags: police officers
Duration: 3'02"
08:14
Standoff in Houston, Texas home leaves eight people dead
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A stand off in Houston, Texas has left eight people, including five children, dead.
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Tags: USA, Houston, shooting
Duration: 3'05"
08:17
Police are relying on locals to help solve a murder
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Palmerston North police are relying on locals to help them work out what happened to Samuel Peter Culling who died a violent death last week.
Topics: crime
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Samuel Peter Culling
Duration: 3'16"
08:21
Icy start for Dunedin residents
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It's an icy day in central Dunedin this morning.
Topics: weather
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin, ice
Duration: 2'35"
08:23
Fonterra told to cut back on coal usage in factories
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Anti coal campaigners say the dairy giant Fonterra should cut back on the amount of coal it uses in its factories.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Fonterra, coal
Duration: 3'29"
08:28
Australia loses Ashes to England
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After a disastrous fourth Ashes test match Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has announced his retirement but the coach Darren Lehmann's job is safe.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Ashes, cricket
Duration: 5'44"
08:32
Markets Update for 10 August 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 41"
08:39
NZ woman completes historic swim in San Francisco
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A New Zealander's made history by becoming the first woman to swim almost 50 kilometres of shark-filled waters off the coast of San Francisco.
Topics: sport
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Tags: swimming
Duration: 4'42"
08:44
One year on, Ferguson community remembers Michael Brown
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It's exactly a year since a white police officer shot dead the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in the US city of Ferguson, Missouri.
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Tags: USA, Ferguson
Duration: 5'08"
08:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 10 August 2015
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Te Rūnanganui o Ngati Porou is no longer accepting iwi members' driver's license for personal identification purposes for the upcoming runanga elections; The women's refuge collective says the government's newly launched family violence review is an opportunity for whanau to make sure the laws work for them; The Far North Mayor is praising the Government's decision to spend up to 14-million dollars to rebuild most of Northland College in Kaikohe; A Taranaki academic says he hopes to give Parihaka international recognition for its pioneering role in the passive resistance movement.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'42"
08:55
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 4'23"
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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: Only Connect, written and read by Elspeth Sandys A woman escapes the city for a very remote shearer's cottage after her life partner dies leaving her friends and family feeling bewildered and abandoned (RNZ)
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09:08
Poor support for caregivers of children with foetal alcohol damage
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - or FASD - covers a wide range of brain and physical development impairments that start with prenatal exposure to alcohol. It can result in significant behaviour and learning problems, that are not easily addressed. Families and FASD experts want it to be classed as a disability so that services to diagnose and treat it, are better aligned and funded. Lynn Freeman speaks with a couple who foster two children with FASD and FASD expert consultant Kerryn Bagley, who is based in Brisbane.
Topics: health
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Tags: FASD, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, alcohol
Duration: 23'27"
09:35
Nobel prize winning cell biophysicist Erwin Neher on ageing
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Nobel prize winning biophysicist Erwin Neher on how to age well, and the best ways to keep our bodies and minds from degenerating. Erwin Neher won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1991 along with Bert Sakmann, for their discovery of ion channels in cells. He's a director at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, and is about to visit New Zealand as a judge for the 200 thousand dollar Ryman Prize awarded for the best idea or advance in the world that enhances quality of life for older people.
Topics: health
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Tags: ageing
Duration: 11'44"
09:49
Africa correspondent Debora Patta
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Burundi election and claims of corruption, the Nigerian army has rescued more children from the extremist Boko Haram group.
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Tags: Africa
Duration: 11'01"
10:10
Rise of the machines
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Just over 40 years ago James Burke predicted the rise of personal computers would lead to a future where the whole world was interconnected. Today he's predicting an even bigger technological revolution, he thinks the rise of machines called "personal nanofactories" are going to change the world from one where people compete for scarce resources to one of near infinite abundance. What's more he says this is all going to happen in the next 50 years. James Burke is a science historian and he's currently writing a book about where science will take us in the coming decades. He's also the creator of a hugely popular TV show called Connections which was broadcast in the 1970s and explored the links between topics as diverse as marine navigation and classical composers.
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Just over 40 years ago James Burke predicted the rise of personal computers would lead to a future where the whole world was interconnected.
Today he's predicting an even bigger technological revolution, he thinks the rise of machines called "personal nanofactories" is going to change the world from one where people compete for scarce resources to one of near infinite abundance. What's more he says this is all going to happen in the next 50 years.
James Burke talks to Lynn Freeman.
James Burke is a science historian and he's currently writing a book about where science will take us in the coming decades.
He's also the creator of a hugely popular TV show called Connections which was broadcast in the 1970s and explored the links between topics as diverse as marine navigation and classical composers.
Topics: technology, science
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Tags: future
Duration: 28'28"
10:38
Book Review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, published by Chatto & Windus. Reviewed by Lisa Finucane
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'12"
11:08
Politics with Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
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Fall in the dairy price.
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Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton talk about the fall in the dairy price.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 22'50"
11:32
Hot Sauce with Nick Brown
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Nick Brown is the director of Huffman's hot sauce, a company started in Wellington by chef Nick Huffman. Their hot sauce recently won a major award at the World Hot Sauce Awards.
Topics: food
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Tags: hot sauce
Duration: 11'49"
11:49
Urban issues with Tommy Honey
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Affordable Housing in Queenstown.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 10'29"
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09:05 Calls for more support for parents and caregivers of children with foetal alcohol damage
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - or FASD - covers a wide range of brain and physical development impairments that start with prenatal exposure to alcohol. It can result in significant behaviour and learning problems, that are not easily addressed. Families and FASD experts want it to be classed as a disability so that services to diagnose and treat it, are better aligned and funded. Lynn Freeman speaks with a couple who foster two children with FASD and FASD expert consultant Kerryn Bagley, who is based in Brisbane.
09:30 Nobel prize winning cell biophysicist Erwin Neher on ageing well
Nobel prize winning biophysicist Erwin Neher on how to age well, and the best ways to keep our bodies and minds from degenerating. Erwin Neher won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1991 along with Bert Sakmann, for their discovery of ion channels in cells. He's a director at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, and is about to visit New Zealand as a judge for the 200 thousand dollar Ryman Prize awarded for the best idea or advance in the world that enhances quality of life for older people.
09:45 Africa correspondent Debora Patta
Debora Patta reports on Burundi election and claims of corruption, and the Nigerian army has rescued more children from the extremist Boko Haram group.
10:05 Rise of the machines
Just over 40 years ago James Burke predicted the rise of personal computers would lead to a future where the whole world was interconnected.
Today he's predicting an even bigger technological revolution, he thinks the rise of machines called "personal nanofactories" are going to change the world from one where people compete for scarce resources to one of near infinite abundance. What's more he says this is all going to happen in the next 50 years.
James Burke is a science historian and he's currently writing a book about where science will take us in the coming decades. He's also the creator of a hugely popular TV show called Connections which was broadcast in the 1970s and explored the links between topics as diverse as marine navigation and classical composers.
10:30 Book Review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Reviewed by Lisa Finucane
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Published by Chatto & Windus
10:45 The Reading: 'Only Connect', written and read by Elspeth Sandys
A woman escapes the city for a very remote shearer's cottage after her life partner dies leaving her friends and family feeling bewildered and abandoned (RNZ, 1 of 1)
11:05 Politics with Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Hot Sauce with Nick Brown
Nick Brown is the director of Huffman's hot sauce, a company started in Wellington by chef Nick Huffman. Their hot sauce recently won a major award at the World Hot Sauce Awards.
Recipes for Hot Chicken Wings and Roasted Pepper, Chilli, Paprika and Orange Soup.
Top left: Nicholas Huffman Top right: Nick Brown
11:45 Urban issues with Tommy Honey
Affordable Housing in Queenstown.
Links:
Experts to mull future of affordable housing in Queenstown –The Southland Times
Queenstown Lakes property booming – Otago Daily Times
===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 10 August 2015
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The dairy downturn starts to hit regional economies; and the Prime Minister still believes the TPP will be signed this year.
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Duration: 14'56"
12:17
Kathmandu's acting chief steps down one year ahead of time
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Kathmandu's chief operating officer and finance director, Mark Todd, has resigned, but says it has nothing to do with the current takeover bid from Briscoe Group.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Kathmandu
Duration: 50"
12:18
Gentrack expects full year profit at the low expectation end
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Gentrack Group says it's signed what it describes as perhaps its biggest ever contract in Australia. However, the utilities and airport software company says it won't make a big difference to the current year ending in September, as underlying gross profit is expected to come in at the bottom-end of its guidance range of between $13 and 15-and-a-half million.
Topics: business
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'24"
12:23
Midday Markets for 10 August 2015
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Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners has the Midday Markets.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'22"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 10 August 2015
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Another top ten finish for New Zealand golfer Danny Lee.
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Duration: 2'46"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 10 August 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Tags: rural, farming
Duration: 7'40"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Jesse hosts an upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time.
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13:10
Songs You Have To Hear - Brother Sun
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Electric Wire Hustle's Brother Sun featuring Kimbra is a a bouncy piano-driven dancefloor jam that references 70's disco and jazz.
Topics: music
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Duration: 5'00"
13:15
The Women of Pike River - Mary Durham
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This week is the world premiere of The Women of Pike River. The documentary profiles six women directly affected by the Pike River mine disaster, when 29 men died in a series of explosions in November 2010. It looks at the industrial tragedy, and its aftermath as what the documentary maker calls, a "continuous chain of humanitarian failures". The documentary is directed by former newspaper, radio and TV reporter, Mary Durham.
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This week is the world premiere of The Women of Pike River. The documentary profiles six women directly affected by the Pike River mine disaster, when 29 men died in a series of explosions in November 2010.
It looks at the industrial tragedy, and its aftermath as what the documentary maker calls, a "continuous chain of humanitarian failures". The documentary is directed by former newspaper, radio and TV reporter, Mary Durham.
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Regions: West Coast
Tags: Pike River, documentary, television
Duration: 13'50"
13:30
Homeland Security - Lisa Scott
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She's made it through six long haul flights, two armed escorts, four international airports and a prison van. Columnist and travel writer, Lisa Scott, was jailed by homeland security, but she's finally made it home.
Topics: security
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Tags: homeland security, USA, travel
Duration: 8'39"
13:45
Feature Album - Put On Your Best Dress: Mrs Pottinger's Rock Steady 1967-1968
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Public Address blogger and host of a panel discussion on songs of Auckland city as part of the Museum Late series; Russell Brown has chosen Put On Your Best Dress: Mrs Pottinger's Rock Steady 1967-1968.
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: reggae
Duration: 13'37"
14:10
TV review with Phil Wallington
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Phil Wallington talks about the TV2 documentary Gloriavale: Life and Death, and TV3's upcoming current affairs programme Story.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: television, TV 3, story, Gloriavale, documentary
Duration: 13'13"
14:30
Arts review with Joe Prisk
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Joe Prisk of Glovebox gallery talks about Lisa Reihana's work 'In Pursuit of Venus [infected]' at Auckland Art Gallery and Bianca Hester's 'Movements Materializing Momentarily' at St Paul St Gallery.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: multimedia
Duration: 8'48"
14:37
Book review with Mary McCallum
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Mary McCallum reviews, The Invisible Mile, the debut novel of Wellington author David Coventry. It is set at the 1928 Tour de France.
Topics: books, sport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Tour de France
Duration: 9'39"
14:42
Music review with Kate Robertson
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Kate Robertson, music editor for Victoria University's magazine Salient, has brought in new music from The Rubens, Chet Faker, and Foals.
Topics: music
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Tags: Australia, The Rubens, Chet Faker, Foals
Duration: 17'48"
15:10
Susan Southard - The second nuclear bomb
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At 11:02am on August 9th 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 74 thousand people. It was the second time in history that a nuclear bomb had been used, so the story of Nagasaki is often overlooked. Journalist and author Susan Southard tells the story of five survivors, who were teenagers when the bomb named Fat Man was detonated on their city. They suffered not only horrifying injuries, but shame and bullying. The book is called Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War.
Topics: conflict, history
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Tags: WII, Japan, nuclear
Duration: 23'22"
15:30
OneBeep - One Child, One Life
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Auckland University graduate Vinny Lohan is ranked by General Electric as one of three upcoming entrepreneurs in the world and has captured the attention of the Bill Gates Foundation. This young Indian New Zealander is saving lives and bringing education to children in third world countries with "engineering simplicity and ingenuity" - that delightfully involves radio waves. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets Vinny in Christchurch to learn how his international award winning technology is changing lives for the better around the globe:
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By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Vinny and his team win at the Microsoft Imagine Cup photo courtesy Asia NZ Foundation
Auckland University graduate Vinny Lohan is so full of ideas he is literally buzzing. It's no wonder the young Indian New Zealander has seen international success with his aptly named projects OneBeep and Onebuzz, although "success" in Vinny's terms may not be about how much money he makes from his projects. Vinny's altruistic streak means that he often gives his inventions away.
Ranked by General Electric as one of three upcoming entrepreneurs in the world, Vinny has captured the attention of the Bill Gates Foundation. Vinny's big data projects are saving lives and bringing education to children in third world countries with "engineering simplicity and ingenuity" and OneBeep delightfully involves radio waves.
Vinny's a network leader and guest speaker at a social innovation hui in Christchurch, sponsored by the Asia New Zealand Foundation. Vinny takes time away from the buzz of the hui to tell me how his technology works.
Vinny set up OneBeep, a data communication company while he was still a student in computer engineering at Auckland University. These days Vinny and a small team of engineers that make up OneBeep work out of Bangalore to expand their ventures in the big data industry.
"You know the One laptop per child project?" Vinny asks me, I nod. "That's where 30 million are in distribution around the world for children to help combat the digital divide in places like rural Uganda or Peru. But the problem is that the lap tops are going to areas without internet and without the infrastructure to build the internet, so the laptop becomes a static device."
So what is the solution?
So we came up with a method to get all the new data to the laptops as sound files, through radio waves. We chose radio because radio is everywhere.
OneBeep, transmits data using radio signals to remote areas where cellular networks and broadband have not reached. Simple and ingenious.
OneBeep placed third at the Microsoft Imagine Cup ahead of over 425,000 competing tertiary students from 69 other countries. Vinny owns 91% of OneBeep, his company based in New Zealand. The rest is held by Icehouse, a top technology incubator.
What about OneBuzz? Why the name and what's this technology about?
OneBuzz is personal for Vinny. His mother contracted malaria while she was pregnant with him. She ran the risk of delivering a stillborn child or a child with birth defects. Luckily Vinny was born without complications but subsequently has contracted malaria twice over himself.
Vinny Lohan Jeet photo courtesy Asia NZ Foundation
Vinny tells me that while on a visit to rural India recently, he stopped at a medical clinic. A mother carrying her sick child came in. She had walked for over 2 hours from their village. The child was suffering advanced stages of malaria. The mother was desperate but the clinic had run short of medical treatment. The child died there at the clinic, in front of Vinny. The grieving woman told Vinny that if only she had known the clinic didn't have enough medicine, she would have walked to another clinic to save her child's life.
So OneBuzz was born, an algorithm and technology platform that helps project manage the stockpile and transportation of anti-malarial measures - measures that includes vaccines, insecticide sprays and aerial spraying. Vinny created a system using disparate data and satellite imagery, along with data from government health, climate and recent rainfall patterns to identify areas around the globe most at risk of malarial mosquito infestation.
Social entrepreneurs need to spend time in those communities. It's about falling in love with the problem not the solution. The solution comes out of a very deep understanding of what the problem is.
Vinny tells me that he trialed OneBuzz in the state of Bihar in the North East of India. It's the 13th largest state in India with an area of 94,163 km2 and with total population of 82,998,509. Over 85% living in villages and over 58% under the age of 25. "These communities have very little resources. The amount of medicine or aerial spraying was not the problem, the problem was intelligent distribution. it's smart decision making"
These are very small changes but they have great impact.
OneBuzz, the malaria predictor solution, also made it to the finals in Microsoft's Imagine cup. Vinny's big data technology platforms are not hugely expensive to create or sustain. In fact they work compatibly with already existing systems. So why isn't OneBuzz being implemented across the globe right now?
OneBuzz was a success and continues to be utilised across Bihar. However the biggest problem is not the invention or sustainability of this technology but the governmental bureaucracy and "old school" hierarchy that stands in the way.
There is resistance in other states across India to the setting up of OneBuzz in the first place. Vinny tells me that perhaps because OneBuzz is not a money spinner it is not taken seriously enough. Vinny considers the greatest irony being the resistance to implementing his life saving technology.
The biggest barrier is that I wanted to give this technology away for free.
What is Vinny and his team working on next?
Vinny is building a platform primarily for tertiary and secondary students to work together across disparate platforms, a little like Dropbox to help gather and collaborate across different digital devices.
Vinny believes that social enterprise and entrepreneurs needs to work in collaboration with companies like Google or Microsoft rather than reinventing the wheel. Vinny and his team decided to make OneBeep and OneBuzz open source. They gave the technology away.
We were able to pitch OneBuzz to the Bill Gates Foundation in the U.S. and that was really exciting - that was a real buzz.
So it's international award winning technology that's obviously changing lives for the better around the globe. Melanie Crawford is the Leadership Network Coordinator at the Asia New Zealand Foundation. She describes Vinny as a "serial entrepreneur" and his technology having world wide implications.
That's a real testament to Vinny, he could have a different life, he could be in Silicon Valley making a new APP for Facebook and a lot of money but he's not. His next steps might be how to develop social enterprise that is sustainable financially. Vinny Lohan's been named as one of the world's top three young social entrepreneurs - he is definitely one to watch.
Topics: aid and development, education, identity, refugees and migrants, health
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: computer science and technology, health, inequality, cultural practice, Christchurch
Duration: 16'53"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 10 August 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora, Irene Gardiner, and Zoe George.
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Duration: 13'14"
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1:10 Songs You Have To Hear
Electric Wire Hustle - Brother Sun Feat. Kimbra.
1:15 The Women of Pike River - Mary Durham
This week is the world premiere of The Women of Pike River. The documentary profiles six women directly affected by the Pike River mine disaster, when 29 men died in a series of explosions in November 2010. It looks at the industrial tragedy, and its aftermath as what the documentary maker calls, a 'continuous chain of humanitarian failures'. The documentary is directed by former newspaper, radio and TV reporter, Mary Durham.
1:25 Homeland Security - Lisa Scott
She's made it through six long haul flights, two armed escorts, four international airports and a prison van. Columnist and travel writer, Lisa Scott, was jailed by homeland security, but she's finally made it home.
1:30 BBC Witness - Psycho
In August 1960 the controversial Oscar-nominated psychological thriller, Psycho, was released. BBC Witness presents archive recordings of its director, Alfred Hitchcock and of the film's star, Janet Leigh.
1:40 Feature Album
Russell Brown has chosen Put On Your Best Dress: Mrs Pottinger's Rock Steady 1967-1968
2:10 The Critics
1. TV - Phil Wallington
2. Art - Joe Prisk
3. Books - Mary McCallum
4. Music - Kate Robertson
3:10 Feature interview - Susan Southard
At 11:02am on August 9th 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 74 thousand people. It was the second time in history that a nuclear bomb had been used, so the story of Nagasaki is often overlooked. Journalist and author Susan Southard tells the story of five survivors, who were teenagers when the bomb named Fat Man was detonated on their city. They suffered not only horrifying injuries, but shame and bullying. The book is called Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War.
3:35 Voices - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Auckland University graduate Vinny Lohan is ranked by General Electric as one of 3 upcoming entrepreneurs in the world. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets Vinny in Christchurch to learn more about his award winning technology that's changing lives for the better around the globe.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
===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 10 August 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora, Irene Gardiner, and Zoe George.
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Duration: 13'14"
16:08
The Panel with Irene Gardiner and Michael Moynahan (Part 1)
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Cold times in New Zealand. Whangarei's Anne Power has been in the High Court, appealing a conviction for ill-treating a horse that died. The New Zealand Humanist Society's come out against the Harmful Digital Communications Act, which it says contains one of the world's strictest blasphemy laws. Republicans are queueing up to condemn Donald Trump for what he said about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in the Republican primary debate.
Topics: politics, law, weather, technology, spiritual practices
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Duration: 26'51"
16:09
The Panel with Irene Gardiner and Michael Moynahan (Part 2)
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A PricewaterhouseCoopers report released in March this year reckons "rampant and excessive consumption" is waning. Age Discrimination Commissioner in Australia, Susan Ryan, says older people are complaining to their Human Rights Commission after being refused home loans based on their age. Selection changes likely as the All Blacks seek revenge at Eden Park.
Topics: inequality
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Duration: 24'01"
16:10
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Michael Moynahan and Irene Gardiner have been up to.
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Duration: 4'01"
16:13
Cold times in New Zealand
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New Zealand is continuing to shiver its way through a cold snap, with temperatures struggling to reach double digits in some places. Parts of Southland and Otago received a dumping of snow to low levels over the weekend, while Christchurch experienced sleety showers.
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Duration: 2'33"
16:19
The rights of animals
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Auckland Animal Rights Group President Nicola Davies is quoted as saying "All animals should have the same rights and not be killed for fun. They all have the exact same right to life as your humble dairy cow."
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Tags: animals, ethics
Duration: 8'37"
16:24
Has NZ got strict blasphemy laws?
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The New Zealand Humanist Society's come out against the Harmful Digital Communications Act, which it says contains one of the world's strictest blasphemy laws.
Topics: spiritual practices, law
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Duration: 1'53"
16:28
Donald Trump's comments at the Republican debate
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Republicans are queueing up to condemn Donald Trump for what he said about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in the big television debate. Some have said this will finally be the gaffe that sinks Trump's lead in the polls, although that was also said regarding his comments about Mexicans, and his questioning of John McCain's heroism. Also writing under a male name makes you 8 times more likely to get published.
Topics: politics, books
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Tags: Donald Trump, gender politics
Duration: 9'26"
16:36
The post-consumer
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The publication Buyer's Remorse thinks it has discerned a trend that will affect us all. On its cover a kicked-over shopping trolley in a puddle of blood. "Why anti-brand values are killing consumerism" is the headline. A PricewaterhouseCoopers report released in March this year reckons "rampant and excessive consumption" is waning.
Topics: economy, environment
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Tags: ethics
Duration: 8'36"
16:42
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Michael Moynahan and Irene Gardiner have been thinking about.
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Duration: 4'10"
16:46
Older Australian home buyers may be being disciminated against
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Age Discrimination Commissioner in Australia, Susan Ryan, says older people are complaining to their Human Rights Commission after being refused home loans based on their age.
Topics: inequality, housing
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Duration: 5'01"
16:52
Selection changes likely as AB seek revenge at Eden Park
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The scrum, breakdown, halves and midfield all failed to fire during the 27-19 loss in Sydney.
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Duration: 4'08"
16:58
Story starts
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TV3's current affairs show Story with Duncan Garner and Heather du Plessis will start soon.
Topics: media
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Duration: 1'59"
=SHOW NOTES=
===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 10 August 2015
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Drug addict dies after being given experimental drug; Dunedin Mayor fronts up on council fraud cases; Farmers call on real estate agents with eye on selling up; and Australian dad asks MPs to pay for his holiday.
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Duration: 21'41"
17:08
Drug addict dies after being given experimental drug
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A drug addict hooked on opiates who asked her doctor for an experimental treatment she'd read about, ended up dead just days later. The 45 year old woman was given 6 doses of the psycho-active substance, Ibogaine, more than usual.
Topics: health
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Duration: 4'09"
17:12
No lurking scandals despite fraud cases - Dunedin city council
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The Dunedin city council is reassuring ratepayers it has no more big lurking scandals to reveal despite the discovery of five new fraud and theft cases. The cases follow the council's Citifleet scandal uncovered last year in which a departmental manager pocketed the proceeds from 152 fleet vehicles over a decade.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 3'23"
17:16
Farmers call on real estate agents with eye on selling up
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There are signs of a growing number of debt-pressured dairy farmers weighing up the market in case they choose to sell. And pressure is being felt elsewhere such as on grain prices, from milk prices which were already depressed before Fonterra on Friday slashed its forecast payout to just $3.85 a kilo.
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Duration: 6'24"
17:20
Rubbish collector killed as truck crashes into bush
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A rubbish collector has been killed and his driver injured when their truck overturned on a steep road at Birkenhead in Auckland. The driver was trapped inside the cab when the truck tipped over in Hebe Place and had to be rescued by fire crews.
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Duration: 2'44"
17:24
Avalanche kills skier in Queenstown
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A man has died while heli-skiing in an avalanche south of Queenstown.
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Duration: 1'53"
17:28
Australian dad asks MPs to pay for his holiday
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An Australian father who's sick of MPs using tax payer money to go on holidays and travel in helicopters is asking politicians to fork out for his own family holiday to Uluru. Steve Callaghan set up a donation page on the crowd-funding website Go Fund Me, asking for $5000 and sent the link to MPs via email and social media.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, expenses
Duration: 4'51"
17:35
Evening Business for 10 August 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'11"
17:38
Horse with severe gum disease starved to death - appealed
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The SPCA says a horse was left with severe gum disease so excruciating it eventually starved to death. Anne Power has appealed her conviction of recklessly ill-treating the horse called Pip back in April. The Court ordered her to pay costs, give up all her other animals, which includes several llamas, and be barred from owning any animals for 10 years.
Topics: law
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Duration: 3'36"
17:42
Bore blows out behind main Roturua street
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Council workers in Rotorua have spent the day trying to cap a geothermal bore that suddenly erupted behind shops in the centre of town. Steam shot up into the air yesterday, blowing cobble stones and dirt onto roofs along Amohau Road.
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Duration: 3'03"
17:45
Leaky building class action targets building biggie
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Leaky building legal action has been launched in the High Court against big building manufacturer, James Hardie. Others are being invited to join the class action along with plaintiffs Tracey Cridge and her partner Mark Unwin, who bought their 1990s Island Bay house ten years ago.
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Duration: 4'47"
17:52
ANZAC test gone under new TV deal
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The annual Anzac rugby league Test between the Kiwis and Kangaroos will be dropped from 2018 as part of a new NRL.television deal. The news has come as a complete surprise to New Zealand Rugby League.
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Duration: 3'58"
17:55
Conference told Māori nurses suffer from huge inequalities
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A nurses conference has heard how the pay gap suffered by Māori nurses is forcing them to take on second jobs to make ends meet. The Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference was held over the weekend as the United Nations celebrated World's Indigenous Peoples Day.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'13"
18:05
Sports News for 10 August 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'12"
18:11
Retailers hit by dairy downturn too
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Taranaki retailers say the downturn in the dairy maket is starting to bite, with sales down by 10-20%. Farmers are cutting back now that the forecast payout for the season has dropped to $3.85 a kilo of milk solids. That's far below the break-even point for many farmers, whose spending on non-essential items has all but evaporated.
Topics: rural, economy
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: sairy
Duration: 3'24"
18:16
Dunedin Mayor fronts up on council fraud cases
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The Dunedin city council is reassuring ratepayers it has no more big lurking scandals to reveal despite the discovery of seven new fraud and theft cases. Two are still being investigated.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 5'56"
18:25
Gardener who was volunteer fireman named over bomb hoax
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The man accused of being behind four bomb hoaxes in Hamilton is former volunteer firefighter who is a gardener for the city council. Bradley Taylor, who is 27 is facing four charges of threatening to harm people and property. Three suspicious packages were found in Gower Park and one in Melville Park in June with the army bomb squad in Auckland being called out each time.
Topics: crime
Regions: Waikato
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Duration: 2'26"
18:27
Silver Ferns prepare for next battle at World Cup
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The Silver Ferns are still elated after their five goal win against Australia at the World Cup in Sydney. The win means New Zealand ends pool play at the top of the standings, and they'll likely play Jamaica - unless Scotland upsets them in their final pool match.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'40"
18:51
Shots fired in Ferguson, USA
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At least two people have been shot in the American city of Ferguson, during demonstrations marking the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. The unarmed 18-year old was shot by a white police officer a year ago.
Topics: conflict
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Duration: 3'39"
18:53
Te Manu Korihi News for 10 August 2015
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A nurses conference has heard how the pay gap suffered by Māori nurses is forcing them to take on second jobs to make ends meet; Manatu Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, is calling for applications from people wanting to host celebrations to comemmorate the signing of Te Tiriti; Māori landowners at Matauri Bay in Northland are hoping to regain control of their whenua - by selling off an ill-fated subdivision.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'09"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Best of Upbeat: Selected Eva Radich exchanges with personalities from the world of music and the arts (RNZ Concert) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
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19:12
Infant Sleep Study
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Sleeping like a baby? How New Zealand families are managing night-time sleep for infants (under two years of age) - with Dr Carrie Cornsweet Barber, director of clinical training at University of Waikato's School of Psychology.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: parenting, parents, Baby, infant, sleeping, not sleeping.
Duration: 23'18"
20:42
Body Parts
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Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy - the epididymis, the tubal system that the sperm mature in, after they leave the testis.
Topics: health, science
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Tags: human anatomy, epididymis, sperm, testis.
Duration: 15'01"
21:12
The Gothic Compass
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The modern evolution of gothic culture, here and around the world, as explored by Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell, AUT Popular Culture Research Centre senior lecturer and Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia president; her recently published publication is New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: gothic, goths.
Duration: 27'01"
21:59
Conundrum Clues 1 and 2
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Listen in on Friday night for the answer.
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Duration: 20"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:15 Infant Sleep Study
Sleeping like a baby? How New Zealand families are managing night-time sleep for infants (under two years of age) – with Dr Carrie Cornsweet Barber, director of clinical training at University of Waikato's School of Psychology.
7:35 Upbeat Feature
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Body Parts
Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy – the epididymis, the tubal system that the sperm mature in, after they leave the testis.
9:10 The Gothic Compass
The modern evolution of gothic culture, here and around the world, as explored by Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell, AUT Popular Culture Research Centre senior lecturer and Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia president; her recently published publication is New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass.
9:30 Insight
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the 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 Beale Street Caravan
First up, a set of blues-inspired gospel from the legendary Rev. John Wilkins at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic playing slide guitar Hill Country style.
At the same venue is southern singer/songwriter Cary Hudson from the band Blue Mountain, also playing some hot slide.
Crazy ‘bout a saxophone Jim Spake stops by to continue his series on the great saxophone sidemen of the early years of rock 'n roll.
===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. | Beale Street Caravan===
=DESCRIPTION=
David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert. (2 of 13, BSC)