National Radio News and current affairs programme ‘Morning Report’.
Broadcasting nationwide every weekday morning from 6am to 9am and covering major national and international stories, as well as business, sport and Pacific and Māori affairs.
07:00am
NEWS
07:06am
LIVE
CAMBODIA: Kim Hill interviews Paul Webster, Guardian newspapers correspondent on international policies on South-East Asia and the lingering Khmer Rouge influence.
07:15am
Bank of New Zealand meet opposition from shareholders after BNZ try to double their directors’ fees. Peter Verschaffelt reports, LIVE.
07:18am
CARRINGTON Hospital - Geoff Robinson interviews Councillor Gordon Barnaby and Dr David Chaplow, Director of a planned secure psychiatric unit, set to host dangerous criminals.
07:27am
WEATHER
07:30am
NEWS and SPORT
07:39am
DRUGS IN SPORT: A six-person ask force has been set up to stamp out performance enhancing drugs in sport. Cecily McNeill interviews Jock Hobbs, former All Black Captain, LIVE.
07:44am
WHALES: Kim Hill interviews Brian Williams of the Department of Conservation, on a pod of Orca whales spotted at Mokau beach in Taranaki.
07:47am
METROPOLITAN PAPERS
07:50am
MANDELA returns to South Africa at the end of a six-week world tour. Subri Govendar reports.
07:52am
IRAQ: A British nurse, Daphne Parish who was freed from prison in Iraq, arrives back in London. Cathy Jenkins reports for BBC
07:54am
SOVIET cosmonauts on Mir space station run into difficulties after experiencing technical issues with an airlock and overuse of their spacesuits. Dick Oliver reports for BBC.
07:56am
BRITISH heat wave continues with a build-up of ozone, or ‘photochemical fog’, generated by car exhaust fumes and industrial emissions. Keith Chalkley reports.
ZIMBABWE government has finally lifted 25-year-old state of emergency. Ian Mills reports for BBC.
08:00am
NEWS/LOCAL BREAKOUT
08:10am
LIVE
08:10am
NATIONAL: Geoff Robinson interviews Owen Jennings, President for the Federated Farmers, on National's agriculture policy.
08:17am
WOODCHIP product ban - Newmans Group are seeking compensation from the government following the ban on exports of native wood chips. Gideon Porter interviews Newmans Chief Executive, Kevin Smith.
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CONSERVATION Minister is not happy with Newmans Group decision to lay off staff. Jane Young interviews Philip Woollaston, Conservation Minister.
08:22am
EXPORTERS urged to think ‘hi-tech’ for Europe's single market in 1992. Leigh Pearson interviews Gabriel de Bellicize, French Ambassador, LIVE.
CHILD RIGHTS: Kim Hill interviews Rae Julian, Human Rights Commissioner, on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with 94 other countries having already signed the convention, with New Zealand yet to do so.
08:30am
NEWS
PAY EQUITY office opens its doors on 1st October. Janice Rodenburg LIVE
08:40am
GEERING: Geoff Robinson interviews Laurie Barber, Associate Professor of History at the Waikato University, on Lloyd Geering's new book and his newly acquired label of ‘New Zealand’s most original thinker’.
08:48am
SPORT: A study has commissioned by the government to reach a standard of teaching in the sport and recreation industry. Peter Kingston reports LIVE.
08:52am
AUSTRALIAN TELECOM Information Services have launched a review of their 0055 ‘Dial It’ service, following a complaint that a total of 400 of the 4000 services have been deemed indecent, obscene or violent. Kim Hill interviews Andrew Simpson, 0055 service manager.
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0055 Telephone Information Service reviewed.
FRUIT and VEGE: Jack Forsythe with the weekly look at the fruit and vegetable market.