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The Radiographers Strike is 12 hours old, with no major disruptions reported. Amanda Gillies (3 News, Wellington Hospital); Professor Geoffrey Horne (Orthopaedic Surgeon); Dwayne Crombie (District Health Boards' Spokesman); Megan Boivan (Dunedin Hospital); Pete Hodgson (Minister of Health).
Locked out Distribution Workers have rejected a proposed pay deal by Progressive Enterprises.
Labour has said there is no way that they will pay back $800,000 of taxpayer money used to fund the previous election campaign, saying that the Auditor General got it wrong when he found money had been spent improperly. Stephen Parker (Political Editor); Michael Cullen (Finance Minister); Helen Clark (Prime Minister); Don Brash (National Leader).
Sports Minister Trevor Mallard has said the Government may consider building a world class stadium on Auckland's Waterfront for use at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Americans have commemorated the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. US President Bush argued that the War on Terror is just beginning, and it was noted that the death toll of Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq has now passed the death toll of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Dick Cheney (US Vice President); George W. Bush (US President).
Mourners have been filing through the Auckland residence of the King of Tonga to pay their respects to the recently deceased Monarch. Wanganui District Council's flag did not fly at half-mast due to the Mayor of Wanganui Michael Laws saying the Tongan King was irrelevant. Keith Locke (Green MP); Helen Clark (Prime Minister); Michael Laws (Mayor of Wanganui); Brodie Stubbs (Culture and Heritage Ministry).
Otago University Students are reacting angrily to a plan to crack down on unruly behaviour even if it is off campus and the police are already involved.
Parliament resumed today with an instruction to Labour and National to cease the rowdy behaviour of recent weeks, and the whips for the parties were summoned to a meeting with the Speaker to discuss the behaviour. Ingrid Hipkiss (3 News, Parliament).
Sex workers have not flooded the streets since prostitution reform according to research published by the Christchurch School of Medicine. Gillian Abel (Christchurch School of Medicine); Annah Pickering (Auckland Community Worker); Sir Barry Curtis (Manukau City Mayor).
There are suggestions for ways to please both Speedways Promoters and Western Springs residents to keep the Speedway running. Voxpop; Martin Williams (Residents' Association Lawyer); Dave Stewart (Speedway Promoter).