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Midday Report for Thursday 2 April 2020
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Community lawyers in high demand
12:45 PM.Community law centres have been busy handling an innundation of requests for legal advice during the lock down period.
Its staff around the country are working from home, but are responding to legal… Read more Audio
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Foreigners await repatriation announcement
12:42 PM.Thousands of foreign nationals are currently wanting to leave New Zealand for the comforts of home, but the Level 4 alert currently in place has left them stuck where they are.
The Prime Minister… Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 2 April 2020
12:35 PM.With saleyards closed, online livestock trading is taking off with one platform claiming increases of more than 1000 percent in a week.
Andrew McRae and Maja Burry have the rural news. Read more Audio
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Midday Sports News for 2 April 2020
12:28 PM.As the uncertainty surrounding this crisis continues, the Wimbledon tennis championships have been cancelled for the first time since World War Two.
Clay Wilson has the sports news. Read more Audio
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Midday Business News for 2 April 2020
12:20 PM.Fletcher Building's chief executive, Ross Taylor, is putting as positive a face as possible on the moves the company is planning to take to cut costs.
RNZ's Business Editor, Gyles Beckford, has the… Read more Audio
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Zoom unacceptible in Cabinet meetings
12:17 PM.The National Party in't satisfied by assurances given by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about the use of the video conferencing system Zoom for Cabinet meetings.
Ms Ardern says Cabinet has agreed not… Read more Audio
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Police admit quaratine checks not up to promised level
12:14 PM.The Police Commissioner has been questioned on whether the police's Covid-19 enforcement priorities are right, after admitting they failed to follow up with people returning from overseas.
Mike Bush… Read more Audio
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NZ's biggest magazine publisher closes due to Covid-19
12:11 PM.The publisher of some of the country's best known magazines, including the Listener, North and South and Women's Weekly, has folded, with 237 people losing their jobs.
Bauer Media has announced it… Read more Audio
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Midday News for 2 April 2020
12:00 PM.New Zealand's largest magazine publisher, Bauer Media, folds with the loss for more than 200 jobs.
Nicola Wright has the news.
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