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Morning Report for Monday 14 August 2017
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Top Stories for Monday 14 August 2017
6:00 AM.Gunman remains on loose in Morrinsville, The New Zealander in the midst of the Charlottesvile white supremacist attack, and Government's boot camp plan slammed by youth justice advocates Audio
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Bootcamps 'proven to fail' - youth justice advocate
6:13 AM.National has announced a boot camp for youth offenders, but Katie Bruce from the Just Speak lobby group told RNZ political reporter Demelza Leslie that what National is proposing has been proven to… Read more Audio
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Australia's uni fees for New Zealanders ruled 'discriminatory'
6:17 AM.Australian lawmakers have ruled that a change that triples what New Zealanders pay for university study across the Tasman is discriminatory. Phil Pennington reports. Audio
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Early Business News for 14 August 2017
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 14 August 2017
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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'Terrifying' day in Morrinsville after shooting, chase
6:40 AM.A police chase in Morrinsville on Sunday morning ended in a gun fight and the gunman still on the loose. Locals are shaken but tell Jessie Chiang the man police are hunting is long gone from the area.
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One dead after house fire in Christchurch
6:42 AM.One person is dead in Christchurch following a house fire in the suburb of Linwood early this morning. Read more Audio
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One dead after violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
6:45 AM.One person is killed and 19 others injured after a 20-year-old man drove into a group of anti-facist protestors in Charlottesville, USA. Virginia Public Radio's Sandy Hausman gives us the latest news… Read more Audio
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Business News for 14 August 2017
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Cars 'riddled with bullet holes' after Morrinsville shooting
7:10 AM.A gunman remains on the loose after a shootout just outside Morrinsville in the early hours of yesterday morning. RNZ reporter Jessie Chiang joins us with details from the scene. Read more Audio
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'We saw everyone go flying' - New Zealander witnesses Charlottesville attack
7:16 AM.New Zealander Dr Chris Mahony witnessed the car attack at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He tells Susie Ferguson he heard the car come screaming down the road and bounce… Read more Audio
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Youth justice group slams govt's boot camp plan
7:24 AM.Youth justice lobby group Just Speak says the government's proposed year-long military boot camp plan for serious young offenders tells RNZ's Demelza Leslie the Waiouru Army camp will be just another… Read more Audio
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NZ Post refuses calls to stop daily recordings
7:28 AM.New Zealand Post is refusing to stop recording daily conversations between posties and members of the public. Acting general manager of operations Matthew Riordan joins us. Audio
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Māori Party pitches to be 'kingmakers'
7:37 AM.The Māori Party launched their campaign at Manurewa Marae on Sunday - the strategy remains the same - focus on the centre and pitch themselves as an independent voice, available to influence either… Read more Audio
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NZ govt accused of being complicit in Australian uni fees hike
7:41 AM.Sydney-based lawyer and human rights advocate David Faulkner tells us the New Zealand Government is complicit in the law change forcing New Zealand students at Australian universities to pay triple… Read more Audio
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Trump criticised for response to white supremacists
7:50 AM.Donald Trump's response to the far-right rally in Charlottesville was to condemn hate "on many sides," but he failed to directly criticise white supremacy. University of Virginia Center for Politics'… Read more Audio
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Kaikohe opens new youth centre after spates of crime
7:50 AM.Kaikohe will open a new youth centre in an attempt to keep the Northland town's teenagers out of trouble. Te Kotahitanga e Mahi Kaha Trust chair Aroha Tahere joins us. Read more Audio
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Culture of army best for youth offenders - Prime Minister
7:55 AM.Prime Minister Bill English says National's boot camp plan for youth offenders is not the same as past training programmes. He told Morning Report the targeted youth will be going to prison, so a camp… Read more Audio
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National's boot camp plan - keeping kids from prison or ambulance at bottom of cliff?
8:11 AM.Critics say a National Party plan to send hardened youth criminals to an army bootcamp is aimed at winning votes but will never work. Canterbury University criminologist Jarrod Gilbert and the Morgan… Read more Audio
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New plans for chocolate company in Dunedin
8:20 AM.Jim O'Malley unveilled his plans for a new publicly-owned chocolate company in Dunedin. He says when the lights go out at Cadbury on March 31, he wants the new company to hit the ground running. Audio
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Peter Dunne trailing in long-held Ohariu seat
8:25 AM.United Future leader Peter Dunne admits he's got some work to do to retain the Ohariu electorate. Labour candidate Greg O'Connor told Guyon Espiner the latest poll reflects what he's hearing in the… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 14 August 2017
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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New Zealanders have a love-hate relationship with debt - survey
8:37 AM.A survey has found New Zealanders have a love-hate relationship with debt. Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell joins us. Read more Audio
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Green Party re-launches election campaign with 'Love NZ'
8:42 AM."We are still here... we are still the same Green Party with the same values". After a tumltuous week, surrounded by the Green Paty's top 20 list candidates, James Shaw re-launched the party's new… Read more Audio
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Farming cows indoors trialled in Canterbury
8:48 AM.Farming cows indoors is being trialled in Canterbury as a way to stop effluent polluting waterways - not everybody is happy about the idea, with some labelling it factory farming. Audio
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Dairy intolerance 'very real issue' - researchers
8:52 AM.Scientists at Auckland University have shown for the first time that intolerance to dairy products is a very real issue. Researcher Amber Milan tells us how the tests were carried out. Read more Audio