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Morning Report for Tuesday 24 August 2021
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Top Stories for Tuesday 24 August 2021
6:00 AM.Aucklanders resign themselves to another eight days in lockdown, with 99 of the current 107 community Covid cases in the city, Parliament will not sit for the next week - angering opposition parties… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Principals frustrated by digital divide
6:09 AM.Principals are frustrated that thousands of children have gone into lockdown without computers to do their school work on.
They say the digital divide is a big problem and more needs to be done to… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 24 August 2021
6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 24 August 2021
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Covid-19: Delta shifting goal posts on tracing system - expert
6:38 AM.A contact tracing expert says the Delta strain is shifting the goal posts on the country's tracing system, helping to put it under more pressure.
More tracers are being urgently recruited around the… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: National Party fights shutdown at Parliament
6:40 AM.The National Party is promising to fight against what it believes is New Zealand becoming a one-party dictatorship as Parliament shuts down for the next week.
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Queenstown Mayor wants to open up soon
6:47 AM.South Islanders are becoming increasingly frustrated at being locked down when there are no confirmed Covid-19 cases on the mainland.
The Prime Minister says there are over 100 close contacts down… Read more Audio
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Business News for 24 August 2021
6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Aucklanders resigned to more home isolation
7:09 AM.Aucklanders are coming to terms with spending at least eight more days largely confined to their homes.
There are now more than 400 locations of interest listed on the Ministry of Health Website… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Yesterdays numbers bad enough for two week lockdown extension - Modeller
7:11 AM.A government adviser and Covid-19 data modeller, Rodney Jones, says the next few days are pivotal in the country's fight against community spread of the delta variant.
Rodney Jones told Morning… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Aucklanders arriving at testing stations at 4am
7:17 AM.Thousands more people are expected to be tested across Auckland on Tuesday.
Reporter Katie Doyle was out at the Mangere pop up testing centre. Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Opposition outraged over Parliament suspension
7:19 AM.New Zealand's Delta outbreak has disrupted Parliament's sitting - with the Speaker pushing pause at the Prime Minister's request.
The suspension has prompted outrage from Opposition parties who say… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Ardern backing design of Crowne Plaza MIQ
7:22 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is backing the design of a managed isolation facility at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak.
Tuesday marks six days into a nationwide alert level 4 Covid-19 lockdown, and… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Extended lockdown no surprise to the regions
7:37 AM.News the alert level 4 lockdown is being extended surprised few in the Covid-19 free regions.
RNZ reporters - practising good physical distancing measures - have been taking the pulse of the nation.
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Covid-19: Pacific leaders say testing numbers encouraging, vaccinations less so
7:42 AM.More than half of the current 107 cases in the Delta outbreak are from the Pacific community.
The Samoa Assembly of God Church welcomed more than 500 people at an event 9 days ago which has now… Read more Audio
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Biden under pressure over Afghanistan evacuation
7:47 AM.More and more evacuations are taking place from Afghanistan's capital Kabul with 16,000 people been flown out in the last 24 hours.
Those comments come amidst mounting global pressure on the White… Read more Audio
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Veterans' Affairs office plagued by bullying complaints
7:51 AM.Workers at Veterans' Affairs have lodged official complaints that bullying is so bad it's severely affecting their mental health.
At least five complaints have gone to the Crown agency Worksafe since… Read more Audio
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Woman fights to save her alpaca's life
7:55 AM.Geronimo, a male alpaca raised on a farm in Taumarunui, is at the centre of a high-profile legal stoush in the UK.
Geronimo was sold four years ago to English veterinary nurse Helen Macdonald. He… Read more Audio
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Sports News for 24 August 2021
8:06 AM.The third Bledisloe Cup test will be played in Perth next weekend with the remainder of the Rugby Championship to be held in Queensland. Rugby reporter Joe Porter has more. Audio
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Enough money to cover month long lockdown - Robertson
8:09 AM.The Finance Minister says the government has enough in the Covid-19 fund to cover a nationwide alert level 4 for at least month, before having to top up through borrowing.
Grant Robertson says the… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Businesses struggle with extended lockdown
8:16 AM.There is a sense of frustration from many businesses across New Zealand, with the longer lockdown - especially when no Covid-19 cases have been detected in the south island yet.
Brett O'Riley, from… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Union on trouble for supermarket workers
8:23 AM.The union representing many of the country's supermarket workers says its members have been under severe stress during lockdown week one.
Checkout rage, customers who don't wear masks, some staff… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Public health lead on pacific impact
8:27 AM.More than half of the current 107 cases in the Delta outbreak are Pacific people.
A service at the Samoan Assembly of God in Māngere is the event with the highest number of Covid-19 cases.
The… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 24 August 2021
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Afghanistan: Lawyer worried for evacuees stuck there
8:38 AM.Yesterday, the first group of New Zealand citizens, their families and other visa holders evacuated arrived in New Zealand.
New Zealand lawyer Claudia Elliott has worked across Afghanistan with the… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Hastings vaccination drive-thru attracts big numbers
8:43 AM.A Māori led Covid-19 vaccination clinic in Hawke's Bay is experiencing unprecedented demand.
The drive-thru clinic run by the Hastings iwi authority Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga, planned to vaccinate… Read more Audio
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Covid-19: Principals frustrated by lack of computers
8:48 AM.The lockdown has ramped up calls for the government to subsidise or provide computers for the thousands of children whose families can't afford them.
Principals say digital devices make a big… Read more Audio
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NZ team ready for Paralympic games
8:53 AM.New Zealand takes a team of 29 into the Paralympics in Tokyo with more than half attending their first Games, while the rest are seasoned and succesful veterans.
The Games start today without… Read more Audio
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British swearing less than 30 years ago
8:57 AM.New research suggests people in Britain swear less than they did 30 years ago, but they are also slipping in the "f word" more than in the past.
The researchers estimate the use of "bloody" - the… Read more Audio