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A driver licensing network is calling for cross party support to make driving education available in all high schools. Only five percent of students leave high school with a full license, and The Driving Change Network says that's down to an inaccessible licensing system. It says the status quo gives an advantage to young people with available cars…
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The Federal Reserve’s top committee that sets interest rate targets is due to meet in the middle of this week, where it suddenly has a lot more to consider amid global unease about the banking system. Economist Julia Coronado explains what Jerome Powell and co. may be thinking. Meanwhile over the weekend, the Fed announced it’s coordinating with ot…
Beef and sheep farmers in Tai Rāwhiti fear they'll have paddocks full of starving animals this winter, because there's no safe way to get them off the paddocks or to the meatworks. Federated Farmers Gisborne/Wairoa acting president Charlie Reynolds says his premium beef need to go to a suitable slaughterhouse. The two nearest plants, Ovation in Gis…
Parts of the Clutha district are without power after the storm overnight. Water supply is also affected. Clutha District Mayor Bryan Cadogan spoke to Corin Dann.
An Australian tax incentive threatens to stunt the growth of New Zealand's lucrative video game industry. Earning more than $400 million dollars a year, the sector has stalled as some of Aotearoa's biggest game makers opt to expand into Australia rather than at home. Reporter Felix Walton has more.
Wellington company Wētā FX were back in the winners circle last week, winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for their work on Avatar: The Way of Water. For company director Joe Letteri, it was a fifth Academy Award in the category, and the first since 2010 for work on the previous Avatar film. Around 1700 people from Wētā FX worked on the film,…
Business update for 21 March 2023
The Black Caps huffed and puffed and eventually blew down the Sri Lankan batting order on Monday, recording an innings and 58 run win at the Basin Reserve. New Zealand did so amidst a typically windy Wellington day, with cameramen being pulled from the camera tower due to safety concerns, such was the force of the gales. Black Caps bowler Blair Tic…
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The Police Association is encouraged by the appointment of Ginny Andersen as Police Minister. It had hoped for a more senior minister to take the role, and for the new minister to be fully engaged in what the Association says is a big and important portfolio. While Ginny Andersen isn't a senior minister, the Association's president Chris Cahill say…
Humanity has been given a final warning to act swiftly on climate change in the latest IPCC report. The world's leading climate scienctists have released the final report until 2030. It says this decade will be crucial in establishing whether we stay within the irreversible 1.5C temperature rise. Greenpeace campaigns manager Amanda Larsson spoke to…
A significant thaw in the so-called public servant pay freeze is imminent. The Public Service Commission is putting out its new guidance as early as next week. RNZ's Phil Pennington has obtained a draft copy. He spoke to Corin Dann.
Black Caps captain Tim Southee is proud of the way his bowlers fronted in tough conditions to help the hosts wrap up a 2-nil test series sweep of Sri Lanka.
The Black Caps have made it three in a row after they battered visiting Sri Lanka by an innings and 58 runs in the second match of their test series at the Basin Reserve. Sri Lanka were hoping to survive the day with bad weather forecast today in Wellington, but captain Tim Southee snared the final wicket as the light faded yesterday evening. Forme…
A former Australian SAS soldier has been charged with murder - following a years-long investigation into allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. Forty-one-year-old former trooper Oliver Schulz was shown in a television documentary in 2020 - shooting an Afghan man in a wheat field in Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan. Investigati…
Heavy rain and high winds have hit the bottom of the South Island and temperatures in the deep south are down to around 10 degrees. There are reports of snow on the Crown Ranges. MetService meteorologist Amy Rossiter spoke to Corin Dann.
Rally organisers for controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull say any neo-nazis turning up at rallies in Auckland and Wellington this weekend will be told to leave. Immigration New Zealand is reviewing entry for Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, after a group of supporters performing nazi salutes paraded in Melbou…
Governments have agreed that the next decade will be critical in preventing irreversible climate change. That's a key outcome of the last IPCC report until 2030 - one which condensed decades of climate science to inform policy around the globe. University of Canterbury political science professor and IPCC report writer Bronwyn Hayward. She's spent …
A lobbying firm who's NZ arm was previously headed up by the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Andrew Kirton, worked for alcohol companies in their fight for major changes to a container return scheme that has now been ditched by the government. Kirton lobbied for Asahi and Lion with his firm Anacta, resigning just one day before he was announced as…
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The Prime Minister is confident his Chief of Staff cut ties with his lobbying firm before taking up his new role. Andrew Kirton headed the New Zealand arm of an Australian lobbying firm whose clients included alcohol companies opposing a proposed container return scheme, which has since been put on hold by the government. Chris Hipkins told Morning…
Business news for 21 March 2023
Rallies featuring the controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, will go ahead in Auckland and Wellington this weekend if she's not stopped at the border. Her entry into New Zealand is under review after neo-nazis performing nazi salutes paraded in Melbourne at the weekend in support of the woman also known Posie Parker. Gr…
Rallies featuring the controversial British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, will go ahead in Auckland and Wellington this weekend if she's not stopped at the border. Her entry into New Zealand is under review after neo-nazis performing nazi salutes paraded in Melbourne at the weekend in support of the woman also known Posie Parker She…
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The MetService has 19 severe weather warnings in place this morning Periods of heavy rain and strong to gale northwesterlies are forecast for central and southern parts of the country. A FENZ spokesperson says the worst may be yet to come for southern districts. Dunedin civil defence has been monitoring the situation overnight. MetSrvice says a fro…