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Market Update for 20 August 2024

Expert advisers warned the government's preferred option for overhauling the nation's polytechnics will result in bigger losses than other options. Education correspondent John Gerritsen spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

An advocate for homelessness people says more people are sleeping rough in the capital because they're struggling to access emergency housing. Downtown Community Ministry director Stephen Turnock spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Staff shortages at Northland's rural hospitals have been in the spotlight recently, but the region has a more fundamental problem - there aren't enough doctors to keep people well and out of hospital in the first place. Peter de Graaf reports.

The six major power companies have made more than half-a-billion dollars in margins over the past six weeks.

The Government is accused of taking a wrecking ball to every Māori achievement and driving race relations back 50 years. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Corin Dann.

Officials warned ministers their crackdown on emergency housing risked making more people homeless. Housing reporter Lauren Crimp spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Ambulance workers are taking strike action on Tuesday morning for the first time ever. Ambulance Association Division Chair Mark Quin spoke to Corin Dann.

A neighbour of a man fatally shot in East Auckland yesterday is terrified that the killer is still at large. Amanda Craig spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

A New Zealander who was on board a luxury super yacht when it capsized and sank off the coast of Sicily overnight is alive and well. Morning report producer Ellen O'Dwyer spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The Democratic National Convention is kicking off in Chicago where Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will be confirmed as the party's candidates. Correspondent Simon Marks spoke to Corin Dann.

Politicians descended on Ngāruawāhia for the Māori King's Koroneihana, the annual celebration of Kiingi Tuheitia's ascension to the Waikato throne. Political editor Jo Moir spoke to Corin Dann.

The ACT leader David Seymour isn't giving up on his Treaty referendum bill even though his coalition partners have ruled out supporting it. But Seymour is asking them to taihoa.

The Government has been told it's got to ditch its Māori bashing policies and start listening to iwi. Māori news reporter Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira reports.

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A new study has found that in New Zealand alcohol is responsible for more than 900 deaths, 12 hundred cancers (1250) , and almost 30-thousand hospitalisations in 2018. The work carried out by Otago University researchers also found alcohol is also a huge burden on ACC. Co-author Tim Chambers joins us now.

Around 300 St John Ambulance workers walked off the job at four o'clock Tuesday morning after rejecting a pay offer last week. Deputy Chief Executive of Ambulance Operations Dan Ohs spoke to Corin Dann.

An update on what's happening in the sports world with Nathan Rarere.

News from the rural farming sector.

Latest news from Radio New Zealand's business team.