Top Of The Morning News Digest

Monday, 13 July 2015, 8:58 am
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Top Of The Morning News Digest

* NewsRoom_Digest from 10 July 2015 available at Eveningreport.nz - see http://info.scoop.co.nz/EveningReport.nz

* RNZ 7am - Top 5 items for 13 July 2015

1. The consultant who analysed data on the Auckland property market for the Labour Party says critics are reading the data wrongly. Labour has been branded racist for using figures from an un-named real estate company to claim that foreign speculators are ramping up Auckland house prices. Labour said this was because the figures showed almost 40 percent of buyers in Auckland in a three-month period had Chinese names.

2. Beneficiary advocates say the Social Development Ministry is failing to follow its own protocols, so that it can cut benefits. Thousands of job-seekers have had their benefits cancelled or cut in the last year because of paperwork problems or failing to turn up to appointments.

3. An international group of scientists based in Europe says New Zealand is not doing its fair share when it comes to climate change. The Government last week pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below the levels of 2005 by the year 2030; this planned reduction has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Climate Action Tracker group, which co-ordinates the findings of four European research organisations.

4. Eurozone leaders have told Greece it must enact key reforms within days to restore trust before they will open talks on any new financial rescue to keep it in the European currency area. The Greek Prime Minister will be required to push legislation through Parliament before he will get any immediate money to avert a state bankruptcy, and before negotiations start on a fresh €70 billion bailout.

5. New Zealand’s population is thought to have passed the 4.6 million mark last night. Statistics NZ’s population clock uses census data and other information to predict the population, taking account of one birth every nine minutes, one death every 17 minutes, and a net migration gain every 11 minutes.

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