Canterbury Earthquake - Paul Norris
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Paul Norris is from The New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT.
Paul Norris is from The New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT.
Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 8 October. This week.....Canterbury marks a month since its earthquake, a co-producer of The Hobbit speaks out about union activity threatening the film's production in New Zealand, can the Commonwealth Games media stomach Delhi, Michael Caine talks about his new autobiography and we get the lowdown on whitebait.
Canterbury novelist Joanna Orwin has a new, futurist story of a New Zealand changed by cataclysmic volcanoes and tsunami, Sacrifice. And we hear about some of the stories in a post-earthquake Christchurch anthology, Tales for Canterbury.
Monique Devereux is a Christchurch resident and former Radio New Zealand reporter.
Karen Neill from the Sound Archives at Radio New Zealand's Christchurch office.
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock reports from the Christchurch Central City cordon.
Radio New Zealand's Head of News, Don Rood, has just arrived in Christchurch.
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock has been to a Civil Defense Briefing.
New research says Canterbury would suffer severe damage in an Alpine Fault earthquake.
The new Wellington Venues Limited CEO discusses her ideas for the events scene in the capital, plus the addition of a new Christchurch Artists exhibition in the St James Theatre, which will raise money for artists affected by the earthquake
Radio New Zealand reporter Jessica Maddock reports on a briefing by Mayor Bob Parker.
Haeata is the first public school in Christchurch to cater for all ages, replacing three eastern suburbs schools that were closed after the earthquakes. RNZ joined more than 900 students for the first day.
A Christchurch catering company has joined forces with the City Mission to tackle what is being described as a new era of poverty after the Canterbury earthquakes.
New assessment guidelines are reclassifying houses which were previously written off as being repairable, leaving owners up to $180,000 worse off. Kathryn talks to Leanne Curtis, spokesperson for the Canterbury Community Earthquake Recovery Network, and Renee Walker, spokesperson for IAG New Zealand.
Thousands of new jobs will be created this year as the rebuilding of Canterbury begins.
Today was the second day of a meeting of the US New Zealand Partnership Forum.
Radio New Zealand Reporter Rachel Graham is at the Christchurch City Council's civil defense headquarters.
National Manager Special Operations, New Zealand Fire Service, who lead the Urban Search and Rescue Teams in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. He then lead the New Zealand USAR team which travelled to Northern Japan to assist after the earthquake and tsunami there.
Today on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Julia Hartley-Moore and Phill O'Reilly discuss the idea of restoring passenger rail in New Zealand. Plus, they discuss the shortage of homestays in New Zealand, and the favourite finds by archeologists post Christchurch earthquakes.
Canterbury Earthquake updateRadio New Zealand Head of News Don Rood summarises the recent media conferences.
An international study looking at the Canterbury earthquakes is attracting loud criticism from New Zealand scientists.
Today RNZ's Midday supervising producer, Denise Garland, looks at two brand new podcasts. Collapse is a podcast from Stuff, all about the Christchurch earthquakes in the lead up the to 10th anniversary of the devastating quake on February 22nd. She also looks at NZ Wars - Stories of Tainui from RNZ which over the three episodes covers the war of Waikato in the 1860s, the great war for New Zealand, a defining conflict of New Zealand.
The role of the New Zealand Defence Force in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes is over.
Sarah Lockey is a New Zealander in London who is organising a fundraiser for Canterbury earthquake victims.
The new Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority; they're putting the Rugby World Cup on the school curriculum.
Details of the new Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority are announced and Senior Labour MPs meet in Dunedin.
Many of New Zealand's companies are fronting up with large donations to help with rebuilding in Christchurch.
Former Radio New Zealander..John McDonald is at home in Cashmere and has lost his chimney.
New research shows many Cantabrians are still struggling to cope with the after effects of the earthquakes.
Javier and Jackie Garcia Knight look back on the earthquake that changed Christchurch and New Zealand forever.