Earthquake recovery minister defends land-puchase plan
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The Goverment has offered to pay out five thousand home owners in Christchurch of the most severely quake damaged properties.
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Latest earthquakes leave women's refuges overflowing
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Christchurch Womens Refuge says its safe houses are full as women have fled the worsening domestic violence in the city following June's powerful aftershocks.
Gerry Brownlee says 12,000 Christchurch homes could go
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The number of homes likely to be demolished in Christchurch because of earthquake damage could be as many as twelve thousand.
Hearing into Canterbury earthquakes begins today
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The Royal Commission hearings into the Canterbury earthquake begin in Christchurch today to examine why some of the newer buildings in the city's CBD failed so badly.
Spectrum for 27 November 2011
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Between demolition and rebuild stands a time of opportunity in the earthquake ravaged city of Christchurch. Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler are temporary pockets of enterprise which began as early responses and have built in momentum to define the new city.
Christchurch City Council questioned over russian roulette
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The Christchurch City Council has been questioned over whether it was playing russian roulette with its citizens with its rules on earthquake prone buildings.
Biz confidence tumbles to two year low in wake of quake
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Business confidence has tumbled to a two-year low blamed mainly on the Christchurch earthquake.
Politics with Matthew Hooton and Sue Bradford
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Matthew Hooton and Sue Bradford on politics including the political implications of the Christchurch earthquake.
Christchurch has been hit by a swarm of earthquakes
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The first one struck just before 2 this afternoon and measured 5 point 8 on the Richter scale, and was eight kilometres deep.
Paul Nicholls
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The creator of Christchurch's online 'earthquake map' explains its mechanics and its wide appeal around the world.
Jobs are to go at the Christchurch department store Ballantynes
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Thirty to fourty jobs are to go at the Christchurch department store, Ballantynes, because of earthquake damage to it's central city shop.
Unsafe buildings in Christchurch mall down by mid July
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A new plan will see all dangerous earthquake-damaged buildings in Christchurch's Cashel Mall pulled down or made safe by mid-July.
Schools to focus on emotional recovery
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Christchurch principals say schools' recovery from Tuesday's earthquake will focus more on emotional issues than infrastructure.
Christchurch girls' school surprises Polyfest organisers
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A Christchurch kapa haka group took to the stage in Auckland today, surprising organisers who didn't expect they'd be able to perform after last month's earthquake.
CERA could take over running of Chch within days
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Responsibility for dealing with the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake could pass from Civil Defence to the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority within a matter of days.
One Year and a Day
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A law which prevents charges being laid over the collapse of Christchurch's CTV buildin gin the 2011 earthquake could be repealled soon.
Export markets vital to economy's prospects after quake
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The Christchurch earthquake looks to have dashed hopes of a pickup in household spending this year.
Post quake exodus from Christchurch unlikely
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With Tom Love - A principal of consulting firm Sapere Research Group, who was commissioned by the Canterbury District Health Board, to examine the population impact of February's earthquake.
Top Stories for Friday 11 March 2011
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Plumbers say EQC paying bills too slowly, Earthquake Commission defends its claim process, Events centre, not stimulus package, for West Coast, Harawira calls meeting to consider forming new party, Government, Auckland council split over development, Search work in Christchurch central city nears completion, Power in South Christchurch threatened by cut cable.
Christchurch: return of 60-thousand quake 'refugees'
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Civil Defence says as many as sixty thousand people are expected to return to Christchurch after fleeing the city because of last month's earthquake.
Rebuilding Christchurch will take time and money
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The task of rebuilding Christchurch is being compared to what was required to restore the Japanese city of Kobe after its massive earthquake in 1995.
Psychological responses to the Canterbury earthquakes
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Caroline Bell, consultant psychiatrist and the clinical head of the Anxiety Disorders Unit at the Canterbury District Health Board talks about the psychological fallout from the Christchurch quakes.
Evening Business for 30 March 2011
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Tourism is in for a short, sharp shock as fewer people visit New Zealand after the earthquakes in Japan and Christchurch and Genesis Energy says customers have no one to blame but themselves when electricity prices spiked last Saturday.
Potential asbestos forces CERA to check paperwork
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The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority is now double checking all of its paperwork following fears earthquake rubble dumped in a Christchurch land fill could have been contaminated by asbestos.
Earthquake property inspectors earning $750 a day
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Seven $750 a day - plus expenses. That's the sum being earned by more than 414 people employed by the Earthquake Commission to carry out property inspections in Christchurch.
Quake-hit Christchurch Residents having to return home
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Some Canterbury residents are returning to homes damaged in last year's 7.1 earthquake, because they can't afford to live anywhere else.
Charity cricket match raises $500,000 for Christchurch
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A star-studded charity cricket match in Wellington has raised half a million dollars for the Prime Minister's appeal for the Canterbury earthquake.
Jennine Bailey
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Christchurch jazz vocalist performing with many other artists as part of Earthquake fundraising concert in Wellington this weekend.
Christchurch quake has changed private school bastion for ever
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Private schools in Christchurch have asked the government for help as they try to cope in the aftermath of February's earthquake.
Clean up continues in Christchurch
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In Christchurch power is back on for all but a small number of customers after Monday's earthquakes, but the city council is warning it could be six months before water supplies return to normal.