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Musician Fiona Pears

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Lyttelton-based musician Fiona Pears is putting her life back together after the Christchurch earthquake. She's written a song, called Calm After The Storm.

Priorities for the new Christchurch 'Disaster Czar'

Roger Sutton, the chief executive of networks company Orion has taken up a five-year contract as the CEO of the Christchurch Earthquake Reconstruction Authority, the top bureaucrat in the post-quake city.

Canterbury Television's Emily Cooper

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CTV journalist Emily Cooper was out filming when the Canterbury earthquake hit. Fifteen of her colleagues are unaccounted for.

Filipino caregivers

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Filipino caregivers, after working long hours in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, are now being denied work permits.

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.

Way of setting excesses for commercial properties changes

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Commercial property owners are facing not just higher insurance premiums following the Christchurch earthquakes, but also the prospect of much higher excesses.

EQC level assessments questioned

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Some Canterbury homeowners say their houses have dropped in value because the damage to their properties was inadequately assessed by the Earthquake Commission after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Independent land surveyor, Adrian Cowie, and a Burwood homeowner affected by the quakes, Selwyn Stafford, talk about the issues facing them.

Hundreds of public servants head to Christchurch

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Hundreds of public servants are on their way to Christchurch to relieve their weary colleagues and bolster the Government's response to Tuesday's earthquake.

Key announces 100-million dollar plus package

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The Prime Minister has announced a more than 100-million dollar package to help workers and businesses hit by last week's Christchurch earthquake.

Efforts to save quake damaged buildings

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A Christchurch MP is working with a group trying to prevent historic buildings damaged in last month's earthquake from being torn down unnecessarily.

Insurance cancelled for landmark Chch buildings

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Insurance cover has been cancelled for Christchurch's historic Arts Centre and its Catholic Cathedral which were both badly damaged in the February earthquake.

Canterbury quakes behind record Government deficit

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The Canterbury earthquakes are behind a big blowout in the Government's deficit which has grown to a record 18-point-4 billion dollars.

Cantabrians want more focus on people, not buildings

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The government has pledged five and half billion dollars over the next six years for Canterbury's Earthquake Recovery Fund.

Inquest into deaths of 106 of quake victims get under way

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The inquest into the deaths of over a hundred of February's earthquake victims will get underway in Christchurch today.

Canterbury leaders welcome quake recovery shift

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The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission is promising swift changes following criticism of the rebuilding efforts necessitated by September's big quake.

Farmers and rural businesses bring fresh water to city

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Farmers and rural businesses have been combining their efforts to bring desperately needed fresh water supplies to earthquake shattered Christchurch.

Government appoints experts to look at building collapses

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The Government has appointed the panel of experts that will investigate why so many buildings collapsed during Christchurch's February earthquake.

Thousands of Christchurch residents attend expo on rebuild

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Thousands of Christchurch residents have shared their views on how the central city should be rebuilt after February's catastrophic earthquake.

Christchurch inches towards normality but long haul ahead

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Households in Christchurch are being warned many face a long wait before essential services are restored following last week's earthquake.

Auckland council discourages staff quake fundraising

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The country's largest local body has told its staff not to fundraise at work for victims of the Christchurch earthquake.

Christchurch on track to getting students back to school

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A month on from the Christchurch earthquake, all but a handful schools in the city are back up and running.

Christchurch Cathedral

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Dean of Christchurch Cathedral Peter Beck talks about what the people of Christchurch are going through in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Domestic flights resume from Christchurch

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The airport was closed to passenger services yesterday following the earthquake. We're joined by the airport's chief executive, Jim Boult.

Engineers shocked by scenes of devastation

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A huge team of engineers is in Christchurch to assess the state of buildings damaged but still standing after Tuesday's earthquake.

Tributes paid at London vigil

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In London's Westminster Cathedral about 1500 people have just finished a vigil in memory of the victims of the Christchurch earthquake.

Carpenter Chris Nutfield recieves bravery award

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Christchurch carpenter Chris Nutfield rescued three women from the collapsed PGC building. He's one of the many to receive a bravery and heroism award one year after the February 2011 earthquake.

Focus on Politics for 8 April 2011

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In quake-ravaged Christchurch businesses are tentatively restarting, and infrastructure is being restored, but there's ongoing uncertainty about job losses and how people will survive financially. Within six days of the February earthquake; the Government had introduced a subsidy scheme for businesses and their employees, as well as people who'd found themselves out of a job. Now there's growing disquiet about what will happen to thousands of Cantabrians when that support scheme finishes at the end of May.