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Midday Business News for 5 October 2012

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Christchurch's first office and retail development since the earthquake gets the go ahead.

Lawyer hopes inquest will highlight problems with rescues

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A lawyer for the husband of a woman who died in the Christchurch earthquake says a coming inquest will show rifts within the Fire Service did hamper rescue efforts.

Protest march against Christchurch school changes

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A rowdy protest was held in Christchurch yesterday over the Government's plan to revamp education in the earthquake-hit city.

Councils told to focus on quake prone buildings

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The Insurance Council is mounting a legal challenge against the Christchurch City Council over its rules regarding earthquake-prone buildings.

Town close to first quake epicentre getting back to normal

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It was just a little under an hour and a half ago, two years today, that a seven-point-one magnitude earthquake shook Canterbury.

Christchurch schools two years on from the Sept 4 quake

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Schools are an important part of any community, and two years on from the start of the earthquakes in Canterbury many are still coping with damage to classrooms, and with dramatically reduced rolls.

Midday Business News for 4 September 2012

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Tower's profit is expected to be hit by the Christchurch earthquakes. Movie star legend Bruce Willis is reportedly eyeing up legal action against Apple and the stockmarket rises.

Economics ensures a high level of Chch rubble recycling

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A year and a half after the February Earthquake, economics has ensured much of the waste material coming out of Christchurch's central city has been recycled.

Midday News for 11 September 2012

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South Island motorists are warned to take care as snow falls and the Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission is told the engineering profession is in crisis.

Govt accused of exploiting quakes to push school closures

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The government is being accused of exploiting the Christchurch earthquakes to force through sweeping changes to schools in the city.

Social impact of Chch quakes similar to Hurricane Katrina

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Canterbury's health officials say an increase in binge drinking, not taking medicines, and domestic violence are signs of the ongoing effect of the region's earthquakes.

Insurers warn economic damage from quakes will linger

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Public and private insurers are warning the damage from Canterbury's series of earthquakes will have economic impact for years.

Brownlee to meet with Chch mayor over consenting today

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The Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee says it would be an absolute disaster for Christchurch, if the City Council stopped issuing building consents next week.

Concerns highlighted about high costs of dumping quake rubble

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Record fines for two companies and a director who illegally dumped contaminated demolition material has highlighted problems with the costs of dumping earthquake rubble from Christchurch.

Academic is concerned Chch will struggle to fully recover

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A professor studying the economics of disasters says Christchurch will struggle to ever fully recover from the earthquakes that have devastated the city.

Conversations between one-time residents of an historic riverside community - in the 1970s the late Elsie Locke and Rod Donald helped to create one of Christchurch's strongest riverside communities. The Avon Loop now subject to post earthquake re-classifation and demolition.

The Vault - The Press: Christchurch

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Despite a hasty retreat from its iconic building in Christchurch's Square following the February earthquake, 'The Press', is in celebration mode. It's 150 years since the paper began with a six page edition that sold for six pence. It's first pages warned of the crippling cost of a new tunnel and rail line connecting Lyttelton to Christchurch, and on the back, a for sale ad for 100,000 gorse plants! Deb Nation finds the paper celebrated their centenary 50 years earlier, with memories of pigeon post and paper boys.

The Vault - Cathedral Square

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In 1987, Jack Perkins recorded an award-winning documentary capturing the life, the sounds and the personalities of Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Thirty years on, Deborah Nation parallels that experience with the sounds of September 2011 as engineer Gabrielle Parker escorts her Shrough the earthquake Red Zone into the square as it is today.

The Vault - Homebush Revisited

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Deborah Nation recalls visits to Homebush, the historic Deans homestead near Darfield, the wreckage of which became one of the most viewed images in the first days after the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake.

Third year could be the worst for quake-stressed Cantabrians

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Mental health experts in Christchurch are warning the worst could be still to come for people suffering from anxiety, depression and stress related to the earthquakes.

City council could lose power to authorise building consents

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The Christchurch City Council has received a strong warning from the Earthquake Recovery Minister to speed up its processing of building consents or lose its power to authorise consents.

Earthquake Recovery Minister gives Chch council strong warning

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The Earthquake Recovery Minister says this is a final warning for the Christchurch City Council.

Christchurch mayor defends council's performance

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The Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says officials have tried for months to help the Christchurch City Council but it's consistently failed to make the necessary improvements and is still taking far too long to process applications.

CERA checks on welfare of red & orange zoned residents

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The Earthquake Recovery Authority is knocking on the door of every red and orange zone resident in Christchurch to check on their welfare and offer them temporary accommodation if they need it.

Lack of engineering assessments investigated

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A lack of building inspections and the engineers to carry them out has come under further scrutiny at the Royal Commission of inquiry into the Canterbury earthquakes.

Christchurch council refuses to consider asset sales

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Despite Government pressure on the Christchurch City Council to sell off some of its assets to help fund its 40% share of the city's earthquake repairs, the council has instead decided to raise rates, and rents.

EQC respond to claims of inadequate assessments

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EQC's manager for the Canterbury home repair programme, Reid Stiven, respondes to claims of misleading estimates of damage to household foundations from the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.

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.