1One the Government's most controversial ideas to help fight child abuse has resurfaced, that parents with addiction or mental health problems should get priority for treatment.

2Paula Bennett explains the Green Paper which says the government could move money into programmes where there's strong evidence they work and also suggests high risk families have priority access to services such as mental health and housing, something that was advocated in 2009 and still hasn't been implemented.

3An investor in the failed finance company National Finance wants its director sent to jail for at least 5 years after being convicted of defrauding investors of three-and a half million dollars. Former National Finance director Trevor Ludlow has been convicted of seven charges relating to theft and false accounting

4The 250 skiers stranded overnight on Mount Lyford have made their way down the mountain. They were trapped due to the risk of an avalanche.

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6In Norway questions are being asked about how long it took for police to get to the island where the massacre was taking place.

7The organisers of the Rowing World Champs are being blamed for a budget blowout which cost taxpayers more than 2 million dollars, in that the events managers lacked commercial acumen.

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9The director of the failed finance company National Finance has been found guilty of defrauding investors of three-and a half million dollars but wants to appeal his conviction.

10A navy flotilla off Somalia, commanded by New Zealand Captain Jim Gilmore, has intercepted a pirate boat that had a merchant ship in its sights in the Gulf of Aden.

11Manu Korihi News, including; The national president of the Maori Women's Welfare League, Meagan Joe, has died; A Bay of Plenty volunteer community worker says a hard-line approach to preventing suicide won't work for Maori; Eel stocks are slowly recovering in the Whanganui River after up to 40 of them died in oxygen-starved water

12The coroner's court has heard there was confusion over the whereabouts of the notorious murderer and rapist, Taffy Hotene, who murdered Kylie Jones, shortly before he was found dead in Whanganui Prison.

13A Maori leader who's had three nieces and nephews commit suicide says they shouldn't be singled out in the way Te Ururoa Flavell MP is suggesting.

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15The Green Paper on combating child abuse also suggests greater information sharing between agencies.

16The lawyer for a tetraplegic, Gary Baigent, who is owed almost two million dollars by the ACC, fears the corporation will now try to avoid paying up by appealing the decision. The payment is for 15-years worth of 24-hour nursing care.

17Business News, including; Confidence is continuing to climb, as firms become more optimistic about their prospects

18The mayor of Afghanistan's southern city Kandahar, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, has been killed by a suicide bomber who had hidden explosives inside his turban.

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18The United Nations Security Council will have to debate the Palestinian decision to apply for UN membership in September.

20Recycled rubbish is being used to combat pollution in Lake Rotoehu, near Rotorua, where 364,000-soft drink bottles have been turned into a floating wetland.

21Manu Korihi News, including; Tributes are being paid to the national president of the Maori Women's Welfare League, Meagan Joe, who has died at the age of 58; The head of a mental health service in Rotorua says an idea to bury those who take their own lives at the front or outside a cemetery would bring shame to their families; Eel stocks are slowly recovering in the Whanganui River after up to 40 of them died in oxygen-starved water.