1Corporatisation and User Pays User Pays is an attempt to establish where the benefits of Government programmes fall, and to recover the cost of delivering those programmes to those who benefit from them. Corporatisation is a policy aimed at freeing public enterprise from the constraints of administrative regulation and political intervention, in order to enable the new organisations to pursue commercial exploitation and resources as vigorously as possible. While they are two different philosophies, corporatisation and user pays are linked. Together they are intended to make Government departments more efficient. However, does this mean that taxpayers are having to pay twice to use these facilities? Greater efficiency is likely to mean job losses, but could also ultimately result in tax savings. Discussion and viewer talkback about how these changes are likely to affect the public service.

2United States President Ronald Reagan is to hold a news conference this afternoon to try to explain to the American public why it was necessary to do an arms deal with Iran to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon.

3The latest unemployment figures show a big increase in the number of people out of work - fifty percent more than at the same time last year.

4The investigation in Britain into the reopened Moors Murders case is intensifying.

5The Government caucus is discussing restructuring of the State sector and taking its first look at proposals to change the pay fixing system for public servants.

6A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

7An American tourist has won a prize of NZ$300,000 from British Airways in a competition aimed at attracting new passengers. The only condition attached is the fact that she must spend all her prize money at Harrods department store in London in one day.

8Corporatisation and User Pays User Pays is an attempt to establish where the benefits of Government programmes fall, and to recover the cost of delivering those programmes to those who benefit from them. Corporatisation is a policy aimed at freeing public enterprise from the constraints of administrative regulation and political intervention, in order to enable the new organisations to pursue commercial exploitation and resources as vigorously as possible. While they are two different philosophies, corporatisation and user pays are linked. Together they are intended to make Government departments more efficient. However, does this mean that taxpayers are having to pay twice to use these facilities? Greater efficiency is likely to mean job losses, but could also ultimately result in tax savings. Discussion and viewer talkback about how these changes are likely to affect the public service.

9A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

10Corporatisation and User Pays User Pays is an attempt to establish where the benefits of Government programmes fall, and to recover the cost of delivering those programmes to those who benefit from them. Corporatisation is a policy aimed at freeing public enterprise from the constraints of administrative regulation and political intervention, in order to enable the new organisations to pursue commercial exploitation and resources as vigorously as possible. While they are two different philosophies, corporatisation and user pays are linked. Together they are intended to make Government departments more efficient. However, does this mean that taxpayers are having to pay twice to use these facilities? Greater efficiency is likely to mean job losses, but could also ultimately result in tax savings. Discussion and viewer talkback about how these changes are likely to affect the public service.

11A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

12United States President Ronald Reagan is to hold a news conference this afternoon to try to explain to the American public why it was necessary to do an arms deal with Iran to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon.

13A high-profile trial in New York has found eight men guilty of masterminding mafia operations throughout the United States.

14Pope John Paul II's upcoming visit to New Zealand aims to uplift and unify Catholics, however some sections of the Church are using the occasion to highlight their dissatisfaction with some Vatican rulings, The split within the Catholic Church is even more pronounced in the United States, and presents a challenge to the Pope's authority there. A look at what is causing the split, and what the Vatican is trying to do about it.