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Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave joined Tim Dower to discuss France halfback Antoine Dupont's facial injury in the 96-0 win over Namibia, the Warriors' do-or-die finals clash against the Brisbane Broncos, and Liam Lawson in the Japanese Grand Prix.

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An increase in employees testing positive for cannabis.

The Drug Detection Agency is attributing the rise to the proliferation of medicinal cannabis and easier access.

New Zealand’s Medicinal Cannabis Act came into effect in 2020.

CEO Glenn Dobson told Tim Dower there is a risk people are impaired at work.

“When the patient first goes to have a conversation or consultation with their GP or their doctor, they should be advising with their doctor when they’re prescribed the type of role they’re doing.”

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The powerbrokers’ debate last night – you learn anything from it?

Your impression of anyone improve, or did you feel the shine coming off someone by the way they conducted themselves?

I thought it was bloody awful myself, but I stuck with it because I kinda had to.

Let's forget the weird pub beer garden look of the whole thing, I just want to think about the substance of the, er, “debate” and the performance of the players.

From right to left on your screen:

Winston Peters - seemed to treat the whole thing as a bit of a joke...wasn't taking it at all seriously. Didn't do himself any good.  Almost like it was a rehearsal.  Nothing useful to say.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer - Awful, just awful, so, pretty much as expected.  Behaved like a silly third-former – the patronising way she referred to Mr Peters as Matua obviously intended as a put-down, but water off a duck's back to Peters.

Marama Davidson - not a lot better than Packer banged on and on about a wealth tax that's not going to happen being the answer to, well, just about everything really. Message seemed to be: let's take money off people who've done something with their lives, give it to people who'll never do anything with their lives, and all our problems will magically be fixed.

Davidson at least was cogent and fairly coherent and I was wondering how much she appreciated all the buddy-buddy high fives and fist pumps, did I even hear 'you go girl' at one point? Silly Debbie. Sit down Debbie.

David Seymour – Disappointing. Should have been the star of the show, but he went on far too long, tried to set out policy details when this just wasn't a serious forum.  My suggestion: either say 'no' if you're asked to appear with the same crummy crowd next time, or turn up with a bag of random insults and just hurl those around.

Overall, I wanna say it's an hour of my life I'll never get back, and that's true, it's gone for good. What it confirmed for me though was that out of those four, there's only one I want anywhere near the Treasury benches in three weeks' time.

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The UK is set to overturn several policies aimed at achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with Prime Minister Sunak promising a 'pragmatic' solution.

Sunak confirmed that the ban on on the sale of petrol and diesel cars would be pushed back from 2030 to 2035- bringing it in line with France and Germany.

The Prime Minister also announced energy efficiency targets for rental properties would be reduced and backtracked on requiring homeowners to replace gas boilers with heat pumps.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Sunak is clearly seeking a second term ahead of the next general election- but Labour and Keir Starmer hold a lead in the polls.

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Tonight on The Huddle, Jordan Williams from the Taxpayers' Union and Ali Jones from Red PR joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day- and more!

Labour MP Greg O'Connor has done the unthinkable and conceded that Labour is likely going to lose the election. Is this a rookie move or is there strategy behind this?

80 percent of Kiwis are wondering if Chris Luxon will work with Winston Peters - should Luxon continue to not say anything until the election?

The president of the Coromandel chapter of the Rebels gang has apologised for the bad behaviour of his members over the weekend. Is this a refreshing approach from them?

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In a blow to New Zealand farmers everywhere, MPI discovered Mycoplasma bovis in Canterbury's Selwyn.

It's just months after the announcement the country had no known cases of the cattle disease.

A standard bulk tank-milk background screening picked up the infection.

The Country's Jamie Mackay says the news that 1000 dairy cows will have to be culled will be devastating for the farmer impacted.

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New Zealand's economy is in the green and our technical recession is officially over.

Stats NZ says the GDP rose 0.9 percent in the June quarter and 3.2 percent for the year to June.

It also revised the figure for the March 2023 quarter to 0 percent - up from a 0.1 percent drop.

NZ Herald business editor at large Liam Dann says households are still feeling high interest rates rampant inflation- and economists warn the worst is yet to come.

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ACT leader David Seymour isn't sure National's proposed taxes will help New Zealanders.

The party's released their alternative budget today, promising modest income tax cuts of $16 billion over four years.

It's also proposing three tax rates rather than five.

Seymour says whoever leads the next Government will have to have an honest conversation about what the numbers require.

"I'm not confident that adding more taxes is the real solution- the real solution is to get spending under control. Which we do, as I say, by $25 billion."

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Fonterra is reporting profit after tax of $1.6 billion dollars, up 170 percent on last year.

It's reporting earnings of 95 cents per share- up from 36 cents per share.

The full year dividend will be 50 cents per share, including an interim dividend of 10 cents per share.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says this result is good for New Zealand's dairy farmers, who have been doing it tough all year.

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It's the end of an era, as a Wellington cultural icon is set to go up for sale.

The Green Parrot café, which first opened in 1926, has hosted celebrities, politicians and travellers for the last 97 years.

It's on the market - with an asking price of $200,000.

Co-owner Chris Sakoufakis says his father, Kosta Sakoufakis, is ready to retire- and he hopes someone else will take it over to the hundred-year mark.

"Because I'm so busy with real estate, I can't commit to the Green Parrot. Someone needs to take over and hopefully take it to the hundred years."

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