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One Nelson woman will be waiting with baited breath for the latest Bond release NO TIME TO DIE. Not only because she's a die-hard fan, but because her imagery captured the film as the on-set stills photographer. Nicola Dove is back in Aotearoa and is on a mission to share her skills with New Zealand photographers setting up the Film Stills Academy.

The saga of changing Dunedin's main street in the centre of the city - George Street - to one way, continues with a retailer banning the mayor this week from his shop, after a vote last week to make George Street one way for traffic. The change would mean traffic would only be able to travel towards the Octagon as part of a 60 million dollar transformation of the city's main shopping precinct. A week ago, we talked to a Dunedin city Councillor Jim O'Malley, who voted in favour of the move. Retailer Brent Weatherall from Weatherall Jewellers tells Yadana Saw why he banned the mayor.

The sudden decision by the New South Wales Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, that she will resign in the face of a corruption investigation has left the Liberal Party scrambling for a new leader. The state's corruption watchdog is investigating whether Ms Berejiklian breached public trust with a series of community grants she approved, worth millions of dollars. The ABC's Kathleen Calderwood joins Late Edition live.

Helen (we've decided to withold her surname) went over to Sydney see her daughter and grandchildren earlier this year while the travel bubble was open. She's done as she was asked by the Covid-19 Response Minister, Chris Hipkins, and sheltered in place, instead of competing for places in MIQ required by those with more urgent needs. But now, she really does need to get back and now she has until December before her pension is cut. This afternoon, Helen was offered to share a place in MIQ with a friend who won the lottery earlier this week, if she caught a flight back on Sunday. But she's just been told by the Regional MIQ director that she can't take the place.

Fleur Sullivan is a restaurateur known the country over for her seafood cuisine at her popular Moeraki restaurant Fleur's Place, north of Dunedin. But come lockdown, Fleur shut the doors and vowed not to reopen them until level one was back and she could again accommodate at least a couple of hundred people at a time through the restaurant in a day. But she's changed her mind and reopened this week

The news everyone least expected came mid morning....when a father and his three children, who had been missing in rugged bush in Waikato for nearly three weeks, showed up at the family farm today. The unexplained disappearance of Tom Phillips and his children Jayda, Maverick and Ember earlier in the month prompted a full scale land, sea and air search with hundreds of volunteers scouring dense bushland in isolated coastal Waikato. The hopes of locals and the whole country faded when the fruitless search was officially called off just a few days ago.

Our overseass correspondent from Taiwan, William Yang joins us half way through a trip to Chicago in the USA.

People have been protesting in New Zealand for hundreds of years. So, what were the issues? Did their protest make the change they wanted? Is protesting worth it? Can change be made through protest? Author Mandy Hager joins us to talk baout her new book PROTEST! Shaping Aotearoa.

Dr Karen Thorn, a postdoctoral fellow at VUW working in the Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Group gives us her scientific take on the MacGyver episode where he makes a laser.

Hayden Donnell covers the way Sir John Key's column criticising the Government was handled, the people missing in widespread coverage of the disappearance of people such as Gabby Petito, and plaudits for Metro Magazine's food editor Jean Teng for an investigation into the toxic work culture at the fine dining restaurant Pasture and RNZ's reporter, Anusha Bradley's work on ACC refusing to cover the cost of women's birth injuries, has led to Government changes at the cost of $25 million a year.