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The Country - 24 years edition

The Country
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Today The Country celebrates Jamie Mackay's illustrious career in broadcasting which started at Hokonui Radio 24 years ago.

On with the show:

Seth Carrier:

NIWA's weather forecaster looks back at an unseasonal autumn storm - 50 years to the day since the Wahine storm disaster of 1968 - and says while weathermen enjoy analysing meteorological extremes they don't like the effect they have on people and property.

Jacinda Ardern:

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The PM ponders the OIO getting tougher on farm sales to foreigners, a gloomy Budget outlook, the state of health and education, whether the Greens have gone radical and whether Shane Jones is on a billion dollar ego trip around the regions.

Ed Pinckney:

We talk to the Southland farmer who was the under-bidder to the withdrawn [yesterday] Chinese bid for Landcorp's Jericho Station at Manapouri.

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Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:

Today's panel features a Hawkes Bay sheep and beef farmer and a Northland cow cocky of differing political persuasions.

Michelle Thompson:

We catch up with the Chief Executive of the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand whose organisation will move to shut down if it can't secure government funding tomorrow.

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